Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
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Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
Glonzo. That's the only name you'll hear. Glonzo. It means the end and the death. Glonzo. I am Glonzo. Glonzo is all around you. Glonzo is the man beside you. Glonzo will gnaw on your bones. Look out! Glonzo is here.
This doesn't mean Schumer and Jeffries are great at their jobs, but I also don't think much will change the polling until Democrats win the House.
I do not believe most voters answering polls about Democratic leadership are glued to C-SPAN with opinions on Senate procedure. They're looking for a button that can reverse 2024.
I definitely think this is true, but I also think a lot of voters would only see Democrats as strong if they were actually able to stop the bad things from happening, not simply delay them. People say they want fighting, but what they really want is victory.
Trump can’t change the name of the Department of Defense without an act of Congress so he’s adding a secondary nickname through executive order that he gets to flaunt on social media. Yet another fake layer to the New Gilded Age.
It is extremely troubling how little press this got now that I think about it.
When I say from the outside I mean in the sense of "your point of view character is not an adherent," not the author.
You get a small bit of extra dialogue here and there if you do the DLC.
During works well, though it'll be hard.
I think passing a law would undermine the kayfabe of all powerful Sovereign Executive Trump. SE Trump does not beg and cajole, he decrees and reality bends to his will.
Flimflam atop flimflam
There really isn't a clear line, and this is why some of the rhetoric is Problematic (tm)
It amounts to a craven and parasitic opportunism, cozying up to whomever won and assuming that because they are popular if you latch onto them like a lamprey you'll be able to wield their popularism for your pet cause.
As Jews, we know that freedom, dignity and self-determination are rights no people should be denied. 🚨 It’s time for the US to recognize Palestine – and help make two states possible. Urge your Representative to take action:
Between them Sekiro and Lies honestly just kind of reinforced my belief that there's not really much of an excuse for the Standard Elden Souls Mute Mass Murderer Moving in a Dreamlike Haze.
But - surprisingly given how horrible the events of the game actually are - it's an oddly sentimental and even vaguely fairy tale vibe setting. The DLC is also just excellent.
I think it's that Lies has a surprising amount of genuine heart. It's also (slightly) more interested in a narrative than your usual Soulsborne, to the point that P really feels like he should be voiced.
It's real nasty, and also implicitly *horrible*. All the Carcass areas suggest a really awful thing you just missed given where Carcasses come from.
It's interesting how writing an overtly religious character from the outside often makes them look hollow and comically fanatical
I do not care who you are or what position you hold. No one bullies our children.
My point is that ultimately a larger Congress wouldn't really affect how much I'm represented one way or the other, I still have a single Congressperson who's likely either outvoted by more conservative areas or swayed by influential leadership.
Which, well, happens a lot because Western professional medical establishments have biases and ideologies like anyone else.
If Western institutions are making assumptions that are incorrect or racist, or are ideologically driven, or are unaware of efficacious treatments, the correct answer is not an "alternate way of knowing," the current assumption was just wrong.
"Alternate ways of knowing" always came off to me as the most incredibly patronizing rhetorical beat, as of members of other cultures did not value formal training and efficacious practice. If professional institutions are racist in hiring, premise or practical functions, we can just say it openly.
I mean I sure as hell don't get any more say in Congress either way and end up largely subordinate in my own political desires to what other, often more conservative parts of the country say in the exact same way :)
That's not quite the same thing, though, tarot is a *homegrown* European occult practice.
Oh, Owen Jones betrayed trans folks, huh? Sorry friends, but I admit a certain harsh satisfaction at seeing folks turn against him.
I think the bigger issue isn't just structural, it's electoral. But I'm also skeptical of the idea the House is more functionally democratic just because it's swingier and requires constant campaigning.
Ok this isn't true, plenty of people live quite happily in the Bay, the VCs and pundits here are weirdos and would be weirdos anywhere.
Ultimately? There's no substitute for "electing people with good politics who will take necessary action to every single government office we can, and building a consecutive term advantage."
