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👻 joy-o-lantern meads 👻
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Director of dramaturgy & new works @ American Conservatory Theater. Co-founder thekilroys.org. Dorkily earnest about multiracial democracy, well-designed public spaces, & the civic function of art. Oakland grown.
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We're now on ten years of Trump / GOP having no healthcare plan whatsoever. Not even a suggestion of what direction they want to go with it except repealing some overwhelmingly popular elements of Obamacare.

Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.
Trump trashes Obamacare in a new post. Funding under this law is the main dispute between the two parties in the ongoing government shutdown standoff.
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@gelliottmorris.com, using data in the spring, said that increasing the salience of Trump’s immigration policy lowered Trump’s approval rating.

But maybe it’s better to ignore it, we can not fight, and just keep doing what Dem leadership has been doing since 2016: all healthcare nothing else.
This is definitely a good way to raise the salience of immigration relative to the health care fight that congressional democrats are trying to center politics on.

And that in turn is definitely helpful to Pritzker's presidential ambitions.

Does it help win a senate majority?
Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.
$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.

My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.

www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Trump’s Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause
The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards, creating a system answerable only to the White House.
www.justsecurity.org
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"...some of the officers are alleged to have accepted bribes in exchange for providing protection to undercover FBI agents posing as members of a Mexican drug cartel. On three occasions between 2023 and 2024, the officers escorted the undercover agents transporting cocaine..."
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This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.
The US government is packed from top to bottom with racist violent settlers since they first washed ashore.
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it's the unitary executive, the tribune of the people, the all-powerful sovereign, the sun and the moon. it can bomb fishermen and deport citizens. but it cannot, it turns out, free up money to pay for SNAP—there are laws, after all.
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a major issue for the GOP is that they made a bet on “Dems will fold completely with exactly zero concessions” and are now stuck in a situation where they can’t back down on that but Schumer has comfortably held his caucus together on a small, popular ask so there’s no easy way out
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“we will rule you forever with an iron fist of suffering” is maybe not the most compelling message any administration has ever had
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
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Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics.

Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
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Whenever people invoke the Black Panther Party for self defense, I wonder if people know that there are still Panther members currently incarcerated.
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It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?

(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
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Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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Hey we don't say this enough...

Mamdani is Asian American.

If elected, he'll be the first Asian American mayor of New York City...

...and NYC will be the biggest city in the US to ever have had an Asian American mayor.

Representation isn't liberation. But sure is something, in this case!
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Trump is pushing private equity and crypto into YOUR 401(k) – putting your retirement savings at risk.

These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe.

We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.
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If Democrats brush off a Nazi tattoo as an innocent mistake, they're abandoning the ability to make effective arguments against Nazis across the aisle. It'd be an unforced error that would taint the party for generations, and rightly so.

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To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds.
They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use.
No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.
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The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...