One thing I've come to understand from posts like this is just how good the new pedagogy for math is. I am quite good at doing computation in my head and it's basically all things like this. Same with how multiplication is taught.
We should remove police from traffic enforcement. The routine traffic stop is not the only problem but it is a real and big one justifying a large amount of unnecessary citizen police contact which obviously has deadly consequences all too often.
Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"
Ron DeSantis clearly just doesn't understand Blue America. Build enough housing to actually let millions of immigrants and asylum seekers affordably live in your city? lol no. Be allowed to performatively accept 50 migrants into your community? Absolutely!
VP: You may not be a union member, but thank unions for the five-day workweek or the 8 hour work day. Thank unions for sick leave and paid family leave and vacation time… When unions are strong, America is strong
I for one will always remember Melissa yelling at me and others for not appropriately briefings/staffing the Governor for a fundraiser, a job it was illegal to make me do.
A special fuck you to every Republican state legislator in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan who didn’t allow early processing of mail ballots putting us in this mess to help Donald Trump sow doubt about an election he still appears to be losing.
NFL coaches work like 90 hour weeks, grind tape and game plan, ruin their families, to find marginal edges and then just waste 10% of win probability for no reason every week.
I do not believe that most of the electeds who spoke today saying that Biden should stay in the race think he should stay in the race. They're lying and hoping something will bail them out rather than coordinating and doing something and it's fucking depressing.
America if we had as much willingness (lack of obstacles/NEPA/etc) to build electric lines, clean energy, mass transit, and housing as we do to rebuild highways that have collapsed.
I swear if Google was like "hey we're starting Google Plus again but it's just 250 character text posts and actually Theophite is going to run it and we're calling it Schmidter in honor of our former CEO" they might pull it off.
This tweet does the rounds every time there is a shooting and I fucking hate it so much. I hate the faux truth telling cynicism. And I hate it because it's inaccurate.
SCOTUS has 6 conservatives. 2 are explicitly fash (Alito/Thomas), 1 is a total textualist weirdo (Gorsuch), 1 is a dyed in the wool Catholic Con (Barrett) and 2 are committed Republican operatives who are strategic moderates (Kav/Roberts).
Third (and *last*) ruling is Moore v. Harper.
For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts reaches the merits and *rejects* the "independent state legislature" theory:
Scoop w/
@HansNichols
The DNC is quietly steaming ahead with plans to technically nominate Biden weeks before the party's convention
Current plan: train state party chairs next week on electronic voting
voting likely to open on Jul 29 and end by Aug. 5
(The point here is that the values espoused by liberal Americans in big cities are good and they should live up to them by greatly expanding their housing supply rather than making it so expensive immigrants and poorer Americans move to Texas and Florida)
The average person does not feel macroeconomic improvements in the GDP or CPI right away. Folks are reeling from years of inflation and corporate greed which have ravaged livelihoods across our country. As Democrats, we must do more for people, not tell them to settle for less.
My daughter exists because of IVF and she is the joy of my life. I cannot imagine the heartbreak for parents in Alabama due to Republican judges. This is Donald Trump's America in 2025 if he wins.
My theory here is that we sent checks to people at the bottom of the income spectrum and that life satisfaction at the bottom of the income spectrum went up a lot and that we should redistribute money more.
My theory here is COVID taught people how much they value everyday activities that they had to give up during the worst phases of the pandemic, and it will probably be harder to get people to give those up in the future if new waves/future pandemics hit.
this piece says that congestion pricing is the source of matching funds for the Feds commitment of $3.5 billion for the 2nd ave subway.
"It would be illegal for the FTA to provide these funds under a grant until the $4.3 billion local share is real."
Dems gained only one swing House seat (so far). So Dem challengers who were progressives lost; Dem challengers who were centrists lost; and everyone in between lost.
And the 6 seats Dems lost (so far) were mostly reddest Dem-held seats in the country, the obvious hanging fruit.