I am not entirely convinced that the House is inherently more virtuous here
This rhetorical beat is annoying because it's relatively uncommon for it to actually come from indigenous voices - frequently it's coming from disaffected radical members of the cultural or ethnic mainstream, seeking either absolution or spiritual fulfillment in an exoticized carve-out from science.
Indigenous peoples are not mystical elves and they do not, generally speaking, reject "Western science!" There is no shortage of non-white Christian scientists, including from indigenous backgrounds, & we should respect their expertise and both theoretical and practical knowledge.
There are very few leftist pitches I find more annoying than the ritual invocation of Indigenous Ways of Being against Western Science.
1st: leaders are obviously going to still exist in a larger House, and will still have outsized influence due to charisma and organizational power. 2nd: how would that affect special interest groups and lobbyists, who are still relatively focused, small groups of actors with deep pockets?
But the broad picture OP presents is false. The fantasy of a US that's somehow secretly sympatico with the Nazis while sending a quarter million soldiers to die in Italy and France is simply incompatible with the facts. Ditto, ultimately, any Allied power.
The biggest argument against giving Congress more power being some infusion of civic virtue and functionality is that Marjorie Taylor Green, Randy Fine and Nancy Mace are all howling demagogues and they're also all members of Congress.
The biggest argument against giving Congress more power being some infusion of civic virtue and functionality is that Marjorie Taylor Green, Randy Fine and Nancy Mace are all howling demagogues and they're also all members of Congress.
I think looking for structural solutions here is understandable but misguided. Congress has not historically been a den of virtue or civic spirit, and there is no prior era of (small r) republican engagement to point to to ensure it could not yield a Trump.
Debatable. The legislative branch is decisively captured by Republicans bc of its bias towards rural land over population & their interests. It is if anything significantly more halting and hostile to progressive politics. A more vigorous Congress will not save us! It may just hurt us more!
I understand both sides, especially given that for many of our lifetimes the "checks and balances" have very frequently (& triumphantly, by Republicans) been used to hurt our interests or stymie our needs. Ultimately we're not really imo in a place where systems can be separated from capture.
Ehhhh...
gotta say, i'm not a fan of collective guilt being spun as a leftist value if it's aimed at the "right" ethnicities
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Saw someone I respect demandif "are we willing to accept this future for labor" and I'm just going "I already work to a rigid and often intrusive requirement doing a thing I don't really enjoy doing to pay for the rest of my life, I don't look for Spiritual Fulfillment here, just monetary."
It wasn't unforced, it felt very deliberate.
God I hate the Superman Discourse and how congratulatory (Christian???) fans & writers about how they made Clark's Real Parents the Kents and how revolutionary this is *so fucking much*
Also it would run the risk of antagonizing the younger members of the party by establishing the party prior leadership we current leadership?
Y not both though
The Israeli government must reject this dangerous proposal, which threatens its own democracy and would severely undermine the U.S.–Israel relationship. (2/2)
Smotrich’s annexation plan would violate international law, extinguish Palestinian's right to self-determination, and fuel regional instability. (1/2) www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-pro...
Damn
Want to know what has an inextricable linkage with the belief that there are fundamentally *impure* ways to make money? Castes. Caste systems are almost always organized around profession, with the idea that some professions are "evil".
They later found it useful to cultivate a certain degree of alliance but during the 48 war and its aftermath Western support of Israel was largely rhetorical, if that.
Quite the reverse actually, Western countries did not, by and large, WANT a lot of the emigration to the Levant. The Brits in particular pretty overtly didn't want a lot of Jewish emigration, legally prohibited it for a while, and pretty openly hoped the Arabs would win the 48 war.
I will say that while the settlement of Israel by Zionist migrants was not directly tied to the Shoah, the Shoah absolutely escalated it because many of the survivors had nowhere safe to go and no desire to return to the homes where their neighbors had (and in many cases were still) murdered them.
The thing to remember is that there actually are a lot of really scary examples of things like child soldiers in Gaza or crowds baying with jubilant bloodlust as they defile and parade the bodies of murdered Jews around, and they do real nasty things to the psyches of those who feel involved.
I can tell you, it's actually not hard
Palestinians are not born as mere vessels for national ambition. Fuck you, Loomer.
