We are a nation of 349M, yet one man decided to launch our nation into a reckless, illegal war without congressional authorization or counsel or the support of the American people. He didn’t think he had any duty to sell it or serve the people’s interests. This is why despotic rule is so dangerous.
Say what you will about the NYT and so much contemptible reporting, but they were one of the few to say this in 2024.
1) Banning large investors from buying new SFHs and renting them out is dumb
2) I don't really care if SFH production dips as a result of this because we should be building less sprawl anyway
3) Will any of this meaningfully boost infill production? If not, what the fuck are we even doing here?
Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.
Which regions are you thinking of? AFAIK all the cities in the surrounding region are growing and generally short of demand for housing.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
Arrest the goddamn president
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
In his doctoral thesis in 1925 Louis Day Broglie framed the key idea of quantum mechanics: wave – particle duality. This contribution places him among the greatest of physicist. Wave particle duality is their critical concept on which all of quantum mechanics is built. - by Marvin Chester.
OTOH we’re told that only moderates can win general elections in purple districts.
We are bothered by that. It’s horrible.
Republicans in the Senate are cowards, even traitors to the Constitution they swore an oath to uphold.
But the Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise their Constitutional authority. They should either vote affirmatively to support this war, or vote to stop it. Instead, they cowardly deny to vote either way, only voting to deny their power.
And insultingly the #NYT quotes Elliott Abrams! without listing his crimes: convicted of lying to Congress to preserve the Iran-Contra scheme. He covered up the atrocities of the murderous dictatorships that he and Reagan supported in Central America. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott...
Please, Congress, pass these tax reforms. It’s only fair.
“Across Russia’s elites there is near-universal conviction that the West’s ultimate goal is Russia’s permanent strategic containment, and perhaps the killing of its development potential. This belief has become hard to debunk. Western policymakers openly discuss plans for containing Russia.”
Energy note.
"RMI analysis shows that building data centers alongside wind, solar, and batteries near existing grid connection sites can fast-track electricity needed for AI — without forcing families and businesses to foot the bill."
rmi.org/how-power-co...
The White House ignored demands by some lawmakers that Mr. Trump get consent from Congress to launch a campaign against Iran, and made few efforts to make the case for war on Capitol Hill.
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And yet Mr. Rubio never mentioned that the administration was considering a regime-change operation.
Trump is desperate to use a nuclear weapon so, prepare for this
Because I know some smart Trump supporters, I reject the hypothesis that they are all stupid. Why do otherwise-smart people support Trump?
1 Rationalization is powerful. Their social circle is for Trump. 2. propaganda; they watch Fox News. 3 Tribalism, team sports.
30 years.
This video should be on every network.
Agree about how hard life has become for younger people. Wealth went to the 1%. But the election of Reagan in 1980 was mostly decided by people older than Boomers. W Bush v Gore 2000 vote was even across all age groups. I was on losing side of these votes. ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-v...
I wrote my Senators Budd and Tillis (R-NC) to remind them that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Disappointing but predictable that their Facebook posts parroted the Trump Administration’s line that the Iranian government was bad.
Democrats should say that Trump’s attacks on Iran are unconstitutional.
The American people do not want a war in Iran. The Congress did not authorize a war in Iran. It is an entirely illegitimate action that has no legal or constitutional basis. It is the act of a lawless regime.
CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.
Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.
What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.
It could get ugly, indeed. But, as Yogi Berra said: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." I believe nothing is predetermined, the future is contingent, and that people have agency. What will we all do? We shall see.
Imagine returning to 25% unemployment as in the Great Depression, this time with triple the population and without the reserve of so many family farms. Desperate hordes will burn down data centers in a neo-Luddite revolt, greeted by a Homeland Security more powerful than most nation's armies.
