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circularfish

@ circularfish @beehaw.org

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  • South Carolina Senator Tim Scott opposes the PRO Act

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  • Unions were never given power in this country. They have always had to fight for it and take it. Today is no different. And one of the first fights that has to be won, one upon which most of the others rest, is to crush once and for all the pernicious belief in this country that what is good for business owners is good for workers.

    No, what is good for workers is good for workers.

  • Opinion | What Just Happened at West Virginia University Should Worry All of Us

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  • Controversial opinion incoming: two things can be true at once: state legislatures are woefully underfunding public higher education and need to boost support, AND, in the meantime every state institution doesn’t need a full roster of humanities departments filled with tenure track faculty when enrollment is just not justifying the cost … and other departments with lots of undergraduate and graduate students to teach have to suffer to keep them afloat.

  • Town fires librarian who worked there for 11 years because she refused to remove LGBTQ+ books - LGBTQ Nation

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  • And yet, they will turn around and blame us for “incivility” if we call them out as stupid and superstitious. For banning books and firing librarians.

  • Barbie And Baldur’s Gate 3 Prove That Go Woke, Go Broke Doesn’t Exist

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  • I would certainly pay to see a Karlach/Barbie crossover.

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    Comer asks National Archives for unredacted Biden emails involving Hunter and Ukraine

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  • Difference between most most Dems and most MAGA types is that we are perfectly willing to hold our guy accountable. Show us actual proof of Biden peddling influence illegally, and we’ll be right there calling for criminal proceedings.

    Yet, somehow (a) I doubt that such evidence actually exists here, and (b) I am astounded at the lengths to which the exact same human beings will go to paint Hunter Biden’s dealings as murky and suspicious while waving away any questions around $2 Billion in Saudi investment through Trump’s son in law. It breaks your brain.

  • Supreme Court Rebuffed Democrats’ Call for Thomas Probe With Just One Sentence

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  • I wonder if Congress can withhold SCOTUS operational funding until something is done? Sure, the justices can take expensive vacations funded by billionaires, but if that is the way it is gonna be, they can get used to hearing cases in a Publix parking lot.

    Power of the purse belongs to Congress and this is all about respecting separation of powers, right?

  • Bidenomics Isn’t Working For Working People

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  • I’m an honest to goodness old-school trade unionist / New Deal type, and don’t really identify with much of the Dem establishment (and parts of the counter-establishment) these days, but I definitely see some of the points my progressive friends are making. Dems, even if they lose, don’t seem to really fight on the way down. When FDR was being blocked he threatened to pack the SCOTUS until he got his way. Fuck yeah. We need more of that energy.

    I do agree with my mainstream Dem friends that we have to vote strategically to keep the fascists out. That said, and even though I don’t agree with some of the more unrealistic late night dorm room bong-ripping idealism, I also don’t agree with the mainstream expectation that progressives need to roll over before the election even gets underway just because there is an anointed mainstream Dem candidate on the ballot. Fighting like hell through the primaries is the way you hold the Dem establishment accountable and keep the Overton window from drifting too far right. Because you know what? Activists on the far right are fightIng like hell the other direction, and they have been winning.

    So shine on, you crazy progressive and radical diamonds. Hold the establishment accountable and push policy to the left. Want real socialism? Agitate for it. But if you lose in the primaries, have the grace to put on a disguise and show up on election day to make sure the vulnerable don’t get fucked any worse than than they already are.

  • Meadows asks for Georgia charges to shift to federal court

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  • The real play here is to keep it off TV as someone says below and to expand the jury pool beyond Fulton County. One only has to look at an electoral map to know why.

  • Opinion | This Indictment of Trump Does Something Ingenious

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  • Don’t know if the article picked this up, but in Georgia a pardon board, not the governor, makes the pardon determination and, I am told, requires that a portion of the criminal sentence be served before a pardon is considered. This is a tough case to prosecute, and these are uncharted waters, but it raises the specter of a candidate running for president from behind bars.

