the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum
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@YaleLawSch and @UTAustin, but still pretty dumb. Lawyer.
HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.
NEW: 2 people in Michigan have just died from Cyclosporiasis — the first deaths reported from the outbreak sweeping the nation. This after Taylor Farms gave *$2 million* to Trump & Republicans as they postponed a rule that could've limited the spread of outbreaks like the ongoing epidemic.
‘Explosive Diarrhea’: Company Tied to Outbreak Donated to Trump as He Delayed Food Safety Rule
Taylor Farms contributed $2 million to Trump and Republicans as they postponed a rule to help the government limit the spread of foodborne illnesses.
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Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Absolutely true, and also the case with all the lies Republicans tell. They don’t believe what they’re saying; they don’t expect you to believe it. Republicans have only one true view, which is “fuck you, we‘re in charge.” That’s what they’re really saying when they tell obvious lies.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d agoGenuinely everyone knows that "all domestic abusers are in jail and their partners never try and make nice with them" is false. On some level I gotta think the point of this is to revel in the power, to be seen to get away with it.
Every—and I mean EVERY—response to Wilson I’ve seen engages with an argument she’s not making (and in fact explicitly disavows)! Nobody who has actually read her piece could possibly come away believing in good faith that her point is “adaptations are bad if they depart from the source material.”
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoDying. It continues. SUSAN ORLEAN
running a marathon is very hard. That’s why I’ll be driving my Subaru Outback. This is how your pro-ai argument sounds
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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as a straight dude I agree too. it's evidence of a weak will and/or poor attachment to good values, and we've all got LGBT friends or family. more practically I've seen way too many people go batshit fucking crazy down the transphobia waterslide
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d agoSquishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
It’s a problem that people on this platform can ask good faith questions and engender good discussions and then get wrecked by somebody “interpreting” them in the worst light possible and springboarding in the next post into a fundraising request.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Man this is awful. This was a sincere question. I was happy with the discussion that came out of it. But I wake up this morning to nonstop abuse, because one of Bluesky’s cult-like figures has (pretty unfairly) attacked me as not understanding people need food. This isn’t good or sustainable!
I’ve said before that it’s probably inevitable the left will blow a race at some point but most of the centrist dooming about so-called unelectable candidates fundamentally comes from a refusal to believe that previously fringe positions are now majority positions.
This same dynamic props up Fed Soc on law-school campuses btw. They get to feel like persecuted minorities because we don’t invite them to our parties, but in three years they’ll be clerking for Alito or Thomas writing the most abominable shit imaginable into law
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.Great point Matthew
THE CACHALOTIAD, my new retelling of the epic of Moby-Dick from the perspective of the whale
throwback to the time I went to the Tate Modern and the words “Piet Mondrian’s ‘loss’” washed over me like a vision of God in all Their glory
I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone weave together the threads of corruption, attack on the rule of law, and making life worse for Americans like Ossoff does. He proves you don’t have to choose! They’re all related!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2w agoIn my historical methods training, I was always taught “we start with a historical question.” I would never use “I’m testing a hypothesis” in my work. I might have a working theory or a working hypothesis, but I’m certainly never *testing* it. That’s ripe for cherry-picked, law office history.
In retrospect the right wingers should have latched onto it and declared cultural victory for Statue Guys, but their racism was simply too strong.
Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · 2w agocritics love the odyssey, audiences love the odyssey, it's clearly gonna at least be nominated for a ton of awards and probably win a fair amount too, and it's making boatloads of cash. tough sledding out there for the haters
Between a formerly anti-choice but now pro-choice guy and a purportedly pro-choice woman who in practice cemented the SCOTUS majority to overturn Roe, this doesn’t seem like a much of a challenge for voters who care about that issue at all
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of the weaknesses Troy Jackson will have to battle in the Maine Senate race? His anti-abortion record. How much of an issue it is remains to be seen. “People evolve,” Nora Walsh-DeVries, vice president of political and legislative affairs at Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told me 👀
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
The difference between the standard liberal Dem suggestion of “hey you idiots, get organized if you want good things” and Mamdani’s “here, let me help you to organize to get good things” cannot be understated.
*Shitting my guts out for the 40th time in a day* The free market will fix this