@chrislhayes.bsky.social Do you have any idea what happen in that 24 hours between Wednesday & Thursday to cause Schumer to publicly reverse himself on the CR vote? If he was still trying to round up Yes votes on Wednesday, why make such a clear statement that he was in the No column?

People often dismissed Standing Rock, Occupy Wall Street, and other major uprisings of this era as though they did nothing. They did so much, but not in a simple "we demanded this Tuesday; they admitted they were wrong and handed it over Wednesday." It almost never works that way.

The thing is we know very specifically the damaging role of consultants on this project. The lack of in-house capacity (10 state employees!) led to outsourcing absolutely everything to people whose goal is less building trains than maximizing profit. www.latimes.com/local/califo...