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Also the President is very dependent on Congress to do good things, but can apparently just unilaterally kneecap the working class on their own.

That’s also falling into the trap of thinking the President controls the economy like a full on puppet master. At best a president can respond to the economy that make reg folks lives easier, at worst they can flip tables and wreck everything.

Decades-long stagnant wage growth set the stage and a rapid increase in inflation (which Americans arent familiar with) and the rug-pull of the COVID-era safety net was a bad combination, as it turned out.

This is so median voter theory-coded that it hurts.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Today is the only day you can capture and consume Cupid to absorb his powers. Good hunting, folks.

As an anthropologist, something stands out to me from the Epstein files: these men weren't just motivated by their depraved desires, but also wanting to be liked by the Party Guy. They were clambering for invites because they wanted to be part of the special in-group. It's sort of pathetic

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A United States Attorney General who obstructs justice can be jailed.

Case in point: Inmate 24171-157.

Makes me think of the Late Bronze aged collapse around the Mediterranean. Crop failures and societies that became overextended crumbled upon mass migrations of people. A technological throughline here too: green tech is the energy future and the West is still stuck on fossil fuels.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”

This should be THE story everyday.

Yikes. Seems like they’re fully committed to projecting.

I’m convinced they’re entirely disingenuous. No one could be that willfully ignorant.

Says the troll hiding behind an avatar.

The Trump admin will follow these new rules like they’ve adhered to the Constitution so far. It’ll be used as toilet paper, at best.

Be real, this is blatant cover for Democrats to give the Republicans enough votes to give even more resources to literal monsters under the federal government’s banner.

Oh so they’re going to vote against the $11bn going to ICE in the DHS funding bill?

2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are:

· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session

Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color

That passage is utterly irrelevant to context of the budget discussion which this letter is in response to.

The DHS bill involves paying ICE more, which is what the Dems are trying to tack stipulations to. The ICE budget should be utterly gutted after all the constitutional violations they’ve perpetrated.

They’re not proposing an increase to the increase, they’re just agreeing to the increase. The $11bn is already in the DHS funding bill.

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Did you just repost your own post?

A central Amtrak station won’t be built by private developers, and would serve regular people. But we’re in agreement about the Gulch deal.

Residential is coming, but for now, you’re right. They’re basically betting on the World Cup to float them until their residential conversions deliver. There’s not a critical mass of residential, but there is some to build on.

The city would’ve been better off spending $500m turning the Gulch into a street grid, parceling it out, and building a multimodal transit center with Amtrak.

Two entertainment buildings (Live Nation venue + whatever the cosm is), two hotels, one residential tower plus $200m in acquisition and lots and lots of planning and design probably hits over $900m. Probably.

A little snip from the article showing both hotels:

They’ve probably got ~$1bn invested now. 1/5 of what they originally envisioned and I’m sure they nixed a lot of office space from their original plans.