https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1509584007918497812?s=20&t=k3gPlSYXm3TxQsKn_1dIxg
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It’s weird that they have a category for that.
https://twitter.com/thr/status/1510772466397892614?s=21&t=1NZFI7h_v2ltAaXN3op_ow
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Is this Cancel Culture Run Amok?
lol long grunching, but this post connected.
Several yrs ago I would have to regularly get up at 6am once a week with our pre-k boys in the dark to greet the trash truck. Semi-rural area. Driver loved it and blasted the horn (obv waking up some neighbours). I wish he didn’t blast the neighbours w the big horn; a smaller secondary horn woulda been better. But as was, it’s big yay for our trash truck driver prioritizing toddlers jumping up and down with fun over some grumpy middle aged people who’ll take a nap in the day anyway.
Good memory. Thanks for kicking it.
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It’s a pretty deep field.
None of the women acknowledged the house behind them. It’s far from a box, with more than 6,500 square feet, more than half a dozen bedrooms and bathrooms, several fireplaces, a soundstage, a pool and bungalow, and parking for more than 20 cars, according to real-estate listings. The California property was purchased for nearly $6 million in cash in October 2020 with money that had been donated to BLMGNF.
The transaction has not been previously reported, and Black Lives Matter’s leadership had hoped to keep the house’s existence a secret. Documents, emails, and other communications I’ve seen about the luxury property’s purchase and day-to-day operation suggest that it has been handled in ways that blur, or cross, boundaries between the charity and private companies owned by some of its leaders. It creates the impression that money donated to the cause of racial justice has been spent in ways that benefit the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally.
On March 30, I asked the organization questions about the house, which is known internally as “Campus.” Afterward, leaders circulated an internal strategy memo with possible responses, ranging from “Can we kill the story?” to “Our angle — needs to be to deflate ownership of the property.” The memo includes bullet points explaining that “Campus is part of cultural arm of the org — potentially as an ‘influencer house,’ where abolition+ based content is produced by artists & creatives.” Another bullet is headed “Accounting/990 modifications” and reads in part: “need to first make sure it’s legally okay to use as we plan to use it.” The memo also describes the property as a “safehouse” for leaders whose safety has been threatened. The two notions — that the house is simultaneously a confidential refuge and a place for broadcasting to the widest possible audience — are somewhat in tension. The memo notes: “Holes in security story: Use in public YT videos.”
In an emailed statement on April 1, Shalomyah Bowers, a BLMGNF board member, said that the organization bought Campus “with the intention for it to serve as housing and studio space for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship.” The fellowship, which “provides recording resources and dedicated space for Black creatives to launch content online and in real life focused on abolition, healing justice, urban agriculture and food justice, pop culture, activism, and politics,” was announced the following morning.
So the Black Lives Matter national organization took a lot of money in and bought a content house, but haven’t made a lot of content, or made content but for their private Youtube channels.
Orban in Hungary was effectively reelected prime minister two days ago in a landslide victory.
Not only that, but a party even worse than Orban’s took 6% and will hold seats in the National Assembly. The anti-Orbans got crushed.
Two simple explanations:
- Orban controls Hungarian media
- Gerrymandering is even worse than in the US. The districts very in size by as much as 35%.
Edit: 53% of the votes got him 68% of the parliament seat. The opposition alliance EM got 35% of the votes but only 28% of the seats.
orban also recently instituted “voter tourism”, where his supporters could travel to so-so districts and cast their votes. there are a million ways to fuck with democracy. i’m concerned that even if putin/lukashenko fall, orban/le penn/etc. have entrenched themselves to a life without his support.
Why did no one inform me that The fucking Villages has a semi-pro soccer team?
WTF?
At this rate they’ll be moving up the world economic rankings and slide into the 11 spot recently vacated by Russia.
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1510773321503182849/photo/1
uh france we gotta talk, that blue line on this graph, don’t fucking do it
NYT says she’s got a shot. And Trump is still out there waiting in the wings.
Looks like we might have to liberate France again:
This is a pretty wild story: Tenured OSU professor apparently has significant mental issues and, during a manic episode, sent a resignation letter to her chair. Letter included the following:
“Effective today at 10:50 AM, on 11/10/2020 from my WORK COMPUTER…I resign! Go (expletive) yourselves because you are about to PAY UP! Sincerely, DR. Angela NICOLE Bryant.”
I sympathize with people facing severe mental issues, but I’m also not sure that an employer should tolerate something like this.
I remember a story we were told in psych 101 about a manic professor. In that case the guy just gave everyone an A and ran around naked.
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