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26 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Slow news day, please enjoy some late disco melodies
I've been going through old Billboard charts of top 50 R&B hits from the 70s and early 80s, and it's banger after banger
One thing they don't tell you as a suburban 90s kid is that Earth, Wind and Fire are not just "the September band," they're one of the greatest groups of all time. (They should have broken up earlier but nobody holds that against, like the Rolling Stones.)
One more before I return to deadlines

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21 Jul
Before there was the Ben & Jerry's intifada, there was Star-Spangled Ice Cream, a start-up that marketed "conservative" dessert to people offended by B&J's opposition to the Iraq War.

Website's down but here's a screenshot from 2003.
You really had to be alive in 2003 to understand this. (As a college student I supported the Iraq War, so I'm dunking on myself here.)
Tag yourself, I'm Donald Rum Raisin.
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17 Jul
The Ninamobile Image
David Crow, the van owner, initially designed it as “the Bernie van” (check the colors). Drove here from Seattle months ago to help out Turner.
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29 Jun
Seeing this get RT'd a lot, and most interesting part imo is the continuing evolution of atheist/free-thinker groups into anti-CRT groups. Like, check out the top- billed speakers at the first Mythinformed conference... then check out what they were doing pre-Trump.
Check out the Mythinformed page five, six years ago, and it's "Jesus isn't real," check it out now and it's nonstop videos about anti-racism/CRT etc. Same journey as Bill Maher
Oh, and the clip in question does seem very stupid, an academic saying that black people are "relational" thinkers and don't learn or tell stories the same as white people. I'm always more interested in the pipeline, why and how we all learn about these idiots.
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28 Jun
Among the signs at this @sunrisemvmt infrastructure action: BIDEN YOU COWARD FIGHT FOR US
We got drums
“It is this movement that delivered Joe Biden the presidency,” says first speaker.
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19 Jun
First up today at Faith & Freedom Coalition conference; John Solomon, Jena Ellis, and Hogan Gidley, talking about media/2020. Cheers when Solomon predicts that in Georgia, (GOP) state leaders will "take over Fulton County and say, we're going to run the elections going forward."
This panel accentuates how much "the media" is shorthand for "cable news." Solomon: "They talk to their friends, and that's it, it becomes an echo chamber." That's not an unfair description of cable chatter! But of the actual reporting going on?
Like, for example, Reid Epstein and Nick Corasaniti didnt' call up some green room experts for this story, they talked to local elected officials, who shared views like "Trump won."
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18 Jun
Watching Ron Johnson at Ralph Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition, struck by how much this sounds like what I heard from liberals for four years. "We focused all of our energy on winning the presidency, on winning senate races," ignoring county and school board races.
School boards have been full of conservative-vs-liberal action for decades; the idea that liberals took them all over while conservatives slept is a stretch.
Rep. Ann Wagner talks up both her Born Alive abortion bill, but applause was as loud or louder when she said she'd been to the border and Biden policies were "allowing thousands of women and children to be trafficked across the border and sold into slavery."
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