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JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Ava Duvernay is responsible for Selma, so she’s clearly up to the topic, and she’s gonna get a lot of attention as she works on her new film. And every snippet of news about it is going to drive Lord Smallgloves even further out of his tiny mind.
 
Speaking of wilding, Robert Schooley has some quotes from The Madness of King George III…


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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    going to drive Lord Smallgloves even further out of his tiny mind.

    I think you mean, “drive Shitlord Smallgloves”. All 239lbs of him.

  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    That “arms crossed, petulant baby” look is a real winner for an American Pres…nope, can’t finish it.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    I know that A Wrinkle in Time didn’t get the same amount of attention as Black Panther, but I liked it for what it was — a really classic kids’ movie, not something that was gussied up for nostalgic adults. And most kids seemed to take it that way.

    There was a little too much Oprah, but Reese Witherspoon was great. “My gift to you is … your faults.”

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    On a lighter note, does anyone do small wood carvings? Like with 2 X 2 X 5 basswood and a carving knife and/or gouges?

  9. 9.

    Frances Perkins

    I collected a book from the Library today. It is called “Hitler in Los Angeles, How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America” and is written by University of California history professor, Steven J. Ross. Professor Ross starts his Prologue with this quote:

  10. 10.

    jharp

    I gotta be honest. Since the election I have not been able to stand hearing Trump’s voice or watching him on the T.V.

    And now just today, after seeing that photo of Trump leaning on his golf club, I now cannot stand the sight of that fucking asshole period.

  13. 13.

    germy

    New documentary: Hitler’s Hollywood
    http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/hitlers-hollywood/

    Narrated By Udo Kier. Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

    Hitler’s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, war films – and when the real war got tough, insanely lavish, over-the-top fantasies. The German volk were portrayed as happy and sporty with lives of exaggerated cheerfulness or, conversely, full of morbid yearning for a death that would serve the Fatherland.

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    @jharp: How about random clips of Trump saying 60 times how he would never leave the WH to play golf and who the hell would ever want to leave? Because he’d be too busy working for you…the common man. No time for vacations!

  16. 16.

    Ben Cisco

    @germy: Riiiiiight. Pull the other one, it’s got a bell tied to it.

    (Narrator: No, not really)

    Watching the Lost in Space reboot. Somebody should tell these screenwriters that they can do realism without turning every single character into a lava-spewing asshole.

  18. 18.

    Frances Perkins

    Continuation from 9 above “We will undermine the morale of the people of America…Once there is confusion and after we have succeeded in undermining the faith of the American people in their own government , a new group will take over; this will be the German-American group, and we will help them assume power. Adolf Hitler 1933”.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    Help! Something has disabled Adblock Plus on my browser! Every tab is full of ads! What do I do?

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    I know that A Wrinkle in Time didn’t get the same amount of attention as Black Panther, but I liked it for what it was — a really classic kids’ movie, not something that was gussied up for nostalgic adults. And most kids seemed to take it that way.

    I thought DuVernay’s next project was the DC New Gods adaptation.

    I didn’t see A Wrinkle in Time, but heard that it was like you said, a perfectly fine movie aimed at children.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: The only thing I can derive from your statement is that you have forgotten the lesson of 4/20. And possibly 9/11.

  24. 24.

    M. Bouffant

    @germy:

    Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

    Seems familiar, somehow …

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @M. Bouffant:

    There have been several books lately about Hollywood and the Nazis. Be sure to check Self-Styled Siren’s blog for reviews — there was one that made a big splash a few years ago that claimed that Jewish moguls were all working with Hitler, but it turned out that the writer didn’t actually know anything about Hollywood and made some really embarrassing errors. Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler is much more accurate, if less sensationalized.

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    @germy:

    President Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon that he will consider a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson after a call from actor Sylvester Stallone, who according to Trump explained the fighter’s “complex and controversial” life.

