On @JoyAnnReid right now are @emarvelous, @DrJasonJohnson and @Sifill_LDF on Voting Rights.

Three people who have been warning you what Republicans think about Black people voting from the jump.
Looooool... Ifill basically lets Biden off the hook (the hook of not using maximal power earlier) because she's basically done with pretending that Biden has real power anyway, as evidenced by BBB.
My read is that our only shot was to hold something hostage that Manchin wanted, which was infrastructure. But Biden and the centrists let themselves get straight played by Manchin and now we are here.
But, you know, on this app you will literally get people blaming "progressives" and "the Squad" when literally the only people who are voting AGAINST the Biden agenda are Manchinema who literally *lied to the President's face*.

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13 Jan
Every time Dems fail, somebody says "oh, if only we knew then what we know now, we might have done things differently."
But the reality it that Dems *never* do things differently. We always have the same playbook. And we always fail in exactly the same way.
* After winning power *thanks to* overwhelming support from black and brown people, Dems immediately tact towards the center mass of the white people who literally just got finished rejecting them.
* That's always matched with promise to "work across the aisle" and get Republican votes, even though that party lost and even though they VOW to act in bad faith and do everything they can to stop the incoming Dem administration.
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12 Jan
I wonder if any of the CEOs who are *desperate* to get people back into the office and have a newfound respect for in-person office collegiality will reconsider their plans to outsource jobs to India or Wheeling, WV or other places where they can pay people less.
Because these people packed in a recession's worth of "the miracle of technology means people don't have to be paid New York wages to do work that can be done from anywhere in the world"

But now... NOW... it's really the in-person culture that is important.
I know this is my @atlblog brain talking: but I've literally had conversations with Biglaw partners telling me that first year associates should live in WV, or that it's not worth hiring a lawyer till 5th year... but now TRAINING is why people need to get on the 6train everyday.
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10 Jan
Also, if we're rebooting sitcoms as gritty dramas, I don't see why we can't get a Cheers were "Sam" is a Dominican retired relief pitch who tends bar in Roxbury and deals with the alcoholism and depression of his regular clientele
Okay, since you asked.

Family Matters is about a Black cop who shot and grievously wounded a Black kid and was kicked off the force. He was never prosecuted, by now he tries to build a new life and make amends for his past.
Urkel is the kid he shot who is trying to recover.
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10 Jan
Just saw the Fresh Prince reboot trailer and I'm sad that they seem to be making Carlton a bro-y dick instead of an earnest dork.
BUT... as I've lived long enough to see "nerd culture" metastasize into dudes complaining about Mary Sues in Star Wars, it's probably a good call.
Like, definitely one of my sadnesses is the realization that people who *rejected* "jock culture" for more cerebral pursuits were actually just the same toxic dudebros who were just bad at sports or being fast.
So, it makes sense now that they show Carlton as both being good at chess and Lacrosse AND being an unwelcoming dick who is popular. And he'll probably have a white girlfriend that he isn't actually very nice to either.
Because that guy is all the same guy now.
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10 Jan
Soo... that actual argument from Republicans today is that Gorsuch didn't say "hundreds of thousands" of flu deaths (which is wrong) but said "hundreds, thousands" of flu deaths (WHICH IS ALSO WRONG).
* If Gorsuch think the flu killing hundreds of thousands of people (which it doesn't) means we should ignore Covid (which does) he's wrong.
If Gorsuch thinks the full killing hundreds of people (which it doesn't) means we should ignore Covid (which has killed 800K) he's wrong.
To believe that Gorsuch said or meant to say "hundreds thousands" instead of "hundreds of thousands" then you have to believe his argument was "The flu kills vastly fewer people than Covid and we don't require flu shots so we shouldn't require vaccines against the deadlier thing"
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7 Jan
Sadden to learn that Lani Guinier has passed away.
She taught me pretty much everything I know about voting right and, more importantly, she taught me to be passionate about protecting them and defending them.
See, when I was in law school, I was one of these Black kids you meet now and again who thought that at least some of the "victories" of the civil rights movement, especially over Jim Crow, were "permanent." That these battles had been fought *and won*.
Guinier, in the early 2000s mind you, taught me that no, these rights were *still* under attack. She opened my eyes to the *ongoing* attacks on voting rights launched by conservatives.
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