- New Monarch Who Dis?

    - [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63676759](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63676759)

- More like SUBprime ministers amirite?

    - RIP Liz Truss

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- Gas Station Comestibles Corner

    - [BOY BAWANG CORNICK - Garlic Flavor](https://www.filamstore.com/product/boy-bawang/)

    - [Fiji UFO’s Burger Flavored Snacks](https://frezcobevusa.com/shop/ols/products/fiji-twisties-cheese-flavor-pack-of-3-x-250g-real-unique-cheese-flavor-snack-family-pack)

    - [Miga Gapyung's Pinenuts & Tofu Snack](https://megakfood.com/products/8809598510029)

    - [Doritos Tangy Tamarind](https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/where-to-buy-doritos-tangy-tamarind)

    - Mountain Dew Cocktails

        [https://twitter.com/jackapedia_/status/1572009052162629632?s=12&t=KiYykUMNBOJSJJ-N42EmgQ](https://twitter.com/jackapedia_/status/1572009052162629632?s=12&t=KiYykUMNBOJSJJ-N42EmgQ)

- I’m coming for the Italians

    [https://twitter.com/theinfamousgdub/status/1591882900584402944?s=61&t=T9cpnqkGFeFbste1pmimBg](https://twitter.com/theinfamousgdub/status/1591882900584402944?s=61&t=T9cpnqkGFeFbste1pmimBg)

    - RELATED:

        [https://twitter.com/memphonewslady/status/1564747608962252801?s=12&t=eDAGfbV_8j0jxdr_j3PhBA](https://twitter.com/memphonewslady/status/1564747608962252801?s=12&t=eDAGfbV_8j0jxdr_j3PhBA)

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- Andrew’s Captcha Complaint

    - Shown a dump truck, asked to select all squares with a bus, didn’t pick any, and it said “please try again”

- Stans are just modern monks and nuns

    - People magnetically attracted to intense fandoms would’ve been sequestered by the church in the past

    - They would’ve been making manuscripts and obsessing over dead saints bones and shit

- For Sure Man Quick Hits

    - Bret Stephens: Climate Change Is Real Now, But The Free Market Will Sort It Out

        [https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1585952769529315329](https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1585952769529315329)

    - Don’t High Five Children

        [https://twitter.com/emfundertaker/status/1576920319113441280](https://twitter.com/emfundertaker/status/1576920319113441280)

    - Bitcoin Miners Don’t Consume Energy, They Generate Heat

        [https://twitter.com/JMellerud/status/1572104318941011974](https://twitter.com/JMellerud/status/1572104318941011974)

    - nobody owns cows

        [https://twitter.com/alpacaaurelius/status/1568961419411968002?s=12&t=zaD5aErQop6T5Cv3rOz66Q](https://twitter.com/alpacaaurelius/status/1568961419411968002?s=12&t=zaD5aErQop6T5Cv3rOz66Q)

        [https://twitter.com/alpacaaurelius/status/1594131324201500672?s=61&t=KlMSzl5OLR1bJ1tdPPl9Vg](https://twitter.com/alpacaaurelius/status/1594131324201500672?s=61&t=KlMSzl5OLR1bJ1tdPPl9Vg)

    - Kitten Account: “Execute all criminals”

        [https://twitter.com/kitten_beloved/status/1566510523411464192?s=12&t=DxS4wWnKsspoLCOD17pSQQ](https://twitter.com/kitten_beloved/status/1566510523411464192?s=12&t=DxS4wWnKsspoLCOD17pSQQ)

    - Wokestanis and MAGAstanis

        [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1565518818889199617?s=12&t=Uusjo5TejEn3oCUD9AwcTg](https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1565518818889199617?s=12&t=Uusjo5TejEn3oCUD9AwcTg)

    - People Shouldn’t Be Living There In The First Place

        [https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1561367698587750400](https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1561367698587750400)

- RIP to a king

    - [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/dining/drinks/fred-franzia-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/dining/drinks/fred-franzia-dead.html)

• We just gotta get people back to work!
  • https://discourse.blog/2020/04/17/the-capitalist-machine-is-hungry-and-terrified/
  • Nancy's shameful cultural appropriation of Ohioan ice-cream
• Michigan Protest
• Protests about social distancing

• https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1251558152362917888
  
  
  • They think "Mission Accomplished" is good.
• https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1251566925110534146
  
  
  • You can't protest the response to the pandemic while also wearing a mask and staying in your car. You're just revealing that you don't think you'll get it and you don't care if other people get it and die. You just need your lawn care supplies.
• https://twitter.com/neuralculture/status/1250786108360687617
• The Battle Lines Are Being Drawn

• https://twitter.com/glowybones/status/1251260483421614080

• Pivoting to video
  • Jacobin YouTube
  • Matt Christman Instagram
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wFBs64www
  • https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1250540616859242502
  • Glitchified
• How are people still able to be shocked at Trump?

