If we ever get to the point as a country where we're seriously trying to recover from the damage Trump is doing, one of the reforms we'll need is an independent agency which can bring corruption cases against members of the executive branch.
I don't live in NYC, so I won't be voting in that election .
For a party leader, "vote blue no matter who" is less a rule of thumb and more their job description. If you can't support your party's nominees (absent something much worse than these policy differences), you can't be the party's leader.
It doesn't apply to local elections, where policies often don't fall into a left-right axis, and where I want competence more than endorsement of my policy preferences by people who don't have much influence over those policies. Mamdani's beliefs on Israel-Palestine have limited real-world effect.
For me, "vote blue no matter who" applies mostly to federal elections, where control of each chamber of Congress matters more than policy disagreements. It applies somewhat to state elections, for the same reason.
"LLM" stands for "Large Language Model," which is a type of machine learning system. The various chatbots we've seen these last few years (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) are all LLMs.
Except that none of us have any expectation that the current Democratic leadership will actually pursue _any_ policy solution, let alone my preferred one.
I've always thought that this isn't actually true, though. Fearing people who look/sound/act unfamiliar is pretty natural. This is one of the reasons why xenophobia is common across a broad range of cultures both ancient and modern.
I've been trying to think about what various Democratic-aligned groups could do here. Maybe Governor Kotek could have state-controlled law enforcement groups shadow federal units to monitor and deter abuses?
In general, you can't sue the federal government unless explicitly permitted to do so. Congress has passed some laws allowing people to sue, but we're still limited to what they've allowed.
It's been very frustrating seeing how the absence of strategy has crippled 21st century liberal movements. But I guess it's no more fair to blame our current leaders for lacking King's brilliance than to blame Napoleon III for lacking his namesake's operational skill.
