If I die please remember me as a great cool guy who was nice and helped out and actually changed a lot of our lives for the better but also had a certain unique quality you just couldn't put your finger on with an infectious laugh & unmistakable style
THREAD. A quiet catastrophe is unfolding in Los Angeles. A group of judges met in secret and decided to require a cash bail schedule starting on June 30. I have been unable to find a single news story about it, so I'll explain what's happening and why it matters.
Dem leaders must tell voters the plan:
What’s the *actual* need? Which specific seats are we focused on? WHAT votes do we need & WHERE (what states + races?)
And, what’s the return? What is Biden/Congress ACTUALLY willing+able to do at 52/60 seats?
Be honest. Details motivate
The President & Dem leaders can no longer get away with familiar tactics of “committees” and “studies” to avoid tackling our crises head-on anymore:
- Restrain judicial review
- Open clinics on federal lands
- Court expansion
- Expand Fed access/awareness of pill abortions
- etc
Los Angeles folks: I believe that we all need to be a LOT more worried about Rick Caruso's candidacy. We're on the verge of allowing a Trumpian, anti-abortion billionaire to buy our city government. And he can do it this June, in the primary, if we don't stop him. Thread:
Caruso has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-abortion politicians and PACs. He's been a Republican all his life. And his homelessness policy states that he'll criminalize homelessness and force people into crowded congregate shelters. https://t.co/3gBgMTg0yM
Among liberals, there's a tremendous amount of complacency. Pretty much every assumes that Caruso and Bass will go to the general, not realizing that 50+% allows Caruso to win outright. Result: Many LA liberals and leftists are checked out of the primary election entirely.
Three days of police trying to find a way of saying "it didn't seem worth it to us, at that moment, to try to stop the man with the gun in the school" that aligns with their brand/self-concept as a class of heroic protectors that exists above the rest of us. Good luck guys.
It won’t stop at Roe. Same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, it’s all on the chopping block. There’s nothing measured about this move; it’s extremism on full display. It won’t stop unless Republicans suffer a massive repudiation at the polls. Otherwise it’ll only get worse.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.):
"There is no other recourse. We must abolish the filibuster in order to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, and we must expand the Supreme Court in order to reclaim the stolen seats, and restore balance and the faith of the American people."
@GiuliaRozzi 4. One was very briefly when I was young one was a student under supervision who saw me for a year then took another assignment, one is my current therapist and one was a psychiatrist who practiced Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
In my 25 years writing about labor, the union victory at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island is by far the biggest, beating-the-odds David versus Goliath unionization win I've seen
A fired Amazon worker took on Amazon's union busters & unionized an 8,000-worker warehouse