https://twitter.com/KristenClarkeJD/status/1205611104614977537?s=20
Let’s hope it works.
Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) Tweeted:
BREAKING: We are taking legal action to reverse UNC’s Board of Governors reckless decision to transfer 2.5M to Sons of Confederate Veterans in connection with the ‘Silent Sam’ controversy. This payout has the result of fueling white supremacy.
We’re fighting back! #SilentSham https://t.co/O3KHt62hpB
https://twitter.com/MeredithAncret/status/1205267525694451712?s=20
So, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it rhymes (supposedly).
Jaye Wells @jayewellsI wonder if everyone in the ’30s just kept repeating “what the fuck” all the time too@MeredithAncretYes. They did.Speaking from an academic perspective I’ve read multiple books published in the late ’20s and early ’30s that mostly boil down to “what the fuck”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/boris-johnson-britain-uk-election/603466/
Sound familiar?
«Over time, Labour’s vote has become more metropolitan, wealthier, more diverse, younger, and more educated—more in line with Remain. The Conservative vote has become poorer, whiter, older, less educated, and more provincial—like Leave.»
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving-religion-and-not-coming-back/
Wheee!
«Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to be permanent? For one thing, religious involvement is associated with a wide variety of positive social outcomes like increased interpersonal trust and civic engagement that are hard to reproduce in other ways. And this trend has obvious political implications. As we wrote a few months ago, whether people are religious is increasingly tied to — and even driven by — their political identities. For years, the Christian conservative movement has warned about a tide of rising secularism, but research has suggested that the strong association between religion and the Republican Party may actually be fueling this divide. And if even more Democrats lose their faith, that will only exacerbate the acrimonious rift between secular liberals and religious conservatives.»
Deval Patrick doesn’t seem to understand (or he’s being insincere to somebody).
«America’s political parties are now as polarized as they were at the end of Reconstruction. And just as at the end of Reconstruction, a multiracial party whose ranks include both frustrated workers and wealthy capitalists finds itself at a crossroads, with no certain options for healing the nation’s divides or its own. As ever, America’s gilded class regards the possibility of higher taxes and redistribution as a greater threat than a resurgent racist authoritarianism that imperils America’s still-young experiment in multiracial democracy. The latter, after all, does not jeopardize its profits.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/e-waste-thailand-southeast-asia.html
Factoring the cost of e-waste disposal into our electronics would make prices go up, and that’s un-American. The free market will find a solution, though. (Oh, wait, it already has.)
«“Why don’t you in the West recycle your own waste?” said Phayao Jaroonwong, a farmer east of Bangkok, who said her crops had withered after an electronic waste factory moved in next door.
“Thailand can’t take it anymore,” she said. “We shouldn’t be the world’s dumping ground.”»
On a more serious note, though, nobody thinks “complete life cycle” for anything, software or hardware. If you build something with poison in it (lead, mercury, germanium, polychlorinated biphenyl), now you have a piece of poison in your life. Then what?
Also, this isn’t just an American thing. China doesn’t want its laptop prices going up, either. Hurts exports.
https://twitter.com/joshjame/status/1203841898990985216?s=20
I *almost* feel sorry for this WSJ reporter. Almost.
Josh Jamerson (@joshjame) Tweeted:
«NEWS: Elizabeth Warren was compensated nearly $2 million over about three decades for doing consulting & other legal work, per campaign.
She previously disclosed the cases she worked on but compensation is new amid calls by Mayor Pete to release more tax returns. Story up soon»
Here’s another interesting observation:
https://twitter.com/courtranstrom/status/1203844301911801858?s=20
Courtney Ranstrom (@courtranstrom) Tweeted:
«@joshjame @Bencjacobs That shakes out to $67,000/year. If she’s consulting, she’s probably 1099. Based on an hourly rate of $200, that’s only 330 hours per year. I’m not surprised she had multiple income streams as a professor-that’s common at law schools & MBA programs. Most of my professors did.»
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1203429267411030017?s=20
Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) Tweeted:
Money spent on ads so far:
Steyer: $47M
Bloomberg: $39M (in two weeks!!!))
All other Democrats combined: $15M
https://t.co/YZkZ6fbAux https://t.co/U2DXojGiBB
https://twitter.com/officialHJesus/status/1203649297780269056?s=20
Jesus H Christ (@officialHJesus) Tweeted:
Nativity 2019…😐 https://t.co/HFyOLKpC9M
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infowars.html
«I thought of the children who lived in Islamberg: how afraid their families must have felt when their communities were threatened and strangers appeared asking questions; how we chose to look past these people as individuals and impose on them more of the same unfair suspicions they already had to endure. And for what? Clickbait headlines, YouTube views?»
