EquallyConfused

"'In mobility more than elsewhere, the central issue is supply rather than demand,' says the elected official, who assures that the municipality has 'massively amplified the supply in infrastructure.'"

What’s cool about the Epstein stuff is that without an opposition party that is willing to use eg fiscal/budgetary standoffs as leverage, what good are some files released into the wind

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

none of this is to deny that some people have gotten screwed, but thanks to the combination of the long 2010s expansion, the superdole, and inflation eating away debt burden, Millennials came into the 2020s ahead of typical expectations for median wealth www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

Made everything worse, and they're still blaming immigrants because the far right understands that the last thing anyone wants to do is bear the shame of their own mistakes bsky.app/profile/chri...

shortening it to “mayo” is just encouraging the next generation of condiments to add unnecessary letters to their name

by ‘27 ppl will be buying office furniture at wholesale prices on felloffatruck.gov

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

In a world of dogs drafted by politicians to play basketball,

be a cat.

culturally inoculated from sincere concern for public welfare

wheeeeeeeeeeee…

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
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i know that’s rhetorical BUT the answer is: they don’t really understand how they made their money & therefore feel defensive about it so are constantly chasing a way to prove themselves, & making a mistake would cause too much painful cognitive dissonance so they keep throwing money into the fire

and Dems still see avoiding a crisis without leverage as a better outcome for them than causing a crisis with leverage.

I think a more accurate narrative is

“once the govt shutdown became a bad-enough crisis for the low-info swing-voter that centrists fetishize to notice, centrists reasoned that this bloc would have held both parties accountable.”

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.

Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.

Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.

Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.

But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

You’ve left off “socks” and I’m having really hard time understanding why.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

He needs his one hand to post!

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the way they start to shed their most distinctive traits at their most crucial moments

everything bagels are just like me fr fr

They give of themselves

It’s inspiring

It’s funny for me it’s the opposite

I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

It’s entirely understandable AND tragic that ppl would not see the gravity of status quo politics in the USA.

we have GOT to break free of pro-system Dem politics: the working class will turn toward and/or accept plutocratic authoritarianism. It’s happening!

There was a rare opening to take initiative but they punted on 4th & 1 from their own 45.

Dems will win big in 26 & 28 but they have given themselves the excuse to remain cautious & moderate & pro-system, fail to sufficiently repudiate authoritarianism, & leave the door open for the next tyrant.

I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming

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This is a sincere question for my followers: am I just batshit insane or am I being gaslit about what is happening

Anyway, I think Dems are right to believe subsidy expiration, because many Americans will suffer and maybe die, is going to hurt Republicans in the midterms. A less harmful way to do well in elections, though, is to offer voters a compelling vision for why they should vote, affirmatively, for you.

GOP abolishing the filibuster is a huge win.

Losing my mind here