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Damn, gonna lose support from people here for that one.

 

I can only imagine how this upcoming season is going to turn out.

 

When this is over, you will have nothing that you want

 

I can dream, right?

 

My first thought: That was the best part of living in Southern California. I want this.

 

How many campaign managers does Trump need?

 

Enough to make his campaign look like a disaster.

 

The two thumb guy has to be named Chad. Just has to be.

 

Rimshot?

 

Jesus Christ. So that's what he's been doing all this time on the IR. Disgusting.

 

That game was such a let down

 

"To some extent, all political organizations must build fictions — weave stories of the good life to lend unity and vision to the various short-term political goals they pursue. This includes those on the far left — what other role does “the revolution” play but that of the horizon of the political imaginary? Their power to cohere scattered efforts or expose the gap between our aspirations and reality can be useful.

But the fictions of the two dominant US political parties do not serve that purpose. Their only goal is to attract the highest amount of potential voters, so they present narratives which conceal their underlying political economy.

This is in part because US political parties are rather peculiar. They don’t have a mass base of registered members who vote on internal decisions, nor a set of principles which all subsequent choices must refer to. This affords them broad political flexibility (one need only look at the massive changes in party platforms from election to election to observe this) and removes any responsibility toward the people that vote for them."

WrestleMania Politics | Jacobin

 

"Charter management claims charters are public schools when they want taxpayers’ money, but use legal maneuvers to hide from public audits, seek to evade the rules that govern public pre-K programs and, in this case, claim they are private schools when it comes to union representational elections,” Korn told the Times-Union."



National Labor Relations Board decides charter schools are private corporations, not public schools

 

“The Democratic Party is a center-right political operation that relies on the passions of black bodies to maintain its mainstream political dominance.”
They will not trim the budgets of surveillance agencies, and they will never view Palestinians as an oppressed, disenfranchised people and place righteous, unapologetic blame on the government of Israel. They will never view domestic law enforcement as a direct entity of historical slave patrols or call for the end of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. Instead, they will demand that we compromise, wait our turn, be peaceful and vote. The Democratic Party is a center-right political operation that relies on the passions of black bodies to maintain its mainstream political dominance."


Column: It's time for black people to break the two-party system

 

"Earlier this week, reporters began pouring over the 2,271-word nondisclosure agreement that Trump’s campaign requires its volunteers sign. The forms are extraordinarily broad, virtually prohibiting any volunteers from criticizing Trump or his family for the rest of their lifetimes, according to Rachel Sklar, a lawyer and CNN contributor."


Donald Trump volunteers are signing a lifelong contract never to criticize him

 

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This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?

 

Pope Francis is the single most respectable man in the world and, even with his views on abortion, the figure who I most highly regard. With his voice at the helm, real progress may be made within the religious right towards demilitarization, towards setting aside xenophobia and embracing foreign citizens, against predatory capitalist systems, and against destroying the environment.

Pope Francis says destroying the environment is a sin

 

I wonder how much impact it really would have, if any. Especially towards republicans in congress. :/ I'm pretty pessimistic regarding that.

 

Explosion in Philippine president's home city kills 10-president spokesman

 

Presidential debate moderators announced: Holt, Cooper, Raddatz, Wallace