    This is so strange on so many levels. Apparently, Trump doesn’t know any prominent black people who could be advocates for Jack Johnson. And I doubt that Trump has even the smallest clue about the racism that was heaped on to Johnson for just being a black champion.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    @M. Bouffant:
    The stop sign is red, but nothing was blocked and I could not get to the options menu to block anything. I have downloaded Adblock again and now everything is fine..

  35. 35.

    MattF

    I’ve always thought of the Central Park Five as the Trump Reveal. Who’s behind the curtain? See for yourself.

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    Wasn’t Don King an early Trump supporter? Maybe he has some connection to the boxing world?

    I totally forgot about Don King, who is still a friend of Trump’s, and apparently defended him with respect to the Stormy Daniels affair, just a few weeks ago.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @M. Bouffant:
    No kidding. If it wasn’t for all the ads that are everywhere this world might not be all that bad a place. OK we have to get rid of the assholes. Then it would be a better place………

  38. 38.

    frosty

    @Corner Stone:

    does anyone do small wood carvings?

    A long, long time ago. I used an X-Acto knive with a curved blade and kept sharpenening it until I could shave the hair on my arm. Graduated to making ship models and carving the hulls, about 2 inches long. Which I proceeded to put into bottles. After awhile I started whittling the corks, too.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    @M. Bouffant:

    I know some Hollywood moguls weren’t too happy about films that might cut them off from the (pre-war) German market, but working w/ Hitler?

    People keep forgetting that early on, there was a lot of sentiment to downplay any danger that Hitler might represent, and to keep the US out of European political affairs because it supposedly had nothing to do with us. So, business as usual was okay.

    Also, I think there may have been a sense that Hollywood moguls had to prove that they were American by ignoring the antisemitism on the rise in Europe.

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @germy:
    If I had any say in this I would, for once, support a Trump pardon based on what Wikipedia has to say about Johnson’s Mann Act conviction. But the “Galveston Giant”, as he was nicknamed, died in 1946 so a pardon could only be symbolic. I suspect this was leaked as a distraction and/or to shore up Trump’s credibility as a non-racist.

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    Ava Duvernay is responsible for Selma, so she’s clearly up to the topic, and she’s gonna get a lot of attention as she works on her new film. And every snippet of news about it is going to drive Lord Smallgloves even further out of his tiny mind.

    This will probably be a hell of a film. It’s only fair if part of it rubs Trump’s nose in his despicable past statements. But it will also point a finger at a lot of other white people who were eager to rush to judgement in condemning the innocent men falsely accused.

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    We’re watching “The Post”, about how a paranoid criminal landed in the White House and decided the country didn’t need to have Freedom of the Press. Thank God that was so long ago, right?

  52. 52.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Mnemosyne: The was a short scene in the movie Inglorious Basterds, talked about the Nazis and cinema, I wonder if that factoid about Goebbels produced films was true. German Cinema pre Nazi era was considered good, with directors like F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang and Robert Wiene.

  53. 53.

    debbie

    @germy:

    Johnson should have been pardoned while he was alive. I can’t imagine what Stallone’s angle is. If it was actually genuine, why didn’t he ask years ago?

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    @Gin & Tonic:

    May contain material of interest to Amir Khalid, too.

    Great album, Miles Davis, Tribute to Jack Johnson.

    I don’t know if the question was ever resolved that the great guitar work here was John McLaughlin or Sonny Sharrock.

    A bit of a nod to Jimi Hendrix, perhaps, at 18:44.

    Killer drum work also.

  57. 57.

    germy

    @debbie:

    If it was actually genuine, why didn’t he ask years ago?

    Maybe he just got around to seeing the Ken Burns documentary on Johnson?

  60. 60.

    Procopius

    @Frances Perkins: Well, that’s pretty idiotic. Anybody who knows anything about America in the Great Depression and knows anything about Huey Long and Father Coughlin an the Communists and American Legion and the DuPont brothers and America First and the Deutsch-Amerikaner Bund would realize that it’s pointless to “cause division” in America or try to “undermine confidence in the government.” That’s one of the reasons I think claims of “Russian interference” in the election are overblown.

