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  • A Good Foundation

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  • Nah, the whole album is excellent, but track 3 was what put me on a path beyond my parents' classic rock collection and towards getting into things like Cut Chemist and J Dilla

    The Great Gig is gorgeous, but On the Run changed my understanding of what music could be

  • Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention

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  • FYI, national review are a bunch of lying bigots and nothing they say should ever be taken as fact

  • How Alarmed Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters

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  • Based on the information available in this article it seems like this was a mix of paid campaign staff and volunteers who were close to the campaign

  • How Alarmed Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters

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  • They called it Operation Dunkin’kirk, a gallows-humor joke about the desperate World War II mission to save Allied troops trapped by Nazi armies in France.

    I don't think they had any illusions about the situation they were in (which is more than can be said for campaign leadership)

  • How Alarmed Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters

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  • Seems like a lot of people who wish to remain anonymous so they don't get blackballed by the Democratic party

    staffers and volunteers are two very different groups.

    How so? Every campaign is different but the ones I've volunteered for had e.g. volunteers handling confidential internal campaign data, paid staff jumping into phone bank shifts alongside the volunteers when extra hands were needed, etc.

  • How Alarmed Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters

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  • This article is based on interviews with 11 Harris campaign staff members and volunteers who were directly involved in organizing the stealth efforts in the weeks before the election, most of whom insisted on anonymity to talk candidly about internal campaign matters. The New York Times also spoke with more than 20 other campaign officials, volunteers, Democratic Party operatives and elected leaders who were involved in voter outreach around the country and described how it fell short.

  • Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

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  • Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

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  • "If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends."

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  • Please don't hurt us

  • 'A Warning': Warren, Sanders Address Sympathy For UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing

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  • Being sick or being a caretaker for someone who's sick tends to rob people of the kind of energy and time required to organize an assassination plot

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  • We're talking about the same people, Biden could and should extend TPS protections to all of them to clear up any bullshit immigration officials are trying to pull

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  • Here's a straightforward thing the Biden administration could do without Congress to protect migrants

    In the period between now and Inauguration Day, on January 20th, the Biden Administration could still give immigrants additional layers of protection before Trump takes office. One of the most obvious possibilities is to expand T.P.S. for Nicaraguans [and other migrants]... So far, however, the Administration appears unwilling to do so, just as it remains opposed to renewing parole for those who entered through Biden’s “pathways.” Trump almost certainly will revoke parole. Either way, the senior congressional staffer told me, “parole is a weak protection compared to T.P.S.”

    When Trump tried to end T.P.S. for certain nationalities in his first term, federal courts blocked him on the grounds that he had a “predetermined presidential agenda” that betrayed a racial “animus.” According to a former Biden Administration official with knowledge of current talks, the State Department supports expanding T.P.S. for Nicaraguans, based on a straightforward analysis of what’s happening in the country, but Mayorkas, at D.H.S., is opposed. (A D.H.S. spokesperson said that this was false and that “no decision has been made.”) “Extending T.P.S. used to be one of the easiest things Democrats supported,” the senior congressional staffer told me. But the Administration’s approach is now constrained by anxieties that it might seem brash or opportunistic on its way out. “It’s becoming evident that they believe immigration was one of the main factors in the electoral defeat,” the staffer said. “They don’t want to take actions that would double down on what they believe is a failed political strategy.”

  • Hegseth faces an ‘absolutely critical’ day as Pentagon hopes hang by a thread

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  • I don't think they actually have problems with Hegseth's treatment of women, they just don't like that he's gotten negative headlines about it recently. Like, if they knew he raped and murdered a dozen women but had successfully covered it up his nomination would sail through.

  • With his pardon of son Hunter, Joe Biden delivers a heartfelt hypocrisy

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  • I wish Biden was that cool

  • After delay, Trump signs agreement with Biden White House to begin formal transition handoff

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  • The congressionally mandated agreement allows transition aides to work with federal agencies and access non-public information and gives a green light to government workers to talk to the transition team.

