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47/Amazing.

48/Dragon Con lives! Hope is not yet lost.

49/Now I feel guilty about that $40 I found on the ground and kept!

50/OK just one more "random person does nice thing" tweet

51/There are a ton of Americans out there working to save the world from climate change and provide abundant energy at the same time.

cleantechnica.com/2018/09/06/res…
52/Another example: sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/…
53/And American doctors are working long hours to help people heal from injuries that were previously untreatable: universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-spina…
54/Not to mention the people out there trying to cure drug addiction: theguardian.com/science/2018/s…
55/And neuroscientists making advancements in the study of depression: sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/…
56/These people in Los Angeles are offering to shelter homeless people in their own back yards: businessinsider.com/los-angeles-ho…

(gives a new meaning to the term "YIMBY", eh?)
57/I know people give Jeff Bezos a lot of crap, but contributing $2 billion to fighting homelessness and providing preschools for low-income kids seems like a big deal. A lot of the money will go to existing nonprofits. money.cnn.com/2018/09/13/tec…
58/And you know, I'm no fan of the Koch Brothers, but you have to give em a hand for this: wsj.com/articles/koch-…
59/Meanwhile, the DSA's brake light clinics are successful and expanding, providing a focus for local energy and organizing, and contact between DSA members and the wider community: theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orl…
60/The city of Santa Fe has a campaign to help immigrants become citizens: krqe.com/news/new-mexic…
61/Toledo apparently has a great program to help immigrants integrate: wtol.com/story/39108083…
62/And this woman has spent her whole life helping immigrants: cnn.com/2018/08/23/us/…
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One thing I think would help reduce elite Millennial burnout/disappointment/rage is for people to stop thinking that their job should save the world.

"Save the world" and "make the world a better place" are probably just things employers tell you to get you to work for cheap.
Maybe your job will give you meaning and purpose and a sense of doing good for the world.

Or maybe it'll just make you some money so you can raise some kids, have some pet rabbits, and be active in your local community.

There's more than one way to get meaning in life.
Also, people glorify saving the world when it probably just gives you PTSD.

We like watching Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and whatever, but we wouldn't want to actually fight Darth Vader or slog through Mordor. That would cause major burnout!
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1/Since Trump's demand for his Wall is in the headlines, I thought it would be a good time for a thread about a history book I just read:

"Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America", by Daniel Tichenor (2002)

amazon.com/Dividing-Lines…
2/The book starts out with a chapter or two of dense, unnecessary political science jargon, saying that - essentially - U.S. immigration policy tends to move very slowly, because powerful politicians and officials resist the tide of public opinion.
3/But most of the book is an extremely readable, eye-opening history of U.S. immigration policy, from the founding through the 1990s.

It shows how the immigration debates we're now having have been with us, in some form or another, for a very long time.
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Thread about why very high tax rates on very rich people don't raise much revenue (or reduce inequality much, even within the top tier).

Our system has a million loopholes. Closing them is more important than raising top rates.
That's not to say there's a trade-off between raising the top rate and closing loopholes! They are complements, not substitutes.

But if you just raise the top rate without closing loopholes, you'll likely be disappointed.
The fact is, raising effective taxes on the very rich will require a comprehensive sustained push on a large number of policy fronts. There is not going to be one silver bullet.
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Y’all this nigga yesterday tried to tell me that he doesn’t use the clit during sex. He didn’t know women could orgasm with the clit alone. I asked him what he does when his partner isn’t wet enough he said “spit”. I also asked if his partners are repeat customers and he said no.
I was like “man you’ve been having bad sex your whole life”
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u may have questions too.
i'll use this thread to clarify+debunk things i see circulating that are dead wrong.
i'll also provide some reading suggestions.
vamos+
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OK. So here's a wild story for you #onpoli folks involving one rather racist city councillor in Mississauga by the name of @carolynhparrish, some strange (and rather coincidental) behaviour by City staff, and Carolyn's election challenger being spiked as a candidate

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Nunes is really going to regret this half-baked attempt at covering his tracks re the “whistleblower” and Weiner laptop “sitting up in NY” in “late Sept” 2016. This isn’t hard -let’s start with the fact that the search warrant was issued on Sept 26, 2016. nypost.com/2018/05/17/sea…
Nunes: the House Intelligence Committee, we had that but we couldn’t do anything with it.

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Nunes: I think it was late September

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***FAIL***
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