dratom.bsky.social
Religion professor (Satan in Pop culture), digital humanities, bicycle & public transit advocate, data analyst, politics junkie, science fiction fan
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Creole ancestry is one more reason for Steve Bannon and other Christian Nationalists to be suspicious of Pope Leo XIV.
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The number of examples of MAGA cutting your nose off to spite your face is almost infinite.
SO many people voted for Agent Orange and now see his policies adversely impacting them directly. Whoops.
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Not going to hold my breath.
Dems have been bringing knives to election gun fights since Al Gore conceded in 2000.
The GOP continues to unveil "novel" legal strategies when they lose elections. They've got control of the board of elections - wait for them to use it to kick out Dem ballots.
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If they can't enrich him by buying his crypto coins or "investing" in his sons' "businesses", he doesn't show much interest.
His policies are going to kill family farms, which are another sort of small business.
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The thing that amazed me the most about the "2 dolls rather than 30" is that it was made by a guy who has always celebrated conspicuous, excessive consumption (and put gilt or at least gold paint on anything he could).
How about trying to walk this walk yourself, Pres. Trump?
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I see 1, 5, and 8 as quite similar / closely related (but I'm not a biologist!). . .
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Amazing that a serial failing businessman can -- thanks to _The Apprentice_ -- con the nation into seeing him as a successful businessman.
Because of sweetheart deals (hoping to buy favors), his sons can pretend to be successful businessmen.
And the family is FINALLY becoming actually rich.
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I hope DOGE is going to look into the cost of having a military parade for Agent Orange.
Probably a good opportunity for some cost savings....
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At 58 YO, I'm getting my second dose of MMR today.
I probably got a weak / not terribly effective vaccine when I was a child. Never worried about it much until Bobby and the anti-vaxxers took over. Making America Healthy Again!
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Ironically, this won't hurt WBUR, WAMU, WBEZ, and other stations in major urban areas nearly as much as it will hurt those serving rural regions (where I have lived for the past 25 years).
In rural news deserts, we're going to be stuck with Sinclair media. Perhaps this is Agent Orange's goal.
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Here endeth the US' leadership (and huge number of benefits deriving from leading) the world in science and technology.
China is going to kick US ass.
English has been the language of science for the last 70 years. Are scientists going to need to learn Chinese for the 21st century?
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Makes it apparent how little they actually care about Antisemitism. A convenient excuse to justify attacking universities, while providing a fig-leaf to conceal their own tolerance of Antisemitism ("there were good people on both sides at Charlottesville," according to the President).
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This is absolutely true.
But the main reason I vaccinated my boys for MMR, tetnus, chickenpox, flu, etc. was that it benefited them enormously.
Vaccines offer both a hard-to-quantify, amorphous societal benefit but also a very specific, here-and-now selfish benefit.
Sell both benefits.
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As in the USA: "According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates earn between 12-40 cents per hour for these jobs, which is below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
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One trait of the first Trump admin was the rotating cast of cabinet members, advisors, etc. When announced, DT praised them; when they left, he hurled calumnies at them.
It sounds like the second admin is starting down a similar path. We will see if Pete gets fired and then vigorously insulted.
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Trumpworld's through the looking glass defn of "Draining the swamp" includes appointing your family members to positions in the department you administer.
And including them on communications that violate record keeping and how to handle classified information laws.
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Trump LOVES the farmers who voted for him overwhelmingly:
* Destroying the export markets for their biggest products (especially for soybeans) at planting time
* Ending funding to let them know upcoming weather important for planting, fertilizing, etc.
What would he do to them if he disliked them?
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Cutting funds to develop new tech and trying to return to 1950s energy and industry ensures that China becomes the leader of the next century.
Sporadic tariffs and asserting direct control of the Fed weakens US leadership in internat'l finances, opening that door to China, too.
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Trolling Elon and Tesla and Bezos -- London Bus stops have some great advocacy adverts!
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By this logic, folks receiving deportation orders (or other gov't communications) shouldn't take them seriously or act on them (by, for example, finding a lawyer).
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One more reason for Agent Orange to cut funds to Harvard: its student newspaper has the temerity to report on the consequences of his Administration's actions.
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I, too, have fond memories of a full head of hair.
But I'm also not too concerned about losing it -- I save a lot on haircuts and shampoo. :-)
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It's part of his patented "how to make an international deal" strategy: give the opponent* what they want and ask nothing in return.
* or "partner". Choice of word depends on whether Agent Orange likes them at this precise moment.