Making California less democratic doesn't actually thwart plans to make Texas less democratic tho? It just sets up a neolib fiefdom near the fascist fiefdom so shitty authoritarians around the country can say "look the other side is doing it so we gotta."
On the one hand I'm glad to see this kind of community response getting covered in places where a lot of people will see it, because it shows the harms of this xenophobic bullshit, how many people are opposed to it, and that fighting back against it is possible
But on the other hand, given their extensive history of contemptible bootlicking, I'm pretty sure the NYT editorial board only greenlit this because they want these people's names and faces documented so they can be harassed by right wing assholes. Author/photographer did a good job of keeping immigration court attendees and day laborers' faces out of her shots at least, but you know if she had presented them with a story where community members who wished to remain anonymous were organizing against ICE the people in charge of NYT would've said it needed to be reported out more, even though they're constantly rubber stamping news articles where anonymous government officials "confirm" straight up lies.
Honestly, you're not giving enough credit to everything they do to make things worse. Between
-Clinton throwing money and resources at shitty ISPs and intellectual property ghouls in the 90s,
-Obama putting legal niceties on Bush's assassination program and making sure nobody got held accountable for those murders,
-Obama keeping every NSA spying program intact,
-Obama throwing taxpayer money at private health insurance companies,
-Biden killing stimulus checks (because obviously nobody supports UBI),
-Biden throwing taxpayer money at fossil fuel companies,
-Biden throwing money at ICE,
-Biden throwing money at cops of all sorts,
-etc.,
they have done a ton to entrench bad things and undermine good things too.
You should probably still vote for them because there's nothing on this list Republicans wouldn't try to turbocharge, but if we don't get rid of the awful Dems we have now and replace them with people who are actually willing to fight for us it's actually just a choice between carnage quickly or carnage slowly
People warned the Obama administration the records they forced people to submit to participate in DACA made them vulnerable to law enforcement abuse when they were coming up with the program
I would only consider supporting this if we first dissolved the governments of Texas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, etc. and put them under direct control of the federal government. Fascist state lawmakers are just as big of a problem if not an even bigger one than federal ones.
I'd say it's not as bad because it comes from (I think) a genuinely well meaning place, but it is definitely destructive, both just on its own and because it will produce a Streisand effect from the people it pisses off and cause them to devolve into full time trolls when they might not otherwise
He's like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven't heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point
The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.
For real, the Atlantic went full centrist contrarian dipshit years ago but people still treat it like an intelligent publication because of great work they did decades ago under different owners
For real tho, what is electing Dems going to do to hold the Nazi pedophiles accountable? In 2020 I was sure that my vote for Biden would put Trump in at least a prison cell eventually (it should have immediately put him in a jail cell pre-trial), yet here we are. Dems need to convince all the people who are pissed about what's going on that they're actually going to do something about it or those people are not going to take a day off work to wait in line for hours to vote (which is what is required in a lot of the blue areas of red states where voters can actually make a difference in the balance of Congress).
If we're looking at why Zohran Mamdani and Maxwell Frost won but Deja Foxx did not, seems at least worth noting they got Bernie Sanders' endorsement and she did not
I think Kash Patel is using the FBI to dig up "dirt" on Democrats. And not even bad stuff: he is just actively investigating all of Trump's perceived enemies to see what charges might stick in court, even if they are made up. Schiff owns multiple houses, so why not try to spin that into something bad?
Basically, look up every bad thing that Republicans accused Biden of doing in Jim Jordan's "Weaponization of Government" committee, and Republicans are doing that right now.
Peter: ... because of this decision, your private info is functionally within the control of the White House, right? Which is something that wasn't true before. Access to enough information that you can imagine not just is there potential for, like, mass surveillance here outside of the scope of, like, the NSA and the FBI but, like, political retribution, right? They have, like, a roadmap for whatever authoritarian shit they want to do. It's just like it greases the wheels for authoritarianism in so many different conceivable ways that it's hard to list them off. But I mean, the basic bottom line here is the Supreme Court just handed Donald Trump a list of every single person in the country, how much money they've ever made, where they've lived, some of their medical histories.
Josie: Mm-hmm. Their connections, their family members, their former roommates, their educational history.
Peter: Their social networks to some degree.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Peter: Who have you lived with? Who have they lived with, right? It's wild to think about what could be done by the administration if they really wanted to put this data to, you know, quote-unquote "good use."
Josie: I feel like the scariest part is almost the bank account information. It's like you don't—like, this is just basically pretext to cut you off from any kind of source of money you have. It's just—it just essentially, like, gives them power to ruin your life like that very easily, very efficiently.
The way they fell all over themselves to kill stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment as quickly as possible in 2021 was super telling, there's a lot of Dems that fear empowering working class people more than anything so they're constantly trying to route government money through state agencies or nonprofits or businesses to make sure "responsible" people get to set conditions on things poor people need to survive
Making California less democratic doesn't actually thwart plans to make Texas less democratic tho? It just sets up a neolib fiefdom near the fascist fiefdom so shitty authoritarians around the country can say "look the other side is doing it so we gotta."