If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Nice one. I've been on a Mulligan Quartet kick recently, and can't get enough.
Jumping Someone Else's Train
When our national bloodsport (football) meets our other national bloodsport (mass shootings)
"Now is the time on 'Pedals' when we dance!"
Are there any abolish ICE shirts that anyone would consider cute, or stylish, or where the proceeds are going to a good cause?
Local office numbers: Bel Air: (410) 588-5670, Salisbury: (443) 944-8624. D.C Office: (202)225-5311. harris.house.gov/contact/offi...
Maryland: Do you live in District 1? Family, friends? Please call Andy Harris's office and implore him to vote no on the budget bill. Over 180,000 people -- mostly children -- rely on Medicaid in his district; just about one in four (!) of his constituents (24%) are Medicaid enrolled.
I shall refer to it as TARA from now on.
His turning around to fist bump the two kids was also 🤜🤛
So a population of 568,271 means we're now at $1,080 per resident for police.
The Vera data is from 2020. Where is the current proposed budget? www.vera.org/publications...
This is great. Now let's put the officers to work repaving the streets.
Aw man, I was looking forward to a grim dystopian future working in the banana mines.
Both on Cambio Corsa bikes.
Storečar
'there's more than one way to skin a cat, none of them particularly great for the cat.'
It's a Mads world. @lidltrek.bsky.social
The Cycling Podcast's Girovagando coverage really does add a wonderful dimension to the event. The second best thing to being there in person.
…y'all need to rehire all those DEI's because it seems like they were the ones who understood how aircraft carrier tie-downs work
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
So this is exactly what I mean. Not trying to dump on this specific person, but the idea that “bread” 100 years ago was pristine wheat and yeast is just not true.
Vulture capital - There's no upside! (tm)
Violence reduction strategies are helping, which many cities are implementing: www.alleghenycountyanalytics.us/wp-content/u...
There’s an Icelandic way of saying of “I’m gonna kick your arse” that translates to “I will take you to the bakery.” A Hungarian version is “you’re prying open the lid of the slap-crate.” And the most colourful threat I’ve come across in Urdu… “my foot is in your butt’s destiny”
Cylburn Mansion open house today, 11-2.
A Puncture card for Pederson, and a Crash card for Pogačar made the difference today. #ParisRoubaix
Go. And win. And hve a derailleur named after the win. :) mariposabicycles.ca/2016/04/19/c...
One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
So glad it's back. It goes right by the end of my street. For the sake of the riders, I do hope they do some repaving on Falls road.
What a great race. Reminds me of the three-up sprint in 2017, when Kwiatkowski pipped Sagan and Alaphilippe. 🇮🇹 #MilanoSanremo
There was a rider (I don't recall who) interviewed on the Cycling Podcast a couple years back, who recommended this as a key strategy. Start the climb at the front, end right at the rear. Work your way back up on the flats.
Nice. I'm here for the Bowie lyrics.
Tim Krabbe's The Rider is a classic. www.alibris.com/search/books...
My advice for emerging artists and pros alike: it’s time for in person events. The industry and community is scattered and algorithms are currently siloing us off. Go to cons, festivals, screenings + launches, and other art events. While social media is still shifting, invest in face to face.
Go big and go home?
Thanks Biden. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...
That reminds me: I've got to feed the fish.
I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it. While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
BEZOS: This isn't what I ordered! PHONE AI: I think you said/insecure border? BEZOS: Where... are... my... editorials? AI: OK/Is your editorial/"Billionaires Make Superior Lovers"/or/"Brain Science Proves Racism Is Fine"/? BEZOS: Talk to a person! AI: ... AI: Your wait time is/four hours.
It is nice. I wish there was also a "no pro cycling chatter" option, so I can avoid spoilers for races I haven't watched yet.
Tesla has lost all the value it gained since the election.
This was my take a month ago. I was wrong - he was planted by Russia.
So the question now is how will Ukraine take Trump out? Drones on a golf course? SAM Air Force One? I am sure Trump has no clue what he's getting into here, and he's surrounded himself with similarly clueless yes-men. What a crazy timeline we're in. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
It's not about waste. It's about decimating the federal government. They're not saying USAID is rife with fraud and waste so clean that up so as to more effectively address poverty and hunger. For them spending any money at all on poverty, hunger, research, higher ed, healthcare, etc is a waste.
The first substantive comments from Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on how he plans to approach the Trump administration: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow... By @brendawintrode.bsky.social
Word. Left money needs to go to media purchases. At least the Gates Foundation started the National Trust For Local News. It's saved some good papers form being bought by Sinclair et. al. www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/n...
