Jacob Fridman

Another successful Happy Hour at Night Shift Brewing - Lovejoy Wharf in #Boston!

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YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss Rep. Auchincloss discusses needed gun violence prevention measures

Two sons will never see their father again. Stop celebrating that, and start asking why it was so easy for the killer to get a ghost gun.
youtu.be/DQsBYfjMaS0

On here very infrequently but posting this because quite a few left of center folks I respect have migrated: folks should guard against reflexive backlash to permitting reform when the new admin inevitably pursues a fairly significant deregulatory agenda.

At least it's not envoy for Russia-Ukraine war?

Taylor Lorenz is an extremist who is endorsing violence. If you're overlooking it because you agree with her on other issues, congrats, you're doing MAGA logic but from the left.

Today's martial law/self-coup in South Korea is yet another reminder that presidential systems are not optimal for liberal democracy

Making Government More Effective ft. Jennifer Pahlka Podcast Episode · The New Liberal Podcast · 12/03/2024 · 1h 4m

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's proposed 'DOGE' has put renewed focused on governmental effectiveness. @pahlkadot.bsky.social joins @JeremiahDJohns.bsky.social on the New Liberal Podcast to talk about how we can actually make the government work more efficiently.

I've been trying to figure out how much the launch of a russian ICBM costs, and all I can get is somewhere between 80 million and 220 million, which isn't very helpful, but hopefully illustrates somewhat how stupid and wasteful Putin's little stunt was.

I've seen the argument that if DOJ didn't charge file charges against Gaetz, the allegations against him must be weak, but this doesn't necessarily follow. DOJ's authority to prosecute sex crimes is limited. As general matter, statutory rape, etc. are not a federal offenses.

Chris Hayes at Tufts

Mandate? Trump is now under 50% in the popular vote with his margin ranking 44th out of 51 elections since 1824.

4 Democrats won Senate seats in states Trump carried—compared to zero in 16 and 20.

GOP poised for its smallest House majority since the U.S. had 50 states.

- CNN’s Harry Enten reports

Elon Musk endorses plan for Trump to politicize the Fed.
As I keep saying: this should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who says they care about inflation. Putting the money supply in hands of politicians has not ended well in Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, etc
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The right will spend the next four years versing about the squad and how antisemitic they are. They will do that to distract you from the antisemitism on their side. But remember the squad had very little power under Biden and have ZERO now. Don’t let them distract you.

This is one of several videos and pictures I have see of IDF soldiers desecrating the Quran. This is so vile and in the U.S. armed forces soldiers were punished for this. Are we waging a war against Hamas or all of Islam? If we want the answer to be the former, punish him now.

But would they force Bibi to move ahead, or else break the coalition?

Unless Bibi would wager a Saudi normalization deal as an antidote to no annexation bringing down the coalition?

Unfortuanetly, all signs from Smotrich and co are pointing to annexation

This place has now become big enough to do what Muskland used to do — give me a sense of what smart people are thinking and, importantly, what they don't know. For example, it turns out that many aren't aware that it's well established that most people don't connect wage growth with inflation 1/

I'm honestly wondering how they can easily cross post without having to do two separate posts, because wasn't Tweetdeck killed?

John Does in brothel case can’t hide forever, state’s high court rules - The Boston Globe But those unique-to-Massachusetts closed-door show cause hearings should be a relic of the past.

Keeping names private because they are rich and powerful should have never even been an option. That's such a perversion of the justice system. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/15/o...

Make sure to follow @bosnewliberals.bsky.social to get involved in housing, transportation, and transparency issues in Massachusetts! #mapoli

I think something real is happening. People are finally leaving Twitter.

Rep. Ritchie Torres on Huckabee’s nomination for ambassador to Israel:

“He’s a Christian fundamentalist, and I suspect his support for Israel is largely based on his belief in the rapture.

“So, as a secular Zionist, I find nothing remotely appealing about the fundamentalism of Mike Huckabee.”

Reading post-election analyses, I'm in an intensely anti-populist mood.

I'm tired of analysts trying to suss out the hidden wisdom or deep of voters.

I want more people to say that the American people just made a stupid decision that will have disastrous consequences.

The international far right from Trump to Orban to Le Pen is basically a criminal enterprise.