The administration has clearly given up on pretending their actions are legal. Completely lawless regime.
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The administration has clearly given up on pretending their actions are legal. Completely lawless regime.
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They can still juice out margins from the rurals and exurbs but their populations are stagnant or falling, so they're getting less raw votes each time
Adams' is also polling at <10% Cuomo needs Sliwa to drop out to have a shot at winning
The first thing the next admin needs to do is pack the court. They won't be able to do *anything* unless they do that.
Yeah, I think that's the main problem with the current SCOTUS. It's not just that they're bigoted weirdos, it's that they're *completely* lawless. They'll stop Dem admins from fulfilling basic executive functions because it's "executive overreach" and then grant the GOP admin dictatorial powers
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You cannot meaningfully compromise with the right on anything. They will go for the jugular as soon as they're able to. It was never about 'unfairness' in women's sports and was never about immigration 'concerns'. If you don't conform to their bigoted worldview, they want you dead
Right wing media, social media misinformation and rising inequality
This is why I only download Bluesky on my phone once a week to remain mildly informed. I gain nothing from knowing how shit things are and it makes my day infinitely worse
They think they'll somehow be able to lure low-propensity Trump voters into voting in the midterms. It won't happen, but that's what they're doing
Jewish voters still overwhelmingly support Israel, so being too negative on Israel, might drive them away. It's a tough balancing act. This is an electoral question only, not a moral one (opposing the Israeli state is obviously morally correct)
Exactly lol Conventions barely move the needle in *actual presidential* campaigns. These people don't care about them. Many of them are also probably mad/disappointed at Trump
They absolutely do not. They only turn out to vote for Trump. Thousands of them even left the rest of the ballot blank!
Absolutely cooked country. Always has been, always will be
Everyone hates taxes until they go broke and need to go to the hospital
Man, those people are the worst. The funniest thing is that they oscillate between being wokescolds and sickos with violent tendencies
The GOP should honestly rename itself. Like they're openly admitting they are *not* the party of Lincoln lol
"Old=bad" and "People can't recognise a good economy when they see it" are actually decent examples of areas where Dems could change up their strategy But re-litigating lockdown discourse is just unhelpful. It doesn't offer anything to Dems going forward and reactionary centrists are obsessed w/ it
Time to bring this back
The Biden years seem like a fever dream. 2021 felt so hopeful, then it all went to shit
It's important for Dems (particularly NY Dems) to be careful with how they approach this. They have to find the right rhetorical balance. If they don't, they risk losing some Jewish support, which is what happened in Aus this year - The Coalition did better in heavily Jewish areas of Melbourne
Kinda notable that they also did better than Biden in both by ~10 points
Dems winning the House ballot by 10 points would also absolutely destroy the VAGOP. Dems have insanely good geography, which is only getting better because the Richmond suburbs are zooming left
This is the equivalent of firing a tank shell at a stake board lmaooo Dumbest administration ever
So far during the second Trump administration, this puts the US military at: —1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (in March-April) —65+ air strikes in Somalia —5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria —1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran —1 air strike in Iraq —1 air strike in the Caribbean
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Definitely in the Anglo World, but Reggaeton is extremely popular with Latinos/Hispanics and there are >800 million of us hahah
American institutions castrated themselves for a man that won less than 50% of the vote. Absolute insanity
The joy if buying a large sushi box and pouring these bottles on the rolls will forever live in my heart ❤️
The Fish soy sauce bottles are iconic, but yeah, they're terrible for the environment
Reggaeton is so GOATed, there's something for everyone hahah
If you like older stuff, check out Rumbatón (DY), Yo voy (DY) Salió el sol (Don Omar) and Hasta que salga el sol (Ozuna) - they're pretty iconic
Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Maluma are pretty good. Farruko is also good
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Right? Like why tf would you put the Romanovs on there lol
Which reggaeton artists do you like?
