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If "getting real mad at the prospect of their violence being scrutinized" sounds familiar, that's no coincidence.
https://progressive.org/latest/us-police-trained-by-israel-communities-of-color-paying-price-shahshahani-cohen-191007/

We don't have to accept the logic of bosses as our own.

Tyranthraxus posted...

With the amount of money he spent it would have been cheaper to just pay for the unions demands without any counter offers.

It's not really about the money.

https://www.aol.com/news/york-democrats-divided-between-moderates-172545013.html

After a disappointing performance that may cost the party control of the U.S. House, Democrats in New York are divided between progressives from New York City and suburban moderates, with both sides blaming the other for the loss of at least four congressional seats two on Long Island, one in New York Citys northern suburbs and one upstate.

Those losses in an overwhelmingly Democratic state stood out in an election in which the party outperformed expectations in House and Senate races nationally.

Now progressives are calling for an overhaul of the moderate-dominated state party. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent progressive from New York City, fired the opening shot on Twitter Wednesday when she called for the resignation of state party chair Jay Jacobs.

NYS Dem party leadership, which was gutted under [former Gov. Andrew] Cuomo, stuffed with lobbyists, works to boost [the] GOP, and failed to pass a basic state ballot measure to protect NY redistricting, must be accountable, she wrote. I called for Jay Jacobs resignation a year ago and I still hold that position.

Ocasio-Cortez was referring to a 2021 ballot initiative that would have allowed new congressional and legislative districts to be drawn by the Democratic-dominated state Legislature, instead of by a bipartisan commission created in 2014 with Cuomos support. The initiatives defeat led to maps that had been drawn by the Legislature which would have left Republicans with as few as four of New Yorks 26 congressional seats, instead of the 10 they will now have being overturned by four Cuomo appointees to the state Court of Appeals (two of whom are former Republicans).
The subsequent court-drawn maps were much more favorable to Republicans, costing Democrats a slew of House seats: the four they lost, and one currently held by a Republican that they would have picked up, according to a data analysis of election returns by the City, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet.

Jacobs, who was appointed by Cuomo, hails from Nassau County, the suburban Long Island area in which Democrats lost two House seats whose incumbents Reps. Kathleen Rice and Tom Suozzi did not run for reelection. Both districts had voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and yet both elected a Republican candidate. One of those future members of Congress, George Santos, said he attended then-President Donald Trumps Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Hochul won her first full term in office by only 6 points on Tuesday, whereas Cuomo won by 14 points in 2014, the last midterm election with a Democrat in the White House. But she told reporters on Thursday that Jacobs did a great job as chair and that he should stay on. (Hochuls office and campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)

Progressive activists and commentators many of whom noted the absence of get-out-the-vote efforts in heavily Democratic New York City, where voter turnout dropped from 44% of registered voters in 2018 to 36% this year, while the rest of the states turnout held steady at 55% say that amounts to dereliction of duty by the party establishment.

https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1587140369082466305

In southern Brooklyn, for example, two longtime Assembly Democrats lost to Republicans, and local Democrats attributed the result to the party's failure to mobilize its voters. Where the hell was the state party? state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, a Democrat from the area, told the City. We were literally left to die on a vine here. And its deeply frustrating that our party didnt even put up a fight.

A lot of folks who dont even necessarily identify with the left were like, Why havent I received a single piece of mail? What is the state party doing? state Sen. Julia Salazar, who represents Brooklyn, a borough that has the most Democrats of any county in the state, told Yahoo News.

But it wasnt just about redistricting and the ground game, or lack thereof. Despite losing all of New Yorks statewide races, Republicans did better than usual, as the electorate told pollsters that crime and inflation were their top two concerns. Republican candidates such as gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin and the winning GOP congressional candidates have relentlessly hammered Democrats for a spike in crime since 2020. (Crime has risen nationally since the pandemic, and New York remains a relatively safe state, with the 10th-lowest crime rate in the country.)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams argued on MSNBC Thursday morning that Democrats performed badly in the state because of a 2019 law that reduced the use of bail for lower-level criminal charges.

Adams, a former police captain and former Republican, consistently overstates the threat of crime. In May, he said he has never witnessed crime at this level, even though New York City has less than one-fifth as many murders as it did in 1990, when Adams was a police officer.

Mayor Adams spent the last year really fearmongering about crime and in many ways becoming Lee Zeldins best surrogate, especially with suburban voters, Sochie Nnaemeka, the New York director of the Working Families Party, a progressive beacon, told local news outlet NY1. Adams pointed his finger back at the left, saying that those that ignored the concern about crime are at fault.

Ocasio-Cortez and Salazar, both of whom belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, say an ideological shift away from Adamss style of messaging is needed. As they see it, the establishment favors centrists over forthright progressives who would motivate their base. And they say moderates efforts to assuage voters concerns on hot-button issues such as crime may do more harm than good by accepting a Republican frame.

If we want people to turn out to vote, we have to be unapologetic about our party, as Democrats, Salazar said. Democrats who performed better in hotly contested races elsewhere, such as Pennsylvanias Sen.-elect John Fetterman, were more unabashedly progressive, they argue.

