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December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM

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Not a political expert but I don’t find this rebranding convincing lol

November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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October 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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One of best signs I’ve seen today. (pulled from reddit-likely Los Angeles)

Man holding sign showing John Goodman as Uncle Sam with the words: Shut the fuck up, Donny. You’re out of your element.

October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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The article seems to imply that this might be just a ruse to employ foreign workers at lower wages and virtually no worker’s rights.

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It's not clear that there is an imminent workforce crisis in agriculture. While there were fears earlier this year that tighter immigration enforcement would lead to unharvested crops, the harvest went off relatively smoothly, as my colleague Bob Kuttner explained. Some commodity crops like grains are looking at a record harvest, in fact.
"What we see every day is that farm workers of all immigration statuses are continuing to go to work," said Antonio De Loera-Brust of the United Farm Workers. "To be blunt, this is not a workforce that can afford to stay home for days on end, let alone four years." Raids only disrupt the workforce for a couple days, De Loera-Brust said.
In this sense, immigration enforcement is working hand in hand with the H-2A program. Farm employers do not fear losing their immigrant workforce because they can import them, now at lower wages. from abroad.

October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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At least they can say they did their best.

Quote from article: Patel's announcement followed criticism of the
ADL by right-wing activists and leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, over its inclusion of Kirk's Turning Point USA in a "Glossary of Extremism and Hate" on its website. Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in September.
After that criticism, the ADL removed the entire glossary from its website. The glossary had said that Turning Point USA had a history of "bigoted statements," a charge the group rejects.

October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM

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This part really got to me.

It might sound pessimistic to see, as Coates does, the likelihood of many losses looming ahead, even as we fight for wins. But if you consider the long history of the problem at hand, it releases you from bright-kid syndrome, from the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world. You understand that to do so is impossible. You are —at most-going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die.

October 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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But as the piece discusses, history conflicts with Klein’s pragmatic find-a-solution-now approach. It not always easy for people to admit the problem will likely outlive them.

Text from piece: It might sound pessimistic to see, as Coates does, the likelihood of many losses looming ahead, even as we fight for wins. But if you consider the long history of the problem at hand, it releases you from bright-kid syndrome, from the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world. You understand that to do so is impossible. You are —at most-going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die.

October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM

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Unlike other media outlets who shall remain unnamed, I’ve never regretted for an instant subscribing/donating to The American Prospect.

September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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Pretty sure…this guy.

September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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September 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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September 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM

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Why?

You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era's most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.

September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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@kenwhite.bsky.social how common is this for a lawyer?

September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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I mean…

The success of the strategy became apparent during the 2006 midterm elections, where
Democrats took back control of the House and Senate, winning Senate seats from normally
Republican states such as Missouri and Montana. In the 2008 election, the Democrats increased their House and Senate majorities, while Barack Obama used the 50 state strategy as the backbone of his successful presidential candidacy.

June 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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This is an ahistorical remembering. Howard Dean was against the war in Iraq from the start and his 50-state strategy paved the way for Obama who after elected, boxed him out.