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@SenWarren What is needed is BANKS -- for their own good -- need to provide relief to all mortgagees so that no one needs to be evicted. Otherwise we are going to be looking at a GLUT of empty houses driving prices down and being bought by speculators who will create a price bubble & bust.

This is good news. The pandemic isn't over. Struggling families shouldn’t lose their homes because they’re still waiting for states to deliver their rental assistance from Congress. cnbc.com/2021/06/23/ren…

@WOT_Rick @SenWarren @SethGreen @WOT_Rick The CDC has explicit authority in their charter to prevent all contagion risks. Evicting renters would PUT OTHERS AT RISK OF BEING INFECTED if those renters tested positive but had no way to self-isolate due to eviction. Vaccine is not 100% effective.

@McDonalds What's the scoop? New McD policy or crazy local manager? There is a story in one of our local newspapers about one of our McD stores **forcing** customers to use the KIOSKS to order food (unless paying with cash). WTF?

@freedskeptic @JCrongeyer @GeorgeTakei Naahh ... just the 1950's in the Deep South.

If you are turned away at the polls because your name is not on the register, don’t walk away. Say this: I REQUEST A PROVISIONAL BALLOT AS REQUIRED BY LAW. Don’t let them steal your vote.

@FlakyFloridiot @rickthurman59 @cannibaldiet @Professing_Prof @GeorgeTakei That kind of question is usually based on party registration, not actual vote.

@CatRuncie @Tachyx @lafleurmtl @GeorgeTakei @mistressmatisse While the organization is semi-inactive, read the proposal by the Open Voting Consortium for a non-hackable open-source electronic "assisted" voting system ... touchscreen that generates paper ballots and the paper is what is counted.

@gmoomaw Carrico is also effectively saying he is okay with people being HELPLESSLY TORTURED FOR LIFE with needless pain! Many people have chronic medical NON-terminal conditions that cause excruciating and crippling pain without treatment. He is one disgusting cretin.

Sen. Bill Carrico’s response to argument people are dying without Medicaid expansion: “When your time’s up, you’re gonna die.”

@RottenInDenmark I wonder how many of those DC unpaid internships (for both parties) are in compliance with the labor laws ... smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-law…

@flagmannn @Youngaejy @SenJohnMcCain WOW! per OpenSecrets.org you are right: McCain got $2,500 from Soros' org. But Marco Rubio got $2,700 and Paul Ryan got $10,800 from the SAME source! Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, and other GOP got $ from that source as well. Shocking! :P opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.ph…

@Youngaejy @SenJohnMcCain last BIG money received in his campaign was from soros. Google soros contributions to mccain

I believe Gina Haspel is a patriot who loves our country & has devoted her professional life to its service & defense. However, her role in overseeing the use of torture is disturbing & her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying. mccain.senate.gov/public/index.c…

@robtwayneharvey @StackOverflow @JayHanlon Hi Robert. I went back and looked at it today and it looks like he got help after I tweeted the above, but the user who helped him then turned around and down-voted the question. WTF? Doesn't sound very "Welcoming" to me. BTW: the answer he "accepted" he wrote himself.

Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming. It's Time for That to Change. buff.ly/2HvS0Bj

@StackOverflow @JayHanlon FYI: I linked to this particular question because the poor slob asks for help and in response is simply given a laundry list of what he did wrong with nothing constructive offered.

@StackOverflow @JayHanlon In your blog article it states: "This post focuses on Stack Overflow, but most of it applies to the broader Stack Exchange network as well." ... Definitely needed across SE, case in point: math.stackexchange.com/questions/2746…

@awfulannouncing Obviously the (former/ex) copyeditor would have caught this if he still worked there. The question is did they also lay off the lawyer who will have to respond to the copyright violation lawsuit from the Philadelphia photog and Getty Images? gettyimages.com/license/771899…

The Denver Post slapped a big ol' picture of Citizens Bank Park (located in Philadelphia) on the front page of Coors Field visitors guide. Guess they laid off the person who would have caught that glaring error bit.ly/2qaFOiO

@MrStone_M @Deadspin Actually, it is "a democracy in a republic" according to a document approved by Congress on April 3, 1918 ... 100 years ago today.

@Deadspin The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media: theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-l…

@Maltaplication @Deadspin It isn't what they are doing, it is the scale of the thing and the mandated way they are doing it. Crafting PR to "fool" the media into sharing your story is one thing, crafting the media -- by force of contract -- to fool the people is something else entirely.

@IndivisNewRoc @Deadspin Currently about 200 stations covering 42% of the market, but soon they will own 72% (a near monopoly) if their efforts to buy more stations are not stopped by the FCC and/or FTC.

@tobyteeter @Deadspin If one of your coworkers told you he heard a rumor "The company is up for sale to a rich 9 year old kid," you'd probably ignore him. But if 30 of your coworkers all said exactly the same thing *word-for-word* you would give it a lot more credibility, even if it was total BS.

@Deadspin I’m confused. The right-slant of this company’s stations is known fact, but this message seems politically neutral to me. If Stephen Colbert started a show with that monologue I would assume he’s talking about the spread of untrue stories on social media from the alt right.

@tobyteeter @Deadspin It is called "groupthink" ... by broadcasting the *exact* same message all over the country they are creating a shared opinion that echos and echos and echos. Someone will talk to a friend in another city and say "I heard that too!" and never the truth.

@ryukidn @Deadspin If the Left control the media, then who is Sinclair with their 42% soon-to-be 72% of the market? Sorry, fact is that TV media is controlled by corporations who demand journalistic integrity takes a back seat to profits. They only care about Left vs Right if it increases $$$$

@Deadspin Parroting the narrative talking points is not new. It has been happening for a long time, but really became pervasive under Obama. It is dangerous that our media has been hijacked, but you are laying the blame in the wrong place. The Left controls the media narrative.

@peggysadams @Deadspin @Oooooo_Donna I guess it really is a simple question of "How loyal are you to your paycheck?" ... These news anchors obviously are more loyal to their paycheck than to journalistic integrity & ethics.