David White

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Anyway extra LOL at all the people who did the "How dare Alvin Bragg do the hush-money indictment, Trump must be properly convicted of his indisputably serious federal crimes instead" takes too

She lay awake all Saturday night thinking "God swatted aside the bullet, now I too shall be an instrument of His will"

That's not true? I don't recall Kerry being further right than Gore, Obama wasn't further right than Kerry, and Biden wasn't further right than Hilary. They weren't further left either, it was just the same centrist mishmash.

As the OP notes, every time the Democrats lose badly, their instinct is to move rightward.

Do you think the Democrats are making any plans on what to do when the Republicans in Congress refuse to certify the election this time around?

I don't think Trump is gonna name a VP candidate. Didn't work out last time, so fuck it

We're less than a week before the RNC, and Donald Trump hasn't announced a running mate yet. Who are they trying to shield from scrutiny?

I love how Black people in positions of power are inherently illegitimate to these folks.

I agree that Harris has significant weaknesses as a politician but this is an incredibly ugly way to put it. Also: A centrist candidate choosing another centrist as his running mate — still not the left's fault! Leftists hate Harris, that's actually one of her weaknesses.

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“Democrats should invite representatives of prominent martial arts clans, including the Tanaka clan, to an illegal, underground martial arts tournament, or ‘Kumite,’ in Hong Kong with bouts over the course of several weeks to determine the nomination.”

Holy shit

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds, 6-3, that a former president is absolutely immune from prosecution for actions within their "conclusive and preclusive" authority and presumptively immune from prosecution for all official acts. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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The contempt that's been shown for young people over the past few months is going to be hard to overcome.

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that would be true - and i say this as a left-winger who would crawl through broken glass to vote against Trump - were it not for Gaza. you can't hand-wave Gaza and call it maturity. i don't ever want to be so self-important that i get angry about people i like and admire having an ethical line.

The fact that Biden has delivered on left-wing policy far better than any president in generations but is widely despised by left-wing voters reflects more poorly on left-wing institutions and voters than on Biden. This is not a movement showing political maturity, and I say that as a left-winger

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

Often presented as, "Well if you think it's bad now, just you wait..." Yeah man I do think it's bad now

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Another version might be the "do-genocide-harder" argument about Trump. It's just a bizarre miscategorization of the issue's size and scope. Not that it's exactly wrong, but it is callous and inhumane when used to dismiss the current situation.

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Patrick Fessenbecker

Biden doing a kind-of genocide and Trump maybe doing a full-on genocide just shows you how indefensible the system is. If they're both going to do terrible things, that's a reality, but it's not one whose underlying logic you have to support. Governments lose legitimacy when no one supports them.

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slightly less virulent version of brain worms you see on here: people conceding that Palestine is an issue but treating it as simply one among many similarly weighted issues, as if disagreeing with a candidate on genocide is like a disagreement on tax cuts

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In the end, it’s not the patent convoluted absurdity of figures like Donald Trump & RFK Jr. that’s at issue. It’s that something exists deeply rooted in white American culture that gives them an actual mass appeal. We have to start examining this.

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So the center has run out of ideas and alienated everyone, and the left is basically not allowed to exist or take power, so -- WEIRDLY -- the radical right seems to be the only ones stepping up to the plate.

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We've reached a point in American political life where the vast majority of the public and much of the elite agree our political system doesn't work, but we've not yet reached the point where anyone is proposing changing it at the scale of the problem.

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I'm hearing from centrist and right wing democrats that money doesn't do anything in elections so I guess they'll stop texting us 15 times a day now begging.

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Let's be clear, when mayors say they want to ban masks for "safety", they couldn't care less about public safety. What the mean is they want to see faces for surveillance purposes. They care about criminalizing your right to protest not your health or safety.

There was a white guy on the train with a speaker and a microphone who was rapping for money, and I swear I will finally abandon this city if this becomes a thing.

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“Biden will let this keep going seven more months, at which point Trump will make it worse,” is a bad argument, it’s not a checkmate it’s a chilling statement of intent.

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A very interesting read: "In Biden’s message, one hears a stultifying admixture of high moral panic with utter political banality and sloth. Our existential crisis demands prudent equanimity; we are called to frenzied urgency—but not like that." newrepublic.com/article/1823...

Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal?newrepublic.com Needed: a liberalism that ceases to fear itself.

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Many (most?) powerful Dems identify more with wealthy suburban anti-tax center/right drivers than with their own base (city dwellers, transit riders, etc.) They see transit, bike lanes, etc. as for Others - give them lip service & will try for progress, but will dump them at the slightest pressure

“We all say we want to see less traffic and people get out of their cars and address climate change, but the way we’ve been funding the T doesn’t seem like we’re actually valuing those things." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/18/m...

If even the secretary of transportation won’t take the train, who will? - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Monica Tibbits-Nutt opts to drive a MassDOT-provided electric car to downtown Boston when the job demands.

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Every value Democrats hold dear points straight toward freedom of movement. I have written this as an #OpenBordersDemocrat. If you agree, consider sharing and endorsing likewise. Immigrants will never be free until they have faithful friends and defenders in the Democratic Party.

Democracy Demands Open Borderswww.liberalcurrents.com Every immigrant is a vote for America. Every deportation is a vote against America.

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The majority of South Carolina's population was of African descent for over 200 years, i.e., most of its history as a political entity. www.blackpast.org/african-amer....

The state with the biggest slave port in the US that processed 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the states?

South Carolina's Black Majority (1708-1920) •www.blackpast.org By 1708 South Carolina became the first British North American colony to have an African American majority. The first Africans to arrive in South Carolina likely came in 1526 as part of the San Miguel...

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The state with the biggest slave port in the US that processed 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the states?

The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore

AP African American studies course to be dropped in SC public schoolswww.wsav.com The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore.

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Osita Nwanevu

We can do better than the Constitution. We should, we must. It's time to talk about it in earnest.

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Remake of Running Scared except Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal are jaeger pilots

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Wrote a post on Medium to work through some of the big feelings I have about Hochul cancelling congestion pricing and the dread that has gripped me about progress and representation

Who Gets to be a Constituent?cooperlund.medium.com I woke up on Wednesday morning filled with dread, having seen the news late Tuesday night. I checked my phone and found that congestion pricing was officially delayed, filling me with that kind of…

Re LRT, some people made fun of Elizabeth Warren's "I have a plan for that" refrain, but the main reason I supported her was because she looked at actual problems and tried to come up with ways to solve them.