I have voted for every initiative in my state to protect workers rights including several different minimum wage increases. Every single one had predominantly Democrat organizations supporting it and a majority of Democrat voters who passed it. But sure, the parties are the same.
I’m so shocked that staffing government agencies with podcasters and obscure cable channel quality newscasters has gone so poorly for them.
Pretty sure this is political cover for selling federal assets to his buddies.
The only overlap is they both mentioned the word “vegetables.”
I can tell you that we had a much more productive workplace for that brief moment in time where my colleagues were worried about offending me, than when they weren’t. Unless you are on a comedy writing team, your bit of fun comes at someone else’s expense.
I’m going to disagree on there not being very many of them. And they are extremely arrogant and extremely rude.
The right has sold the notion that this was Biden’s fault because there were more deaths on his watch, but I think the deaths were disproportionately in the red states.
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
Not here for the holier than thou act about shopping in person. Have you noticed that we are still in a pandemic and some of us actually don’t want the current Covid variant, whatever that may be? Have you noticed that most families don’t have someone with extra hours of spare time to shop?
Yikes. Thanks for the heads up, that’s terrifying. They could encounter rabid raccoons and skunks.
Very relieved that someone from pharma is getting close enough to doing an end run around that Kennedy man for it to hit the Trump stream of consciousness.
Yeah, maybe we should respond to every post about this with something on the lack of emotional regulation and anger caused by t patches.
Yeah, I am sure it will get twisted by the empathy is bad crowd.
Yeah; it’s almost MAHA deep frying turkeys in beef tallow season. It arrives right after PSL season for the rest of us. There is nothing healthy about that.
The Kennedy prescription for mental health: 1. Be born wealthy. 2. Fail up.
This is the way
Whatever Grok spits out, complete with made up studies in non-existent journals.
Wrote, no. Maybe dictated?
Yeah, when ours was misused, the first charge was $ 20 at a gas station.
I’m going with Walking on Sunshine.
The whole would I have a beer with this person thing is most frequently applied to women in order to provide another excuse not to support them. The same guys cheer on Bernie, who doesn’t seem like much of a bar stool guy.
These guys are living on roids, raw milk and things cooked in beef tallow. I am pretty sure that isn’t a great life extension hack.
Yeah, we need a blue health alliance with participation in the international community making vaccine recommendations, and we need the blue states to pressure insurance companies to pick up the tab for state or internationally recommended courses of vaccines.
Yeah, if you aren’t going to be able to fix things by staying, I think a very noisy set of resignations is a great move as it gives all of us visibility into how bad it’s gotten.
Ah, I just did some digging and found it. Thanks.
I am trying to understand the concerns. If he went on air with a revolting human is the basis, then I know that some of people on here who are loud in response to Newsom are just zero info voters. If it’s in response to actual policy he has adopted, I would like to understand.
I readily found Gavin’s position on athletes, but I can’t find anything on this transition issue you flagged.
Right. Tell me what trans protecting legislation Trump signed.
Under 30 trans athletes have won major titles. You are saying that it is more important to subject all the women, all the people of color, every one who isn’t Christo Fascist, and all of the people with varying gender identities to the horrors of this administration rather than crush their dreams.
No, not every union.
My blue collar family knows the Republican history on attacking unions and on the right to work laws through their union education. It’s really important to support unions not just because they protect their workers but because they can be invaluable voices for equality.
Yeah, my sister was driven out of a great career by sexual harassment in the 60s. I was 15 years younger and had a shiny new set of rights to insist on. It made all the difference. And MeToo was making a difference and we were about to invalidate NDAs so executives couldn’t hide behind them.
Seriously, if we are going to have to deal with people’s daddy issues, why do we have to get all the bad dads?
Yeah, I was posting online about how bad it had been for women in the 50s and 60s and people literally didn’t understand where their rights as women came from and how recently and how fragile they are.
Yeah. I didn’t realize how much had gotten lost until the Barbie movie. I was a 70s child raised on feminism. In 2023 there were generations of women talking about being heard for the first time in the monologue by America Ferrera’s character.
I lost a relative to one of those truly gruesome pre vaccine Covid deaths. I can’t believe this administration wants to bring that risk back. Maybe we need editorials and videos reminding people? The points to right more deaths during Biden acknowledge those were mostly in unvaccinated red states.
Thanks for the background, it’s really helpful to have a MAHA to English translator.
Can’t believe I missed another MAHA obsession. It would be fine if they were obsessed with a alternate theory and then brought data to it. But apparently the science process is for fools.
