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Proud American. Jew. Happily married conservative leaning mom. Interested in politics, culture, & other stuff.

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Watching a little girl dressed as Elsa carrying a sign that says FUCK ICE absolutely baffles me. Mom, let me explain something to you. ICE investigates human trafficking, child exploitation, and dangerous criminals. Without ICE, the very people who pose a threat to your daughter would face one less obstacle. You can walk down that street holding your little girl’s hand, seemingly without a care in the world, while law enforcement works to keep dangerous people off our streets. And you’re teaching your daughter to hate them. She’s too young to understand immigration policy. She doesn’t understand what that sign means. But she’s learning that repeating Mommy’s political opinions gets attention and applause. Your daughter deserves a childhood, not a starring role in your political activism.

Watching a little girl dressed as Elsa carrying a sign that says FUCK ICE absolutely baffles me. Mom, let me explain something to you. ICE investigates human trafficking, child exploitation, and dangerous criminals. Without ICE, the very people who pose a threat to your daughter would face one less obstacle. You can walk down that street holding your little girl’s hand, seemingly without a care in the world, while law enforcement works to keep dangerous people off our streets. And you’re teaching your daughter to hate them. She’s too young to understand immigration policy. She doesn’t understand what that sign means. But she’s learning that repeating Mommy’s political opinions gets attention and applause. Your daughter deserves a childhood, not a starring role in your political activism.

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The Christa Pike situation is just completely insane to me. She was sentenced to death for that horrific 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer. After decades and decades of appeals, Tennessee finally moved forward w/ her execution last night. They gave her 2 FULL DOSES of pentobarbital. She didn’t die. According to witnesses and her attorneys, she was still breathing, had a heartbeat, and was literally audibly snoring more than 40 minutes later. They actually had to call ambulances to show up and rush her to a hospital. And somehow it gets even crazier... this is Tennessee’s second failed execution this year. The physician involved in Pike’s execution was the exact same one involved in the botched execution attempt of Tony Carruthers back in May. Regardless of where you sit on the death penalty, the state attempting to execute someone, administering the entire lethal dose, and then having to call 911 b/c the person is still alive and snoring is just an absolute level of failure

The Christa Pike situation is just completely insane to me. She was sentenced to death for that horrific 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer. After decades and decades of appeals, Tennessee finally moved forward w/ her execution last night. They gave her 2 FULL DOSES of pentobarbital. She didn’t die. According to witnesses and her attorneys, she was still breathing, had a heartbeat, and was literally audibly snoring more than 40 minutes later. They actually had to call ambulances to show up and rush her to a hospital. And somehow it gets even crazier... this is Tennessee’s second failed execution this year. The physician involved in Pike’s execution was the exact same one involved in the botched execution attempt of Tony Carruthers back in May. Regardless of where you sit on the death penalty, the state attempting to execute someone, administering the entire lethal dose, and then having to call 911 b/c the person is still alive and snoring is just an absolute level of failure

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MEET ASHIK SIDDIQUE. He is the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he wants to abolish the United States Senate. Siddique has never accomplished anything that would justify placing him above the constitutional system he wants to dismantle. Yet socialism has given him the confidence to believe the problem is not his lack of experience. The problem is the structure of the country itself. Abolishing the Senate would erase equal representation for every state. California could dominate Wyoming. New York could overpower Nebraska. Political control would shift toward a handful of densely populated metropolitan areas, while smaller and rural states would lose one of their principal protections in the federal government. It would also eliminate the chamber responsible for confirming federal judges and Cabinet officials, approving treaties, conducting impeachment trials, and slowing legislation before temporary political majorities can force it through. And that is the real objective. The Senate frustrates radical movements because it prevents a narrow ideological majority concentrated in major cities from immediately transforming the entire country. Socialists call that undemocratic because they do not merely want representation. They want fewer obstacles between themselves and power. Siddique says the Senate was built for wealthy landowners. His solution is to destroy one of the central checks in the Constitution and dramatically expand the House instead. DSA has repeatedly promoted abolishing or weakening institutions that restrain raw majority power, including the Senate, Electoral College, and Supreme Court. This is why socialism should never be treated as a harmless demand for cheaper healthcare or higher wages. Its leaders are openly telling you they want to redesign the government, remove constitutional guardrails, and concentrate power where their movement believes it can win. Like many of the leader in the DSA, Ashik Siddique has built remarkably little. But he is ready to demolish quite a lot.

MEET ASHIK SIDDIQUE. He is the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he wants to abolish the United States Senate. Siddique has never accomplished anything that would justify placing him above the constitutional system he wants to dismantle. Yet socialism has given him the confidence to believe the problem is not his lack of experience. The problem is the structure of the country itself. Abolishing the Senate would erase equal representation for every state. California could dominate Wyoming. New York could overpower Nebraska. Political control would shift toward a handful of densely populated metropolitan areas, while smaller and rural states would lose one of their principal protections in the federal government. It would also eliminate the chamber responsible for confirming federal judges and Cabinet officials, approving treaties, conducting impeachment trials, and slowing legislation before temporary political majorities can force it through. And that is the real objective. The Senate frustrates radical movements because it prevents a narrow ideological majority concentrated in major cities from immediately transforming the entire country. Socialists call that undemocratic because they do not merely want representation. They want fewer obstacles between themselves and power. Siddique says the Senate was built for wealthy landowners. His solution is to destroy one of the central checks in the Constitution and dramatically expand the House instead. DSA has repeatedly promoted abolishing or weakening institutions that restrain raw majority power, including the Senate, Electoral College, and Supreme Court. This is why socialism should never be treated as a harmless demand for cheaper healthcare or higher wages. Its leaders are openly telling you they want to redesign the government, remove constitutional guardrails, and concentrate power where their movement believes it can win. Like many of the leader in the DSA, Ashik Siddique has built remarkably little. But he is ready to demolish quite a lot.

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DREW AFUALO BUILT HER CAREER DEFENDING WOMEN. NOW WOMEN ARE BEING TOLD THEY’RE WRONG FOR DEFENDING THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE. If you don’t know Drew, she became a massive TikTok creator by roasting misogynistic men. Her brand was unapologetic feminism, and she eventually turned that audience into podcasts, a book and a much larger media career. Then a recent podcast clip blew up. Her guest said trans women have a more beautiful understanding of womanhood and described the programming of cis women as sad. Drew agreed. The conversation went on to contrast trans women’s beautiful, expansive understanding of womanhood with cis women focusing on things like sexual violence and the realities associated with being female. And women understandably said: HOLD ON. There is nothing hateful about acknowledging that biological women and trans women are different. That distinction matters precisely because women’s bodies have shaped our lives: puberty, periods, pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health, physical vulnerability and the risk of sexual violence. Those experiences aren’t propaganda. They aren’t some inferior version of womanhood women need to unlearn. They’re reality. And this is where I think creators have done real damage. We have normalized the idea that simply acknowledging biological differences is somehow transphobic. So women are expected to carefully validate everyone else’s experience while increasingly being told that describing our OWN experience is exclusionary. You can treat transgender people with dignity and respect while still saying biological sex is real. Those positions are not contradictory. And Drew’s apology fell short for the same reason so many influencer apologies do: too much explaining the intent and not enough acknowledging what was actually said. If your entire career is built around calling out people who demean women, you should recognize it when women tell you they feel demeaned. Women should not have to erase themselves to prove they are compassionate.

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