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Full house tonight at the special called county magistrates meeting to discuss data centers, lots of rural Kentuckians of all political stripes pretty darned unified on this issue

A Carter Center team of experts was in Brasilia yesterday when Brazilians went to the polls to vote for their next president. Look for their preliminary statement Tuesday.

Abdul punches back and doesn't take shit. He isn't a weak centrist nothing. People want fighters.

And the lesson is that, despite his flaws, he had a committed focus on improving the lives of ordinary working people in tangible ways, he was uncompromising in opposition to fascists, and when he lost the first round he used it to motivate his supporters to throw everything at the second round.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

pulling for the whole world to have this energy

The MTA’s primary union is spending a ton of money to try and swing the vote against Hochul (the most pro-transit governor in generations) When Hochul wins by double digits anyway, I hope she remembers this and plays hardball with the union on efficiency improvements like OPTO and automating IBX

RW disinfo media's messages are backfiring now. And you are absolutely right, that Dems shd make them backfire as much as possible. RW media said 1000X T wd lower grocery/gas prices, deport violent criminals only & end 4ever wars. Ppl see T/GOP did the opposite. Dems DO need to focus on that.

& T wd deport violent criminals only & end 4ever wars. And MOST media/social media are RWng so more ppl heard lies than the truth. Most mystifying things about U.S. politics become crystal clear once you realize that: Disinfo sways elections. Ppl don't believe it does. bsky.app/profile/upin...

Here's how this works. Centrists pundits, like most ppl, assume that disinfo doesn't work & that T/GOP voters knew & voted for what T/GOP is doing. So they advise Dems not to make all those imaginary T lovers mad In reality voters voted for T bc RWng media said 1000X he'd lower grocery/gas prices

There is hope for some of the newer voices in the Democratic Party like AOC and AES because they realize you have to actually stand for something to build a movement and draw people toward you. The old guard must all be overthrown. Their laziness and cowardliness can never defeat fascism.

This also explains why it is that the people you keep seeing shoved in your face as "liberal thought leaders" are always pushing moderate conservatism and placating reactionaries: -Steven Pinker -Matt Yglesias -Noah Smith -Malcolm Gladwell -Jonathan Haidt -Ezra Klein ...

So why does this failed, illogical, and immoral viewpoint continue to rule the Democratic elite class? Because popularism is easy. Its main dictate is to do nothing. And because of the plurality wins format of American elections, you can win them even if you don't campaign at all.

Simple pragmatism should have dictated the abandonment of this theory of change since it never led Clinton to a majority of his own, and it was not the method that Barack Obama used in the 2008 race which he won overwhelmingly. Popularism has been a total failure during the Trump era as well.

The clip that I quoted in the OP is the essence of basically all DC Democratic thinking: Never, ever do anything unless you can cite a poll saying that it would be popular. It doesn't matter how evil or how illegal, you should say or do nothing.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

my god

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Trump: these idiots can’t read. I could say literally anything on stage and they’d still clap like seals Obama: the White House looks like gaudy Republicans: See, democrats look down on the working class

the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jesus fucking Christ

@johnwdean.bsky.social @kpfa.org @bedwardstiek.bsky.social agreed we need to get ready for stimulus and govt support, but despite hating the current admin "waste fraud abuse" mantra, we REALLY need to learn from the way organized crime exploited EDD, PPP and Small Business Administration funds

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

The guy got in jail for living in an area of Ukraine that was occupied by Russia. To free that guy you removed sanctions? It’s like treating a headache with beheading.

You'd be pissed if you had to hang out with Nick Shirley, too.

The nice thing abt Musk having SpaceX takeover Xitter is when we nationalize SpaceX we'll end up owning Xitter as a side deal. Also a robot that makes Child Sexual Abuse Material out of school photos, for which reason we can shut down Grok on day one.

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Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

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The New York Times and NPR recently failed to convey just how extreme the former Fox host’s views have become.

The perfect metaphor for Apple design these days

Sorry to be an ass but voters won't "at some point" come to understand corruption and corporate greed are deepening an unsustainable wealth gap. We need to keep hitting the hammer, mobilizing, and organizing. Reality is scarier than than the lies; we don't need to "rise above," we need to punch.

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The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

i’ve been working on a 1,000 page manual on how to do this and she just tweeted it out

The owner of X is a Russian asset who regularly amplifies Kremlin propaganda. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.