  • Two Months in Georgia: How Trump Tried to Overturn the Vote

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  • Presidential pardon power does not extend to state crimes, unless I am mistaken. In Georgia, there is a board with pardon power and you have to serve part of your sentence before you are even eligible. This one is a real danger for Trump.

  • The Hidden Fee Costing Doctors Millions Every Year

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  • This is a great (but depressing) read. Exhibit #5,000 as to why we do not have a functioning competitive market for health care (services) in the U.S. Arguing that government should step aside and let the market allocate care is like arguing we should step aside and let a llama pilot the space shuttle.

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    Green Groups Slam Biden Admin for Awarding $1 Billion to ‘Unproven’ Carbon Capture Projects

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  • The “greedy scientists just want more money for studies” angle makes me an little uncomfortable since it is the same one used by the side arguing we shouldn’t be spending any money on green energy.

    The fact that the fossil fuels industry supports this research is a way better argument, IMHO. Also, we do have these great carbon sequestration machines already. They are called trees.

  • "Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools

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  • I somehow feel this will backfire spectacularly. Younger kids can be dumb like the rest of us, but there is one thing they are exceptionally smart about: spotting and mocking lame-ass adults.

    There is already little tolerance among (a lot of) younger folk for climate denialism and general right wing jackassery. Adding a cut-rate Donald Duck screeching about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or how windmills are dangerous is just gonna’ cement the lameness for them. Now, if we could just do something about the grown-up idiots on Facebook, we’d be cooking.

  • Why are Black rappers aligning themselves with the right? | Tayo Bero

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  • I am aware of the rhetorical device you are talking about, but I did not read that into the replies to you. Maybe I am just dense. What I do pick up from all corners is a lot of motive attribution without sufficient evidence, which continues with the post above. I think disengagement is a wise move.

    We can all agree that there is a lot of daylight between punching literal Nazis and what to do about Uncle Bob who won’t shut up about border security, and leave it at that.

  • Why are Black rappers aligning themselves with the right? | Tayo Bero

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  • Speaking of civility, I think you are both coming from a well meaning place and are making interesting points, but you are starting to make different points. It is even likely you are visualizing two totally different interactions when you are typing out your replies.

    I could be wrong about that, but what is clear is that there is a lot of “you this” and “you that” in the discussion. As this is the nice Lemmy instance, please depersonalize the interaction or consider disengaging.

  • Biden's health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

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  • I agree again, and just posted up an article about that very thing.

    I do think health care can be this way too, though. It just has to be explained in a manner that is personal to Joe and Jill public. Stop talking about taking away private insurance, cause that will just scare them, and start talking about how they are already one serious illness and a faceless algorithm away from bankruptcy, which is scary, but in an accurate way.

  • Biden's health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

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  • I basically agree. As mentioned below, there are several issues, health care among them, that are winners at the ballot box if dems get the messaging right and are willing to go to the mat over principle.

  • Biden's health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

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  • Yes and no. Congress is a mess in its current configuration and nothing is likely to get done, but I think there are at least four issues on which the dems can run much more aggressively in 2024 and win legislative majorities: reproductive, voting, and worker’s rights, and health care.

    Large numbers of American know that the system is broken when it comes to these issues and are not going to fault a candidate for pointing it out as long as they come with a realistic solution.

  • Biden's health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

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  • I didn't really read it that way, but see what you mean.

    But along those lines, I'm a "vote blue to keep the troglodytes out" type, and supported the ACA as an incremental step, but I'm also appreciative of the criticism coming from further left over current healthcare policy. If the ACA really was an incremental step, then we shouldn't be talking about backsliding -- the administration should be prioritizing a push in the other direction. We can debate what that entails, and may be about to today, but the discussion should be about getting more folks covered.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

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  • Awesome game so far and remarkably well-polished due to the early access. My only real gripe is that the camera control is a little fiddly. It may be that I'm just not used to it, but a click and drag to rotate the camera would be chef's kiss