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Memorial Day Links!
The worst part of my late thirties is the terrible recognition that somewhere deep down I *do* take pride in a mowed lawn.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 28, 2017
* This weekend I got a chance to read an advance copy of Iain M. Banks, from the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series. It’s great! Highly recommended for fans of the Culture or of space opera more generally. Alfred Bester, which I also read this weekend, was great too!
* Anyway, who’s ready to be a walking blood-bag for an immortal tech lich?
* What Will Kill Neoliberalism? My money is on the managerial class one but with cash-for-sterilization and euthanasia payouts for the poors.
* 50 años de Cien años de soledad.
* Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared!
* In the United States, the Trump Organization took Mr. Davies’s coat of arms for its own, making one small adjustment — replacing the word “Integritas,” Latin for integrity, with “Trump.”
The best ones, of course, are the ones they don’t have to change at all. pic.twitter.com/WXz747czMm
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 28, 2017
* What Mr. Trump got was a pair of lawsuits: one filed by Ms. Nwanguma and the other by one of Candidate Trump’s most fervent young admirers among the white nationalist movement, Mr. Heimbach.
* This country is officially a global laughing stock. Or worse.
* That third bill, the “Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act,” which appeared in a tweeted photo of White House strategist Steve Bannon’s policy agenda, would see immigration violations traditionally treated as civil infractions transformed into criminal violations, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Speaking before judiciary committee members Thursday, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the provision would “turn millions of Americans into criminals overnight.” Nadler added that the legislation was “straight out of the Donald Trump mass deportation playbook.”
* I’m Cory Booker, for #TheResistance.
* How low do you have to sink to lose an election in this country? Republicans have been trying to answer that question for years. But they’ve been unable to find out, because Democrats somehow keep failing to beat them.
HRC PEOPLE: No more white guys!
BERNIE PEOPLE: No, power to the working man!
ZUCKERBERG: Would you accept literally the worst solution— Sady Doyle (@sadydoyle) May 29, 2017
* Sheriff’s Clarke Definitely Real Medals. Washington Post breaks down Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.’s pins, to Clarke’s ire.
* “Solar power delivers cheapest unsubsidised electricity ever, anywhere, by any technology.”
* The night before the University of California Board of Regents voted to raise student tuition to help cash-strapped campuses, they threw themselves a party at the luxury Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco and billed the university. The tab for the Jan. 25 banquet: $17,600 for 65 people, or $270 a head.
but the "kernel of truth" to all anti-academic, anti-humanist tirades is that knowledge should be free & scholarship should serve the public
— traxus4420 (@traxus4420) May 29, 2017
* In the richest country in human history.
* Three trillion and counting.
* “11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida.”
* Threads thinking about slavery, history, and ethical reasoning from @zunguzungu and @BigMeanInternet.
* It looks like Trump somehow managed to ruin even Fargo.
* Science fiction, the future that failed. I would buy this self-help book. The law, in its majestic equality. When you’re sad. Social media is ruining everything. White people, no! Shades of Satan!
* *This* is how you issue a heartfelt and meaningful apology.
* And Nintendo says I may, someday, have a Switch.
Happy Memorial Day, destroy all memorials to the confederacy!
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) May 29, 2017
I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2015
Written by gerrycanavan
May 29, 2017 at 12:51 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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