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This #DeJoyHearing is a mess.
* The objective should be to get DeJoy to commit to restoring service and, failing that, set the grounds to impeach him if he doesn't or jail him for tampering with the mail.
* Instead Dems are making speeches about how important the post office is.
By the way, the tech issues now plaguing Rep. Clay... this is just another reason why the Dems should have had one or two people do ALL the questioning, instead of the Little League Baseball rules where everybody gets to play.
AS USUAL, Most Dems act like the point of the hearings is to *show* how much they care, instead of impeaching or jailing Trumpers.

Like Lynch right now. HOW IS THIS HELPFUL? He's just giving a speech about how DeJoy is bad. HOW DOES THIS HELP US STOP HIM?
The institutional failure to adjust to Trump: whether the institution is Congress, the media, various federal prosecutors, is why Trump succeeds.

Trump does unique and devastating things, but the institutional actors do what they've always done.
I'm out. The Democrats think this is a damn show.
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I really feel like *so* much of our politics right now are centered around why roughly half of white women are comfortable voting for a white supremacist who is also sexist and a drooling idiot.

I don't know why "because roughly half are racist" is such a hard answer for people.
Whiteness brings these women power and privilege. It confers power and privilege to their children from the moment their born.

It's really NOT hard to understand why roughly half of them would rather watch my kids die than force their kids to have to earn it.
Donald Trump did not empower racist white women. Racist white women empowered Trump. Playing the election in their headspace is like trying to hold a pool party in the middle of a volcano.
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There are a lot of things to take away from this study on how ending affirmative action effected California, but the biggest one for me is: Once again, there is NO EVIDENCE for Richard Sander's racist "mismatch" theory and @UCLA_Law continues to shame itself with him.
The takeaway for people who aren't concerned that @UCLA_Law continues to employ one of the most racist law professors in America, is that the white and Asian American students who were admitted over Black and Hispanic students didn't really need or benefit from the help.
As many people have heard me say, over the course of my life, when confronted with a white kid (or, latterly, their parent) who is *terrified* that they won't get into Harvard because of affirmative action: "DARTMOUTH IS A GOOD SCHOOL! YOU'LL BE FINE!"
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I'm still floored by the Brayden thing. My mom is a speech pathologist. She was like *coaching* him through his amazing moment.
And, so, it just wasn't lost on me that Biden was, even in his greatest moment, also showing Brayden that everything in life is possible for him.
You can have a stutter still become the guy who holds millions of people in rapt attention with your oratory.
Further: Public speaking has always come super easy for me. But because of my mom's work, I've always been attuned to those for whom it does not. And to see a guy like Biden, for whom it is hard, reach these heights tonight....
So many kids, man. SO MANY KIDS are gonna see that.
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