• https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/1251293923164725248
  
  
  • On one hand, it must be nice to not just have a constant awareness of this.
  • The brain smoothening
• Ellen is cancelled
  • https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ellen-crew-furious-over-poor-communication-regarding-pay-non-union-workers-during-coronavirus-shutdown-exclusive-1234582735/
• Hope this helps in this difficult time

• https://twitter.com/cowlonfullerton/status/1250629873615413253

• Rationalizing Ethical Consumption
• “Democrats Should Abandon The Working Class”
  • https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-presidential-campaign/
  • https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/10/21214970/bernie-sanders-2020-lost-class-socialism
    
    
  • “The future of [Bernie’s] agenda lies with young people, but college-educated and suburban voters are increasingly interested in the progressive agenda,” Sean McElwee, co-founder of the left-wing polling outfit Data for Progress, tells me. “Sadly, we [progressives] are about four years behind in reaching out to those voters because people don’t read enough fucking polling data.”
  • In other words, don't worry about the working class. Focus on the professional class.
  • This is a silly analysis—working class folks stand to benefit a lot more from the policies that Bernie supported than the professional class,which is why the media was constantly trying to muddy the watersabout all these policy issues to make them seem infeasible or unrealistic.
  • What we have now is two parties essentially fighting over the same demographic slice of wealthy, privileged voters, while the underprivileged, poor, and underrepresented go completely ignored. Is this a politics you want to support?
  • Sean McElwee's creatively-named new project
    
    
    • Honestly, this seems like something we'd come up with.
  • Probably don't put too much stock in people who are constantly creating new orgs—it's really just a kind of grift.
    1. Create an org that donors can donate to for tax incentives on their part
    2. Do minimal work of any kind of advocacy (tweet, maybe write an op-ed)
    3. Accrue most of the donations to yourself
    4. Move on to found a new org about the next Pressing Issue
  • Data for Progress is beholden to its donors, just like every other think tank and polling firm.
• We're Going To Lose With This Kind Of Nonsense

• https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1251136661397868544?s=20
  
  
• https://twitter.com/apagliar/status/1251486702855733250
  
  
  • Attacking Trump with Republican talking points isn't going to work. His voters don't care about hypocrisy, plus also we don't really need any of their votes to win! Focus on other demographics.

• FaceID in these troubling times
  • I miss the button
• https://twitter.com/UltraNurd/status/1251309645542481920
  
  
  • Alternately: add Touch ID back in and let me use either Face ID or Touch ID.
• FOURTEEN INCHES IS THE CORRECT SIZE
  • Of laptops, that is.
  • It's the Goldilocks Size.
  • I will not be taking further questions at this time.

• If only someone had mentioned this before
  • https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1248227441459564546
• Inbox Zero for People Who I should Pay Any Attention To Whatsoever

• https://twitter.com/AaronLMGoodwin/status/1249504649687650304

• Better ≠ Good
  • Just because something is "not as bad" as something else doesn't make it acceptable.
  • Jenk Booger's take: at least democrats are "competent managers"

  • https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1249408513253597184
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/aoc-progressives-joe-biden.html
• On Returns to "Normalcy"
  • https://gen.medium.com/no-one-should-want-a-return-to-normalcy-a1091120d7d8

• The Postal Service
  • A good band.
  • Also a good government agency.
  • https://discourse.blog/2020/04/13/save-the-post-office/
  • https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1249359264566726657
  • The Postal Service Fired Thousands of Workers for Getting Injured While Delivering and Processing Your Mail — ProPublica

• Amazon Smears A Labor Organizer
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate
• The Lowest Paid Jobs Are The Most Essential
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5x9m9/essential-workers-coronavirus

• Andrew upgraded his desk
  • Some issues:
    • Cables not long enough
• 5G Conspiracies
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358

• People Who Don’t Get It
  • https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1245735705499836416
  • https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1246106938104074242
• So close
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-worries-coronavirus-stimulus-shows-that-medicare-for-all-is-perfectly-affordable/
• Revolutionary Disruptions: an arg
  • There is much opposition to radical or revolutionary societal/national changes for fear of the likely disruptions to everyday life.
  • If everyday life is already being disrupted, why not make radical changes?
  • This is particularly true when the possibly painful changes we’re avoiding would likely solve the underlying thing disrupting our lives.
  • With this in mind, we have even more opportunity to do big and radical changes during disruptive and chaotic times.

• Thique
• Marinated Takes
  • https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-now-pay-workers-to-stay-home-11585005030?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
• Morons defending price gouging
  • https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/1241307878654464002
• Disney Brain
  • Disney somehow completely short-circuits otherwise normal brains somehow
• Some people are way too okay with triaging the olds and it shows

• Poo poo problems
  • https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1241521392430059522
• Rise and Grind Your Way Out of COVID-19
  • https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/in-a-world-under-quarantine-hustle-porn-isnt-so-sexy-anymore
• tfw your landlord is an LLC

• “It reminds me of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union: oligarchs running wild, stashing their gains in buildings,” James Wright, an attorney and former Treasury Department bank examiner, told me. He now helps foreign governments combat money laundering. “Back then, you’d walk down the street, and people would say, ‘That building is a washing machine.’ Everyone knew it. Today, America is not that different.”
• The Census Bureau reports that nearly 3 million U.S. homes and 13 million apartment units are owned by LLC, LLP, LP or shell companies – levels of anonymous ownership not seen in American history. The proportion of residential rental properties owned by individuals and families has fallen from 92% in 1991 to 74% in 2015.

• Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America - Reveal
  
  
  • Who are these people behind the LLC's? Well, one is Mr. Hawn Shanity
• With anonymity comes impunity, and, for vulnerable tenants, skyrocketing numbers of evictions. It wasn’t until reporters from The Guardian and The Washington Post began to investigate, for example, that residents living in hundreds of properties across the South learned that they shared a secret landlord, hiding behind names such as SPMK X GA LLC: Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
• “Among the tenants Hannity’s property managers sought to evict,” The Post reported, were “a double amputee who had lived in an apartment with her daughter for five years but did not pay on time after being hospitalized; and a single mother of three whose $980 rent check was rejected because she could not come up with a $1,050 cleaning fee for a bedbug infestation.”

• Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America - Reveal
• You can just unfollow

• DECLARING A PODCAST EMERGENCY
• How's your pandemic?
• Half foods
• Aspirational Beans

• Johns Hopkins
• Extremely pointless coronavirus emails

• Google's building a website
• This guy sucks
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html
• Oh no, my influencers!
  • https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1238580162033303553
• PandemicPAC
• New Arg for "what about small business owners?"
  • "What about small business workers?"

• Happy Pi Day
• Roll Coal and Get Rolled
  • https://jalopnik.com/discoverys-diesel-dorks-ordered-to-pay-850-000-fine-fo-1842250802
• SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON FOR MORE BEREAVEMENT

• https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1235582102550216704

• Aaron is actually a stoic now
  • Seneca? Marcus Aurelius? Amateurs!
  • I am in a permanent superposition between hopeful and despairing. I am perfectly balanced.
  • You can no longer hurt me and nothing can surprise me.
  • Memento Moris etc etc.
• Delete your parent's cable news
  • This would be one of the best forms of direct action
  • OUTFOXED

• Posit: most of the things cited as the glorious result of capitalism are actually not that great and only necessitated by the crap world capitalism has built
  • The Cuba Tweet
  • Ex:// fast food/convenience food
    • We only need it because our lives are so busy
    • It's not good or healthy or enjoyable
    • We would rather have the time to eat well
  • Ex:// abundance of brand-choice for the same product
  • Ex:// technology
    • How much of it is necessitated by the demands of increased productivity and workload? Would we need GTD if we weren't stressed to an insane degree?
  • Also: all the things we loathe about modernity are also the result of capitalism

• Cadbury Dairy Milk
• McDonald’s Candles

• https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1230557724884078592
• Andrew’s Apple Card Chargeback Experience

• Debate Recap

• https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1230326999199055873
  
  
  • Let us once again pay a visit to our good friend Rennifer Jubin
    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/20/democrats-just-had-most-exciting-debate-date
      
      
    • Sanders, pummeled during the day for his refusal to produce once-promised medical records and his spokeswoman’s false accusation that Bloomberg had suffered heart attacks, needed to show he had responses to legitimate concerns about his health. He didn’t. He simply reiterated that he had put out letters, not his complete health record. He yelled through much of the debate, insisting his Medicare-for-all proposal would not force Nevada’s Culinary Union (which opposes Sanders’s proposal) to give up its health-care plan. He also went full-on socialist, telling Bloomberg he shouldn’t have been allowed to earn his billions.
    • https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1230492341900890114?s=20
      
      
    • https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1231062260057022464
      
      
    • https://twitter.com/iamchrisscott/status/1230518961797816320
• Antifa Super-soldiers in Mech Suits
  • https://twitter.com/AaronLMGoodwin/status/1231286108404600832
  • It's okay to be idealistic
  • It's okay to demand and push

• Choose Your Own Caucus Adventure
  • Recording contingencies for each potential caucus outcome

• Aaron's Dream
  • Dreamt I was meeting a candidate for congress in my district, Chris Bubser
  • She asked if she could have my vote and all the sudden I had an epiphany. I said, "No. I only vote for people who have a working class background, or who have proved over a long period of time they have class consciousness and put working class and the poor first."
  • She's a carpet-bagger wealthy person. Would it be good to have a democrat flip our district blue? Yes. Does she have better resources than our previous dem candidates? Yes. But what's the point?
• Vote Blue No Matter Who

• Smiley Potatoes and other shaped potato products
  • http://www.mccainpotatoes.com/products/smiles
  • Potato challenge coins
  • http://www.mccainpotatoes.com/products/emoticons-cheddar-cheese
• Google Maps as Gen-Z Tumblr
  • This is hilarious
• The Google Maps listing for Effingham County High School in Springfield, Georgia, has some relevant information, like the main office phone number and the link to the school website. But the photo gallery section is a little off-topic. Instead of showing photos of the school, which Google Maps would normally display, there are nonsensical photos, like the Nintendo character Kirby drawn with legs and feet, a Joker meme, a Sad Kermit meme, a Minecraft screenshot, and erotic fan art showing characters from the education website BrainPop.

