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9 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Layoffs at HuffPo are devastating. And part of the systematic gutting of journalism broadly and the pump and dump of VC-fueled digital journalism specifically.

Support media you care about. Journalism is a check on corruption and authoritarianism. We need more of it, not less
A healthy media ecosystem needs a broad array of types and sizes and locations of news orgs. Just a few big ones leads to huge gaps in coverage and massive blind spots. Also... do you think their staffers spring from the head of Zeus?

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9 Mar
Re Major Biden: Cabbage, my rescue pup, has "leash aggression." If he's on a leash, he feels the need to get up in every dog's face to show he's not afraid(?) and if not given that interaction, can bark and act like he'll attack (he will not). We tried and failed to train of him.
Cabbage is 16 pounds, and has never bitten a dog. (And loves all humans even when on leash.) He also seems triggered by huskies and shepherds.

Anyway, some rescue dogs can have their issues and good dog owners know when not to push their luck.
As a pug/pom/yorkie/mystery mix, Cabbage is also on high alert for noise when in the home.

If he didn't have these issues, he'd be 100% perfect. But then
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9 Mar
My son is named for the protagonist of this, perhaps the greatest single children’s book ever written (and illustrated by great Jules Feiffer). Via a mutual acquaintance, Juster sent him a signed copy, which we will treasure always. RIP.
A not good movie adaptation was made of the Phantom Tollbooth—Juster and Fieffer not involved, also one of Chuck Jones’ only failures—in 1970.

Somebody—genius required—should try again.
In my fantasy the person who would do a film adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth is Hayao Miyazaki
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8 Mar
Legit don’t know how someone who is dating a Royal (and who already knew other members of the family) doesn’t research what’s up with them.
Man CBS aid not shy about making its ad revenue on this
The Royal family is like the Star Wars franchise, just rerunning the same parable again and again and again
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4 Mar
Classic "this is every generation" story that is posited as "this is just a millennial thing" story washingtonpost.com/local/boomers-…
Never before in human history have
*things gone out of style
*things become less formal
*younger people don't have room for all their parents downsizing stuff
also according to tik tok millennials are very good at taking old "brown" furniture, applying a belt sander and new stain, paint*, hardware

*big debate over what should and shouldn't be painted
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3 Mar
"The Jim Crow filibuster" is the message Dems should be pounding on. Some are.
That's not spin. It's just fact. It's why it exists. It's how it's been most memorably used.
Anyway, this @AriBerman piece on the fight over #HR1, "the most significant democracy reform bill since the Voting Rights Act of 1965," one that will inevitably also be a debate over the Jim Crow filibuster, is essential reading: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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3 Mar
Gen X never tried to divvy itself up into various tranches to turn on each other.

whatever, nevermind
We've been taking care of ourselves since elementary school. No fucking gold stars. No pats on the head. We subsist on eyerolls alone.
When the nuclear winter comes we'll eat that damn irradiated candy bar, light a cigarette, and turn up the boom box. Fuck it.
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