Lots of responses. A few points: 1) perception AES is the stronger candidate almost entirely due to AES friendly and partisan GOP polls. 2) With Whitmer and other endorsements the race could be moving towards Stevens, away from AES. 3) Wish more of the commentators here was clearly real people.
ONE MORE TIME: For every Abdul supporter *still* complaining about campaign ads for Haley featuring President Obama for 5 seconds, a reminder that Bernie Sanders posted an ad featuring Obama for the FULL 30 SECONDS even though he sure as hell didn't endorse Bernie.
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I also think it's very funny (but not haha funny) that the collective wisdom of "just focus on pocketbook issues!" only ever flows one way.
It's never, "shut the fuck up with your insane fantasies about evil trans people and talk about afordability, conservatives!"
FWIW, JB Pritzker recently signed legislation to end subminimum wage labor for people with disabilities, a major priority for disability rights activists.
July marks Disability Pride Month, Illinois.
Our state will continue building on the progress that those with disabilities fought for — not retreat from it under this federal administration.
In response to Trump’s speech tonight;
Great day to donate to Jon Ossoff’s campaign, or any Dem in swing state or tight races! Talarico inTexas, Sherrod Brown in Ohio , Peltola in Alaska, Josh Turek in Iowa, Roy Cooper in NC, Annie Andrews in SC etc. - Add any Dems we should be looking at!
Who's hungry? This weekend's menu features a healthy serving of orange construction, especially in Seattle.
- Montlake Blvd will close btwn E Hamlin St and E Louisiana St from 10p Fri to 6a Mon
- EB I-90 will close btwn Rainier Ave S and 77th Ave SE from 11:30p Fri to 7:30a Sat
If you’re antisemitic, anti-black, islamaphocic, constantly complain about Dems, or have any type of hatred towards any group, do not follow me. Too many fake allies have been silent on the roll back of the voting rights act and the rise of antisemitism. Lastly, stop blaming AIPAC for everything.
There is one fucking standard for Democrats and another for Republicans created by our supposed unbiased media - this is why people think Democrats aren’t fighting for Democracy- they can’t get heard.
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political."
I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
Very glad Democratic attorneys general are filing an antitrust lawsuit opposing the Paramount merger with Warner Bros. More of this, please. We have to fight them at every level before they control everything.
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week.
Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states.
Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
"It’s unlikely Democrats can stop Blanche from being confirmed. They’d need the help of some Senate Republicans to do that…But Democrats can delegitimize him in the court of public opinion."
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Why I don’t trust the far left about their AIPAC bashing. They just pick something to bash Democrats with every election cycle. Even when Dems actually do something about it, they don’t care.
My dear Asian brothers and sisters.
Y’all were being played with this “StopAAPI Hate” nonsense.
It was a Stephen Miller op.
And now you are facing a boycott.
See how the white devils turn us against each other?
Just stop shooting and profiling us, we’d be cool.
It never happens with GOP, but too damn often in our party folks try to build themselves up by tearing Dems down.
You can demand better from us without pissing all over the house we’ve built together.
I’m sick of it. If you make a name for yourself by trashing the party, I’m calling you out.
The discourse around the Supreme Court term would be much improved, I think, if people focused on the center of the Court as being very much part of the GOP coalition, rather than focusing entirely on whether it is or is not doing Trump’s bidding specifically.
And that’s why even though people love Democrats’ policies, they apparently hate Democrats it makes no sense until you read how the media is negative on Dems no matter what they do.
I want Palestinian liberation.
I want safety and equality and freedom for both peoples.
I am terrified that I-P is now "a litmus test" for Ds, when immigration, abortion, civil rights, the court, and the climate were not.
Because what I want is not enough for these folks. They want our erasure.
Every time those of us who are practical told you this, you told us to shut up. Now you are demanding we listen to you again and find you the magical Democrat that has the perfect message that appeals to everyone but never needs to fundraise but will also kowtow to your special interests.
Trump and Republicans radically raised health insurance premium costs -- doubling them on average -- and so 5 million Americans who used to have health insurance now can't afford it.
More than half the people who have this kind of health insurance live in GOP districts:
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A cisgender straight guy screaming in Scott Wiener’s face and telling him that even though he passes great bills on LGBT issues, he “does not deserve to be at” the Trans March that he’s been attending for 22 years because he’s a YIMBY is a perfect symbol of the modern day SF “left.”
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so is the plan to just say “we have a ceasefire, the strait is open” indefinitely while taking potshots at each other and not actually opening the strait and hope the market never notices?
7. I really hate how social media reduces complex issues to team sports, pro & con, good & evil, thus relieving everyone of the burden of actually learning anything or grappling honestly with trade-offs. You don't have to do that! You can hashtag-resist.
I also want to point that Dems helped get this passed even through it would be a political win for Rs. Something Rs have not done for Ds (ex. Border bill anything Obama tried to pass) both sides are not the same.
Do you know how hard it is to get a bipartisan housing bill passed? Congress fought for it. Both sides. Got it done. And Trump just checked out. Didn’t show. We refuse to let this get buried in the news cycle.
Americans deserve better than this.
#TrumpsHousingCrisis
“It would dismantle the US science ecosystem – but also all federal discretionary grants,” says Dr. Delawalla, founder & CEO of SUFS.
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The regime tried to rip 900 scientific weather sensors out of the ocean to save a buck. This week, massive grassroots pressure completely forced them to surrender. Read how we won: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/slotkin-mo...
campaign doing interviews on local and national news. State and local officials applied direct pressure. Oregon’s bipartisan Legislative Coastal Caucus sent a formal letter to the NSF on June 17—the day before the reversal—urging them to halt the removals. There was an international push too with…
the EU announcing them expanding ocean monitoring which led to more pushback.All that pressure is what gave Merkley and Murkowski the standing to move their bill (the “Save Our Sensors” / Saving the OOI Act), which passed the Senate by unanimous consent on June 17. The NSF reversed the next day
The regime tried to rip 900 scientific weather sensors out of the ocean to save a buck. This week, massive grassroots pressure completely forced them to surrender. Read how we won: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/slotkin-mo...
By the way this took a group effort. Our electeds helped but they needed public support to get it done- It was a multi-pronged approach on multiple fronts.
From Dworkin in the comments-
Lots of people contacted Congress. That was the main pressure point for sure. Scientists did a PR …..
Huge win!! In partnership with Senator Lisa Murkowski, we protected the Ocean Observatories Initiative—critical sensors that are essential for managing our fisheries, forecasting weather, and understanding climate change.
Check out these two ridiculous headlines in which @nytimes.com grants agency to inanimate objects in order to avoid holding Trump directly accountable. Not, 'Trump's Reflecting Pool Makeover Appears To Be A Failure' and 'What Is Trump Hiding Behind The Kennedy Center Tarps?'
Feckless absurdity