Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."

But it's also in where resources are directed. Think of all the capital that's going into AI, into data centers, into chips etc. It's their money, they got to make 100% of the decisions about what society built, all that labour time, all those material golds, land, space, all used up now.

I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.

One of many problems with "training" propaganda is that it portrays violence by government as unintentional and accidental. E.g., as something not central to what those in power *want* ICE to be doing. In other words, Democrats pushing "training" are lying to people about the goals:

This book is moving, eloquent, sincere, and wide-ranging. I can't think of one I would recommend more for your consideration of the situation today. It's the first book that made me understand that the cliché "breathtaking" can be literally true and I can cite the exact passages that did it to me.

We hope that the discrediting of the cowardly, fearful, sclerotic leaders of the present will finally open ears and hearts to the radically humane ideas of the best among us. fin/12