This Is Fine

Tim Stone

3:25 AM

Rep. Ilhan Omar has won her primary despite centrists setting piles of cash on fire

Unionhawk

3:43 AM

and republicans!

Unionhawk

4:45 AM

@TimStone oh god I have been informed that this pile was ten million dollars big

Ave

6:09 AM

@Unionhawk the what

Nzall

@Unionhawk I can't find any evidence of this

Stormblessed

7:25 AM

@Nzall yeah seems to be over 3 million

minnpost.com/national/2020/07/…

July 17th. No way he raised 7 million in 3 weeks after getting 3 in a quarter.

Nzall

@Stormblessed oh, I misread this entirely. I thought it read "Ilhan Omar has won her primary despite setting piles of cash on fire" (didn't see the centrists in there)

Tim Stone

12:33 PM

lol Trump congratulating the QAnon candidate who won the Georgia runoff is just very normal and cool

Tim Stone

1:28 PM

Hrm, seems to have been a train derailment in the UK

BradC

‘This is no longer a debate’: Florida sheriff bans deputies, visitors from wearing masks

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> Woods, meanwhile, told his deputies on Tuesday to stop wearing masks in most cases. While officers can still mask up in areas including the courthouse and county jail, they must immediately take off the face coverings afterward. Deputies working special events are also forbidden from wearing masks, Woods said.

Frank

@BradC Like Florida's not bad enough with covid.

BradC

@Frank Yep. I mean, its one thing to not require masks (which I would also disagree with), but to ban them (and visitors to the Sheriff's office!!!) from wearing them, that's just crazy

MBraedley

@BradC Hey asshole, hows about you leave the science and medicine to the scientists and doctors. 'K? Thanks.

Frank

@BradC Banning it from visitors is a simple logic process: if these sheep are scared, they won't bother making complaints about blue overreach.

Unionhawk

1:54 PM

respectfully sheriff,

you're a landlocked county in florida

I think you're good on the visitors thing especially now

Tim Stone

2:15 PM

> Israel is the victim of an ongoing coup led by its out of control Deep State, and is in the final stages of becoming a non- democratic state, controlled by a pseudo-judicial oligarchy

lmao, strong "LET MY DAD DO CRIMES" energy

> Move aside @nytimes election needle, @FiveThirtyEight has an ELECTION SNAKE!

Living in hell is so much fun

Tim Stone

3:13 PM

> Outdoor school options are being explored as viable options as instructors struggle with ways to return kids to school amid coronavirus

I mean

Okay

But

Unionhawk

man it's going to be a long 3 months lol

Tim Stone

@TimStone the tl;dr on this video is that they're building outdoor shelters which addresses some but not most of the weather-related concerns

> @usairforce helicopter shot at from ground while flying over Virginia Monday, crew injured

> Kanye West met with Jared Kushner last weekend in CO, as West continues with an effort he has indicated is aimed to harm Biden

rubs temples furiously

MBraedley

@TimStone The fact that the teacher uses the word "fundraiser" tells you everything you need to know about education funding in the US.

BradC

‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air

> A research team at the University of Florida succeeded in isolating live virus from aerosols collected at a distance of seven to 16 feet from patients hospitalized with Covid-19 — farther than the six feet recommended in social distancing guidelines.

Nzall

3:31 PM

@TimStone At moments like these, I can only keep in mind the words of King Henry II of England

Yuuki

"Hello."

Nzall

@Yuuki Something about a turbulent member of the clergy. Sorry, it was a poorly thought out joke

it was a dumb joke that I shouldn't have made

MBraedley

3:51 PM

@TimStone There are so many frustrating things here completely separate from Covid-19. Like the same teacher stays with their class for 8 (eight!) years? Do you know how much extra work that is? Teachers generally have to create their own lesson plans, and they usually teach the same lesson plan for as long as they're teaching the same course/grade, only updating them as the curriculum changes.

Tim Stone

It sounds like this is probably some kind of private or charter school

MBraedley

Yeah, maybe, but still.

Tim Stone

Detroit Waldorf School

The Detroit Waldorf School is a private PreK-8 Waldorf school located at 2555 Burns, Detroit, Michigan in an Albert Kahn-designed school in the historic Indian Village neighborhood. In 2016, the building was designated a Michigan State Historic Site. The school is the only remaining private independent school in Detroit, and is one of the city's highest-rated schools, receiving five stars on GreatSchools.org. As of 2016, 240 students were enrolled in the school. == Building History == In 1878, Rev. James D. Liggett settled in Detroit and established a small, independent school for girls...

Ah, yeah, it is

Which doesn't make it any less weird

But also why they can be so weird, I guess

MBraedley

The technical term is apparently "looping", which if done for 3-4 years might be okay. However, there are so many problems with doing this for 8 years that the benefits cannot outweigh the problems.

Yuuki

4:07 PM

@MBraedley what on earth?

Unionhawk

Yeah we did this for high level math in high school

The honors math teachers rotate in this manner

Except AP Calculus which was always the same guy

MBraedley

Yeah, we had a pair of advanced math courses, pre-cal 10/11 and pre-cal 11/12 and then calculus, and the same teacher taught the pre-cal courses. But that (and the arts classes) was the exception. I had different teachers for each of my physics, bio, chem, and English classes.

