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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will be getting together tonight. Stop by for a cold one and stay for the conversation.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us out on the rear deck starting about 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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  3. Massie is a nutcase, and a lame duck having lost his primary, but now he’s a nutcase our side can do some business with.

  6. Some things do need to be cancelled… that’s what impeachment is.

    You can’t say impeachment if your against cancel culture.

    Drumpf has been practicing cancel culture. The hypocrisy never ends with the evil mother fuckers. Don’t let the evil mother fuckers steam roll you.

  7. So presidential.

    TMZ
    @TMZ

    🗣️ Rep. AOC tells @hicharliecotton she is boycotting Ed Sheeran because she says he’s complicit in Robert Kraft and other stadium owners’ efforts to silence Macklemore.

    3:15 PM · Sep 15, 2026

    Her boycott is changing the station when an Ed Sheeran song comes on.

    I don’t think I’d recognize an Ed Sheeran song if I heard it.
    ·

  10. My income certainly increased.

    Politics & Policy
    Americans’ incomes rose and poverty fell in 2025, Census Bureau says

    Say, remember when Obama tried to move the Census Bureau from oversight by the Department of Commerce to oversight by Rahm Emanuel, which caused his Secretary of Commerce nominee to withdraw from consideration in protest?

    Those were some good times, eh?

  11. At least New York’s increasingly uneducated population will have fewer electoral votes with which to influence the presidential election beginning in 2032.

    Neetu Arnold
    @neetu_arnold

    🧵TODAY: New York has decided it will no longer require high schoolers to pass Regents exams to graduate

    Goes into effect for the Class of 2028

    6:18 PM · Sep 14, 2026

    Community disinterest in scholarship is how YLB’s kid got into “professional” school.

  12. YLB’s kid got into “professional” school.

    By scoring high on admissions testing.. volunteering and working at jobs that make an impression on applications.

    Ya know, the same kind of meritocratic stuff that asshole klownservaturds bloviate about while they take advantage of legacy admissions, tutoring, other kinds of edges granted by munee and white privilege.

    It will be rubbed into the troll’s nose in about 3 years from now.

  13. Americans’ incomes rose and poverty fell in 2025, Census Bureau says

    Oh? And in the same article..

    The Census data covers 2025 and doesn’t account for recent changes in inflation or other economic shifts since the Iran war started. But for the first year of Trump’s presidency, the data show the median American household’s income rose even after adjusting for inflation.

    i.e. the relevant news folks are focusing on for November..

    First year??? O that’s rich. i.e. the Biden economic miracle that the Economist wrote about the preceding October or November.

    Perhaps the troll can now masturbate over what the elmo shitler youth vandalism aka doge did for incomes.

  17. @13 Let’s not forget that, as of 2025, Trumpers are in charge of the census data. Use at your own risk.

  18. The cowardly GOP House leaders recessed Congress a day early so their members wouldn’t have to vote on Massie’s Hegseth impeachment.

    Meanwhile, some GOP senators think there’s $250 billion to $1 trillion of “wasteful spending” they can cut to pay for Trump’s Iran war and his request for a 50% defense spending increase.

    Looking at current federal spending, it appears they’re planning to renege on debt interest, which is about $1 trillion a year.

    That would do wonders for interest rates.

  19. I still LMFAO at the dumbfuck Nazi getting called out by Roger for his lies about holding Apple stock.

    Fake Apple stock and fake options trades.

    It all adds up to the dumbfuck Nazi being a dumbfuck Nazi loser.

  25. @11

    A thing adopted in 2001 and not considered by most universities is going away.

  27. How fucking stupid do you have to believe that you weren’t going Nowhere Fast?

    Proves failed medical students are dumbfucks.

  29. That’s racist.

    No, that’s the reality of getting into a professional school. He followed through and got in.

    But you’re not interested in reality – like the fact you’ve voted, in effect, twice for Jimmy Carter.

  31. Norfolk Southern bragging about getting freight back from trucks because of high diesel prices. I’ll believe it when locomotives mothballed due to PSR(that model hurt the locomotive builders, railroads needed more pre-PSR due to inefficient use,) are returned.
    https://www.trains.com/pro/freight/class-i/high-diesel-fuel-prices-continue-to-send-freight-to-rail-norfolk-southern-executives-say/

    This could be short lived, whether they get their merger or not. If Diesel prices drop, some of that traffic returns to trucks, and only LTL the railroads will carry is Coast to Coast LTL traffic that carriers may put on rail to avoid the trucks using too much diesel. LTL used to be LCL, or Less than Car Load, and while some LTL loads still rely on dozens from origin to destination, it was even more labor intensive with railroads.

