lumie's dad
lumie's dad
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Native Virginian in Minneapolis. Cornbread communist. Labor organizer and educator. Double pepperoni fanatic. Whole milk fan. The South vs. The World.
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"arabs have contributed nothing to the arts and sciences" is such a funny fucking thing for a bog ape wearing a little suit to say
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
I obviously keep up with Toronto and Canadian politics closer than the average American. But when Matt posted this earlier, I said to myself, "there's no fucking way that this man's government name is Bradford Bradford." Y'all.
please do not vote for Bradford Bradford, an empty vessel who has never had an original thought or conviction in his life that wasn't A/B-tested by a team of consultants. a useless dork who uses AI apps to get facebook trolls to fight battles for him. a truly mediocre man
My union brother Sam Forstag is running for a House seat in western Montana, a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. House since 1994. If he can reject transphobia as a campaign tactic, then there's no excuse for anyone else. Vote for Sam Forstag. Reject anyone who lacks his convictions.
The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.
"people are concerned about other people in other places, which is terrible...in this essay i will (say a bunch of other wrong-ass shit)"
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
Three touchdowns in 70 seconds and a horrendous dad joke*? That's @sickoscommittee.org territory. *referring to a PVAMU running back breaking away for a touchdown: "he needs counseling for loneliness the way he got ahead of the defense"
we tore this shit UP
KFC Rotisserie Gold (1993-1995): Looking to provide an alternative to their fried chicken, KFC rolled out a line of roast chicken, marketed as being "deep marinated", slow roasted in rotisserie ovens, and made with their signature blend of herbs and spices. They were sold whole, halves, or quarters
Damn. Another one that should lose. Bigots don't deserve to serve, regardless of the color on their team jersey.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
There's a lot of shit when it comes to this movie that I'll be chewing on for a while. This is not one of those things. In fact, it was one of the first moments that made me wonder if Nathan Fielder had been taken in by the subject, because this non-story took up entirely too much space.
Okay, this is starting to drive me nuts the fact that there is no recording of Elizabeth Holmes saying the challenged quote does not mean there is “no proof” [article/author redacted because this is just the example that pushed me over the edge]
This is basically where I'm at with the news. Like, if Amazon released a statement saying that they'd voluntarily recognized a labor union in their warehouses, we'd all be skeptical of that for entirely justifiable reasons. So it goes here.
simple question worth asking: why would the Dallas Cowboys, of all teams, voluntarily recognize a worker union, and to what extent will an independent union be able to bargain against one of the wealthiest sports franchises in the world? seems worth digging into that one.
I would love for him to come to the Uptown VFW and say this to my face.
A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
I shouldn't laugh. I really shouldn't. But he said this man's whole government name like he's about to take his belt off and whoop the Speaker of the House's ass.
“Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress. Please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat.”
If you ask a Not Iowan what Iowa is known for, you're going to get one of three answers: corn, America's second best state fair, and the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, also known as RAGBRAI. It's, like, thousands of people biking across the state for seven days. Wild ass comment.
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
If you want information about federal employees from the people who actually represent them, you should look for the accounts of NTEU, NFFE-IAM, AFGE, and NAGE amongst others. They're far more likely to have accurate information on voting and the federal workforce than some random lib QAnon weirdo.
As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.
it was evident that the owners of the crew were going down this path when they ditched the greatest sports logo ever
The Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Blue Jackets, Cavaliers, Crew, and FC Cincinnati. The owners of every single pro sports team in Ohio have all donated to Vivek Ramaswamy. And not a single one has spoken up about his recent ad. www.foiaball.com/p/ohio-sport...
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the sort of intellectual dishonesty and naked cynicism it takes for an academic to fuss about exposure of predatory political fundraising on the grounds not that the exposure is inaccurate, but because it’ll make the predation less effective
Since we're recently interest in attempts to manipulate elections through fake "experiments", I'll remind everyone of Bonica's illegal and unethical behavior. Kind of rich for him to complain about campaign ethics stanforddaily.com/2014/10/30/s...
So your response to analysis showing that Democratic consultants are bilking the elderly to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars through maliciously-worded spam texts is to...bring up a decade-old research experiment that appears to have had little to no impact on those elections? Bizarre.
Since we're recently interest in attempts to manipulate elections through fake "experiments", I'll remind everyone of Bonica's illegal and unethical behavior. Kind of rich for him to complain about campaign ethics stanforddaily.com/2014/10/30/s...
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So your response to analysis showing that Democratic consultants are bilking the elderly to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars through maliciously-worded spam texts is to...bring up a decade-old research experiment that appears to have had little to no impact on those elections? Bizarre.
Since we're recently interest in attempts to manipulate elections through fake "experiments", I'll remind everyone of Bonica's illegal and unethical behavior. Kind of rich for him to complain about campaign ethics stanforddaily.com/2014/10/30/s...
How did that whole thing end up, by the way? That experiment where three political scientists tested whether people make partisan choices in nonpartisan elections when given partisan information about the candidates? Well. Montana officials said they broke the law. Their universities disagreed.
He knows that Ramaswamy is going to lose. The cruelty is the point. The entire whole-ass point.
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"