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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Michael Lind offers centrist and conservative Democrats some good advice. Listen and learn, or lose again!https://t.co/gjEQ9GZct5
— Ron Radosh (@RonRadosh) September 26, 2021
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
Lind's set-up should be obvious to anyone not wearing blinders by now, but some people need to have it beaten into their heads,so I am quoting it:
Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Next up: How Republicans Can Become the National Majority Party.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:34am
Not quite - Senate has 22 Dem, 22 Rep & 6 mixed states.
The population of those 22 seats bends 43 million people apart -
57.3% Dems to 42.7% Republicans - a lot more bang for Republican buck/vote.
If you look at all the damage Mitch McConnell & other senate leaders have done the last 20 years,
including cheat Democrats out of an ever important Supreme Court seat,
but also to protect Trump's illegal acts in partisan impeachment trials and other stuff,
it's pretty maddening. Grousing about it of course doesn't do much, but it's not "pathetic excuses" -
between tilting the field in voter registration and other shenanigans, it's a real problem.
A real *legal* strategy for fighting back is tough though, and takes time.
Obviously the way Republicans have manipulated media and social media since the 90's
has its impact (remember when the military *had to* play Rush Limbaugh all around the world,
giving a default conservative lobbying effort in every military deployment? And so on...)
That Trump's "Big Lie" is holding up requires us to understand better how it grew,
what makes a Trump et al so persuasive, what those voters are looking for.
But what those positive resounding appeals Dems can carry out (like Obama & Clinton used to do),
well, we have to figure those out but quick. But can't lose the national defense/security vote,
can't lose the worried about crime vote. Not enough care about global warming to make that a winner.
The recent Texas anti-abortion strategy is just an extension of the hardball Democrat voter suppression strategy
that's been going on for decades now - including voting machine cockups, but a lot more.
Moaning helplessly about it won't do any good, but acknowledging it and figuring out both how might decrease it
plus counterbalance it in other ways (yes, better messaging et al) is reasonable.
Doubling down on divisive self-defeating but moral purity feel-good stuff ain't the way.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 7:12am
Nate Silver just happened to be discussing a related point a week ago:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:43am
The Democrats were the national party from the 1930s in to the 1970s, honestly. That is 40 years. They were still the dominant party even in the Eisenhower days.
by Orion on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:22pm
Hardly dominant - look up 83rd & 84th Congress
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_United_States_Congress
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/84th_United_States_Congress
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 9:20pm
Sounds like 2016 - 2018.
by Orion on Tue, 09/28/2021 - 11:55am
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/28/2021 - 5:48pm
I think the last tweet here makes an extremely important point; goes for activists and protesters of all kinds, not just "BLM":
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/30/2021 - 12:29am
Wait, is she describing anti-white microaggression? Is that a thing?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/30/2021 - 10:01am
A lot of white people enjoy having people disdain them and see them as a source of all the world's inequities. It feeds their narcissism and distorted sense of self-importance. If something's wrong in the world, it has to have something to do with them. After all, there was no world before them, right?
by Orion on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 5:42pm
Wait, so we're the source of all the world's inequities *and* self-delusionally thinking we're the source as a vanity project? Too cool.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 5:44pm
Just ran across, he's basically doing the same meme as Dr. Dina:
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 6:05pm
"How Biden Could Bring Back Trump":
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 1:44pm
Niall Ferguson is almost certain that Trump will be back.
Personally, I think Biden will make people queezy about bringing another senior citizen in to the White House, so Trumpism/America First/MAGA will continue on through someone else, like Desantis.
by Orion on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 5:41pm
These tweets combined with this one by AOC I posted on the thread on the infrastructure bill, made me think of how, to me, AOC is one of the few lefties that usually utilizes a friendly bridge-building and ameliorating approach (despite her mistake appearance at The Met Gala)
Too many, including the rest of "The Squad", are shrill and angry "my way or the highway", and may appear not much different than like, Alex Jones on the other side, turning off the middle mass of voters. It is less The Woke ideology itself than the frightening manner of Red Guards of Mao's Cultural Revolution. This even goes for Bernie when he is on the campaign trail, too often he does an "angry old man, hey you kids get off my lawn" thing. While in the Senate he switches to Mr. "let's make a deal" and the small reasonable GOP group that belongs to the Bipartisan caucus no doubt remembers he is still in the Senate as an Independent.
Sunny optimism still sells, everyone still needs to be reminded of the lesson of tje messaging of St. Ronnie. He stole a lot of Democratic votes doing that and the party is still fighting to get those back.
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/02/2021 - 3:05pm
Plus important not to forget everyone has got to live next door to "them" (or maybe even as part of your family) the rest of your life:
Highly recommended Yglesias Sept. 22 blog post
The median voter is a 50-something white person who
didn't go to college. Cognitive behavioral therapy for Democrats
He was turned off enough to leave Vox by shrill Red Guard employees, and many similar elite young campaign worker types are now branding the party that way. If he couldn't take it, certainly a lot of voters without prep school backgrounds can't.
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/02/2021 - 3:29pm
My guess is they're selling it because the "tough on crime and immigration" message sells:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/03/2021 - 5:54pm
Columnist for The Nation hopefully finally seeing the light that all the culture wars stuff is bait used by right-wring trolls to get The Woke to act out and distract the main voting populace with crap that they don't cotton to.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 1:29am
Yglesias:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 3:08am
sounds like they are trying to do what Yglesias said.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 1:58pm
Andrew Yang:
A reminder that even though he didn't do so well in the race for NY mayor, he had enough passionate national support to qualify to be on the stage for the main Democratic primary debates for president! His supporters are not chopped liver, they are a significant block of voters, a very significant one.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 6:45pm
Him and Beto can get a room.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 7:19pm
As often the case, Yang has some interesting ideas but his implementation is lacking. He wants to "fix things" but not be part of them. He's a good ideas brainstorming guy, but not a Mr. Fixit - his startup ideas were mostly destined for the trash bin, and his GMAT biz seems a lucky bailout break, his estimates of what will happen with trucking are way wide of the mark, overly simplified and believing trend hype too much, but yess, hemmorhaging jobs and putting a bandaid on it or watching job benefits disappear *are* two issues worth following. Though is he any more able than you or me in preaching yet not enacting the same ideas? He didn't create the UBI, and it's not terribly workable at this point (nor was Sanders' $15 min wage that/who he supported), but it is one of those "break the logjam" tactics that may cut through the stasis - though the hardline woke children of the revolution would hear nothing of $12/hr so here we are 5 years later with much the same bag except some outliers. Implementation is important. Strategy is important.
So why is he leaving the Democratic Party? He says he likes "fixing things", but it's more like another startup gig - he shopped around his biz idea for 3 years, and now it's on to a different startup idea, and besides, a big organization is not his style. The Democratic Party for sure has its problems, but what are the pragmatic reasons for leaving it, and what are the actual positive efforts that should follow? Again, it just seems like a spotty career with fairly minor successes and a nice acceptable guy. Basically we're back to personality politics - youth and freshness with a bit of dot.com and woke. Except one of Bloomberg's flacks has been helping him hone his message - where does that put Reality 2.0?
https://newrepublic.com/article/162060/andrew-yang-celebrity-politician
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/andrew-yang/
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 8:35am
Warning signs of troubled waters for House Dems in 2022!
Denial not a river in Egypt:
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 10:25pm
On "Progressives' mobilization delusion"
much more at interaction between https://twitter.com/mattyglesias and https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:42pm
David Shor:
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/06/2021 - 6:16pm
Good question.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/06/2021 - 8:40pm