Good news everybody! The Union was approved for Duke Grad Students. I voted yes along with 88% of my colleagues. Personal life updates now as a grad student. I completed my comprehensive exams and my required class work last May. I’m filing the forms to establish my dissertation committee this week. I’ve gotten conceptual buy-in …
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Gravely Disappointed
Regarding Senator Sinema’s words, yesterday: I would muse on the…universality, if you will, of the toxic approach people like Senator Sinema take in all this. For it reminds me, again, of Dr. King’s words on this kind of person: I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the …
Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread
In my post, Subsole requested a post, really a weekly post, but this one will be weakly as it is post workout, so that people can list in comments the local and state organizations they are part of or know of that are doing counter-political and/or civic action to oppose the Republican attempts to revise …
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Whatever You Do Now, Don’t Turn Around
I think we know that no matter whether COVID-19 is a massive epidemic, or a nothingburger (in terms of US mortality), the Republicans will politicize it. The trade disruption will, somehow, be Democrats’ fault for opposing TPP, or whatever other stupid reason they cook up. The deaths will be due to Obamacare impinging upon the …
Election Year Open Thread: The Iowa Caucuses
(Jeff Danziger via GoComics.com) This is to say nothing of Bloomberg. He might get some Yang voters, though, all 3. Anyway people will actively avoid learning how the caucus works and Monday night will be a very confusing time — Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) January 30, 2020 This is no way to run a …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Really Absolutely Mundanely 2020, Now
Carol Burnett Award winner Ellen DeGeneres is joined by Carol Burnett herself to talk about why the #GoldenGlobes is the best party of the year. pic.twitter.com/vI9koEJ56Q — Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 6, 2020 Parties are over, back to the real-as-we-know-it world… I really wish the first four Dem primaries/caucuses (Iowa, NH, Nevada and SC) …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: DUMP TRUMP
Quite an image of Times Square tonight https://t.co/HUfVXGIWJO — Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) December 18, 2019 It’s the theme of the day! From the Washington Post: … Protesters in the dark of a snowy New England evening chanted “Dump Trump,” while those marching in the warmth of southern Florida brandished signs reading “Impeach Putin’s Puppet.” In …
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