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"Overall, Kromkowski’s satire is incisive, leaning on irony and cultural nods to critique political figures and policies, delivered with a sharp edge that invites reflection rather than overt moralizing."
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John D Kromkowski
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@emzanotti I started boycott a month ago because they discontinued free senior drink. It's just now having an effect.
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@mattyglesias People are embarrassed that they make too little or make too much.
Histograms would help us.
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Why nobody can agree what "the working class" even is.
slowboring.com/p/the-futile-q…
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@mattyglesias Source Labor only and amount can't be high.
Stripping out investment & retirement income
US household Median Wages: ~$68,500
Symmetric value 50% Range:
$23,300 - $113,700
This is honest working class.
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@demansou @mnolangray @CohenSite You want to bring back the living over business. But you really don't want to work in that business or have you children work in that business.
I had great aunt and uncle who lived above the bar they ran in Hamtramck. They justifiable imagined something better for their children
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@JDKromkowski @mnolangray @CohenSite My family hasn’t lived in Detroit for 70 years. Several generations before me
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On the contrary, many North American cities are building missing middle housing at scale—whole neighborhoods of e.g. Edmonton/Houston/Nashville are turning into something between conventional single-family homes and midrise apartments; they're just typologies you all don't like!
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
We only do single family (A) and corridor buildings (B) at scale. We don't do middle housing at scale (C), and that's the problem. Because middle housing at scale is how you create very high density that is also very livable and works for people across the life cycle.
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@evanjconrad This is ridiculous assertion unless you are planning to couple this with a massive recession/depression.
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anyone want to help fund getting this exact billboard up on the highway in sf
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And if you take PSG out of Ligue 1, I could argue team for team MLS might be better
Matthew Doyle@MattDoyle76
The numbers are in, and by virtually every metric, @MLS was the sixth-best league at this World Cup – even if you remove Messi's appearances and minutes. Huge, measurable progress. Not bad! tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/the-final-numb…
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@emzanotti @Pd1000Patricia @bethanyshondark @CatherineProj I think is better than Hillsdale for Great books.
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@Pd1000Patricia @bethanyshondark I’m not crazy about the quality of Hillsdale courses. I realize that’s anathema, but there’s better out there. They do the Great Books quite well.
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I wish there was such a thing as college at 40. A chance to do it over, only this time we don’t take classes for credits and grades, but just to learn.
Maddie Rowley@Maddie_Rowley_
At 36, one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't pay as much attention to my undergraduate courses in 19th and 20th century literature and American lit. I was (and still am) really interested in ancient and medieval literature and while that's great, I think I would much better understand specific historical and literary references had I not skimmed, say, "The Brothers Karamazov." I did take a seminar on James Joyce and that was a doozy. I remember slogging through A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm trying to remedy this literary chasm of my own doing while chasing two young kids and working a full-time job. Last year I finished The Iliad and Gone With the Wind and I'm now listening to In Cold Blood on Audible and am reading The Count of Monte Cristo. It's a daunting task and I have lots of catching up to do, but it's a goal of mine to read the classics. Anyone else in a similar boat?
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@coolsuzieq @BillKristol Basically all they can do is ask: are you citizen and where were you born. Any detainment must be brief.
Officers can request (but generally not demand from citizens) identification. Other than basic inquiry you can stay silent.
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@JanuaryMovie @BillKristol Permanent checkpoint within 100 miles from border. Sct Court case from 1976 US v Martinez-Fuentes
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@BillKristol @tonyannett US v. Martinez-Fuerte (1976)
Wife & I resented checkpoint stop late '80s/early '90s driving El Paso to Carlsbad Caverns. "Where born?" Did you speak up then?
How about when Reagan INS detained step-gt-gran at Chi meatpack plant because Polish name?
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@Joeinblack Dennis Rodman learned from soccer players a generation earlier.
Getting kicked in shin and spiked in foot hurts!
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Does every soccer player take a course from LeBron James about how to dramatically flip around and cry foul?
Good Lord, man up.
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@nntaleb @JamesSurowiecki WordPerfect since DOS and Wang days and Google Docs.
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I really dislike subscriptions, which is why I know you can still buy a standalone copy of Microsoft Office.
Books Behind Borders@MHTruthUltra
You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?
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@sportsarecool5 @aaron_lubeck @mattyglesias Jerry Brown, Bob Kerry, Paul Tsongas, Douglas Wilder and even Tom Harken all would have won and the party would have been stronger.
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@aaron_lubeck @mattyglesias I think Karl Marx could’ve won in 92 with a 20% spoiler by Ross Perot
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Progressives are always saying that Democrats are constantly moving to the center but nobody can name an issue in which Democrats have moved right since 2016 to say nothing of 2006 or 1996.
This whole narrative is a generation out of date.
Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli
Dems will run to "the center" and punch their own left. Will it work? Hasn't yet. But try and try again.
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@aaron_lubeck @mattyglesias And lost us House.
Clinton and DLC was in no small part a leading cause of the destruction of my Party.
Obama tried to get the coalition back together but the Clintonistas stepped in to bring the destruction back.
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@mattyglesias Moderation worked in 1992, and ended a 24 year run of the party being lost in the wilderness.
A generation out of date? Sure.
No longer valid? Not so sure.
GIF
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@Akial1999 @BeSaintly You leaned that a Mass today? What a dope.
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@BeSaintly It'd weed out the lukewarms which is argubly better long term
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Just a question - would a homily on the dangers of hell and the fewness of the saved actually move modern man to repentance and stir up good works?
Matt Fradd@RealMattFradd
"When's the last time you heard a homily on Hell?" "I don't think I've ever, in all my life, heard a homily on Hell."
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@jasonc_nc Run for office, get elected and try it.
Report back on results.
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Step 1: mandate every city go back to the zoning and land use rules they had in place in 1930.
𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂@TXMCtrades
@micsolana And how do you propose lowering the cost of housing?
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@mattyglesias @aoxamaxoa You don't live in Michigan.
Sanders, Schumer, and you and every outside of Michigan should stay out of it. This is the proper take.
Localism is the path forward.
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@aoxamaxoa “Deserve” is a funny idea … I’d vote for the better candidate
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The asymmetry in the current factional battle is that Bernie & AOC are actually in Wisconsin supporting the candidate they prefer.
Tons of Dem electeds — almost certainly most of them — prefer Stevens, but nobody wants to put in the time or effort to do anything about it.
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For everyone raving about the Odyssey, two questions:
What age is it good for? And is it a must in the theatre?
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