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These states could ban surveillance pricing: Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. New York already passed a law. Call your reps!
As one person said to me "it's like getting the Family Feud answers... SURVEY SAYS...!"
And the 'popular' stuff is all ugly, bigoted and skeezy.
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"The campaign, organized by the 144K Collective, is calling on 144,000 women across the country to donate $1.44 each to support the struggling Barber-Scotia campus."
#hbcu
Ok. I love this. #Pearl #Halifax #Oyster
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Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
Un merveilleux film sur la scène voguing et les ballrooms à NYC à la fin des 80's, où comment les personnes les plus marginalisées de la commu LGBTQ on crée des espaces d'expression artistique et d'empouvoirement contre une société qui les rejettent violemment.
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I liked that book, and the movie. I remember that New York.
RUN THE NAZIS OUT OF NYC March 7 Gracie Mansion Self-proclaimed nazi Jake Lang plans to hold a hate rally at noon to "stop islamification" in NYC. We will be there. We will not let him. Muslims are welcome in New York. Nazis aren’t. Meet up at 11:00 East End Ave & 88th St.
Counterprotest to support Muslims in NYC tomorrow (Sat March 7) in front of Gracie Mansion at 11am:
Priced out a train from Raleigh to NYC: It takes 2x the time of driving, and costs 3x a flight. Time for my annual exasperation at the state of transit.
A Barred Owl perches in a plane tree. Its brown and white feathers are fluffed up.
We need more Friday Floofs. Here is a Barred Owl fluffing its stuff. 🪶🦉
I guess I'm no one.
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
There's a significant indigenous population, too.
"I’ll leave for later why reporters didn’t fact-check - there’s an ugly story there too."
"Did you know that Graham Platner was Ryan Grim's bartender back at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a fact that Ryan Grim acknowledged on X?"
"from start to finish, British class discourse has nothing on this"
I’ll leave for later why reporters didn’t fact-check - there’s an ugly story there too. But the urgent issue is, Platner would be crushed in the general. It's best to lance the boil now. Here’s the document, sourced and Wikipedia-ready. You should read it. The NRSC sure will. 11/
Just imagine what Collins can do with this. Of course DoD would FedEx her Platner’s service record the moment she asked. Imagine the ads she can make, mocking his little-boy lies and excuses. NRSC staffers have been following this account, like sharks. 10/
But the tattoos alone are enough. Like Elon Musk, Platner lies when cornered; he can’t admit fault or take responsibility. He gave his staff a script about his Nazi symbol to recite: “He did not know the meaning at the time and covered it once he learned..” That’s a lie. 9/
There’s a lot more, or course; Platner’s stories are full of lies and gaps. We don’t know who got him to run - the names are all secret. We don’t know what he did in 2017, a black hole after he dropped out of college, before he signed with Constellis. A family friend said “He was in rough shape” 8/
Platner’s former campaign team know something’s wrong - they all quit. They know he would lose in the general election. Janet Mills needs to make him lose in the primary instead. And she can, just by demanding his records. He won’t show them - he can’t. Confront him with that. 7/
Why didn’t you know this? Platner lies in reporters’ faces but no one fact-checks him. When his Nazi tattoo was first reported, he ran to Tommy Vietor’s podcast for damage control. He told his false leaving-the-Marines story; Vietor laughed with him. No hard questions for your buddies. 6/
Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/
Platner’s excuse is a new tattoo policy; he calls it “stupid”. But the Marines aren’t stupid and they needed men. They ‘grandfathered in’ all currently-serving Marines, exempting them from the rules, for all but one class of tattoos: those that were "racist ...or extremist group.. related". 4/
Back to 2009: Platner had finished 4 years active duty and enrolled in college, but quickly dropped out and wanted to go back to war. The Gulf War was raging; the Marines were so shorthanded they were recalling servicemen to duty. But they didn’t want Platner. 3/
This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability
“So Janet Mills is not somebody we will support,” he said. “And if, for some odd reason, she ends up going off some miracle win against Graham Platner, you’ll probably see a lot of unions supporting Collins.”
So the unions will either support the guy with the Nazi tattoo who RTs Nazis or the Senator who is supporting the fascist president so that's kinda where we stand on the major unions right now
And Platner's record on labor is what exactly?
So, apparently, the @uaw.org and @ibewinternational.bsky.social locally in Maine are supporting Platner. Also the aerospace workers union.
Really? The guy with the death's head tattoo?
The people who found Platner and convinced him to run ACTIVELY WANT HIM TO BE LIKE MANCHIN AND FETTERMAN
