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Likely the reason given will be “to make gas affordable” after the Straight of Hormuz closes completely, but there are certainly more…conspiratorial… reasons.

I think do have a point looking at the “blue dots in red states” - I could imagine a bit of regret for people used to the a) freedoms as you mentioned, but b) level of government services in blue states in particular.

That may be a factor, but with all the RTO and tech job layoffs (which skew remote) I think the local housing markets of red states are hitting a ceiling for their local economies.

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress.

The demand must be impeachment.

The best you can say about KLB is that she quiet-quit the mayor’s office in a time of crisis for the city (and nation/world). And that’s a *glowing* review of her time in office.

How State Factors Moderated the Impacts of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Mental Health and Financial Hardship Mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. were partly alleviated by economic policies. For example, the 2021 expansion of the ch…

Trying not to draw too many conclusions from one study - but could this be a driving factor for people in red/blue states to see government intervention so differently?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is the white whale of the Atlanta urbanist community.

Also the President is very dependent on Congress to do good things, but can apparently just unilaterally kneecap the working class on their own.

That’s also falling into the trap of thinking the President controls the economy like a full on puppet master. At best a president can respond to the economy that make reg folks lives easier, at worst they can flip tables and wreck everything.

Decades-long stagnant wage growth set the stage and a rapid increase in inflation (which Americans arent familiar with) and the rug-pull of the COVID-era safety net was a bad combination, as it turned out.

This is so median voter theory-coded that it hurts.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Today is the only day you can capture and consume Cupid to absorb his powers. Good hunting, folks.

As an anthropologist, something stands out to me from the Epstein files: these men weren't just motivated by their depraved desires, but also wanting to be liked by the Party Guy. They were clambering for invites because they wanted to be part of the special in-group. It's sort of pathetic

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A United States Attorney General who obstructs justice can be jailed.

Case in point: Inmate 24171-157.

Makes me think of the Late Bronze aged collapse around the Mediterranean. Crop failures and societies that became overextended crumbled upon mass migrations of people. A technological throughline here too: green tech is the energy future and the West is still stuck on fossil fuels.

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This should be THE story everyday.

Yikes. Seems like they’re fully committed to projecting.

I’m convinced they’re entirely disingenuous. No one could be that willfully ignorant.

Says the troll hiding behind an avatar.

The Trump admin will follow these new rules like they’ve adhered to the Constitution so far. It’ll be used as toilet paper, at best.

Be real, this is blatant cover for Democrats to give the Republicans enough votes to give even more resources to literal monsters under the federal government’s banner.

Oh so they’re going to vote against the $11bn going to ICE in the DHS funding bill?

2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are:

· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session

Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color

That passage is utterly irrelevant to context of the budget discussion which this letter is in response to.

The DHS bill involves paying ICE more, which is what the Dems are trying to tack stipulations to. The ICE budget should be utterly gutted after all the constitutional violations they’ve perpetrated.

They’re not proposing an increase to the increase, they’re just agreeing to the increase. The $11bn is already in the DHS funding bill.

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