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Evan Ball retweeted
ok, euphoria isn't the most digestible thing i've ever heard. it's super duper dense, which can make it hard to listen to. i get that.
but my goodness, there are so many body punches in that. i mean OOF after OOF after OOF.
kendrick HATES that man.
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Mehdi’s style of confrontational interviews, in which he doesn’t let public figures get away with lies or half true talking points, turned him into a celebrated journalist in the UK before he moved here to try that out here.
His show’s cancellation is such a pathetic indictment of the U.S. media
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Separate to the injustice & illegality of it, there is a fundamental racism to suggesting Gazans just up & move to Egypt & other Arab countries. Folks, Arabs aren’t all the same. No one asked Northern Irish Catholics to just relocate to France because they’re all white Europeans.
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Governor @GavinNewsom's veto of #SB799 is a dismissal of the working people that have supported him. For 148 days, members of the WGA struck against companies who intended to drive writers into financial ruin. 1/2
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I guess it’s fine to not gratuitously dunk on a lawmaker when they die, but I also dont really get liberals’ impulse to aggressively deify a blue-state senator who helped Bush facilitate the Iraq War, opposed regulating big banks & scoffed at kids worried about climate apocalypse
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I am a statistician. I'm also a statistician with a good bullshit detector.
There is little variation in age by state. And to the extent there is, it doesn't argue in your favor. The four oldest states are West Virginia (very red), Florida (pretty red), Maine (pretty blue) and Vermont (very blue).
What are their COVID death rates (per 1M population) since Feb. 1, 2021 (i.e. post-vaccine?):
West Virginia: 3454
Florida: 2992
Maine: 1881
Vermont: 1210
These states all have the ~same elderly population, and yet there are huge variations in COVID death rates that line up 1:1 with partisan differences in vaccine uptake.
Children with large feet are better at math, but not after adjusting for age
Older people have >1000 time higher Covid mortality, and state average age differ by >10 years, so unadjusted state comparisons are misleading
@NateSilver538 may wish to consult a statistician
Evan Ball retweeted
I have said it before and I’ll say it again: the biggest divide in our politics today is not right v left but awful people vs not-awful people.
As @AdamSerwer might say, the cruelty here is the point:
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"Seventy-two percent of Americans are more sympathetic to the plight of television and film writers than that of television and film studios amid the strike, according to a @Gallup poll released Wednesday." #WGAstrike #1u #SagAftraStrike
Majority of Americans Support Writers, Actors Over Studios in Strikes, Gallup Poll Finds hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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California Treasurer Fiona Ma calls on Hollywood studios to end writers' and actors' strikes latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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"Every attempt the AMPTP has made to control the negotiations or the public narrative has backfired." #WGAstrike #WGAstrong
Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now it’s time to surrender, writes Mary McNamara in her latest column: lat.ms/45MT9PI
#amptp #wga #sagaftra
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'Thin skinned' duo Bob Iger & David Zaslav are reportedly 'stunned' they've been vilified for not giving the writers fair deals
(via @Deadline)
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Now that microbiologist Elon Musk has isolated the “woke mind virus” responsible for the “victim mentality” that makes Black on Black crime invisible to the negroid eye…
Can we focus on curing 400 yrs of white identity extremist domestic terrorism?
thegrio.com/2023/08/28/somet…
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News comes as the Writers Guild hits the 100-day mark of its strike thewrap.com/wga-to-meet-frid…
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Preparing Super Bowl Pregame? Take 90 minutes and stream/watch "Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL" for free. We made this movie for today of all days. Check it out! #BehindTheShield offers.mediaed.org/behind-th…
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The theoretical Fans who still hate Kaepernick and say he wasn't a winning QB probably shouldn't watch these highlights.
On this day in 2013, #49ers QB Colin Kaepernick runs for a playoff record 181 yards in dominating divisional round win over the #Packers 45-31.
Kaepernick throws 2 TDs and runs for 2 more in his playoff debut.
#Random49ers #FTTB @Kaepernick7
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