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Tired Millennial | pro-growth pragmatist | policy nerd

[M @marsplx]

@johnlegend

[M @marsplx]

LeBron will have played for more teams than he had rings. 🤷‍♂️

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@MattWalshBlog ❄️

[Liam Rutherford 🌐🗽🍸 ☭⃠ @RealLiamR1]

Democrats should unironically post videos like this with the tag “the world before MAGA/populism”.

@HQNewsNow @factpostnews @kenmartin73

[M @marsplx]

This.

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

This is not what Gavin Newsom said, by the way, and everyone has misconstrued his words, which were that if Israel annexes the West Bank and doesn't provide citizenship to the Palestinians, then it would be effectively apartheid.

Which is substantially different than this.

[M @marsplx]

@JacobALinker @yashar That’s exactly what he said and the reporting on this has been absolute garbage. People are literally misquoting what he said.

[M @marsplx]

@politico Ok but he didn’t actually say this. He was talking about proposals from hard-liners in Bibi’s cabinet on fully annexing the West Bank, which would be extremely problematic and in practice, tantamount to apartheid. I don’t see how any reasonable person could dispute this.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

A lot of Dem activists want to make the upcoming primary a referendum on Gaza in which the most anti-Israel candidate wins. But in reality, perception that Harris was too "pro-Palestine" hurt her more than support for Israel.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I’m glad the world is finally joining the anti-terrorism train, but the reality is that the reported 43,000 death toll in Iran is a direct result of legitimizing terrorism for all these years.

October 7th was the signal to hold jihadists accountable. It was the canary in the coal mine of what was coming if we didn’t.

Instead, the international conversation was about “context and nuance.” Because of that gross failure on the part of humanity, terrorists were emboldened, diplomacy continued, and international courts and organizations refused to hold the perpetrators accountable.

That inertia directly led to the Iran massacre.

This is the direct result of mass moral confusion.

For the past two years, this was the most unpopular truth of our time. It was me, a handful of non-Jewish Iranians, a Lebanese, a Yemeni, maybe 3 anti-Hamas Gazans, and the entire Jewish community. That was it. And a handful of allies.

We were harassed, bullied, doxxed, cancelled, ostracized, in some cases physically harmed. All for saying what can no longer be ignored.

Again, I’m glad that the world is finally waking up to how grotesquely immoral it is to add nuance to terrorism—to commit the cardinal sin of tolerating intolerance—but I can’t help but be fuming at the cost of international enlightenment.

Had the world had clarity after October 7th, we could have saved hundreds of hostages, thousands of Gazans from the war that ensued, and an untold number of Iranians from the terror apparatus that erased them.

The moral of the story is that when you pardon terrorism, you get terrorism.

As an Iranian, as a human, I’m just not ready to forgive the pardon that gave us the Iranian massacre.

[M @marsplx]

“Moderate” Rs supporting Trump 60-40 is wild.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Pew released Trump approval among 74 subgroups.

Trump’s only above water among 9 of them:
—Conservative Rs (83/17)
—Rs (73/25)
—White Evangelicals (69/29)
—Moderate Rs (59/39)
—White Catholic (52/47)
—Rural (51/47)
—White Non-College (51/48)
—White 50+ (50/48)
—Men 50-64 (50/49)

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Ready for my most controversial takes yet?

The Dems won the shutdown fight!

- This "fold" won't matter at all in next years midterms but making the GOP own the dogshit BBB/tariff/health care policies will
- This is not an example of Dems "not fighting like Republicans" it's a longer shutdown than anything the kamikaze Tea Party ever did!
- The people who are mad about this are a small subset of the electorate that treat politics like sports and its possible that their crying about the fold will contribute to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- There was no path to getting the Obamacare subsidies back because the GOP controls everything and was never going to do it and they are fake populists. Dems should run against them on that topic and they have a great case study now. MTG helps with that.
- The fact that there was no getting Obamacare subsidy extension endgame was obvious at the start and anyone setting that expectation was lying to people.

Ratio away!

[M @marsplx]

Every WORD of this.

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

The shutdown is a complete victory for Democrats and it's strange that people think otherwise.

Dems have Republicans in a chokehold (no thanks to Chuck Schumer).

Here's a breakdown of everything Dems got from this :

(1/6)

[M @marsplx]

Honestly, this.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

The sooner my Dem friends realize:

- ACA subsidies were never going to be in the CR.

- House would never pass CR w/ ACA subsidies

- Trump would never sign CR w/ ACA subsidies

They’ll realize why forcing GOP to govern + ACA vote + SNAP + CR debate in Jan is smart strategy.

[M @marsplx]

@esglaude

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Genuinely the most enraging thing about housing discourse is how people talk about 'affordability' like it's some sort of innate quality, like the building needs to be made out of affordium.

Housing. is. affordable. when. housing. is. abundant.

Supply and demand are real.

[M @marsplx]

@PEWilliams_ It was soooooo bad.

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@OhhMar24 56% of them

[M @marsplx]

@kyriecenter No, Draymond ruined it 😏

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

In 6 minutes, Ezra Klein completely demolishes Sam Seder on affordable housing.

The liberal economic agenda will always deliver better results than central planning and restrictionism.

Watch every minute.

[M @marsplx]

@layneashley222 @WolvesRadio Not at all 😂😂