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would you also train your nudists to swordfight in combat

happy birthday!

If they are both doing the same thing - collectively withholding their purchasing power as a means of protest - where is the line drawn that makes it all-american in on instance but evil censorship in the other? Is it the scale of the purchasing power? Is it different when it's business-to-business instead of business-to-consumer?

If the whole purpose of a boycott is that a group withholds their collective purchasing power as a means of protest, what is the legal distinction between collectively refusing to buy Bud Light/Yuengling and collectively refusing to buy advertising space? Where is the line between a legal boycott and an illegal boycott?

How embarrassing

Please explain how boycotts are censorship rather than protected speech.

how will you know who and you know who too react

Trump's campaign manager says swiftboat was never disproven, 2004 GWB campaign guy calls him out. But the real question is "why is Trump's campaign manager posting on twitter? Shouldn't he be busy running a presidential campaign?"

Dem enthusiasm may very well drop down to earthly levels after the convention and Trump's campaign may find a way to unflip the canoe, but don't count out nothing changing and the bottom completely falling out from under the Trump campaign. The dream there would be "ex-Senator" Ted Cruz.

If I fully comprehend, assuming the Grad PLUS loans aren't eligible and I only count the backlog interest on my direct unsubsidized loans, it would still be about $10.5K in forgiveness based on my current balance. A few K more if the capitalized interest that converted into principal counts too.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/debt-relief-info

good news

https://x.com/NateBlanchett/status/1821616354371289569

the article you linked said something like 6K soldiers, so that's serious manpower

Happy birthday @Yumudas Beegbut!

I fell asleep listening to his press conference, and my brain woke me up because it heard the reporters asking him a question and thought there were people in the office

https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/new-marquette-law-poll-national-survey-finds-harris-leading-trump-and-outperforming-biden-against-trump.php

analysis here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-7-2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-new-criticism-trump-told-walz-2020-happy/story?id=112616502

under-discussed race from yesterday's primaries: The incumbent flipped this conservative seat in 2022 through a combination of a moderate campaign, an arch-conservative opponent (who took the incumbent R's slot in the open-party primary), and 2022 being a Dem-leaning election cycle. And Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is going to face that same arch-conservative again. Assuming these numbers hold, she'll have won the open primary with just under half the votes which puts her in a great spot to hold the seat in November.

I'm not actually sure why, tbh. I don't think he didn't express interest, he was one of the three finalists who did an in-person interview. If he wasn't interested he'd have pulled a Cooper and dropped out of the running early.