The ultimate answer to reformists who say things like "politics is the art of the possible:" Orgs ought to catch a wave of new members as anti-genocide DSA members start moving left.
Wertheimer
joined 4 years ago
Is that what James Carville's up to these days?
I just realized I have two Shabaka Hutchings albums to catch up with.
was swayed by the Democrats running to the right of Trump on Iran
Or maybe Elliott Abrams has been Democratized by serving in Biden's administration
As someone here said on the day of -
It was a campaign!
‘Take it from an actual billionaire’: Dem governor goes after Trump in his DNC speech | CNN Politics
Billionaires, border patrol pigs, and Republicans are all welcome at the Democratic National Convention. Palestinians need not apply.
The Hillary endorsement curse applies in all contexts, political or cultural!
If I were a terrorist cell I would finance my terrorisms by selling miniature American flags after every successful terrorism.
She had one good moment as an anti-death penalty DA and immediately decided to give up:
In California, it was unheard of not to seek the death penalty in a case where a police officer is the victim.
But three days later, Harris announced she would not seek the death penalty against the suspect. It was a lonely position. At Espinoza’s funeral at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Harris in the front row, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein called for the death penalty for Espinoza’s killer. Behind Harris, scores of mourning police officers rose to their feet and applauded. After the service, Feinstein commented that had she known Harris opposed the death penalty, she probably wouldn’t have endorsed her for district attorney.
And then:
Four years later, Harris found herself at another crossroads on the death penalty. This time, she took the path law enforcement favored. In July 2014, a federal judge ruled that California’s death penalty system was so dysfunctional that it had become unconstitutional. Of the 900 people sentenced to death since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1978, just 13 had been executed. More than 40 percent of the 748 prisoners on death row at the time of the decision had languished there for more than 19 years. This delay and uncertainty “violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment,” the judge wrote.
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But it could only set a precedent if it wasn’t struck down. It fell to Harris to decide whether to let the opinion stand or appeal it. The timing was tricky. She was up for reelection in four months, and after painstaking work had rebuilt relationships with law officer unions and even won some of their endorsements. Harris chose to appeal.
So like Biden, who also has claimed to be against the death penalty, she's continued to pursue it even when it's completely under her power. Further proof that if there were 100 Democratic senators, there would be 51 Joe Manchins.
I don't care how Class Consciousness 101 this is, I can't get over the fact that Democrats value the health and safety of Donald Trump more than they do that of Palestinian children.
One connection stood out: While Dr. Shuren regulated the booming medical device industry, his wife, Allison W. Shuren, represented the interests of device makers as the co-leader of a team of lawyers at Arnold & Porter, one of Washington’s most powerful law firms.
Dr. Shuren signed ethics agreements obtained by The Times that were meant to wall him off from matters involving Arnold & Porter’s business. But it's not clear how rigorously the ethics agreements were actually enforced. His wife’s law firm refused to provide a list of clients — and the agency had no legal authority to require it, said Michael Felberbaum, a spokesman for the F.D.A.
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But safety issues multiplied on his watch. The most urgent F.D.A. recalls of devices that can cause serious injury or death have ticked up, to nearly 100 so far this year, from 29 in 2012, the first year such measures were tracked in an agency database. In March, a heart device was recalled after 49 deaths were linked to a specific concern.
Reports of device-related injuries soared to 900,000 in 2023, up from about 190,000 in 2012, according to Device Events, a company that makes F.D.A. data user-friendly for subscribers.
His wife represented Theranos, as well as a breast implant manufacturer whose products were linked to a "rare form of lymphoma."
Adams is saying this a false allegation because the plaintiff "has a history of filing lawsuits." Imagine trying this as a criminal defendant. "Your honor, I don't remember assaulting this particular person, and in any case the District Attorney has a history of prosecuting people."
Wishing a very 
to Eric Adams and his bootlickers at the New York Times.
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Infections are above one million a day in the U.S.; 1/33 of the country currently has COVID
(www.thegauntlet.news)
Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.
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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.
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