Dr. Susan G (she/her)
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Dr. Susan G (she/her)
@madtownmama.bsky.social
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I am: Mom of 2, professional pianist 🎹 and urban planner by training, obsessive knitter, feminist, good cook but mediocre gardener, bookworm. Dr of music 🎶, not medicine. Madison WI.
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I’m still not over the obvious disdain all of the gabfest hosts had for Kamala Harris. Emily and David especially sounded downright hostile.
They start off by saying the third term is just bait, and then they take the bait.
Slate political gabfest celebrated 20 years with a live show in Chicago where they lobbed 2 stinkers in a row: special guest Rahm Emmanuel and the topic of a third term for DJT. What a waste of time.
Wow. Klein really doesn’t learn, does he?
Would that I had the confidence of a mediocre white man.
Something bad enough to kick prince andrew out of the royal family — with a 6-figure stipend, but even so…
My god, WHAT is in those Epstein files that has him so terrified of swearing in Vote Number 218?

“I will not bring the House back to session until the Congress negotiates a budget that it needs to pass” is pretty much a pure pi-r-squared circle.
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
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Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
Surprising no one.
Congress, get off your butts and fix this before there are hunger riots.
Despite two separate courts ruling Friday that the Trump administration must fund SNAP amid the government shutdown, the president said his lawyers don't think the orders are legal and will need to look into it more.
Trump Says Courts Need To Give Him More 'Legal Direction' On Funding SNAP
www.huffpost.com
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I think they’re trying to provoke enough suffering that people will do desperate things and this will justify more state sanctioned violence against its own people. It’s sick and wrong and GOP Congress members are too chicken shit to do anything about it.
But JD is so painfully obviously NOT great so far as a husband or he never would have made those public comments. Imagine what he’s like when there isn’t a camera on him. There’s no way he treats he treats her with more respect in private. Run, Usha. Run.
❤️ powerful, vulnerable post
Shady Vance sold his soul to the devil a long time ago.
He’s still repeating that lie. Video link in replies.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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We're hosting a food drive this Nov 2 from 1-4 pm to assist food pantries in Northern Wisconsin that may be overwhelmed when SNAP benefits run out on Nov. 1.

If you'd like to donate to help us buy food, here's the link
secure.actblue.com/donate/minoc...
By this point I would be more surprised to hear of a church that DIDN’T harbor abusers. It’s just built into the system.
We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades.

Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Read it here:
Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
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Some — if not much — of the problem we face today is in not believing Republicans are cruel — when they have been demonstrating in deeds and words otherwise for many years.
We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.

Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
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This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.
I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics.

I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.
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I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers.

It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