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I don't know anything about this candidate or that district, but I would also prefer dental work with no drugs over living in Paris, Texas.

 

Capitalism, am I right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Trump has been rambling for like 45 minutes.

 

thread

 

I completely relate, as a MENA minority woman also. We're invisible b/c the gaze is western-centric. I've been saying this since I started caring about anything. Anyhow I'm writing about this and am probably going to add to it...but DOM ADDED SOME GOOD CRITIQUE, so it's gon take a while.

 

hi imma keep going, how are y'all today

 

Immigration officials subpoena City Light for customer info

"In late January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement approached Seattle City Light with an administrative subpoena, demanding information on a particular customer location, including phone numbers and information on related accounts. The request set off alarm bells among department officials who quickly took the matter to the Mayor’s Office.

ICE’s letter was vague, said City Light spokesperson Scott Thomsen, and did not specify why the officials wanted the information. And so, on Valentine’s Day two weeks later, City Light’s legal counsel, Mary Doherty, declined to comply, citing a Washington State law that law enforcement must have belief the utility records could help solve a crime. "

fuck ICE. fuck yes Seattle

 

Holy shit

 

ooo the double down

 

what kind of headphones do you have

 

Holy crap

NYU dining hall made some unfortunate choices for a Black History Month menu

Turns out some employees from Aramark, the school's food supplier, were behind the choices

 

Ben uses Skullcandies.

 

no wonder theyre fucking broken

 

Aramark is my school’s food supplier too, not surprised their employees are as shitty as their food.

 

Oh my God

 

It's not a far left candidate. Dunno why people are pretending she is, she's not.

Of those six Democrats four—cancer researcher Jason Westin, nonprofit exec Alex Triantaphyllis, attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, and activist Laura Moser—have raised serious money. On the defining issue of the moment Westin and Moser are running on Medicare for all while Triantaphyllis and Fletcher are more circumspect.

I think you can make the case that a centrist or leftist candidate could win here, but Democrats should be wary of Moser. She moved back to the district after spending most of her professional career in New York, Chicago, and Washington to run for the seat and she’s running as the most online candidate. The problem with that is that her Twitter account often spreads misinformation. For example she's glommed onto Seth Abramson’s Twitter conspiracy grifts. And while she recently went viral with a rant on gerrymandering, a lot of the information she spread was wrong. Jagged district lines are not prima facie proof of gerrymandering—fair districts in California occasionally have jagged borders. And she used a Latino-majority district mandated by the VRA and drawn by Democrats as proof of gerrymandering. Sure, she made it harder for the people who read that rant to identify partisan gerrymanders in the future, but at least she got a few thousand new followers.

Her opportunism and campaign’s gullibility are easy lines of attack for Culberson should she become the nominee, ones that he couldn’t make against the other three major candidates. Moreover, I don’t think Democrats are well served by having congresspeople who muddy the waters on important issues like Russian election meddling and gerrymandering for personal gain. Westin and her appear to agree on most issues, so he’s the best bet if you want a left-wing nominee. And if a pro-choice woman is more your style, Fletcher is a co-founder of Planned Parenthood Young Leaders.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzbvb/house-2018-midterms-preview-clinton-wins …

 

Why are some on the left pretending Moser is a "left" candidate now? She's not. She's self-dealing and carpet-bagging (which alone would harm her race) ... but she's also basically a left-centrist dem on policy.

 

Stupid forum datacenter being down this morning.

 

I've been thinking I can't think of anyone who wants a safe space more than Ben and Tammy