If triangulating were a cheat code to politics, Walz would be a bad pick. He recently said “one person’s socialism is another[’s] neighborliness,” instead of running away from everything Rs tar as socialism. In full context, his view is clearly superior. www.offmessage.net/p/moderates-...

A weird thing about Donald's fake debate and the Emhoff not-news is that we just found out that Trump took a $10 million bribe from the president of Egypt just before the 2016 election.

I tell people a lot that we already live under Project 2025 here in Alabama. Despite the perception, AL is NOT a poor state, it is just a state full of poor people, with a power structure that uses legislature and policing to make sure those on top keep the profit and control.

A state where our governor tried to take money from the education fund to help build a waterpark. www.al.com/news/2023/03...

We are a state with an infrastructure so bad that our city shuts down schools if it is likely to have a hard rain, because our streets flood and the buses can't run because our storm water system is overwhelmed.

It's how the fifth biggest city in the state and the home of its pride and joy University is crumbling to pieces once you get more than two miles off the campus. But no one cares because of who it harms. www.al.com/news/2023/10...

In Alabama, prisons exist to profit the state. That is why they took the COVID emergency funds meant for healthcare and built a new prison. inthesetimes.com/article/alab...

The goal of API is to eliminate government except as an apparatus of power to promote traditional, Christian values, and to eliminate taxes and whatever taxes are obtained must be funneled to Christian organizations. Legislature exists only to enforce these goals.

I accidentally read this op ed and it brought up something I've been meaning to say for a while:

If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few)

www.al.com/politics/202...

Absolutely terrifying: state-funded researchers in Poland have developed the first-ever lab tests that can detect if a person has taken abortion pills, and prosecutors have used them to investigate pregnancy outcomes. The tests work for both mifepristone and misoprostol.

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

I feel like the definition of being at “high risk” from covid really needs to include “high probability of messing up your health and life for months or years” not just “likely to immediately kill you.”

A 9% chance that I’m gonna be sick for at least three months is a pretty high risk!

The Paxton impeachment trial is on another break. They're taking them every 90 minutes or so, plus lunch.

Worth noting that this year, Texas's Republican-dominated Legislature outlawed local city mandates requiring that construction workers get 10-minute water breaks every four hours.