I’m addition to the other stuff, protest movements often begin at schools, so trying to preemptively control that has benefits for a regime concerned about future protests and civil unrest.

And testing companies can reduce prices and take on many more customers if they don’t actually test anything.

“Ultra pasteurized” are just words on a carton unless there’s someone verifying it.

Trust me guys, this time the Republicans will finally be done with Trump!

“He opposed” as in subtly redirecting the conversation to the preferred narrative of the opposition. He didn’t even say that money shouldn’t be spent, just that he was focused on the battleground seats. Which is barely a bullet point in a daily political activity summary, but became a whole story with a clickbait headline because news is about clicks, not importance.

The title is not supported by the article at all. Here’s the entirety of its quote from Jeffries:

“Here’s the thing,” Jeffries told Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m gonna really focus on trying to defeat Republican incumbents so we can take back control of the House of Representatives and begin the process of ending this national nightmare that’s being visited upon us by far-right extremism.”

It’s at best dodging the question. I assume Jeffries will support his incumbents and isn’t a friend to progressives in general, but this statement isn’t making clear anything.

Holy crap is that transcript insane. The moment centrists are on the downswing Carville wants to split the vote. Also some nonsense about all employees having “a fiduciary duty to your employer”.

And all this with disgraced anchor Chris Cuomo egging him on then at the last moment remembering he was supposed to pretend he was neutral.

Yeah, of you were in there and didn’t have people on the outside who knew your status and could initiate proceedings on your behalf, how would you ever get out? You don’t get phone calls or lawyers or court dates.

Ask Ilhan Omar. She’s just a little representative and they wanted her gone. AIPAC can be a big fish in a small pond against a small number of targeted representatives who are already on shaky ground. They don’t mean shit at the presidential level.

What could possibly go wrong with pairing the extremely old Biden with the even older Bernie in 2020?

By the time a VP is being chosen, she wouldn’t be “a rep”, she’d be the Democratic nominee for president a.k.a. the most important Democratic politician in the country.

Yeah, they all suck. Ed Case is a world class piece of shit as he’s representing urban Honolulu, in a SOLIDLY blue district.

They’re all fantastically rich and frankly most don’t have many years left to spend it. They can fucking pay for security rather than disappear during the greatest political crisis in 50 years.

Even the corporate Democrats don’t support this. It’s not good for the slow and steady accumulation of wealth without risk of discord. Their problem is that they’re the champions of the status quo. And when your political goal is for nothing to change, your entire political philosophy and toolbox is based around finding reasons not to do anything.

So now, even when the status quo is being obliterated and it should be the one time these people have value, their instincts are to just go through the same motions they always do, making ineffectual gestures, making excuses for inaction, and avoiding confrontation with their colleagues so they can all find a way that their people (not their political sides, their respective wealthy peers) can profit together.

You blocked them and now you’re using the fact that you don’t see similar posts from the people you say you’ve blocked to justify that your blocks were correct?

Would you consider that result to be an administration that has deferred to the rule of law? Would that make you feel safer?

Unless it is demonstrated that our legal system still has the power to correct wrongs being done by the administration it doesn’t much matter. “You might be unlawfully abducted and lost before the judiciary can return you” is not a message that resolves this as a demonstration of where the regime’s limits are. They want to strike fear, and “a judge said to bring them back but that didn’t happen” does that just fine.

The market was moving even before then. Someone knew through a channel other than Trump’s public statements.

And it started at 42% before the genocide. So two years of genocide convinced 11% of people that the apartheid state was bad, actually.

The Fediverse is a specific thing. And even if it were just referring to any federated social network, it’s very questionable whether Bluesky really can have independent instances.

Because this is not c/maybefederatedsocialnetworks, it’s c/fediverse, which is a specific thing.