    Electrification will still be off the table for Class Is. BNSF alone keeps raising the price goalposts, although $10 per gallon doesn’t seem far way now, that’s just one hurdle. The railroads still have to pay property tax on infrastructure, and while states could be proactive with exemptions, that is easier said than done.

  33. This is not nothing.

    Paramount
    L.A. and State Officials Say Studio Leaving California

    Ellison threatened to leave California if a settlement wasn’t reached by October 1st. Based on conversations in both the Mayor’s and Attorney General’s offices … it sounds like no deal is possible.

    All that digital imagery can be done from anywhere.

  34. @ 31

    LTL used to be LCL, or Less than Car Load, and while some LTL loads still rely on dozens from origin to destination, it was even more labor intensive with railroads.

    It was rather too heavy a lift for Yellow trucking.

  35. @ 13

    i.e. the relevant news folks are focusing on for November..

    YLB does not comprehend that the “relevant news” referred to is that real incomes are still rising in 2026.

    Unfortunate that intelligence tests are not required prior to parenthood. Unfortunate for YLB’s kids, at least.

  36. @33 So California won’t bow down to the Oracle decibillionaire? Won’t kiss his feet? Good. Everybody has sucked up to these leeches long enough. Let TexAss have all of them.

    Larry Ellison is a GOP megadonor. He gave $45 million to Trump in 2024. Tens of millions to other Republican causes. Yet he can’t afford California taxes? Bullshit.

  37. @35 And you don’t comprehend that voters aren’t focused on news, two-thirds of them don’t even read news, they’re focused on gas and grocery prices — and don’t like what they see.

    Keep deluding yourself that the GOP majorities are going to survive this election, if it makes you feel better. Some of your party leaders can barely walk or stay awake, while others are somewhat more successful (for the time being) at staying out of jail.

  40. All that digital imagery can be done from anywhere.

    Wow. A future of AI slop.. fine.. a profit can be made from digital schlock.. With Ellison betting the farm on a munee pit called AI, it’ll need every cent it can get.

    There are still astute artists like Nolan who’ll make millions by shooting epics..

    on FILM..

  41. @38

    An excellent example of why we need both age limits and term limits for members of the Houise, Senate and Supreme Court.

  42. Pantograph Pro, a real time transit vehicle statistics app I like to check from time to time has recently added a few new agencies feeds. Besides the last of tge operayors on the I-5 corridor between Olympia and the 49th not covered, Island Transit, a few of the Eastern Washington operators have been added, already had Spokane and Pullman, but has now added Ben Franklin, Yakima, and LINK. The latter is one I have been waiting for. On the By fuel stat, Electrics are beating diesel, latter relegated to mainly Wenatchee-Manson, and Wenatchee-Leavenworth. Leavenworth Local is covered by a Battery along with local routes radiating out of the Wenatchees’. Saw them pushing a battery on the Chelan-Manson route, but that block schedule was only two trips. Charging is done via inductive chargers at hubs in Wenatchee and East Wenatchee, and the transfer center in Leavenworth. Only problem is they are former BYD.

  45. Donnie:

    Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World – BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J.
    TRUMP

    Fed Chair Warsh

    Fuck off. You’re a moron and this is your fault for not knowing the first thing about economics you thrice bankrupt fuckstick. Your policies are bullshit. Fucking imbecile.

  46. Aside from owning the libs, Boob’s objective here is too see HA go down the drain. And you can see when he thinks he is winning or if he thinks he’s losing.

    I think he thinks that things aren’t going his way at the moment.

  47. 34)Especially the Roadway debacle. It’s a miracle they and Consolidated lasted as long as they did, post-deregulation. More I learned how trucking worked pre-deregulation, surprised those amount of control the ICC had passed constitutional muster. Needed ICC operating authority to operate across state lines and specific highways. Also, ICC quashed early pre-war intermodal efforts.

  48. Man, Mitch really must have taken a turn for the worse since Scott Jennings got him on the phone for 20 minutes.

  49. Let’s say you’re a non-union worker at Nissan making the 17 mile daily commute from Murfreesboro to the Smyrna plant.

    Surely you notice every gas station you passed today was up $.07 from yesterday. Which is $.14 more than a week ago. Which is $.40 more than a month ago. Which is $1.10 more than a year ago.

    Some of you are wondering why this Marsha Blackburn bitch is running for governor as an total failure in the Senate?

