@the_shoe_yes In my city they were required to live in certain neighborhoods. Giving loans to blacks to live outside those neighborhoods was a breach of the realty association's Code of Ethics.
Not in 1870. In the mid 20th century.
@the_shoe_yes In the 60s and 70s when those neighborhoods began to become economically vibrant, the city's response was to raze homes for other outside interests.
@the_shoe_yes In 1981 police officers collected dead possums and laid them at the door of a popular African American gathering place. The officers were initially fired, but after public rallies supporting them an arbitrator ruled to have them reinstated retroactively. washingtonpost.com/history/2020/1…
@the_shoe_yes I was already here for what is now known as the 'possum incident,' and it wasn't seen by non-blacks as racist - it was just guys having a goof. By the mid 90s, talk radio crowds still insisted it wasn't racist.
It's only been in the past 20 years or so everyone agrees it was.
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The State of Ohio just passed a law that will allow any medical provider, medical staffer/technician, or insurer to deny care to someone for being LGBTQ, either for religious grounds or if they just personally find non-straight people icky.
jfc
It should also be noted that this was not an issue that needed addressing. The medial community was not asking for this 'remedy.' Indeed, it's the opposite - they didn't want it.
I'm sorry, I know this all took place a million years ago in Twitter years so my memory may be somewhat faulty, but I remember exactly zero journalists or well-respected media figures saying Liz Cheney was going to magically sweep in and take over/transform the GOP.
Reading that piece, it's mainly journalists reporting that Cheney said she 'hoped to do X.' That's not "The Media" declaring Cheney the victor, and dude who wrote that piece 100% knows that.
"You may not remember, but take my word for it that last April The Media all declared that the Houston Rockets would win the NBA Finals, and it was I and I alone who bravely stood against them and shouted 'but they've already been mathematically eliminated.'"
Two nights ago I was having virtual drinks with a friend on Google chats. He told me his wife was spending a lot of time enjoying making miniature kits. I'd never heard of them, and my friend explained what they were, and I said they sounded cool.
2/ Not cool for me (not my thing), but cool his wife had a fun hobby.
Starting yesterday I get this ad at the top of my page every time I open Facebook. I've never gotten it before, or anything like it, but now FB is *really* pushing miniature kits.
Here's the thing:
3/ I've already set all of my FB settings to maximum privacy on both my laptop and my phone. In theory, when I'm not on FB I should be a black box to them - by law, I believe. But I'm very clearly not. It seems they have *some* method to listen in to my personal conversations.
1/ I decided to find out more about Parler, the new social media site that markets itself as a freespeech/open-to-all-political viewpoints, but somehow only seems so to do that marketing to pro-Trump conservatives.
So I joined & thought I'd give everyone a quick tour.
2/ First, let's start with the signup process. It's *very* easy. In fact, for security reasons, it might be too easy. When I had my Mac put in a long randomly generated password, the way I do for all sites. But Parler said it couldn't accept it because it was too simple.
3/ That seemed weird, and I tried generating a few similar passwords only to get rejected. Finally, I tried the numeral 1, the name of my cat, and a question mark. Accepted!
So this is interesting. If you've been on twitter over the past few days, you've probably seen this claim that the CDC has been spending its money lately on "transgender beauty pageants." Michelle Malkin covered it for RCP, and Laura Ingraham covers it here.
2/ Did the CDC spend its time this past 6 months holding high-end transgender beauty pageants while a pandemic was raging? Because is that's the case, it does sound pretty damning. So, again - what's the deal?
It turns out the deal is... less clear.
3/ The "source" for this claim is an audit by Tom Corburn, a United States Senator from Oklahoma, who died in March of this year.
No, it might seem suspicious that someone who just uncovered the CDC using funds to hold transgender beauty pageants died so soon after the audit.