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MLiS, MaPS, JD, Blerd, Librarian, recovering academic and legal impurist, monger of references to movies, songs, games, novels and comics no one remembers or needs to. Mastadon/Bluesky @[email protected]
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We have more than enough prisons already. This is either to house political prisoners, or targeted minorities
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Averaging isn’t a good weather vane in half the states - on the west and east coasts the variation can be hundreds of thousands for the same home depending on the county.
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Tell that to the countries minorities, women and LGBTQ folks. “The Americans demand that we allow open discrimination against you so we could get a steel import deal that their leader will break in 3 months”.
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The UK’s economic options at this point seem to be rejoining the EU under new-member terms or kiss 47’s ring and throw the country’s LGBTQ and minority citizens under the bus for a slightly-less-bad-tariff deal.
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Opinion polls since 2015 have been very, Very, wrong about what the public wants as much as they are right. Ask fmr President Hillary Clinton or the 2018 red wave republicans.
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Wait a minute, did the Vice President of the United States just openly say that “America is a Anglo (meaning “white” in contemporary American speech) country”? And no major US news agencies bothered to mention that?
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One if the first things I thought. They would, unless it was, in fact, for political opponents rather than domestic criminals that we already have jails for.
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Didn’t they kinda already bend the knee after Bill Ackman demanded they boot their Black president, claiming Black folks dont belong in #ivyleague schools, and her replacement started expelling Palestinians and BIPOC protesters - then 45 blocked federal funds anyway? How bold to stand up now.
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The coop is learning the lesson Target has been for the last few months.
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Not to mention all the lower federal court appointee judges.
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How is it “hitting back” by refusing to bow after being hit first with demands? Not a good schoolyard analogy.
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www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/t...
#politicssky #blacksky #edusky
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Those who show they wont stand for something fall for anything. They were never getting those funds, it was all an exercise to show Columbia would bend the knee and toss their own under the bus. And now they can be kicked to the curb and laughed at.
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Yep. Willfully depressing the energy of your base to look better to the opposition is how you lose elections. You can win with only a few folks on the fence turning up this time, but you can’t win without all your base turning up every time.
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Basing your decision making of how much the folks who’ll never vote for you will blame you instead of how those who do will see you is top grade poppers paradoxism #newleadership
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Slave descendants, women, natives, all our rights to citizenship/vote taken by stroke of a pen.
This paired with what they've done ignoring congress in empowering new departments, it renders congress void, and we become government by POTUS decree.
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This feels like offering soft meat to the opposition so they wont gripe when tax hikes become necessary due to what’s happening at the federal level. Really hoping thats the case, and were arent in a Manchin/Sinema/Fetterman situation
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2/ Most cities aren’t built to have necessities in walking distance, so cars just park in front of neighbors homes or businesses. I don’t disagree with the need for density, but we should be honest about its side effects when selling it to cities. Or you end up with louder NIMBYism from local voters
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1/ I hate to say I’ve lived it in the Twin Cities (S. MPLS) and seen it happen first hand in the PNW. If Im a developer and I can sell 6 units at or above market w/ spaces or 8 at the same price without, I’m going for more profit.
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Getting rid of parking mandates doesn’t mean people without cars will buy, it just means theyll park in front of local homes or businesses, clogging streets. This keeps getting sold around the country and always happens. Its not good for residents. It saves builders $, but that never passes down.
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I’m still just waiting on a FF Tactics remaster on Switch. IMO the success of classic rpg’s shows how the market is tiring of “rpg-ish” linear action games on rails like the FF7 remakes and Veilguard.
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Would have been the smart thing to do, but the party is rudderless. They don’t seem to have a plan other than asking for more donations.