kkeepgoing.bsky.social
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She doesn’t think X has a conservative bias? I left X/twitter simply because I didn’t want to support anything associated with Musk. And yes, it had become a cesspool of hate and conspiracies too, so that made it an even easier choice.
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If someone on Fox made similar unflattering observations about a member of a Democratic WH he or she would have been promoted by now & given a prime time anchor slot. In America now, only one side is expected to be measured & respectful. And non-Fox media can’t oblige the other side fast enough.
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In the months prior to the 2024 election, Marco Rubio called jobs reports fake because initial reports were subsequently revised downward, implying the data was manipulated to help the Democratic ticket’s chances.
Maybe some journalist could ask Rubio to comment on these recent downward revisions.
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He doesn’t believe in the social safety net Ro. He cost 1000’s of decent, dedicated federal workers their jobs, DOGE is likely stealing our private data, his actions will set back medical research years, he thinks empathy & democracy are bad things. What exactly for you is his redeeming feature?
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May god have mercy on you Mary, though you don’t deserve it.
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Does that mean Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis get charged as well? I seem to remember them arranging transportation to move migrants in mass into a bunch of northern cities.
Yeah, yeah I know. It’s different. But technically it still involved transporting migrants across state lines.
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So why didn’t they just say when he was originally deported that this allegation existed? They ran with the accusation of being a gang member but that’s it. This transportation of migrants charge hardly seems like a “state secret.” as Rubio tried to say. It’s all pretty confusing at this point.
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But if true, transporting migrants who lack legal documentation, while a crime under our system doesn’t make him a “violent” criminal. And doesn’t merit spending his life in a maximum security prison here or at CECOT.
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Yeah, that’s how I took it, which would seem to require that a jury believes the lesbian who was hired is unqualified or not as qualified as the plaintiff.
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Jesus Christ he is really going scorched earth. What’s next?
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Because in research the devil is always in the details which people & companies often find out when their research is peer-reviewed. I’m just interested in reading the details of how the study was conducted. I actually emailed Pew to ask for a link. Is there something wrong with that?
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But my original point was that many regs are a result of grieving, angry or passionate members of the public demanding action from their politicians as opposed to the regs generating from the politicians themselves. So if someday debates again rage about the need for 2 stairways, we’ll know why.
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Are they saying there weren’t any more fires in one stairway structures than in two or more stairway structures? That may well be the case. And from the risk-benefit analysis, the risk of not being able to evacuate via that one stairway is outweighed by having a place to live. 1/
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But not Egypt. The country of origin of the man in Boulder who the WH posted about dozens of times after his attack and used as its poster child justification for its harsh deportation policies.
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Until the first time people are trapped due to a fire in the stairwell. Kind of like the Shirtwaist factory fire where people were locked in and couldn’t escape. We like to blame gov’t for regulations but safety laws often start with constituents or their surviving family members demanding them.
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If ballots are postmarked on or before E-Day what difference does it make if they’re counted after it? Again, for the 100th time, GOP voters could also have their ballots postmarked by E-Day & have them counted. The laws they claim help Dems only do if GOP chooses not to take advantage of them.
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I want to believe you but posts about seats in Iowa, Kansas, Texas & other red states/districts possibly going blue seem as perennial as the grass. What seems to always happen is no matter how mad voters are at Ernst or Cruz or even Trump, they cant quit them. Tribal loyalties take over in the end.
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So the people screaming about protecting parental rights now apparently want to “save” children from their parents, since I’m guessing that in most cases the parent not only has signed consent for surgery but has been with their kid through the entire medical consultation process.
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As if Russia escalating civilian bombings the last several months (along with carrying out such targeting ever since the invasion started) hasn’t sabotaged peace efforts. Never ceases to amaze me how Russia issues its justifications, spin and version of events with a straight face.
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I’ve heard part of this has to do with when the cuts kick in. It won’t be immediate because they don’t want to give Democrats more midterm ammunition. Still, we should bank this clip and use it to introduce the “no-one’s” that Russ claims wouldn’t lose coverage.
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So is the message that Dems shouldn’t ever bother to contest unwinnable seats? If people have no incentive to civically engage, we’re doing GOP’s work for them. Why would people whose only choice is to stay home or are told even their POTUS vote won’t matter care if they lost their right to vote?
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Yep. Said the same thing as I watched him on Fareed Zakaria’s show this morning. By Marco Rubio’s standards, he would have to be denied entry into the U.S.
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The election system where a person registers per a state’s laws and then, should they wish, casts a vote, often after waiting in enormously long lines and maybe having to take off time from work. Yes, quite the left-wing plot.
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They’re not learning the lessons capitulating law firms have learned: if you give an inch, they’ll take as many miles as they want.
