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dietbabka.bsky.social
Lawyer of the future. Leftist. Still careful about COVID. Jewish. To save a life is to save the universe. 🍉
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Their next headline will be “Arrested Senator Appears to Highlight Concerns, but Others Say He Interrupted”
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Who’s going to do the arresting? The police won’t do that. Who is on our side?
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They should have abolished ICE and defunded the police when they had the chance. How can we get these agencies under control?
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How do we stop these rogue police agencies?
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And it’s the same reason why people said “defund the police,” and it is still right. They are parasites using our resources against us
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They have contempt for protest and ordinary people. They think anyone in the streets is a dirty hippie or a radical. They are so misguided that they can’t see that they win because of protest and organizing.
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🙄
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Wow I’m going to use this technique. Brilliant 😂
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I remember going to a lot of late 2000s/early 2010s protests where it was me and then the people who had been coming out since the ‘80s or earlier. It was a lonely time in some ways but I learned so much from them
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But this hasn’t passed into law yet. There are still opportunities to use the narrow divide in Congress to change the bill or make it fail. Maybe you’ll be right in the end, but we’re not at the end yet.
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I’m not convinced that the IRA approach of delivering money/jobs to red districts has failed. It has, at the very least, complicated the negotiations on Trump’s budget bill this week and still has the potential to kill it, via pressure on Republicans who have green industries in their districts
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I love this
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I wonder if these guys eat hot dogs, or if that’s off limits too
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They have this at Gloria’s on Nostrand Ave
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This is exactly what congestion pricing advocates said would happen, and why it would have been a better move politically to stick to the original date in June
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I wonder if this would also be true of other celebrities with Trump’s level of fame, like Oprah or the Rock. Is it just about celebrity?
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I wonder if anyone’s ever written about how evil can be banal
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We’ve seen both, and the two sides are in a heightened tug of war
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Live in a time with a polio vaccine? Nah, I want trench foot
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Damn maybe they shouldn’t have laid off a bunch of FAA employees
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What if I fight like hell for Senate procedures or for my faction of consultants to control the party?
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I think it’s because the U.S. is an oligarchy and the political system does not respond—without huge organized effort—to the needs of poor people
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Some journalists love acting like they’re judges. “But it doesn’t meet this very specific standard!” Sir, you made that standard up and it’s not an ethical violation to see what’s in front of your eyes
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It will take real price controls to bring prices back down
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This is great but it’s also kind of funny that his brother is talking so much
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Network was right, and still is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eT8...
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She should wear it as a badge of pride
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If they had elected an American pope back in 1200, things would have gone very differently, I can tell you that!
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I wonder if he’ll stay on the board of Columbia
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They’re both the strong man and the biggest victim
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I can’t believe how well it is paying off to have been an anti-vax grifter during the worst of the pandemic. Endorse killing kids and a million+ deaths and you get a good, powerful job out of it. Truly sad.
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It’s not a misunderstanding. It is his vision he wants to impose on the world. He understands where things stand now (ie, noncitizens have many due process rights) perfectly well.
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Are you a secular Jew? I am, and I grew up in the suburbs (although not that region or time), and this movie speaks to me on an elemental level
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This is exactly the outcome that leftists predicted when Keir Starmer won. He is paving the way for fascism in the UK
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They’re stupid. Very very not intelligent. Morally obtuse and greedy and narcissistic too
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Have you tried not living in a collapsing empire and nascent authoritarian regime?
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Many people are literally dying from it lol
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It’s deeper than that. Democrats are distancing themselves from protest because of the 2024 Gaza protests—they are caught between their base and their donors, and siding with the donors. They won 2020 bc of the energy of the protests then; they lost 2024 because they ran against the protests.
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Rage Against the People
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*nodding solemnly* Obamna
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I wonder how the election would have gone if democrats had seriously addressed this and taken a good deal of their wealth away from them
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Was this authorized by the Laken Riley Act?
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“Nasty violence broke out” — it was violence by Zionists against pro-Palestine protesters. That is why there are now protests being called for. It’s not a pogrom.
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We need to rapidly expand non-car transit options in the congestion zone, to take advantage of what might be the most effective period of time for congestion pricing, before people possibly just factor it into travel cost and come anyway
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Would be wonderful to see the government de-privatize space exploration and nationalize Tesla’s car and battery factories so that they could be manufactured and sold at-cost to speed the green transition 👀
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The correct answer to this is not to be defensive like he is here. Say, I’ve been extremely lucky in this life. And if I get taxed to the point that I’m a millionaire instead of a billionaire, so that we can have a more equal and functional country, I would be happy.