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Author Archives: John Lusk
Tweet from Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher)
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1365145292706832387?s=20
Well, it least it’s not a golden CALF. That would be Bad.
Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) Tweeted: A golden statue of Trump is as good a summary of CPAC as one could possibly make. https://t.co/tW0zFobjyh
Former House Speaker goes off script, targets Ted Cruz in audio memoir – Axios
https://www.axios.com/boehner-ted-cruz-new-memoir-df75a3a2-5f03-434c-8425-2f072eceec0e.html
«”He’s not really interested in being anything other than himself these days. That is kind of the spirit of the entire project.”»
🙂
Tweet from skullsinthestars – Black lives matter (@drskyskull)
https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1364794760079298563?s=20
skullsinthestars – Black lives matter (@drskyskull) Tweeted: Come the fuck ON, people https://t.co/9sGnUH2zSa
Maybe what’s going to happen is:
certain parts of the world get access to a vaccine;
those parts of the world lose interest in covid (we see a strong tendency already, right?);
covid remains endemic to certain other parts of the world the first parts don’t care about;
we see new variants every few years that require new vaccines (as tweaks of old ones);
we get new shots, like the yearly flu shot;
covid becomes a chronic background thing, like tuberculosis or hepatitis C or MRSA;
life goes on, with yet another microbe trying to kill us and vaccines protecting us;
anti-vaxxers continue to be unable to grasp that 1 in 10,000 means hundreds of thousands and millions die unnecessarily because they don’t personally know someone who was affected.
Hmm, maybe I should put some paragraph breaks in here.
Amnesty International no longer calling Alexei Navalny a prisoner of conscience
Bermet Talant (@ser_ou_parecer) Tweeted: I’m Kyrgyz. So I take Navalny’s past ethno-nationalist and xenophobic statements personally. But Amnesty’s decision is wrong, and I don’t like the cynical misapplication of western liberal standards of debate around racism and hate speech. 1/x
https://twitter.com/ser_ou_parecer/status/1364645136572022789?s=20
Huh? [Googles.] Oh.
Maybe they felt burned by Aung San Suu Kyi?
I guess things are never as simple as we’d like, eh?
Tweet from b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie)
b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) Tweeted: assuming Thune was about 16 or 17 when started earning $6/hour, that would be equivalent to about $25/hour in today’s dollars. https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1364737509650018304?s=20
Covid-19
It’s just… like… a bad case of the flu. Young people aren’t really dying from it.
https://www.slideshare.net/singh_br1762/iceberg-concept-of-disease-occurrence
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16238147/

See. Hear. Speak.
https://montclairfriends.org/2010/09/20/litquake/
I love this logo from https://www.litquake.org/. This is the earliest appearance TinEye found for me, so… :shrug:

Spurious Quotations · George Washington’s Mount Vernon
http://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Geo. Washington misquotes. Like… a Washington-specific Snopes.
Phil Berger profile, NC Assembly
https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1362055113880334346?s=20
That actually WAS a really good article.
Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) Tweeted: Congratulations to everyone over at @TheAssemblyNC, a new magazine about North Carolina politics. This is a great profile of Phil Berger, the most powerful politician in North Carolina. #NCPol https://t.co/JZWZuYL0fP