Most of the changes aren’t law so they don’t need approval from anyone else to be repealed. Whether or not that means they’ll actually do that is the question, but if they don’t the only villain is the president.

I think it should actually be moved to Wednesday if made a holiday. It should be pushed as far as possible from being an opportunity for a long weekend where people choose leisure over civic participation.

He was only firing toward the man who was murdered. Which is also apparently not a crime (if the target is Palestinian). Only murders that are captured from beginning to end on camera can be prosecuted. Maybe. If the Palestinian victim is famous and the story doesn’t go away.

They’ve been systematically deconstructing all the excuses used by corporate Democrats to justify why they need to keep the system moving even though they totally oppose [insert current controversial spending]. All that stuff wasn’t an accident. It was designed that way and the regime just threw it away because they’re too dumb to recognize that it was helping them.

TSA is a worthless self-inflicted wound to the country. If I could fly on “I’ll Take My Chances” Air, I absolutely would just to reclaim my time from the security theater.

Few people here are talking about radical reforms that would change the existing power dynamics and politicians are even less ambitious. Centrists are continually looking for off-ramps so that we don’t “go too far” (e.g., don’t abolish ICE, reform the courts, ban money from politics, reestablish the balance of powers). Even with a blue wave and a reformist president, expect there to be enough of those sorts to bog down any momentum for change and enough voters eager to reconcile and return to business as usual that nothing changes.

Other countries should be planning to insulate themselves from us, because we’re not going to become safe to trust. We may go back to Obama levels of foreign engagement and the slow grind of neoliberal economic policy, but we’re going to be teetering on the edge of another Trump for decades at least. His 40% of supporters are fanatical and have no exposure to outside viewpoints that would deprogram them, and the judges he’s put in place will allow insanity to stay mainstream.

YouTube being broadcast in Israel is not an inherent moral good to be balanced against censorship. And honestly Israel’s threats are almost certainly bullshit. Israel is culturally integrated with the West and YouTube is a vital platform for their businesses and propaganda efforts. They wouldn’t “just block YouTube”.

IIRC, he’s starting negotiations in the middle and is eager to give up even more.

I’m confused by this whole story. How were the Hostage Response Team or even Mexican police involved if he was surrendering himself at the US embassy? I’m also confused by his lawyer’s account about being surprised to be handcuffed. How did he think this was going to work?

It had union buy in to organize the union members. A strong core to let people know it was serious and they wouldn’t be alone. But that didn’t manage the other people who joined.

I do agree that this is less organized and without enough prep time. The same thing needs to happen with national unions providing the core to make it real, then the more exposed workers can get the confidence to act. You don’t need unions from top to bottom though.

A general strike happened in Minneapolis without that level of organization.

This is the same guy who said Mamdani and AOC should leave the party, blamed trans people for Harris’s loss, and who endorsed Cuomo rather than the Democratic nominee in the NYC mayoral election. I’m sure he’s learned his lesson and will do better the next time.

It is really weird how her profile was raised in the 2020 presidential primaries, because you’re right, she’s really unimpressive. Some other moderates are really charismatic or have really impressive personal stories, but she’s just kind of a generic mediocre politician with nothing particularly interesting to say.

I’ve emailed Brian Schatz (who is usually considered kind of weakly progressive but folded during the earlier shutdown) twice before the shooting and requested a response. I’ve received nothing back and I’m really fucking worried he’s going to fold again.

You’d think funding the gestapo right after a public murder would be a toxic vote, but these motherfuckers always seem to weasel their way into doing absolutely nothing.

That scene hit so hard when I first saw it and it’s only gotten worse since then.

Eh, until one of these judges actually imposes sanctions I’m not impressed by their boldness.

Honestly the judiciary should have someone on standby to approve these requests to bar ICE from whisking detainees away from justice. 2.5 hours is a pretty good turnaround for justice, but frankly insufficient until ICE stops manipulating the justice system.

He could be fired as leader though. Make that a campaign issue for any Senate race.

And because Jeffries gave him all his appointments back after Trump pardoned him for corruption.

Those owns are fun and good, but they’re not Newsome. His Twitter lady can just go work for a good candidate. He himself is worthless.

Biden didn’t win because he ran a great campaign, though he did at least give some lip service in an attempt to bring the progressives in after the primary, he won because Trump was currently in office and his chaos and damage was undeniable and at the top of people’s minds.

Instead of trying to parse out which of three centrist candidates was more centrist (not as obvious as you claim), there’s actually a simple pattern. Every one of those elections was won by the “change” candidate. As people get more and more ground down by the impacts of decades of neoliberalism draining wealth from the middle class, the non ideological segment of the electorate just keeps asking for “different from now”.