    Or are you blaming Joe Biden?

  52. @51 … the Trump Census Bureau says.

    You don’t really believe that, do you? I sure don’t, and I don’t think anyone else here does, either.

    How can you take away Medicaid and food stamps from millions of people, and have less poverty?

  53. @51

    Winning message to turn it around.

    GOD DAMNIT! WE DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE IN LINE AT THE FOODBANK SO YOU CAN GAS UP!

    YOU’RE NOT IN POVERTY

    essay question the Wharton school:

    What would be the expected effect on the poverty rate by anchoring it to a value in the past so as to not adjust to rapidly growing inflation in a time of slight wage growth?

  54. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday the Trump administration will temporarily increase how long gas and diesel truck drivers can drive, as fuel costs remain elevated amid the Iran war.

    Under the 90-day waiver from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), truck drivers hauling gasoline and diesel can drive for up to 16 hours within a 24-hour window — an increase from the 14-hour limit under normal conditions. The waiver took effect on Wednesday and expires on Dec. 16.

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6095013-trump-administration-gas-diesel-truck-drivers-hours/

    Window dressing at the expense of safety. Tell me how this lowers gas or diesel pump prices, or increases supply. It seems totally pointless to me, beyond a cheap PR stunt.

    Or is there a driver shortage because of shitty wages? If that’s the case, raise wages. Oh wait, that would cut into trucking firm profits, so can’t do that. Gotta make the drivers they have work longer hours.

    Never mind if a driver hauling a load of gasoline falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into a school bus. As long as he isn’t wearing a turban.

  55. @50

    Joseph Moore had wanted to be a police officer since he was a teenager. Last year, after a career marked by setbacks, he believed he had found a fresh start as a deportation officer with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. …

    Moore, a 38-year-old Marine reservist and father of two, died on 28 August 2026 outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office after the agency told him he would lose his job … from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

    The case … has drawn scrutiny to how ICE recruited tens of thousands of officers during a hiring surge last year, then began quietly dismissing some of them over background problems that former officials say should have been caught before anyone was sworn in.

    ICE told Moore in late August to report to its Philadelphia office to be dismissed, according to federal officials. He had fought to keep jobs in the past, but he went to the office as instructed.

    (From link @50)

    What this shows is ICE will hire literally anybody. If this guy wanted to be a cop since his teens, but was getting his first LE job at age 38, after a succession of job failures, and then ICE — after getting a better look at him — decided he wasn’t even up to their nonexistent standards and shouldn’t have been hired in the first place … well, like I said, it proves there’s no screening, no background checking, they’re hiring anybody who walks in the door. At least this dude exited ICE before he unalived some innocent citizen (as far as we know).

  56. The consequences of “drinking liberally”:

    @jasonrantz
    Jason Rantz on Seattle Red
    @jasonrantz

    A Democrat running for the Washington Legislature told police she drank wine, then asked to go home before taking a sobriety test. Exclusive body cam shows Krista Perez sobbing and praying in the back of a patrol car after her Tacoma DUI arrest. Watch the video.

    1:35 PM · Sep 16, 2026

    She’s being questioned outside the open door of her truck, which clearly shows the deployed air bag hanging limply over the steering wheel as if it was Roger Rabbit’s penis while he’s watching Mrs. Rabbit canoodling with her weekly BBC.

    Asked if she had been in an accident, she said she had not.

    Liberals lie even when stupidly drunk.

  57. Donald Trump might tear down the Kennedy Center. Meanwhile, Gallego muses that if he was president he’d demolish a newly constructed Trump ballroom.

  58. @ 55

    What this shows is ICE will hire literally anybody.

    I know, the hiring bar is set so low you’d think they were hiring public school teachers.

  59. @ 54

    Tell me how this lowers gas or diesel pump prices, or increases supply.

    Two ways:

    • Slower average speed over the same distance translates to higher MPG and lower fuel cost.

    • Greater distance traveled at the same speed might save a hotel night here and there, lowering trip cost and partly offseting higher fuel cost.

    You are quite welcome.

  60. @ 52

    How can you take away Medicaid and food stamps from millions of people, and have less poverty?

    You make them work more so that they will still qualify for those bennies, and in doing so they earn more and are no longer impoverished according to the government standard.

    They’re still receiving plenty from the government. See the federal budget deficit. See the Washington state budget deficit.

  61. Upon learning that the EU has extended Canada an invitation to join as an associate member nation, Donald Trump extends to Israel an invitation to become our 51st state.

