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Yeah agreed, cities policies have more of an impact. So I think federal laws and leaders should be more geared to help cities and the needs of the people who live in them. Since that is where most people are and most of the money is made.
Yeah their local governments have a huge impact but lots of federal decisions have big impacts. Especially when a POTUS labels them anarchist "hell holes" and threatens to withhold funding cause they don't support him to his liking.
Yeah their local governments have a huge impact but lots of federal decisions have big impacts. Especially when a POTUS labels them anarchist "hell holes" and threatens to withhold funding cause they don't support him to his liking.
Do not mind paying taxes as I see it as a necessary evil but as one who would prefer smaller government, I would get behind more of what I pay be state/local. Understand there are a lot of things feds do but roughly 2 out of every 3 dollars goes to the feds, 20% to states and the remaining 13% to cities. Cannot see why the federal rate could not be cut to around 50% and let the states handle more of the burden directly. But that is a 25% reduction and the powers that be would never go for anything like it.
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Wow, Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept
Full resignation post here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
Here is the article that started it all: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored
My Resignation From The Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.
The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.
I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.
The censored article will be published on this page shortly (it is now published here, and the emails with Intercept editors showing the censorship are here). My letter of intent to resign, which I sent this morning to First Look Media’s President Michael Bloom, is published below.
As of now, I will be publishing my journalism here on Substack, where numerous other journalists, including my good friend, the great intrepid reporter Matt Taibbi, have come in order to practice journalism free of the increasingly repressive climate that is engulfing national mainstream media outlets across the country.
Full resignation post here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
Here is the article that started it all: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored
My Resignation From The Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.
The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.
I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.
The censored article will be published on this page shortly (it is now published here, and the emails with Intercept editors showing the censorship are here). My letter of intent to resign, which I sent this morning to First Look Media’s President Michael Bloom, is published below.
As of now, I will be publishing my journalism here on Substack, where numerous other journalists, including my good friend, the great intrepid reporter Matt Taibbi, have come in order to practice journalism free of the increasingly repressive climate that is engulfing national mainstream media outlets across the country.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security-idUSKCN11D2JQ
I share your concern...but inform yourself about our arms sales to Saudi Arabia over time prior to getting too bent. What this Administration did was just continue what was already happening for the past six or seven Administrations. Plus what I'm reading and finding on the web is that he didn't sell them Nuclear weaponry, but Nuclear technology. Still, I agree, something we should all keep an eye on with any Administration...In the past I've been very concerned with the Democratic Administrations release of technology to the CCP...at least this is an Ally.
I share your concern...but inform yourself about our arms sales to Saudi Arabia over time prior to getting too bent. What this Administration did was just continue what was already happening for the past six or seven Administrations. Plus what I'm reading and finding on the web is that he didn't sell them Nuclear weaponry, but Nuclear technology. Still, I agree, something we should all keep an eye on with any Administration...In the past I've been very concerned with the Democratic Administrations release of technology to the CCP...at least this is an Ally.
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?? Do you know if she's ok? That's crazy.
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?? Do you know if she's ok? That's crazy.Sent from my Moto Z (2) using Tapatalk
I think it's a false way to look at this. If you look at cities, most quality of life rankings aren't going to include a ton of smaller cities...which is where the best quality of life is found. These cities also aren't red or blue for exceptionally long periods of time...except from some notable exceptions like NYC and San Francisco. For example San Diego was Red forever and only recently and occasionally Blue, as are other Military and Energy based cities. So these types of studies aren't as academic as partisans would like them to be, nor do they represent the periods of time that it takes cities to be considered great. Typically that takes both sides of the political isle over time and not too much partisanship in terms of governance. Look, I've used these studies on occasion as well...but they really don't mean much unless they take account of the city history over 50 years or so. Examples like LA where homelessness is rampant or Chi town where violent crime is rampant aren't often included in these studies. Also, big cities typically tend to move more democratic as they grow and get less manageable due to size...not sure why...but they do.
