Kelly Holiday

How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off

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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited

An excellent and enlightening read!

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Imagine what they will do once messaging for future elections is no longer necessary. #EpsteinShutdown #TrumpShutdown

Seeing this (in the midst of the 💩 news), is a salve for the soul. We still have a chance to choose a better way forward💙

Imagine a world in which Ezra Klein engages with Ta-Nehisi Coates, privately, from a posture of genuine curiosity and humility, takes a few minutes, reflects deeply, and then posts/records. That’s the masculinity we need.

Second only to silence as an option.

“But, hear me out, have we considered running a pro-starvation Dem in red states?” (Ezra Klein, probably)

Agreed. Bro doubled down on running “pro-life Dems”… even after TNC called him out on it.

From now on.

He did not. Skipped right over it.

I know exactly what this is referring to and it should have been his only option!

This was one of Ta-Nehisi’s quotes that really jumped out to me.

I’m not sure why EK can’t walk & chew gum yet (other than being willful).

I mean, it’s worth it to see Ta-Nehisi tactfully navigate/dominate the narrative.

After listening to his conversation with Ta-Nehisi, I can only assume that Ezra can’t be burdened with history.

Can we crowd source it??

As someone who has worked really hard to dismantle a R/Evangelical background, this isn’t fair. Like every other deconstruction, it’s a process. It would be much more constructive to answer his questions and see how he responds.

Done.

A Charleston County magistrate judge has been suspended from his judicial duties by the Supreme Court of South Carolina after he was charged with child sexual abuse material.

James B. Gosnell, Jr., 68, is accused of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the USD of Justice.

“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”

Apparenlty?
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“Credible” doing a heavy lift here.

So where are the groypers on the Epstein files??

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

I can’t stop watching!

Not the right one, tho.

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve seen a lot of posts about it being a limited lottery.

Cosplaying civil war will have to do for now.