Remember that the stories you hear are always going to be the ones that are most controversial, otherwise they would not be news. The day in day out work of the FDA is enormous and most of it, I believe, necessary for the level of trust in what you find on the shelf, what you’re doctor recommends, what your pharmacist hands you, that we enjoy.

I don’t want to have to know my farmer, my chemical compounder, my importer, my distributor, my restaurant chef, etc, etc, for every stupid thing just to avoid eating lead or feeding hepatitis to my kids.

The loudest complaints-- selling raw milk is technically illegal? they allow red food coloring as long as you list it in the ingredients? they may or may not allow you to call oat liquid a “milk”?-- sound pretty small to me, and also even these issues are reviewed and discussed more or less transparently in response to people’s concerns.

That’s everywhere, as far as I can tell.

Set “office hours” and stick to them. She can make a list of things to do. Maybe it needs to be 20 min every evening, or maybe just once or twice a week. My partner has a similar (but more minor) problem, and this has worked both increasing self-help and making the time spent more enjoyable. Though I’m sure it helps that the needy person doesn’t live with us. Good luck

This is opposite. I think. The double and triple negatives are getting out of hand. The opportunists are threatening to primary (with billionaire backing) any Republican opposed to Trump.

This paragraph I don’t understand:

Only the movements in solidarity with Palestinian freedom offered a substantive challenge to the Harris coronation, as it remains the only issue impervious to party influence. To be sure, the absence of a primary for the Democratic Party lessened the ability of progressive forces to push back against Harris galloping rightward.

What does it mean to say the opposition to genocide was “impervious to party influence”?

I do agree the one clear problem was lack of a primary-- that’s the major structural difference from 2020. Without a primary you can’t prove who has the votes and who is voting, it was easy for them to pretend “progressives won’t vote” even though from this article it is clear progressives delivered via in Biden’s election.

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