The Democrats who voted in favor included 11 women, and 13 people of color or Latinx (Ted Lieu missed the vote recovering from a heart procedure). Several are immigrants. These Democrats voted to uphold the Constitution a bunch of white men, several of them owners of African-American slaves, wrote hundreds of years ago.
The Republicans who voted against were all white. Just two were women.
//@gruber Nope, you didn’t read the headline wrong. Our journalists think they did a great job in 2016 and the WSJ editorial page is just a classier version of Fox News. 🤮
Ezra Klein Show: Because Internet. 🔗🎙
Gretchen McCulloch has a lot to say about language online. I wonder a lot of whether we need an impermanent social space online. 🤔
The blue wave crashed down on Pennsylvania again… | Julia Terruso, The Inquirer
Locally, Democrats will hold all five seats on the Delaware County Council, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War…
Emphasis mine.
What Emmett Till’s Bulletproof Memorial Says About Us | Zak Cheney-Rice, NYMag.com 🔗
The vandals’ motives remain obscure, but their conduct suggests a hostility toward Till’s memorialization — or at least a glib or disdainful attitude toward it — that reflects a broader American tendency.
Obscure? I think it’s ok to assume people who destroy memorials to lynching victims are racist. American journalisms’ stupidly high bar for attributing racist motives is racist itself. 😡🙄
Yep, a former Republican who enthusiastically backed stop-and-frisk policies will do great in the Democratic Primaries.
Join the Cut for a Weekend Celebrating Female Filmmakers | Katie Berohn 🔗
Enter: FFFEST, Female Filmmakers Festival, founded by Passerbuys and Women & Film.
Heads up for folks who’ll be in NYC the last weekend in October (25 thru 27). 🗽📽
speaking of guns… | Greg Fallis 🔗
The first part, I mean. You know, the guy yelling in front of the mayor’s house and going on national radio and outlining a half-baked plan to murder folks in their sleep. That’s the part that actually happened. Except the guy was a Trump supporter, and the plan was to slaughter members of antifa. And it barely made the news at all.
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“The veterans would use Route4Me to find the most expedient route to hunt down the most violent members of antifa in their beds at night until every one of them was gone and every city in America, if need be, in a single well-coordinated night.”
Oregon has a red flag law and they took away this guy’s guns, but still…
And I bet the NRA will throw a hissy fit about liberals “violating” his rights.
One of his most impeachable actions: using the powers of his office to directly interfere with a co-equal branch.
How the Kleptocrats Bought Washington | Chris Ladd 🔗
So does this mean that Pelosi is a dirty politician? It is entirely unhelpful to think of systemic problems in terms of bad people and good people.
I hadn’t read about this real estate angle before. Should look into it more…
Michael Gove accuses EU of refusing to negotiate new deal | Peter Walker, The Guardian 🔗
They’ve only been saying since at least January. Guess the Tories listening late is better than never? 🙄
Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text | Ian Sample, The Guardian 🔗
“Think of the possibilities for people with disabilities!” vs “Think of the possibilities for Facebook to read our minds!” ⚖️
Democrats Are Winning The Fundraising Race In The Senate | Nathaniel Rakich, 538 🔗
In competitive Senate elections… Democrats have raised $34.1 million in total contributions in the first six months of 2019, and Republicans have raised $29.3 million.
🙏🙏🙏
People Of Color | Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns, & Money
One of the interesting transformations in recent decades is that of Irish-Americans becoming an increasingly hard-core right-wing group.
I’d like to see the data behind this. It makes me wonder what has kept American Jews relatively liberal. Now, we’re not the most enlightened demographic, but even as the Israeli government has cozied up to the GOP, we still provide reliable votes for Democrats.
No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged. -Mahatma Gandhi
Summer Vacation In An Age Of Concentration Camps, Part 1. | Charli Carpenter, Lawyers, Guns, & Money
Your suffering is just as important as a black or brown person’s suffering but to fix the problems that are happening in a black community you need far more transformational efforts that targeted for real racism that exists every day.
Gillibrand knocks it out of the park. I’m going to start using her answer when asked about privilege.
It’s Summer In NYC, And The Cockroaches Have Taken Flight, C Lampen | gothamist 🔗
Welcome to “the romantic season for cockroaches,” friends: When temps exceed about 90 degrees, cockroaches hit their stride.
Summer in the city “Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty”
The lenses in my glasses – and yours too, most likely – are made by Essilor, a French multinational that controls almost half of the world’s prescription lens business and has acquired more than 250 other companies in the past 20 years.
I just don’t see how gobbling up 250 companies can be a good thing.
There is a good chance, meanwhile, that your frames are made by Luxottica, an Italian company with an unparalleled combination of factories, designer labels and retail outlets. Luxottica pioneered the use of luxury brands in the optical business, and one of the many powerful functions of names such as Ray-Ban (which is owned by Luxottica) or Vogue (which is owned by Luxottica) or Prada (whose glasses are made by Luxottica) or Oliver Peoples (which is owned by Luxottica) or high-street outlets such as LensCrafters, the largest optical retailer in the US (which is owned by Luxottica), or John Lewis Opticians in the UK (which is run by Luxottica), or Sunglass Hut (which is owned by Luxottica) is to make the marketplace feel more varied than it actually is.
At least Fabulous Fanny’s is not owned by them.
Is a University Honoring a Holocaust Denier? | Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed 🔗
“Therein lies the problem,” Bowen wrote. “We don’t know. We don’t know if he intended to use the [Holocaust Denial] books as part of a conversation regarding how to evaluate the legitimacy of materials or whether his intent was not as noble. We simply don’t know.”
I wonder if he did other questionable scholarship?
Link offered reasons other than anti-Semitism to explain Hitler’s hatred for Jewish people….“Jews were prominent in banking, the press, the Socialist party and the Communist party,” Link wrote. He later references the “many Jewish bankers” in Germany at the time.
Really, who can say what was in his heart?
So You Want to Market a Product for Men | Madeleine Aggeler | The Cut 🔗
…the No. 1 criticism of water among male thirst-quenchers was: “Not violent enough.”
Ahhhhhh, Liquid Death really hits the spot.
We Americans will really try anything before even contemplating the right thing. 🔗
To teach the algorithm, a team from the company shows up on location and proceeds to stage mock attacks.