It’s always weird watching people protect Dems as if it’s a party of uniform desires. At least half of them in office agree more with Republicans than they do with the progressive members of the same party.
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
Stalling student loan repayment was in the hands of the executive branch… all it took was republicans holding the government hostage over a shutdown like the one coming up again if they don’t pass a budget resolution.
The US can’t support more than two parties with how the elections are run. Instead the primaries have to filter down the varied candidates into compromises
Doesn’t that not include basically anything else but that factor and then labeled as the same thing for the sake of argument? How does that relate to funding, regulation, power structures, and much more nuanced factors?
The US has always been a two party system from the start back before there was a BBC. Are we going to say Fox news created the original contention of federalists and antifederalists?
Americans can no longer afford their cars ( www.newsweek.com )
Americans are 'doom spending' — here's why that's a problem ( www.cnbc.com )
The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined ( climatejustice.social )
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Jim Jordan loses first vote for House speaker amid GOP defections | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
DeSantis says US shouldn’t take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza because they’re ‘all antisemitic’ ( apnews.com )
55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag ( changeresearch.com )
Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials
Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop ‘very dangerous’ Trump ( www.theguardian.com )
Leftwing senator advises ‘unification of progressive people in general’ because threat from Republican ex-president is too great...