There is no way outside of a “dead girl or live boy” scandal that Republicans can make districts like AOC’s “winnable” for them. Likewise for Democrats in many deep red districts.

Deserved tbf

Very on the nose that the writer of the profile is the son of Carl Bernstein.

Another big reason to hope the charter reform commission expands and enacts proportional representation for the city council so there will be less single-district fiefdoms blocking housing.

He outran Harris by a good amount so he has a case to win in a good year. Talarico does seem to be polling ahead in the primary though so we’ll see.

And even the tax bills thing is sometimes avoided by Senate shenanigans.

You are not getting the Senate to convict when the vast majority of the president’s party will back him no matter. The impeachment process for presidents is a failed process and part of the reason why presidentialism often fails.

See the difference between antisemitism before the Enlightenment (hatred of Jews as a religious group so more anti-Judaism) and antisemitism after the Enlightenment (hatred of Jews as a biological *race* of people with the advert of scientific racism).

Nothing they can’t already do right now if they really wanted to. Remember, Dems do not have a say on whether the GOP keeps the filibuster or not. The GOP could nuke it right now if they wanted to.

Idk about wealthy students (the wealthy ones I encountered are mostly native to the metro area) but most of the students I knew who rented, lived in the city year-round (otherwise, just dorm) and many still live in the city to this day.

I’m not sure why condos by nature are somehow limited to only NYU students. And that still frees up existing multi-bed housing inventory that would be perfect for families but are often force to compete with students rooming with each other.

Jeffries is not in the Senate. This is about the House.

No one has to lose their job if it’s naturally phased in through retirement and the rest are retrained to be operators or other MTA jobs. And afaik, I don’t think the MTA even has major plans to implement OPTO on most lines at the moment. This is about mandating TPTO by law which is unnecessary.

Yeah, and if the MTA for some reason still wanted to keep two per train, that’s their prerogative but there’s no reason why it should be entrenched by law (especially when they already run some OPTO services that would now have to change if the law passes).

Imagine if all those conductors were retrained to be operators (thus allowing more train service) or station booth workers instead of doing a job made obsolete in the vast majority of premier transit systems.

It passed unanimously the same way that permanent Daylight Savings Time bill unambiguously passed the U.S. Senate in that no one was really paying attention to what they were voting for.

It’s the job of the Senate to convict.

Turns out, the jokes about his last name were on to something. He’s Italian after all.

I feel like sortation is only good for those type of situations and community boards. I don’t think it makes sense to replace actual legislative bodies as you run into the lack of institutional knowledge problem that would empower the bureaucracy and monied interests even more.

It’s not up to him. He’s in the minority.

Ah, should’ve gotten that considering *today’s* discourse.

Based on discourse from a few days ago, Star Wars?

The usual suspects

Vast majority of scholars agree there was a historical Jesus. Only thing they really have large agreement on though is that he was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the Romans.

No, NYT, you’re supposed to throw your *car battery* into the sea.

Have they folded on something they were the deciding vote on? That’s the big part of Pelosi’s success. She allowed just enough defections that still didn’t prevent a bill from being passed or changed the result.

Ehh, a common critique about Pelosi was that she wasn’t a good messenger either and had “gaffes” taken out of context like “We have to pass the bill [ACA] so that you can find out what is in it”.