Mad Scientist

@TimStone Waldorf schools are very weird

though I would have expected more something like full COVID denialism from them

Wipqozn

@TimStone wait, what

Nzall

4:36 PM

@Unionhawk @Wipqozn I hope my comment about Henry II wasn't out of line

Stormblessed

4:49 PM

@TimStone this is the guy who loves to scream about George Soros on Twitter

Stormblessed

5:05 PM

He literally facebooked this

twitter.com/EldadYaniv/status/906502989871022081

Which is just an edit of THIS

Nzall

@Stormblessed Didn't Facebook just make new rules on Jewish caricatures?

Stormblessed

@Nzall (this was like 3 years ago and he deleted it)

It’s really fucked up that the son of the most powerful Israeli man is trying to normalize this disgusting anti-semitism

Stormblessed

6:04 PM

twitter.com/theJackVaughan/status/1293608189976551424

High-quality Survey USA poll of Kansas out

Trump +7, Marshall +2

Very high approval for governor Kelly

Bollier has +13 approval (but a lot of no opinions)

Mad Scientist

7:50 PM

Frank

@MadScientist Does no one realize that opening schools now just means they get closed for even longer in just a short time?

"Hey, let's all go back to school! Have to get that learning in!" opens for a week, closes for a month

Mad Scientist

@Frank We have something like slightly above 1000 cases a day right now here in Germany, and I'm not sure we'll manage to reopen the schools as planned. Doing this with the number of cases like in the US seems to be sheer insanity

Frank

@MadScientist Doing it without being able to distance in the classroom is a problem, even.

I can see opening if there's incredible levels of enforcement.

And spraying down the lockers every five minutes with sanitizer.

Mad Scientist

If you get the cases low enough, you can probably do that. But that is extremely hard if you're not an island

@Frank that's pretty much useless as far as we know

Frank

8:06 PM

@MadScientist Mostly an observation of how teens are walking germ factories.

Yuuki

8:18 PM

@Frank If you think that that US governments (local, state, etc.) won't do their level best to inconvenience and stunt the growth of citizens in service to a cult of personality, then you should do some more research.

Frank

8:33 PM

@Yuuki The logic train is just mind-boggling.

Trump is killing the very people that support him. And kids are collateral damage.

Yuuki

Things make so much more sense when you assume that the primary motivation is hate.

Mad Scientist

@Yuuki Things make much more sense once you realize that it's not actually necessary for them to make any sense at all

ToxicFrog

8:51 PM

MadScientist: the thing is, they do make sense, it's just that the lens they make sense through is spite, not self-interest.

Nzall

@ToxicFrog oh lol, the characters around do and spite don't render on here. Just placeholder boxes

ToxicFrog

Asadlkfgjksdfdsf I think I've broken my relay again somehow, or maybe it was always broken

They're meant to be bold and italic markers

Stormblessed

9:33 PM

Markey up 15 in new poll!

51 - 36 - 13 other/unsure

Stormblessed

9:48 PM

word cloud of Kennedy impressions

Unionhawk

no more kennedys challenge 2020 let's go

especially no more kennedy the thirds

Stormblessed

I'm ok as long as they run in stuff that is really competitive. like if an alright one like him ran for governor that'd be good.

Unionhawk

I mean I suppose in my power rankings of Bad Democrats he ranks probably somewhere between John Hickenlooper (future secretary of the interior or whatever) and idk, uh

But that's mainly from a "you don't get to stand there and act like you support stuff while you are actively primarying Ed Markey" standpoint

Also I swear to god if I'm right about Hickenlooper interior I'm going to be mad

My alternate prediction is Energy

Oh god what golden parachute will jk3 get if he loses both primaries somehow

Stormblessed

@Unionhawk both primaries?

he's not running again in MA-04

Unionhawk

Stand corrected, you can only run in 1 so he is indeed not on the MA4 ballot

hmm only on Energy and Commerce recently, I don't think he's evil enough to be commerce secretary probably

So he'll probably just write a book or something

Tim Stone

11:25 PM

> A moment to behold. Q: What do you mean by an "invasion" in the suburbs if VP Joe Biden is elected President Trump: "They're going to destroy suburbia. And 30 percent of the people in suburbia are minorities. They say 35 percent, but I like to cut it lower."

Yuuki

11:38 PM

@TimStone "i like to cut it lower"

What does that even mean?

MBraedley

@Yuuki "I don't acknowledge reality"

Tim Stone

@Yuuki I guess @MBraedley has the charitable explanation because the other equally plausible explanation is not great!

Okay, the actual video suggests more or less the former, that for whatever reason he doesn't want to overstate what the percentage is so he intentionally lowballed it?

Which…okay…I guess

Except that it was a weird thing to even mention in the first place!

Wipqozn

Manitoba MP submits motion to convert CERB benefit to permanent basic income globalnews.ca/news/7268759/…

> “COVID-19 has demonstrated that we do have the resources. We must ensure all individuals in Canada can thrive in dignity and that means making investments to ensure basic human rights for all,” she said.

> Motion-46’s goal is to fill the gaps in income and inequalities that have been “worsened by the pandemic.”

Tim Stone

> COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS

> Timothy Ennis, the chief strategist for the UMass Amherst College Democrats, admitted in the chats that he was a “Neal Stan” and said he felt conflicted about involving the chapter of the College Democrats in a future attack on Morse. “But I need a job,” concluded Ennis. “Neal will give me an internship.”

> Also last fall, Ennis was driving through New Hampshire with Clare Sheedy, a fellow College Democrat, as both were campaigning for Pete Buttigieg. “He spoke very highly of Mr. Neal,” Sheedy told The Intercept. “What he said to me was he wanted Neal to be his ‘in’ to politics and work his way up from there.”

I mean it's no bread price fixing but that checks out

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