Posts by Bongolian@universeodon.com
(DIR) Post #AUb8tXzlYon5wrQTZI by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-04-13T04:15:19Z
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@HarneyB 2 children killed in latest NYC e-bike fire; 4 survive blazehttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/2-children-killed-latest-nyc-bike-fire-4-98485269
(DIR) Post #AUeEiBf0uk7RbWKbxY by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-04-14T16:17:12Z
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Eugene Robinson: Why we shouldn’t underestimate Joe Biden#joebidenhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/13/biden-polling-belies-strength
(DIR) Post #AUhZ3E4BkEnnhmIPWC by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-04-16T06:50:55Z
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@JenniferJorgenson ca'noodling
(DIR) Post #AUj3hNPnG66G6U8yTg by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-04-17T00:08:52Z
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Iowa Republicans will happily spend the government's money just to torment the poor.Kyle Swenson: #Iowa to spend millions kicking families off food stamps. More states may follow. Food banks in the state say they are already facing a surge in demand and the legislation will only exacerbate that."The state legislature, with the support of the #Republican supermajority, was poised to approve some of the nation’s harshest restrictions on SNAP. They include asset tests and new eligibility guidelines. By the state’s own estimate, Iowa will need to spend nearly $18 million in administrative costs during the first three years — to take in less federal money. The bill’s backers argue the steps would save the state money long term and cut down on 'SNAP fraud.'"#SNAP #uspolitics https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/16/iowa-snap-restrictions-food-stamps
(DIR) Post #AUzGr6375QyF4crKiG by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-04-24T17:05:27Z
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Jennifer Rubin: Republicans’ ‘best’ issue on the debt is still horrible"Taking a step back, the work requirements are advancing a noxious vision to make the government budget (taxes and spending) more regressive. MAGA Republicans want to keep all the Trump tax cuts and eliminate President Biden’s plan to make corporations pay something and to tax stock buybacks. The things that help poor and middle-class people have either already expired at Republicans’ insistence (e.g., the child tax credit expansion) or have been put on the chopping block (e.g., $35 insulin, drug caps on Medicare, green-energy subsidies, student loans). One doesn’t have to be a “socialist” to think it grotesque to make the rich even richer as a result of cutting benefits to the poor."#uspolitics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/24/work-requirement-republicans-debt
(DIR) Post #AVDQ84f17dHpUSCK3M by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-05-01T15:35:22Z
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@brewsterkahle Oopsie!https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/business/first-republic-purchase-hnk-intl/index.html
(DIR) Post #AVb4WLM5eWGBaPq7Zw by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-05-12T17:04:01Z
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Heather Knight: ‘It’s insulting’: #Amazon is sponsoring S.F.’s Small Business Week — and retailers are upset"It was as tone deaf as Coca-Cola sponsoring Diabetes Awareness Week or Exxon Oil promoting an event centered on addressing climate change."#sanfrancisco #california #smallbusinesshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/small-business-week-amazon-18089471.php
(DIR) Post #AVlduX4tIl4mBqmV4i by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-05-18T03:48:47Z
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@dalfen @WizardBear @ShekinahCanCook Ted Striker: "Surely: you can’t be serious."Dr. Rumack: "I am serious—and don’t call me #Shirley #DeSantis #Airplanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2K7sV-K74
(DIR) Post #AVmmtaoD2Pw0DXZ6My by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-05-18T01:41:34Z
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Greg Sargent: DeSantis’s book banners face a tough new foe: Angry moms with lawyers"In one of the big political surprises of 2023, pockets of stiff resistance have sprung up to defend teachers, textbooks, novels and libraries against censorship efforts across the country. This liberal counter-mobilization is substantially less organized than the right’s culture-warring, but it has great untapped potential for Democrats.These efforts just took an important turn, with a lawsuit filed by Florida parents in federal court Wednesday to try to stop book bans in school libraries in Escambia County, red-leaning terrain in the state’s panhandle. The suit could become a model to challenge bans across Florida and elsewhere."#Desantis #florida #censorship #freespeech #penamericahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/17/book-bans-desantis-lawsuit-pen-america/
(DIR) Post #AW3ZEY5txvg38TaLwm by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-05-26T19:27:52Z
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Dana Milbank: Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide."'Let me be very clear,' he said. 'From the first day I sat with the president, there’s two criterias I told him,' McCarthy said, raising two fingers. 'We’re not going to raise taxes because we bring in more money than we ever have. And we’re not going to pass a clean debt ceiling. And we’ve got to spend less than we spent this year.'Let me be very clear, Mr. Speaker. Those are three, er, “criterias.'"#KevinMcCarthy #debtceilingcrisis #uspolitics #gopFree (gift) article from #wapo: https://wapo.st/3oGQtTP
(DIR) Post #AWYd7u7zb0WY36JsPo by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-06-10T17:01:47Z
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Lori Rozsa: #Florida #anti-LGBTQ laws prompt families who feel unsafe to flee#Desantishttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/10/florida-anti-lgbtq-laws
(DIR) Post #AXA1RMZ3K42fCbvaXg by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-06-28T18:25:24Z
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Greg Sargent: The odds of a #tRump coup attempt in 2024 are dropping fast"The Supreme Court’s decision in Moore v. Harper on Tuesday is a major reprieve for American democracy. By rejecting the radical idea that state legislatures have quasi-unlimited power to determine how elections are run, the court made it harder for lawmakers to engage in the shenanigans that Donald Trump encouraged to overturn his 2020 presidential reelection loss."#uspolitics #moorevharper #independentstatelegislature https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/28/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-theory-trump-2024
