July 16, 2018

Friendly reminder that 31 Senate Dems still not on record as opposing Kavanaugh

https://twitter.com/ezralevin/status/1018981638678761473

July 14, 2018

Remember when Obama went abroad?

It was like Beatlemania LOL throngs of people with signs saying they loved him, wherever he went

Sigh

July 14, 2018

Ben Carson wants to raise rents on poor people to force them to work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/ben-carson-says-hes-raising-rents-to-put-poor-americans-to-work--but-in-the-district-the-majority-are-either-elderly-or-disabled-or-already-work/2018/07/13/b85866a0
-8127-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html?utm_term=.f834324bb583

July 8, 2018

US opposition to breastfeeding resolution stuns WHO

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

June 27, 2018

Good tweet from Adam Jentleson

https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1012042524561690625


no more playing by the rules.

June 24, 2018

Soooo, author Octavia Butler pretty much predicted the times we're in

https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an African American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, in 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

The sequel, “Parable of the Talents,” published in 1998, begins in 2032. By then, various forms of indentured servitude and slavery are common, facilitated by high-tech slave collars. The oppression of women has become extreme; those who express their opinion, “nags,” might have their tongues cut out. People are addicted not only to designer drugs but also to “dream masks,” which generate virtual fantasies as guided dreams, allowing wearers to submerge themselves in simpler, happier lives. News comes in the form of disks or “news bullets,” which “purport to tell us all we need to know in flashy pictures and quick, witty, verbal one-two punches. Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.” The Donner Administration has written off science, but a more immediate threat lurks: a violent movement is being whipped up by a new Presidential candidate, Andrew Steele Jarret, a Texas senator and religious zealot who is running on a platform to “make American great again

Wow.

June 23, 2018

Places with high opiod use favored Trump in 2016

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/amp/2018/06/high-opioid-use-areas-favored-trump-in-2016-study-says.html?__twitter_impression=true

Quelle surprise.

June 22, 2018

Please read this WH plan to completely reorganize the Federal Government.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1010205853985792000.html

June 20, 2018

Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U

Covered by Sinead O'Connor in 1990, it was a huge hit.

Prince originally wrote and recorded the song in the summer of 1984.