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National Popular Vote and Electoral College
https://twitter.com/DonPaul77/status/1113235091898208258?s=17
National Popular Vote is a state-level issue right now, not national.
DonPaul Nogueira (@DonPaul77) Tweeted:
Please stop talking about abolishing the electoral college. It gives ammo to the opposition. Instead, send some money to @NatlPopularVote , let them handle it and ask the candidates to focus on core issues.
Possible red-to-blue flip in PA special election
https://twitter.com/cFidd/status/1113234092227735552?s=17
Exciting!
Fiddler (@cFidd) Tweeted:
Polls have closed in the Pennsylvania #SD37 special election. Republicans are desperate to hold this seat; Democrats are looking for their first red-to-blue flip of the cycle. Results here: https://t.co/FmugCyNOv9 https://t.co/b4nK5wkUVC
Think (IBM) – Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)#History
Really, we need more of this.
«At an uninspiring sales meeting Watson interrupted, saying “The trouble with every one of us is that we don’t think enough. We don’t get paid for working with our feet — we get paid for working with our heads.” Watson then wrote THINK on the easel.»
Confidence/competence
Humans are so weird. (This applies to more than just Islamism, obviously.)
Hassan Hassan (@hxhassan) Tweeted:
A former extremist’s logic of “I know Islam better than anyone else because I was an extremist” is ironically an extension of that former extremist’s animating logic that he knew Islam better than anyone else. The core doesn’t always change. Switching isn’t the same as changing. https://t.co/XuGSNR8GqS
“Confederate History Month” Southern patriots
https://twitter.com/DrRobThompson/status/1112655845261803520?s=17
So looking forward to this. 30 days of Southerners loyal to the Union.
Dr Rob Thompson 🔥 (@DrRobThompson) Tweeted:
Day 1 of Confederate Heritage Month. We honor then Captain David G. Farragut, a Southerner who remained loyal to the United States, for his defeat of Confederate traitors at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip from 18 to 28 April 1862. #ConfederateHeritageMonth https://t.co/OmP5cM6Dqh
“Silence = complicity”
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1112391563626180610
This seems fairly widely applicable.
«Whatever your mission is, if you’re silent on bigotry within it because you’ll accept ANY support, well, I return to the whole, “what do you have when 11 people sit down to dinner with a Nazi? 12 Nazis” thing. You gotta call this shit out and reject it, or you’re advancing it.»
20 years for man behind hoax call that led to fatal shooting
This one guy is getting sent away for swatting, but nobody is being let off the hook: neither the Wichita police, nor the other two video gamers involved.
How Democrats are losing 2020, already: Trump must not win reelection, but the candidates lining up to beat him are giving a good chance – New York Daily News
@TheRickWilson either truly believes in the Democrats-have-their-heads-in-the-clouds narrative, or he’s really trying to push it, on purpose. Pretty sure @ewarren isn’t boutique.
«They know that boutique policies in a Walmart nation won’t sell.»
Rise of the Nones
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1111672588881874944?s=17
Striking graph.
Wesley Yang (@wesyang) Tweeted:
“No religion” is for the first time ever the most common religious orientation in America. I remember when America’s religiosity was seen as part of what made it exceptional among Western democracies.