Many Democrats in 2003 were against needlessly invading a country and now support a country that has been needlessly invaded. How curious. Really makes you think.
The anti-war movement of 2003 was quite large and there was a diversity of thought among Democrats then. Compare that environment to the current one around Ukraine, where large numbers of Americans question indefinite military aid but 99% of Democrats support it.
Republicans are upset that there is no Democrat on their worst day worse than the best Republican on their best day and that the voters of Pennsylvania basically agreed.
Personally wouldn’t seek emergency relief. Would just say to ignore this ruling. It’s insane and we cannot allow a district court judge in Texas to dictate national policy. Judicial supremacy run amok.
Huge but not surprising: Judge Kacsmaryk has issued his ruling purporting to block the FDA’s approval of Mifepristone.
*But,* he has given the federal government seven days to seek emergency relief—so nothing is going to happen to Mifepristone overnight (or, potentially, ever).
It's odd to me that people don't know about Paxlovid. I'm just going to keep tweeting about it because posting is praxis. In the trials, there were zero deaths in people who treated with Paxlovid w/i 5 days of positive test. A 90% reduction in hospitalization.
#KYGov
: The Andy Beshear campaign is up on TV with this spot --
Hadley to camera:
"This is to you, Daniel Cameron. To tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable"
I will stop tweeting and do my job now but Hochul's "cost of living" argument for delaying things is insulting. She wants to raise the payroll tax for City dwellers who work in the City. That's an increase in the cost of living!
So Tesla has diverted a bunch of its employees to Twitter and also Tesla's stock is down a lot beyond the market since Musk took over Twitter and why isn't there a lawsuit by Tesla shareholders alleging Musk is benefitting Twitter/himself at the expense of shareholders?
Perhaps a group of New York Republicans in tough seats will have to break away and caucus with Democrats in a weird power sharing agreement. The Independent Republican Caucus.
Freedom Caucus board member Bob Good to
@Axios
after HFC call: "Kevin McCarthy has not done anything to earn my vote."
"I believe there’s a number of members who feel as I do and who will support a challenge," he says.
"I don’t think he has the votes."
“First lady Jill Biden and the president’s son Hunter Biden are dead-set on the campaign going forward. Biden’s sister, Valerie, is also supportive but has expressed more worry about the toll it could take on her brother’s health and legacy”
Moving for Raya and setting a price but moving on to another high quality but cheaper target when Brentford won't budge is the best process I've seen from Spurs in a long time.
New York's political class are pathetic. Congestion pricing is good and important and all evidence suggests its popularity increases after implementation. Absolutely no leadership at the State or City level.
Andrew Cuomo: the former Federal prosecutor who investigated my sexual harassment is biased because he is friends with the former Federal prosecutor who investigated me for corruption when I shut down an ethics commission I created because it got too close to me.
If Adams had been on the news every day talking about how his tough on crime policy showed Dems were bringing down murder rates don't we think that would have helped?
It is also popular. We have departments of health that enforce health violations. Treat driving safety like a public health problem to be addressed by people who care about public health.
Pundit's fallacy time: Hochul did worse than Gretchen Whitmer. She now has 4 years to actually fix the housing supply problem in NY. Go back and do the plan Kathryn Garcia put in the budget before you got scared of Tom Suozzi.
Dems won the House vote by 8.6% in 2018 ... this Pew validated voter suggests that Biden won 2018 voters by ... 8.7%
Trouble was that 2020 voters who didn't vote in 2018 were 32% of the electorate and they were Trump +2
People are really underestimating is how many congressional maps might get redrawn in 2023 if the Supreme Court rules that the Independent State Legislature Doctrine precludes non-legislative actors from drawing congressional maps. An insane and totally plausible outcome.
In the end, Nevada which is D+3 in voter registration statewide will have turnout that was R+1. CCM won over a lot of independents and it wasn’t turnout (ahem Simon Rosenberg)
Emerson Royal is leading the Premier League in tackles + interceptions per 90 among players with more than 5 90s. At all positions. Know he got beat for the goal yesterday but he's been so good.
