It's nice to be nice
Some Book, Twitter Only, U.S.A
Joined January 2010
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“I've got this planet in my hands
You know I'll waste it if I can
Come on let's give it a twist
And if it all turns to shit
Oh wait, let's try that again.”
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ASIAN AND BLACK COMMUNITY COOKOUT
A first-ever event in San Francisco helped unite two communities that have experienced division and tension, especially during the pandemic. @KPIXtv @AsiansAreStrong
… & if Elmu gets bored:
“… it’s easy to imagine him walking away, leaving the banks to figure out what to do with Twitter. But that’s the risk you take when you lend mercurial billionaires piles of money: Your bottom line comes to depend on their ever-changing moods.”
“Twitter’s financial performance is not the biggest thing the banks have to worry about,” writes @JamesSurowiecki. “The biggest risk is that Musk gets bored with his new toy and decides that managing a town square is too much of a hassle”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Can you believe it? These NY state farm workers were harvesting cabbages last week for 8 hours on a day that temps ranged between 28°-40°. They earn $10 a one ton bin. They say the rate hasn't gone up for more than 5 years. #WeFeedYou
“Joyful and triumphant revelers can roam from county to county to take part in the season's fealty, buy one-of-a-kind Christmas crafts, enjoy the Hanukkah Festival of Lights, or celebrate Kwanzaa. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, though most events listed are free.”
Many Bay Area cities and towns have free events for the whole family this holiday season. 🎄 nbcbay.com/EnXdwuM
Kimmel: “Unless he’s also secretly the chupacabra, what’s left to hide?”
Tell it, Ghislaine!
Jimmy Kimmel Says Seized Trump Photos Show ‘He’s Even Weirder Than We Thought’ dlvr.it/SdD80c
“I think three times in that conversation [w/an LDS leader], he said: ‘Well, we just need to find you a good girl. Maybe you can find a good girl,’” Archuleta recalled. “And I’m like: ‘That’s not the solution.’”
The "American Idol" alum spoke to "Good Morning America" about his decision to step back from the Mormon church once he began to live as his true self. huffpost.com/entry/david-arc…
“Consider what happened to Slack: It had its market arguably far more to itself than Zoom does, yet it still struggled to compete as Microsoft bundled Teams into Office.”
Why Zoom could get pushed off screen trib.al/jQVYfCx
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WATCH: @EmilieIkedaNBC shares the latest updates on the deadly overnight club shooting in Colorado. #SundayShow
“… a high proportion of the 219 candidates Trump endorsed for Senate, House and gubernatorial races did not even appear to have an account on Truth Social, let alone post actively, with 68 percent appearing not to have opened an account.”
Donald Trump's Truth Social app is barely used by any of the political candidates endorsed by him, @jembartholomew finds cjr.org/investigation/trump-…
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BREAKING: In a historic win, Oregon votes to becomes the first state in history to make healthcare a constitutional right, giving ALL Oregonians a right to “cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable healthcare.” RT IF YOU THINK THAT YOUR STATE SHOULD DO THE SAME!
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Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
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The University of Pennsylvania considers Musk to be a graduate of both the economics department and the physics department.
"Elon Musk earned a B.A. in physics and a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees were awarded on May 19, 1997." -Penn, 2019
snopes.com/fact-check/mus…
Trump: “I will immediately demand voter ID, same-day voting, and only paper ballots ... .”
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"... DeSantis noted that he had aggressively pushed his supporters to cast their ballots before Election Day in Florida, resulting in him 'kill[ing] the Democrats' in early voting."
DeSantis draws contrast with Trump as party hunts for 2024 alternative dlvr.it/SctqSF
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"So how can this be resolved? I suggest adding another rap category or two. Those categories should be Best Alternative Rap Album and/or Best Underground Rap Album."
"Top executives overseeing product, security and ad sales have resigned. And the reductions of the contract work force included the dismissals of people working on content moderation and child safety issues."
Breaking News: Elon Musk has given Twitter employees a deadline of 5 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday to decide whether they want to continue working for him or leave the company. nyti.ms/3TIjdoS
“‘Please go vote,’ she said in one [2016 election video]. ‘Go vote. If you don’t do anything else — if you have to crawl — go to the poll and vote.’”
Virginia McLaurin, who was born in the Jim Crow South and took a star turn when she danced with the Obamas at 100, died. She did not have a birth certificate, but said she was 113.
"I thought I would never live to get in the White House," she said in 2016.nyti.ms/3E49tzq
ALT Virginia McLaurin in Washington, D.C., in 2016, the year she visited the Obamas at the White House. She is smiling, holding a cane and wearing a bright green blazer. Text reads: Virginia McLaurin, sharecroppers' daughter who danced with the Obamas, dies. Photo by Kate Patterson for The Washington Post, via Getty Images.
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“‘Ms. Flack plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits,’ the statement said. ‘Her fortitude and joyful embrace of music that lifted her from modest circumstances to the international spotlight remain vibrant and inspired.’”
Roberta Flack, the singer whose smash hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” made her among the most recognizable voices of the 1970s, has been diagnosed with ALS and can no longer sing, her publicist said in a statement. nyti.ms/3X5V3Y4
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BREAKING: Sen. Ted Cruz melts down over the Republican midterm disaster, says that he’s “so pissed off” he “cannot even see straight” and there are “almost no words to describe” his “rage.” RT IF YOU’RE THRILLED THAT HE’S A MAD LOSER!
I liked @BowenYang in the role of the ditsy dude.
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A teacher in Austin Texas calmly expressed his white supremacist ideology to Black students in his class.
This is the reason why we need reparations and an anti-Black racism hate crime bill
#Rally4Reparations
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@warriors just in case you didn’t hear FTX went under yesterday. Please remove FTX from the court at chase center they don’t deserve to be on our home court. Thank you 🙏🏾