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It is important to note that absolutely nobody has phoned up the Guardian and said "we need you to manufacture consent for us to target disabled children with our cuts." This is just what they instinctively knew they had to do, as outriders for a government intent on targeting disabled children.

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As usual, the death penalty isn't bad because the people executed by it are good, it's because the state shouldn't have the power to execute people. Genuinely do not understand why we have to keep having this argument.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

This is why you don't privatize important government functions. The fault in the libertarian utopia is that in the absence of government, you still get governed.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.

submitted 12 hours ago • 941 comments

I can’t abide how Labour centrists play the blame game, when they are the ones inflicting austerity policies on the most vulnerable in society.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

i do not think another cycle of wishcasting conservative Supreme Court justices as our saviors is in order

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

cops sense an opportunity to turn TeslaTakedown into the next overtime-a-palooza

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The Times has moved on from sane-washing lies to just straight up creating them.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

lady gaga setting the clocks back to when I had hopes and dreams

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

it’s not that the dems lack leadership or strategy or ways of enforcing from the top their strategy. leadership did in fact choose a strategy and has been pursuing it this way entire time. it’s extremely funny that defense of dems on here has included “there’s no actual leader or grand strategy”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

submitted 21 hours ago • 489 comments

the reason that the democrats need to get the fear of god put into them by their constituents is that we are going to get one bite at the apple in terms of fixing this and if we do not play constiutional hardball -- by, e.g., packing the Supreme Court -- we will lose American democracy.

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

YES, YES IT DOES Elite consensus and perceptions of elite consensus flow directly through people like Yglesias and drive policy debate and political action by electeds

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Pro-democracy patriots protest outside a Tesla showroom in downtown Chicago. Hit Elon Musk in the pocketbook, which is all he cares about. Check out TeslaTakedown.com for protests near you.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The party’s base—and the majority of those who vote in primaries—is Team Fight.

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This is a really good question and a really good thread, and I'm going to answer as best as I can. (A reminder: Don't be a jerk to this person, or to anyone in my mentions. It's gross, and I'll block you, even if I'm on your side of the argument.)

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

id argue this isn’t just restricted to pundits but is actually very familiar to anyone whose observed intra-party fights among ny dems (like cuomo literally maneuvering the state senate to gop control), which should tell us a bit about jeffries’ and schumer’s leadership styles

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

You helped cause this, New York Times, by normalizing the would-be dictator and downplaying the threat. When Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution, you put it on Page 13. But you’re doing a great job of detailing the disaster you helped cause.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post says correctly that Trump is trying to dismantle the free press. The owner of Milbank’s newspaper, Jeff Bezos, is helping Trump do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Every few months we get a profile of the "maverick" Republicans who will push back against the party's radicalization and every single time the author blithely acknowledges that they will not, in fact, be pushing back against the party's radicalization. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Creating a big tent is fine, great even. But that tent has to have a pole, a backbone, a set of values it believes in and policies it supports, otherwise it simply caves in and is no kind of shelter, gathering place or party at all.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

it is sort of interesting that these guys never suggest "moving to the center" on economics. if politics is, in fact, a mechanical triangulation game, you could move to the center by dropping stuff Noah Smith likes.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I have seen a lot of discourse dismissing base frustration with Democratic leadership as "just social media not real life" or "something people just do for clicks" and I cannot emphasize enough: actual data does not support this argument.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

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The democratic party spent decades building defensive positions and completely forgot that to win a battle, at some point you need to get out of your trench, close with, and kill the enemy

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I would highly encourage everyone to abandon this conception of public opinion, where the public simply holds an opinion that is ever-so-slightly to the right of Democrats, and if only Democrats would concede that few inches, the public would return to them. It’ll just keep running away from you

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Again, too many Americans still don’t realize how offensive, dangerous, & deadly serious this is to Canadians, & we absolutely would not tolerate being told to calm down if other countries’ leaders were talking about annexing our territory or ending our sovereignty 🇨🇦 bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Biden responding to the question of how many genders there are with “There are at least three. Don’t play games with me, kid.” is unironically the ideal Democratic response

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this is such an obvious game of bullshit and it makes me insane that anyone falls for it. weird how schools are no longer "meritocratic" when they are trying to attract more black and hispanic students, but are perfectly meritocratic when they're not.

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Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

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I really think people are downplaying that Columbia is just facist

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Been thinking more about Newsom’s podcast episode and it strikes me as a symptom of stage 4 consultant brain. He could aim for cross partisan appeal through vigorous outreach and public improvements in the red parts of the state he nominally governs, but instead he’s trying to sound like Bari Weiss.

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black student enrollment at the university of virginia barely cracks 7 percent and that is too much for glenn youngkin and his toadies www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

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