Scott Wasserman

Yes, Trump's preferred tactic is flooding the zone with distractions, BUT when you flood the zone with shit, its gonna leave a residue that doesn't go away. Each of these "distractions" live on beyond their tactical purpose; despicable ideas that are now normalized.

I can think of nothing more dangerous and toxic to the wellbeing of Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, and Americans than Gaza becoming a fiefdom in this petty tyrant's unlawful empire.

100% 👇

Most people go their entire lives without accidentally giving a nazi salute, let alone giving one in front of a large mass of authoritarian-leaning activist who’s rallying cry is “make America Great again”. But, hey, Elon’s just “awkward” like that.

The song was first written at the end of the last ice age, when fog was released from the frozen landscape. The words were handed down for generations until set to music in the 1930’s.

That was the first time, hence the song

Logan’s reporting in Colorado is important and there’s not enough coverage of the actualities of christian nationalism/christo-fascism and how it operates in a vulnerable democracy at local levels. Get him in your newsie starter packs. Follow and repost this.

How do I even explain to my children what happened today? “All that stuff you’ve been learning about your government, congress and stuff, yeah, one rich guy sent a tweet and now they’re doing something else. But pretend like that didn’t happen on your civics test”

Real nice, America. Great job.

After hopes of progress, some Colorado school districts fear deep cuts under Gov. Polis’ proposed budget Facing a $1 billion budget deficit, the state must find ways to trim spending. Polis is eyeing changes to school funding that some education leaders say would be “catastrophic.”

Colorado continues to re-arrange deck chairs on the Titanic. Something has got to give. Without a major new revenue stream OR a major service cut, K-12 funding will continue to take one step forward, one step back in this state. We're out of magic tricks. #copolitics

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Out of curiosity, is your vision for the trans community where we never tell a joke with friends?

This is not activism. It doesn’t help trans people. It’s an illiberal impulse inside of you to moralize and censor people.

You’re a mirror of the religious right.

The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents. Then it took on a life of its own.

This is absolutely insane…the same guys who chose to put an authoritarian in the White House because they didn’t like some Dems’ tech policies are the ones actively cultivating an AI program that’s accumulating its own wealth to do god knows what.

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And in this new paradigm, you may find occasional areas of agreement with Authoritarians, but it will come at a steep cost every time.

I think a lot of Democrats still want to believe we are in the old paradigm in which Dems are fighting for progress and Conservatives are just trying to slow that progress down.

But we are in a new paradigm: Liberalism vs Authoritarianism…

CO is a bright shining example of this. Here, we pushed for visible benefits for the most people. EITC, paid leave, universal Pre-K. Real stuff, not abstract programs.

And a lot of credit to goes to our Dem legislature that often had to push our Governor to support these things. #copolitics

Its not an exaggeration to say that the City of Denver has a bonified restaurant crisis on its hands. Over the last year, 220 restaurants have closed in Colorado. 85% of them are in Denver.

Colorado's free school lunch program faces budget shortfall Colorado lawmakers are weighing the future of the state’s free school meals program which serves kindergarteners through 12th graders.

Prop FF was good policy, using a progressive revenue solution to fund a critical need in our schools. But Colorado has run out of magic tricks. Without honest and comprehensive revenue proposals, we're going to keep hitting same brick wall. #copolitics

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The Biden/Harris Team was utterly incapable of acknowledging the high costs, immediate & structural, facing American families. Instead, they seemed to think this word salad was going to do the trick. These are good policies, but nothing in here is tangible.

Biggest shitting of the bed in history.

We’re living in the age of the obtuse: people treating horrible things lightly to raise up their preferred moral absolute. Hate the health care system? Kill a CEO. Suspect vaccines cause autism? Bring back Polio. No one is taking anything seriously and it shows.

This is dead on. The cross pollination between American Christian nationalists and Israel's right wing has already been scary enough without an US Ambassador to Israel actively fanning the flames of the illiberal agenda in both countries.

Thanks for lifting this up, @loganmdavis.bsky.social

it is possible that I am in fact wildly out of touch with popular opinion on the left but i continue to believe that murder is bad

It’s amazing how quickly our narratives polarize in this country. I gotta believe that somewhere between “the insurance CEO had it coming” and “see how Ivy League universities radicalize their students” there is a rationale conversation.

“Australia’s prime minister Turnbull found it necessary to stand up to Trump or be steamrollered. “There were two misapprehensions,” he said. “The first was he would be different in office than he was on the campaign trail. The second was the best way to deal with him was to suck up to him.”

And, it might break some "liberal" hearts when they find out that even in so called "liberal" bastions, there will be a temptation to force equally counterproductive orthodoxies on people that don't achieve real progress. "Illiberal" doesn't alway come in right wing flavors. No state is immune.

The states that choose an illiberal future will all see an inevitable brain drain. Professionals, those pesky intellectuals, artists & writers, they will all leave for more liberal places until the illiberal states choose to force them to stay, forcing ridiculous & ineffectual orthodoxies on them.

The price we pay for water in Colorado 👇

I love how Dougco partisans like to act like Denver is a swamp pit, but how would you describe the utter insanity taking place in Douglas Country right now? The story involves former Governor Bill Owens, to boot.

Apparently controversial take: I hate the insurance industry. It shouldn’t exist. But under no circumstances do I think it’s ok to assassinate a health insurance CEO.

I literally dread when i have to print something. One of these happen Guaranteed 1) low ink 2) no ink 3) some paper jam 4) random message or blinking light on printer 5) somehow disconnected from WiFi.

I'm sure there's a lot that missing from this story we need to hear. At the same time, Denver relies particularly heavily on the sales tax for its deepest needs and voters showed this past election that they're noticing. Unattended to, stories like this make meeting our public needs even harder.

This is a good example of a story that was impossible to talk about on the other site. Over there, the trolls would be howling "taxation is theft, burn it all down".

On this site, I hope we can have a better conversation about how we need things to work better, not throw them out... #copolitics