"ESQ: How can we get the black people to cool it?
"JAMES BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it.
"ESQ: But aren't you the ones who are getting hurt the most?
"JAMES BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest."
https://esquire.com/news-politics/a23960/james-baldwin-cool-it/
Wingnuts Mad At Xbox Because Saving Energy Is 'Woke' https://www.wonkette.com/wingnuts-mad-at-xbox-because-saving-energy-is-woke
#Climate_emergency #Energy #Xbox #Microsoft #Wokeness #Climate_change #Xbox_power_settings #Fox_news #Rightwing_media #Ainsley_earhardt #Fox_&_friends #Jimmy_failla #M&ms #Woke_xbox #Ted_cruz #Troy_nehls #Culture_wars
Which is the best cup of #tea of the day?
RT @RBReich@twitter.com
Federal minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in *1968*.
Hakeem Jeffries To Kevin McCarthy: Wanna Fight About Adam Schiff And Eric Swalwell? Let's Go. https://www.wonkette.com/hakeem-jeffries-kevin-mccarthy-adam-schiff-eric-swalwell-letter
#Adam_schiff_treason_paraphrase #Dana_rohrabacher #Eric_swalwell #Eric_swalwell_fang_fang #Fang_fang #George_santos #Hakeem_jeffries #Hakeem_jeffries_kevin_mccarthy_letter_eric_swalwell_adam_schiff #House_foreign_affairs_committee #House_intelligence_committee #House_select_committee_on_intelligence #January_6_co
It's weird, as a librarian, to have to have conversations with yourself about how far you would go. Would I be willing to go to jail for 30 days because I did the right thing and refused to take LGBTQ books off the shelves? Could my family afford me not working for 30 days for doing the right thing? Would I still have a job afterward? Would I be able to maintain my clearances to work with children if I had been to jail for 30 days for not removing allegedly sexually explicit books from shelves?
I stopped watching him long ago, Because Bloviating Asshole.
When it comes to his "identity politics and victimhood" crap, what I hear is him centering himself when he gets annoyed at other people talking about their real, lived experience. It's not his experience, so why are we all wasting his time talking about it?
Meanwhile, he paints himself as the victim of our cruel way of talking about our lives.
I don't have time for his kind of bullshit.
Amazing murmuration the other evening. Especially the formation of a ‘bird of prey’ shape
#starlings #murmuration #Yorkshire #naturephotography #Birds #nature #rspb #winterwatch
ok, now I"m getting the same thing, but for 8:45 am. What the hell?
#RateLimited - what does it mean?
What ever does this mean? This just keeps happening over and over again.
Oh - now that it's 8:30 am my time, it stopped, but what might have been going on?
Iowa GOP Will Stop Cadillac-Driving Young Bucks From Living It Up On Cooking Oil, Salt, Hobo Beans https://www.wonkette.com/iowa-gop-will-stop-cadillac-driving-young-bucks-from-living-it-up-on-cooking-oil-salt-hobo-beans
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
Lately he’s crazy
For the deep.
The river seems dreamlike
In the daytime someone
Keeps thinking in my sleep
Of fast running rivers
of choice and chance, and time
Stops here in the delta
While they dance.
— David Crosby
What a loss to us all.
#DavidCrosby
A lot of people need to read this for a lot of different reasons. ♥️
"For [Rep. Jim] Banks, wokeness means that "all the so-called oppressor groups must be punished for their past and present alleged sins." For the oppressed, he says it means having a "privileged status." In other words, the straight white man... thinks that striving for equality means that he is being punished and everyone else is gaining privilege. I can't help but think of that old saying: "when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2023/01/fighting-to-reverse-civil-rights-gains.html
Kyrsten Sinema Working Hard To Finish Fourth In Three-Way Senate Race https://www.wonkette.com/kyrsten-sinema-working-hard-to-finish-fourth-in-three-way-senate-race
#Kyrsten_sinema #Filibuster #Davos #Switzerland #Billionaires #Ruben_gallego #Kari_lake #Arizona #Kyrsten_sinema_davos
Left coast, left leaning, left wondering
Learning this pachyderm platform, and liking it!
#PNW #Wonkette #Feminist #BleedingHeartLiberal
I learned a lot from this:
https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/