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The only political strategy that seems viable for speeding up the green energy transition is electing more Democrats, so we probably need to be thinking less about funneling business investment into Republican districts and more about how to defeat Republicans.

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Growth and prosperity will not return to the United States until we once again heed the wisdom contained in North and Weingast (1989). The power of taxation must be returned to the legislative branch, not left in the hands of a capricious monarch.

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We should call the Trump admin's attack on international students (and maybe also international postdocs) at Harvard what it is: an attempted mass firing of UAW workers. Dems in Congress must fight back. @uaw.org @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @haw-uaw.bsky.social

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the reason that i am so insistent on primaries is that the supreme court will have to be expanded and the votes will be, at best, tight, and no one in a solid blue seat should be a vote which is even vaguely in question

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr. and Segal and Spaeth (1996) vindicated.

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a SCOTUS seat for every appeals circuit as the great Abraham Lincoln intended

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Monstrous, barbaric mistreatment of one of our neighbors. Free our American brother Mahmoud Khalil

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"This is the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history."

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The Trump administration is run by people who aspire for the US to be a backward, petro state where culture, science, and advanced manufacturing are driven out as "woke" industries and all the US does is export natural resources.

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You can tell it's a Republican bill because if it was a Democratic bill the headline would highlight the $3.8 capital-T Trillion it is adding to the federal deficit in the most breathless terms imaginable, and the entire article would be devoted to wondering how it would ever be paid for.

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The right of the American people to healthcare exceeds the right of some elderly Democratic Party hack to finally get the subcommittee gavel he's been craving for decades. The collective interests of the party and country must supersede individual ambition.

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MAGA were able to kick 14 million people off of healthcare because three Democrats in Congress died of foreseeable causes. It’s time for Democrats to stop treating public office as a retirement home.

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The Sylvester Turner situation really stands alone. 1) SJL dies of cancer 2) Choice to replace her goes to district Dem precinct chairs 3) Chairs skip over a young Dem who challenged SJL and nominate the elderly ex-mayor who has cancer

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Republicans want to make electricity more expensive and pump more pollution into our air that will give kids asthma and other diseases--all to give tax cuts to the richest 1%.

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Totally antithetical to Republican government to have the president openly accepting bribes and tribute to him personally. He's acting like a king. Our country is ours in common, not something to be traded for the personal enrichment of a parasitic monarch.

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You can't create a "Joe Rogan of the left" because Joe Rogan being who he is wasn't a plan--it was incidental to a career as entertainer and media personality.

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Holding Connolly and his family in my thoughts today, and also it was wildly irresponsible for him to run to be the leading House Democrat on the oversight committee.

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There is a tremendous amount of dust being kicked up via the right wing grievance machine that is obscuring the fact that Republicans are taking food and medicine away from poor people to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in our country.

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just buy some Spanish language radio stations I'm fucking begging you

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“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

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"Why do voters who don't want to cut medicaid vote for the we love to cut medicaid party, and how do we get them to stop" would be a productive question for Democrats to try and answer.

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I guess I don't agree with this. What Democrats are doing is saying Biden is bad, and the party made a mistake backing him in 2024. I don't view it as so different from what the Republicans did in 09/'10 by distancing themselves from some aspects of Bush so as to get his stink off the party.

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Rewatching The Empire Strikes back and I had forgotten that Vader kills multiple imperial officers whose performance he deems subpar. Partagaz committing suicide rather than facing imperial justice makes more sense than I had remembered in the Star Wars (not just Andor) universe.

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Amendment 28: Article 1, Section 3 is repealed. All legislative authority of the United States is vested in the House of Representatives. They shall have the powers of advise and consent, and impeachment trials shall now be held in the House, with 55% of the body needed for conviction and removal.

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I think the reason the Biden recriminations have play is because gerontocracy and its consequences isn't unique to Biden. He's merely the most catastrophic example.

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The centrality of adoption in Andor is also interesting. Someone should ask Gilroy about it, but you could read it as a subtle refutation of the centrality of bloodlines from the movie.

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----- Andor Spoilers----- Something that I liked in the Luthen/Kleya backstory is that they subtly destabilize the mentor/mentee dynamic.

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Alright, this wasn't totally correct but it wasn't that far off either!

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Pretty good case that gerontocracy, collective groupthink and elite paralysis cost the Democratic Party the presidency in 2024 and RBG's supreme court seat in 2020.

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