OtherworldlyInvader posted:

It's an attempt to reassure themselves and their white supporters that they're not racist, because racist is the worst thing you can call a white person.

Old James posted:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/sen...y-spending.html

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

By "reformed" you mean "expanded dramatically" right?

UBI or bust

Calibanibal posted:

Anybody who has watched one of those new employee videos would know what to do when one of your coworkers commits a war crime -

1. Talk to your coworker about it in private
2. Talk to your boss about it
3. Talk to your boss's boss about it
4. Talk to HR about it
5. Call the Department of Labor
6. Call the police
7. Leak to the press
8. Leak to wikileaks

Manning skipped straight to #7, half-assed that, and then moved on to #8

Boon posted:

I opened up CNN to see how they're handing the FCC regulation roll-back (it's a footnote) and saw instead "Al Franken's Deafening Silence" and though to myself "I bet this lovely click-bait article is Chis Cilliza.

I was not surprised.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095

The Irish and Italians "Became white" through a few different mechanisms -- partly wartime military service -- but also to a very large extent the fact that they weren't black. In America, you're either Underclass or Overclass, there's no inbetween.

Potato Salad posted:

Well, this is one way to purge Congress.

quote:

Scott's office on Friday provided documents indicating Everson worked in the congressman's office from September 2012 until the summer of 2013 in the first part of a two-year congressional internship. According to Dailey and the documents he provided, she was not fired but was moving on to the second part of her internship.

quote:

Everson's accusations against Scott are similar to accusations she made in a 2011 lawsuit after she was fired from Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General.

The lawsuit claimed Everson rebuffed a proposition by the office’s chief investigator and then was fired in November 2010 for misusing furlough days.

About a year later, Everson filed the lawsuit seeking $50,000 for damages for wrongful termination and defamation. Everson withdrew the suit in 2012 after the defendants moved to have the case dismissed.

quote:

Standing next to Everson on Friday was her lawyer, Jack Burkman, a Republican lobbyist and conservative radio talk-show host. Everson is employed by Burkman’s firm, according to federal disclosure documents. Burkman garnered media attention in 2014 when he announced that he was gathering support for a law to ban gay athletes from the NFL. No related bill ever surfaced in Congress.

On Everson's LinkedIn profile, she says she worked as a "Legislative Counsel/Legislative Fellow" from September 2012 to October 2013.

She also says she is a "Sexual Harassment Expert" and women's rights advocate and that in 2014, she founded a group aimed at ending workplace harassment.

Lightning Knight posted:

That actually looks pretty bad.

Lightning Knight posted:

Are you one of those people mad that Franken had to resign?

khy posted:

I don't want to accuse an innocent man of wrongdoing, but neither do I want to be the one to ignore the cries of a rape victim. What's my options here?

Condiv posted:

you would think 3 dems well to the left of manchin winning in oklahoma would make that p obvious, but people seem hellbent on sticking to the "centrism is the only way to win" narrative

Fluffdaddy posted:

"Progressive" "Centrist" "Leftist" are all names white people use to blame each other for poo poo while not doing anything about white supremacy, so don't drag the Civil Rights movement into your leftist pissing contests cause it aint got poo poo to do with yall

Ytlaya posted:

I think it might even be worse to be the sort of person who tries to forcibly insert "nuance" into issues where something actually is clearly wrong or harmful.

Grapplejack posted:

Chomskyan posted:

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/959499923346677762

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/959508990152642560

lmao I really hope this starts a leak war

InnercityGriot posted:

https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/the-reboot-of-the-elites

Not sure if this got posted but it’s good.

Willa Rogers posted:

Posner's a dangerous, powerful jerk.

icantfindaname posted:

The fact that Dem centrists say with a straight face that gun control, particularly gun control of vanilla semiauto AR15s is more politically feasible and popular than single payer healthcare remains insane

Koalas March posted:

INT. SOMETHINGAWFUL FORUMS LIBRARY - DAY

KOALAS MARCH grabs a dusty book. After thoroughly examining it, she blows the dust off in a large, swirling, expanding cloud.

She cautiously slides it open, and then traces her finger over one of the pages. She stops and pauses at a certain passage...

KOALAS MARCH
(reading)
Much like your posting.

quote:

“Are you committed to continue to grant programs that are identified, I believe, as the Japanese American Confinement Sites grants program which were funded in 2017? Will we see them funded again in 2018?” Hanabusa asked.

“Oh, konnichiwa,” Zinke replied, deploying a Japanese greeting typically used in midday.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I'll support replacing Pelosi when I hear a good plan for exactly who we're replacing her with.

It's fine to be lolrandom accellerationist burnitall or whatever but let's take a look at Steny Hoyer, her likely successor if removed

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1010280125961785344

oooooh ok yeah let's stick with Pelosi until you have a worthwhile replacement lined up

Office Pig posted:

https://twitter.com/SeanLavery/status/1050495062889680896

Thanatosian posted:

Ezra Klein did a great job of summarizing a lot of the systemic issues we're staring down the barrel of right now.

King of Solomon posted:

Details from the Ellison divorce records were reported in the media. No evidence of abuse from Keith, but apparently those records allege that he, himself, was a victim of physical abuse. They really should have kept those records sealed.

Office Pig posted:

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1053242480404189184

Main Paineframe posted:

I mean, sure, the electoral college isn't exactly a fair and equitable system where everyone gets an equal vote. But that doesn't mean Trump's win (and Dems' loss) is any less legitimate than every other president. Hell, it's at least definitely more legitimate than Bush v Gore, and liberals didn't declare Bush illegitimate and call for him to be impeached or otherwise removed.