Yeah, I use Wikipedia as a start and a browser where you can turn off AI results. And have not activated AI on my phone. Problem solved. I tried searching for the answer to a health question and then repeated the search and got two conflicting answers.
Have you ever heard of the term soft secession? It’s the concept a wealthy blue state opting out of federal income and keeping as much of their own wealth as possible, effectively insulating the state from federal overreach while kneecapping Trump’s agenda limiting funding.
Yeah, that was the only thing that administration did right. But I was so grateful. I was up all night hitting various sites until I was able to find an appointment. It was at a funky little rural county health clinic that thankfully had some supply. Since then I have been regularly boosted.
I keep hearing them declare what crap candidates Hillary and Kamala were, but their own words betray them. They simply can’t handle the notion of women leaders, and would rather help one of the world’s worst men get elected.
Yeah, I have been blocking anyone who derogates women by calling them grannies, wine moms or accuses them of brunching. They claim they aren’t sexist but do everything possible to squelch women’s voices. They are just like MAGA with their Childless Cat Ladies and Witches.
At the end of the day, all the religions I am familiar with are used by men to control women. I left the liberal church of my youth after a conversation with my pastor about how the bit in the marriage sacrament about obeying my husband could not be taken out of the ceremony when I got married.
I am sure everyone will be perfectly fine after being sentenced to one of his work farms.
Rural town; the all white mean girls at the top of the social hierarchy were using Coca Cola douches as birth control, to predictable results.
If our news networks were doing their job, they would be running a fact check scroll under every single speaker on their news and business shows, fact checking the bullshit.
Good job Chuck, this is the kind of thing you should post on this website specifically
The other thing that is driving me nuts is that it was Trump who changed the federal student athlete rules, not Newsom. And the sports bodies individually determine Olympic eligibility. Not Newsom. So blaming him for every bit of that isn’t fair. Let’s criticize him on his actual actions.
Quick, name a single Republican politician who would've signed California Senate Bill SB-107, The California Gender Recognition Act, The Transgender Youth Privacy Act AND The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act. Y'know who DID sign all those? Newsom. Quit being unserious.
They also have a list of other high risk conditions. They aren’t in the chart with these which have article cites. But I think they still qualify?
Yeah, I was refused the Spring shot and had to go get a prescription from my doctor. I was at the Safeway pharmacy.
Ha!
Thanks for reminding me, she was going on about stolen seats. I was a fan of hers after her awesome congressional hearings. But I was really disappointed she wasn’t thinking about how to assemble a broader coalition.
I’m a big fan of this proposal, we can get someone experienced to be governor in this very challenging time, and he can make sure someone great takes his seat. Katie wasn’t successful in her last run, so I am worried she hasn’t sorted out an electable path.
Take that up with their representatives. They need to hear from everyone who is impacted and rightfully pissed off. I know people will shrug off attempts to contact red senators but it’s not hopeless; we still have funding cycles that can be used to try to get help.
Excellent! Any person can be a guardrail against this administration when their time comes.
This. We need a state licensing board to put a stop to the medical content.
Love him since he sued Trump during the first administration to get out of his Old Post Office restaurant lease.
Yes, this. The content on the Internet led people to madness, with things like PizzaGate. It’s going to be worse if that dreck is dressed up with nice language as if it’s factual.
I’ve been worrying about the very toxic combination of a generation of Americans who think you need therapy for everything, and these general purpose devices.
Yeah, and thanks to ICE, tourism and real estate are being impacted.
And the ability to enforce a contract.
They brought us this mess, and now they want the Dems to push a Magic Button and make the effects of their decisions go away.
We’ve been watching disaster movies: giant asteroid speeding towards earth, the we’re in.
In communities where the state and local governments have spent billions? Inconceivable.
I checked on this, and was told the pharmacy isn’t making any new appointments for the old vaccine. That was at a national chain. I don’t know if an independent would be less rigid? I don’t know how the rules work.
I have a healthcare provider who has a serious heart condition, and she masks. No one else, unless I specifically request it. I have been going with telling people I can’t stand to get another cold this season. That has been easier what I tried last year, which had me arguing about risk factors
A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood.
Yeah, he wants a situation where he controls a potential source of revenue. Everything is about him acting like a Mafioso. Don’t call this socialism.
Almost every county saw a meaningful drop in homelessness this last count.
