@CigsMake That was my dad almost to a tee, except that he had a white-collar job. We couldn’t have afforded that house in 1980. Keep dreaming.
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Steven McCarthy
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A 30-year-old in 1980 owned a house like this working at the local factory. Married six years with three kids. Weekends meant Little League games. Both sets of grandparents lived within five miles. The kids would attend the same high school he did and grow up with the children of his own friends. This is a dying concept
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@NewsHour @IAmAmnaNawaz There’s an unabashed nature to his wife’s celebration of terrorism.
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EXCLUSIVE: While rhetoric disparaging Islam is not new, “there's an unabashed nature to it,” right now, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an interview airing Friday.
“It is being echoed from the highest offices in this country,” he tells @IAmAmnaNawaz. “They do so without any sense of shame.”
Watch more from the interview on Friday's PBS News Hour.
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Steven McCarthy retweetledi
Yuval, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival on October 7th:
“I saw my husband dead. I covered myself with his blood so they'd think we were dead. We saw point-blank killings. The hardest thing we witnessed was the rape. I never heard cries for help like those from that woman."
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@CaitlinPacific Don’t you want to see how the litigation shakes out first?
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Shouldn’t all the place names being changed from Chavez be re-instated in honor of Dolores Huerta?
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@IdahoStatesman Add Huerta’s name immediately and then wait to see what comes out of the lawsuits. Smart.
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Should Boise State change the name of Cesar Chavez Lane? | Opinion idahostatesman.com/opinion/editor…
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@LauraPowellEsq Right on cue:
Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler@ggreschler
New: Renaming re: Cesar Chavez already being suggested in SF. Assemblymember Matt Haney tells me he supports renaming Cesar Chavez Day (March 31 state holiday) to Dolores Huerta Day. w/@jonsteinberg31 @allaboutgeorge @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/03/18/ces…
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@LauraPowellEsq Likeliest scenarios?
1. In current debate over illegal immigration, Chavez's views are seen as hurting the Progressive cause more than his legacy helps. It was time to take him down, a la Bill Clinton during MeToo.
2. Huerta wants to replace him.
3. Both 1 and 2.
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The key questions about the Cesar Chavez allegations are: Why are they only emerging now, many decades after the alleged events? Why did the accusers withhold this information until long after his legacy had been formally honored? What changed?
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@sudha_lakshmi @LauraPowellEsq Of course. I'm referring to legacy: the Day, the boulevards, the statues.
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@StevenAMcCarthy @LauraPowellEsq Huerta is 95. I doubt she's interested in taking over anything.
It could be 1, but also simply that someone was going to write a story about it
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@mkhammer With a little rearranging they can all be “Car Chase” Elementary until further notice.
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@lancelands While the hills immediately above it went up in flames for lack of attention to fuels treatment.
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Gov. Newsom is really good at starting projects that the taxpayers don't need or can't afford.
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
Gavin Newsom’s wildlife bridge has cost taxpayers $114 million and it’s still unfinished...
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@KatiePavlich "They were captives in our state." Indeed.
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Shorter Kathy Hochul: Please come back to this abusive relationship so we can keep beating you
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@Penguin57a @LauraPowellEsq Years ago, few people knew or remembered much about Chavez's views on illegal immigration. Nor was illegal immigration as front-and-center an issue as it is today. Those factors, perhaps combined with a prospective replacement, have made him expendable.
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@StevenAMcCarthy @LauraPowellEsq Again this is a chronoillogical argument. If they didn't like his views on immigration they would have turned on him years ago.
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@stevenfhayward There will be a move to replace him with Dolores Huerta. Watch.
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Anna Louise Strong (I Change Worlds, 1935): "One must not make a god of Stalin; he was too valuable for that."
And then behold my favorite passage in today's New York Times expose of Cesar Chavez:
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@LauraPowellEsq @HistoryBoomer Where I grew up in CA, crime and violence was mostly centered in areas you could avoid if you didn’t live there. In 2010’s, it became more visible and widespread. Prop 36 passed, for ex., because most ppl had a story. No need to argue stats; they’d seen it for themselves.
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@HistoryBoomer Some people are "more scared by rough areas than others" because some people are more vulnerable than others.
Healthy, relatively young men who consider themselves empathetic turn out to be incapable of considering that not everyone is like them.
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A big part of “cities are awful” discourse is some people are more scared by rough areas than others.
I was in NYC in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I saw real crime. I am less easily scared than Coddled clearly is.
This doesn’t mean crime isn’t bad, it’s just not as bad as they claim.
Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate
Paris, London, and Rome all have problems. All of them have neighborhoods that aren’t culturally and economically integrated and that have high crime rates where Carl would ‘feel scared’ if he decided to visit. Do these neighborhoods tend to be more peripheral than central than in the US? Yes, but so what?
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The @CAGOP - the largest state Republican Party in America - leads the nation in ensuring Groypers fail in their efforts to infiltrate @GOP infrastructure.
My favorite part from @JonasYDu is that the Groyper candidate for Governor dropped out and became a Democrat 😂
Good. Go.
Jonas Du@JonasYDu
EXCLUSIVE: Groypers are NOT welcome, California GOP says. The party is instituting a "vetting process" on candidates to block the influence of far-right streamer Nick Fuentes within the party. New in @TheFP ⬇️ The nation's largest Republican party is the first to formally condemn Nick Fuentes and ensure candidates don’t follow his far-right ideology. A memo sent to local party leaders instructs them to “refrain from recruiting, supporting, or endorsing candidates” who “espouse,” “promote,” or “campaign” on Fuentes’s ideas. They said there was an "organized effort" from Groypers to infiltrate the party and take over from within. “The ideology is characterized as White Nationalist; hostile to constitutional, limited-government conservatism; highly critical of MAGA and President Trump; and opposing of the civil rights of women, gays, and racial minorities,” state party leaders wrote.
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UFW is canceling César Chávez, its celebrated founding leader who died in 1993, over vague, unsourced allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with his strong support for limits on immigration and strict enforcement of immigration laws.
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One of, if not the most powerful labor group in California has endorsed Eric Swalwell in the race for governor.
SEIU California@seiucalifornia
The 750,000 members of SEIU California are proud to endorse @EricSwalwell for Governor – someone who will stand up against Trump's MAGA agenda, and fight alongside workers to #UnRigCA. seiuca.org/press-releases…
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@JonahDispatch @RoKhanna @jkirchick OTOH, without it I would have missed this fantastic article about him.
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@RoKhanna @jkirchick You should be ashamed of this response. It’s beneath contempt.
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@jkirchick does a hit piece on me for standing up to the Epstein Class. His real beef with me has been that I have called what happened in Gaza a genocide. I welcome the hatred of Netanyahu apologists. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@halalflow @ryangrim LOLOLOL “pro-peace activists.”
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Jonah Goldberg, a pro-war cheerleader for the Bush death cult in the Iraq War, shouldn’t be rehabilitated in any way. He has absolutely no leg to stand on in smearing pro-peace activists.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
This from @jaketapper is just incredible. Going after Mamdani’s wife and bringing on Jonah Goldberg to bash Mahmoud Khalil as “an outright apologist for terrorism” and like “the klan marching in Skokie.”
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@DMRussini Good. Not their job to solve somebody else's QB problem for cheap.
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A few teams have called the San Francisco 49ers about QB Mac Jones, but many interested around the league describe their price as “astronomical.”
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