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?
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
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/
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:
http://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Geo. Washington misquotes. Like… a Washington-specific Snopes.
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
https://www.theassemblync.com/short-form/getting-what-we-pay-for/
If this is how state governments across the nation work, no wonder groups like ALEC went to work on them. When Republicans call for devolving decisions from the federal to state governments, these are the bodies they want to make decisions. I guess you can’t be a state legislator unless you’re well-off enough to horse around in the capitol 8 months out of the year.
«the job pays $13,951 a year, a figure that hasn’t changed since 1995. You’ll receive a small stipend for every day you work, but that stipend won’t be enough to pay for a place to stay unless you prefer motels that end in the number six. Some of your colleagues cope by camping at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds on workdays.
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Staff support? You won’t have a lot of it. You will have an assistant, and from time to time, floating staff in the office will offer some help. But the current management team just fired 14 highly educated staffers who were supposed to help you with the more wonky aspects of the job.
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The North Carolina General Assembly governs the 9th most populous state in the nation, but ranks as only the 21st most professional legislature.»
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1363557141899071491?s=20
Honestly, after Eisenhower, it’s been all downhill for the Republicans.
Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) Tweeted: Looking back at this week, most significant development in “what the GOP stands for” is probably Romney-Cotton endorsing a minimum wage hike “while ensuring businesses cannot hire illegal immigrants.” That’s European party of the right energy https://t.co/bfqlRMPgXy
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22292011/google-second-ethical-ai-researcher-fired
You would think not being evil would actually be cheaper for Google than this kind of PR damage.
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1363004078004047873?s=20
Chad Loder (@chadloder) Tweeted: I don’t know how my dad managed to avoid overdosing on fentanyl. It was just luck of the draw. All the man ever wanted to do was to swing a hammer. He was a damn good builder and draftsman. He did exquisite work. A lifelong bookworm. A jazz and blues fanatic. A good dad. https://t.co/AT6uv3Osap
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