Gonna keep saying this & will die on this hill: Bad news without any guidance on what to do about it [at least some ideas] demobilizes and often encourages inaction. We on the Left(s) have to avoid cynicism which is deeply corrosive and also counterrevolutionary.
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I don't plan to watch tonight's debate, bc I'm not THAT self-loathing, even tho I'm sure crime and punishment will come up.
So figured it couldn't hurt to toss up a short thread to put whatever claims they are likely to make in context.
tl;dr: neither did/does/will do much to cause OR stop crime.
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Is it me or is the framing at the end of the press release kind of “we’re befuddled by what’s wrong with these rural Black & Hispanic voters” that they haven’t changed voting habits. Perhaps easier to say this than the obvious discussion of rural white voters going all out racial caste politics
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The culture of enthusiastically thanking the bus driver as you exit is alive and well in Seattle
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I feel the same way about 35W and 94 in the Twin Cities but there’s something viscerally shocking about the monstrosity of I-5
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Every time I’m in Seattle I am immediately struck by the utter catastrophe that is I-5. It’s like they put together a commission tasked with how to best rip the heart out of the city and this is the pretty decent solution they came up with.
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King of the tuk tuk sound
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Roy Donk.
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If you’re a Jew and want to support Dr. Raz Segal’s hire as director of the U’s Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, shoot me a DM, I can wire you up with a sample letter. The Jewish Community Relations Council is trying speak for all of us in opposing Dr. Segal & it’s time to show our diversity
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I recall walking into the room in the museum with that painting and just going What Is This?
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Painting in the Musee D’Orsay by Manet I think of the floor scrapers has been stuck in my mind since I saw it once c.2000
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Moonlight (movie). The swim lesson/baptism scene. Basically one of the greatest moments in film history. The end scene when he’s being cradled by his friend also has really stuck with me also.
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These people are my heroes
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Late to pick up a rental car bc I was stuck behind a car crash; in car, Google map rerouting me bc I’m stuck behind another car crash.
It’s called Freedom and it’s why trains should be illegal.
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Inflatable IUD outside of Union Station today to support our right to access contraception courtesy of AmericansforContraception. org. ❤️❤️
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The whole case just seems like amateur hour. Just blatant fraud, meticulously documented, with the bare minimum of effort to hide it. Again and again and again.
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There Are Cathedrals Everywhere For Those With The Eyes To See
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If anyone is interested, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Shaman is about a reluctant shaman “apprentice” who, in the fictional history of the novel, drew the series of horse heads. Like all KSR novels it’s beautiful and deeply humanistic.
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Me too. Saw on one 50th/Vernon today and it looked like a squashed dishwasher. My son and I just laughed and laughed
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Y’all will talk about anything and everything but the companies and billionaires actually responsible for scorching the planet one board meeting at a time.
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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if already wasn’t apparent from his behavior on the court, Alito is straightforwardly an insurrectionist and should not be there. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/u...
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“Spend your summer here!”
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I teach them to say “Hello. I am looking for the magic” and they’ll be immediately helped.
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“I spend a lot of time worrying about my masculinity and I am an authoritarian bootlick”
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Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:
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SSI limits assets to $2k, a limit not changed in 40 years. HR 5408 would raise it to $10k ($20k for married couples). This bill needs more cosponsors!
My MOC (Rep Don Beyer, D-VA) said they're only adding D cosponsors in tandem with new R cosponsors.
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
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Friend of mine made this — about every single Epic update:
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Murderbot is such a delight to read
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How could racial attitudes possibly explain why Bill Clinton did better in 1992 among southern whites than the Barack Obama's vice president did in 2020? This is not a hard question.
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The left, which has no power, needs to make space for fascists and nazis to speak freely or else the right might, for the first time ever, because of the left mind you, curtail left speech.
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Every day the left constantly points out instances of hypocrisy from the right and it does not matter. It does nothing because they do not care what we think of them they care about achieving their political goals and firing up their base. www.welcometohellworld.com/they-will-ne...
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Asshole
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The honest answer would be ibuprofen
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Editorial boards: We all have the right to free speech but some should be arrested for their speech while others can't even be criticized
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Finally recorded my trans-rights magnum opus for the main feed. Tell your Atlantic-pilled friends and relatives!
www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/1503...
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one thing i have noticed in my IRL conversations about the war is that it really has not penetrated broader american consciousness that the main obstacle to an end to the fighting is netanyahu
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Edward Tufte said this was the best summation of the Drake-Kendrick feud.
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oh look they found the outside agitators putting students at risk
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