Winter cricket and bridge thread - Held over by popular demand

Not sure what precinct you’re in, but says here that a Democrat ousted a longish-serving Republican from the Williamson County commission in the last election:

And I get that your goal is a fundamental transformation of the Democratic Party, followed by a similar transformation of the American political and economic system shortly thereafter. That’s an engaging hobby. The point of the piece is that that hobby is, at best, pretty useless and, at worst, undermines the real work.

The real work of $4.5B to build the wall, $738B for the war department and the USMCA. Go Dems!

The real work is $3.5B to build the wall, $730B for the war department, and $9B for green energy subsidies and expanded medical care for the poor.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1219574426842300416

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https://twitter.com/kevinstewartgsy/status/1219207641311928326

This has been another episode of Great Moments in British Cooking

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https://mobile.twitter.com/CourthouseNews/status/1219732461778882569

Zuck it Suckerberg.

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A good review of Matt Stoller’s book Goliath and the similarities and differences between the anti monopolists and socialists

https://www.thenation.com/article/goliath-monopoly-and-democracy-matt-stoller-review/

You’re not the first born son are you?

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My theory is that he’s punishing you all for producing the hot mess known as bundy.

An analysis of the under-reported scam known as WeWork and how, here and elsewhere, workers are usually the worst off when scams like these eventually collapse:

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Which one of the plagues was this?

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maybe they haven’t checked behind the curtain since they put the poster up? i hope he just sits there all day and has an owner with a sense of humor and this isn’t a cry for help.

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https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1219797229755650048

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Apparently God is a Yorkshireman, so my guess is it has something to do with cricket.

Fuck Bezos
Fuck Saudi Arabia
Most importantly FUCK FACEBOOK

Another story of the IRS going after a big player, Microsoft, and getting outgunned because of budget cuts and lobbying made by large companies

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Yo, fuck Mr. Peanut, I’m glad he’s dead. Dude was an arch-capitalist creep who sold his own people to be eaten just so he could have his fancy monocle.

But who’s house is that pic from…

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https://mobile.twitter.com/consequence/status/1220017924854906888

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