Jim Grady

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He’s saying job creation doesn’t have to be as high if we only have to provide jobs for Real Americans. A million problems with that statement, but the easiest way to check if it’s true even on its own strange terms is to see if over the long term unemployment still moves with job creation.

MAGA is welcome to the title of being the best at gleefully upsetting people. They just don’t get to have that and also claim the serious moral high ground when it suits them.

Come now everyone, could a racist administration use a classy middle school essay word like “erroneously?”

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I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Some tasks are easy for traditional code but hard for LLMs and some are the reverse. The challenge is building a system that uses both together supporting each other in the right way. And to let go of constraints ingrained from before we had that option. So I like that you’re thinking about that.

People's Activist Series—January 31 — Indivisible Charlottesville Non-Cooperation Strategies in Action: Responding to Police Violence Let’s deepen our use of non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. In this session, we will engage in scenario-planning to develop...

Postponed from last week - state violence is escalating; we can meet this moment and stand in solidarity with targeted communities. We CAN prepare together for rapid mass mobilization and community care. Join us today (1/31) at 2 PM at the Haven!

Thank you for doing this! I wish I could come but can’t make it today. Hope to attend a future session.

Not long term and not out of a sudden fit of conscience I agree. I just mean that it seems like he was sitting there watching his people get absolutely crushed on the news shows, with zero they could respond with, so he went for a rare tactical retreat, and now he thinks he doesn’t even need that.

I feel like he saw the video of Alex Pretti kicking a tail light and decided public opinion was winnable again, so he’s back to never back down mode.

Thank you encouraging a listen. That gave me chills.

Second amendment doesn’t guarantee an unlimited right to bear arms, contrary to the incorrect interpretation pushed by conservatives for many decades. The tragedy of Alex Pretti doesn’t change that. It’s just that right now that expansive interpretation is dominant, so it has to apply to everyone.

wonder if the person who wrote the quoted post has any sense of the irony wrapping a positive statement of constituents over party inside partisan rhetoric about the panicking dem machine? I wonder if they ever thought to encourage Trump to speak like Fetterman? Somehow doubt it.

While recognizing the absurdity of the whole idea, the thought that comes to mind is that troops under NATO command might have rules of engagement, policies to protect civilians and children, and respect for the Geneva convention, so in that sense they might be an improvement over ICE.

Called my (Republican) congressman McGuire’s office and left a message with a staffer strongly against the US invading Greenland. Given his military background I went with the message that to me an alliance is an oath to protect and aside from everything else, an attack would be dishonorable.

I am amazed that in the middle of being slaughtered in a war of aggression, Ukrainians find time to indulge the art-of-the-deal delusions of a guy who said he’d end the war in 24 hours over a year ago. I mean I guess they have no choice. But the self control to put up with this is astounding.

Hopefully it is possible for people to feel their justified intense frustration with Democratic leadership, while still recognizing that their failings are in a completely different ballpark from those of Republicans.

So true. So many crucial programs thoughtlessly defunded.

This is great. I’ve been wishing for something like it. Because I hate to admit it but the flood the zone strategy kind of works on me, there’s so much that I can’t keep it all in my mind.

If only there were some federal agency whose job it was to work on abuses by credit card companies.

Is there any way a boycott could be effective on this? Like not buying gas from companies who agree to this? Or are they all too intertwined?

Agreed there is likely more real evidence against Maduro than Abrego Garcia. What I mean is: Garcia is one of a pattern of cases that show the administration will push cases for political reasons whether or not they have evidence; and a motivator for skilled prosecutors to have exited already

I would be fascinated to see what unfolds if and when Maduro’s attorneys argue that he can’t be prosecuted for official acts. I don’t think it would have the effect I’d hope for, but it would at least highlight the absurdity of that prior ruling.

I’d love to hear someone with more legal knowledge explore what would happen if his attorneys argue that he can’t be prosecuted for official acts. It probably wouldn’t have the effect I’d hope for but it would still be a very interesting walkthrough.

Sorry autocorrect - Kilmar

Absolutely. I was just thinking this could go the way of Kilmer Abrego Garcia.

So there will be some tension between that and "not getting bogged down." We shall see.

Even so they'll want to steer the new government toward one that facilitates the extraction of oil by US companies.

I doubt it will be different this time, but it could be, and one possible reason is the administration's super power, the ability just to not give a damn. "You break it, you buy it" is replaced with "Yeah I broke it, so what?"

What is going to be interesting in a very sad way is how the administration will handle the "what comes after" phase. As others have said, toppling the government of a smaller nation is always the easy part. In the past we have gotten bogged down with "national building" part.