luckily for centrists who think the left is obsessed with aipac, we’re not done yet ✌🏽
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ok go off bret stephens?? “We become better writers by the constant effort that mundane writing demands. We become better thinkers by investing into that writing a degree of attention we’d never give it if we relinquished the task to A.I.”
Woodrow Hartzog@hartzog.bsky.social · 14h ago"The link between broad-based literacy and the rise of democracy is well known:…What happens when the process goes into reverse? When people lack the patience to absorb arguments…[or] the ability to contradict those arguments because they’ve never honed..the most essential skill for clear thinking?"
Mass funeral held for 112 victims buried under rubble of Gaza flats for nearly three years
Mass funeral held for 112 victims buried under rubble of Gaza flats for nearly three years
A mass funeral has been held in Gaza for more than 100 people finally recovered from the site of an Israeli attack on an apartment block.
news.sky.com
he ran against the full force of the zionist establishment and won. unbelievable victory
LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.
Politico@politico.com · 19h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
NEW: Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, clinching the nomination in a close race over Rep. Haley Stevens.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
nbcnews.to
Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.
Congratulations to @wewill2026.bsky.social for securing the Democratic nomination in #MI07! Standing against genocide is good policy and good politics!
"The labor movement should be contesting the idea that the imposition of AI is inevitable... What makes this so disturbing is that it raises fully the problem of union democracy... these decisions were made without informed debate with union members." truthout.org/articles/the...
The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How to Deal With AI
Some union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.
truthout.org
This WSJ editorial unwittingly makes my point about the danger of Bernie's plan to turn all Americans into AI investors: "give public workers a direct stake in the success of AI and other companies. Maybe then government unions wouldn’t be as hostile to private business." www.wsj.com/opinion/publ...
An AI-Funded Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Dangerous
Some constructive thoughts on Bernie's proposal.
hamiltonnolan.com
It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
This is especially true on the left or left liberal end where a lot of people have fried their own brains on a litany of bigotries in order to justify being for the idea of the border regime, something that is younger than modern liberalism or republicanism and arguably younger than Marxism.
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
Here's a plan for housing as a human right: ☑️ National rent control ☑️ Universal rent and energy bill assistance ☑️ National disaster insurance ☑️ Social housing development Proud to put this forward with @aldasky.bsky.social @markpaulecon.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social
Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America
Game Changers presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.
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"Each refusal was a fortification of the self against the forces of destruction." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ismail-ibr... @palfest.bsky.social
The Difficulty of Nothing
“Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.”
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"Every major policy and institutional design choice should be evaluated not just on what it delivers, but on whose power it builds and whose power it diminishes."
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoVery excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Exactly. The idea that you're not allowed to talk about the most money spent in a single congressional primary by a single organization in history, which breaks the previous record held by the same organization, just because some people cannot help themselves but be conspiratorial, is absurd.
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5d agoI agree that the role of AIPAC in US politics is often overstated, in the same way that the NRA serves as a synecdoche for a broad-based collection of interests, but the thing about spending $30 million on an election is that people are going to assume you have some kind of stake in winning it.
With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today
“If gender turns out to be an arbitrary, transcendable division, and not a permanent and natural one, then what remains of how we order and rank the human race?”
Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile Head Nod
ALT: Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile Head Nod
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If you've always wanted to ask a question about the economy to @mikemadowitz.bsky.social of @rooseveltforward.org , today's your lucky day: www.firesidestacks.com/p/got-any-bu...
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NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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A new Emerson College Polling/WLNS/WOODTV survey of the Michigan Democratic Primary for US Senate finds Abdul El-Sayed leading Rep. Haley Stevens, 54% to 39%. emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-202...
Michigan 2026 Poll: Abdul El-Sayed Leads Haley Stevens for Democratic US Senate Nomination - Emerson Polling
John James Leads Perry Johnson in GOP Governor Primary A new Emerson College Polling/WLNS/WOODTV survey…Full Release & Results
emersoncollegepolling.com
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
dropsitenews.com
