Izzy, short for Isabella

"You claim the President of the United States didn't do enough to stem the rising tide of fascism, yet your podcast has only been political for two years. Couldn't *you* have done it instead?"

Like, I guess the article is kinda slopulist and written by someone without a super qualified background in politics, but focus on that, we don't need some apples to presidents comparison.

Finally got some pieces of that "I tried fighting against educational inequality by choosing a worse school for my daughter to go to" article in front of me, and the thing I find striking about its racial politics is how much it decries segregation in explaining the choice to patron it.

Like... this woman sent her daughter to a worse school, because of how she looks. She did segregation for the school system. It's class integration, but she doesn't call it that, and the savior complex where she saw herself saving the PTA isn't "fighting for every kid", it's pure individualism.

Seven Havens thoughts: I'm hooked, but I'm unsure if this show will have the rewatchability that ATLA and LoK did. LoK admittedly leaned a lot on callbacks and fanservice, but those still gave the episodes a decent amount of weight and momentum. Here, the character beats work well, but kinda rote.

I think it's cool that of our protagonists, one is a lot more like Aang and one is a lot more like Korra. Meanwhile the animal companions being hybrid primate-carnivores combines Momo and Naga. Hope the sprinkles of backstory we've gotten have a payoff that enriches these early episodes.

Seven Havens thoughts: I'm hooked, but I'm unsure if this show will have the rewatchability that ATLA and LoK did. LoK admittedly leaned a lot on callbacks and fanservice, but those still gave the episodes a decent amount of weight and momentum. Here, the character beats work well, but kinda rote.

I love the tactic of "we are doing the thing everyone assumed we were gonna do, but never explicitly confirmed that we were going to do"; brilliant, exciting, didn't push it too hard. And we got almost no info about Korra, which is another hook. Also I am not clear how much time has passed?

Got blocked for fact-checking a fact checker, but I ain't stopping. It's weird to call something that only 6 Dems voted on, "must-pass". I don't see how that's guilt by association.

Aaron Ford and Xavier Becerra: Obviously past votes only mean so much when criticizing what people feel is a partywide pivot. These are good reasons to support them against their opponents though.

Got blocked for fact-checking a fact checker, but I ain't stopping. It's weird to call something that only 6 Dems voted on, "must-pass". I don't see how that's guilt by association.

Jeffrey Hulum III: Kinda sounds like acquittal by association. So what if other Mississippi Dems voted yes? Hulum is the one running for federal office! The fact that it was 26 yea, 4 nay, 10 present does show how slim the picking are though.

Got blocked for fact-checking a fact checker, but I ain't stopping. It's weird to call something that only 6 Dems voted on, "must-pass". I don't see how that's guilt by association.

No citation or year on these votes, but similar to with Peltola, these statements on Trone Garriott and Turek are just value judgments. Including their good votes would be more responsible of Erin even if they predate their worse statements.

This first paragraph seems to be a fabrication on Paulauski's part. Allred was elected in 2018, lost re-election in 2024, and is now running for a different district (33, whose current rep is running for a judge position). Allred voted "no" on a 2023 bill and pivoted in 2024.

Untrue. Maybe things have changed in the past 12 hours, but as of now, Erin's site correctly shows that Don Davis did in fact back MTG's bill. Odd that Mr. Paulauski didn't try checking that (or maybe Erin's source on govtrack.us is wrong)