I’m stealing this. Owe you a beverage of your choosing.

Jay Rosen has great commentary on the Church of the Savvy in political journalism. Highly recommend all things Jay Rosen.

As a Philadelphian I am so embarrassed reading that drivel.

What? Do you not enjoy political theater? Are you not entertained?

creepiest ever

We call it “performing diversity”. As in “Uh oh the board of advisers meets next week; I guess we’ll get an email soon on how we’re supposed to perform diversity this time.” Can commiserate on the power gen industry as well (we also happen to be a prime contractor there too lol) - there’s always some women/POC in…

I work for a company who has a foot in defense contracting and have had very similar experiences. A work friend (black woman) I work with was snagged last minute for a similar diversity video when they noticed the room was all white men. Yay tokenism!

TBD

I keep having to explain to people that we use the 1930s Germany reference frequently when discussing these sorts of things because it’s both the best known example of the quick slide into fascism/authoritarianism AND the most studied so it’s an easy reference point. No one in this country outside some…

A friends laptop or pay-as-you-go phone, a good VPN + public wifi, a burner email, PGP encryption. Pro Publica has a good link on how to leak to them.

I told my husband after the townhalls started that if anything in the world could save us from going full autocrat it would be that the true American exceptionalism, the real thing God in fact blessed us with, is obnoxiousness. Or if you prefer, “rugged individualism”.

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Oh they have nooooooo problem being racist/sexist/bigoted, they just don’t want to be called racist/sexist/bigoted.

I can. None of us can tell what’s real and what’s an Onion article anymore.

I figured it was more projection - he does it so everyone must!

I don’t know if you’ve ever dealt with US CBP before but in my experience they, similar to local LEO, tend to be jumped up little Hitler Youths looking for an enemy to fight. They don’t need to make sense or actually be effective, but many in fact prefer the power trip to bully people and getting to feel “tough”.

It’s horrifying. There were times in my childhood I only had medical care because my mom was a nurse and knew kind doctors who would charge very low fees or nothing for her because they liked/respected her so much.

I was exceptionally lucky in that, despite the incredibly unstable employment my parents faced through my childhood, I lived in a multi-generational household that included my very stable grandparents. My parents often didn’t have enough money to support themselves and my brother and I but my grandparents did so we…

This made me want to start drinking.