I don't understand how anyone who has ever had to fight their health insurance company to get them to pay for contracted, lifesaving care, or anyone in #MedicalDebt, or anyone who has had to forgo necessary medications or care that aren't covered, can think that #immigration is the biggest problem this country faces. Who is actually harming you and your family? The corporate media will keep you angry at all the wrong people. #USPolitics #HealthInsurance #NothingMakesSense
Just had an interesting phone call with a retired #attorney friend who is on a mission to teach every #judge in the US to identify veiled #SovereignCitizen rhetoric in their courtroom and respond appropriately instead of letting pro se defendants waste time, clog up the courts, and run up costs. I don’t understand why judges don’t already know this, but since they don’t, I’m glad my friend is on the case. She’s a 70-something 3x cancer survivor, and she’s not here for anyone’s nonsense! #LawFedi
@c5cf7d38 I learned a bit as a child, but not enough to be confident. I'm going to try some pajama pants the next slow weekend, and if I can make that work, I'm going to try some comfy pants I can wear to work.
Dug up some documents I created in 2006 on teaching research skills and information literacy in high schoosl, and despite everything that has changed, I'm shocked at how relevant most of it still is. I really thought we'd have a handle on teaching these skills by now!
“Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, makes a pitch to Democrats: ‘I recognize that my friends have a very complex partisan personal and political calculations to make. I wouldn’t presume to give them any advice about that,’ he said. But he warns them: ‘Think long and hard until you plunge us into chaos.’l
I’m sorry—WHO is plunging WHOM into chaos????????
The Chaos Conference has some words of wisdom for us all. These people.
Lol! I always say that my ideas of what people do for a living come from a Richard Scarry book! When I write characters with jobs in offices, I have to ask my friends who work in the private sector to explain to me what exactly people with these jobs do all day.
From: @686d42e0https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/111155752790443209
I never pay attention to the #shutdown stuff anymore because they usually work it out without any input from me. Shutdowns are extraordinarily unpopular. Nobody in Congress really wants one except the lunatic fringe. So I don’t need to read or listen to hours of analysis gaming out the possibilities. That’s one chunk of time I feel free to reclaim.
“Trump…was repeating the automaker line that industry is benevolent and it's #unions that are the problem: ‘You're striking for wages but your jobs are only going to be here for two or three years if you're lucky.’”
“‘Your current negotiations don't mean as much as you think,’ Trump said, continuing his theme that workers themselves are not to be trusted, but that they need his guiding hand to know what is good for them.”@37ea2ed2
#UawStrike #labor
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/28/a-study-in-contrasts-biden-stands-with-auto-workers-while-looks-down-upon-them/
Unfortunately, we have school superintendents and Boards of Education who believe the same thing. A five-minute conversation with a history teacher could clear that up for them, but they will never ask.
From: @72725ee0https://historians.social/@tkinias/111139710905595219
I have to write seven letters of recommendation for it fantastic students that any college would be lucky to have. I’m definitely not writing that about any of them!
@4ae04bde I’m listening to the last book again and wondering how the Library will operate now, without the forces that were steering it before, especially if the senior librarians can’t acknowledge the truth to themselves. I will enjoy pondering that!
Once, years ago, I described my #ExecutiveFunction thusly:
Normally, it's slinking around dusty antique bookstores and dark cafes. It doesn't answer its cell phone. It doesn't send a postcard. It follows its own mysterious schedule and the promptings of its own inscrutable heart.
Trending topics here leave a lot to be desired. I want to know what people are talking and thinking about, and I refuse to believe that so many of you are thinking about windows every Friday.
Trans people are incredibly brave. I think one reason they get so much bullying is that others are jealous of their courage to be so deeply and publicly themselves. Most people aren’t, about so many aspects of themselves. The world is keeping secrets and trying to fit in and burying their pain, and trans people are like, “No. Fuck that. Life is too short.”
Pro-Russia U.S. right-wingers should be having a tough week explaining to the press and public why they are joining Kim Jong-on in supporting Putin’s assault on Ukraine, rather than siding with our allies in defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty. But they are so rarely called on to explain themselves.
A friend I see occasionally, who has serious health problems and is often rather isolated, sent me a Facebook message today that said “Departing.” I panicked, thinking that he was about to die and was letting me know. I dropped everything and called him, then quickly understood that he was in the car, in sound health and cheery mood, on his way (but running late) to visit someone else named Julie and had been trying to let her know that he had left his house. That was scary!
It would take a Constitutional amendment to fix this for the President, VP, SCOTUS Justices, Senators and Congresscritters, but we need mandatory retirement by age 80. One of the many problems in our democracy is that long-term incumbency is an enormous political advantage. A long-serving person with a huge campaign chest and nearly universal name recognition is almost impossible to beat. Gerontocracy is the result, and it’s not serving us well.
@3f855101 I needed a rest day today, and I’m surprised to learn that the positive effects seem to have carried over from the previous three mornings! Glad to hear your afternoons are working for you!
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