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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16h

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.

A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 3h

And women/Black women seldom have the Chutzpah to make their very first try at public office a run for a crucial US Senate seat. This guy is running on no record, no experience, but then complaining that voters might look at his tattoos and social media posts for clues about who he is.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 3h

I do recommend Task, although it’s funny for me as a Swarthmore alum to see DelCo on screen as a land of down and out skinhead gangs.

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 3h

Say Nothing was great, and how did I not know the actor Stephen Rae had been married to a convicted IRA operative?

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t decide whether there are fewer good shows or just a lower percentage of good shows hidden amid the garbage.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 5h

Didn’t he represent a suburban district? Is he saying his home is NYC and NOT in the district he represented?

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 21h

A "Medicare For All and Restore Pitcher Wins" candidate -- what do I do?

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 22h

Trump did best with Gen X actually. If you want to do the generation thing.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

People may have specific interests that are age related: cost of college for 20-year-olds, quality of public schools for young parents, availability of social security for seniors. But they also have a ton of economic interests and community identities that cut across those concerns.

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

But I don't even think that is Dean's point, or the main point. It's just unhelpful to look at millions of people who happen to be born in a particular decade and act as though they are a cohesive political force, whether for good or ill.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly get stunned looks from people who just can't imagine someone who is not a Christian. We also start every public meeting and even Little League season with someone thanking Jesus. So I guess no one is calling me stupid but they are definitely telling me I don't belong in the public sphere.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

The "boomers had it made" view forgets the existence of a military draft/war, the persistence of racism and sexism diminishing career options for women and people of color more than is true today; the long stagflation of the 1970s. But key point: there are rich and poor in every generation!

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you don't live in the South? Also....Bill Maher???

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

You really want to go this divisive route? In every generation there are a diversity of lived experiences and ideologies. Trump is doing shockingly well with young voters.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

So let's not use them.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

They were waiting for us grandmas to take to the streets to get a backbone?

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Dean makes a great point about how the issue is class — lots of struggling boomers retired on nothing but social security benefits — and you go right back to fake age categories.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

“Zip ties? What are zip ties? Oh those things? I think they were in the back of the car. Or maybe the front. “ Since their requirements are so minimal how long would it take before they realize you aren’t actually that stupid?

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

I’m nearly 67 and walk with a cane and I could pass that test

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Shucks! But the sabotage part could still work…

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

There’s nothing better than a game 7, truly an out of body experience. I’m neutral on this game’s outcome but feel the vicarious adrenaline.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering whether we should indeed encourage folks to enroll, get the bonus, and then subtly sabotage from within.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

No, that's just creating a ton more expense. Repurpose it into a museum of anti-fascism.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

I realize the architectural integrity of the White House is not the main issue here, but are there no review panels charged with overseeing major demolition of this and other federal buildings? Can the next Speaker decide to install skylights in the Capitol Rotunda?

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

And his wife, under 50, was diagnosed and treated successfully for breast cancer. No doubt having health insurance meant she had regular checkups and mammograms which helped discover the cancer early and made her survival much more likely.

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