  61. 61.

    jl

    I guess the Trump ass needs to make an appearance in the film, but just enough to make the point.
    A lot of more interesting and sympathetic characters in the story than The Trump Hisself.

    I have to wonder whether Trump’s contempt for science began with the complete and for all practical purposes certain exoneration of the Central Park Five.
    The case presented an irreconcilable chasm for Trump between reality and his own racism and bigotry. And Trump’s racism and bigotry won.
    Maybe that drove him over the edge into being a straight up ignorant out-of-it weak minded old white bigot chump and fool. But, that would be another movie.

  62. 62.

    germy

    Comey says a stunning thing here. He doesn’t like the term “mass incarceration” because he thinks, in general, each case is fairly decided on its own. That someone of his stature can ignore the systemic issues of race in criminal justice and hawk a book on ethics is absurd. https://t.co/JhlXBw9tHl— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) April 20, 2018

  66. 66.

    lamh36

    ugh!!!

    Why is it so hard for me to buy luggage?!!!!!

    I’m in the market for new luggage for my many travels (lol…not really many…). I have my trusty carryon, but I’d like a larger suitcase, and I want to trade in my old two wheelcarryon for a spinner wheel set.

    Macy’s had a 48 hour sale that ends in like 5 hours. So this afternoon after work, I went to Macy’s to try to find me a nice set, I was there for at least 2 darn hours looking at the same damn sets…and STILL came away with NOTHING!!

    I don’t know why this is so hard!

  68. 68.

    Jay S

    @Amir Khalid: Yes, if Trump pardons Johnson, it will be to try and use it as a giant gotcha moment. It’s perfectly safe to pardon a dead black man, and he would get a bunch of press, much of it good.

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    My 7-year-old, as I’ve said here, LOVED A Wrinkle in Time.

    Also, Thirteenth is freaking amazing.

    I love the idea of an open casting call for Central Park 5. If they are able to cast unknowns, it’ll make it easier to really lose oneself in the movie.

    Fun fact about The Madness of King George III – when it was made into a film (from the original play), they renamed it The Madness of King George, out of concern that American audiences would assume they had missed The Madness of King George 1 and 2. It’s a good flick.

  71. 71.

    germy

    @Jay S: “Jack Johnson is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.”

  74. 74.

    Amir Khalid

    @Procopius:
    I wouldn’t say that the Third Reich caused these divisions in America. But I would say that it took advantage of them wherever it could — because there was a faction it agreed with, and because it encouraged isolationists and discouraged America from joining WWII on the Allied side. And it worked, too, until the Germans* bombed Pearl Habor. So one shouldn’t dismiss out of hand either the motives behind Russian interference in 21st century American politics or its effectiveness.

    *Okay, the Japanese.

  75. 75.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Brachiator: and @Amir Khalid:
    I think Trump has found he enjoys the risk-free minor power trip of issuing symbolic pardons. Pardon people loyal to him? Hell, no! But a white supremacist, a dead man, and some guy he thinks maybe worked for Reagan or something? Hand him a pen and a pre-typed document!

    @germy:
    Yeah, that Comey is a bigot has been creeping into view. No surprise he gives no shits about injustice to blacks.

  77. 77.

    Amir Khalid

    @Patricia Kayden:
    You know that, and I know that. But there are people who absolutely will not know that, no matter how many times they are told or how much proof they are shown: “La la la la, I can’t hear you …”

  78. 78.

    Corner Stone

    @frosty: and @A Ghost to Most
    Basically just looking for any personal opinion about tools that may be the most useful. I know opinions are everywhere on this, but beyond a straight knife (like a morakniv 120) and maybe a specific angle of v tool, curious about what somebody else may like. Hobbyists making small characters and animals, not for pro work just amusement.

