aliceh.bsky.social
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Since Mamdani has less experience, his plans are ripped apart, but because Cuomo has lots of experience—which resulted in his resignation in disgrace, lest we forget—he's allowed to say he'll pull off tax cuts PLUS a better subway, more housing, and good schools without an actual plan
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Based on the letter I think, and NO ONE has told me A N Y T H I N G (signal me, folks! Banditelli.83) it's that many Democrats aren't serious about opposing vouchers nor about taking on the Healthcare industry. And she thinks her time is better used with her union to win those issues(ya...).
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Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts AND Rafael Deves are going to finish their careers in the NL West instead of Fenway. What the fuck.
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It wasn't a cop. Their write up is wonky, the guardians is clearer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Your Republican colleagues Sen. Lee and Sen. Moreno are spreading the lies that this Trump-voting evangelical anti-abortion zealot was somehow a "Marxist" on the "extreme left."
Are you going to call them out? By name?
Are you committed to the truth? Or a misplaced sense of comity and decorum?
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9/ But there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA's regular legitimization of violence in our politics. There is a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota.
A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
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8/ It's true the violence is sometimes trained on Republicans - including Trump. Yesterday, in fact, was the anniversary of the congressional baseball shooting. And yes, there have been some on the left who have been too cavalier about violence and they should be condemned too.
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6/ The deployment of the National Guard and Marines to LA was the next escalation. Trump sent the military into LA to inflame and create the conditions for more violence. The assault of Senator Padilla was the natural result of these purposefully heightened tensions.
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5/ Trump sends other clear signals supporting political violence. Said he might pardon those that plotted the kidnapping of Gov. Whitmer; threatened peaceful protestors of his military parade with assault. Again, Democrats don't say these things. Not "both sides."
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4/ And we cannot discount the impact of MAGA's fetishization of guns. MAGA celebrates the tools of mass shooters and assassins - assault rifles, machine guns, silencers and high capacity magazines. MAGA doesn't treat firearms with respect - it celebrates their killing power.
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3/ But it didn't start with January 6th. Trump regularly threatened protesters at his rallies with violence. He cozied up to brutal dictators abroad who used violence to maintain political control.
There was no comparison in Democratic messaging.
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2/ For the last five years, MAGA has been bathed in political violence.
Most importantly, MAGA's celebration of January 6th and Trump's decision to pardon ALL the Jan 6 rioters - including the most violent - became a clear endorsement of violence committed in his name.
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I’ll just add this for people who are mistakenly interpreting what I am saying as doomerism:
Some mass protest movements succeed in achieving their goals with mobilizations well below the 3.5% figure.
I highly recommend reading her piece linked above but here are the four main takeaways:
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My point is NOT that mass protests are meaningless. I believe they are critical and have participated in them for half a century.
However, control of the military and the decisions of its leaders are also critical.
And there is no magic 3.5% number, as the author of that research has said herself:
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The protest turnout was significant and meaningful. The protests reconnected us with one another and helped us remember our power.
However, we need to keep the pressure on to END the unjustified domestic military deployment.
It’s astonishing how that issue has seemingly fallen off the radar.
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seems like a good place for this:
bsky.app/profile/chad...