Fred Little

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

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Newsom: They want to bring us back to a pre-1960s, maybe 1860s world. And you’re seeing it not just on voting rights—you’re seeing it on civil rights, on women’s rights, on LGBTQ rights. They’re censoring historic facts. They’re on a banning binge—Bud Light and Big Bird

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

but he was quite liberal in his support for policing and mass incarcerating Black people

Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

Genuinely, a corporate death penalty would be an appropriate remedy in many regulatory incidents.

Imagine a situation wherein no individual is found criminally liable for a massive harm to the public by a corporation. Automatic death penalty, since it organized itself to dissolve responsibility.

His later work 'A Fine and Private Place' is also a wonder.

Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.

It's a parallel psychosis to what people who believed that Israel *had* to exist in order to guarantee Jewish safety experienced after 10/7 when that lie was completely disproven.

If I had to guess, learning in real time that a million New Yorkers want a pro Palestinian Muslim as Mayor two years after 10/7 is causing significant psychological damage to their pre existing worldview that didn't think that could ever happen.

One fears he is on point.

20 years of writing down to the level of brevity, clarity, & simplicity necessary for tenured faculty, senior admins, and graduate students was an exercise that demolished everything graceful, beautiful & worthy in my prose. In this way, self-harm was a basic condition of my employment in higher ed.

Long time listener, first time caller, just out of curiosity, what happens when Senators continue to confirm a lawless President’s appointments? I’ll hang up and listen.

States shoulda been revoking charters of a few entities I can think of

democrats should attack the supreme court because it harms people but also because it is an explicitly partisan institution that will stymie every future democratic government. it insists that democrats are not allowed to govern, so for democrats to govern they must remake it

Dear Bluesky

Zohran Mamdani showed the Democratic party exactly how to win, but I fear they will totally deny the lesson. Meanwhile, ballroom boy has already pivoted to affordability. Please don’t let the old guard lose yet another election due to corruption and incompetence.

Thanks,

God

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what the fuck are we DOING here

It’s at a point where the next Democrat president will have to abolish the agency and start again. That is the realistic solution. Pritzker is close to saying that, I think. He can’t yet.

I am drawing the line at "mandatory cotton/poly tshirts."

The Dem position literally didn’t move at all and even with getting destroyed in elections and the impacts of the shutdown starting to be felt the GOP rejected what I felt was a very weak offer on the part of Dems. If Republicans also refuse to nuke filibuster I don’t see how this thing ever ends.

This would be a very weak deal for Democrats if Republicans were smart enough to take it. Do y’all think Republicans are smart enough to take it? Because I don’t.

Death to Spotify ☠️

The filibuster was created by accident as a result of errata in the end of term notes/reports at the beginning of the republic. It had and has nothing to do with bipartisanship. It’s a screw up.

It’s awesome that there’s not a single Senator, including Bernie Sanders, who is willing to call for this LOSER to step down as he sells us out to Trump time and time again. It’s a country club.

Schumer sold out queer people to get a CR, then he sold out DC to get a CR, now he’s offering to sell out 24 million ACA recipients for a CR, and doing so to help shield Republicans from dealing with it over the midterms.

He’s like an ant-Pelosi, his instincts go the wrong direction every time.