https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/democrats-suburbs.html
This. Right here. Pay attention, @ewarren.
«To achieve a durable national majority, Democratic candidates will need to expand their appeal to the less diverse and more culturally conservative electorates of the small-metro suburbs, which remain aligned with the Republican Party even in the era of Donald Trump.»
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We can’t close the beaches! [Jaws music]
«Tourism makes up a significant portion of the country’s economy, and Ebola’s presence there would likely lead to widespread trip cancellations.»
Ok, I have decided good ol’ Perl is better than both the new kids for a particular kind of task: quick-n-dirty text manipulation. Sorry, y’all, I’m going back, after all these years.
cat edWebLog.txt | perl -n -e '/caching service background update finished on thread \(id [0-9]+\) in ([0-9]+) ms/ && print "$1\n";'
Sub-headline: “2017 marked the first time firearms killed more people than motor vehicle accidents, the report said.”
«The committee report found that Alaska, Montana, Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri have the highest rate of gun deaths, with an economic cost of roughly $17.5 billion. However, suicides make up the majority of firearm-related deaths, about 60 percent, the report said, and suicides by young Americans have trended upward over the last decade.
The report found that states with high rates of gun ownership — Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, West Virginia and Wyoming — have the highest rates of gun suicide. And for every 10 percent increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increases by more than 25 percent, it found.»
Deaths of despair, as they say.
It not me.
Boy, oh boy, is it not me. Interestingly, it never asked me about my education. It’s pretty, though.
https://twitter.com/johnbisognano/status/1171950828481110017?s=20
And what does he go after? North Raleigh, of course.
(He got caught, so now he’s announced his retirement.) #wasteland
https://twitter.com/DrBakBak/status/1173620807861334016?s=20
@fairvote Whoa. The TEA Party of the Left endorses Warren over Sanders, and they did it with #RankedChoiceVoting (if this tweet is to be believed).
https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar/status/1170734003483217920?s=20
This tweet has stuck with me for a bit, but not because of its topic, and it comes back to my mind in the context of listening to marginalized people (specifically, white people listening to black people):
The gist, in my mind, being: yes, the world isn’t perfect and never has been (although you might think it was, at some point in the past), and “we” (the people you need to be listening to) have been working to make it better all along, without ever giving up hope. (That’s the collective “we”, not a bunch of individuals. Individuals do indeed give up hope, but the group doesn’t.)
And it gets tossed off as an aside, a matter of course, something not even worth dwelling on.
Maybe I’m doing the Magical Negro thing, but I choose to be inspired.
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1173602551750676482?s=20
Right. 538 had a toy you could play with before the 2016 election (Swing-o-Matic) to see how different demographics would affect the vote. If you dragged the mouse one pixel for non-college whites, boom, the election went to Trump.
And guess what?
Here, Read This 