• People searching for Effingham County High School will find zero photos of the high school’s exterior. However, they’ll be able to glimpse the school’s interior life. (High Schoolers Are Adding Memes To Google Maps - Buzzfeed News)

• spicy take: “head cannon” is annoying
• Horrendous Gentrification Tele Vision

• https://twitter.com/amandamull/status/1226148170658435074
• What is Victoria’s Secret?
  • ‘Angels’ in Hell: The Culture of Misogyny Inside Victoria’s Secret - The New York Times

• look at how green we are!
  • https://twitter.com/kevin_degood/status/1217856463231733760?s=21
• Just build train
  • https://jalopnik.com/hyperloop-is-the-midwests-answer-to-a-question-no-one-a-1840515757
  • State postpones vote on 2nd Virgin Trains bond allocation - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA
• How Dare You Try To Stop Me, King Emporer Jefferyyy, From Killing The Planet
  • Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies - The Washington Post
    
    
    • What's funny is that, pushing back against employees asking that you stop killing the planet basically gives away the fact that you know and believe you are killing the planet. So thanks Beff.

• Furniture Condoms
  • https://keshow.shop/products/cover-13
• Pee Vest
  • Wearable garden vest is nourished by wearer's own urine

• Christian healthshares
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-care-insurance.html

• Dummy Chum and Nut-picking
  • Dummy Chum: events, propaganda, memes, or messages that activate the stupidest ranks within any given group/movement/fanbase
  • Nut-picking: using a whacky outlier position as if it represents a whole group. (basically weak-man fallacy)
    • Ex:// sharing a post of a fringe BLM activist who states that it's racist to speak to white people and holding it up as representative of the views of the entire movement.
• What is baby yoda’s name?
  • Fenton Jeff

• Bung a bob for Big Ben to bong on Brexit
  • https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/17/boris-johnson-saves-face-over-failed-bid-for-big-ben-brexit-chime

• Andrew, don't read this because I don't want to spoil it, but I also don't want to forget it
  • Confessions of A Teenage Satanist (Official Trailer) - YouTube

• Being good at your job (or not)
  • https://gen.medium.com/you-shouldnt-have-to-be-good-at-your-job-cb9dff706d7d?gi=eca9168b9361
  • https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
• Crying In The Club Office
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90408188/why-crying-employees-can-sometimes-be-a-sign-of-a-healthy-workplace

• Piper, I hardly McDonalds her! (Or, pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe, I’m lovin’ it)
  • https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/01/03/bagpipes-blasting-broadway-mcdonalds/

• Some Comments On Rural Americans

• https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1192178047610277888
• The American Healthcare System Is Untenable
  • How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor - The New Republic
  • Investors’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Surprise Medical Bills - Kaiser Health News
  • How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With an $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby — ProPublica
  • With Medical Bills Skyrocketing, More Hospitals Are Suing for Payment - The New York Times
• Ady Barkan
  • Ady Barkan Is Running Out of Time to Speak - The New Republic
    
    
  • Examples like that are a frightening demonstration of why Barkan’s advocacy is so powerful: Americans who could be alive are dead now, silenced by the policy decisions we have made together.

• The Kids Are Calling It "Water"
  • Are We the Most Hydrated We’ve Ever Been? - MEL Magazine
• Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
• "Guys, we're really trying to give our money away, but it's so hard you guys" —Billionaires, apparently
  • Tech’s top 20 billionaires keep getting richer no matter how much money they give away - Vox
  • Bill Gates and Elizabeth Warren are tweeting at each other about wealth inequality - The Verge
  • Rich Computer Man
  • Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Part I) — Bill Gates and Western Media

• Or maybe we could all work less
  • Kamala Harris’s new proposal to lengthen the school is completely backwards - The Outline
  • The Leisure Agenda ❖ People’s Policy Project
  • The Productivity–Pay Gap Economic Policy Institute
  • The Productivity-Pay Gap Chart
• You're not crazy and it's not your fault
  • Thinking a lot lately about how liberating this idea can be
  • It can be so empowering to say those two things, but it's the two things those in power consistently withold
  • Ep. 30: It's Not Your Fault (w/ Michael Moore & Meagan Day)
    
    
    • Video version
  • Companies and politicians have serious incentives to convince you that you're to blame for your own situation, so that they have a free hand to plunder

• Sipping Chocolate: A Steaming Hot Take
• Penzeys Spices

• We love it.

