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Used to wrangle students. Now I wrangle data. Snake River. Smoky Mountains. Forever a proud wife guy.
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all i'm saying is that today could have been a beautiful day
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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One of the main vectors of modern anti-vax is a Google cofounder’s ex wife using the fortune she got divorce to promote people like RFK Jr.
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.
Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:
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I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Don't forget to stretch either. You know those chuds aren't.
As good a time as any to share that making sure you're as physically fit as possible is, in fact, praxis.
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity
This is just absolute political ratfucking, directly from the paper of record itself.

Why aren't better things possible? Because of shit like this.
The entire reason this site is even having this discussion is because Republicans couldn't dismantle the ACA legislatively, so they're trying to defund it. And when Dems said no, Republicans said, fine the government is shut down.

Talmon and the NYT is essentially saying "why not let the ACA die?"
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the reason people are devoting so much time to defending it is because there is an active effort to dismantle it, a project youre either too dumb or apathetic to realize youre part of.
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a lazy cynical affect is one of the worst things you can do to yourself as a reporter or analyst, it will corrode not only your work but your soul.
What would be *much* likelier to happen is that this just becomes another third rail progress is impossible around.

Obamacare would be a warning. No politician would stick out their neck for anything on healthcare again.
If we heed the calls of all of the people who are attacking it now (MAGA, leftists, and enlightened centrists), we shouldn't assume that what comes next will be magically better. Politics doesn't work like that.
Yet, since then, Republicans have attacked Obamacare endlessly. So it's no wonder we've struggled to build on it.
Obamacare wasn't a failure because it wasn't intended to solve all the problems facing our healthcare system. It's just the best that we could pass in the congress that we had at the time.

It was always meant to be a foundation we built on.
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The 'institutionalist instinct' to preserve my access to healthcare
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bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)
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speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously
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Maybe one of the most obvious & straightforward things we can do to improve environments for children is to keep phones out of them. The really ugly part is that's probably true to a fair extent for parents too, I say into my smartphone that I have in front of me all the time
New work on school cell phone bans just dropped.

"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."

"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
Very happy to not pay for this man's salary.
It only serves pundits and commentators to try to pretend there's "one right way" to be a dem.
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The great thing about the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely room for both Spanberger and Mamdani
election night is going to be about Spanberger and Mamdani, with both factions claiming proof of concept, and the discourse will be a nightmare
VA and NJ both being decisive, like a landslide in VA and a decisive win in NJ (ie a bit of an upset from the current vibes of maybe it'll be close) might be enough in and of themselves, but i think a lot of democrats are holding their breath and waiting to see where things fall
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“but that’s American imperialism“ no, actually, participating in an international conspiracy to destroy the United States and the guarantees of her laws & constitution to her citizens is an act of war and must be responded to appropriately.
i am a maximalist el salvador hawk. i don't actually give a shit about what happens afterwards but we have to straight-up kill bukele.
Ooh! Ahh! Ouch! That stove is hot!
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