Everyday Democrat

Wondering the United States will be an emerging economy 15 years from now.

Critics Mock Kristi Noem’s ‘Stupid’ Nickname For New Migrant Jail Indiana is getting its own spin on "Alligator Alcaztraz."

Houston Hoosegow?
Jacksonville Jailhouse?
Carolina Clink?
Louisville Lockup?
Pinellas Pokey?
Alabama Auschwitz?
Boise Birkenau?

A concentration camp by any other name is still a concentration camp. www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Complete Globe Scene - The Great Dictator

History doesn't repeat but it sure as hell echoes.
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Trump couldn't predict the ending of a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Is sports betting America’s next addiction crisis? - The Boston Globe Author Jonathan Cohen thinks sports gambling has become a public health crisis — and policymakers need to set guardrails like they did with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

In my estimation, 10-15% of my male students gamble online. Some lose or win hundreds of dollars in a weekend.

(One pays $50 a month for a tip sheet. He's the one I caught watching a Saudi Arabian soccer match in class).
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"It’s the asset economy vs the wage economy, all compounded by institutional credibility crises and the appeal of alternative narratives via inflammatory media with some lost educational opportunities."

A lesson in succinctness by Kayla Scanlon.

Working-Class Abundance Creating the foundations for stable and secure families across the entire United States.

I mostly read the Liberal Patriot when I run out of things to disagree with. But this is just incorrect: "Excessive crime and homelessness are serious problems in nearly all these blue-run jurisdictions."

Homelessness, okay. But crime?
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Do We Have to Thank My Brother-in-Law for His Gifts if We Hate His Politics?

This about as bougie as it gets.
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YouTube video by Lyrics 90's Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (Lyrics)

Some days.
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Opinion | James Carville: My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats

Such a pre-Trump take: "Let President Trump rope-a-dope with MAGA on the Jeffrey Epstein case and don’t get in the way."

Carville probably believes the legacy media drives public opinion too.
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Opinion | Democrats have only one escape route Unifying behind platitudes isn’t the way out of irrelevance. Making voters choose is.

The DLC and Clinton were responses to the rise of neo-liberalism and Reaganesque conservatism, both of which ended with the Trump era. It's like prescribing leeches to cure consumption. #FourHumors

the Four Humors of Political Analysis.
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Trumpworld IS chaos.

Trump's Growing Epstein Crisis Read more here.

The degree of his desperation is reflected in today's announcement that he has fat legs.
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Boston’s schools don’t have to be mediocre - The Boston Globe Voters should press the mayoral candidates to debate detailed solutions to the district’s major problems.

Any editorial that uses the word "mediocre" when talking about education tells you the authors stopped thinking seriously in the 1980s. #edreform
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This is the new, clickbaiting headline strategy of intentionally not giving readers the details. The Masslive M.O.

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

What will be the first hospital to close because of MAGA's killer bill?

Who will be the first person to die from MAGA's killer budget bill?

when you say shit like “who got to them?” or “they were blackmailed” you’re painting them sympathetically. stop doing that. they’re not victims, they’re grown people who made a conscious choice.

We liberals need to replace the conditional mood with the future tense.

There are some centrist and center-right pundits making earnest pleas about Mr. Mamdani being a threat to the economy, and I don't think they understand that the vast majority of us under 40 don't care. This is not a system that works for us. It doesn't take being a leftist to grasp that.

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The Trump Administration takes the same approach to Iran as it does to tariffs.

What could go wrong?

And just in from the New York Times...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem transported to DC-area hospital after allergic reaction, DHS says | CNN Politics Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported by ambulance on Tuesday to a hospital in Washington, DC, after an allergic reaction, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The allergen was empathy.
It needs to be introduced slowly and carefully to people who've never experienced it.
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I like your taste in music, by the way.

She says "remember," suggesting she's not really claiming to say something novel. Framing basic rhetorical strategy and a feature of communications. Who does it or whose frame succeeds is important.

You'll have to enlighten me on CDA.

I think the use of the passive voice was intentional.

Andrew Cuomo looks like Matt Groenig drew him in his forgotten realism phase.

BREAKING: Rebeka Koffler Named Under the Table Secretary of Defense