Nell Lancaster
gardener, fitful & mostly retired organizer* Interests: unions for all, pandemic prevention, abolition, cooking. *(mostly field & fr, oscillating for last 50 yrs betw Dem-electoral left & anti-imperialist left)
- I genuinely don't think good counter-messaging on trans rights is all that difficult. There are Democrats who aren't doing it not because coming up with it is hard but because they agree with the Republicans and want to disguise their disdain for trans people as a matter of political strategy.
- A year or two ago Ettingermentum (or maybe s/o like him) did a great series of posts showing what an electoral loser trans bigotry is.
- 1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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- Correx: it was the IAF that bombed the airport (after AnsarAllah missile hit near Ben Gurion terminal; it got through 4 layers of air defense including $$$ THAAD from the US.) And the amazing Yemenis have their airport back in operation, first commercial flight coming in tomorrow.
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- the extra Ls we're going to have if we listen to a thing these people say
- Total victory in court for the Institute for Museum & Library Services against the DOGE/Trump effort to dismantle them.
- NEW! The Trump administration has been ordered to stop dismantling the IMLS and has been ordered to restore the agency to its pre-Executive Order functions and staffing. bookriot.com/massive-vict...
- Keir Starmer has become a hollowed-out shell pulled from poll to poll - all in an incredibly volatile UK political environment where voters are moving all over the place in very hard to map ways, and where failure in a FPTP system seriously risks a hard-right Reform government.
- Well, then it's going according to plan. Fascists run Labour, Reform, & the Tories.
- Do. not. speak. to. cops. without. a. lawyer. There are no exceptions to this recommendation. You may think your cleverness or your prosperity or your popularity will protect you. It will not.
- “Piker’s ordeal makes two things clear: one, that Trump is willing to sic agents on media personalities; two, that ordinary citizens and non-citizens alike—and even fellow media people/journalists—should not follow his ill-advised approach to dealing with people with the power to throw you in jail.”
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- Yeah, Starmer's Enoch Powell bit is raising the bar. Dems are mostly stuck at the lower level of smol beans helpless to do anything but write sternly worded letters.
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- Over 1000 strikes, almost all on civilian "targets": a cement plant, a migrant detention center, apartment buildings, the newly re-opened commercial airport.
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- I heard a college friend say it solemnly in 1973 (yes, he went on to law school), and it came to mind most of the thousand or so times I've read about money in politics since
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- Glad you appreciate it. It's a riff on the last decade's msm coverage of China, reporting one development accomplishment after another, but so often using the 'at what cost' format that it became a joke
