The loudest voices in Democratic politics are the least representative. Democratic primary voters are older, non-college, and mostly offline — and 75% prefer dealmaking over ideological purity.
The 2028 primary will be decided by people who don't post about it.
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I feel like the (R) party brainwashed us all in this discussion. Instead of demanding more pay we have all been trained to instead demand low or no taxes. Its a trap that we have been falling into making over & over.
If we want to have a functional welfare state, and I do, then we are going to need to tax the middle class to fund it. That is okay.
The Centro Project at Metro's Westlake/McAuthor Park station has received Planning approval and has a new design.
I think the new look is a huge improvement. No idea how this will ever make financial sense, but I hope it happens
Suspending California's gas tax defunds the roads it repairs, a $6.5B annual hit.
Stations aren't required to pass savings on. If they do, wealthy drivers get 3x as much relief as low-income drivers.
The policy costs everyone, guarantees nothing, and rewards those who need it least.
I’m the same except an occasional lottery ticket at the grocery store
Am I the only person alive who has never felt even the slightest temptation to gamble? The whole appeal of it absolutely baffles me and yet it appears to be swallowing our culture whole.
BART doesn’t run 10’car trains on a regular basis. That was mostly a Covid thing. Most trains are 6 to 8 cars.
I cant speak to the actual roles of these employees but I do know riding the NYC subway, these subway trains are way longer than all the public transit trains in the SF Bay area.
it’s baffling when people say this about the MTA, a public agency that operates at a loss and relies on significant amounts of government funding to provide a critical service.
Making the MTA more efficient doesn’t mean additional profit, it means more service within its budgetary constraints
BART’s future is dire. Its ridership cratered during the pandemic and remains less than half of what it once was. And the very future of the familiar white and blue trains, which have zipped around the Bay Area since 1972, is in doubt.
“The snowpack is extremely low across much of the West, not because precipitation was extremely low … but specifically because temperatures were record warm. That is the classic signature of a warming climate on mountain snowpack,” @weatherwest.bsky.social told @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
The California Coastal Commission is a totally underrated villain in this story.
LA applied for coastal development permits in 2022. It took 2.5 years of delay before they were finally approved. Had permits been issued that year, Park's predecessor would've been in office & it would've been built.
A really good piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social abt the normalcy bias with which the press is covering Trump's utter failure to understand what he has done with the Iran war.
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Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
As a young kid in Columbus, Neb we loved the smell of drying alfalfa in the local mill.
Amen! My home county in central Nebraska used to produce & export large quantities of dried alfalfa pellets. No irrigation needed because the alfalfa roots could reach the water table (~10' down). Then subsidized alfalfa from the desert killed the industry
My high school freshman is studying the pluscuamperfecto and I thought “pluscuamperfecto, I haven’t heard that name in years”
It’s a funny little delight of parenting, constantly re-engaging with long lost little bits of knowledge from your own education.
Lo, behold what happens when one woman decides today is the day she’s DONE with the gaslighting.
they literally convinced themselves that the Trump administration is the only political actor in the entire world with agency and everyone else are NPCs
Unironically, yes. The biggest problem authoritarians face is that they have no conception of how to react to someone who doesn't knuckle under when violence is inflicted.
The antidote to tyranny and supremacism is courage. Enough people stand up and say "no", and they crumble.
Did they just expect Iran to be like ok whatever you want sir like they were Columbia University?
I mean it really seems that Trump went to his people and said “Venezuela was great, Delcy calls me every day, tears in her eyes, make that happen again” and they went “Yes, sir” and gave him a target list for Iran and that was the whole thing
When Trump kept making these rueful remarks about having killed all his hoped-for successors, I didn’t recognize that this was important because that was literally the sum total of his plan to end the war without collapsing the global economy.
When this first happened I thought we’d find ourselves in a kind of slow spiral towards crisis as the over optimistic plans of the administration collided with entropy. I don’t think I would have ever expected that there simply WASN’T A PLAN if Iran didn’t immediately go full MAGA suckup
Step one: I punch a tiger!! Directly in the nose!! Ahahaha
Step two: ???!!!????!!
On some level I’m not sure my mind can quite grasp the raw stupidity of conducting a massive decapitation strike against Iran with no day two plan whatsoever, and then immediately finding yourself in a worldwide energy crisis with no off-ramp because you didn’t expect Iran to react
New story about how Hollywood (and the world) sees the tech industry, from "Silicon Valley" to "Mountainhead," to a promising new show called "The Audacity."
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