alfredstanley.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat focused on pragmatic solutions. Advocate for firm but respectful dialogue, government support of the disabled, and the environment. Inspired by Jewish writings on social justice and science. Austin, TX since '76. Husband, dad, granddad
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Allergic to lip fillers?
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Obviously a DEI beach — it’s named for a Dedicated Environmentalist Innovator.
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June bride! Peace out!
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PS an actor who relies on a prop to “look cool” is not much of an actor.
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I grew up in a household with smokers, smoked myself from 15 to 21, and never noticed tillI I stopped how much smokers stink.
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Thank you, Bo Loudon, for getting this hard-core Tik-Tok influencer deported! Of course, the Las Vegas economy took a noticeable hit without Khaby no longer going on shopping sprees for wardrobe and props for his videos. Still, he was taking a job from an American influencer. Back to Italy for you!
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Trump is a catastrophe for democracy, and things are dire, but this is not Germany in 1934, at least not yet.
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The Nazis opened Dachau seven weeks after taking power. Its first prisoners were German communists, social democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents. There is not yet a facility in the U.S. for the extrajudicial internment of dissident citizens.
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The “companion piece” is worthwhile reading. Looking for great things from Rep. Ann Johnson. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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And you all have hair.
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The (R - Midloathinghim)
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Khaby is a modern-day Chaplin, and like Chaplin, he will return to the US in triumph.
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Zey zoln zikh opshlepn mit di hor.
(זיי זאָלן זיך אָפּשלעפּן מיט די האָר)
Let them drag each other off by the hair.
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😂😂😂
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Zey zoln zikh opshlepn mit di hor.
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Yiddish to the rescue:
Zey zoln zikh opshlepn mit di hor.
May they drag each other off by the hair.
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“They were confused by the contents — they thought it was garbage.” 😂😂😂
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It’s been 49 years, but were lots of oddball attractions. See if the Arachnid Museum is still there. No stop beat the beauty of the drive, but break it up with what suits you.
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The black holes.
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😢
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Welp, good-bye NPR.
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🤣🤣🤣
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Footnote: When Teddy Wilson, mentioned just before Gene Krupa, started playing with Benny Goodman, he instantly integrated jazz played in front of white audiences. He was born in Austin, Texas, but received his musical education in Tuskegee, Alabama, where his family moved when he was young.
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Psalm 109:8
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While the Nazis accelerated the brain drain from Europe in 1933, the US had become a magnet for the best educated and brightest minds when Thomas Edison opened his Menlo Park, New Jersey research center in 1876. Trump is destroying 150 years of the United States being their aspirational destination.
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I doubt Tesla was any more welcome to the WASP hierarchy in 1884 than Chinese students are to the modern Know Nothings. That kind of fear and exclusion didn’t build this country—it holds it back.
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Like Tesla, my grandfather had an education but probably not a degree. He came with ideas and ambition—and one of those ideas became a U.S. Navy invention that helped the United States during World War I. Immigration was key to making this country a global innovation powerhouse.
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Oh, snap!
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Good memory!
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Blood in the urine, blockage between the kidneys and the bladder, and dead kidney cells. Perhaps all the children are for future organ transplants.
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TACO
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TACO
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They were the Greatest Generation not only for what they went through before and after the war but for what they created after: the GI Bill, the Marshall Plan, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the moon landing. May their memories inspire us.
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My dad and Kathy's dad, like yours, were WW II vets, and we know damned well that they served because they loved their country, and we were so proud of them for having done so.
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Yep. I came here to share the same column. I'm glad to see Brooks is good and pissed off. Lord knows, he's had that effect on me often enough.
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Aligning everything with the führer.
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Metaphor alert.
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Twitter was once fairly useful in politics, as it brought candidates to the attention of journalists and activists who might be interested. Now it's a swim party in Poop Creek with RFK, Jr. or standing around his dorm room watching him drop baby chicks in a blender.
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X is a pool of cess.
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I created a new account on X last week and signed up for the interest “politics.” I was immediately plunged into right-wing toxic posts. Even on my old account where I have some good follows, it’s a shit should w, and I rarely visit.
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Oh, man, it was great! Each paragraph has its own ruler!