Carolina Forward (@ForwardCarolina) Tweeted: In this state budget, right-wing lawmakers poured yet more money into school vouchers, despite the fact that most of those schools are teaching sheer nonsense. Your tax dollars are paying for religious indoctrination. That’s what “school choice” really means. #nced #ncpol https://twitter.com/ForwardCarolina/status/1468253941834072067?s=20
«As the group finally departed, one police officer yelled, “Whose shield is that?” after one white supremacist apparently left his [“mildly menacing”] plastic shield behind.»
Haw!
So, here’s a breathless article on how Twitter is allowing the far right to suppress info by gaming the new rule on not posting “private media”. And, my first thought is: why don’t these folks blog (or something)? Why are they making themselves dependent on Twitter?
And the answer, of course, is: they ARE blogging (or rather: they DO have their own website, and they’re not dependent on Twitter). Duh. Why would I think otherwise?
What’s stupid is allowing myself to be swayed by other stupid “news” articles like the one quoted below.
«Atlanta Antifascists, one of the more prominent anti-fascist accounts on Twitter, tweeted on Thursday it had been reported for exposing the identity of a “White Student Union” organizer. It added Twitter had locked them out of their account until they deleted the post.»
Source: Fascists Are Weaponizing Twitter’s New ‘Private Media’ Rule
And here’s the site: https://atlantaantifa.org/
(Let’s see if Twitter blocks me for this.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/30/mace-greene-feud-mccarthy-523587
I guess this is how we do things in the New South.
«“All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart,” Mace told reporters.»
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RBOB futures over the last ten years.
Good article. This just jumped out at me:
«After [Brittany] Murphy and [Michael] Jackson’s deaths in 2009, though, some obituary editors took a hard look at some younger superstars with chaotic lives. And when British pop diva Amy Winehouse died at age 27 in 2011 after a public struggle with addiction, The Washington Post had a prewritten obituary ready to publish.»
Also this:
«“I believe everyone has one good story in them,” said Kay Powell, a like-minded former obituaries editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, whose subjects included a woman who sang at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and a health department bureaucrat who introduced pasteurized milk to Georgia. “It’s up to us to find it and write it.”»
Ah. SUDDENLY I understand why we’re hearing about inflation now. Republicans have started the election.
My dad was in the 45th Division. Pretty sure he would not have been on board with this ho…gwash.
We have two, count ’em, two, holidays in which we celebrate military service and zero holidays in which we celebrate the orderlies who will be changing my bedpan in 30 years when I’m scared and in pain, and grouchy, or the teachers who did their best to instill critical thinking and good social habits into my kids.
Apart from whatever holidays Congress has enacted in order to score votes.