• Penzeys Spices - Home - Facebook

• Reminder: Live Show on the Berlin Wall
  • November 9th 3pm Eastern/Noon Pacific
  • ahuster - Twitch
• Okay Boomer
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

• The Deadspin Situation
  • Deadspin Was a Good Website - VICE
  • Deadspin firings and what you can do to fight bad content.
  • "Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb": The rise and fall of a blog post.
  • Somebody please, please pay David J. Roth to write about Trump.
  • His last for Deadspin: It's Absolutely Fine That Donald Trump Got Booed At The World Series

• Panda Express chow mein: a take
  • Fam, it's bad. The noodles are too short so you can't eat them w/ chopsticks without them falling all over.
  • I think they were designed specifically for forks, which is just wrong

• Farhad's California Take
  • Opinion - It’s the End of California as We Know It - The New York Times
• Electricity is bad, apparently
  • Power outages in California could make fighting climate change harder - Los Angeles Times
  • Keystone Pipeline leak: 380,000 gallons of oil spilled in North Dakota

• Defend and Protect The BA Test Kitchen
  • How Bon Appétit Became a YouTube Sensation—and Why Claire Saffitz Is the Perfect Star - Man Repeller
  • Okay, but: Brad Leone is the best

• Betsy DeVos Sucks And Everyone Hates Her
  • Could Betsy DeVos Cost Trump the Election? | The New Republic
• Biden Needs Money
  • Biden throws his campaign a lifeline - POLITICO
    
    
  • “There’s nothing wrong with small-dollar contributors. But $5 contributors shouldn’t determine the whole election. The whole electorate should determine the election. And people who can make larger contributions should be able to express themselves.”
• Are we rich? Let's take a quiz!
  • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-you-rich.html

• Oh no, my birds!
  • Shrinking water supply puts Mojave Desert birds on the brink - Los Angeles Times
• Who Hits The Hits

• Hitman outsourced a murder to hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman
• Everything’s Direct to Consumer Now
  • No. 2 toilet paper, generic Tums and Prilosec, hair tablets, roman, hims

• Donate to our new fund at the CICPS
  • We want to buy all promoted tweets
• Aaron: The Tree-Haver
• Wouldn't want to anger the Chinese government
  • China's vise grip on corporate America

• Weird Dialect, but okay
  • Dying days of harpin Boont: A whimsical dialect created by Northern California farmers is fading away
• Hillary v. Tulsi
  • Hillary accuses Tulsi of being a Russian asset

  • "I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate," Clinton said, speaking on a podcast with former Obama adviser David Plouffe. "She's the favorite of the Russians."

  • 
    Clinton never names Gabbard, but there are only five women running for President -- Gabbard, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and author Marianne Williamson -- and none of the other woman have been accused of being boosted by Russia.

    (Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are 'grooming' Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run - CNNPolitics)

  • Actually, she's part of a weird cult

  • When Tulsi talks about her girlhood, it is with a profound vagueness, a visible discomfort. In Iowa, there is awkward silence when I ask about her three brothers (“They’re kind of separate,” her sister eventually says) and silence when I ask about being homeschooled (“The schools in Hawaii weren’t very good,” Davan offers). Tulsi calls herself Hindu, the first Hindu member of Congress, in fact, though the group in which she appears to have grown up does not identify as Hindu. She says she was raised by “an eccentric Catholic father.”

    In 1970, the Honolulu Advertiser published a piece called “One Man Rules Haiku Krishnaites,” with the subhead “Absolute power of devotees.” In the photo beside the piece, Butler is seated shirtless and smoking, hair skimming his shoulders and a sarong around his waist, staring alluringly into the distance, a mischievous smile on his face. It is the expression of less a guru than a playboy, and this is how Advertiser reporter Janice Wolf depicts him, a handsome dictator with the ability to hypnotize the two dozen 18-to-22-year-olds who live with him in his Quonset hut. One of the girls, an 18-year-old who also happened to have the Sanskrit name Tulsi, says he arranged her marriage to another member of the group. She and another girl, who say they would kill for him, describe his teachings. Among them: “Flowers scream when they’re picked. So do trees when they’re trimmed.” (“Tulsi and Boni were sitting on the lawn chewing blades of grass when they said this,” notes Wolf.)

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    (Profile: Tulsi Gabbard and Her 2020 Presidential Campaign)
• Why I'm Quitting Paying Any Attention To Things With This Title Format
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• The Grilled Egg-Cheese
  • Some say, "that's just an fried egg sandwich"
    • They are wrong
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    • Two eggs (organic, free-range, pastured, etc etc)
    • Two slices, Swiss American Cheese (costco log)
    • Mayonnaise
    • Salt
    • Pepper

• Folks, We Love The Private Health Insurance

• There Are Approximately 27.5 Million People in the U.S. Without Health Insurance
  
  
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• Trump doing Sudafed?
  • JRehling on Twitter: "THREAD In 2016, Trump posted a photo of himself that gave away more than he intended. An open desk drawer revealed box after box of Sudafed, piled on top of one another.…https://t.co/HhMpEIzHUV"