There are plenty of Trump voters who can be reached- bsky.app/profile/jeir...
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
Song of the day. youtu.be/1xbAnRHCPbA?...
I know many have unfriended those on social media who are on the other side of the political spectrum. I have done this too, but I keep some who are not antagonistic, and we interact about non-political common interests. One of them posted this which I find extremely interesting and heartening.
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.
These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.
You can nominate and fund the best candidates, have the best talking points, and facts on your side, but this is the tide you are swimming against:
This is important stuff to understand what's happening more broadly in the US. The main newspaper in a blue city in a blue state, bought by the billionaire chair of Sinclair. Here's where the rubber hits the road on how citizens and voters see the world.
seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
Federal workers: I value the work you do, and hope you will be able to continue to do it. I know a lot of you have to go radio silence on social media. Just know you are not forgotten.
What if every Blue state taxpayer refused to pay their Federal taxes, and pay the amount they owed the Feds to their State instead? States could then create State jobs to replace all the key federal jobs being eliminated. The IRS is being gutted, so why not give it a shot?
"At 50, everyone gets the face they deserve" - George Orwell
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Nah - science, studies, and research stuff is so, like, Biden administration. Get with the times.
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
Oh man. The little tune our new dryer plays when it's finished is SO close to the melody for Convoy, I now have that song running in the back of my head most of the time. It's thing #234 contributing to my shaky mental health these days.
The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. thedispatch.com/article/fact...
Now might be a good time for Johns Hopkins University to express some opinions of its own. Now is not the time to sit back and let public health infrastructure be completely torn down.
Heck yeah!
I would be neat to see defenestration make a comeback in my lifetime.
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
I love and support the Banner, but seeing stories like this on relatively trivial topics show up in my feed during the current national constitutional crisis is kind of jarring.
Max makes a very good point. @maxthegirl.bsky.social
Honest question: what can Democrats do as the minority part in both chambers? The GOP sure did a good job of gumming up the works under Obama. But the current situation needs more than gumming.
Would hope the reporters who took down Hillary's campaign over her use a private email server would care that Treasury just handed a private company the personal information of millions of Americans and a system that disburses $5 trillion a year w/no explanation whatsoever. 🙃
Preach it. Like Micheal Jackson. If they say why, why?
It must have been frustrating for the band when it didn't sell at all, while Sgt Peppers made the Beatles bigger than the Beatles.
Yup. As noted in Dylan's "Only a Pawn In Their Game" which is eternally relevant.
Interesting. So in 2021 an additional ~115 deaths per 100,000 of 24-40 year olds above what would be expected from 1999-2010 trends. Drug Poisoning accounts for more than COVID. Would that include opiate ODs?
If you're from Maryland and would like your brand new senator Angela Alsobrooks to stop voting for Trump's nominees, give her office a call and leave her a voicemail. I've been told it moves the needle, since everyone hates phone calls now. 202-224-4524
DEI means hiring people who are well qualified, or even over-qualified for the job, but who had not been given a chance to do it because of their race, gender, disability, etc. Hiring unqualified people because of their race, gender or ideology is Trumpism.
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
Great list. But I can't hear "California Dreaming" without this popping instantly into my head; And someone played a Beach Boys song On the jukebox It was "'California Dreamin'" So, we started screamin' "On such a winter's day"
I was not. In my mind, it was about the Monty Python Milkmen sketch: "The room was full of milkmen, some of whom were very old." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vy...
Nothing sounded like that song before, or after. A pure original.
If Trump were an actual Manchurian candidate, planted by China to destroy the U.S., how would any of his actions so far be at all different?
If Trump were an actual Manchurian candidate, planted by China to destroy the U.S., how would any of his actions so far be at all different?
Why call it Gulf of America when a cross-branding opportunity like 7-11 BIG GULF is right there for the taking
I asked him if there would be more parks jams, but he said that was really a pandemic thing. But he's still playing lots of places.
Tuesday nights at Blooms bar at Hotel Ulysses - www.instagram.com/p/DEyTHeFsRAF/
Landis Harry Larry new video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKS...
A fox barking at the world from the yard across the street.
Word. Time for a rewatch of at least the first three. And how did I not notice Pretend It's A City was a Scorsese joint? That was great.
There's energy assistance for those who qualify. dhs.maryland.gov/office-of-ho...
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
Or The Hated
Loving all the animal tracks in the backyard Snow.
