Tag: politics

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    socialists? right in front of MY salad?

    I know they don’t like their own words being thrown back at them, but establishment liberals need to chill. The time to… Read more →

    I know they don’t like their own words being thrown back at them, but establishment liberals need to chill.

    The time to fight the dsa-backed candidates was literally the primaries they won and whining about it at length mostly just hurts us for the general.

    We have our candidats, now we need to win, tho.

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    how many months of centrist think pieces must we endure?

    On the organizational front, a group of House Democrats aligned with a new centrist initiative, launched in the immediate aftermath of the… Read more →

    Chair of the Democratic national committee, Jaime Harrison, speaks during a rally for Kamala Harris in Reno, Nevada, on 31 October 2024. Photograph: Kia Rastar/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

    On the organizational front, a group of House Democrats aligned with a new centrist initiative, launched in the immediate aftermath of the democratic socialist victories, framed the wins as a reputational liability. “They should not be the face of our party,” the group declared, positioning the effort explicitly as a corrective to the party’s direction.

    The data, however, offers a more complicated picture of where the Democratic base actually stands. A Fox News poll in March showed that 49% of all registered voters, including 72% of Democrats and 60% of independents, described capitalism as working “not very” or “not at all” well.

    CNN data analyst Harry Enten pointed to a poll from Marquette Law School that found the DSA now holds higher favorability than sitting congressional Democrats, from Democratic voters and leaners themselves.

    Josh Lyman decides to weigh in:

    Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff, offered a structural diagnosis. “What the socialist wing has decided to do is turn blue districts, dark blue,” he told CNN, arguing that Democrats had broadly “lost the plot” by becoming mired in niche concerns rather than mainstream US priorities.

    Source: Backlash from centrist Democrats as democratic socialist candidates

  • lions, and tigers, and lenin, OH MY

    OH NO, whatever shall we do?! 🙄 [Avila Chevalier] maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and… Read more →

    OH NO, whatever shall we do?! 🙄

    [Avila Chevalier] maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

    Source: Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account

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    oh to be in 1936… or something

    not me over here, yearning for the constraint of the 1930s… smdh The ruling overturned the Supreme Court’s 1935 precedent that had… Read more →

    not me over here, yearning for the constraint of the 1930s… smdh

    The ruling overturned the Supreme Court’s 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will.

    Source: US Supreme Court vastly expands Trump’s presidential power

  • bulshit new student loan rules start in 2 days?

    If you are behind on payments, you may qualify for an Unemployment Deferment or an Economic Hardship Deferment, but be warned: These… Read more →

    If you are behind on payments, you may qualify for an Unemployment Deferment or an Economic Hardship Deferment, but be warned: These programs are being eliminated for loans initiated on or after July 1, 2027. Forbearance will be limited to a maximum of nine months every two years for loans funded on or after July 1, 2027. 

    Source: Student loan overhaul starts July 1

  • On E-Governance

    On E-Governance

    By: Raquisha Givens, Hussain Punjani, Andrew Schwegler, Savannah ViarOriginally published: November 21, 2013 It has been overwhelming stated that our world is… Read more →

    By: Raquisha Givens, Hussain Punjani, Andrew Schwegler, Savannah Viar
    Originally published: November 21, 2013

    It has been overwhelming stated that our world is becoming smaller with the use of technology. With the click of a mouse we can connect to people on the other side of the world. Technology has allowed the Earth community as a whole to become intertwined in ways that could never have been imagined a mere twenty years ago. With these ever increasing connections amongst people, governments throughout the world have taken note and have begun to use these connections in order to increase government interactivity amongst its citizens. This process is known as e-governance.

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