quicklime

The mayor's pronouns are she/her. But I agree with your point, and so do a very great number of San Francisco residents. The current/upcoming mayoral election is being predictably pushed as a big fight over law and order issues by big-money organizations (a lot of the money coming from silicon valley, outside of SF) and also by corporate-owned local media. The mayor is cynically playing to that tune in her uphill battle to get reelected. As if that weren't bad enough she had to springboard this off of a cruel Supreme court decision at a time when her constituents are mostly disgusted with the court.

Oh, absolutely bad optics regardless. I had no intent to negate your comment by posting mine. I think I had meant to put it at base level instead of as a response.

The party's sense of optics long ago took a back seat to its cult of subservience and power structure. That may have been somewhat viable back when they could count on the major TV networks and many of the foremost newspapers to mostly give them the type of coverage they would prefer. Things don't work like they used to. And anyone who works for any media at all knows a whole lot of registered Democrats who are beyond fed up with the top-down tactics.

when they say it comes from those 4 countries, I'm pretty sure that's a comforting smokescreen to bury the fact that the vast majority is from slashed and burned rainforest land in Brazil.

Good news, the decision was reversed.

As it was always unfeasible. The necessary energy input means it's an economically losing proposition unless the government were to take the (absolutely unlikely) step of forcing all plastics, but especially virgin plastic production, to incorporate a heavy carbon tax and environmental impact tax in its pricing.

If I'm not mistaken, the connection can be as remote as that Vance and the other person were both recipients in the TO: field of the same email at some point in the past.

Any time I've signed up for any app or website and gave it permission to read my contacts, that was where the loosest connections it made came from, the head scratchers. When I searched for them in my contacts I found no direct contact, but when I searched for them in email I found that once long ago we were both recipients of a big group email for whatever reason.

On the other hand, I don't look kindly upon this Vance fellow and I'm happy to suppose that he's directly connected to turds like Carlson et al.

Ohio was the only state presenting a major problem of that kind and it got taken care of. That issue is out of the way, from what I've read in the past two days.

I think you may be mistaken if you're implying that the DNC is the entity that is trying to get Biden to step aside.

The DNC is currently engaged in an all-out effort to lock Biden in by getting delegates to commit before convention. Those who are trying to get him to step aside, on the other hand, are a bunch of Democratic congressional representatives, donors, and other party figures -- not the national party committee itself.

Edit -- just since yesterday, apparently the DNC has dropped its plan to hold the "roll call" by which they were going to get their delegates committed before August. A group of Democratic senators who had written and co-signed a letter in protest of that activity have withdrawn the letter, saying their purpose is achieved (i.e., saying the DNC isn't going ahead with the bullshit). But now maybe all bets are off since the president has contracted COVID?

Agreed. It's all very disgusting but no reason for despair, just continued fight.

Why is it even OK for any case involving a former president to be tried before any judge that he appointed?

The question now might be whether he appeals to the 11th Circuit Court or straight to the Supreme Court. I fear either way may be too slow to get anywhere before November.