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I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Can you imagine one of these connecting Vancouver, BC to San Diego, CA? It could do it in less than 5 hours. It would completely change the west coast.
I'm on the child care beat and I'm not exaggerating when I say I talk to // hear from families every month who say they'd like to grow their families more if child care were less expensive
this is a perfect answer. my current tolerance for “queer suffering” in media - as in specifically suffering BECAUSE you are queer - is close to zero. I’m just not available to it right now. that’s totally different from putting an ensemble which features queer characters into a Situation
homeschooled alumni have been saying this, and it's bad
Both how a Senator votes and whether a candidate suspends their campaign are completely within the prerogative of the individual, so it's not that different at all. If Obama couldn't control members of his party in the Senate as President, he certainly couldn't control a candidate as ex-president.
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
If that were true, Obama would have gotten a public option and cap and trade passed the Senate.
A Californian's vote isn't going to decide the election.
Nothing in Obama's power could force Buttigieg to quit if he thought he could still win. Only the candidate gets to decide when to suspend their campaign.
No one quits when they think they can win. All Obama did was influence Buttigieg's view on when and how would be most advantageous for him to face the reality that he was going to lose.
Losing candidates dropping out and endorsing their preferred candidates is normal. At a certain point they can't raise enough money to keep the lights on and have to quit. Sanders should have been reaching out to them instead of assuming they would stay in until the end and let him get a plurality.
It also leads to a lot of statements about how things should be and not a lot of focus on how to actually get there.
From what I remember before leaving, it pushed people to use the For You feed by making it the default and switching people over to it whenever you started a new session.
Emphasis on CARE courts is a good way to separate those who are serious about helping people from those who are posturing. We don't have enough capacity for voluntary treatment. We shouldn't be diverting that to those who aren't ready yet.
The bias in this reporting on Newsom's sanist 'care courts' is pretty clear and is pretty actively advocating to abridge the civil rights of mentally ill people!
Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world! Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport
Watching the 2012 sex-trafficking storyline, it feels so much more realistic than the more recent one. A pair of unwilling teens might support a couple, but they're not going to support a criminal empire with millions available for the kingpin's getaway fund. #Hollyoaks
I wonder if Tony remembers he has a son in prison. #Hollyoaks
It's too bad that you only make money from seeing this if you can predict when it will pop.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
The handoff of presidential power will go smoothly, but I don't see Vance being able to take Trump's place in the coalition/movement. I agree both get messier in the case of incapacitation.
Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand wealthy locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes in time savings between Boston and NYC.
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
A study released last year shows that when a state slashes Medicaid, crime rates go up. “You might save some dollars,” one of the authors told Bolts, “but that may lead to some other problems with other objectives, like promoting public safety.”
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
His ego is too big not to run. He's been angling for the job for decades.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
He didn't end up at the closest thing we had to that by accident.
You probably think fascists actually made the trains run on time.
CHICAGO…
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
Fred Hampton wanted class solidarity. And he knew it required challenging racism. “I believe the white workers have been struggling. They are some of the most violent people in the world... they need a redirection in their ideology and in their politics. They need to know who to struggle against."
this morning felt exactly like waking up to find out the snow didn't stick and school isn't cancelled
RFK Jr is the glue that holds MAHA together. Push him out and you have a combination of people who will consume each other trying to fill the power vacuum and people like Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya who can’t take the heat that RFK Jr takes for them and will fall apart immediately.
I've been thinking about how you could get him to eat anything by putting it in a dead bear cub on the side of the road along his commute home.
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
At least I can watch this while I wait instead of watching Swan Lake like people in the USSR had to do.
Bluesky right now ...
It just sucks that we have to wait 6 months for Jake Tapper's next book to come out to find out if he's dead or not
Remember: No matter how enticing any food stuck in the tar pits looks, don't go in after it. That's how you get your skull on the wall.
Ironic that @rmtransit.bsky.social's video on accessibility is inaccessible to me on Nebula because I can't figure out how to "Enable subtitles" on my TV that was showing captions just fine.
Have you not watched this week's episodes?
Thanks, but no thanks. We're doing fine as it is. Maybe you could use the money to help build some MediCal treatment capacity instead?
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he is sending CHP officers assigned to Crime Suppression Teams into San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He will, among other things, use predictive policing to suppress “criminal activity.”
The science repeatedly shows that having one caring adult who is on the youths' side without an alternate agenda can give a protective factor so powerful that it can help a youth overcome risk factors from adverse childhood experiences. You can't stop gun violence alone, but you *can* be that adult.
It's depressing how many people are attacking Grace's recent revelation because they insist they would have seen the signs as if it weren't a cliche for people to express shock when an abuser is exposed. #Hollyoaks
Perhaps my favorite tumblr post:
the most irritating thing is that Microsoft refuses to take "no" as enough with this shit. every couple weeks i re open Word and i have to say no to copilot again, or I get prompted to enable it when doing something else on my machine leave me the fuck alone, @microsoft.com
Who needs market research if they can print infinite money by keeping the building empty forever using the power of write-offs or non-dairy creamer or something equally as mysterious?
She explicitly prioritizes the aesthetic preferences of imagined Hollywood wannabes over actual affordable housing for people who live in the city now.
It probably feels good to know that he'll be termed out before you would take office if you win.
I think some are transphobes happy to have an excuse to attack trans people and others are resistance libs who care more about owning Trump online than material conditions and hate being reminded that this is more than cheering on the home team in a sports championship.
I think he's trying to establish himself as the Clinton 2016/Biden 2020 of this primary, but he's too narcissistic to realize that he isn't a big deal outside of California.
The funny thing is that he can't even get people to learn how to spell his name.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
How does Jez get out of this one? I realize he set up a situation, but it's a lot harder to fabricate an entire crime scene that will hold up to close scrutiny. #Hollyoaks
Just spray it with some salt water and it will soon blend right in.
