I’m really enjoying this book. http://a.co/gYpNxSz

«Tighe looked toward Abarca again. Her eyes were still on him. They were the last two candidates underwater.
Screw it.
His lungs screaming, Tighe swam for the sunlight. He broke the surface and sucked for air, grabbing the buoy line.
Several people around him were coughing and gasping for breath.
Tighe looked down and saw the rescue divers move toward Abarca—but she waved them away. They circled her like sharks. She looked upward.
Another voice nearby: “Christ, is she still down there?”
In a few moments, Abarca swam toward the surface, and as she emerged she took a deep, controlled breath.
The coordinator blew the whistle. “All candidates accounted for!”
Abarca didn’t look particularly affected by the exercise. She noticed Tighe’s look. “This sea level air is like a meal to me.”»

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1176182695686279168?s=20

But the Tea Party wasn’t racist at all, they were just… uh… biased against DEMOCRATS.

https://twitter.com/CandiceAiston/status/1175969166618087430?s=20

https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1176165196605349888?s=20

https://twitter.com/Hegemommy/status/1176155260299042816?s=20

WOW.

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.»

test

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tanzanias-refusal-to-acknowledge-possible-ebola-casesrepresents-a-challenge-who/2019/09/22/70bf9a80-dd19-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

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.»

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/report-tallied-human-economic-toll-gun-violence-all-50-states-n1055966

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.