Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.
That's why the right killed them.
If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Cupich is a real one and is absolutely spitting fire here. this is a more courageous statement than 90% of what we’ve heard from Democrats
It feels like post-WC break is likely
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states
Just 100 accounts responsible for 70% of conspiracy posts. Puts things in perspective.
And in the context of trans people it has nothing to do with "fairness," or genitals, or biology, or God, or genes. It is about one thing, and one thing only—forcing people to conform to a rigid and arbitrary social system, and punishing them, hurting them, harming them if they refuse.
Denying people the right to be addressed as they choose is denying them a fundamental, basic, and intimate piece of their dignity. It is—as the long history of white supremacist oppression in our country demonstrates over and over again—an indecency and an act of cruelty.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.
It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
Nah I'm fighting you on this. Run all 10 miles right off the bat. Then eat as many tacos and drink as many beers as possible until you pass out. Wake up and rally through what's left.
I just heard the brother and sister in law of one of my team members was picked up by ICE in Baltimore late last week. Her brother is a US citizen, her SIL is from El Salvador. The assholes snatched them leaving their house and LEFT THEIR 6 WEEK OLD DAUGHTER ALONE IN THE CAR when they left the scene
The way I had prayed for that McKennie to the Fire rumor to pan out
Thread. Joey has done essential work documenting what actually happened at UCLA, and debunking the Trump Administration's florid allegations.
If you take money out of a video slot—or an online betting app—you're not thwarting the company, because you're not a customer. You're churn. You're the price the company pays to FIND their customer, and their customer is the person whose life they're going to ruin.
On purpose.
We were just going in a meeting with the supporters liaison and I don't think it's accurate to say for the Fire. They aren't banning identity flags like this
And this is why I think the GOP may be generationally fucked if we manage to re-establish democracy in the coming years.
Because they're going to have to either repudiate the current horrors or embrace them, and either option leaves a third of the grassroots base of the party politically homeless.
The story of the slow, inexorable decline of Trump's support in the last thirteen months is the story of millions of Americans, one person at a time, witnessing the obscenities being perpetrated by this administration and being roused to opposition.
Literally every other election: The winner is the person who gets the most votes.
The presidency: We need guardrails to prevent the wrong constituencies from deciding who wins.
I really do believe that, by the way. Our cities are the most American places in the United States—they represent what and who we are in a way in an incredibly rich and profound way. And until we as a country accept that, embrace that, celebrate that, we're fucked.
For American democracy to survive, we must as a country learn to embrace the beauty, the awesomeness, the Americanness of our cities.
Nothing has brought this home for me like debating the electoral college online over the last decade. There's literally no contemporary justification for the EC that makes any sense that isn't "the cities and the people who live in them shouldn't be given the keys to the presidency."
I know Kevin knows this, but the explanation for this is clear: It's racism. Racism and xenophobia and misogyny.
A white native-born American, living in the parts of the country where white native-born men still hold disproportionate power, is the only fully "real" American in the eyes of many.
You know how you see some information you already know, but you look at it more because it's right in your face again?
Point 2
If you kill someone who was on a sidewalk with your car, your drivers license should be revoked for a decade. That should be the moderate position.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
