i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesnβt do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesnβt understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
it is just incredible how far bari weiss got without ever having an audience other than the rich men she flatters
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture β and specifically nostalgia bait television β is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing βfree speech movementβ was actually about free speech.
I think itβs pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if thereβs anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times itβs that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
There are five hundred and ten (510) days until the next mayoral election in Chicago, set for Feb. 23, 2027.
My fav quote in here is from Sen. Gallego:
Like gravity is a theory
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesnβt like, which is totally normal stuff
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Close enough, welcome back Spiro Agnew
i genuinely do think a big part of triangulation discourse is people avoiding that inflation was the biggest pain point for swing voters
i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost.
it is remarkable how they apparently have been scared off blue city/blue state approach
Just you wait until Bari Weiss hears about this, she and the free speech absolutists at The Free Press are gonna be STEAMED
Amazing headline.
right now, the Supreme Court's approvals are upside-down without anyone attacking them.
The root problem with this piece is that the people tweeting Luigi memes not only don't vote for democrats, they don't vote.
itβs great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy
Three SCOTUS stories before lunch on a Monday when the court isn't even in session perfectly encapsulates how the increasing importance of the shadow docket has completely reoriented how the court operates and what captures the public's attention.
"Half the populationβ of greater Los Angeles "now meet the governmentβs criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling.
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very easy to overindex vibes here and elsewhere but it really feels like the bottom is going to fall out towards the end of the year
The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendmentβs reasonableness standard continues to govern the officersβ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
There's a increasingly wide gulf between what you might call "local abundance"βwhich largely consists of liberal and progressive activists and local electeds trying to do YIMBY-type thingsβand "DC abundance," which hosts conferences where Oren Cass is a speaker for some reason.