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White / male / cis / Episcopalian / born citizen; about as privileged as they get; lawyer. He/him.
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Something that isn't said enough - immigration is a great good for the United States. The xenophobes are doing us a lot of damage.

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

Counterpoint: Everything the Trump administration does is a threat to democracy.

Rand wants *real* cuts to medicade, medicare, social security. You know - those government programs we've been paying for all our lives.

If they try to arrest Newsom, maybe he'll put some oomph into resisting the fed.

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

This is a good thing - this is the kind of thing that a good governor needs to be thinking about. I won't support Newsom because he's willing to throw trans people and the homeless under the bus, and people are more important than dollars. And he gave credibility to fascists. But this is good.

Me in @nytimes: “Lindsey Boylan, the first of Mr. Cuomo’s staff members to go public with complaints that he had harassed her, said that whatever gestures he made toward contrition, including his resignation, were motivated by politics. “He knew that it was the way to salvage his future,”

I'm a long way from Knaresborough, but...

How about a cage fight with *all* the billionaires?

If I follow you And you follow me Won't we both go around in circles?

"Y'all are going to die, peasants." "I'm going to go enjoy my top-notch federal government healthcare."

OPINION: "Black women in the Delta face disproportionate barriers to cervical-cancer prevention and treatment—barriers that are exacerbated by the ongoing closure of rural hospitals across Mississippi," Mala Brooks writes.

[Innocuous voice] What? It's AAI.

Please don't elect this dirtbag, New York. Do something different. Hold powerful people at least minimally accountable for their misconduct.

These people are such a rotten group of liars - people like this have wanted to end Medicade since it was first legislated. Nothing they want more than to destroy it now.

I'd really rather that some holds were barred.