David Jones

Biden was pretty easily the best president of my lifetime.
- lowest unemployment ever
- lowest % of uninsured ever
- rapid disinflation leading to a soft landing
- cost of living dropping toward pre-pandemic levels
- huge rise in real wages for lowest-income earners
- violent crime is plummeting

The executive branch. What a beautiful thing. It means you can execute things, did you know that? Not a lot of people know that. We're going to do a lot of executing [chants of "Let's Go Brandon" fill the hall]. Our founding fathers called it the executing branch for a reason!

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Thank you for Stardust. I introduced my daughter to the movie this evening. Such a wonderful film.

Watched it happen 😆😆

How right-wing media is legitimizing a nonsensical and nonexistent lawsuit Sinclair is at it again.

1️⃣ Republicans do something to distract from negative news

2️⃣ Republican billionaire-owned Sinclair Broadcast Group legitimizes it by pushing it on its 185 TV stations

3️⃣ Republican billionaire-owned social platforms amplify it

4️⃣ Repeat Step 1️⃣

ICYMI – I got to discuss “Project 2025” with @chrislhayes.bsky.social:
 
The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be.

What should people know about these radical plans for an authoritarian takeover of government?
 
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because

1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business

2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm society Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON

The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power.

So let’s make some noise.

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A New Trumpian Strategy For Perpetuating The Big Lie A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

One under-appreciated aspect of Donald Trump’s relentless year’s long campaign to promulgate the Big Lie is how it becomes internalized as gospel all the way down the GOP line to the local dog catcher.
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This isn't an unexpected byproduct of abortion bans, it's one of the intended goals. The "pro-life" movement wants to force carrying non-viable pregnancies to term, and they want to make doctors and hospitals afraid to provide maternal care.

the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground

As I wrote in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the drive for a school prayer constitutional amendment failed in the 1960s because so many religious leaders testified before Congress that they, in fact, did NOT want secular leaders writing and mandating prayers, because that was something they took seriously.

The Public Opposes Trump's Plans to Politicize Public Services And John Oliver provides a Project 2025 explainer for you to share

You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points:
1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now.
2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left.
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Ditto. Been at my current title (Sr software engineer) for 11-12 years now I think. Perfectly happy right where I'm at. 👊🏼

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Both.
Neither one should exist.
Healthcare and education should never be for profit, and we shouldn’t let corporations force people into crippling, generational debt for wanting either.

This isn’t a “radical” take, it’s a moral one.

We have our tickets, can't wait. #KCBaby

Painting the Picture of a Rural Progressive An article on activism in rural spaces

Good stuff

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My wife's favorite B&R flavor, chocolate peanut butter. At DQ, it is a peanut buster parfait. 👍🏻

FIFPRO
#woso

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing. Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income.

Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs.

"It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

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Oklahoma Supreme Court says Trump rally attendees don't have to wear masks By - Associated Press Health Jun 19, 2020 4:33 PM EDT TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request to require everyone attending President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa this weekend to wear a face mask and stay at least six feet apart from everyone else in the arena to guard against the spread of the coronavirus.

Herman Cain sitting in the crowd without a mask or any attempt social distancing.

The indoor rally is held in deep red Tulsa, Oklahoma, where health restrictions on gatherings were lax.
Former GOP candidate Herman Cain, an advocate of mask “freedom,” is among many who catches the virus at the superspreader event. He dies a month later.

Donald Sutherland, Star of ‘MASH,’ ‘Klute’ and ‘Hunger Games,’ Dies at 88 Donald Sutherland, who starred in 'MASH,' 'Klute' and 'The Hunger Games' franchise, has died. He was 88.

sutherland was absolutely, with no exaggeration, one of the singular talents of his generation. RIP to a great. variety.com/2024/film/ne...

But Lincoln also never wavered from his belief that slavery was immoral. That is what incited southern slaveholders to secede from the Union. The lesson that we can learn from Lincoln is that one can champion a moral principle and navigate rough political seas. 🗃️