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Bass has been a disaster re police and homelessness as well -- hard to overcome inertia in LA politics though so lots to do

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while we're on the subject.. the US and UK deposed democratically elected Mosaddegh in 53 because he nationalized the oil. Then we installed the Shah who ran a brutal police state for 20+ years. So yah the Islamic Revolution didn't pick "Death to America" as a slogan out of thin air!

yesssssss!

fuck yah!

True. Just that I don’t think a new more civilized US would have the leverage though just by cutting aid to impose a just peace - I think we would need to do more sadly

this started with the US and UK deposing Mosaddesg in 53! Because he had nationalized the oil. And then putting in the Shah who ran a brutal police state for 24 years. The revolution didn't pick "Death to the US" as a slogan out of thin air!

she's not just Black but also a strong partisan and a firebrand -- there will be zero crossovers for her and she may bring out some GOP partisans who are not excited otherwise. Talerico is not just white but conservative coded down to the hairdo.

dude I think you might be a little crazy and a live wire... but I am planning to vote for you on the issues -- corporate accountability -- SB79 -- approach to homelessness (root cause is affordability, rapid rehousing, rent assistance and eviction protection.)

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I supported, donated and called for Allred vs Cruz as i have done for many Black candidates so fuck off.

apologies - typing quickly - you are right of course

I don't see a ton of daylight between these two on issues frankly. I'm attracted to Talerico's appeal to christians to back away from dominionism - seems like a really timely message which (if it lands) could be positive... A permission structure to allow religious people to choose democracy...

hey now... MI6 and CIA worked together to depose Mosaddegh because he... wait for it... nationalized the oil. which had been claimed by the *UK* -- plenty of blame to go round but the UK should be first in line

That is 100% my fear - there’s a slim chance of a D majority in the Senate and that would stop Trumps nominations. So we need to win Texas.

Forget ending - why even start? Why kill 550 people and lose 4 soldiers and burn 1-2B dollars just for these few days? Shits and giggles?

James is *all* about separation of church and state - fought to take down 10 commandments in the schools. Fought for trans youth. He’s a seminarian but he gets the constitution

IIRC he was running first - she jumped in after her district was gerrymandered. I love Crockett but I fear she might lose to Paxton because… Texas…

thanks for what you do

US aid is between a fifth and a sixth of Israeli defense budget - so very important... but they might have been able to manage this without it...

270 million dollars of hardware

The Trump family has accepted billions from the Saudis and Emerati and are holding billions in banks in Qatar. The Saudis have been waging a bloody proxy war with Iran in Yemen. I'm sure Bibi is delighted but Trump is 100% doing this for his own reasons

Israel is along for the ride -- and they had the intelligence to knock out the leaders so that was provided as a service. But mark my words, the President is undertaking this war *personally* and the benefits are doubtless his *personally*.

...now if it was an Israeli bomb you could blame Congress for allocating the aid whenever they did that... fair in that case... but Ibear in mind that congress was not consulted and did not green light this aggression (yet anyway)

This war was undertaken by the President and that strike was probably a US bomb, so as wicked as AIPAC may be I don't think this one is on them. The President is probably doing this at the behest of the Gulf Princes anyway, who are allied with Israel against Iran and who gave him a lot of $

I'm leery in that he hasn't taken a position on SB79 which is the first serious effort to increase housing production since Pat Brown was governor. On the other hand he supports HSR so there's that...

thanks you for this timely reminder- sober these days but I will give gifts to two paupers tomorrow...

They were pretty focused on Jews - read Mein Kampf - antisemitism was absolutely foundational to Nazi thinking. They did also murder lgbtq Roma disabled and socialists, sure. But Jews were a special case for them

...well there is a power vacuum and Newsom is trying to exploit it! D party is a loose coalition without any useful structure - Schumer and Jefferies are not leading, nor is Ken Martin and these are the only ppl with titles. Ultimately the party needs to have real leadership when not in the WH.