The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

I won’t talk politics with any Republican that won’t first talk intellectual virtue and rational standards. And from this angle, they don’t want to be on the opposite side of these traits. Once they commit, then we proceed, and boy does it ever contort their face in pain, they deeply resent it.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually