Fucking legislate abortion rights. Write a damned law and pass it. Using a court decision by itself for this has always been stupid.

No, just not inexperienced with elections and realpolitik. Online progressives insist on shooting their friends before shooting the enemy, and the stupidity drives me nuts.

No one is running against Jeffries. You need someone to run against him.

I don’t think this is the hill to die on. There are so many fights to have, and this fight seems guaranteed to bloody only Democrats. Let’s fight fights that bloody the GOP.

https://jeffries.house.gov/contact/email-me/ and let him know what you expect out of the next Congress.

I love this for her.

Took half a billion dollars and just lit that shit on fire. Got worse than nothing for it: his folks lost pretty much all the ground.

He’s a toxic fool. He’s gotta get cut down to size: nationalize SpaceX, Starlink, and prosecute him for Doge.

They are given fewer voting locations for larger populations, leading to long lines, and requiring a lot more effort from the voter to get their ballot cast.

The real tell here is when Yen berated an engineer who voiced concerns about security, saying “stop finding ways to be slow, start finding ways to be faster”. He’s a C-suite baby who wants what he wants RIGHT NOW!

When the suits start acting like engineers who care about best practices are being obstacles instead of valuable stewards of quality, you know you’re dealing with losers who can’t be trusted to not run things into the ground. Any walking back that Yen does now, you know he’s just biding his time to ride out the kerfuffle, and he’s just going to low-key abuse his employees at a slightly slower pace, but he’s going to get what he wants.

Canceled my sub, moved my mail.

Because it’s not super easy. DNS management isn’t a button-click process, for the most part: if you’re trying to control your data and care about privacy, there’s no super easy service out there for you. You need to find a domain registrar, buy the domain you want, and configure it yourself. The help your email provider gives you to configure it might be grammatically different from how your registrar wants it entered, so it can be an annoying process.

It’s not rocket surgery, but it’s not just “enter name and password and IMAP server name and voila” either.

Love the enthusiasm, but you lose points on feasibility.

“I want to keep losing, so that I can feel pure!”

That’s you.

Liberals need to make the case that some things are not amenable to free market solutions. Healthcare is one: everyone puts an infinite value on their existential health, meaning there is no reason for healthcare providers to not maximize fees, all out of proportion to their own costs. Healthcare, utilities, these need to be regulated by the state, strongly.

The terrible thing with this is that it’s these Neolib Clinton Dems that piss off the voters, and inspire the “both sides are the same” accusations. That’s where a lot of folks stop.

But if you want to change a party to be on the side of the people, willing to reinvigorate progressive tax laws, you need to vote Dem, and force the Dems to the left. You’re not going to force the GOP to the left, at all. They are absolutely the political arm of the richest. They do not exist as a party without the top 1%.

The Dems used to be more Left, and like to pretend they’re still the same New Deal folks they’ve always been. They’re not, but voters can force them to be again. Let your elected reps know what you expect of them, and threaten to primary them from the left all the time. The party can be moved. It’s definitely in need of fixing, but it can be done. Just like the Tea Party and then MAGA transformed the GOP, so too can the Dems be transformed by passionate progressives. You just have to realize that opting out, and hating the Dems for not already being what they should be, is just saying you want to lose, and to always lose.

They’re going to try to make non-cloud computers illegal in the next decade. Count on it.

Nothing not funny about this.

Most of the country still thinks the Dems want to defund the police, and most don’t want it. They also aren’t going to be too well informed about how DHS fits into the country: it sounds like it’s protecting them, and taking it away is being “soft on crime” or “open borders”. That turns the conservatives out, too.

“Defund the police” was a major contributor to Trump winning again. That’s not a message a lot of the country reacts well to.

Same thing here. Win before you start saying shit like this.

For everyone who was Team Newsom when he was busy taunting Trump with his tweets, this is why not everyone was bought in to Newsom 4 Prez. He’s a lizard.

It’s pretty stunning how during the campaign they were like, “OMGWTF eggs cost a dollar more! Fucking revolution now!” And now they’re like, “Fuck you wimps for complaining about five dollar gas, you ungrateful little shits.”

If he plays this right, people will be sending him Hawks tickets of all kinds, for the rest of his (hopefully) short political career.

I love this for him.