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Julie

@Julie@social.coop

#Teacher, #librarian, #writer, #reader. #Neurodivergent. Former NY State Senate candidate. Advanced degrees in #literature, #education, and #library & information science, but none of them are doctorates so it doesn't count. I teach students to understand and make strong arguments because it's the best I can do now for #democracy and the #climate. I love #journalists, #historians, #scientists, and other truth-seekers. Oh, and I've written two novels and raised two children. She/her

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Tried to watch. Made it through the first three minutes. Done.

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Recipes should include weights in grams for fresh herbs. I don’t know what your 1/2 cup of torn basil leaves amounts to. Just tell me how much it weighs.

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How is it not my First Amendment right to wear any kind of facial covering I want to? Are you going to tell me it’s legal for me to wear a niqab for religious expression, but not to have an N95 mask underneath it? Or instead of it? Or are they going to outlaw niqabs, as well? If someone is robbing a convenience store, their balaclava is not the problem. I don’t understand how any level of government can regulate any article of clothing I choose to wear for any reason.

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A little to cover the inkstains that had ruined this shirt.

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Wow. Yes.

GottaLaff , to random
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lol

Via Ira Goldman:

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@GottaLaff I should learn how to short a stock.

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To all the down ballot Republican candidates who think the party is going to help your campaigns, you are screwed.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-rnc-c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13a3462e5790

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@marcelias He’s stripping the Republican Party for parts, just as he did with the nation.

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Upon retiring from work at age 58 (lucky me) in 2012, I chose to leave the United States in favor of Europe, where I ended up staying in Budapest, Hungary, for six years. I rented a studio apartment near the city center, bought a used bicycle, and enjoyed a modest, inexpensive, yet comfortable lifestyle.

Since my return to the U.S. in 2018, I’ve found there are many things I miss. When I lived in Budapest, there were three different small independent bakeries within a five-minute walk from my apartment. Also in that same radius were a couple of almost literal hole-in-the-wall fruit and vegetable shops offering delicious fresh produce. And although the nearby area held no chain restaurants, it was home to several quite good local eateries.

There were clothing stores selling both new and used goods, as well as shoe stores, all of them small and independent, not necessarily carrying a wide selection, but providing high quality items at surprisingly low prices, and with friendly trustworthy service. Plus, within a five-minute walk was a practically free public transit system than made frequent stops and could take me almost anywhere I wanted to go within the city, safely, reliably, and quickly.

So I wonder, why is it that — at least in my current neighborhood in suburban Virginia — the only options for baked goods or produce or clothing or home furnishings or hardware or almost anything else are chain stores? Well, that, or freaking Amazon. Why are all other choices so limited, so few and so far between? Why does virtually everything depend upon — no, actually demand the use of a car to get there?

Most United Statesians, I suspect, have no idea that people in other countries live so differently than the way we do here. We have been sold on the idea, taught from an early age, that ours is the best way, indeed the only sensible way to do things. Anyone suggesting that a less car-centric and hyper-capitalistic culture is not only possible but desirable, that it could be much more pleasant and satisfying, not to mention safer and more friendly to the environment, well, they plainly don’t know what they’re talking about. It makes me sad and angry.

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@breadandcircuses You’re comparing a city in one country with a suburb in another. Most people in NYC don’t own a car and can also walk to a bakery.

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Julie ,
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@jeffowski The mortgage is not deductible. The interest is deductible, and the property taxes you already paid, up to a certain amount.
I'm not saying that some portion of rent shouldn't also be deductible, but it's not accurate to say that a mortgage is deductible.

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I am now all caught up on “fundie baby voice,” thanks to the fiasco.

That high-pitched, soft, breathy way of speaking is what Christianists want grown women—EVEN U.S. SENATORS!—to sound like.

Now I understand why rightwingers always called Hillary Clinton “shrill.” She speaks like an adult capable of taking a full breath, not like a sleepy four-year-old.

(Of course, the misogynist elements on the left followed right along with it. So shrill! the boys said. Can’t vote for her!)

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👀Via Democracy Docket:

NEW: House passes a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a workaround to the Electoral College where participating states pledge to award all of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote.

Currently, 16 states & D.C. — totaling 205 Electoral College votes — are members of the compact. If the legislation advanced out of the Maine House today becomes law, that number would rise to 209. (1/2)

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@GottaLaff How do they make it binding, though? If a candidate who would have won the EC by traditional reckoning loses it because of this compact, wouldn’t they just take it to the Supreme Court, and have Scotus decide yet another election? And also, couldn’t some other states pledge to always give their electoral votes to, say, the most anti-abortion candidate, once the idea that states can bestow their electoral votes other than the way the state’s voters choose takes hold?

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Imagine if instead of making COVID isolation guidelines as weak as the flu...

We approved combo rapid tests like this and made them free and available for everyone...

So that people could tell how long they need to isolate based on science and not feelings, whatever the pathogen.

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@luckytran Does this combination test exist in the U.S.?

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“‘Remote Work Is Hurting Company Culture,’ Says CEO After 3rd Round of Layoffs”

https://reductress.com/post/remote-work-is-hurting-company-culture-says-ceo-after-3rd-round-of-layoffs/

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The social expectation that women be sweet all the time is on my last nerve today.

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Haley remains vague on the details of the Civil War, I see.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikki-haley-texas-secede-us-isnt/story?id=106837677

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