  81. 81.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    @germy:

    It’s unkind to body snark but Trump’s belt appears to be making a beeline for his nipples—godspeed, you sassy striver!

    BTW, the dangled Jack Johnson pardon is clearly a scam to prove republicans don’t hate brown people—can we please not get suckered again? The only black folks the RWNJs are comfortable with are dead, preferably for decades.

  85. 85.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @germy:
    Apparently, G-Man Comey grew up on the films of the 1930s-the mid-20th century that cast the square-jawed FBI agents as the incorruptible do-gooders who always get the bad guy. That and Perry Mason.

  88. 88.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Corner Stone:
    You have to at least admire their persistence. Or is it stupidity? I know Porcupine has gotten chewed out before around here for that. They never learn and I don’t think Porcupine has any desire to learn.

  89. 89.

    Brachiator

    @lamh36:

    I’m in the market for new luggage for my many travels (lol…not really many…). I have my trusty carryon, but I’d like a larger suitcase, and I want to trade in my old two wheelcarryon for a spinner wheel set.

    You might take a look at the luggage recommendations at the Wirecutter.

  90. 90.

    lamh36

    @lamh36: ugh…finally settled on a new set of luggage. I got the sale at Macy’s right under the wire. A friend of mine has the same set and she likes them so I got the same brand just a different color. Blue is my fav color, but they didn’t have blue in this brand, so I settled for red.

    Good thing is I can pick it up tomorrow from Macys…and it is one of the ones I saw when I went in the store

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    @germy:

    Yep, that’s from the Thomas Doherty book I recommended above. There’s a different book that came out around the same time that made much more extensive — and bogus — claims of actual collaboration.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack

    @Amir Khalid:

    AdBlock did an automatic update in Chrome on my computer yesterday—which I didn’t expect and wasn’t crazy about, since I thought I had automatic updates turned off. I haven’t noticed any changes since then, but is it possible that something similar happened on your device? Maybe just check to make sure that Adblock is configured the way you want. Do an update first, of course.

  94. 94.

    hitchhiker

    @germy:

    He doesn’t like the term “mass incarceration” because he thinks, in general, each case is fairly decided on its own. That someone of his stature can ignore the systemic issues of race

    I’m not sure that’s a fair characterization of what he said. The context is, he’s in a long, private conversation with Obama. Comey has just delivered what he thinks is an important message about a glaring new pattern of young black men dying in some (but not all) cities. The pattern appeared post-Ferguson, and it sounds like he was trying to say in his speech that police are moving away from protecting the communities they’re supposed to be serving as a response to their perception that they (the cops) are getting trashed as racists.

    Obama asks for this meeting. They’re speaking frankly. Obama says that Comey has to be able to hear how Comey’s use of certain terms (weed and seed is the example) sound to black communities. Weed and seed means, basically, root out the “bad” black people and allow the “good” ones to flourish. Obama gets Comey to imagine hearing that language in the context of being part of a black community. White people are going to decide that some of my friends and family are weeds that need to go?

    And Comey responds by using the “mass incarceration” language as his own example for Obama — tells him that cops hear that phrase as an attack, as if they’re nothing but gestapo rounding up innocents by the train car load.

    I’m saying, Comey has a number of very gaping holes in his understanding of himself and how his decisions were grounded, imo. And he’s a white dude, so there’s an unavoidable measure of bigotry that just comes with that status, which he may or may not acknowledge.

    But I don’t think this is an example of how he fails to understand the flaming bias that has put so many black people into the system. They were talking about language failures. They were trying to teach each other how certain phrases make things worse.

  96. 96.

    Corner Stone

    Looks like someone needs to Adult Block out HGTV from Cole’s cable lineup. At least until Lily comes home, if not perm.

  97. 97.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @hitchhiker:

    And Comey responds by using the “mass incarceration” language as his own example for Obama — tells him that cops hear that phrase as an attack, as if they’re nothing but gestapo rounding up innocents by the train car load.

