Lynn Gazis-Sax

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DevOps Engineer, speculative fiction writer in my spare time, Quaker. I enjoy singing in several languages. Used to be in Katie Porter's district till I got redistricted to Young Kim's district.

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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

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The number of people who have replied to either argue or bemoan that “MAGA doesn’t care” like that’s the voting bloc we have to mobilize is going to make my brain melt out my ears like taffy on a warm summer’s day

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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Liberation, the main center-left daily in France, is out with tomorrow morning's cover about left's first place. "C'EST OUF" ("It's Crazy!")

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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

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We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

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Unbelievable joy and relief in Paris that the left beat Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party.

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like, you have to pick a lane here, because i don't think that we typically associate people suffering dementia and a head cold with sticking *too* closely to the list of facts, stats and figures they have spent the previous days memorizing in order to rattle them off in a 2m response window

what drives me up the wall is that the very thing that hobbled him in the first 15 of the debate — trying to cram in a ton of facts and figures and references that he clearly committed to memory over the previous few days — is a thing that people who actually have dementia normally can't do well.

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There's also the fact that anglophone media is consistently, defiantly bad at understanding political dynamics in non-English speaking countries. The fact that most observers don't have the time or access to rely on anything other than English-language media means expectations are usually warped

The coalition building was obviously a big part of what defeated the RN this time, but we also can't ignore the institutional factor of runoff elections which has helped keep the far right out of power in France for years now

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Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and pushing for a cease-fire to bring back scores of hostages held by Hamas. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Israeli protesters block highways amid renewed calls for cease-fire with Hamas to return hostageswww.pbs.org Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country Sunday, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and pushing for a cease-fire...

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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?

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Mark Shore

If it were me I'd just enter the next debt ceiling fight with a "I minted a $100tn coin. If Congress wants to default the country, it may vote to do so. And I remain constrained by their appropriations. This is not new money I can spend. But the country will not default by accident on my watch"

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Using one poorly drafted law to cancel the unintended effects of another seems fair

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Joel 🍦

Folks really hate the "mint the coin" stuff because it feels like (and involves) a gimmick, but the basic observation underpinning it is actually very smart and quite profound: at the fiscal level, seigniorage and debt are identical.

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I think you can even make a pretty non-trivial argument he should do it /outside/ of a debt-ceiling fight (but as a practical matter, they never would)

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Robert Black

So my longer argument is that its value as an idea (versus, say, a 14A claim to blow past the limit) is precisely that it sidesteps the calamitous uncertainty of going past the debt ceiling by any other means

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(Catalytic converters not withstanding, I've long said POTUS should just mint the coin to end the debt ceiling)

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Robert Black

This is the part that really caught me off guard in the opinion. Folks rightly focus on, well, the top-line. But this is just a complete misunderstanding of executive privilege or where it comes from, and is patently, grossly invented for one man and for one case

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Nick Harkaway

And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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When I taught middle school in Texas, the summer program was a community builder. Students got out of the heat and off the street, with supervised access to the gym, library, and art rooms. Everyone got fed. Each day, many asked if they could take the extra food home.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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That’s how ML works. Yup. 👍🏻

Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Mathilde Panot, President of the La France Insoumise in Parliament which is part of the New Popular Front that just shocked the world, says that France will recognize a Palestinian state in the next two weeks.

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Quinta Jurecic

Ballot access isn’t a problem, but the Biden/Harris campaign funds and the fact that nobody other than Harris can keep them is a huge problem. Whole idea’s dumb. Whatever the formal process is, nobody who matters is going to challenge Harris for the nomination.

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Pwnallthethings

Like, executive privilege is a lot of things, but it's not a 4A evidence exclusionary thing. It just ... isn't. It's entirely different worlds

I didn't have "left victory in France" on my bingo card. I guess it's a good time for this song ("All You Fascists Bound To Lose"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

I am enjoying this week a lot.

Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens "All You Fascists Bound To Lose"www.youtube.com Introducing the official music video for “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” the newest single off our debut album, out on Righteous Babe Records on Oct. 16! G...