And the Dark Angels are already *one of the most bugfuck crazy chapters*!
Remember that Netanyahu is actually inordinately unpopular in Israel, even given the country's rightward turn
The aftermath of moving is this unpleasant liminal mental space. Your old place isn't home anymore but your sense of the world hasn't adjusted yet, especially if you're still putting things away.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?
Remigration is explicitly about ethnic cleansing. It’s about mass deportations of lawfully present immigrants — and for many who use the term, their descendants as well. That it’s not a common term in right-wing discourse is bleak, bleak stuff indeed.
Magneto's actual ideology is far less sympathetic than his ability to make a good speech about how his people have been wronged - because his actual ideology is, at best, that of militant Zionism. An armed camp rejecting community with the rest of the world, ready to do battle at a moment's notice.
the thing about Magneto fandom is ultimately that people like Magneto almost entirely because he's militant and Xavier is (superficially) not.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Very Online Leftists: "Zionism is an evil genocidal ideology that must be exterminated! No history of marginalization or persecution justifies atrocities or ethnic nationalism!" Also Very Online Leftists: "MAGNETO WAS RIGHT!"
Also, honestly, it wasn't a "pro-Palestinian" position because *Palestinian was not a visible or especially internationally relevant identity* at the time. For most of human history, the Levant has not been divided into highly granular nation-states!
Yeah, if there's anything to beef about it's how completely crowd-pleasing this video seems set up to be. A certain sort of internet commentary is not there to challenge the audience or get them to think, it's there to tell them how clever and virtuous they are.
I don’t think Kamala Harris would have pushed for the U.S. to literally annex Gaza and build a resort town on the rubble
...you know that I was talking about Yemen right?
I'm talking about Yemen, not Palestine.
(it's kind of interesting that the biggest neo-Lovecraft entry which frames the Deep Ones as an analogy for interred Japanese-Americans, when they're so framed as a colonial, imperial power?)
Honestly I'd anything I think that Shadow is most, ironically, *about colonialism*, because what the Deep Ones are doing is basically textbook missionary colonialism, rather than treating them as a purely marginalized people!
There's a lot of *other* very real awful things that Israel does but striking Ansar Allah just isn't something I can bring myself to be broken up over, even if the Israeli government vs Ansar Allah is degrees of evil.
That's still something people approve of, right? Largely?
Personally I think that when you've purged Jews from your country, launched repeated rockets & long distance drone attacks at Jews $ your slogan contains "a curse upon the Jews" you don't get to complain when Jews treat you as an armed adversary at war. We can call this the Punching Nazis clause.
Trump plans to issue an executive order that does exactly nothing, because he has no authority to change state law.
People really do not get that Palestine is neither large nor especially influential!
as others have said, there’s an allergy to treating them as just software…..and software testing and validation neglect is part of that
Trump believes his will is the United States of America
A senior official in the U.S. State Dept: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not receive a visa to participate in the UN General Assembly discussions in NY. Another approximately 80 senior officials in the Palestinian Authority will also be affected by the decision. @barakravid.bsky.social
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Honestly even that is debatable, since he absolutely biffed it tactically on several occasions.
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct... Right near the mid point! Please help me make it the rest of the way before Saturday! Anything at all helps!
Not sure we should believe this, but if so, oof
Personally my main problem is that more of that mob walked home at all. Coup attempts are not ordinary civil disturbances.
It is genuinely eye-rolling seeing people yelling "Butlerian Jihad now!" and making up reasons to hate *entirely hypothetical future intelligent AI* because VC class scammers exist.
Sigh. I'm in an industry actually directly threatened by genAI and somehow I can avoid making it my entire philosophical rule for being.
I will reiterate that demanding that every Jew who speaks in public prove that they are antizionist by your definition and to your satisfaction is antisemitic unless you’re doing it to literally every American gentile you encounter speaking in public as well.
she said that “black” with a hard r
Very powerful statement by 200+ faculty from Bar-Ilan University, not known as the most progressive university in Israel (to put it mildly). Respect! 🙌
www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
Huh, I see. Weird.