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The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism

got a nasty feeling that what happened here is that Noem has required her personal authorization for expenditures over $X, the tab for each these call center companies ticked over $X, and she didn’t bother approving

schubert’s been in my head for the past three weeks and it’s not helping with work

love the corporate version of numbers

to my great chagrin, my promotion has brought with it extra responsibility

definitely. but that still leaves the question on how second preferences are determined in current election administration

sorry, yes. PR-STV

in mmp systems, excess votes for a candidate are redistributed. but how are these exceeds votes determined, especially if ballots and preference flows differ sharply between vote type/precincts?

The steady deterioration of First Amendment rights and the conflation of violence with dissent is a result not just of an authoritarian regime but of a press culture that is feckless at best and authoritarian-fluffers at worst. The New York Times is beyond redemption.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

DANI OLMO, THE CREATURE OF TWO HALVES

first nations seats are always weird like this. but in general it’s the ndp collapse

all i care about is skeena

the recession can’t come quicker

he loved

a week for fifteen depositions? this seems as if the court is moving at lightning speed, but law is not my field

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

we’re so cooked

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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hot take: louisiana has long tried to hold on to shorelines made untenable but for money. the bill has come due

we shall walk either through the valley of death or under His blessing

someone show the D splits to every incumbent democratic congressman

What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.

"So, when we first hear about the Insurrection Act, it may trigger our alarmism. But better to face it now, before it comes, than learn about it on-the-fly."

this is good! regular people being stupid means they become destitute. rich people being stupid means they become less rich. we would all be better served by reading matt levine’s daily column

then rip

just keep the records in case of an audit

cook, dean

They’re saying 3 mutually incompatible things about the tariffs:

1) They are long term and will cause onshoring
2) They are long term and will raise revenue (which only happens in absence of onshoring)
3) They are a tactic to get others to lower tariffs (and therefore aren’t long term)

None of the old men on American television waxing lyrical about a return of based manly factory jobs imagines they or their own friends and family will ever work a day at such a job.

Still half the US claps and cheers at the sight of a rapist billionaire crook playing dress up at McDonalds.