Derek Fox
Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”
- For once, I’m inclined to take this advice from RFK, Jr, to heart
- Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
- Noem in response (at least internally): “Are you saying that having masked vigilantes free to harass people of color represents some sort of problem?”
- *crab-walked
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View full threadFWIW, this sort of ambiguous headline is called a 'crash blossom.'
- Hmm. Not “crash-blossom”, eh?
- Really impressive for a nepo-publisher to give a both-sides speech just two months after a student was arrested over a newspaper column in a pogrom your own paper has cheered relentlessly. Really damn impressive.
- In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”
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- “Now that we’ve seen state violence against journalists, students, immigrants and protesters, show of hands: Who’s still unclear about who the fascists are?” Sulzberger (tentatively raises hand): “They’re on both sides, right?” “No.” S: “Because a Biden Press Secretary hurt my feelings, once…”
- Trying to figure out what makes these refugees so much more deserving than asylum-seekers from Venezuela, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Haiti, Syria…
- lol yes
- this question has now been answered: preference was given to white Afrikaners and other white South Africans over all other asylum-seekers because they are “actual people”
- And there it is!
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- I’m an academic, Matthew - always easily distracted and always on deadline. (Now that you mention it, the two may indeed be related…)
- Thank goodness kids don’t eat between 7 and 18 years of age
- …to be fair, I think the *actual* Republican position here is that kids should be earning their own way by age 7 rather than depending on government largesse for their, you know, food
- And all because of a cottonseed oil ban! Glad they figured out a way around that
- …and now I’m reading the Wikipedia entry on cottonseed oil, wow! Such drama!
