Saganomics
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Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and a house full of projects that's a local Democratic chair.
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Early voting resumed today and continues all week at the Senior Center at Fletcher and Broadway. Only 9.9% of Lowell voters turned out in the 2023 city election. Let's do better than that this time!
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Who cares about supreme courts?
Michigan
—Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1.
Wisconsin
—Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April.
Pennsylvania
—Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday.
via
Michigan
—Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1.
Wisconsin
—Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April.
Pennsylvania
—Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday.
via
Democrats Retain Control of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court with Three-Seat Sweep - Bolts
Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have defeated an unusually high-profile Republican bid to unseat them. They secured large statewide victories on Tuesday, following an histo...
boltsmag.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Who cares about supreme courts?
Michigan
—Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1.
Wisconsin
—Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April.
Pennsylvania
—Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday.
via
Michigan
—Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1.
Wisconsin
—Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April.
Pennsylvania
—Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday.
via
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Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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You always have to be willing to offer your opponent the chance to resolve the conflict gracefully (which they won't do because to them, that's losing)
schumer's audience for this isn't bluesky, it's caucus moderates, state governors, and federal worker unions who might be getting shaky about holding the line, and it worked, at least with the caucus mods, who showed up for this in solidarity.
Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer in a Friday floor speech.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You always have to be willing to offer your opponent the chance to resolve the conflict gracefully (which they won't do because to them, that's losing)
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Today we're trying to get to the bottom of a deceptively simply question: How many mayors of New York City have gone on to hold any other kind of elected office?
The answer may surprise you!
The answer may surprise you!
Exploring the Past Precedents of the Political Futures of New York Mayors
It’s been a few days now since the historic victory of Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral election, defeating Andrew Cuomo for the second time and winning over a million votes in a mayoral ele…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today we're trying to get to the bottom of a deceptively simply question: How many mayors of New York City have gone on to hold any other kind of elected office?
The answer may surprise you!
The answer may surprise you!
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It's not an exaggeration to say that Musk sees foreign aid as suicidal empathy. In his eugenicist views, it's suicidal to keep Black and brown people alive while white people are not having enough children. The deaths of 600,000 are not an unintended consequence. It's what he wanted.
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's not an exaggeration to say that Musk sees foreign aid as suicidal empathy. In his eugenicist views, it's suicidal to keep Black and brown people alive while white people are not having enough children. The deaths of 600,000 are not an unintended consequence. It's what he wanted.
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I'll never really get over this. Not just an impossible project, but impossible by multiple orders of magnitude in multiple dimensions, & fundamentally idiotic altogether
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'll never really get over this. Not just an impossible project, but impossible by multiple orders of magnitude in multiple dimensions, & fundamentally idiotic altogether
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I don't think it's a surprise that I don't like Andrew Cuomo, but what has upset me the most in this election is how people seem to be responding better to him the darker and worse he gets. That sends a message to every other New Yorker.
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I don't think it's a surprise that I don't like Andrew Cuomo, but what has upset me the most in this election is how people seem to be responding better to him the darker and worse he gets. That sends a message to every other New Yorker.
We're a over halfway through election day in Lowell! There's still 4 hours to come out and be a part of building better leadership for our city!
TODAY early voting starts for the Lowell city election! All wards vote early at the Senior Center. Please come out and support:
CC At Large: Vensa Nuon
CC3: Belinda Juran
CC4: Wayne Jenness
CC5: Sheri Barboza
CC7: Sidney Liang
CC8: Marcos Candido
SC At Large: Connie Martin & Danielle McFadden
CC At Large: Vensa Nuon
CC3: Belinda Juran
CC4: Wayne Jenness
CC5: Sheri Barboza
CC7: Sidney Liang
CC8: Marcos Candido
SC At Large: Connie Martin & Danielle McFadden
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We're a over halfway through election day in Lowell! There's still 4 hours to come out and be a part of building better leadership for our city!
I think Moulton noticed that this year's state party convention resoundingly rejected a platform proposal with queer and reproductive rights largely stripped out and then he got booed at Boston No Kings.
SCOOP: Seth Moulton, who once said he opposes trans girls playing in girls' sports, commits to "support and lead legislation like the Transgender Bill of Rights" if elected senator
A look into how his past comments come into play in his challenge against Ed Markey:
www.notus.org/campaigns/se...
A look into how his past comments come into play in his challenge against Ed Markey:
www.notus.org/campaigns/se...
Seth Moulton Challenged Democrats Over Trans Rights After The 2024 Election. Not Anymore.
In response to a list of questions from NOTUS, Moulton committed to “support and lead legislation like the Transgender Bill of Rights” if he is elected as Massachusetts’ senator.
www.notus.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I think Moulton noticed that this year's state party convention resoundingly rejected a platform proposal with queer and reproductive rights largely stripped out and then he got booed at Boston No Kings.
