Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The party of genocide was never going to protect you from the other party of genocide.

Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them.

Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.”

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

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Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.

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Palestinian American hails Virginia win: ‘You can be bold on the Gaza genocide and still be victorious’ Democrat Sam Rasoul, a Muslim, won re-election to the state legislature despite accusations of antisemitism

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initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

Echoes of Jonathan Greenblatt sneeringly dismissing Mamdani visiting synagogues because, Greenblatt said, those synagogues are "anti-Zionist."

The implications being 1) only pro-Israel Jews are real Jews, and 2) pro-Israel people have the authority to decide which Jews count and which Jews don't.

How Christian Nationalism Is Shaping Trump’s Foreign Policy Toward Africa Whether ending deportation protections, prioritizing asylum, or all-out threatening invasion, Trump is following the Christian nationalist playbook.

Trump ended deportation protections for South Sudanese immigrants, prioritized asylum for white South Africans, and threatened to invade Nigeria. It’s all part of the Christian nationalist playbook.

And hasn’t missed a paycheck. 🤡

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Target is now requiring its employees to smile more As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

The Art School Debt Trap MFA programs are marketed as gateways to success. The fine print tells a different story.

Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. But Damien Davis argues that most leave with loans, little security, and skills that don’t match the marketplace.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Isabella Alcaraz becomes San Francisco's first Filipina District Supervisor - 8Asians | An Asian American collaborative blog San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie appointed Isabella Alcaraz as the new Supervisor of the Sunset District after Joel Engardio was recalled.

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The Art School Debt Trap MFA programs are marketed as gateways to success. The fine print tells a different story.

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A Border Patrol agent bragged about shooting someone, texts show "Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."

“Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”

This is what Border Patrol agent Charles Exum allegedly texted after shooting a woman in Chicago.

Eastman Kodak has resumed direct sales of consumer film after more than a decade Eastman Kodak is restarting direct distribution of some consumer film stocks, which it says will bring price stability.

Kodak film is back www.dpreview.com/articles/996...

Denmark set to ban social media for users under 15 years of age The Danish government is set to ban social media for users under 15 years of age.

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Dick Cheney Will Be Tortured in Hell An obituary for Dick Cheney in one frame, and other Election Day comics!

New comics section at In These Times with Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen, Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling and one from me on Cheney.
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There are no words for how evil this is

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Facebook knows that it is committing fraud and does not care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I have terrible, terrible news for red America SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.

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'Let's bring some of those vittles back to the table:' What the Nov. 4 election means - 48 hills I will start off my discussion of the Nov. 4 election with a quote from my daughter: “It’s unfair. Why does New York get to have Zorhan Mamdani and AOC and we have Daniel Lurie and Nancy Pelosi?” Good...

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