    But they are.

  98. 98.

    Anne Laurie

    @germy:

    (Barring outside pressure, I doubt this’ll go any farther than Trump swinging his big… thumbs on twitter.)

  99. 99.

    Emma

    @lamh36: Because you’re looking for the perfect bag. I did the same thing. Instead I bought a set of one mid-size carryon with wheels, one over the shoulder laptop-type bag, and one checkin bag. Mix and match according to need.

  101. 101.

    A Ghost to Most

    @Corner Stone: I mostly use a utility knife, and assorted x-acto blades. I have a set of small chisels as well, but they are crap.

    Japanese hand saws are the nuts for fine cuts, and cheap to boot.

  104. 104.

    West of the Rockies

    There was only one true rapist in the case, yes (Matias Reyes, who confessed and had matching DNA)?

    Did the victim eventually physically recover?

    Such an ugly episode for about 100 reasons.
    Violence, corruption, racism…

  105. 105.

    Jeffro

    @germy:

    Could [Greitens] have been the “competent trump” of the future we’ve worried about?

    That would be Ernst, Haley, Cotton, Bush P Jr Jr or whatever his name is, maybe even Don Jr. No wait, scratch Don Jr.

  106. 106.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Anne Laurie:
    That reminds me of Rocky 4. My Honors World History (& AP Gov) teacher in high school apparently liked that movie, robot and all, yet hated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Go figure.

  107. 107.

    lamh36

    If you have a twitter account, do yourselves a favor and check out the #LivingWhileBlack hashtag…It will open your eyes and you may hear some incidences you’d never believe, but that actually does happen.

    Some of them are so astounding that you’d think it’s made up, but many cases are so similar, you will realize they are not made up

    @Freeyourmindkid
    20 Apr
    Black people – Have you ever had the cops called on you for some innocuous reason? Let’s talk about it. Caption your response with the hashtag #LivingWhileBlack .
    https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/987490871548567552

    @Kearns_SL
    13h13 hours ago
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    Replying to @GoseDon @JoyAnnReid and 2 others
    Click on #LivingWhileBlack and read the accounts from real people. Don’t comment, just read. Sticking your head in the ground won’t help anything or anyone.

  108. 108.

    hitchhiker

    @Corner Stone:

    I was reacting to the evidence that Comey’s a bigot — if you read the story as he tells it, I don’t think that’s a fair conclusion, based on that story.

    I mean, the thing happened at all because he was making an effort to react to statistical evidence that something had changed for the very much worse for young black men in specific US cities, post Ferguson.

  110. 110.

    Brachiator

    Also, too, Lyrid meteor shower tonight

    Your best bet for seeing the action will come after the moon sets at around midnight local time. Find an area far from sources of light and buildings or other possible obstructions, lie face-up on a blanket or lawn chair with your feet facing east, and simply look up.

    The Lyrids aren’t as spectacular as the Perseids, which return each August. But with the first recorded sighting of the Lyrids going all the way back to 687 B.C., they’re the oldest known meteor shower.

    Skywatchers should expect an average display this time. Though the Lyrids have been known to produce up to 90 meteors per hour, this year most people should expect to see about 10 per hour.

  111. 111.

    lamh36

    @lamh36:

    @babyface_shane
    Apr 20
    More
    Bring my cat to the vet, an emergency, Pac Heights, SF. I’m distressed. Front desk person says they don’t take checks. I walk blocks to my bank (b4 ATMs everywhere) come back and watch her take checks from everyone else. #LivingWhileBlack

  112. 112.

    Anne Laurie

    @Procopius:

    That’s one of the reasons I think claims of “Russian interference” in the election are overblown.

    What the Germans perceived about America in the 1930s, or the Russians in the 2010s, is not necessarily how we see ourselves.

