Useful in NY where 3rd party cross endorsement is printed on the ballot. Limited impact elsewhere unless you’ve got a media micriphone

The reality of a first-past-the-post system is that it is far easier to co-opt an existing party than to launch a new one. The latter approach usually means handing power to the people you dislike the most

Steyer’s been a significant climate advocate for a long time, but has not held elected office.

Katie Porter has been too, but has been rather mean to her staff (though not a sexual abuser)

Lots of choices, and really important that Democrats figure out how to at least somewhat consolidate so that we don’t end up with an R vs R general election.

The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it’s long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.

It’s a ‘both’ situation: redwoods and sequoias need periodic low-intensity fire, and can be killed by high-intensity fire. The latter has become more common because it’s warmer than it used to be, and because we suppressed a lot of the low-intensity fires allowing undergrowth to build up.

He’s got a whole staff to create this stuff, but I expect staff would have noticed the demon at the top center, so I figure he actually prompted “trump as healer” or something.

He forgot that the faith healing he was supposed to do was UFO-based. It’s hard to keep track when you lie so much.

The typical American worker has wages withheld and gets a refund, so yes

They’re afraid to insist on shoes that fit, but instead wear a size based on Trump’s guess. No way anybody in Trump’s orbit can be honest with him

Let your local rapid response network know.

They’re going to do all these things pretty much no matter what California does.

A big chunk of the country prioritizes racism over almost anything else, and lives in the Fox Cinematic Universe, where this kind of thing gets mentioned once at 3am so they can say they covered it, and then never again.

The NYT didn’t even quote the statement initially, but paraphrased it to make it seem saner. They only added the quote to the article after pushback

So long a somebody else has to fight; he’s not out there fighting a buffalo himself.

They have minorites in both houses of Congress. Can’t actually stop anything under those conditions

Problem is that when you disperse research teams, it takes a decade or more to get back to where you were

Close to one, yes

Yeah. The second half of winter matters

It just takes getting them out of power. That’s attainable

It doesn’t have to be that way; we could have a world where people don’t need to fight over energy resources because wind and sunshine are everywhere.