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  1. Mamdani is both Asian and was literally born in Uganda. Checking two accurate boxes on a college application isn’t doing anything wrong and it’s not fucking newsworthy. The fact that the Times is taking assignments from Nazis and giving the Nazis anonymity should be a much bigger story.
  2. Jamelle Bouie posted on Blue Sky that he thought a reporter should reveal when their source is a Nazi and was made to delete it by the Times brass.
  3. Oh no, SCOTUS won’t let Obama run.
  4. Maybe he can't help himself, but he doesn't need the army now that ICE has more funding than any military outside of us and China. They're his own private army.
  5. The absolute minimum we must do if we manage to retake power and want to fix anything is arrest and send Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Scalia, Gorsuch, and Thomas to fucking CECOT or South Sudan while they await trial.
  6. I do feel like we've avoided the absolute worst case scenario, which would've been all the ICE shit being popular enough for long enough that they were able to go full nazi without really facing much organized resistance. I know it doesn't seem like it, but there has been at least some degree of effective organized resistance (though mostly not from Democratic officials, which would be fucking nice to have) and we've had some small wins here and there. And ICE's kidnappings are incredibly unpopular. But now, what is probably realistically our best chance basically looks like this: 1. Super-ICE keeps doing the shit ICE has been doing and turning more and more people against them. Thousands die in their concentration camps while Trump hires millions out as slave labor. 2. Dems take the House (and Senate, maybe) in 2026 and stop the bleeding, but probably won't be able to actually substantially reduce ICE's funding or restrain their criminality in any substantive way. 3. Trump runs again (and gets the GOP's nomination) and SCOTUS doesn't object. 4. This pisses off enough people that a Dem wins like 55/45 in 2028 and we have to hope the military's leadership acknowledges the Dem as the new President. At the end of all of this, we've still got to deal with whatever the fuck ICE has become by 2028, which will likely be an insurrectionary military force that we'll need the army to put down. Then we're going to have to actually prosecute tens of thousands of fascists to the fullest fucking extent of the law, not some piddly one year or time served bullshit, to ensure that they're too scared to come out of their mom's basements for another 100 years.
  7. Schumer shouldn’t have caved on the continuing resolution earlier this year. Jeffries isn’t good enough at public messaging and really should’ve known better from the jump that the right approach was full obstruction and zero bipartisanship, but he’s not nearly as shitty as Schumer.
  8. That's fair. Personally I want to see Gillibrand and others like her loaded up into a Space X rocket, both for being bigots and just for their pure stupidity.
  9. I think Fantana is somewhat conflating New York Democrats with “liberals.” Yeah, a lot of liberals have some degree of anti-Muslim bias just because for most it’s still an “other” that they don’t have much experience with, but there’s nothing that your ordinary liberal loves more than to think they’re multicultural and tolerant so that limits it quite a bit. But a lot of New York Dems aren’t even liberal, they’re conservatives who happen to be Dems because in New York that’s the only real game in town. That leads to some confusion with New York liberal politicians as well who cater for those conservatives’ votes (I’m thinking Gillibrand here), but the real anti Muslim shit in New York isn’t coming from liberals.
  10. I was just joking about the time Ana did a “maybe Trump will pass Medicare for all!”
  11. When did Ana hack Stassney’s account?
  12. Didn't the senate make it worse in many respects?
  13. I'd honestly rather see Beto run again, and I don't really want to see that at all.
  14. Oh good, now nobody will hear from him until two weeks before Election Day again.
  15. I think that analysis is backward, though. When it was mostly meathead and/or incel shit it wasn't serious. It was the buy in and promotion from the mainstream media that gave the backlash legitimacy in the eyes of much of the public. There's a reason that conservative activists are always trying to get the New York Times to cover issues, and not just to cover them but to frame their coverage in a particular way. Steve Bannon, Chris Rufo, etc. understand the legitimizing impact that has for their propaganda well beyond the number of people who actually read the Times. For this, the elite media circles didn't even need to be pushed, they sprinted to endorse the backlash.
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