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Sconrad122

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  • The next 24-48hrs is going to be an entertaining meltdown.

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  • Putting aside the hypothetical about which side benefitted more from appeasement, what's the equivalent here? Give Trump everything he wants and hope that he let's you still have an honest election in 2026? 2028? Hope that he leaves office after two terms when his biggest projects seem to be adding jets and ballrooms to his taste? Hope that he keeps over and dies? And what are you willing to give up for those hopes? Martial law in Chicago? An NYC mayor who's more focused on feeling up his secretaries than on addressing the cost of living crisis? Mass deportation of American citizens? Forced and intentional starvation of American citizens? Destruction and corporate capture of our federal institutions? Obliteration of the rule of law? Continued support for genocide in the Middle East and abandonment of our allies in Europe and across the globe? Where's your Poland and what are you trading Czechoslovakia for?

  • Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program

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  • So, affirmative action for the straights, guess MAGA no longer thinks AA is discriminatory lol

  • GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’

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  • I think Graham Platner, if you take his word for what is in his past and present political mindsets, would be an example of a right-to-left swing, but not done as a politician. Shaun on YouTube is another one that comes to mind potentially, depending on how old he is for whether that qualifies as an under age 25. In the US at least, we don't really have a strong left wing to draw in people looking for a change, so most of those conversions are happening less in the public sphere and more in corners of the internet, where it hasn't been enshittified to ensure even those spaces are dominated by tight wing narratives

  • Kat Abughazaleh indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility

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  • Kat Abughazaleh indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility

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  • She running for an open seat though? Or is one of her opponents a congresswoman in a neighboring district or a state congresswoman?

  • Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says

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  • I agree with your general point, but

    "brown people killing each other" "things you can avoid" ...by not being a brown person?

  • Civil war

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  • Correlation, but not perfect. Largely because most of the Union stayed, so you get states like North Dakota that was part of a Union territory but a red state. That and Appalachia (e.g. West Virginia, Ohio) swung pretty hard from the union cause to the confederates thanks to coal baron propaganda and the erosion of union power in the post Regan era. The confederate states are almost all red though, with the only current exception being Virginia and varying degrees of hope for near future conversions in Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • Per the Jewish Insider citing a anonymous source, so take that for what you will

  • Chicago’s Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop

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  • Chicago calls its downtown neighborhood "The Loop", named after the loop of elevated heavy metro rail that runs around the core of said neighborhood. The eponymous Loop handles 45k passengers a day, probably an order of magnitude higher than the Vegas "loop" lol

  • Mamdani Polls at 50 Percent for First Time As Mayoral Race Enters Homestretch

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  • Yes, but only because the ranked choice voting in the Democratic primary likely gave some voters/organizers/donaters confidence to back a longshot candidate like Mamdani, which eventually snowballed into a plurality win in the first round of the primary, a majority win after ranked choice took effect, and a polling lead in the first past the post general election. Still a success story, I'd say, but not a direct and unquestionable cause/effect chain

  • Return of Jared Kushner: Netanyahu's friend and Gulf business ally reappears for Gaza talks

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  • So is Tel Aviv, maybe he should bulldoze that to set up his "riviera". Property being valuable does not excuse a genocide.

  • Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown

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  • Narratives like this support DOGE's actions. The GS-5 working for your local national park is not your enemy, it's the multi billionaires that used their influence to kill the child tax credit in 2022 to fund a tax cut for them in 2025 that are the problem here. Ilhan's bill focuses on government employees because it is a messaging bill in a government shutdown environment and because it keeps the bill simple, the government already has mechanisms for OMB to reimburse government employees for eligible expenses, so this is just directing that infrastructure to add a category to the list of eligible expenses as opposed to creating any new systems or changing the tax code. It's not even close to a final step, but it helps some workers, and that's better than the current trend of the government stepping on workers in favor of billionaires

  • Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown

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  • I very much doubt you will find an example of Ilhan attacking Mamdani or childcare support. This is at least the second time she's tried to pass this bill, the first was during Trump's first term. A majority of federal workers are not furloughed during a shutdown, although it's hard to find numbers on how many of those are working with pay vs. without pay. I'm positive she also spoke out when Republicans and Manchin and Sinema killed the childcare tax credits from the build back better bill that reduced child poverty to record lows, she's pretty consistently one of the good ones.

    It's also worth pointing out that this is as much a messaging tactic as a real bill. There ain't no way Republicans are passing this bill, but having this and other bills like it on the table makes them put up or shut up if they try to attack Democrats for holding government workers' livelihoods hostage over the shutdown. Having it focus on government workers increases the strength of that message, even if broader relief would still be necessary if this passes.

    Introducing bills like this, and thus establishing a counter narrative of "this is what the Democrats want for the country, as opposed to what you are getting today from the Republicans", is miles better than the Schumer strategy to date of doing his level best to agree to all of the Republican demands in order to make living under the Trump presidency as unbearable as possible in the hopes that people will vote Democrat for change despite Schumer putting no daylight between Democratic and Republican positions.

  • The rich must eat less meat | Scientists say rich countries need to eat a lot less meat. Will the environmental movement finally listen?

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  • Preparing for the climate catastrophe is so passè. Postparing for the climate catastrophe is the new hotness

  • [Episode] Call of the Night Season 2 • Yofukashi no Uta Season 2 - Episode 12 discussion

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  • The S1 ED coming back put a giant grin on my face. It feels good to take a break from the heavy stuff these past few episodes with some light hearted good vibes in this episode

  • Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC for Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • They fired him for that? What did he have to do to keep his job in that situation, pull out Kirk's corpse and fellate it? A fascist got what he spent his life working to deserve. It's the crowning achievement of his life work to build a stochastically terrorized society that can be bent to the whim of billionaires and autocrats. There's no need to pussyfoot around like this is a national tragedy unless you are more interested in upholding the status quo than you are in reporting. Oh. Right...

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  • I didn't use this method as a kid, but I do use it or something like it pretty often to solve the math formula that my phone requires to turn its alarm off because that can go up to 15 and I don't have above 10s 100% well memorized. I can get 10, 5, 1, and 2 of anything pretty quickly, so 11 is 10+1, 12 is 10+2, 13 is 10+5-2, etc. I don't think it would have met the speed requirements of my times tables tests back in elementary school, especially because I was probably slower on my 2s, 5s, and addition back then, but 2-3 iterations is generally few enough that I can close the alarm before it gets too loud/annoying, even in a half-asleep state

  • You can't build apartments in 94% of San Jose, one of the largest cities in the United States, where the average home costs $1.5 million.

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  • Probably a fair bit of the rest of it is zoned for industrial/office/commercial use only or is water or roads, but yeah the picture is not great evidence for the claim in the title

  • Trump fumes and again insists companies pay tariffs and won’t cause inflation

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  • If you refuse to answer the questions correctly because acknowledging facts about our system of government would undermine your weak justifications for your fascist behavior, the fact that you actually knew the correct answer deep down doesn't change your score