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I’ve been holding this post all day as I hold all our 9/11 heros in my heart. It’s game time on Mt Oread, MuckFizzou!!
From @TheAthletic: A viral Kansas football hype video, ahead of its rivalry game against Missouri on Friday, referenced the Civil War. “There are heroes and villains,” the video states. “There’s right and wrong. There’s Kansas and Missouri.”
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For those not in DC I can’t explain how sad and shameful this Great American State Fair is. Literally everything @POTUS touches turns to shit. @America250
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"This led to a typical Virginia situation where the scattered unions made private deals with Spanberger as best they could, if they could. The state AFL-CIO played its usual slumbering and near-invisible role."
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Amazon Don and Data Center Diva, you are making a MONUMENTAL MISTAKE! Maybe you should ask Glenn Youngkin how that worked out for him!
Congratulations, my friend. You done good.
Sandy Marks, chair of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, won't seek reelection alxnow.com/2025/11/05/sandy-…
Oh, FFS this is real.
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Here at the @FairShare_USA Rally with hundreds of #taxjustice advocates lobbying #Congress. They took a bad vote today in the House but it only gets harder for them. We will win!
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The rally is tomorrow, Thursday, April 10th at noon ET next to the U.S. Capitol Building!
Our coalition will demand that Congress stand with working families instead of billionaires and big corporations.
See the lineup of speakers on our website here:
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Can't make it to DC? We will stream it live on Youtube here:
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And we have a ton of co-hosts for this event: @AFLCIO, @AFSCME, @AFTunion, @4TaxFairness, @FamFriendlyEcon, @CareInActionUS, @CaringAcrossGen, @popdemoc, @CommCatHealth, @CLASP_DC, @TaxWarRoom, @Groundwork, @IndivisibleTeam, @MomsRising, @MoveOn, @NEAToday, @domesticworkers, @nwlc, @NETWORKLobby, @OurRevolution, @BoldProgressive, @PplsActionInst, @SEIU, @UnrigOurEconomy
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Finished on a delayed train from Scotland to London. My initial criticism and agreements hold true. Both important as a reminder we can and must innovate— and dismissive of democratic structure, DEI and other racial and economic justice policy. Cheers!
I’ve started reading Abundance and this is encapsulating what I find lacking in thier research. @ezraklein is a great writer and thinker, but to say we need “more” without properly analyzing why we don’t already have “more”, is disappointing.
Musk is now amplifying this deeply misleading clip.
Klein implies that Dems got in a room and unilaterally decided on this lengthy process. That is false. This process came out of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and was largely at the insistence of *GOP Senators* as a condition for their votes.
These GOP members wanted this process for two reasons: (1) to ensure that the money didn’t fund projects that went nowhere, which had been a problem with previous state broadband funding programs; and (2) at the behest of large incumbent internet providers, who did not want a dollar spent to build new infrastructure where they were already providing service.
One could argue that the Biden Admin should have rejected these GOP requests and not gotten any broadband funding instead, but to claim that this was solely our design is not true.
There’s an interesting potential critique here about how corporate interests, acting through the GOP, try to stop government progress by adding complexity to new programs. But that wouldn’t square with Klein’s abundance thesis about the left.
So I’m headed out for a while but thinking about the Zeitgeist of my x feed this week called “Abundance Agenda”. Not that anyone cares but I did run as a progressive in a race for city council last year. Short 🧵 below.
So the Abundance Agenda will likely take additional root, at least on housing policy in metros like mine. Let’s not pretend that there will be costs to neighborhoods and communities who don’t want to be steamrolled to make sure upwardly mobile people have more housing options.