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    Transition aides must sign statements that they have no financial positions that could pose a conflict of interest before they receive access to non-public federal information.

    I'm sure none of them would ever lie about that /s

  • Frontline Democrats Won With Progressive Populist Messages

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  • They kept the good stuff under wraps and tried to play it safe but not spooking anyone with "communism."

    This is it exactly, and I feel like this bit of this Salon article (arc'd) perfectly captures why this happened

    Tobias described a dynamic where campaign staff and candidates are hesitant to publicly push back on the assertions of billionaire donors like Hoffman, even if the campaign doesn't intend to let them direct policy.

    Tobias indicated that the apparent influence of the super-wealthy has a dual effect. It undermines the Democratic Party’s support from its traditional base by steering policy discussions away from economically populist ideas that go against the interest of the wealthy, while simultaneously helping support candidates who are charismatic but don’t come into politics with a consistent ideological framework.

    The influence of billionaires was directly early in Harris’ bid for the presidency when moguls like Mark Cuban warned the Harris campaign that a billionaire tax, for example, would be too aggressive, according to the Washington Post. Other business executives, like Tony West, the chief legal officer at Uber and Harris’ brother-in-law, also served as advisors and, according to the Atlantic, helped steer the campaign away from criticism of corporate power.

  • "Everyone is taking their skim": How Democratic consultants cashed in on Harris' losing campaign

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  • Been reliable allies to the United States

  • "Everyone is taking their skim": How Democratic consultants cashed in on Harris' losing campaign

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  • I think the way more important thing (if only because we can do something about it) are all the rich idiots ostensibly on our side getting out of pocket

    Tobias described a dynamic where campaign staff and candidates are hesitant to publicly push back on the assertions of billionaire donors like Hoffman, even if the campaign doesn't intend to let them direct policy.

    Tobias indicated that the apparent influence of the super-wealthy has a dual effect. It undermines the Democratic Party’s support from its traditional base by steering policy discussions away from economically populist ideas that go against the interest of the wealthy, while simultaneously helping support candidates who are charismatic but don’t come into politics with a consistent ideological framework.

    The influence of billionaires was directly early in Harris’ bid for the presidency when moguls like Mark Cuban warned the Harris campaign that a billionaire tax, for example, would be too aggressive, according to the Washington Post. Other business executives, like Tony West, the chief legal officer at Uber and Harris’ brother-in-law, also served as advisors and, according to the Atlantic, helped steer the campaign away from criticism of corporate power.

    Like Musk and Putin are shitheads who are going to do shithead things until we force them to stop, but at least our ostensible allies could stop screwing us over in the meantime

    e; Just now noticing that I forgot which thread I was commenting in and I just relinked the OP, which was a silly thing to spend effort on, but spending the effort to delete it at this point also seems silly

  • Want to understand why Trump won the election? Look at pop culture.

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  • I'm not who you were asking, but I've got at least two problems with this,

    The biggest problem is cherry picking examples to reach a conclusion while ignoring contradicting evidence. We had plenty of more successful pop culture stuff that had overtly progressive and feminist themes, and conservative stuff doing well isn't really a new phenomenon this year (the article even points this out where it talks about American Sniper and Passion of the Christ).

    The second biggest problem is that the numbers underlying this are suspect - it's easy to manipulate streaming numbers and book sales, and church groups are taking whole congregations to movies if they think it's a culture war win. Also, reading Sydney Sweeney and hawk-tuah girl as conservative wins are stretches that the author never really justifies (not to mention seeing Beyonce getting shit out by the CMAs as anything other than a sign that country music executives don't like independent black women who already have successful music careers beyond their influence).

    Which gets to a problem that might only bug me, but this article has nothing to say about any of the art it's bringing up and misses what I think could be an actually interesting conversation - what does the kind of art conservatives are getting into tell us about them? Like, the fact that they've meme-d around hawk-tuah girl, when did conservatives get "sex positive"? (rape positive if we're being honest, but that'd be a conclusion an article could build towards by actually engaging with the material)

    e; ttpos