I think, in New York, the way that those campaigns were run were different than the way a lot of winning campaigns across the country were run. And I think the role of the state party had very strong national implications, Ocasio-Cortez told the Intercepts Ryan Grim in a Wednesday interview for his newsletter. I think the choice among certain Democrats to validate Republican narratives and amplify Republican narratives on crime and policing, running ads on it validating these narratives actually ended up hurting them.
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One particularly embarrassing loss for the establishment was Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a moderate who chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. When much of Maloneys district got moved into that of his neighbor Rep. Mondaire Jones, he decided to run in Joness district. This forced Jones a progressive freshman who is one of the first two openly gay Black members of Congress out of a seat. That drew criticism of Maloney from progressives and an unsuccessful carpetbagging primary challenge from progressive state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, a notable Cuomo antagonist. Maloney, though his new district had gone for Biden by 10 points in 2020, lost to Republican challenger Mike Lawler. (Maloney told MSNBC that he and other congressional candidates were dragged down by Hochuls poor performance.)

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Flauros posted...

I hope reddit falls next.

So many echo chambers ripe for the busting.

Do you think the replacements to sites that are used by basically everybody will be more or less insular?

https://twitter.com/dustinbpalmer/status/1590879271605923840

NJ and commute into NYC

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Correct.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I haven't given it a fair shot, but I follow the NHL, NFL, and MLB pretty close, and not sure I even really want another sport to follow.

It seems fine, low scoring isn't really an issue. Not a fan of all the diving and fake injury stuff I see a lot, not sure if that's very common or if it's just been in clips.

I also really wouldn't know where to start.

World Cup is the next few weeks! But a lot of those games will be during the American workday/early morning

__aCEr__ posted...

The man is literally a white nationalist.

To wit:
https://twitter.com/cityafreaks/status/1591468566821339138

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Entirely possible more people have seen these tweets on CE than on Twitter

creativerealms posted...

If Twitter is mad about something

These are two users on a platform of 500 million. They aren't even popular ones. Twitter is not mad about this.

Prequels can still be told in interesting and valuable ways. But more relevant to why these are being made is because the entertainment industry won't let anything popular die before every last ounce of fan juice is squeezed out of it.

Maybe a couple, but not many. Severe abortion restrictions are very unpopular.

Given the sample size at hand, itd be every bit as accurate to say Americans are mad because Chris Evans is dating a 25 year old

Again, it wasn't fans killing each other: police provoked a stampede by using tear gas on a crowd who had limited ability to exit.

coolguyjimmy posted...

Soccer is one of the most dangerous contact-sports in the world, except it doesn't occur during the game, but between "fans" afterwards. I mean like in one soccer match, 129 people died. (The incident is the deadliest football-related disaster in Asia, as well as the second-deadliest worldwide.)
If that isn't dangerous, I don't know what to tell you.

Worth noting: the cops did that.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/indonesia-human-rights-body-blames-use-of-tear-gas-for-soccer-stampede/ar-AA13EbVC

It is precisely cases like this where opponents of capital punishment should be most vocal. For the most part, you won't see people out there arguing for the executions of the wrongly convicted, or the mentally incompetent. But cases like this provoke people into arguing for a system that inevitably executes the wrongfully convicted and mentally incompetent. It's important to push back against that impulse.

5D Chess is fun though

Is this "Twitter," or "two randos"?

https://twitter.com/cityafreaks/status/1591329291706699776

Different people like different things, and that's okay.

Well?

Don't fetishize fascists

I believe this is what's called a joke.

theAteam posted...

My dad used to take us to Montreal every year for the Formula 1 race. You don't NEED french but it sure would help at times in the city.

From what I understand Montreal is pretty bilingual, it gets more French elsewhere in Quebec

Useful if you want to visit Quebec I guess

DoesntMatter posted...

"This tweet is from a suspended account"

what did it say?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/2/AAWHm8AAD3ye.jpg

https://twitter.com/SpaceXOfficiall/status/1591140761500004352

--Zero- posted...

It definitely did in certain states like Florida.

Were they expecting a one-state wave?

Here he is coming to the defense of insulin price gougers

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1591208357326913536

https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1590917343298953217

What's your favorite Vonnegut novel?

Meanwhile
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/heres-how-abortion-ballot-measures-fared-in-the-midterms/ar-AA13TLGC

Judges aren't elected: this one was appointed by a president who lost the popular vote and approved by a senate representing a minority of the population. Making this about voters seems weird to me, given how little they actually had to say about it.

Twitter's old owners made boatloads off the site.

I mean, this is the whole game: in opposing not just abortion, but contraception, Republicans would create conditions where sex carries with it a higher risk of pregnancy, in turn leaving women more economically vulnerable and in theory more reliant on men.

https://www.blogto.com/travel/2022/06/greenland-canada-new-land-border/

https://twitter.com/LockheedMartini/status/1590876906529751040

Lol

We're back, baby

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590807775294418944