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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 9h

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

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 10h

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

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

So let's not use them.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 15h

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

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 15h

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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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Since my university has been big on pivoting to all online classes, I guess I'm not going to be doing much teaching for a while.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Mid-decade redistricting is terrible, and your longer-term ideas to get around "competitive gerrymandering" are interesting, but are you opposed to Dem states responding to red state redistricting with their own gerrymanders? (I do agree that some of these new lines will come back to bite the GOP).

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm I'm not sure about this I read that in 2024 each team got $60M from the national deal. Teams have individual local broadcast deals and don't share that revenue. Here's the latest I could find on the value of each team's local deal: www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/01/each...).

Each Team's Local Broadcasting Arrangement

With many regional sports networks in precarious positions, a number of teams have imposed payroll constraints this offseason to compensate …

www.mlbtraderumors.com

EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 2d

He'll wait until a week before next year's Nobel Peace Prize announcement to force Netanyahu into another no-teeth "deal."

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there are owners like in Miami, Pittsburgh, and the Chicago White Sox that should be drummed out of the league -- they don't spend and don't even pretend to field competitive clubs for years on end.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the Dodgers are exemplary.