https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/974578876511936512?s=20

«Nothing makes western media happy like discovering a new culture to misunderstand»

It’s not just media. Everybody wants an exotic story.

http://youthful-life.blogspot.com/2018/03/literate.html?m=1

Quote:

“Self-care is also not arguing with people who are committed to misunderstanding you.” Ayishat A. Akanbi.

(end)

That’s an interesting way to phrase it.

(I haven’t read the whole thing.)

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-the-right-way-to-interpret-the-pennsylvania-special-election/

He feels so strongly about this he tweeted this out.

Quote:

I’m sorry to rant about this, I’m just really, really tired of people substituting saying “the polls” when they really mean “idiotic media narratives based on cherry-picked misinterpretations of the polls.”

Even on CNN last night, there was this notion that Lamb was a big favorite based on the polls. That’s absolutely false. He was a modest favorite, at best. It shows that people have learned nothing since 2016.

micah: Is rant over?

natesilver: It’s going to continue for the next three years, Micah.

Quote:

That the first image has been removed for DMCA compliance shows how dangerous our intellectual property regime is to political speech

How interesting.

Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America – Mother Jones

Source: https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/trump-is-reshaping-the-census-to-reflect-his-vision-of-america/ (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/trump-is-reshaping-the-census-to-reflect-his-vision-of-america/)

Quotes:

While we have multiplied, reshuffled, and sliced our racial categories, they have never been comprehensive or comprehensible to anyone but Americans. Like the Trump presidency itself, the census’s foundations are racial.

Yet the census is our best source of information about the nation, and the only way to draw fair legislative boundaries. And today it is in danger.

….

More practically, the move deprives the bureau of the 3,500 specialized employees that the 2010 Census used because they could speak multiple languages to find non-English speakers (who tend to live in Democratic districts).

….

After September 11, 2001, people were astonished to learn that the federal government didn’t know how many Middle Easterners lived in America. There was a simple explanation: We hadn’t gone to war there recently. A group listed on the census is a group we’ve invaded or colonized. The census has check boxes for nine different subcategories of Asians, nearly every one representing a different war or territory: Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Chamorro or Samoan. After 15 years of war in the Middle East, President Barack Obama and immigrant advocacy groups had proposed adding a “MENA” category for Middle East and North Africa for the 2020 census. (The census is prohibited from collecting religious information, so Muslims cannot be enumerated.) Counterintuitively, Trump, thanks to his budget cuts, has squashed the chance to count Middle Easterners in the 2020 Census.

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The real problem with Trump’s push to add citizenship questions, underfund the census, and produce an undercount is that it corrals the Census into producing the vision of America Trump already imagines.

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The administration claims it wants an accurate count. But while Trump fantasizes that there are millions of noncitizen voters out there, who really gets counted twice and wins more representation? People with two homes.

And another. Quote:

I ran the SERE EIT program & can say with expertise that Your advocacy of torture is just simple Sadism. Embrace it #BabyVader

Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974074366911795202.html

Quote, beginning of thread:

This is the 2nd Pi Day pie that @overdesigned and I have ever shared.

Let me tell you the story of the first one and how it relates to our eventual marriage

[I bet their kids will be telling this story years from now. :)]

https://twitter.com/DocPeteyJ/status/974044222071259136?s=20

Quote, in response to Liz Cheney:

BULLSHIT. As part of SERE, I was waterboarded. I lasted 10 secs & pissed myself. I knew it wasn’t real, that at any time I could give a signal to make it stop. It’s torture, & the info garnered is entirely unreliable, because you will say anything, tell any lie, to make it stop.

SERE is Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape, part of training for U.S. personnel who might get captured.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape

https://melmagazine.com/everything-you-dont-know-about-stormy-daniels-38f0f642389a

Crazy article on Stormy Daniels that has this to say regarding her run for Senate in Louisiana:

17) At the time, one LSU political science professor told the local Times-Picayune paper, “If Jesse Ventura can win in Minnesota, why can’t she win in Louisiana?”

Which I think is more of a humorous comment on Louisiana than anything else. Kind of like the Edwin Edwards quote.

(MEL Magazine was founded by Dollar Shave Club in 2015 — more craziness.)

John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy:

I will be filing a bill tomorrow that will prohibit airlines from putting animals in overhead bins. Violators will face significant fines. Pets are family.