David L Molner
30 posts
I see an American business has got rid of its PR team
because 'it was creating problems that didn't exist'
The chief executive added 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'
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@RedWavePress It's 67 black members of Congress - 62 in the House and 5 in the Senate. 8 are from majority white districts that I could count. Haven't found a definitive source on the white majority district data point.
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TRUTH NUKE: Scott Jennings “Well, it's an interesting proposition you raised that [minorities are] not represented [in Congress]. There are 58 members of the House who are black. It's a record, actually. A majority are actually elected from plurality white districts. We're still a racist in America. You've got white people electing African Americans to Congress in record numbers.”
“The issue is racism. It is inherently racist to draw lines and divide people up by race. I mean, the definition of it would be we're going to divide ourselves up by race and say only a black congressman can represent black people, only a Hispanic congressman can represent Hispanic people. That is patently illegal under U.S. law.”
“It also makes no sense when you consider that we're all Americans and we can vote for whoever we want. And often, according to the statistics, we do.”
Nailed it!
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Here's an idea: make primary results dependent on a minimum level of turnout. 51% of the prior cycles turnout for that party? Fail to reach it and you start over.
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@oelma__ The renter tells me the rear rotor can roar, but he's relying on radar.
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@jk_rowling Years ago HBO ran a segment at the end of a show whose name I've forgotten. It was called "Sniglets" - words that don't exist, but should. One of my favorites was their term for the mysterious ether that single socks disappear to from the dryer: the "hozone". #sniglet
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Yesterday my son pulled a box of new socks out of his stocking and said ‘ah, this is great because I’m down to only two matching pairs.’ I had no idea we failed to teach him that socks can be purchased by the prospective wearer themselves.
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@shaunmmaguire At the time of the shooting, Joseph Oduro, a teaching assistant, was leading a study session in economics.
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The shooting at Brown happened in Rachel Friedberg's classroom
She's a Teaching Professor of Economics and a Faculty Associate in the Program in Judaic Studies
She was a professor in Israel for four years
I wonder what the motive was?
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@bennyjohnson Those things might be worth doing, but the math doesn't come close to eliminating the deficit.
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I’m convinced we could pay off our entire national debt by doing 3 simple things:
1. Ban all non-citizens from welfare programs
2. Strict, enforceable work requirement for EBT/SNAP/Section 8
3. Mass prosecute welfare fraud with federal prison time for stealing from taxpayers
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@MattWalshBlog Tough to script the part about the initial suspect...
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I am leaning very strongly towards the theory that this text exchange was scripted as a way to absolve the boyfriend. It’s almost exactly what Walter White did at the end of Breaking Bad. This feels like a strategy they cooked up from watching too much TV.
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
Released text messages between Robinson and his roomate. "Remember how I was engraving bullets?" he says: the roomate knew.
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@BillAckman @andrewcuomo @ericadamsfornyc @ZohranKMamdani Why do taxpayers leverage candidates funds 8:1, with rollover rights? That's a huge part of the problem and surely you understand the lure of cheap debt.
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The NYC mayoral election is a slow-moving, soon-to-be-accelerating train wreck. With @andrewcuomo and @ericadamsfornyc both still in the race and apparently planning to stay in the race until the end, @ZohranKMamdani is a near certain winner.
Mayor Adams or Cuomo can win the election, but not if it is a three- or four-way race.
The only path to victory is for one of them to step aside and it needs to happen soon. If Adams and Cuomo truly care about our great city, they should sit down and work it out, and they need to do it now.
Socialism will be the death knell for NYC. That will be both Andrew’s and Eric’s legacy if they put their self interest and egos above what is best for the city.
NYC will look very kindly on the candidate that steps aside and helps the other win to save the city. That will be a very important part of their legacy. In the alternative, they will both be responsible for a socialist takeover of the city, the lives lost from the increase in crime, the economic destruction and unemployment, and the inspiration a Mamdani win will inspire for Socialist candidates around the country.
This is a really important election for the future of the city and the country. On the path Eric, Andrew and we are on, we are handing NYC to Mamdani.
Wake up New York City!
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@AGPamBondi in addition to the $400mm in federal grafts to Columbia that were suspended, consider suspending their issue l use of the @columbia.edu domain name, the use of which is overseen by your friends at @CommerceGov. Worth a chat with @howardlutnick ?
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@SymbionPower @elonmusk They should meet with you to hear how money was wasted when you were there. Hard to imagine the same games aren't still being played in various countries.
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We are a US company and in 2010 our CEO testified at a public congressional hearing to sound an alarm about fiscal waste occurring on #USAID supported infrastructure projects in Afghanistan including the diesel fuel operated #TarakhilPowerPlant.
We were engaged to work on #Tarakhil by a US prime contractor. The plant should have cost approximately $130m USD - instead, it ballooned to more than $335m USD! and has hardly ever operated. Additionally, fuel was rumored to be imported from Iran by the Afghans.
Although the congressional committee was shocked by our CEO’s insights, absolutely nothing changed and USG waste continued unabated. @realDonaldTrump @DOGE @Gavin_Kliger @mtgreenee @ScottJenningsKY
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@smerconish your hope v fear question today needs a further qualifier, doesn't it? Depends on whether you've made up your mind or are still an undecided voter at this point.
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@JacobsYechiel Are you consciously doing a Maniscolco imitation or am I imagining it?
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@usopen someone tell the McEnroe brothers that it's pronounced "TEE-a-foe".
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