modernthaddeus.bsky.social
Still as confused as ever, but about more important things.
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The AP covered this story much better than the Times, which left out Hegseth's explicitly racist comments:
"he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.
'Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill?"'
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Just to note, Danielle Sassoon was "among the anointed in the conservative legal world," too.
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Who is organizing these actions, esp. the national strike on March 14?
I'm trying to figure out how serious an effort we've got here, or whether someone is floating a trial balloon.
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link?
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Also, manager to an employee being "downsized":
"If there's anything I can do - anything - please tell me."
"Well, I certainly hope you die soon."
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"Oh, come on, I'm sure it could have been worse."
"Yes. I could have been on fire."
I use that line all the time.
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Great piece.
Dems need to throw a punch should be the headline for just about every story covering them now.
Their wiley backroom dealing isn't doing anything to create the backlash to stop the coup.
Throw a goddam punch.
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Jackson's likely apocryphal line seems worth recalling here:
"Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it."
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I know basically nothing about the guy, but is it too soon to call him "Canadian Churchill"?
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A sports analogy.
Who would want to play for a coach who told the team, "well, we're up against a team that plays dirty, and there's nothing we can do, so we're going to lose. Go out there and play your best!"
That coach and that team will lose.
And no one will want to join that team.
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@anatosaurus.bsky.social has been shouting from the Bluesky rooftops that the central criticism of Democrats post election is that "they won't fight for us."
@joshtpm.bsky.social has long urged that Dems demonstrate strength in dominance politics.
It's such an easy thing to grasp. We want fighters
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Any regrets that Sean “airline collisions are not great” Duffy was confirmed 97-0?
What were his qualifications to run the Transportation Department again? Reality TV and lumberjack?
Where was your “leadership” there
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This guy.
apnews.com/article/tomm...
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I'll say again. Even you're a bigot, when you board that plane, how safe do you feel knowing Trump's only response to this disaster is to scapegoat POC?
I won't get on a plane under this administration, and I bet a lot of people are thinking twice right now.
The airline industry is going to howl.
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Done.
I pointed out that Sean "we try not to have midair collisions" Duffy was confirmed as Transportation Secretary 97-0 under Schumer's "leadership."
Enough is enough.
No to RFK, no to Gabbard, no to Patel.
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Maybe Americans are as racist as Trump thinks.
But as you get board that plane, how safe do you really feel after Trump said the only problem was DEI hiring?
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Trump's predictably racist scapegoating only works if we let it. The Dems should be out front pointing out that he fired the head of the FAA, froze the hiring of new controllers and offered others buyouts, leading to this tragedy.
Once people cancel their flights, airline executives will howl.
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I wonder how many Americans know that the “Final Solution” got its name because there were 2 solutions before it.
1. Deportation
2. Concentration
We’ve raced through those pretty quickly.
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I know! Irony, right? Like Melania and Musk being “illegal” immigrants.
Anyway, I think I’m probably annoying my 14 followers. I’ll try to send you an email (since short form not so good for this), and you can respond or not.
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Ugh. I really don't want to defend Klein's stupid point, and I'm agreeing it's stupid and politically foolish. I also think that his friendship with Yglesias brings him to these instances of nit-picky nuancy church of savvy.
But there are Europeans who can claim dual citizenship who do this.
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is beyond what the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship intended to protect, Klein is embracing white supremacy?
I agree it's a stupid thing to entertain, and as his interviewee pointed out, there are policy solutions to that "problem," but you think it's embracing white supremacy?
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Is it your understanding that by saying be believes the practice of wealthy Europeans to schedule a vacation in the US so that their child can be born here (and thus become a citizen, which would NOT be the case for an American who gave birth in Germany or France, say). . .
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Right wing bad actors jump on all stuff, or they make it up and jump on it. I don't think Klein's stupid entertaining of birth tourism does much harm.
And again, it's the "embracing white supremacy" charge I was objecting to. Not criticim of Klein altogether.
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I agree with most of that.
I just don't think it adds up to "embracing white supremacy."
He's been wrong about stuff, maybe unforgivably so on Iraq (though his contrition seemed real, and he was barely past his teenage years). But if your allies always have to be right, you won't have many.
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The birth tourism stuff was foolish and ill considered, but I think it comes from Klein's actually knowing of some entitled folks who did it.
I don't think the embracing white supremacist charge is fair, in his case. Yglesias we can talk about.
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There are very few people who are exactly where I want them to be. But "embracing white supremacy" seems like a serious charge against someone who in many other ways has been an ally to progressive causes.
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Ezra Klein, for all of his faults, has been pretty good (not perfect) on a range of issues. He has been pretty much the only mainstream podcaster to bring Palestinians onto his platform to make the case against Zionism.
He's not far enough left, he's still (sort of) a Zionist, etc. etc. etc.
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European country to have a kid in the US because they wanted options. He's not talking about the children of agg workers.
It should be obvious that there is, in fact, a huge difference between those folks and liberated Black folks in 1865.
Klein is being obtuse but not white supremacist.
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@eschatonblog.com
Agree and disagree. OToneH, focussing on true "birth tourism" is a bit like focussing on trans athletes in the Olympics to target a junior high volleyball player.
OTOH, the birth tourism Klein is talking about is the folks he knows in San Francisco tech world who came from . . .
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My (of late - I read up on this 3 years ago) limited understanding is that a big reason for the rise in gig economy prices is that lots of VC money subsidized the platforms in an attempt to corner the market - so prices were low at first.
Then the VCs wanted a profit, and prices went way up.
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Maybe let’s turn that around for proper emphasis. The Chinese mega-city is an authoritarian surveillance state, but it does have great urban mobility.
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Good movie, with one glaring flaw.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/o...
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He's been who he is since adolescence, at least.
Miller announced to the crowd, his voice rising, "Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?!"
www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...
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Focus groups are the political equivalent of investment managers. Despite evidence showing they provide no benefit (and cost a lot of money), you employ them to provide an excuse for when you fail.
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One of my favorite moments in American politics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xMy...
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DEI programs struggle when the workplace is overwhelmingly white because. . . in the end, it's a segregated workplace, and there's only so much that raising awareness can accomplish.
It does create a space where the few POC can voice their experiences, though, and that's not nothing.
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Orwell wept.
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And this one, also a little late.
11. Human Rights Watch, December 19, 2024.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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$272k?
Jesus Christ. I never made anywhere near that as a principal.
That's the salary of the school's chancellor - for 1,000,000 students.
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That is poignant.
And upsetting to the stomach.
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Exactly. And now WE have congestion pricing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHDK...
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My response: Please keep the phrase "return on investment" out of any analysis of education and pedagogy.
Put differently, professors at business schools like Wharton have little to say about public schooling that's worth listening to.
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My MoC is Dan Goldman, who has been an unconditional supporter of Israel since forever.
He'll never admit it's been a mistake.
And Biden's regrets do not include Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/u...
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Assuming it's the 2020 article (and I'm not sure it is), you can download it here.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...