I suggest tackling the women’s sport issue by working with the relevant sport committees. Each sport is so different. They set standards that seem to be updated frequently. I think as Governor, Newsom has to follow federal law. And the guidelines were changed by Trump, not him
Yeah, I don’t like everything Newsom has done, French Laundry during lockdown comes to mind. But I vote for him because he actually gets stuff done. We need someone who knows how to pull the levers of government. There are other governors in the mix who have similar skills
This is a product of the Baye-Dole Act, which was specifically passed because when the govt owned the patents nothing ever happened to develop technologies further. The USG actually retains certain march-in rights as well as a commitment that any developments are manufactured in the US. win-win
No, just another oligarch in action. The people of the United States will never see a benefit from this.
Let’s do defense contractors next
Encourage more housing. I read that Austin did that and the rental prices dropped. I don’t know about the purchase prices.
Restaurants usually don’t own the property they are using. They just go bankrupt and sell off the fixtures.
In the most recent article I read, in my state the percentage of properties held by private equity firms was really low. You would be taking out mom and pop investors and the people who buy properties for short term rental. I think the better approach would be to ban short term rentals.
Yeah, there are a lot of posts by people who have never bothered to read a single thing about a topic before forming a deeply held opinion conveyed with rage.
Ugh, no. It’s a cholesterol bomb.
If they cared about their constituents, they would pass legislation exempting food and medicine from all the Trump tariffs.
Spiraling downward in stupidity from Dan Quayle to Sarah Palin to this. I do hope they have reached the bottom.
When Trump called Hillary a witch, I thought it was because he thought bitch would be too offensive. I had no idea it was a call out to people who literally think there witches.
Is this just the mRNA vaccines or is it likely to impact Novavax as well?
Reviewing the documents for Trump’s name is was a completely different exercise
What we have to do in DC is document any civil rights violations by the Guard, so the mayor and the ACLU can sue like they did in California to get the Guard to back off.
The problem often isn’t with representatives, it’s that the issues are complex. The DC mayor and court killed Trump’s attempt to take over the DC police department. The courts ruled Newsom couldn’t call off the National Guard, and the Mayor has even less authority than he had. So (see below)
No; they said it was the first batch of documents, not all of them. A production like this with victim information redacted will take time. And likely need court intervention to rule on the privacy issues and redactions.
He’s not owning the means of production, he’s an oligarch taking his cut out of an otherwise productive company. Don’t get the dim left excited about this precedent, it’s going to hurt Intel employees and shareholders.
Getting the Maxwell documents will take time and cooperation by some Republicans. We currently have that, but could lose it at any time. If we magically got all the records it would take months to thoroughly review them. The good stuff will be hidden until a court forces their production.
The Dems are dealing with a tactic on the other side of intentionally flooding the field with so many bad policy initiatives that we can’t deal with them all. Different Dems in different levels of government and agencies and different committees are best suited to tackle each one. Follow more.
Yes, but only in hindsight. The coalition of the enraged on the other side has excused all kinds of crazy conduct by their own team. It took a few cycles before it became clear this is a line some of them won’t cross easily.
People who just post fast without actually knowing a thing about the topic criticize people who take the time to think for being too slow. If you are assessing the facts, you will find by experience that what you think know about the facts will change as people and the press share more information.
All you need to is a single Elon Musk tweet to know that speed kills. We should be checking the actual facts before weighing in on a criminal charge, checking the legal standards before weighing in on an issue of international law, and checking with constituents before making major policy changes.
I think it’s hilarious; I haven’t been keeping track, but I do recall that in addition to this, they were furious at a beer company and a motorcycle company. When they get done they won’t have anyone to patronize other than a Christian right crafts store.
I’m venting this morning on your thread because this is such a serious issue. I have been able to get decent medical care only because I have resources to do real research and the advocacy skills to get another professional to listen to me, and have the resources to walk away from bad doctors.
As recently as 2024, we still had a surgeon recommend completely unnecessary post-surgical opiates. I had to compile the recent research on using an NSAID combination instead and bring it to an appointment with me to get my husband prescribed a safer course of treatment.
I researched this at the time of the CDC requirements back during the shutdown. My sister sewed masks out of fabric scraps from quilting and we bought filter fabric off Etsy to put in them. None of us got sick before the vaccines because we simply ignored the government.
As a scientist who used to have a lot more faith in the quality and currency of the guidance followed by the medical profession, it is still jarring to see so many reports of people acting as their own doctors and recognize that 👉that is actually their best hope for science-based, up to date care.👈