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  • Ultimately, the two candidates have similar policy views on data centers, as a piece in Vox laid out last week. Neither one has called for a moratorium on building them, as Hong did. Tiffany has called for rolling back a state subsidy on data centers, which Crowley hasn’t matched, but otherwise the candidates are aligned on the issue, calling for local control over construction and environmental standards to protect natural resources.

    A governor kicking the can down the road for local governments isn’t the end of the world, and still an improvement.

    He’d get more votes supporting a state wide ban. But anyone advocating not to vote D because they have the same policy on a single issue as the R candidate is just ignoring literally every other policy…



  • The Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown in the Midwest is going to fuck Republicans…

    Not because of the 2-3k workers, not because of the increased price consumers pay.

    But all the livestock owners who suddenly have nowhere near to slaughter cattle at scale are fucked. Couple that with flooding the market with Argentinian beef, and a lot of Republican voters are going to stay home for midterms.

    They might not admit to themselves they want Republicans to lose majorities, and they’ll likely spend the next two years bitching about Dems. But a lot of them just won’t find the time to vote when they’re getting fucked this blatantly





  • Trump also denied reports that Canada pulled out of trade negotiations over the weekend over crazy last-minute demands from Trump administration officials such as changing Quebec’s French-language protections.

    I could 100% believe trump or one of his idiots tried to make that demand.

    But if he didn’t, and Ford just made that shit up, I 100% support that tactic.

    Every other country should just do the same shit to trump at the same time.

    I want to hear Aussies saying they can’t deal with trump because he demanded the legally define any blade over 3 inches as a sword and not a knife.

    I want England to say he wants them to ban beans on toast.

    Germany to say he wants to force all beer to be non alcoholic.

    Italians saying he wants to ban gluten.

    Flood the zone with so much shit he’s constantly on the defensive and doesn’t have the energy to start actual wars or even trade wars.

    Keep the baby distracted till midterms and maybe we can get rid of him thru congress. Or at least get him in check somewhat.






  • Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.

    He’s gonna keep doing stupid shit, I’ve been calling it for months and it’s nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.

    If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there’s no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can’t us the VF as a club to get him the votes.

    For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He’s afraid he’s gonna get Paul Ryan’d.





  • If he wins the November election, as he is expected to do in the conservative stronghold, Donalds would become the first Black governor in any southern US state.

    So confident was Donalds of victory that his television advertisements in the weeks leading to the primary ignored his Republican challengers and focused on former Republican congressman David Jolly, who secured the Democratic party’s nomination on Tuesday

    Sooooo…

    trump thinks he can get a Black man elected Governor in the South…

    Even when running against a white guy who was a Republican till Trump showed up?

    Like, this is a “even if we win, we lose” moment, and I bet the Florida Dem.party put their thumbs on the scales for Jolly… But there’s no way Donalds wins in Florida. Too many trump supporters will never vote for a Black man, even with Trump’s endorsement. And since he’ll be top of ticket in florida, a lot of MAGA in florida will sit out and just not vote.

    Fucking weird Republicans think this will work


  • That’s not going to change the price of fertilizer, growing your own is going to get expensive too.

    Like, shit is accelerating the shortage, but it was happening anyways. And there’s legitimately no solution. There’s things we can do to mitigate it, but it’s just kicking the can down the road at this point.

    Like, you know how people always said “we grow enough food, it’s a distribution problem”…

    That’s not going to be true for much longer, the planet just can’t support anywhere near this amount of humans without fertilizer, and we’re running out. We need multiple kinds, and the ones we can “make” are made from finite resources.

    Shits going to get rough, and gardens are not going to fix it.