Odd how this “mistake” has happened a dozen times now—on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, has been said by Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep Eric Swalwell and Rep Laura Gillen, but weirdly no other part of Mamdani’s campaign has involved similar “mistakes.” Very bad luck on Mamdani’s part I guess
I've been joking around about this, but the way you can tell the Supreme Court corruption scandal is genuinely scandalous and genuinely corrupt is by following the logic of their own jurisprudence on public corruption issues.
The context for the increasing levels of denialism about economic data is that a bunch of key indicators have improved and we now look set to finally enjoy both full employment and wages > inflation, so rich people who want tax cuts need to make stuff up.
https://t.co/m0aW7CHrYV
Fortunately, a series of Supreme Court cases has ruled that it’s not corrupt to take bribes unless you specifically say “thank you for the ongoing stream of lucrative favors, in exchange I will do some official misconduct for you” so there’s no problem here.
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as Air Quality alerts were issued in 13 states last night, the 3 major networks nightly news segments on the brown smog outside people's homes didn't mention climate change once. I argue this is bad, and that climate needs to be centered in these reports https://t.co/XkLSo88Rtq
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According to #UWMadison administration, they can’t (read: refuse) to expel #audreygodlewski the student in the video.
Students have organized a rally, and created a petition calling for her expulsion. If you have a minute, please consider signing:
https://t.co/TzdRRnJLJo
When poor people break the law, the law assumes malice and ill intent, when the rich and powerful break the law, the law assumes it’s a clerical error, a mistake, an oversight, and then officials politely suggest they correct their error when it’s convenient for them
I was appalled to see a leading scholar of poverty repeat the misleading claim that the poverty rate has not improved in the last 50 yrs in @nytimes.
This is only true if you look at data that ignores most our major anti-poverty programs including the EITC, SNAP and more.
I got a check from a tech company once and it came from a bank called Silicon Valley Bank and I sort of idly thought “providing banking services to one particular industry sounds like a bad idea” and then never looked into it further.