@rbreich Tell that to the progressives I keep running into who are more concerned about beating Dems than Republicans. Who say there’s no point in voting when both sides are bad. The ones parroting that kind of BS pushed by Bernie surrogates since 2016. “Voting for Biden is like voting for half a bowl of shit” Tell that to Bernie who never pushes back. #farL#USPol
Valuable article for pointing out that trans-panic legislation will also victimize a lot of non-trans kids, but paragraphs like this one go to far by suggesting that there's a really real reason for the crusade, wholly distinct from transphobia. The people bringing these bills are perfectly capable of wanting to control kids and marginalize trans people at the same time. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anti-trans-moral-panics-endanger-all-young-people/#USPol#transRights#youth
“the government is poised to pay Americans to buy big electric cars that 1) are known to be more dangerous to pedestrians, cyclists, and even the drivers of smaller vehicles, 2) require a maximum amount of exploitative and destructive mineral extraction, and 3) undermine the goals of broader vehicle electrification — and the discount will likely disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans alone”
It's hard to express just how batshit crazy the whole #DebtCeiling concept is.
It is NOT NORMAL for a major country to say, "If our debt gets this high, we'll stop paying our bills." That's BONKERS. The world economy would not be able to function like that.
There is only one other country with a debt ceiling, and it's so high they never come close to hitting it.
The only point of the US debt ceiling is to provoke crises on a regular basis. The solution is to GET RID OF IT. #politics#USPol
I've been here since mid-November 2022, when Twitter went from intolerably bad to ludicrously worse. So I guess I'll be here a while. Ran out of room in the bio, and running out of chars in this post; and I don't want to make a thread -- so here are hashtags I read, and may boost:
Headed for the governor’s desk, #SB14 shows that the Legislature has no idea what #healthcare for #trans kids even is.
Correspondent Nancy Goldstein returns to the Observer to bust myths about #gender-affirming care... not to mention the idea that the #Republicans care, at all, about children:
Earlier: In what seemed like a 16-hour indoctrination session, TEA’s “Lone Star Governance” program trainers had the 230 applicants who attended repeat self-flagellating mantras about their lack of integrity and lack of concern for student success to get them ready for what they called the “Lone Star Governance mindset."
Yes, exactly, the same term was used about transpeople at the recent conservative conference.
As in the 1930s' lead up to full-scale genocide, neoNazi politicians are deliberately using terms that maximise the likelihood that we'll eventually come to believe that the lives of the targeted groups are "lives not worth living" and hence accept their murder.
Local elections matter. Mayoral, city council, ballot measures. If you had an election today, I hope you voted (you maybe still can if you hurry on the west coast.) I did. Now I'll be following @taniel and @bolts as well as my local papers for results and analysis.
These ads have been running on my local tv station.
The woman, Republican Kelly Craft, was scary and very hostile. Her ads started out like MTG/Boebert on steroids then last week or so, much "saner," as in 'I know what you did last summer' saner. That should tell you how bad they were at first. #Kentucky#GOP governor’s #primary#USPol
You ask rhetorically, "But Stefanik will somehow do better?"
But that is IMO an open question.
"Better" isn't what Stefanik can, if things go Trumpian, do.
Durham was restricteded by laws and institutional boundaries and regulations to mild over-reach and mild mis-use of DoJ powers.
Stefanik and a Trump 47 administration may not be.
Chris Licht is a moron. The CNN CEO believed he could court the MAGA crowd without losing the left. Instead, the network now finds itself hemorrhaging viewers and in the ratings basement behind Newsmax. Fire him.
Having seen Randy Rainbow perform live I can confirm that yes, he really does all those melismatic vocals himself. Here's the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2M5ZeJSZHM
DeSantis just spouted some batshit crazy nonsense about "wokeness," and then preemptively banned the use of U.S. dollars (via digital currency) in the state of Florida.
When are we going to stop calling the Republican party "conservative," and start calling this the civil war that it is? The GOP already mounted massive, bloody assault on the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow our government. What would it take for our political press to start doing its job?
Our May/June 2023 issue is reaching mailboxes and select newsstands now. With important coverage of #ReproductiveRights and #Healthcare, as well as the continuation of @delger's river series.
Digital subscribers: look out for a new, easier format for this month's issue, available soon.
”I don’t think it’s a state issue. This is a national movement that’s anti-immigrant, that’s toward rolling back minority participation, minority rights—everything.”
“Democrats could have tried to abolish this pointless and dangerous economic time bomb, but failed to do it.”
While Rs will be responsible if US #defaults, Ds also have themselves to blame for not being proactive when they had power. Great contextual breakdown from @ryanlcooper via @theprospect newsletter this am. #uspol