davemazella.bsky.social
so how does this thing work? eighteenth-century scholar hiding away in Heatdome, TX. aspiring flaneur. street parliamentarian
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No talk of pulling committee seats, or denying incumbent protection spending in their primaries, or so much as public criticism from anybody in leadership. The basic function of the caucus, to whip votes and put up a unified front against the other party, functionally doesn't exist on the Dem side.
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you're not going to believe it's this stupid, but it is: in many cases, people vote for nominees so they don't appear as liberal on their DW-NOMINATE scores
they think it helps them appear Reasonable and Not Extreme
I wish I was making that up
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It's included in the Community of Open-Access Research Assignments, which is new to me and has a lot of really useful-seeming activities projectcora.org/assignments
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Manufactured doubt is a strategy tobacco, fossil fuel & other industries use to fight regulation & accountability. Opponents of repro & gender affirming care have borrowed from the tobacco industry playbook, but they use it to justify intrusive regulation & take choices away from patients & doctors
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The Court relies on manufactured scientific uncertainty to justify allowing state governments to flatly prohibit health care that is widely supported by mainstream consensus. The patient, their parents, and their doctors all agree to follow mainstream medical guidelines, but the state won’t let them
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might just be age, because it seems like the senate skews so much older than the governships