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.”»
🙂
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.
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.
….
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.
….
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