• Democrats will always lose: a theory
  • Democrats will always aim to defeat trump on a technicality
    • They want an outside arbiter to enforce a rule that dismisses Trump instead of leveraging power to displace him.
    • This is because democrats understand that their only efficacious power is derived from populism.
    • But in order to embrace and use Populist energy they must also confront the divide between working and upper classes
    • Party leadership understand they have more in common with Brett Kavanaugh than AOC. They understand that populist power will likely displace their own, and so they are unwilling to use the only real tool in their arsenal.
• File under "No Thanks, I'm Good"
  • Sorry, Guys, It's Time to Ditch Your Undershirt | MEL Magazine
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  • Palate Cleanser: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Greta Thunberg - The New Republic

• Our Economic System Also Sucks for Rich People
  
  
• The elite should not—they have no right to—expect sympathy from those who remain excluded from the privileges and benefits of high caste. But ignoring how oppressive meritocracy is for the rich is a mistake. The rich now dominate society not idly but effortfully. The familiar arguments that once defeated aristocratic inequality do not apply to an economic system based on rewarding effort and skill. The relentless work of the hundred-hour-a-week banker inoculates her against charges of unearned advantage. Better, then, to convince the rich that all their work isn’t actually paying off.
• They may need less convincing than you might think. As the meritocracy trap closes in around elites, the rich themselves are turning against the prevailing system. Plaintive calls for work/life balance ring ever louder. Roughly two-thirds of elite workers say that they would decline a promotion if the new job demanded yet more of their energy. When he was the dean of Stanford Law School, Larry Kramer warned graduates that lawyers at top firms are caught in a seemingly endless cycle: Higher salaries require more billable hours to support them, and longer hours require yet higher salaries to justify them. Whose interests, he lamented, does this system serve? Does anyone really want it?

• Meritocracy Harms Everyone - The Atlantic
  • Kind of a galaxy-brain take that's laughable at first, but there's a good nugget here, I think
  • Part of what drives inequality and greed is an intuitive understanding that this economy is built on a zero-sum premise
  • The rich understand the risks that come with reduced wealth or social status, and they feel disempowered from confronting it because they're only an individual
  • Most rich people are paupers in comparison with the true elites, so they don't really see themselves as the ones with power
  • Pals, being rich sucks and it doesn't fulfill you---the constant fear of losing it all or being caught or getting murked by karma are not great headspaces
  • What if there was another way? What if you didn't have to view everybody below you as your enemy? What if we all decided to have solidarity against the exhausting and stupid culture we've created?
  • Maybe if we exercise empathy and show solidarity to those better-off, but still suffering under this oppressive system, we can get more done
  • Where do we set the boundary, though, as far as income goes? Appealing to billionaires seems a waste, but what about families bringing in 250k? How do we define who's worth the solidarity and who de-facto has to be an enemy?

“The idea was, if you introduce something that fish could eat, fish would get bigger and fishermen would be happier,” said Tahoe Environmental Research Center Director Geoff Schladow. “So what could possibly go wrong with that?”

A lot, it turns out.

“This is something everybody may have missed,” Schladow said. “I think for a long time.” ...

Before the shrimp were introduced into Tahoe, zooplankton in the lake ate algae and sediment, clearing the water by doing so. Some fish also ate the zooplankton. Then the states introduced the shrimp, and everything changed. The shrimp hate light, and because Lake Tahoe is so clear, they have to retreat to the depths of the lake during the day to avoid it. Then, each night, they undertake a round-trip migration as long as 2,000 feet to the top of the water to feed. Once the sun rises again, they swim back down.

While officials put the shrimp in the lake in the hopes of fish eating them, that hasn’t been the case because of this nightly vertical migration. ...

Not only did the shrimp not fulfill their intended role, but they also brought a devastating and unintended consequence.

After the shrimp migrate each night, they’re starving from the long journey. Because of this, they’ve managed to decimate their main food source in Lake Tahoe: native zooplankton.

These zooplankton were an important food source for the kokanee, and the size of those fish in Lake Tahoe has dropped dramatically since the shrimp were introduced. But these tiny creatures that the shrimp were devouring, called Daphnia, were also keeping the lake clean, researchers found out.

“As far as zooplankton in Lake Tahoe go, Daphnia is responsible for removing about 85% of the particles and algae from the water column,” said Katie Senft, one of the researchers on Allen’s team.

TahoeLand: Trillions Of Tiny Invasive Shrimp Are Degrading Lake Tahoe’s Clarity. Now Researchers Are Trying To Stop Them. - Capital Public Radio

The YOUTHS are tracking each other?

It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Friends Are? - CityLab

Spice Rankings

Ranking Spices by How Healthy They Are | MEL Magazine

Weird Way to do Public Housing, But Okay

• San Mateo cops have been sleeping in their cars to avoid an hours-long commute at the end of a 12-hour shift. The city plans to convert a portion of an old fire station into a sleeping barracks for far-flung officers who can’t afford the extremely expensive housing in the area.

Rather than slog back and forth from eastern Contra Costa County between shifts — a trip that can take 2½ hours during rush hour — he crashes in his Roadtrek van, which he parks in the employee lot at the San Mateo police headquarters.

