The Minnesota House is a serious legislative institution
This is real. This is happening RIGHT NOW.
This is a debate on sending an omnibus state energy bill back to committee
I'm pretty sure Rep. Raleigh just laid out how he'd assassinate a head of state on the House floor
There's going to be a government shutdown because the MN House GOP thinks the house floor is the History Channel. For the record this is a debate on an agriculture and broadband bill
if nothing else this filibuster is truly confirming that the MN House GOP's entire worldview is built around repeated re-readings of the Bill O'Reilly "Killing ______" series of books
mn gop now literally discussing the merits of putting cows on the blockchain
sir this is a wendy's
honestly what is there to even say anymore
just really getting into the big questions here
The last forty minutes of House floor time have been dedicated to discussion of the Wolf Menace, which is "out of control"
Most legislators have ideas that drive them to public service, ideas that they truly believe in. For some, it's health care. For others, it's education.
For Dale Lueck (R-Aitkin), it is defeating wolves
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Are the people who insisted the lab leak theory was some kind of case study in media groupthink ever going to turn the same microscope on themselves, now that it’s increasingly clear that lab leak mania was itself evidence-free groupthink on their part? foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/lab…
Seems to me that if you’re going to write about how media refusal to take this theory seriously is a “fiasco” that reveals institutional biases, and then it turns out you yourself fell for a bunch of shaky non-evidence, it’s time for some reflection! slowboring.com/p/the-medias-l…
If you’re scared of groupthink, shouldn’t “I embraced a bunch of very tenuous evidence, often sourced to officials in a highly untrustworthy previous administration, that validated certain priors of mine” be the sort of thing that merits self-examination nymag.com/intelligencer/…
One of the ways gerontocracy gets entrenched is that it becomes impossible to criticize longtime leaders, who are afforded great respect simply because they've been important for so long.
When's the last time you read a mainstream piece questioning the competence of Dem elders?
It's particularly frustrating because there has been lots of mainstream commentary about the importance of Trump accountability, bold reform legislation, and so forth.
But no one will complete the loop and wonder if the group failing to do this is perhaps not up to the task.
You'll get fancy NYT columnists who will write over and over about how we must hold Trump to account for his abuses. Then, Nancy Pelosi simply refuses to take basic steps towards that end.
absolutely loving watching the Democratic Party shills dutifully cheer the (false) news Biden is admitting Ukraine to NATO, something that, if true, would instantly place us at war with Russia
Hey, @anitaM86@jkfecke@reesetheone1@chris_notcapn, since Ukraine is not, in fact, being admitted to NATO, do you still think Biden should admit the country, as you tweeted excitedly mere minutes ago? Or has your view mysteriously shifted to align with his?
Incredible. Anita still believes Ukraine is joining NATO. Jeff thinks it's bad that Ukraine isn't joining NATO, although he's relieved there won't be a nuclear war. Stay tuned for more adventures in cognitive dissonance!
Pure fantasy from Bill Scher: not only is the hope of bipartisan dealmaking an absurd delusion, but the notion that voters will reward Democrats for staying focused on “helping Americans” isn’t remotely borne out by history
Every single effing time it’s the same: Democrats get walloped, they put their thinking caps on, and they go “Ah ha! Voters just didn’t realize we were serious about governance!” If the party were a person the repetition of the same thought process would be diagnosable by now
Like, is there an election within living memory where Democrats didn’t position themselves as the party of “serious boring policy that helps real Americans”? And yet they’ve lost many of those elections. So maaaybe that’s not the key to winning anything? Have we considered this?
A great way to square the centrist view that moderate Dems focus well on kitchen-table economic policy, and the leftist view that this can’t be true because moderate Dems frequently lose, is to realize talking about the economy isn’t very good politics.
Moderates are drawn to the idea that economic issues are the best focus for political campaigns because it’s safe and polls well; leftists are drawn to it because of their deep embedded belief that everything is an expression of economic relations; they’re both dumb and wrong
You know what group is correct about the terrain on which politics is best fought? Not the left and not the Dem moderates, caught in a cycle of perpetual erosion. THE GOP. Their advances have been achieved on a cultural and rhetorical battlefield where liberals won’t even engage.
What I hate about this piece is that there is zero attempt to reckon with the idea that the political context and tradeoffs of free speech absolutism have changed, and that this might raise thorny questions with no easy answers. Instead it’s just holier-than-thou lecturing
And the people doing the lecturing? Invariably? White men, completely insulated from the potentially mortal consequences of playing into the hands of people like the Charlottesville marchers, and whose views on the issue haven't evolved one iota since college, I'm sure