    Which would obligate NATO to come to Israel’s defense.

  62. That was then:

    PA’s Shapiro Rejects Help From HHS After Measles Deaths

    InsideHealthPolicy.com
    https://insidehealthpolicy.com › daily-news › pa-s-shap…
    Aug 25, 2026 — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro doesn’t want help from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS after two measles-associated deaths were reported in the …

    This is now:

    Pennsylvania asks for CDC help on measles outbreak …

    Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com › world › pennsylvania-asks-c…
    2 hours ago — Pennsylvania health department says it was requesting emergency CDC assistance …

    A yarmulke and a clown nose worn together are not a good fashion statement, Josh.

  63. @62

    HHS, shit for brains Anti-Vaxxer, Heroin Junkee with no medical knowledge.

    CDC, Yale educated MD, Vaccine understander.

    So over here is a pile of rotting corpses and over here is a basket of apples.

    Compare and contrast.

  64. Hi. I have a stalker. He’s taming a forklift into me while screaming that I I don’t take his name he’s going to destroy me.

  65. @57

    That’s what happens to unpermitted structures but despite clear zoning and funding laws in the jurisdiction.

  68. @59 So, wait a minute, nothing in the waiver orders drivers to slow down. You made that up.

    As for your second claim that “saving a hotel night here and there” will lower trip costs and therefore pump prices, (a) interstate trucks have sleeper cabs so where is the hotel cost savings, (b) any such cost savings are negligible in relation to a tanker load of gas or diesel, and (c) you’re assuming the trucking company not the driver would realize any such savings, and would pass them on to fuel buyers, who would pass them on to retail buyers. You not only made this up, you pulled it out of your ass.

    It’s also worth noting the waiver makes no finding as such of “equivalent safety” but rather simply assumes sleepier drivers are just as safe. Two other notable features of this waiver are (a) it allows drivers to self-report that they’re too sleepy to drive, and (b) requires expedited reporting of crashes (does this mean the waiver anticipates crashes resulting from the policy change? sure looks like it).

    Your spew @59 is right up there with your Apple stock math.

  70. FWIW,

    Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed holds a slight lead over his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a new poll shows.

    The Hill/Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday found that El-Sayed garnered 48 percent support and Rogers received 46 percent, while 4 percent of respondents remained undecided and 2 percent chose another candidate in the race to succeed outgoing Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.).

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6093219-el-sayed-rogers-michigan-senate-poll/

    At the very least, this poll suggests El-Sayed isn’t a disaster candidate for the Dems; the best the GOP can hope for in this race is to maybe pull off a squeaker.

  71. That’ll leave a mark.

    Detroit News endorsement for U.S. Senator from Michigan
    The Editorial BoardThe Detroit News

    Mike Rogers is the prototype of a United States Senator.

    He spent 14 years in the House of Representatives, rising to chair of the vital Intelligence Committee. The 63-year-old Republican left Congress at the end of 2014, having been elected to his House seat seven times by his mid-Michigan constituents. Rogers then embarked on a successful career in private industry, becoming an expert in cybersecurity.

    He’s also served his country as an officer in the U. S. Army and as an FBI agent assigned to the organized crime division. He is mature, trustworthy and more than prepared to sit at the table with national and world leaders.

    Rogers’ experience, clear thinking, and temperament are bound to quickly vault him into the Senate’s leadership ranks should he prevail in the Nov. 3 election.

    By contrast, his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, has a thin career background that contains little to recommend him for one of the nation’s most powerful leadership jobs.
    …
    There is a bigger concern about El-Sayed: He has worked so hard covering his tracks leading up to this Senate race that it’s impossible to know who he really is or where he would stand in the Senate.
    …
    Mike Rogers is clearly the best choice for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat.

  72. @71

    LITERALLY GONNA LEAVE A MARK!

    The Detroit News.

    It has never endorsed a Democratic candidate for president, and has only failed to endorse a Republican presidential candidate six times: twice during the Franklin D. Roosevelt era; in 2004, when it did not endorse George W. Bush for re-election; in 2016, when it endorsed Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson rather than Republican nominee Donald Trump and in 2020 and 2024, when it continued to withhold its endorsement from Trump and did not endorse a candidate

    The desperation is palpable.

  73. Your spew @59 is right up there with your Apple stock math.

    Too funny. If he was successful at anything he wouldn’t have to lie about everything.

    In every way a loser.

  74. There is a bigger concern about El-Sayed: He has worked so hard covering his tracks leading up to this Senate race that it’s impossible to know who he really is or where he would stand in the Senate.

