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Ranamar
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But that's the thing: As far as parts that matter go, the administrative team we're electing is far more important than the president himself.
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When did I go from grudgingly creating a Twitter account so I could upload some pictures to actively making a Bluesky account? I almost certainly won't follow you back. (he/him)
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Ranamar
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But that's the thing: As far as parts that matter go, the administrative team we're electing is far more important than the president himself.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Reagan really losing it actually improved his Presidency since it let Nancy pull off a palace coup to depose arch-conservative and Iran Contra participant Don Regan from the Chief of Staff role and replaced him with (relative) moderate Howard Baker
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Ranamar
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TBH, I'm genuinely a little shocked, because this is the first time I've actually seen the news. (and it's good to hear!) My impression was that, passenger rail in the US is historically pretty consistently underwater in its budgets.
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Courtney Milan
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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!
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Ned Resnikoff
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I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.
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Ranamar
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I always enjoy these 4th of July posts, because while he's almost certainly a category or two to the right of me politically, (as enumerated in the first footnote, which might be a new record for length) they reliably celebrate the important points which we agree on.
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Django Wexler
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We first said this during the GWB era, and it remains true: "Republicans are terrified of the Democrats' hidden agenda. Democrats are terrified of the Republicans STATED agenda."
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Ranamar
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France having a series of single heirs long enough to consolidate into an early modern kingdom is sometimes referred to as a "miracle". (but in the secular sense, not the Catholic sense, I assume)
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Jim Zub
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Ranamar
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I grew up wanting to be a split-ticket swing voter. It somehow felt more virtuous or something because I thought it implied having considered opinions. Then I discovered that the research was a lot of work, *and* I never actually wanted to split my ballot with any real candidates.
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Ranamar
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We don't even make the electors show up in the Capitol. They vote by mail!
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Victory .aka Agent 99 🤭
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Ranamar
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IIRC, also, some people in the German government thought Britain wouldn't *actually* honor its treaty obligations to defend Belgium.
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Micah
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this has always been one of the most terrifying aspects of climate change to me what happens, politically, when climate refugees number in the hundreds of millions? nothing good, that’s for sure
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Radley Balko
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Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.
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Moira Donegan
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Ranamar
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By the time I was reading it, it said, "allegedly left-leaning tech companies". As you probably know as well as I do, conservative speech gets removed more often simply because so much MORE of it runs afoul of moderation requirements against things like racism or violent threats than with leftists.
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Popehat
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