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In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.
in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months
I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.
Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.
What’s the fare box for the highways?
This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.
But since she asked,
"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."
www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...
The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
This guy gets it.
The combination of multipartyism and corruption bound legislators to the system in Brazil.
If we do not find our own way to change our legislative operating system in the United States after Trump, the door will be open for future Trumps to try a similar power grab
The lesson here for the United States is not that we should make our system more corrupt.
Rather, it's that we need to change the incentives for our legislators, so that it's no longer rational for them to prioritize party over defending the system.
One big, important difference was the different in electoral structures. Brazil's equivalent of the House uses proportional representation, which meant there are about 20 parties in Congress.
The center-right and far-right were thus separated into different factions — which changed *everything.*
The world went insane in the decade immediately after the last global respiratory pandemic of their type (Spanish flu), I think there's something about this kind of collective trauma in modern societies that had managed to reduce that kind of mass mortality that does this to politics.
The economic impact of ICE in Minneapolis
-$203 million total economic loss January alone
-$47m per month of income loss to families afraid to go to work
-$81m loss to small biz
-$4.7b in hotel cancelations
-$37.9m loss construction evaluation
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
But why?
Decentralized civil society + (increasingly imperial) presidentialism
Mancur Olson & Juan Linz remain undefeated
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported
The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats.
Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
The crop art at the 2026 Minnesota State Fair is going to be WAF, and I am SO looking forward to seeing it.
Woke 2.0 back with a vengeance. You love to see it.
Honestly, pretty depressing that we all just understand and accept that our phones are government listening devices and that we are
not free to say things the current regime might decide to prosecute.
Even more depressing that probably not a single national Dem would stand on that.
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Damn proud of Minnesota.
I don’t know what he said or what he sprayed from that syringe, but Omar was squared up & ready to handle him.
And then continued her talk. I don’t know what’s in the water in Minnesota, but these folks have been underestimated.Later I’m sure Omar was shaking & maybe shed a tear, but..
AI data centers can bring benefits, but they also create real costs. Communities should require developers to fund independent local journalism to ensure compliance and accountability.
via @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/ai-data-cent...
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