Mike Gallinari, The Whisper in the Classroom
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I think material politics mostly means doing material politics — let people use the straws and bags they prefer, don’t try to force people to buy electric cars, don’t make their electricity more expensive to hit net zero goals — advance policies that make people wealthier in material terms.
yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
The American tackiness that you put up with for so long has been finally weaponised and you don't have a good counter, coast people with degrees.
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
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· Oct 22
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
There really aren't that many Halloween songs, are there...Zombie by The Cranberries is often discussed as one that always ends up on playlists despite very much not being about Halloween but you also often get stuff like Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf or any song with Devil in the title
I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
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Understanding the mechanics of propaganda has been extremely useful in seeing how effective the right can be and how the Dems miss opportunity after opportunity. The supposedly smart democratic consultants don’t even know how Fox News works, that’s why they keep stupidly telling Dems to go there.
What's so telling to me is the extent to which people like you and Andrew Lawrence and others - people with no specialized training beyond actually consuming right wing media and knowing they believe it - have been 5+ years ahead in understanding this moment in politics.
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
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Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
People get mad when you say it but a more normal GOP, where you aren’t fully going off the deep end when you switch sides, would immensely improve American politics