This is so incredibly disappointing. I listen to AO to round out my coverage, but it is distinctly right-leaning—The Dispatch as a whole even moreso. This has immediately and irreparably tainted the SCOTUSblog brand. What an utter disappointment.

We’d need a veto-proof majority, which is obviously unlikely.

Put AOC and Jasmine Crockett in charge of the party and we’d have a whole new ballgame.

Yes, it’s important not to fall prey to their narrative of an overwhelming mandate. He won the EC and a *plurality* of the popular vote, not the majority. Even without counting the eligible voters who stayed home. This is an engagement problem, not a numbers problem.

As boring as it sounds, call your reps! All of them. Congress has been getting such an overwhelming influx of calls the systems are failing.

And check if you live in an area with any elections this year. There are quite a few of them.

There’s usually a honeymoon period just after inauguration. It’s disheartening to see now, but the odds are *very* high that it’ll come down before long.

What the hell?

I wish it worked for all of us. I live in a gerrymandered deep red state and every time I write my reps, I get no better than a middle finger from them.

I didn’t know what this was referring to so I looked it up. It looks like the company issued a mea culpa and removed the problematic feature earlier this month.

Yeah, it seems like SG caters more to that type of use. I use GR as a reading log, but also to connect with a few real-life book friends and to find new books in the reading challenge communities I follow.

I find the UI much less friendly, & discovery is so much better on GR IMO. When I open GR, I immediately see what my friends are reading/reviewing, & I can update mine in a second. Keeping SG up to date is more like work & I never find new reads there. It feels like a 10-yr old app to me.

I haven’t noticed any issues. You can also delete all of your SG books/reviews and start fresh to be safe. I think I did that at least once.
I’ve also just started trying Fable. It has a better UI IMO, and the import was very smooth.

Is the same true for Fable? I’ve just started trying that one but I’m brand new to it.

You can pull your GR data again and try to migrate from scratch. It will override anything you already have in Storygraph.
I also prefer GR so I’ve had to import my data a couple times every time I forgot to keep SG up to date.

As much as I love the idea of Storygraph, it just isn’t a better product. Not yet. Hopefully the extra attention it’s been getting with help push it forward.

It’s not necessarily about the kids themselves. It can be about getting the parents to come pick them up.

Agreed. I imported all my GR data early last year and started keeping both up to date while I tried it out. I forgot about Storygraph so fast because the UX was so bad and it was just work.

Ironically, there was a massive political organizing element to TikTok. That’s one of the reasons the dismissive comments are so infuriating.

There are a number of reasons people are upset by the ban, but to infantilize them is to miss the point entirely. 3/3