The police force predates tanks
The two most common answers I've seen are: 1) "That would never happen under my utopian pipe-dream" 2) Exile/corporal punishment/execution/
I'm sorry but this is both false and also batshit crazy
The separation of the police force (civilian) from the army (military) is a recent invention in human history. However, law enforcement in its most basic form has existed since humans stopped being hunter-gatherers
The thing is, if Dems manage to flip the Senate, they're probably walking away with a >53 seat majority, just because there are a bunch of reach states with similar partisanship:TX, FL, OH, IA, AK, KS, NE* They're either getting 49-50 seats (no majority) or >53 (majority)
BREAKING: At least 250 people are dead and 500 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
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What I found especially noteworthy about this particular story of ICE abduction was that Shin's friend and stand partner, in the orchestras they play in together, has decided to play every day in the state Capitol until Shin is released, in an intimate and powerful act of personal solidarity
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"Throw shit at the wall until it sticks" is literally how you run an opposition party lol Rs did this nonstop for 4 years and it worked!
I think the prevailing belief is that SCOTUS is not willing to uphold Fed independence
Pretty sure the district is redder + Southern racepol
It would honestly be more impressive
Cursed
2023 was such a weird year
It wasn't that bad all things considered. Virginia trended like 2 points to the left of the nation
The 2025 IA SD-1 Special Election, Following Sen. Rocky De Witt’s death due to pancreatic cancer saw strong fund raiser Catelin Drey best the Right wing Republican Chris Prosch in her quest to flip this seat blue & successfully break the GOP supermajority in the Iowa state senate
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED IOWA'S #SD01 (Trump+11), BREAKING THE REPUBLICAN SUPERMAJORITY IN THE STATE SENATE: Catelin Drey (D)- 54.5% Christopher Prosch (R)- 45.5%
So are Trump and Bukele tbf Birds of feather...
I mean, currently birds are diverse enough to be considered their own thing. "Birds are reptiles" is true, but if you go back far enough, all land vertebrates are bony fish
I'm talking about messing generally, which AOC is excellent at - I'm not endorsing her votes She's also not getting "outflanked" by MTG, who is an antisemitic and islamophobic conspiracy theorist
Local cafés are already Hippie-coded, so they're basically a safe space
Crocket and AOC have also been solid on messaging
My best attempt at explaining wtf Starmer is doing, is that he's attempting to pull a SMER on UK Labour, but without the charisma or economic populism
They'd still be worse, but not by as much as before 2024
Israeli vs Iranian Gov
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I love that scene. "Nowadays 1/10 people have gotten their sex changed"
Objectively a cult lol
this week in american despotism: we can no longer buy things from other countries and fed independence is over unless the supreme court decides to step in (lol, lmao) it’s monday
Basic human empathy = WOKE
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I find it fascinating that a certain type of person prefers receiving death threats on a daily basis on Twitter to the occasional scolding/lecturing on Bluesky
Fair, I wouldn't want to live in a Republican state either. Though Utah looks cool.
I love how this is basically a state-partisanship map lol
Partly because of the upfront costs of LLMs + they're still in their infancy, but also, people wayyyy overestimate what these things are capable of
I love it when some Americans talk about a "general strike" as if it's something that just comes together naturally. Really shows they've never been near a real strike, let alone a general one lol
Nah this is absolutely the voters' fault. No one forced these idiots to choose "diarrhoea forever"
The more the Israeli Gov deflects criticism by crying about antisemitism, the more people will stop taking actual antisemitism seriously
An Australian Jewish org made this exact point after our gov had a spat with Israel and Bibi responded by saying we're antisemitic
Pedocon theory strikes again
The intiative has existed for 3 days and its content isn't something low-info voters know a lot about. A high number of undecideds is expected. Is status-quo bias enough to overcome extreme partisanship and a much bluer environment? Maybe, but one poll is absolutely not proof of that
"If" doing a lot of the work here. You're already writing an obituary on the ballot initiative based on a poll that shows 'yes' winning by 16 points and by over 20 points among regular voters (the group that actually matters in off-year elections)
Like you obviously know a lot about this stuff, so it's wild that you're ignoring your expertise in favour of giving Democrats anxiety
This is just doomerism cosplaying as analysis. Where is the quantifiable proof of this? How can you extrapolate this point from a *single* poll???
55% of 'regular voters' support it too I love how Dems preemptively doom, even when the data shows they're winning lmao
It's great how the US no longer has a functioning legal system
Pritzker is so GOATed
Good
The 2021 bombing of Gaza is what permanently soured my opinion of Israel
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A slowing economy *should* experience low inflation, but the inflationary pressures are on the supply side
Slow or negative growth, a weaker labour market, higher unemployment and sticky inflation (above Fed's target)
I wouldn't say Ana has been on the left for a while ...
Only 48% of the American electorate is sentient