Trump launched a new round of tariffs on Friday. Gas prices are nearly a dollar higher than a year ago thanks to his war on Iran. Ordinary Americans are struggling just to pay their bills. Trump doesn’t care. abcnews.com/Business/tru...
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Alissa McLean
UX research & consumer insights. Married mom of 3. SF Bay Area.
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www.alternet.org/todd-blanche... Most magas are expected to vote in favor of confirming Blanche. But if Democrats vote in unison against him as expected — including Fetterman — maga defections could become perilous for trump’s acting AG….
“U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ordered the release of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego from ICE custody within 48 hours, after the judge previously blocked his deportation. Ellison agreed with Rojas Pliego’s argument that his detention violates his Fifth Amendment due process rights.”
Gabe OrtízA federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to release a key witness in the fatal shooting of a Houston dad Lorenzo Araujo Salgado by ICE: apnews.com/article/immi...
“It has been a pretty big lie people [have] told themselves on here that working class people are closet leftists,” Neera Tanden, the president of Center for American Progress, posted on X. “They are in fact much more moderate than college educated folks.”
Seeing a lot of "the DNC picked South Carolina to ensure a centrist nominee" and, no, it may feel good and validate your priors to believe that, but that's not what's happening at all. First, for obvious reasons, the DNC is going to have an early state that has a substantial Black population. 1/x
Beshear escalated from his earlier letters & posts to write a new letter calling for Mitch to be more transparent or resign. I’m in no rush to giftwrap Republicans the vote they’re missing from his seat & have no idea how challenging state law will go. But he’s handling it well despite the wreckers.
There’s a special election in GA-13 tomorrow that should add another Democratic vote in the House. State Rep. Jasmine Clark, who won the primary for the November election, isn’t running in this election. So one of the Democrats running is likely to be a U.S. Representative for a few months.
That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies.
"Dems care more about trans & woke than practical stuff" wasn't just a GOP "message" -- it was echoed by thousands of voices, in thousands of outlets & venues & formats, in an endless nonstop loop for close to a decade. *That*, and only that, is how you shift those deep cultural mythologies.
This is why I always kind of laugh about "Dems are bad at messaging." The actual words that come out of actual Dem mouths barely reach the political obsessives! They are so far from the life world of the disconnected voter that they might as well speak latin. Find-grained word choice is irrelevant.