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I am not sure City Hall playing Muslim calls to prayer is different from public schools posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom and forcing every student to read the Bible.

In other words, it’s not Muslim fundamentalism that is the most pressing threat. It’s the Christian fundies that are doing irreparable harm to both the Nation and their own religion.

… and that’s just the warmup act!

Everything about that case was horrifying, from the Koncerned Karen that called the police because he was being too Black on the street to the fact authorities tried to sweep the whole thing under the rug. The cops responsible even went to do selfies mocking Elijah on the anniversary of his death and a violin vigil was disbanded as if it were a looter mob after an earthquake.

And this to a human being that played the violin for shelter cats because they seemed to enjoy it. Elijah’s soul was so beautiful, it breaks my heart that he’s gone.

It’s my moment to remember Elijah McClain. Rest in peace, you beautiful soul.

Soooo… We PAID for this B.S. We paid for the arrest, check the number of uniformed tax-payer funded officers. We paid for the prosecution, we paid for the court, we paid for the jury, we paid and paid AFTER the famously sandwich-indicting Grand Jury wouldn’t touch this case.

Somehow it feels like the DA should be relieved of their duties.

Wasn’t there a case of police officers badly beating someone and then claiming his blood stains on their uniforms were destruction of police property or some such?

I sense that “child neglect” and “federal weapons” chargess mean there was at least one gun fast and loose and loaded in the house. That sounds like a powder keg waiting to explode in any case.

I agree with the sentiment, but the Washington Post has not been “liberal media” since Bezos bought it. I used to have a sub, in 2017, and don’t recognize the place any longer.

[The child who died] had been left out of the sight of staff when another young person at the facility had tried to drink cleaning supplies, which required urgent attention.

After reading this, I am pretty sure this facility is the last place on Earth I would send my troubled teenager to.

Wasn’t there some documentary of a different troubled teen facility in Utah… Never mind, I entered “utah troubled teen facility” into the search bar and down comes an ocean of bad news.

“Jobs are booming” and “inflation is falling,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.

Kids, this is what you sound like when you take the devil’s grass.

Awkward. That’s his younger brother.

Totally would be! Except the power of the National Cabal of Coffee Drinkers is the most powerful lobby in the country and you don’t want to end up in their crosshairs.

Y’all complain about Musk and about the quality issues of the hardware. I am more worried about the software and the willingness of the company to paywall basic functionality. I will never buy a car that can be bricked by the manufacturer remotely because I am not willing to pay a subscription.

That’s what I was speculating. Clearly, SCOTUS can see that the tariffs are hurting America and especially Americans, so this is a backdoor way of taking the ball from Trump for his own good.

That, or they are sick of having to pay more for their morning coffee because Trump wants a better deal for his buddy Bolsonaro.

I see what you did there!

I would agree, FDR was a left-wing populist and his policies were massively successful. So much so that we think of the time after their enactment as the golden period of American society, and the successive dismantling of them as the beginning of the current crisis.

The problem is that in current times, we found out that a considerable number of people’s vote can be swayed by advertising and marketing, and the Supreme Court has made it clear that parties and candidate should be able to sway away, which means access to funding is essential.

That is, until the people realize who’s doing the swaying, how, and why. Once in a while the candidate with less funding wins, but I could see that the DNC needs proof of it working on a massive scale.

Not defending the DNC, by the way. Or the current Democratic leadership.

Americans now see the Republicans as the party of the working class and Democrats as the party of the elites

I think the American public is slightly confused as to what it means to be part of “the elites,” as intellectuals and scientists are conflated with money bags and zillionaires in the same category.

But, in general, the best way to fight right wing populism is left wing populism. It’s scary for the Democrats, though, as they don’t have really good role models for what it means to be left wing populist, and how to make that work in a statewide or nationwide election.

AOC has probably blazed the trail, Mamdani is following it: promise concrete improvements in people’s lives, and tie them to higher taxation of the wealthy. Never allow the link to be forgotten: the higher taxes on the wealthy are only there to pay for necessary services for everyone. The estate tax pays for free childcare; the wealth tax for universal healthcare, and so on. Make the connection clear and tangible, so that when a right-wing populist wants to sever it, people understand what they are losing.

Mamdani does that, and if he succeeds (both in the election and implementing his agenda), then the DNC has an idea of where the party needs to go, and that it can go there.

Culture Minister Rachida Dati also acknowledged the serious shortcomings, speaking of “a chronic and structural underestimation of the risk of theft.”

It feels like that’s in general people’s attitude to cyber-risk. Identity theft, phishing, scams in general are on the rise because authorities don’t take that stuff seriously enough.

That’s the problem when you source the selection of judges to the Federalist Society. Once in a while, you get one that is actually dedicated to the rule of law.

How do animal studies possibly suggest a link between Tylenol and autism? Did they give Tylenol to frog tadpoles and they started stimming?