Actually, yeah. School board elections seem to happen in off years, and can be pretty important.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) Tweeted:
RT @jonbailiff: Start by voting out the Superintendent https://t.co/Kxfz6BGxXR https://twitter.com/jonbailiff/status/1066715947090628609?s=17
The moral of the story being: there is no “Trump voter.” There’s only “SOME Trump voters.”
[From an article I posted recently. Rolling in to 2020, looks like the Anti-Elites will be the most contested. The link above goes straight to a subsection of the report.]
https://twitter.com/sjredmond/status/1060507877985660928?s=17
Anna Maria (@Barbiewithatude) Tweeted:
RT @sjredmond:
FBI Stats for 2015
770 justifiable homicides,
268 were civilians with a gun300 million guns in the hands of civilians saved 268.
While guns were used in over
- 21000 suicides
- 13000 homicides
- 500 gun related accidents
A heavy price to save 268
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sheryl-sandberg-mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html
«Perhaps it’s only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure. But why is everyone so ready to forgive the man who really runs Facebook?»
Aug., 2018: https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/solar-geo-engineering-might-not-work-so-well-after-all/
And now: http://cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aerosols-global-warming-intl-scli/
Oh hai network teevee welcome to the party!
«Few experts think that relying on geo-engineering would be a good idea. But no one knows how soon reality will trump ideology, and so we may finally have hit on a useful form of alarmism. One of the virtues of Keith’s succinct, scary book is to convince the reader that unless we find a way to talk about climate change, planes full of sulfuric acid will soon be on the runway.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/trump-chief-justice-roberts-rebuke.html
“Believe me, study the numbers.” Another Trump lie.
«Renewing his attack on Twitter on Wednesday, Mr. Trump quoted from Chief Justice Roberts’s statement.
“It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an ‘independent judiciary,’” he wrote, “but if it is why are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. Please study the numbers, they are shocking.”
In a follow-up tweet, he mused about breaking up the Ninth Circuit into two or three circuits, a move that would require legislation.
The Ninth Circuit hears appeals from federal courts in nine western states, including two on the Mexican border, California and Arizona. The circuit has a reputation for being frequently reversed by the Supreme Court, but its reversal rate is only a little higher than average and not as high as that of some other circuits.»
«“If I had waited around, I would never have been speaker,” he recalled her saying. “Power is never given; it’s always taken.”»
#payattentionkids
https://ritholtz.com/2018/11/how-to-talk-to-a-foxnews-viewer/
How to Talk to a Fox News Viewer – The Big Picture
Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) Tweeted:
we never did get an explanation of how Blackout Brett’s six-figure debt magically vanished overnight and Matthew Whitaker’s financial disclosure forms are being guarded like they’re the recipe for Coca Cola, so yes please, more think pieces on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wardrobe https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1065255103593103360?s=17
Zing!
«To people whose main reference point for politics is the late Obama years, the 2016 presidential campaign, and the post-Bernie Sanders blossoming of left-wing politics in the United States, Nancy Pelosi seems — and, indeed, is — an establishment figure.
But for those whose political horizons go back a bit longer….»
Here, Read This 