he/him
Queer socialist who's interested in elections but understands the need for mass politics. Abolish and prosecute ICE. ACAB. I'm part of a newsletter.
There's not a "lifeguard shortage", there's a tight labor market, and NYC gave the parks money that would have paid them to cops instead, so now one of the city's only actual plans to keep the city's kids out of trouble - either going to a pool or working at one - is gone.
Due to the national lifeguard shortage, unfortunately we will not be hosting swim programs, including lap swim, senior swim, and Learn to Swim, at our outdoor pools this summer. Outdoor pools will remain open each day for general swim from 11am-3pm and from 4pm–7pm.
I'm starting to think that this is just what happens when Germans get exposed to inflation over 2%, and we didn't realize because they were very strict about not letting that happen for 80 years
jack dorsey built twitter, selling it to spend more time taking psychedelics in the mountains, seeing elon take twitter over and ruin it, and deciding to just build it again, almost immediately killing the original twitter, would be the funniest possible outcome here
msnbc returns from commercial. it's the inside of a news van speeding down the desert highway. pan left to steve kornacki in the driver's seat. he snaps his head to the camera, announcing, wild-eyed, that he's kidnapped the camera crew and is going to count Nevada ballots himself
"A fascist committed violence, but whoopsy daisy the police didn't do anything about it and let them go. Oh, well, they're looking for him real hard now"
[30 minutes later]
"It appears the police know the guy and we're chilling with him before the violence."
Every fucking time
@thebatman2000
I know Black people in the age range of the poll, and I'm confident I'd be aware of any of them you Holocaust deniers, you're just a massive racist
I think I know what happened here. They asked "Holocaust is a myth - agree or disagree" directly after asking 5 questions in a row of the format "Do you think it is or is not anti-semitic to...x?" That sounds like it would confuse people
@TheSocietyDude
a guy in his late 20s on reddit: my wife and i finally reached a good place to make a big investment in a hobby i love. super excited!
The Intellectual Dark Web: immediately shits with enough force to break through their pants and hit twitter
NEW: Vance open to devaluing US dollar to boost exports, he told me this spring.
Lighthizer and allies mulling dollar devaluation if he’s elevated to Treasury or other leading econ post
At his rally just now, Trump challenged Biden to another debate this week. Says it will be no moderator, "man to man," "no holds barred."
Also challenged him to an 18-hole golf match.
I doubt anyone involved did this intentionally, but after an insane result like that, you should check to see if you did something like putting "agree or disagree with this antisemitic thing" after a bunch of questions asking "agree or disagree that this thing is antisemitic"
Every time I see someone try to make the point that the south isn't red because of the high Black populations in some of it, I'm reminded of that study that found that the single most predictive variable for how quickly whites moved to the GOP was how Black their county was.
This is a map of Black population density as a percentage of population in each area in the United States.
The South ain’t Red, folks. It’s suppressed. Don’t pray for the South to secede. Ride down here and help fight.
I'm pretty sure that's the actual quote. Maybe he meant something else by it, but I can't imagine a version of a program where people can report "troublemakers" in their neighborhood for extra police scrutiny that isn't horribly authoritarian.
Rep. Cuellar’s indictment presumably puts his D+3 seat, TX-28, in play. He ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination, and reportedly he’s not planning on stepping down.
@Chinchillazllla
I think (?) she believes that if you can pay without Medicaid then you shouldn't legally be eligible for Medicaid? Like you just proved you're too rich for it by having the money for a dermatologist appointment?
Elon using his life's work to finance a $44 billion project of owning the social media site he obsesses over the most, then watching it crumble to nothing in months because the original creator just rebuilt it with a new coat of paint and everyone like that better would be poetry
The most difficult thing to convey to young people who have come to political maturity in the last decade is that US politics used to be *normal*. People didn't have brain worms. They didn't shoot puppies. They didn't wave fascist conspiracy flags. Basic propriety was the norm.
