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the Joe Biden patrol
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Guess who is helping Joe Biden.
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Let's Go Brandon!
(at least, we think that's what they were saying)
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Kyrsten Sinema
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Gableman gets to bottom of WI election mess
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“Trump carries much blame for our crisis of legitimacy, but the threat doesn’t begin and end with him.”
Be afraid, Democrats. Be very afraid
David Shor started modeling elections in 2008, when he was a 20-something blogger, and he proved good at it. … Now he’s scared. … “We’re screwed in the Senate,” he told me. Only he didn’t use the word screwed. … Shor’s model suggests they’ll lose a seat, and so the Senate. But it’s 2024 where things get very grim for them. ... Shor’s model predicts they’ll lose seven seats.
This might be the high-water mark of power they’ll have for the next decade. — Ezra Klein, NY Times.
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How progressives think
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New York City to phase out its gifted & talented program
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The NY Times explains it this way: "The highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students. ...
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"in which one relatively small, largely white and Asian American group of students gain access to the highest-performing schools. ...
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"The mayor has not yet solicited feedback from parent groups or elected officials on his gifted and talented plan, which was kept under wraps for months as it was finalized."
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Tag Archives: Police
Quit blaming police for crime!
Hello? Anybody home? The essential Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal: Police officers aren’t making minority neighborhoods unsafe; criminals are. The four victims of fatal police shootings in Chicago in 2021 were all armed. [They comprise] 0.7% of … Continue reading
Portland OR police: Take this job and …
Couldn’t happen to a nicer city Adapted from the Wall Street Journal: Although 14 openings have been posted since May, only four candidates have applied to work with the new version of Portland Oregon’s gun violence reduction team. It was … Continue reading
Has the BLM fever broke?
11-year-old girl fights for life due to black on black violence. UPDATE: Little girl to be taken off life support. Has ‘Black Lives Matter’ been exposed for the fraud that it is? As a hoax on the order of “Hands … Continue reading
Progressive alder’s family is burglarized by repeat offender; she proposes still more restorative justice
Ald. Rebecca Kemble: Maybe things will get better now that Chief Koval is gone Wants ‘community-based solutions’ The secretive shareholders of Blaska Policy Werkes thank Madame Brenda Konkel for her faithful, gavel-to-gavel transcription of the Madison Common Council’s budget deliberations Tuesday … Continue reading
Southwest side neighborhood pleads for more police
‘City leaders are not hearing our voices’ Calls Satya’s rapid bus transit a ‘want’ not a need “Our neighbors’ priorities run strikingly counter to those embodied in the 2020 city budget you are currently working on.” — Orchard Ridge neighborhood association … Continue reading
Under ‘Race’ let’s mark ‘None’
… of yer damned bidness! Let’s end America’s toxic preoccupation with racial taxonomy The late, great John Patrick Hunter was a liberal journalist for The Capital Times. He won national fame for an Independence Day stunt in 1951 when he asked … Continue reading