(DIR) Post #AXOW0KxB1NEPBCFAe0 by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-07-05T16:44:57Z
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Greg Sargent & Paul Waldman: A #Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke #MAGA fury"At first glance, the plight of Katherine Rinderle, a fifth-grade #teacher in Georgia, might seem confusing. Rinderle faces likely termination by the Cobb County School District for reading aloud a children’s book that touches on gender identity. Yet she is charged in part with violating policy related to a state law banning “divisive concepts” about race, not gender."…"This is the shocking new normal in American public schooling. In many states, a widening circle of content can get someone in trouble. More and more educators are getting the message: There’s a target on their backs."—Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression and education at PEN America…"The essence of this mania is that it is forever hunting for new offenders on the flimsiest of pretexts."#cobbcounty #LGBTQ #racism #teachinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/05/georgia-teacher-termination-gender-identity-maga-desantis-trump/
(DIR) Post #AYABwoZLQWUIUko4iu by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-07-28T16:53:30Z
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Gabe Castro-Root: #COVID taught important lessons to Bay Area public health schools. Here’s how they’re changing: Students getting degrees in public health during the pandemic had experiences that reshaped their lives and careers.#publichealth #sfbayarea https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/covid-bay-area-schools-18201269.php
(DIR) Post #AYVBlY3xJOkbDlHGVs by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-08-07T17:59:28Z
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Marianna Spring: The Irish Light: Woman abused by paper which falsely said vaccine killed her son"Ms Campbell and her solicitor decided to bring a civil case against Ms O'Doherty [publisher of The Irish Light] for #harassment with #defamation, after the paper published a photo of her son Diego Gilsenan and others on the front page under the headline 'Died Suddenly'."#irishlight #defamation #coviddenialism #antivax https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66424582
(DIR) Post #AbIyIuGBkOcepGhWgC by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-10-30T17:53:30Z
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Jennifer Rubin: #Biden has succeeded all along. The media can’t ignore it. "Until recently, the gulf between President Biden’s performance in office and the coverage of his presidency was as vast as it has been in any modern presidency. Biden has steered the country out of a recession and pandemic, gotten through a slew of critical legislation (some bipartisan), avoided a default on the debt, set the stage for about 14 million new jobs and overseen a resurgence of manufacturing. Internationally, he has restored the United States’ image and solidified and expanded NATO in defense of Ukraine. Nevertheless, mainstream media coverage has been incessantly negative, dwelling on fears of recession, pointing to failure to “unite the country” (as if unity were possible in the MAGA era), obsessing over premature polling of dubious value and regurgitating MAGA talking points about his age."#uspolitics #2024election https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/27/biden-performance-media-israel-gaza-war/
(DIR) Post #AbcJVntBba0OhWzDjk by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-11-07T21:38:20Z
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Another Politician Blames Fall of Rome on Homosexuality"When Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not well known on a national level. Since then, journalists have reported on many aspects of his politics and his career, including his promotion of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, his work as a lawyer for an organization that the SPLC has designated a hate group (and whose fundraising campaign #Pharos has documented), and, most recently, his support for a group that promoted the debunked practice of “conversion therapy,” which attempts to convince or force gay people to conform to heterosexual norms. The same report also revealed that he’s one of those men who thinks about the Roman Empire. To be more specific, he thinks about how homosexuality caused its fall."#homophobia #romanempire #mikejohnson #classicalhistoryhttps://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2023/11/06/mike-johnson-speaker-house-homosexuality-fall-roman-empire/
(DIR) Post #AcPw6ZDFhuqaXOoy12 by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-12-03T01:39:25Z
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive Besides the overpreponderance of technobabble (that you just demonstrated) in both communities, the twin problems of scamcoins/crimecoins and bullshit-generating chatbots would need to be solved first. Those two problems seem to be diminishingly low priorities in both communities.
(DIR) Post #AcPxBGo5fQG6r4rH16 by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-12-03T01:46:49Z
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@internetarchive Perhaps a Continental Airlines postcard is not the best thing to promote. The CEO is a real scumbucket."Pity the poor cabin crew on a flight with Gordon Bethune. The boss of Continental Airlines finds it a struggle to behave himself as a passenger. A qualified pilot, he has just stepped off a flight from Cleveland, Ohio. He had to fight the urge to ask for a turn in command: "Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot."https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/sep/21/theairlineindustry.mbas
(DIR) Post #AdAxz4qHJkgziQD6rQ by Bongolian@universeodon.com
2023-12-25T18:09:11Z
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@internetarchive @mmasnick It seems that #Amazon universally turned off its "Look Inside the Book" feature at about the same time that Internet Archive reached a preliminary settlement in the case to widely restrict content access to books.Are these two events somehow related?As I understand it, Amazon's limited preview feature was always done in agreement with publishers.#internetarchive