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If the first time
You ever felt listened too was a robot that probably says more about your ability to understand and empathize with other humans and how that warped your expectations

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

In Israel, I protest my government. Can I do the same at Columbia? Dear President Shipman,

"I am seeking clarification on how I—a student with Israeli citizenship—am allowed to speak about my government without violating these new policies."

A Texas Judge Is Suing For the Right to Ignore the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling The Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that marriage is a fundamental right. Only Brian Umphress dares to ask the question: What if that doesn’t apply in Texas?

The conservative legal movement simply cannot wait to get the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell

I think about this post several times a week

man who cares if "crime is down" or you have a nice photo of a park. if crime were up and your photo was less pleasant to look at the thing is still that the president shouldn't be sending brownshirts to traipse around our cities

Golf cart urbanism is good and we should have a lot more of it. It's also essentially the only good thing that golf has done for urbanism.

In a sense, the administration seems to be supercharging immigration "invasion" agitprop to manufacture a sense of national trauma similar to the one that arose after the September 11 attacks.

That led to another type of "war on terror" hyper-militarization at home (as well as abroad).

Everybody still going this can't be a REAL dictatorship like those poor third world countries the US destabilized can stay the hell away from me. The more the regime goes after, the more it smacks of your privilege that you feel safer than you are.

ActBlue Rolls Out Policy Changes to Crack Down on 'Bad Actors' The changes address some of the most pressing concerns of practitioners, who have accused ActBlue of not doing enough to protect donors.

. @actblueorg.bsky.social is "prohibiting fundraisers from making false claims in their solicitations, such as claims about unverified or nonexistent donor matching programs," and fundraisers using the site now “must be able to provide documentation verifying your matching program upon request.” 👍

I said this on the radio yesterday and I’ll repeat it here: yes, we should hold space for the people behind the numbers, but pushing the fear mongering and vilifying Black kids won’t help

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

Trump's big bill is powering his mass deportations. Congress is starting to ask questions Included in the Republican Party’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is funding to power President Donald Trump's deportation agenda.

The big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law included nearly $170 billion to the Department of Homeland Security — almost double its annual budget. The crush of new money is setting off alarms in Congress and beyond.

this man is never playing football again

People might be inclined to dismiss this as hyperbole. But it's worth reiterating that the national 'No Kings Protest' was - by raw estimated participant counts - the largest single day protest in US history. And it was literally relegated to the back pages of national press outlets within a day.

ken dilanian: DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro just raised a legitimate issue that has long been debated in DC: Is the legal system tough enough on juveniles who commit serious crimes. A lot of residents believe it is not. But as she said, changing that situation would require a change in the law—it’s not going to be impacted by a federal takeover of the police department.

watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.

ignore the branding your QB is talking to a non-medical professional in a trailer. COOKED

oh it's a wrap

Image of an excerpt from the linked Philadelphia Inquirer article: Bob Brady, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party, said that it's a "total disgrace" for Dugan to run in the general election. "He's got zero integrity. Zero," Brady said, noting Dugan's past commitment not to run as a Republican. The Philadelphia Democratic Party supported Dugan in multiple races in the past, Brady said. By running against the Democratic nominee, Dugan turned his back on the party for a "pure ego trip". "He's out of the party. He's got to register Republican," Brady said. "That's fine with me. I don't need liars in our party." Electorally, Brady isn't concerned about Krasner's chances to defeat Dugan again in November saying, "I can't see a scenario he wins" and that "it will be fun to beat him."

Here's how the party boss of the Philly Dems responded to the centrist who lost the recent Dem primary for DA deciding this week to run again in the general as the GOP nominee. www.inquirer.com/politics/pat...

"google search results are down" isn't being brought up because it's the best way to measure public opinion about this subject, but because it's the best way to measure public opinion about this subject that supports CNN's agenda of helping Trump.

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

One thing I learned long ago is that vanishingly few people who talk about crime in major cities actually care about crime in major cities. To engage with them on statistics and data is a fool's errand. They simply do not care about that.

Quote posts disabled but this is an astute point.

It's a hard situation for anyone having to deal with, for instance, Sean Duffy. Statistics and even majority perception don't matter; once it is culture war, it can only be fought by culture war, which is a losing proposition in it's own way.

PREDICTION: After Trump is gone, $NVDA and $AMD will sue the US government to recover its illegally obtained export tax.

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

As a constituent, I can tell you that Warren has spent more time meeting with and listening to folks in the neglected western part of her state than any statewide elected official in recent memory. Visibility and accessibility matter.

This is mostly funny because Wall Street and tech bros spent like 4 years calling Biden a commie

Yes we all know Dem pols want attention kept on the Epstein issue. But you can do that without minimizing other really important things! "Trump's a sex pest who's good buddies with Epstein and Maxwell & he's also trying to act like a dictator by taking over the D.C. police." It's not hard people.

the drop in violent crime in baltimore in recent years is one of the most astonishing successes in crime reduction in us history

Obvious, not-hard Qs would have been: Should the House take up the Senate-passed DC funding fix so the city has $1bn more to spend? Will you nominate more judges in D.C. superior courts, which are understaffed, leading to slower processing of cases and cases dropped altogether?

Moronic Qs so far from press corps at this Trump/DC avail. One about what cleaning up DC means to Trump personally, one about whether other cities can expect this, then third and fourth Qs switch topics to tariffs and Russia.

Nothing useful or specific. This used to be a prestigious beat!