an encrypted messaging app with a handful of people you categorically trust to never tell on you or in any way implicate you in future criminal behavior, not a federated Reddit clone where you have no control over who sees your message, when, on what terms, and with what associated data. like, don't be stupid—and at the very least, if you must publicly agitate in this way, don't say this on a place where your words could have ramifications for people who aren't large corporations and don't have the money to get roped into legal trouble
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aside: Hearing Things is very cool, and you should subscribe to them. they're a genuine worker-cooperative, as far as i know
it's fine to believe this is the appropriate remedy but this is not the time and place to write that down, have some basic opsec
i love Faiz but it's really as simple as "he cannot speak or animate a room to save his life and he's clearly better working on infrastructure side of things than leading a political party". there's a reason he was Bernie's senior advisor and not a public face of the campaign (and before that an aide to Nancy Pelosi).
(oh, and that doesn't even touch on Reid Hoffman and George Soros backing Wikler with a fucking PAC for an insider-baseball race like this)
i mean no offense but if we're worried about the "Democratic establishment" it should probably give people pause that the vast majority of Democratic establishment leadership supported Ben Wikler, while the majority of Ken Martin's support was from the "grassroots" state party infrastructure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election#Endorsements
Dick Durbin, Senate Minority Whip (2005–2007, 2015–2021, 2025–present) from Illinois (1997–present)[66]
Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader (2017–2021, 2025–present) from New York (1999–present)[69]
Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader (2023–present) from NY-08 (2013–present)[70]
Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2011, 2019–2023) from CA-11 (1987–present)[72]
(also, there is literally no ideological difference between most of these people. do you think Ben Wikler for example is pro-DSA? lol)
The biggest problem with concrete is that the resource investment is front loaded.
the biggest problem with concrete is we use too much of it and it's severely environmentally destructive; just on its own, for example, its manufacture contributes anywhere between 4 and 8% of all CO2 emissions, and most of that is from the production process and not from secondary aspects like transportation.
this is not the place to be litigating this.
the tendency to just post bills that have been introduced without context is frustrating; actual reporting on the subject makes it clear this is not going to pass and even other Republican lawmakers are deeply skeptical of its legality and constitutionality (because it's neither):
House Rep. Jansen Owen, R-Poplarville, vice chairman of the Judiciary B committee (one of two House committees that the bill has been referred to), expressed deep skepticism about Keen’s bill.
“I’m concerned about the constitutionality of some of those provisions,” he told the Mississippi Free Press on Jan. 24.
The Republican lawmaker explained that he had not personally reviewed the bill, but he stressed that determining the legality of immigrants was above the jurisdiction of the state to begin with.
“That’s within the purview of the federal government,” he said, adding he supports local law enforcement referring detainees to federal immigration services. But “the state doesn’t need to get in the business of enforcing federal immigration law,” he concluded.
this is to say nothing of bounty hunters, who would actually enforce the law and have not been consulted on this bill because it's not serious. the primary value of the bill is earned media stochastic terrorism, which is aided by posting it without this context. (this is an issue with trans-related bills too and has been for years.) please don't aid in that--contextualizing this stuff is especially important now that organizations and people might need to triage their battles.
Which raises the question: doesn’t killing accessibility programs violate the Americans with Disabilities Act? To my knowledge, the ADA is still very much in force.
most likely: yes, but conservatives largely disapprove of the ADA and think it is an onerous government regulation, so they are in favor of dismantling and gutting it by any means necessary. this should be thought of more as a feature, not a bug
that's for you to figure out and is, respectfully, not my problem or the problem of anyone else's moderating this instance. you've been told what is expected of you; you can take that or leave it.