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We Need To Talk About Kevin

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We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 19h ago

Voters seeing through these deliberately obfuscatory and complicated bad faith ballot measures from Republicans and destroying them gives me a measure of hope

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19h ago

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · yesterday

We're gonna need a whole lot of buses to run over all those vulnerable groups and people.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · yesterday

From Tom Edsall’s column. I wish he had specified what he means by “wedge-issue attacks.” I’m also not sure what it means to say that Dems have been “vulnerable” to these things for 60 years. Presumably, he is suggesting that backlash politics has, on balance, harmed the Democrats.

In reality, the Democratic Party has been vulnerable since the 1960s to wedge-issue attacks on such subjects as civil rights, women’s rights, affirmative action, welfare spending, crime, gun control, gay marriage and transgender rights.
Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 2d ago

—the cul-de-sac we have managed to drive this discourse into, where higher education is wholly (or even primarily) about economic benefits that accrue to the individual student, would be unrecognizable to the architects of the public university system in any state, or indeed anywhere in the world.

We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trading the self-described cornerstone of his own multi-year rebuild project just as the Orioles were efforting their way into the playoffs on sheer grit (and destroying any Charm City spirit left for this team in the process) might be the most Mike Elias thing Mike Elias has ever done.

We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 2d ago

Woke up out of a dead sleep at 3 AM the other morning in a panic because I had a dream where I was asked the name of Garfield's owner and I couldn't think of it. I muttered to myself with a sigh of relief, "Jon Arbuckle," and went back to sleep.

We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 3d ago

UPDATE: Some good ways to donate and help people trying to make it through in Spokane: www.khq.com/fires/how-to...

How to help those affected by the Spokane Area Fires

SPOKANE, Wash. - Three fires that sparked in Spokane County on Saturday afternoon—the Old Trails, Fairview, and Autumn Lane fires—are now being handled as one incident referred to as the

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We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is tough to see for a cool, weird town I love. Thinking of you, Spokane.