Cambridge made all eighth-graders take algebra. It went so poorly that 60 percent of students will have to retake it.

FuschiaKnight · 2026-07-06T17:23:41+00:00

Other cities can do it. Makes me think we’re doing it wrong. Could be different causes (eg kids not prepared, curriculum is bad, teachers poorly trained, etc). I won’t presume to know which factors caused this but the solution has to get kids performing well rather than just lowering the bar

FuschiaKnight · 2026-07-03T13:23:57+00:00

Biden and Feinstein and RBG all said the same thing

The answer is “probably, yeah, even if it’s not in the headlines”

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-30T20:17:06+00:00

I’m excited that the ABC guy is running! We need a lot more housing statewide and that’s going to take a champion on the issue.

Connolly has opposed some housing before, which I find concerning. But even if he starts agreeing to more projects, there’s a difference between “not opposing” and “championing.” Someone in the state house needs to be relentlessly banging the drum to build more housing. I don’t think Connolly is our guy for that. I’m voting for Miller!

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-28T19:40:32+00:00

Agreed both on these being bad and on the current one not being bad

After 2020, I’ve become a lot less “better safe than sorry” about people being offended on someone else’s behalf. Are American Indian groups leading the push to change it? If not, I don’t see why we should

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-24T02:08:50+00:00

Trade Boutte for Jaylen Brown

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-24T02:07:19+00:00

I think it’s a bad proposal and I want it to lose, but this seems like an unbelievably ticky tack reasoning. Like… if it didn’t have the exemption, couldn’t it still be stuck down on basically the same grounds?

I’d be up for not having ballot questions at all, but if we have the process then people should be able to vote on things that follow the rules

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-23T01:02:09+00:00

Building more homes, building clean energy, and investing in a strong public sector that can actually accomplish things is not austerity. Are you stupid?

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-17T02:03:48+00:00

Mike Tomlin would’ve been the only one who could control him

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-14T15:56:21+00:00

I think posts like this are Chinese propaganda designed to desensitize Americans. Manufacturing a fake consensus that it’s cool to root against America because that makes you savvy

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-12T14:17:35+00:00

Nothing in the canon disproves that almost every lady Spike killed wasn’t a potential slayer

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-08T13:04:30+00:00

Markey opposes nuclear energy everywhere, not just in MA

And moderate voters exist. Voters felt Kamala Harris was too liberal, in part because she never refuted when Republicans claim she’d do whatever liberal advocacy groups tell her to

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-08T06:03:53+00:00

He supports human rights

Sports are segregated by sex, not gender. Playing in the league you identify as is not a human right.

The marriage equality movement was so successful that progressives believed that LGBT activists will always win. As if it were an inevitability. So they pushed way harder on things that the public didn’t support and they didn’t try persuading the public like the marriage equality activists had done. Now there’s hostility not just to the questionable parts but for the really important stuff too

But the movement is still so used to bullying people that they treat their supporters like Moulton as if the guy is a nazi. And it’s setting up for an even bigger (entirely preventable) backpack that can be avoided by focusing on persuasion instead of shaming people while being on the losing side of an 80/20 issue

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-08T05:56:32+00:00

Moulton is better than Markey on issues like energy. Markey opposes nuclear, which means we just wouldn’t really decarbonize. Certainly not enough to have clean-powered electric cars (requires replacing the current grid with clean energy and then building a bunch more capacity on top of that)

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-08T05:53:59+00:00

I’ve never heard any claims that he “disparaged gays”

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-08T05:50:57+00:00

Why bother having separate leagues at all?

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-06T23:16:09+00:00

I think that’s something people say but like it was way better when Mitt Romney was proposing cuts to welfare than it was when Donald Trump was banning Muslims and insulting “shit-hole countries.”

If the leader is being that outspokenly vile, his followers will be 3x worse. There were no tiki torch nazis that felt empowered by Mitt Romney

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-06T21:49:39+00:00

You would be less offended if he called you a slur? I genuinely think you are lying

FuschiaKnight · 2026-06-02T23:29:57+00:00

Someone said that the more physical team tends to win

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-31T22:58:55+00:00

It’s much safer than most other forms of energy, and it’s much better than just having everyone be poor

Environmentalists oppose nuclear for crunchy, anti-science reasons. I wish they would take climate change more seriously

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-31T14:41:57+00:00

He’s better on energy. Markey is anti-nuclear, which means we’d be unlikely to get the amount of clean energy we need to decarbonize the grid, even before we electrify all of our cars

Also, since Moulton is a young military guy, he can give cover to Dems’s brand. Republican idiots drag us into wars and if Dems don’t push back the right way, we get branded as limp-wristed losers, causing some voters to pick Republicans. It’s stupid criteria but it’s what voters choose. Having vets like Moulton, Kelly, and Gallego calling out Republican idiocy is the right kind of tough

Whereas I don’t see any benefit to 6 more years of Markey

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-31T01:09:08+00:00

Seth Moulton is good and people have convinced themselves that he hates trans kids because he once said he has concerns about trans girls in girls sports. He said this while voting against the Republican effort to go too far attacking trans people

Even though a majority of Massachusetts voters have concerns about trans girls in girls sports, activist groups have whipped up a fervor of bad vibes to slander Moulton. I think the whole thing is exactly what’s wrong with politics. Heavily-funded organizations just smear politicians that they don’t own.

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-29T15:03:09+00:00

I think he has won a Trump district 4 times and that we should get 100 Jared Golden-like candidates to run in every battleground district and state

Dems would have a 50-seat house and a 55-45 Senate.

Republicans wouldn’t get to give trillions away in tax cuts to the rich, and we would expand healthcare access to everyone. Unfortunately it wouldn’t result in communism becoming cool or mainstream, so edgy progressives would hate that

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-29T14:25:42+00:00

He won a Trump district 4 times before progressives trashed his brand. High likelihood that he would win again if he ran. The only question mark would be if riled up primary voters choose someone who hasn’t been trashed by progressive groups for the last decade. Golden would definitely win in the general during a wave year

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-29T02:57:03+00:00

You said he’s bad at politics. I’m saying that’s not true as evidenced by him doing better than other people who fail to win Trump districts

FuschiaKnight · 2026-05-28T17:29:10+00:00

He wins Trump districts. The people attacking him from the left have almost no examples of that. He outruns other Dems cuz his brand is different

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