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Encinitas school board trustee Rimga Viskanta is challenging Mayor Bruce Ehlers. She's worked on climate policy for Solana Beach & San Diego County. Her pitch: reform state housing mandates thru negotiation not lawsuits, & stop council from micromanaging staff. thecoastnews.com/viskanta-ent...

Lawfare is so, so good.

RE: AI build out I think you'd see a bigger productivity return per $ from investing in vocational and professional education.

Trump has lost the culture. But what if the universal conventional wisdom—that he won the culture in the first place—was never true? What if our warped media environment, then Trump's victory, created an illusion of MAGA cultural dominance that is now slipping. This is a long one, so strap in.

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

pretty much every "AOC isn't far left enough to earn my vote" guy was also a vocal Bernie supporter who would've turned on him immediately had he actually won the nomination or especially became President.

Incredible how every person who’s ever found intelligence differences between races has also found that they are part of the superior race. What are the odds??

social media in general needs aggressive regulation but the whole world would be markedly better off if Meta in particular were just nuked from orbit

Me: I want Democrats who plan to run for president to openly declare their support for full trans rights. This is my one requirement in order for me to consider voting for them. Weird centrists: YOU SHOULD BE QUIET AND VOTE FOR WHICHEVER CANDIDATE HAS A D BY THEIR NAME NO MATTER WHERE THEY STAND

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

Anyone know why Russell Vought lost custody of his kids?

No, the thing is, prices aren’t actually up very much. People aren’t actually upset about prices, the discontent over “prices” is just rationalized discontent over other stuff

The fact that his entire deal is "I am a big gruff man who will reach other macho men" and the only defense anyone can throw out over his Nazi tattoo is "he jus a lil 40 year old drunken baby he no know what a Nazi is he is a pure little baby boy 🥺" keeps making my blood pressure bad

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

After two weeks of negotiations, it’s clear the Trump administration and Republicans are not serious about reining in this goon-squad violence against American citizens.

“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.

"I, a journalist, will accept money in exchange for sponsoring my work and it's not an ethical issue at all because I will simply choose not be influenced by it" like he's the first guy ever to think of that

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Never watched Theo Von before, so unsure about this, but does he write thoughts up on the ceiling and for that reason must constantly avoid eye contact and look up so he can remember them?

More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find. dogetrack.info

Junk bonds have entered the chat.

A lot of residential only zoning in California traces back to anti Chinese laundry services and general anti saloon politics.

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were. by Bari Weiss

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

They think good is weak & evil is based, because they are wicked. ICE is doing wicked things & hiring wicked men to do them. It is difficult to look such a thing in the eye, but that is all there there is to them

The way to fix this is for HCD to issue rules (and as will surely be necessary, the CA Supreme Court to issue rulings) resolving any question as aggressively as possible in favor of expansive application.

Dude brags regularly about handling decomposing carcasses and eating them whenever he isn't turning then into a public health hazard. We already know that he loves germs, is on their side.

Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help. My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life. 8/

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

I think Tom Homan may have forgotten that "legitimate" and "leader takes a $50,000 bag of cash for a bribe" are mutually exclusive concepts.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

wait, Pete Hegseth shut down El Paso's airspace for ten days over four party balloons?

I remember being surprised at how much MeToo took over the minds of certain folks, and I guess I just severely underestimated the number of older men who regarded nonstop predation of younger women as their birthright

or who felt aggrieved that their friends were caught up in it, because 'he's never been anything but nice to me'

NEW: Don Lemon is set to be arraigned this week on charges tied to a protest at a church. The case has raised press freedom concerns. But the constitutional provision most likely to derail the indictment isn’t the First Amendment—it’s the Commerce Clause. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/minn...

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It's not good! It wasn't great that The News turned this into the be all end all of measurements, but having a nearly 100 year old continuous data source asking the same exact question is not worthless, and this won't end the practice of aggregating things in a social context.

The gallup presidential approval poll is an institution in American politics that predates world war 2. With Trump’s approval in the 30s, they’re ending it. thehill.com/homenews/med...

Imagine abandoning a nearly 100 year old data series that is also one of the most watched and cited numbers in the world. Incomprehensible to me.

How many pedo Willie Hortons does Trump have now?

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

Why is Trump not on top of the list?

The thing I hate about having the "would you vote for Newsom if he was the Dem nominee" is that I resent the idea that he uniquely deserves to have the question posed this way, as if inevitable. Has anyone asked Gavin, "Would you vote for Sarah McBride if she were the nominee?"