    Couldn’t AIPAC just ask Mossad?

  75. @60 You make them work more so that they will still qualify for those bennies, and in doing so they earn more and are no longer impoverished according to the government standard.

    Oh look, the dumbfuck troll wants children, elderly, and disabled people to “earn more [so they] are no longer impoverished.”

    Several entries report that households containing these vulnerable groups account for around 79% of SNAP households and 83–86% of SNAP benefits, a depiction that frames SNAP primarily as a program serving minors, seniors, and people with disabilities rather than predominantly able-bodied working adults. These figures come from USDA and NGO analyses

    https://factually.co/fact-checks/health/snap-recipients-children-elderly-disabled-working-age-stats-b14df4

    Clearly, the troll has no dumbfucking clue who benefits from social safety net programs are. (Clue: the most vulnerable members of society.)

    As for the other 31%, ie. work-capable adults, many of them are already employed. And as I’ve said before, programs like Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, and child care assistance subsidize the labor costs of low-wage employers. They can work for the Republican Minimum Wage™ only because the government is providing half their subsistence. If that goes away, these workers will demand pay increases to bridge the gap between their earned income and basic needs, and if employers don’t pay up those workers will go away, because they can’t live on half of minimum subsistence. This isn’t a question of poverty, it’s a question of survival.

    The troll is really covering himself in dumbfuckery today.

  76. Republicans are Social Darwinists. However, instead of stuffing babies, disabled, and old people into gas vans, they prefer to just let these useless mouths to feed slowly starve to death. If they can work them to death in no-wage or low-wage labor, even better!

    Stalin is smiling at Doctor Dumbfuck from his grave.

  77. We already have gulags in this country. We call them immigrant detention centers. Sometimes their sponsors bestow colorful names on them, e.g. “Alligator Alcatraz.”

  78. @61 In exchange, Gaza and West Bank should become the 52nd and 53rd states. NATO not needed; our military, under new management, will be capable of defending them, including from their fellow “Americans.”

    I can play this game too, Squint Eyes.

  79. @62 They must be pretty fucking desperate, because I can’t imagine what “help” they can expect to get from Squeaky Voice or what’s left of the CDC. That’s the kind of government “help” Reagan was talking about (and helped make happen, back in the day).

  80. @71 Rogers has a respectable biography, hasn’t raped any children that we know about, and not having held office since 2015 is free of overt MAGA baggage in the form of congressional votes. However, his policy positions on abortion, immigration, tariffs, gas prices (“we have plenty of oil”), Medicare drug prices, Israel, and LGBQT rights — in a word, the guy is hard-right and a Zionist — will drive many swing voters away from him.

  81. I should also point out that Rogers lost a Senate race in Michigan in 2024, when Trump won the state and the GOP wasn’t nearly as unpopular as it is now.

  82. What? The Fed rose interest rates? To combat inflation?

    rapist orangemanflation touches everyone..

    Just in time for November!

  83. Trump’s environmental vandalism continues.

    Killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would not be considered illegal unless the animals were specifically targeted, under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act by President Donald Trump’s administration that marks a sea change in how the landmark environmental law is enforced.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-endangered-species-legal-killing_n_6aac86f1e4b00c07b745c582?origin=home-latest-news-unit

    I expect this will be challenged in court. Prosecutors have wide discretion whether to charge, but interpreting statutes is the bailiwick of the courts.

  84. @59 So, wait a minute, nothing in the waiver orders drivers to slow down. You made that up

    From what I hear, truckers are going to go on strike on October 1st. They won’t be using any gas.

  85. If he was successful at anything he wouldn’t have to lie about everything.

    if he wasn’t such dumbfuck he wouldn’t be wrong about everything, and he wouldn’t have failed to be a real doctor.

    Yes, In every way a loser.

  87. Today is the 239th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, according to The Kucinich Report.

    (It’s also our Air Force’s 79th birthday.)

  88. Today is the 239th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, according to The Kucinich Report.

    And probably will be the last or second to last or maybe the 3rd to last while it is still alive and well. Then they’ll talk more about the anniversary of its death.

  89. @88: Not if we finally break the Democrat/Republican stranglehold on the House of Representatives, Senate and White House .

    There are political parties other than Republican or Democrat in existence in the US: Libertarian, Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party of the USA, Constitution Party, Reform Party, etc. Any of those would be better than what we have now.

  90. A VERMONT federal court looked at DOJ’s lawsuit to seize all voter data including personal identification and said, “Ew.”