Brinton said he is hardly the only member of the force who slumbers in a vehicle rather than drive several hours after a 12-hour workday.

“A lot of (officers) are sleeping in their cars if they get too tired — it’s dangerous to drive home,” said Brinton.

But Brinton may soon get some relief from his commuting nightmare. On Monday, the San Mateo City Council unanimously approved a plan to convert a portion of an old fire station into a sleeping barracks for far-flung officers who can’t afford the average $1.4 million Peninsula home.

The $520,000 project will provide bunks and showers for up to 12 officers at a time at Fire Station 26 at 1812 S. Norfolk St. In addition to the barracks, the building will be a police substation and vehicle storage site.

While Brinton’s commute may be particularly egregious, it’s not that unusual. Of San Mateo’s 125 officers, 68% live outside of San Mateo County, many as far as Tracy or Mountain House in San Joaquin County or Gilroy in south Santa Clara County.

The cops who sleep in their cars — and what San Mateo is doing about it - SFChronicle.com

Hi, would you like to live in a parking garage?

The Parking Garages of the Future - Governing

Conservatives don't like colleges because they expose you to the others you're supposed to be afraid of

• Hatred/fear of The Other rarely survives actual contact and experience with them

https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1164649782490435585

Grosperity Pospel

Ideologically, the prosperity gospel dovetails perfectly with right-wing ideology, which views poverty as a consequence of individual failure rather than rigged economic and political structures. ... When times are hard, it’s because you didn’t think positively enough, pray hard enough, or tithe enough. It’s a spiritual spin on meritocracy, the ideological handmaiden to neoliberal capitalism. The prosperity gospel is one of America’s greatest grifts.

(A Grift from God - Jacobin)Trump IS a prosperity gospel preacher:

Trump’s spiritual adviser is a prosperity minister. Her name is Paula White. In April of this year, she promised believers that if they sent her money they would receive one of several blessings: God would bring harm to their enemies, assign them a special angel, enhance their prosperity, or increase their inheritance. ...

In the relationship between Paula White and Donald Trump, the nature of the prosperity gospel is laid bare. White got famous telling working-class people that their economic insecurity was a personal failing, and in a way, so did Trump. The Apprentice is a show about people d...

• Slogan of the Council at the Intitute of the Center for Politics and Society: "We disambiguate complexifiers for the good of humanity."!
• Also announcing our new PAC, BackPAC. A return to normalcy for all!

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Happy Telephone Ordering Day

• 5am
• White noise
• jiggabits

Is Salted Licorice Any Good?

• Aaron tries it

Chocolate Milk Is SO 1995

The Impulsive Buy on Twitter: "SPOTTED: Borden Limited Edition State Fair Inspirations Flavored Milk" - Twitter

Elizabeth Warren: Doin' It for The 'Gram

Ms. Warren’s campaign estimates that she has spent about 107 hours taking pictures in selfie lines since entering the race — the equivalent of working 9-to-5 for 13 days. At one event in Iowa, she continued posing for pictures in the midst of a tornado warning.

How to Get a Selfie With Elizabeth Warren in 8 Steps - NY Times

DEBATE RECAP

• Joseph R. Biden Jr: firecracker
• Elizabeth Warren
• Bernie Sanders
• Kamala Harris
• Pete Buttigieg
• Andrew Yang
• Cory Booker
• Amy Klobuchar
• Beto O’Rourke
• Julián Castro

It Turns Out Everyone Involved Was Lying

Ariel Edwards-Levy's thread recapping a survey from 1971

Repeal and Replace 2: 2 Repeal 2 Replace

Will Republicans Win Back the House? Their Playbook Is Familiar - Bloomberg

Folks: Keep it Grounded in Fact

Fact or Folly? — Keep It Grounded in Fact

Hard Work: What Even Is It?

I Have No Idea What “Hard Work” Means - Current Affairs

That is all.

Scent Shopping

Bedbug Stephens Was On One This Week

• David Karpf Officially Throws Bret Stephens In the Trash
• Opinion | World War II and the Ingredients of Slaughter - The New York Times
• southpaw on Twitter: "I just followed Bret’s own link. What are we doing here? https://t.co/vUoxKZFYDI https://t.co/iyd2UvNcqp" / Twitter

Innovation in Censorship

Idea: browser extension / twitter extension that muted or blocks all op-ed links and sections and authors

These Are The 99 Rules For Manhood. This Is All You Need.

