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so basically this Chicago

artappraiser — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:06:32 +0000

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so basically this Chicago alderwoman would like to advertise the fact that even she is powerless to fix the Chicago Democratic machine bureaucracy?

A 30-year waitlist for housing vouchers https://t.co/I86cCGHKYa
— Kriston Capps (@kristoncapps) May 31, 2022

is like the strongest ad for a GOP takeover of Chicago one can imagine. Not to mention one advertising that socialist "answers" to housing problems don't work.

(I love how after 30 years she's still considered to have the same income qualifications, it's like an expectation built into the system that poor will always stay poor. And the jobs to push paper on their account will always be there.)

New strategy to close

artappraiser — Tue, 31 May 2022 06:30:33 +0000

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New strategy to close (actually hide) the achievement gap!!

“Oak Park & River Forest HS admins will require teachers next school yr to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.”
https://t.co/53BJZhSKVO
— LA Parent Union (@UTLAUncensored) May 31, 2022

As stupid as defund the

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 11 May 2022 11:47:56 +0000

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As stupid as defund the police or end all fracking now (when 50%+ of oil uses fracking) or $15 min wage (in areas where $7 is topical for half the shops), etc?

You'll hate me, but one of the braver statements was Hillary saying "we tried making the Basic Minimum Income work, but we couldn't get the numbers to add up" - most anyone else would've said fuck it and promoted it anyway. Fake it til you break it, as Boris Johnson says (or does)

The Dutch gave up natural gas drilling cuz too many earthquakes, and now they're dependent on Russian natural gas. Germans did similar mothballing their nuclear plants.

In a guest op-ed at the NYT,

artappraiser — Wed, 11 May 2022 11:04:07 +0000

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In a guest op-ed at the NYT, Jeff Maurer (former senior writer for “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and a former speechwriter for the E.P.A.) argues 20 ways to Sunday how most Dem proposals for forgiveness of student debt are really counterproductive and just plain stoopid -

Opinion | Democrats Have an Image Problem. Please Don’t Make It Worse. - The New York Times https://t.co/S27ylEWM1l
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 10, 2022