Partisan for whom? I’m having trouble thinking of a liberal journalist who is more critical of the Democratic Party than Mehdi. Please read his journalism in the Intercept, MSNBC, and now Zeteo. He’s, like, the least shilly journalist I can think of.

Right, killing nearly 17,000 kids is Israel protecting itself…

Check your morals, I think they need a tuneup.

Bingo. And there’s your problem.

So does that mean they ALL refuse to be educated on the futility, danger, and self-sabotage of voting third party

Yes. That’s exactly what it means. Voting third party, like we’ve told you before, is not the way to have your voice heard. It’s how you ensure Trump gets back in office.

Or could it be the fact that some people just disagree with you

There’s a big difference between disagreeing (I disagree with Biden and Harris on a ton of different issues), and being willfully delusional about how our election system works (not how you want it to work, but how it actually works). You are being delusional and will help get Trump reelected. I’m swallowing my pride and voting for Harris, who is the only person with a chance of beating Trump.

I completely agree. I’m personally not a fan of Biden or his policies (I voted for him, and I will vote for Harris), but using any objective metric you are spot on. He has been the best president in modern history for the economy, inflation, jobs, and restoring some of our reputation on the world stage. The actual numbers back all that up. His biggest mistake (an unforgivable one that will define his legacy imo) is how he has dealt with Israel, but obviously the alternative would be way worse.

I guess I’ve been under a rock, but I hadn’t heard of this company until now. Did they really name themselves Nikola Motor? Were they expecting to be bought out by Tesla or something? This would be like me opening a store called George next to an existing store called Washington. Weird.

I think education is the key here

That’s pretty rich coming from someone who repeatedly refuses to be educated on the futility, danger, and self-sabotage of voting third party in this critical election. I know you don’t believe this is how reality works, but you voted third party, so you voted for Trump.

You are simply wrong about this. Completely wrong, and blindly pretending you’re right. I pride myself on giving people as much benefit of the doubt as possible, but you appear to be willingly trolling now, or you are incapable of learning new concepts and ideas and understanding the consequences of your actions. It’s quite selfish and concerning actually. In any case, I’m done trying. If that was your plan, to tire us out of arguing against your complete lack of logic or willingness to understand reality, then you win. Just know, you’re still wrong about some very fundamental concepts of our society.

This seems like a great way to turn architects into spellcheckers and glorified model trainers, and make buildings incredibly unsafe. This is one of the those use cases that strikes me as wholly irresponsible and dangerous. I understand that a lot of this kind of work is time consuming and difficult, but if you tell me a chatbot helped plan and design a building, I’m not stepping foot inside that building.

Yeah, the first sentence has three separate examples of earlier behavior going back a while, so they’re not trying to say this is anything new. The headline could have been better, as always.

Donald Trump has once again evoked Nazi rhetoric.

Blinken has 0 credibility in my book.

Ah okay, it does look like it’s a common salute in Mexico. Still weird to me, but thanks for the links!

To all the folks saying we already knew about this, yes we mostly did from some high quality journalism, but the details were not actually confirmed. Senator Whitehouse’s new report is still really important. From another one of my comments on an earlier post:

Ehh it was reported on, but we didn’t know it for sure, nor did we have specifics. There’s a difference between good reporting in a credible newspaper and an investigation led by a Senator on the Judiciary Committee. I think we’re just used to relying on good journalism since there has been a distinct lack of judicial oversight in Congress. But reports like this are based on totally different access and legal mechanisms that the press isn’t privy to (on the record, at least).

Relevant bits:

Since Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Whitehouse and Senate Democrats have tried to find out just how thoroughly the FBI investigated the allegations. In numerous hearings and letters, they asked FBI Director Christopher Wray for details and documentation but got nothing back until Trump was out of office, according to the report.

and

“The Congressional report published today confirms what we long suspected,” said Ford’s attorneys in a statement. “The FBI supplemental investigation of then-nominee Brett Kavanaugh was, in fact, a sham effort directed by the Trump White House to silence brave victims and other witnesses who came forward and to hide the truth.”

Is the nazi salute Mexico’s equivalent of ‘raise your right hand’ to take the oath of office? That first picture is really throwing me.

This is literally the first time I’ve seen his name, and I follow politics arguably too closely. He’s properly delusional.

Great question, I’m curious about this too. There was a set of triplets in my high school class, and I’m curious what they’re up to these days. They were pretty awesome, got along with all the different cliques, and were super friendly to everyone. They were fiercely protective of each other and really close.

I mean, good. People should have every possible opportunity to vote. But it really says a lot about them, that they only give a shit when it might impact the GOP.

A little off-topic, but does anyone else feel like the way Axios writes their articles is condescending? It’s all bullet points and summaries, with very little substance. It comes across as patronizing to me. I get that they’re trying to make things as simple as possible, but I think they go way too far and end up disrespecting their readers’ intelligence.

Yeah I see what you mean. She does call out comments made by Lindsey Graham, John Fetterman, and Kamala Harris though, implying that she expected at least two of those people to be better. To be clear, I don’t think you’re the bad guy, I appreciate your perspective. But you’re right that tensions are very high…

Holy shit that’s wild. Just when I think I can’t be surprised by Donald anymore, boom! Woodward does his thing.

As talented as Woodward is, I really dislike that we only find out about these travesties years after the fact, when it’s all but too late to do anything about it. I understand that that’s how he is able to get access to these stories in the first place, but it feels really icky to me.

I think I get your point, but I’m not sure we read the same article. She did get pretty personal without naming names (we can’t expect anyone in her position to name names safely.)

Imagine feeling this every day of your life, it’s horrific:

…simply by paying my taxes, I am complicit in the slaughter and starvation of my own people.

And

…in 1967, my father had to flee again. He became a refugee, unable to ever return to live in the country where he was born. He has, however, taken me back to visit. I went back to his village when I had just turned six and had a brief taste of what a Palestinian childhood is like – by which I mean Israeli soldiers shot teargas at me and raided our village to burn the Palestinian flag.

Make sure you check out that Imgur link, it’s pictures of the journal she wrote when she was a kid visiting the West Bank. Doesn’t get much more personal than that.