Clint Pressley on Twitter: "In honor of ⁦@9Marks⁩ and ⁦@MarkDever⁩’s Birthday. Here are 99 steps to Christian manhood. https://t.co/geZKXpTE5Z" / Twitter

ContraPoints' new video on men

• As with women, the traditional gender role of men is also shifting
• Protector-provider role is increasingly irrelevant
• We teach men that the male role models society holds up for them are problematic, and denounce toxic masculinity, both of which are good, BUT:
• We haven't replaced those role models with anything
• What does a twenty first century man look like?
• #99rules #NewMans
• #RebrandMen

Plastic

Oil companies double down on plastics as public outcry grows - AXIOSCalifornians generated about 77.2 million tons of waste in 2017, according to the most recent calculations from CalRecycle, California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Of that, about 44.4 million tons ended up in landfills in 2017. CalRecycle estimates that the other 32.8 million tons, about 42 percent, was sent to recycling or composting, or was just never tossed in the first place. The numbers are a problem because they mean the state is far from reaching a statewide goal to reduce, recycle, or compost 75 percent of waste by the year 2020. And the outlook isn’t good. That’s in part because cheap natural gas is spurring investments in manufacturing of virgin plastics, which a CalRecycle report said could “undermine source reduction efforts, undercut prices for recovered plastics, and exacerbate plastic litter and marine pollution issues.”

Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like - CalMatters

The Idiotic Reason That Egg Companies Are Turning to Plastic Packaging

• Bulk Eggs
• Hugh's War on Waste
• Hugh's War on Plastic
• #ShipItBack

Rich People Be Crazy

Barking dogs at Chevy Chase dog park divide rich and powerful - The Washington Post

Important News: We Are Baby

Amazon rainforest fires: Here's what we know - CNN

Thin dalmation line

https://www.aspiregear.com/blogs/news/what-do-the-thin-line-colors-mean

Thicc Orange Line

Baby please don't leave me, I swear I'll be better

• Corporations are trying to gaslight us into believing they care about the good of mankind
• https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ourcommitment/
• File Under "Hmmmm."
• https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/08/19/heads-gm-ford-among-ceos-rejecting-shareholder-centric-model/2050475001/

Calendar Capitalism

Why Every Day Is Suddenly 'National Something Day' - The Atlantic

The Chicken Sandwich Wars, They Have Begun

A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and a Tactic to Set Off a Twitter Roar - The New York Times

• Hot take: fried chicken is already a sandwich.
  • It's literally meat between bread, folks.

We love it!

Idea: start making fake trump catchphrases and say them in his voice in order to spread them

pigs and chickens

zima zima zima

a big bowel of pasta

Ketamine for the Troops

Conan invents podcasting

Inside the Podcast Boom: How Conan O’Brien and More Cash in – Variety

Doing some podcast growth hacking

• 2% of our downloads are from France
• 2% of our downloads are from Spain

Actually, We Can't: The Humiliating Weakness of Neoliberal Policy Worship

• Posit: policies are great, but without power they're meaningless.
• All political movements which prioritize policy at the expense of, or without commensurate focus on obtaining the power necessary to enact an agenda will always fail.
• Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care - The Ezra Klein Show
• One of the argument Ezra makes against pure, unadulterated M4A appears to be as follows:
  • We cannot afford to risk failed attempts at bold policy because it results in disillusioned voters
    • As if failing to try is not equally or more discouraging and disillusioning
    • Voters want representatives that fight for them
    • The incentive is a fear of losing power when it should be a fear of wasting power.
    • The policy is secondary to the movement behind it. 
    • There's just always this underlying but unspoken assumption that the status-quo is tolerable while we wait. And it's curiously always coming from people for whom the status quo is, like, not killing them and their family.

Taco Talk (or, Let's Taco Bout Tacos)

• You're welcome.
• Jack's tacos
• THE Ohio State

New E-people Have Arrived

• E-aboo
• E-wooloo
• E-kin
• Furr-E

Who Hacks The Hackers?

Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets

MLS Blowing It On Anti-Fascism

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/08/12/26956470/the-timbers-army-is-right-mls-must-rescind-its-ban-on-the-iron-front-symbol

https://twitter.com/visionofclarity/status/1161025052550336512?s=21

What the hell, MLS?

_Seinfeld Voice_What is the DEAL with the METAL BISTRO CHAIRS?????

https://jezebel.com/i-hate-these-chairs-1837309166

Swear Police Mad At Trump

https://splinternews.com/the-swear-police-are-mad-as-heck-and-coming-for-trump-1837167468

Clearly this is the only bad thing he's done, though. Everything else is fine.

Space Watch

• Aaron is pregaming Picard

Amazon's Fulfillment Center Ambassadors Are Basically The Borg

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/8/16/20808029/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-fulfillment-center-disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/style/amazon-fc-ambassadors.html

https://twitter.com/PierreMenard/status/1162025558978510848

Reply Guys-as-a-Service

The Slow Destruction of Gizmodo Media Group by Private Equiteers

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at-new-ceos-insane-direction

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadspin-editor-quits-rails-against-bosses-ive-been-repeatedly-lied-to-and-gaslit

Give Me Your Moneyed, Your Rich, Your Financially-Independent Masses

https://splinternews.com/trumps-immigration-chief-pretty-sure-the-statue-of-libe-1837200109

These bozos know there's no moral justification for what they're doing so they have to make stuff up.

Coming soon: all immigrants must be FIRE adherents or otherwise enrolled in a Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman course to be allowed in.

We will be checking your bank transaction history at customs. If you spend too much on coffee, DENIED.