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I scrolled through dozens of DNC Chair Ken Martin’s recent Bluesky posts. Not one on immigration, ICE, family separation, detention conditions, etc. So maybe the memo members like Nadler get is this is not a winning issue for us so just drop it. Sadly that may extend to even ICE assaults on staff.
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Very weird to see the caption next to a photo of smiling steelworkers who either don’t know or don’t believe that it will be a disaster.
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Then why care about abortion? Why should someone be forced to bring another life into the world you don’t care about, particularly if that new life comes with a bunch of medical issues that you seemingly don’t want help pay for.
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Pay reparations to descendants of slave owners because…Why? Because their inheritance was negatively impacted when their ancestors had to start paying for services?
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In other words, we couldn’t care less about a possible new COVID strain emerging now.
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What do Democrats “win” by running as Trump Lite? Will it now be considered a win if only some progress of the last century must be rolled back but not all of it? The bar for what passes as leadership is depressingly low.
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If Judd or his mother give a large enough donation to Trump, I’m sure Trump will agree to post on how Judd is being unfairly targeted for his political (and asteroid) views and demand he be given his job back.
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Wouldn’t the government have access to the names of those at Harvard with student visas already? My understanding is a person first gets accepted by a university and then has to be interviewed at a US embassy/consulate. In fact, if you google “student visas” “travel.state.gov” comes up.
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If we think working on syntax and advertising on video games isn’t the solution, one often mentioned explanation for young men’s gravitation toward GOP is its embrace of crypto. By the looks of it, Democrats are now boarding the crypto train. So guess we’ll see if that helps with that demographic.
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And again, for those tempted to say it’s not their problem because they’ve got private/employer-based coverage, uncompensated care will impact everyone. At a minimum, our out-of-pocket costs will rise. At worst, entire hospitals/nursing homes may go under. States won’t be able to fill in the gaps.
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I look forward to what’s considered a “moralizing tone” in speaking to young men. If some young men feel the way they do in part because of the changing dynamics between men & women and what that means in terms of their role in society, not really sure what we do about that.
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He also doesn’t have to sign a nat’l ban into law. He can just push FDA to remove mifepristone from the market until new trials are done, leading to essentially a nat’l ban since states where abortion is legal couldn’t access it. But Trump could say he never signed a federal abortion ban bill. 2/
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Yeah, I also think his example of Trump and the national abortion ban is flawed. Trump’s views on abortion were all over the place during the 2024 campaign. But what’s his incentive not to backtrack on that pledge once midterms are over? (especially if GOP maintains control). 1/
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But, again, public opinion no longer matters if the party in power puts procedures in place to make it impossible for citizens to change their laws. Numerous TX surveys from post-Dobbs to 2025 show a majority (sometime well over 50%) do not support the draconian abortion law in TX. Doesn’t matter.
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You don’t have to shift
policy if you control all the levers of power. 57% of Floridians voted against a 6-week abortion ban in 2024. But because of a 2024 FL SC decision, amending the constitution with 60% was the only way to reject the ban. Still, the law does not reflect majority public opinion.
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You blame bad polling for Democrats saying their positions are popular but how about the misinformation pedaled through numerous platforms that helps form opinions? Is that the basis on which we want policy formed? (Haitians eat neighbors dogs; Bathroom threats to non-trans women by trans women).
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I was really asking if it foreshadows the outcome? CREW’s filing in response to the SC stay is that the gov’t is “highly unlikely to prevail on the merits.” Hope so, but I’ve heard lawyers say when SC stays a ruling or takes a case on appeal it’s because it doesn’t agree the outcome is so certain.
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Isn’t it usually the case that when they stay a ruling like that it ends up that they side with Trump/administration? In other words, Roberts thinks the court will decide that DOGE doesn’t have to divulge records so it would be wrong for the order to take effect now?
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Did they also all vote for the Musk-supported candidate for State Supreme Court?
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Ok, he can make them here. Your iPhone will cost about $3,500, but if everyone is cool with that, alrighty then….
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Replying to the Haaretz article embedded in your post “Destroying Gaza with Love.”
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We have become a seriously stupid nation.
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Also, I recall there being several Catholic Scholls when I was growing up. This bid to use taxpayer dollars shows how much fiscal times have changed for the Catholic Church. Not as flush as it used to be I guess.
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That’s a very temporary win if you’re against religious charter schools. It’s going to happen. My question is it would seem they have to allow all religions to establish charter schools when states are required to do this. So what constitutes a religion? The Church of Scientology charter school?
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A third party witness? Do they know how sexual abuse usually works? Don’t think the perpetrator generally invites someone in to watch, and if he does, it’s not someone who would report him.
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I feel sorry for those in the article & realize with gerrymandering it’s hard to displace state reps. But AR also continues to elect MAGA-types to statewide office & US Senate by about 65-35 margins. Until that changes & they get fed up with state reps, they’ll be forced to live by their rules.