I think it would be cool, a proud Democrat who has worked for many elected Democrats and wants to the party to succeed, if at the very least the head of the DNC wouldn't just lie to our faces.
Nate, in all due respect, I really don’t care what you do.
The bottomline is this … we WILL meet the August 7th deadline and our nominee WILL be on the ballot in Ohio this November. So you and your “experts” can discuss that as much as you please.
I’m done with this back
Some people won't believe this, but collectively yelling about the Governor being stupid on Twitter is one of the most effective forms of advocacy you can do in New York.
At what point does the Democratic Party and the progressive ecosystem more broadly have a serious conversation about ActBlue allowing scam PACs on their platform?
This is correct because the US is getting better at soccer and Texas is turning purple and the speed is relatively similar. Honestly 2026 might be a good year for both theories.
Do they look uglier? I think they're beautiful. Anyway, Democrats don't have a "tendency" to cluster in hyper-blue cities, Democrats have a "tendency" to be Black and were clustered by public policy into cities.
Why do Dem gerrymanders like IL/MD often look uglier on a map than GOP gerrymanders that are equally (or more) brutal/effective?
Because Dems’ tendency to cluster in hyper-blue cities makes them easier/more efficient to pack.
Not sure how important the clip of Jarred calling Cipollone's threats to resign "whining" is but my god it just drives home what an absolute piece of shit the guy is.
The correct analogy for voting is brushing your teeth: a useful act of harm reduction that doesn’t (or at least shouldn’t!) take that much time in the grand scheme of things. Don’t fight with people about whether they’ll brush their teeth next year.
The people I'm most mad at on the debt ceiling are the Democratic leadership from 2019 to 2020 not just getting rid of the whole concept when lifting it for Trump. So dumb!
Harris is going to get called a DEI candidate by GOP who are racist and also want to get in fights about whether things are racist. I really hope that she responds with a cheesy line like “the only DEI candidate in this race is Trump. Deranged, erratic, and immoral”
Since I am getting a number of stupid replies on this: the tweet is bad not because things have gotten better, the tweet is bad because it is wrong that people stopped trying to do something. More people have started to try to do something about a massive social problem.
In a 218-217 world - or a 219-216 or 220-215 world for that matter - there will be no shortage of what if’s.
For me, the most immediate is the failure to create additional Black congressional districts in AL, LA & GA despite court orders holding that the VRA required just that.
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize that not only is Kathy Hochul planning on gutting congestion pricing in order to raise more revenue she's going to increase taxes on businesses in the City - like mine! - to make up for the revenue shortfall this would create.
The level of political malpractice here just astounds me:
-A congestion pricing delay outrages advocates while failing to please detractors
-The nakedly political reason for the delay makes it easy to attack Democrats from both sides of the issue
-Hochul's alternative revenue
The Adams admin is run by like 8 people very close to the Mayor. There is no delegation to agency heads. So people are leaving. It's a terrible way to run a City made worse by the competence and ideology of the Mayor and those 8 people.
The other thing about the Klain/538 thing is that whatever the number says it's a bit like saying "well the ESPN live win probability model shows the Nuggets winning 50% of the time based on the score and the amount of time left" as Nikola Jokic is being carried off the court.
It’s funny that everyone seems to acknowledge that rents go down when demand goes down but nobody wants to admit that means rents go down when supply goes up
Yes why bother being a liberal justice if you get ten years as one of the most powerful people in the country before retiring and either riding circuit for the rest of your life or getting paid millions of dollars a year as a law firm partner or professor?
When I was leaving working for the Governor, multiple people told me not to tell anybody where I was going next, because the administration would try to block me from leaving. They blocked people from going to jobs at state agencies frequently. This is just who they are.
A fun thing about Chelsea's 8 year amortization plan is that when they realize Mudryk is garbage next summer only about 18% of his fee will be amortized rather than 30% and they'll have to take a massive loss on the books on his fee.