Good thing to stumble across.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-trump-once-called-my-african-american-leaves-republican-party

Cheadle told PBS NewsHour he has decided to leave the Republican party and run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative as an independent

#StoppedReading

So, what’s wrong with “run, hide, fight” and that’s the end of the “training”?

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/18/active-shooter-drill-gone-wrong/

https://medium.com/@adamkraymond

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/21/active-shooter-training-for-schools-teachers-shot-with-plastic-pellets/3231103002/

The company I work for is currently dropping some coin on ALICE. Including suggesting workers on one particular floor find a different place to work on one particular day because they’ll be running drills on that floor. So, it’s not just the money paid to consultants, but also other indirect costs associated with this sort of disruption and fear-mongering.

To be fair, I do acknowledge that airline pilots will occasionally trigger the oxygen masks and put the plane into an abrupt, steep dive as training for passengers. I was on such a flight just last never, so I guess we could follow their model.

Holy cow, we humans are so SENTIMENTAL. (I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying.)

Shooting ourselves in the foot, just for racism.

https://twitter.com/TheToddSchulte/status/1171947381983711233?s=20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-begin-denying-migrants-asylum-while-legal-fight-continues/2019/09/11/94b90da4-d017-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist

Good article. This quote doesn’t summarize it, but I liked it:

«…in 1926, [Stoddard] gave a lecture before two thousand at Tuskegee University, in Alabama, informing them that the Nordic race was superior to nonwhites and that, for the good of all races, the world must continue to be governed by white supremacy. A black newspaper reported that the students “sat awestricken during the address, which terminated without any applause.”»

“Awestricken.” I bet. 🙂

The replies to this are pretty cool.

(Ok, that’s enough of a work break.)

Never mind the video, the conversation itself was interesting.

https://twitter.com/jerodmcdaniel/status/1161355305609039872?s=17

I just discovered ag Twitter. I think. Pretty interesting, although it’s mostly a foreign language.

Jerod McDaniel (@jerodmcdaniel) Tweeted:
Today, IMO I’d say Trump is giving Carter an honest run for the worse president for Agriculture in the last 50 years.

Be interesting to see how he finishes this race.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/cnn-climate-town-hall-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-nuclear-power.html

Hmm. Lotta links in this article.