Lex Luthor
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Lex Luthor
@Lexisaurus
Probably not an evil genius. Or a dinosaur.
Joined Temmuz 2011
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If you like the Parthenon, then you'll love ancient Greek architecture.
World Scholar@WorldScholar_
If you like the Parthenon, then you'll love ancient Greek architecture. 2,500 years ago, it produced some of the greatest wonders the world has ever seen. Here are the best ones.. 🧵 1. Temple of Concordia, Sicily, Italy (430 BC)
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@LeahFeiger @AShihipar @JakeLahut I hope @MichiganLEO is paying attention. These workers deserve restitution.
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NEW: Black canvassers Elon Musk’s America PAC were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were then fired after WIRED reported on their plight—without full pay or a way back home.
scoop from @JakeLahut:
wired.com/story/canvasse…
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@ElusiveRural Open carry at schools is so baffling as an advocacy tactic— they really have no idea how much this kind of stunt pushes regular people, even other gun owners, to oppose them. mlive.com/news/ann-arbor…
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A friend texted me asking whether I plan to send my kids to school on Nov 6.
She’s essentially worried the MAGA’s are going to lose their shit if their guy loses & things may not be safe.
I hadn’t considered that I guess.
Is anybody else thinking or worried about this?
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@AlexPorrett @jonathanoosting So start a ballot initiative and persuade enough Michiganders to your side to amend the constitution
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@Lexisaurus @jonathanoosting No no I understand that. Non-citizens can cast votes in our elections as long as they have a student ID and maybe we'll catch sometime later after the votes are counted.
My vote meant the same as a Chinese citizen this year. It's wrong. Period.
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Washtenaw County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum addressee noncitizen voter charges on Reddit:
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@AlexPorrett @jonathanoosting It’s also how they catch people who not only registered in two states (not really illegal) but voted twice (very illegal). That happens more frequently than non-citizen voting and it’s often rich Republicans who register at their vacation homes.
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@AlexPorrett @jonathanoosting MI constitution says voters can register same day and student ID is valid. Secret ballot means votes once cast are anonymous. But after registration, the QVF is regularly compared to federal and cross-state databases. This is how rare noncitizen voters get caught and prosecuted.
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Lex Luthor retweeted
"Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths, resulting in direct savings of $540 billion and societal savings of $2.7 trillion."
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick — in charge of helping staff the gov if he wins — says he had a 2.5 hour meeting with RFK Jr. who talked about pulling (safe and proven) vaccines from the market. Lutnick says RFK will not be in charge of HHS, despite what RFK said.
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@doctorow Fittingly, it appears There is Death in the Pot is bound in green book cloth that likely contains substantial amounts of arsenic.
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“There is Death in the Pot” — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-t… publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/765853831…
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Lex Luthor retweeted
VP Harris's proposal to add an at-home care benefit to Medicare hit home for this Gen Xer. Making it happen won't be easy. But she opened up a long overdue conversation on an issue that affects so many. My latest @opinion (gift link):
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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@JakeLahut @WIRED If these workers were misclassified as contractors when actually they are temp employees, anyone with knowledge of it could report it to MI UIA at 1-855-484-2636. Employees have rights under wage/hour and MIOSHA safety rules. michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-ag…
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SCOOP: Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
Paid canvassers in Michigan were hauled into a U-Haul van with no rear seating, threatened with money being withheld for their motel rooms & more @WIRED
wired.com/story/elon-mus…
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@anthropolitburo Andean norms of reciprocity and complementarity have long been used to mask and justify hierarchy. The Inka were great at it— passing off mit’a as ayni. Romantics are fooled because they don’t look at what’s happening in practice.
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There are lots of idealistic articles out there talking about Aymara gender complementarity (chachawarmi) and how it manifests in women also serving in leadership roles etc. Yet if you go to enough community meetings you'll notice that the women almost never get to speak.
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@PanickedFoodie If you are on Social Security disability for 2 years you qualify for Medicare regardless of age (and often for Medicaid too). People with end stage kidney disease or ALS also qualify for Medicare before age 65. But it still wouldn’t cover everyone who needs home help.
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What about all of the other younger disabled people who aren't on Medicare (or Medicaid, if it's covered by that, not sure)?
I could've def used a home health aide.
I've had many providers ask me why I don't have one.
My response? Can't afford it.
But, par for
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@HC_Richardson
Harris’s game changing proposal to allow Medicare to pay for at home heath aides for the elderly received almost no media coverage.
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@SawyerBlatz @TheOnion More from @TheOnion on the 2000 election. These jokes only worked because Americans thought of election violence as something that happens in other places. onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-ca…
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@SawyerBlatz This is not how it was a generation ago. Elections were considered so routine that when Bush/Gore results were first unavailable, @TheOnion joked that there was chaos in the streets and people thought it was funny because the idea was so absurd theonion.com/nation-plunges…
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@sentientsixp @EmCohen_ The OP is about children under age 2, most of whom have not been vaccinated previously vaccinated for covid.
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@2Beardz @michael_hoerger It is very hard to find a provider for covid vaccines for kids under 5. Even harder for toddlers and infants. You could try this crowd-sourced child covid vaccine provider spreadsheet. bit.ly/2024-kid-data
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Only 1 in 500 eligible children <2 years old are up to date on Covid vaccines in the U.S. (Oct 12, 2024).
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