Simon Birenbaum

Trump admin probably also asked scotus to stay out of it because they want to be able to dangle a pardon as Maxwell's only way out.

I have a different take, which is that these groups are being attacked by people who want to keep the current (or restore past) hierarchies. The possibility of self-improvement for marginalized groups brings the possibility of people who "should" be on the bottom inverting existing hierarchies.

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My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.

Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Importantly, a blood libel is false, and the things people are saying about ICE are true.

Something something we must condemn all political violence something something....

People calling this an attack on the first amendment are wrong. This isn't a clash between the government and a private company. It's the alignment of the profit motives of a megacorporation and it's billionaire owner with the propaganda needs of a fascist, corrupt government.

It is both more profitable and more ideologically aligned for them to capitulate than for them to fight and that's why they do it.

To borrow from @mtsw.bsky.social, the reason ABC and CBS didn't put up any kind of principled fight to defend their late night hosts is because they don't care about their programming as much as they care about the political ends of the Trump administration.

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight

Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

...desperate for basics like medicine or housing--without those things, people don't focus on the other rights they also deserve like quality of life, education, equality under the law. Starving people don't riot (until, of course, they do).

Among the other sins of this sentence, it misunderstands the point of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which suggests we need what's on the bottom (safety, food) before we can achieve what's at the top (dignity, self-actualization). It's actually a great example of why the Right wants people to be...

When people observe that criminals aren't getting held accountable, they act with impunity (ahem, the Trump administration, ahem) and this makes crime more prevalent.

This is also a good reminder of why terrorizing communities with massive police presence doesn't make people safer. The police require the cooperation of the community, and harassing the public makes it harder, not easier, to solve crimes.

This would have the same effect as finding an old book of Cthulu and trying to read it.

"You can only take a vaccine if you've personally conducted a years long double blind study of its efficacy."

Even just the phrase "could give him greater control over the central bank" is offensive. He's not supposed to have ANY control over the central bank!

Happy Back to School Day to all who celebrate.

I'm....not sure if i trust the convicted and unrepentant child sex trafficker to determine what settings are "inappropriate"?

Raw milk is way more likely to cause health problems for kids than hormones or puberty blockers prescribed by a doctor.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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This is why so many of us should have been listening to Black voices and learning far more about the history of racism in America.

All of that led us here. Fascism was already here for many others. And now it’s coming for the rest. If we had fought for others harder, we’d have prevented it.

Progressives (rightly) point out how against Mamdani the NYT is, but Kamala recognized how they criticized even her no matter what and refused to do an interview with them. They prefer the rightmost candidate in every race! Kamala's mistake was not running against the media loudly and explicitly.

You might think that anecdotal impressions might not match statistical reality, but it hasn't been true in my experience.

Democratic Leadership gerontocracy wishing for a way to drive youth turnout.

Instructions for your car as it goes through the car wash, including "must be straight".

Can't believe the car wash place is pulling this shit during Pride month!

It's wild that the administration's position is "Haiti is safe, but the nyc subway is not."