Beyond frustrated that the link to read about this is not a free article on their website, rather, it is a paid walled story by the Washington Post. This isn't a call to not support Newspapers, but rather a call for a political party to promote themselves with free, accessible information.
Wearing high visibility vests over their camouflage is a perfect metaphor for how incredibly stupid that whole situation is. I feel sorry for them being pulled away from their families, lives & daily jobs just to be forced to wander around DC as political props - and now sanitation workers.
I can't believe you are stupid enough to think that this will work after two decades of failure, so I can only assume that you support this cruelty. ICE delenda est.
This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.
One of the most damaging left-wing beliefs, shared by many liberals, progressives, and socialists, is that politics is primarily, perhaps exclusively, about material circumstances and distribution. Damaging because, when met with a bigotry first movement, they thought material benefits would fix it.
Modern life is basically dependent on nerds you will never meet building software & spreadsheets you will never see What the Trump admin dares to ask is: what if we just shoved as many of those folks as we could find into a locker.
This is what the bosses were voting for when they voted for Trump, and why they were aggressively putting out stories about how bad the Biden's 3% unemployment economy was. If you're a worker and you helped them push that narrative, congratulations, you are a dupe:
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Something I think about a lot is just how fucking massive America is, which I feel like people often miss. People outside it often miss it because it’s hard to grok unless you come here, and people inside it miss it because we’re so used to being so huge But that sheer size is a challenge to him
"build more housing" is the single most important thing we can do to combat a further rightward drift of the electorate what do you think is going to happen as climate migration accelerates
I just finished getting mine. They've raised the maximum age a lot over the years, so you may be eligible for the vaccine even if you weren't before.
In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.
The state decided it wants to crush just one guy who *didn't do anything wrong*. They picked Kilmar Abrego Garcia because they thought he'd be an unsympathetic target for their abuses. They put in little effort and it turns out he wasn't, that made them look bad, and they're taking it out on him.
oh my god? brave.com/blog/comet-p...
Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
Interesting the explanation they went with is that his hands are so small and fragile that they can't withstand a handshake from someone's overly enthusiastic grandma.
One of the hardest things to get people to understand when it comes to wrongful convictions is that the police care about closing a case quickly far more than they care about getting the right person. A conviction getting overturned in 10 years on appeal won't hurt them a single bit.
I find this stuff maddening. But my take is that Blue Rose/Third Way/Slow Boring are just today's equivalents of the DLC, PPI and Mark Penn's polling outfit from the 90s/early 2000s. The problem is that elected Dems want and solicit this kind of advice.
We saw this conflict in Ferguson where the population has shifted to Black people moving out from the city but the centers of power were still controlled by the descendents of white flight who used their power to exploit the new residents through fines to keep taxes low.
There's also an issue of us stopping the incorporation of inner ring suburbs as the city grows. Growing population pressure creates a need for changes to be more like a city, but long term residents often resist change.
As small as the trans community is, the group of potential voters who would vote for Democrat only if they oppose trans rights is negligible. Democratic politicians need to learn that voters can only have a couple of issues that are dealbreakers and they therefore have to prioritize.
The test I'm using now for Democratic politicians is if they continue to retreat to secure the border language, especially while doing nothing to defend immigration. Trump has shown us what it takes to satisfy people who want to secure the border, and it is both evil and deeply unpopular.
People will respect certain disagreements if they believe the person is principled. They won't tolerate anything if it's been focused grouped to death to be the abstractly optimal statement to appeal to an imagined median voter.
It's important to understand this because it means you can't get them to care about the deaths by illness of strangers. They see it either as strengthening their group by purging weakness or weakening some it other group by reducing their numbers.
In the eugenics world, the state and other authorities cannot fail you by failing to provide health care, to do real medical research, to invest in community health, etc. To them, those who die failed the nation by being defective in some way or making themselves impure.
the problem for Ds right now is not winning elections. they are doing fine at winning elections. the problem is what happens *between elections.* as in, if you don't fight fascism between elections, election outcomes start not to matter. 1
Driving along Clairemont Drive this evening, I saw a lot of kids using the new protected bike lanes. I don't remember seeing anything biking there before.
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
I hadn't got to the part where he thinks we should value causing material harm to immigrants and asylum seekers because somehow that will get the Republican voter in the Midwest whose views are completely disconnected from reality to vote for Democrats. Obama tried that and failed.
Finally, he should learn that we're sick of focus group driven politicians and be embarrassed to cite them while making his argument.
Namely, he thought Harris's racial identity should have been enough to get minority voters to support her. He also doesn't seem to understand compositional effects on election demographics (that a shift in the number of people in a group voting for a party can mean different people are voting).
The worst part was how he slowed no concern about a politician having an affair with an employee of an agency they oversee. All of his concern was for the politician. He also revealed that he has a very limited understanding of diversity that I'd expect from a conservative.
Listening to Scott Peters on today's Voice of San Diego Podcast really makes me want to replace him with someone better, but I also learned that if the redistricting plan passes I'd be moved out of his district again.
While that's great for the inland region, I hope you can appreciate how from the perspective of someone in San Diego that the choice between existing slow and unreliable direct connection and a connection that eats up its speed advantage with longer distances isn't exciting.
Many people are wondering why we shouldn’t simply electrify the existing rail line, which is incredibly popular (when it’s not closed due to landslides and bluff collapses). New HSR tracks via the inland route would be a lot more expensive. www.kpbs.org/news/environ...
It's a shame that California high-speed rail didn't start as a 30 minute connection from downtown Sacramento to downtown San Francisco. It would have been transformative for both cities, and a proof of concept for the entire state.