It's official. Bernie Sanders won New York's 53rd Assembly district 43.4% to Biden's 41.8%, despite dropping out 2 months before the election. Warren got 8.5%
"Focused deterence ... the reality is most of the time the communities know who the troublemakers are, and if we can bring them in and say 'look, if something happens in your neighborhood, you're going to be one of the first ones we call', then we can start to get the rates down"
I'm going to mute this soon but I wanted to say a few final things:
-a sample size of 200 means doesn't mean a totally worthless poll, but it will mean a poll more likely to produce fluke results
"Fight against homophobia" Dianne Feinstein left her mark in San Francisco as the first American politician to ever veto a gay marriage related bill, then kept trying to convince the Democratic party to oppose gay marriage (it was "too much") well into the Bush's second term
As the first woman to represent California in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein paved the way for generations of women to serve—including me. She left her mark in tough fights against gun violence, torture, and homophobia, and that legacy will live on.
Over the course of 4 years, the left in Pittsburgh primaried out or replaced: the mayor, most of the state house delegation, a large number of judges, and now its member of Congress. Now that is a powerful movement, and the devoted organizers who built it deserve a lot of credit.
Wild that
-Biden is campaigning for Bass, while Newsom refused to even take sides in this race
-Biden called on Nury Martinez to resign, while Newsom stayed silent
-Biden had to publicly pressure Newsom to sign the biggest piece of union legislation in the state before he did.
MOMENTS AGO: Biden visits Tacos 1986 near UCLA with Bass and Solis. Clerk gives him a discount so he leaves $60 extra “for the next people who come in here.” Then parts ways with Bass, who keeps the tacos.
The far right is falling short in France specifically because a bunch of center-left politicians looked at the polls, listened to the pundits, realized they couldn't win, and dropped out in favor of another candidate, despite their personal egos.
The flood of endorsements this afternoon suggests the party has made its decision: Barring a literal face-plant at the presser, Biden will be the nominee.
I think this is a colossal error in both political and moral terms. Hope I'm wrong.
If you're a fit, mid 30s professional class gay splitting your time between NYC and DC, and you're struggling to get dates in both cities...it's not the Zionism sweety
@LaraLeaTrump
Everyone's dunking on you for not knowing that land doesn't vote, as well they should, but I just want to point out that you also fucked up the map itself and colored a bunch of blue counties red.
Hakeem Jeffries holds an animating grudge against the left, desires their total annihilation, and comes from a political environment (Brooklyn machine) where winning intra-caucus battles dwarfs all other political goals in importance. Things are going to get ugly, and very soon.
Jeffries to me then: “I’m a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. … There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.”
@jpbrammer
The governor of South Dakota did that with her puppy a few years ago, just published it as a quirky anecdote in her new book, and is now in full "this is what REAL Americans did before WOKE" doubling down mode
Sorry, you don't get to be the single largest spender in Democratic primaries, pledge to spend even more in the next cycle, and reduce it down to "participation" the moment someone criticizes you
Lots of talk about
@AIPAC
recently, so let me say this: Even amidst the overt hate we are seeing everyhere, this latest wave of “acceptable” antisemitism, which involves demonizing AIPAC for the heinous crime of participating in the political process, stands out.
Here's why:
Peak elected Democrat brain to call IfNotNow pro-Hamas and then demand their vote in the same sentence. Masterful. We may not see anything like this for years.
@pareene
I like this graph where they basically don't remark upon the obvious conclusion that it sure seems like a lot of college republicans are nazis
He just went back to it in the cross examination questions
"we need ... focused deterrence because people in communities know who's scary, know who's tough, know who might wind up in a violent situation"
Finally, Holocaust denial is an actual, real problem (and you will encounter it on this website if you spend any amount of time here). The fact that this survey gave a fluke result about the sources of it doesn't mean that it should be ignored.
