Former McKinsey guy, former mayor of small town, brief and uninspired military career. Former transportation secretary in an administration that did not fix transportation. Extremely thin credentials and it shows. One of the few people who thinks they might be president with similar cred to Vance.

An ex post facto law?? Fun, fun.

IDK, I think even vacation bible school teachers have the freedoms to teach things without running it through Grok for approval. At least, I believe this must be true given some of the completely whack things vbs teachers taught me.

My family lives in industrial, NE Ohio— has for generations. People can’t buy houses. People in 20s and 30s with kids are living with parents. Parents are losing their houses and apartments and moving in with kids. Everywhere, the cost of housing has risen faster than wages. They don’t know.

It is not like he cares whether the people being murdered on the boats are actually smuggling drugs, so probably the intelligence doesn’t matter much.

That’s pretty much Hickenlooper’s political beliefs. I don’t think he was being strategic.

Good point. I would like to see him more clearly and publicly stand up for the things people want, but that likely would not have changed the fact that the right wing of the party was gonna cave.

I was a barista in grad school and it was hard work but so fun. I get to relive it each day making my dry caps exactly how I like them at home. You’ll get the hang of it. Hard to replicate making a couple of hundred drinks from 6-8am during morning rush as experience though.

I know it isn’t as high a proportion as in the past, but a lot of us limited our professional choices to careers in which we could be ethical. We aren’t going to just shrug and say oh well, I guess I’m a propaganda mouthpiece now for our faculty salaries.

Learning more about the various versions of Jubilee is one of my favorite takeaways from your book.

Everything going on at UNL is depressing and self-defeating. They are truly gutting a once-proud flagship.

We had similar rules to those at Best Buy and a department store I worked in in the 1990s. We were trained that it was to reduce shoplifting. They really did send secret shoppers around to make sure we did it. Still not going bad to Target.

Yes, potluck is the norm. But rich people aren’t normal.

I love Blacula. I used to watch it over and over as a kid.

As one who both drank and served a lot of coffee in the 90s, can confirm it was much cooler then. Why? Because I was cooler then.

There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.

Naw, DC (RIP) was not lawful and the lack of legal repercussions is a direct line to where we are now, although the line goes back a lot further and is not a partisan thing- I would trace it to Andrew Johnson.