True, by all accounts he was a corrupt asshole doing the bidding of some very bad people. That being said, he was held responsible by the courts, served time in prison, and since then he appears to be making all possible attempts to do the right thing and make amends for the shit he pulled.

We need to be a little more willing to recognize when people have changed their ways, especially considering all the other people in his orbit who have clearly not changed. When people make a good-faith effort to be better, we should give them a chance. He has admitted the things he did and has worked pretty damn hard to show the public what actually happened. I deeply respect that, while also not forgetting the crimes he committed and the damage he did.

Look, this has probably been rehashed over and over, but I hate that Psaki is an MSNBC host now. She’s a smart lady with a successful career in politics, but she was the Press Secretary for the current sitting president ffs. It’s a bad look. Being Press Secretary doesn’t necessarily prepare you to do the same job as your antagonists. She’s not particularly good at being a news anchor, she’s not a skilled interviewer, and her punditry is vanilla and uninteresting at best.

MSNBC has made some terrible decisions lately. Chris Hayes is the only one left that I respect over there.

He’d get around the same state restriction somehow, because those kinds of rules don’t apply to him apparently.

And frankly this is probably his best option, Rubio has absolutely no spine. He’d happily abide if Trump woke up one day and decided he supported nationwide unrestricted abortion access, and told Rubio to be the face of the policy. This guy would stoop to any low, and toe whatever line Trump throws his lunch at.

There’s also the constant threat of death for whoever he lands on. He did try to have his previous VP killed after all.

Edit: there’s no same state restriction for president and vp

I can do $15.

Yeah! It’s one of my favorite things about Judaism. You’ll notice a ton of qualifiers in front of my statements though, because we for sure have our fair share of crazy extremists. But comparatively I think our ratio of normal to crazy is maybe a little more reasonable.

A few things:

1. Jews have every right to hate Israel, just like anyone else. I personally don’t hate Israel per se, but I think it’s currently a murderous, racist, and fascist regime that doesn’t reflect any of my values. And I hate those things.

2. Israel, frankly, has nothing to do with my religion. Yes I’m Jewish, yes Israel is currently a Jewish state, but that has nothing to do with me, so my disgust for what Israel currently stands for has nothing to do with my religion or the religion of Israel. Basic stuff.

3. Judaism has a rich tradition of questioning everything. It is not considered heresy to question beliefs or authority, in fact it’s usually encouraged. You’ll find many many many Jews who openly identify as atheists (myself included), and yet most still absolutely consider themselves Jewish. This usually doesn’t bother anyone, Rabbis included. Atheists even hold a place of honor in some Jewish communities, because atheists get their morality from within themselves or other people, not from a fear of god.

All of that is to say that Trump doesn’t get to say what Jews love or hate. He clearly doesn’t understand the intricacies of an often contradictory and complex belief-system, and that’s fine, many of the Democrats he’s talking about have the same problems on the issue that he does.

I have an idea, let’s all just stop using religion for political purposes.

I’m really glad that the most powerful governments in the world believe that property is more important than people and the planet. Great priorities, makes sense.

/s obviously

I LOVE this. I’m pretty sure I’ve tried every single media/pc remote available, and they all suck for one reason or another. Been thinking about building my own, and this is totally the direction I would go. Thanks for the inspiration!!

I was forced to upgrade my work laptop by my company, and I basically lost two full days of productivity because of how truly shitty the new OS is. Still not back to normal productivity, and it’s been two weeks. Definitely felt like a scam…

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

So the bill has balls and teeth?! Impressive.

Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.

It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.

Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.

I’m a big fan of SoundCore products. I’m currently using the Space Q45 which replaced my pair of Life Q30s which I used the hell out of. IMO the Life Q30s have slightly richer sound quality despite being quite a bit cheaper than the Q45s, but all of their over ear headphone are super super comfortable and have good noise cancellation.

For fuck’s sake, there’s nothing new or interesting about the suggestions in this article. These are things that people have been saying for years. But since it’s usually leftists citing morality, no one takes us seriously, but when “Foreign Affairs” says it, it’s worth considering?

It should never have been controversial to condition our aid on a country’s ability to not indiscriminately kill everyone.

James Ho is a huge POS. He’s as partisan as they get.

I think I need to donate to these guys, ProPublica has been killing it lately.

I think the two (phones and late stage capitalism) are working hand and glove to fuck up the kids. Us older folks had a much easier time pretending things were okay because our pockets weren’t constantly buzzing with instant feedback and we weren’t continually forced to consume traumatic and stressful content. Sure, we had plenty of other problems, and each generation is going to deal with their own fair share of shit, but I do think this cohort has a much harder job avoiding the ugliest sides of humanity.

I’m not a San Francisco resident, so I don’t get a vote, I just have lots of connections to the region. She didn’t have to denounce the city council’s resolution against the genocide, she chose to, and that felt like a gut punch to me at the time. As for the relevance of it all, it was a non-binding (obviously) resolution taking a moral stand on an issue directly impacting hundreds if not thousands of residents in a pretty small city, so it matters.

I take your point, but if I asked my dentist if they thought it was okay to indiscriminately kill tens of thousands of children because they were born on the wrong side of a border, and they said yes? I’d absolutely find a different doctor.

Drug treatment is important, yes, but making it a precondition for benefits will absolutely hurt the most vulnerable. If there was actually enough affordable housing available for everyone that needs it, there would be far less of a need for this kind of policy. It is well documented that providing housing before anything else sets people up for success. If someone has been living on the streets and suddenly has housing available, their life will improve so drastically thanks to the job and social opportunities that will become available, also making it less likely that drug abuse will continue.

This seems like a cop out to me. Just build houses for fuck’s sake.

Breed has been on the wrong side of so many issues. Most recently she made an incredibly tone-deaf statement denouncing the city council’s vote against the genocide in Gaza. I’m done with her.