Abortion rights were lost while Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of congress. What does that tell you about the Democrats?

If you pivot to “I will place Republicans in my cabinet” then you also need to stop calling Republicans weird.

It’s been wild watching the campaign more or less retrace Clinton’s losing strategy.

See those “pinch points”? The river will eventually form meander cutoffs, and become a sinuous system rather than a meandering river. This will lead to localized increases in channel slope (due to a reduction in channel length), and therefore increased local velocities, shear stress, and sediment transport.

Rivers are always seeking equilibrium, so the channel will actually start to move (bank erosion / lateral shifting) to reduce that localized slope and bring things back in order.

Rivers are so fucking cool.

I can’t stand Biden for so many different reasons, but one of the few good things he’s done is putting her in to lead the FTC.

A few hits:

• Launching a study on surveillance pricing (corporations are using your data to sell you something at one price, but your neighbor the same product at another price)
• Sued to block the merger of Kroger-Albertsons (which would reduce competition and raise grocery prices)
• Attempted to block the merger of Microsoft with Activision (pretty sure the FTC lawsuit lost, but is under appeal)
• Investigating Microsoft on anti-trust grounds
• Banned non-compete clauses from employee contracts

That last one got fucked up by a right wing judge in Texas, but I want to point out that the FTC issued the non-compete ban based on existing rulemaking authority.

Khan is very aware of anti-trust rules that are on the books, but haven’t been applied in the neoliberal era. She is the first FTC chair in decades to start applying them.

That is why so many billionaires are publicly calling for her to be fired.

Again, I think Biden is awful, but Khan as FTC chair is a very good thing.

If you want to read more about her record, check out The American Prospect. David Dayen is a journalist that writes about monopolies pretty heavily, he is a huge fan of what Khan is doing.

Anyone who places a chain link fence across a body of water can fuck right off

The American Prospect has some really good recent articles about this. We’ve entered a new age of personal pricing. Companies have so much data on us that the price that I see when I visit a website is no longer necessarily the price that you see.

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/

Wait a bit.

Look up the difference between limerence and love.

Walz was the least worst option. Take a positive comrade.

Talk to your surgeon. They’re probably more competent than you’re giving them credit for. Good luck.

Rather than sticking with the “republicans are threats to democracy” talking point, Dems are pushing a “republicans are weirdos” talking point.