Republicans were sexist towards Hillary Clinton in 2016, obviously, but it was the sexism of implication and stereotyping. The Trump people spent the last 8 years replacing all the seasoned campaign hands with revolting groyper freaks and the result will be way more overt sexism.
@McFaul
hey quick question, which was the country that ended iranian democracy in 1953 and installed a western-friendly dictator in order to secure oil rights for itself?
given how bad the average american is at conceptualizing gas prices, we may be on the verge of a massive rush for electric solely because one number is smaller than the other number
50-49: Senate narrowly advanced President Biden's nomination of Democrat Gwynne Wilcox to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a second term of 5 years. Murkowski voted Yes & Manchin voted No. Vote lasted an hour & 20 minutes awaiting for Whitehouse to vote Yes.
-The 95% confidence margin on a poll of 200 is 7%, but on a 20/80 question that would be more like 6%. Regardless, that's all pre-weighting, and YouGov said some of their weights exceeded 5 in this poll. The real MoE is higher (probably considerably) than 6%.
Madison Cawthorn: “This is exactly what happened during the fall of the Roman Republic .. this will lead us down the exact same path that Rome followed - this will lead us to a dictatorship.”
Tonight's election timeline (EST)
7:00pm - Clark County, Washington
7:00-8:00pm - Clark County, Nevada
7:00-8:00 pm - Los Angeles County
8pm - Maricopa County
9:30pm - Washoe County
"before" 10pm - Pima County
The Philly Dem party is so committed to electing a Republican over Brooks that they're threatening retaliation against any politician who supports her, and then in barges the governor.
Kendra Brooks is a fierce advocate for working families — and she's shown how critical her voice and lived experience are in City Council.
We may not agree on every issue, but
@KendraforPhilly
puts people first and gets things done. I'm proud to support her for re-election.
A Democratic state house candidate in Virginia posted some raunchy videos online years ago, and Republicans, dissatisfied with merely convincing local and national news to run the story, are escalating by mailing naked photos of her to voters *from the official party address*
-In addition to the question order, some people have pointed out the question wording might be an issue. It's more common now for "myth" to also mean real events that have been etched into culture, and I wouldn't be surprised with an age difference in how people define that word
@chunkeymonkey81
@byebyekev
@ZoeRoseBryant
His first movie role was in Interstellar, the casting director of which had previously worked with his uncle. Most Hollywood nepotism isn't about the role that made you famous, it's about how you got your start.
Yang is the epitome of Reddit Populism, a mixture of half-baked "cool" policies, le epic memes, and actually quite good ideas that have been around for a long time, ruined by an insistence that they're new and original. Intense appeal to pundits, and a particular kind of dumb guy
Hard to overstate just how insanely reactionary local media got the moment he took office. Just endless stories about crimes that never warranted a mention before.
New poll released this morning by backers of
#RecallChesa
Boudin campaign: 68% in SF say they'll vote to remove the progressive District Attorney from office in June 7 election, including 64% of Democrats. 78% give Boudin a negative job performance rating. Dire numbers for the DA
@EricMGarcia
Not true at all, I'll remember her for being the first American to ever veto a gay marriage bill, and for her opposition to gay marriage in the Senate
This is an important election because it puts the two kinds of Mississippi politicians against each other: a fossilized bigot from the segregation era with a name that doesn't exist anymore, and a freak who's somehow way more racist than him
Mississippi's lieutenant governor, Delbert Hoseman, is hovering above the 50% mark he needs to avoid a runoff against his archconservative primary rival, Chris McDaniel.
Tonight actually makes me feel better about Cori Bush in a weird way. Bowman clearly would have won in his old district and would have struggled to beat Engel in this one.
Wikipedia is telling me he's 13 years older than Chris, which makes their brother banter even weirder because they really couldn't have spent that much time growing up together
The guy in this story has a Twitter account, where you can find him constantly complaining to Dem politicians about things like the minimum wage, labor unions, and taxes. Oh, and in 2020 he gave thousands of dollars to GOP candidates and none to Dems.