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I'm very concerned about my party's popularity. that's why I constantly highlight internal divisions, stir up intrafactional strife, and loudly broadcast and complain about anything allegedly unpopular any party member has done, at any level of government
like, genuinely, what is the method to ensure a centrist cohesive party line that Matty wants here outside of methods like democratic centralism
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm very concerned about my party's popularity. that's why I constantly highlight internal divisions, stir up intrafactional strife, and loudly broadcast and complain about anything allegedly unpopular any party member has done, at any level of government
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It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.
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did any of you who brought this cheap ragebait act over here from twitter even read the linked piece? it’s axios, it’s not like it’s long or uses big words.
Senate Democrats about to roll over. Goddamnit.
This is pathetic - to give in over "a promised vote" - but this is what they were always going to do.
"A handful of Democrats will supply some eight votes for a new short-term CR in exchange for a promised vote on the ACA tax credits."
They are gonna trust the GOP.🤡
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
"A handful of Democrats will supply some eight votes for a new short-term CR in exchange for a promised vote on the ACA tax credits."
They are gonna trust the GOP.🤡
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
did any of you who brought this cheap ragebait act over here from twitter even read the linked piece? it’s axios, it’s not like it’s long or uses big words.
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it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
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This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
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It's really bad that the only way a bill can become a law is
1) rider in a partisan reconciliation bill
2) rider in the NDAA
3) rider in a midnight budget omnibus
4) so boring and uncontroversial it can pass normally (accordingly it also probably does next to nothing)
1) rider in a partisan reconciliation bill
2) rider in the NDAA
3) rider in a midnight budget omnibus
4) so boring and uncontroversial it can pass normally (accordingly it also probably does next to nothing)
I do think the current status quo of One Giant Omnibus With Everything For Someone In It really hurts our politics because you can't actually make everyone happy with one bite at the apple and it's also really hard to know what you got when the bite is big enough to take some branch with it
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It's really bad that the only way a bill can become a law is
1) rider in a partisan reconciliation bill
2) rider in the NDAA
3) rider in a midnight budget omnibus
4) so boring and uncontroversial it can pass normally (accordingly it also probably does next to nothing)
1) rider in a partisan reconciliation bill
2) rider in the NDAA
3) rider in a midnight budget omnibus
4) so boring and uncontroversial it can pass normally (accordingly it also probably does next to nothing)
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It's honestly fine for a paper to have an editorial line, what I find infuriating about the @nytimes.com in particular is how self-righteous and outraged they get if anyone tries to point it out.
I genuinely wonder if anyone on the NYT editorial team looks at the Mamdani coverage in total and thinks "yeah, we got this one right"
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"
No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"
No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...
Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's honestly fine for a paper to have an editorial line, what I find infuriating about the @nytimes.com in particular is how self-righteous and outraged they get if anyone tries to point it out.
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It isn't the media's job to be salespeople, but it is their job not to lie. Douthat saying the Biden administration didn't care about jobs or economic policy is just a lie.
November 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It isn't the media's job to be salespeople, but it is their job not to lie. Douthat saying the Biden administration didn't care about jobs or economic policy is just a lie.
As someone who's scored a game tying run in the bottom of the 9th by running through home and dodging a tag to do so, why are people sliding into home on force plays?
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
As someone who's scored a game tying run in the bottom of the 9th by running through home and dodging a tag to do so, why are people sliding into home on force plays?
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
One of my graduate school professors knew Stanislaw Ulam. My mom is a former coworker of Anthony Fauci's wife. It's possible to be very quickly be connected to a lot of people.
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
One of my graduate school professors knew Stanislaw Ulam. My mom is a former coworker of Anthony Fauci's wife. It's possible to be very quickly be connected to a lot of people.
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While I'm thinking of it, the team that Fox has in the booth is pretty good, certainly better than the Joe Buck anchored teams they had for a couple decades. This bit is hilarious because you can hear how flat a lot of Buck's work is through it.
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
While I'm thinking of it, the team that Fox has in the booth is pretty good, certainly better than the Joe Buck anchored teams they had for a couple decades. This bit is hilarious because you can hear how flat a lot of Buck's work is through it.
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I ask myself often why I don't think it is immoral to have children given the state of the world, and tonight I am settling into the explanation that when we raise them in curious, loving community... children advance and embody the human projects of curiosity and love.
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I ask myself often why I don't think it is immoral to have children given the state of the world, and tonight I am settling into the explanation that when we raise them in curious, loving community... children advance and embody the human projects of curiosity and love.