Wesley Whitaker 🏳️‍🌈❌👑

YOU WOULD NOT NEED A STRATEGY IF THE FILES DIDN’T IMPLICATE YOU IN CHILD RAPE

Creating a culture where people won't challenge or contradict the leaders of federal law enforcement. What could go wrong? www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Utah’s Senate president prompted law change that helped a teen charged with child rape An 18-year-old high schooler was facing potential prison time and having to register as a sex offender until help came from a powerful ally — Senate President J. Stuart Adams.

Pretty crazy story to read after watching hours of (often unhinged) debate about these topics in the California legislature
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Anyway, I don't think it's great politics for Republicans nationally and within Texas to be doing this fresh off the worst floods in my lifetime, where loss of life was at least in part due to *their own party's failure to protect their constituents*, blithely assuming that everyone agrees with it.

The 2026 backlash is gonna be apocalyptic

If it's considered a tax and wasn't passed by the required margin, then it would be overturned because of the strict constitutional requirements regarding the imposition of taxes

Hey congrats to everyone who took the soft anti-vaccine stance of “mRNA vaccines aren’t 100% effective and aren’t useful against future variants so the mRNA vaccines aren’t good, we need to mask forever”, your stance has been noted by RFK Jr. to kill mRNA technology in America.

Texas, Missouri, and now Indiana. Any other red states that are going to redistrict mid cycle to steal more seats?

“For each dollar the state has spent in litigation with Trump, it has recouped $33,600 in funds that the federal government has tried to take away from the Golden State, according to Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta.”

FBI agents are not allowed to speak up against this. I count some as friends and former colleagues so I’ll say for them this is just straight up wrong, and absurd, and he has no concept of the oath these agents took or the reason they served their country in the first place.

The Trump Administration is waging an all-out war against wind power in the United States, attempting to ban a resource that provides over 1 in 10 kilowatt-hours nationwide and is a critical source of new supply required to meet surging demand.

not everything that's wrong in the U.S. is the direct descendent of chattel slavery, but the resemblance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which paid commissioners $10 for rendering alleged fugitives to the south and $5 if they found the evidence is insufficient, is kind of hard to ignore

Alex Acosta is the most under-reported part of the whole Epstein saga (because he's the part that makes Trump look guiltiest)

This is really bad: there is a whole research literature on performance perversity, and what happens when you attach high powered incentives to public services. You get results, but due process usually goes out the window and cheating becomes rampant.

Peak efficiency is firing everyone and then trying to rehire them after eroding any trust about their job's long-term security

I read his columns almost religiously when I was just starting in Sac. Only took a couple years to realize that it is a lot of the same content reheated for whatever topic is trending that day. Maybe would read more if he wrote longer, more thorough pieces

California's own James Carville. With all due respect, Walters isn't adding anything new and it's time for fresh voices

Once again, everything people (wrongly) said was happening under Joe Biden is <actually> happening now

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"[The King] has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."

—US Declaration of Independence

THE HEGSETH BROTHERS: We'd like to do both of these things.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Bessent humiliating himself only to lose out on this, lmao lmao lmao

When you don't want to activate the next step in the main quest line in an open world game so the NPC just stands there waiting for you:

Chat should we build housing where the daytime high is 72 or 94?

The real issue with cars is like you said the hidden costs I recently had to replace a CV joints on my Subaru. It was like 700 bucks for parts and labor and I had to do it because I was on vacation coming home. That’s how cars get you.

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

How did we convince retirees, nurses, teachers, cops, etc that their cost of living increase will be fairly calculated? BLS professionalism, now threatened. Transparency, now blocked. The main transparency institution, an advisory committee with broad membership, was disbanded in March /2

Looming problems from BLS statistics politicization. Social security benefits and many long term labor market contracts are indexed to the CPI. BLS makes the CPI. Recipients care about indexed cost of living increases, a lot.
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This is on point. Piling on to say that govt production of information fuels all sorts of endeavors completely unrelated to benefits, including state and local economic development strategies, business siting and diversification, and a host of other societal calculations and decision-making.