    That makes Donnie and Co 0-24 in these suits. They’re in ‘fire the manager in April’ territory.

  91. Farmers are always looking for your sympathy, after all if it weren’t for them we’d all starve,

    But their food isn’t going to get to you without my delivery.

    The farmers roadside farm stand isn’t going to get them that new boat either.

  92. So fun things from the Pedophile Party trying to seem normal.

    A known right wing activist in Minnesota has taken to standing along Governor Waltz’s jogging route and shouting. “Hope (his 20 something daughter) likes to take it in the ass!’

    Tell us again how even though he hasn’t accomplished Jack shit except start a crypto coin ‘the radical left’ should leave Baron alone.

  93. @89 You think communists would be better? Really? The first thing they do is take away all your freedoms. Just ask the folks in Hong Kong.

  96. So you left the house this morning to head to your job as assistant to the National Manager for Thr toilet paper division of Koch Industries in Wichita. KS.

    Perhaps you noticed the many gas stations you passed is $4.08 (avg) regular unleaded which is five cents more than yesterday. Which is Twenty-One cents more than last week. Which is One dollar and eighteen cents more than last year in September.

    Kansas Senate, Emerson 9/17, D +2, MOE 3.6

    Pick Up

  97. Racist white woman takes down honorable black woman.

    News | University
    Tufts students react to the departure of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora professor after allegations of academic dishonesty
    Kerri K. Greenidge no longer works at Tufts following an investigation into her most recent book, alleging factual errors and misattributions.

    The book, which received initial praise and several awards, describes the life and activism of an abolitionist family across the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. However, Greenidge faced increasing scrutiny in 2024 when Myra C. Glenn, a retired professor of American history at Elmira College, decided to investigate Greenidge’s sources. Her investigation, fueled by doubts about several of Greenidge’s references and citations, found several factual errors and missing attributions.

    According to a statement from Patrick Collins, executive director of media relations at Tufts, the university was made aware of allegations that Greenidge’s work “contained multiple errors of fact and failed to give appropriate credit to the work of another” in 2022. The university then began a peer review process led by external academics, who concluded that there were issues with the evidence and citations listed in the book and reported their findings to W.W. Norton, the publisher of “The Grimkes.”

    W.W. Norton has since removed “The Grimkes” from its website.

    Sometimes the race card – like love – just ain’t enough:

    Greenidge herself argued that her race was the reason for the increased visibility of this incident, which has been reported on by the Times and the New York Post as well as discussed by opinion sections in the Boston Globe and several blogs.

  98. As the polls start to turn against you the BEST way to turn it around is to start talking about the real issues like Vivek Ramaswamy did advocating for work requirements for Medicaid and Social security.

    You know the retirement seniors have been working for all their lives. Maybe not give it to them unless they work up to death.

    Give a rich tech bro a microphone and he’ll hit himself hard in the dick with it.

  101. Many people voted for Trump in 2024 to lower the prices of eggs and gas. I’ll skip gas for now, and focus on eggs.

    The first question to ask is, how did eggs get so expensive in the first place? Avian flu is blamed, but that’s not the whole story. There was illegal collusion and price fixing by big egg producers.

    And when Trump got back in office, he let these criminals off the hook.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGa7YNNC1R0

  103. The good news about the midterms is the Republicans will lose, big time!

    The bad news is that the Democrats will win.

    A total house-cleaning is in order.

  105. @ 101

    Many people voted for Trump in 2024 to lower the prices of eggs and gas.

    Far more voted for Trump in 2024 because he wasn’t the incompetent Boxcheck Momala.

  106. The good news about the midterms is the Republicans will lose, big time!

    You are so delusional to think there will be an election. Put some glasses on.

  107. he wasn’t the incompetent Boxcheck Momala.

    Looked pretty competent here..

    Didja forget? Why didn’t the story read the other way?

    media klownspiracy incoming in 5.. 4. 3.. 2..

    Oh scratch that.. it’ll just repeat “boxcheck” a few dozen more times..

  108. @105 he wasn’t the incompetent Boxcheck Momala

    Dumbfucks like you voted for an incompetent and corrupt warmonger instead.

  110. @109 We can’t say the same of you, because you can’t see as far as the end of your own nose.

  113. Tuesday nights at Roanoke Park Place is a solid pick — that back room has enough space to actually hear each other talk, which is more than most Drinking Liberally chapters manage. Curious whether the group still draws a crowd during the off-year lull or if it’s mostly the same regulars holding down the corner table. https://www.bazi-lab.com/

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