    There was quite a lot of discussion in American media, during the 1940s, about how the ‘superficial differences’ between American interest groups were exaggerated in the minds of the Germans — and Japanese — and even our erstwhile allies in Russia / Britian / France. Confronted by a genuine outside threat, “we” pulled together much more effectively than most outsiders (and quite a few Americans; you’re one of a long line) ever expected.

  113. 113.

    Corner Stone

    @hitchhiker:

    I mean, the thing happened at all because he was making an effort to react to statistical evidence that something had changed for the very much worse for young black men in specific US cities, post Ferguson.

    But isn’t that kind of Anand’s point? That the fact he could object to a term like “mass incarceration” post Ferguson details the level of cluelessness (at best) or outright neglect/disregard at minimum?
    He’s still being defensive, not really looking for pathways forward. Because, my goodness, if in 2012 and onward if you’re not sure what needed to be done then? I mean, when?

  114. 114.

    lamh36

    @MissTeneilD
    Follow Follow @MissTeneilD
    More
    Replying to @Freeyourmindkid
    Family friends had their daughter in daycare. Both parents in the military. Dad is white; Mom is light skinned and daughter is blonde and blue eyed. Dad usually drops her off but Mom came to get her one day. Daycare refuses to let her get her kid #LivingWhileBlack

    @MissTeneilD
    24h24 hours ago
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    Replying to @MissTeneilD @Freeyourmindkid
    She shows them ID and they all have the same last name. Still won’t her pick up her daughter until the daycare calls the husband so he can vouch for his wife. This is after they threaten to call the cops on her and she was in uniform. #LivingWhileBlack

  115. 115.

    jl

    @Anne Laurie: ” there’s a value right now in reminding some folks he has this power ”

    Madison and Hamilton both said corrupt pardons were grounds for impeachment and getting a skunk president’s ass kicked out of office.
    So, Trump will do what Trump will do. Just another thing to throw on the bill of impeachment (which will only happen if the GOP thinks it is the only way to save itself, and primary elections are far far out in the future).

  117. 117.

    eemom

    I’m so old I remember when AL posts regurgitated only one original source at a time, so at least you knew what they were about without having to scroll through 85 tweets. Ah, good times….

  118. 118.

    Anne Laurie

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Yeah, that Comey is a bigot has been creeping into view.

    I’m sure he would tell you that he “doesn’t see color” (or gender) in other people. It just so happens that, in his world, habitual offenders tend to be darker than a paper bag, and useless hysterical pushy strivers tend to be female. What’s a white man to do?!?

  122. 122.

    lamh36

    @midemac
    3h3 hours ago
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    Replying to @Freeyourmindkid
    I lost my keys on a street and went to look for it. I was searching on the ground near a row of cars. I was wearing dress pants, a dress shirt, and a tie! Someone called it in as a carjacker. 5 squad cars, gun to my head! #LivingWhileBlack

  123. 123.

    Anne Laurie

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Johnson died June 10, 1946. Stallone was born July 6.

    Oh, dear Murphy the Trickster God. Not gonna google, but given Mama Stallone’s public philosophical statements back in the 1980s, there’s a reasonable chance Sly thinks he’s the reincarnation of The Greatest, Most Misunderstood Boxer of the pre-Ali era.

  124. 124.

    lamh36

    @NikkiSuperwoman
    4h4 hours ago
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    Replying to @Freeyourmindkid
    While house hunting, I sent my husband to see a house in a established neighborhood. He stopped by the house on his way to work, 2:00pm, never exited his car. 5 minutes later he was stopped by police. The officer said a neighbor reported a “suspicious man” #LivingWhileBlack

  126. 126.

    West of the Rockies

    @lamh36:

    Low-grade, everyday diminishment, embellished with days of flat-out, sometimes deadly racism and diminishment. That is the lot of so, so many POC.

    As a cis white male, I perceive ever more clearly that whiteness (as a color) is American society’s default and that everyday entitlement exists. It is a subject of conversation more and more that I pursue with fellow whites.

  127. 127.

    efgoldman

    @eemom:

    I remember when AL posts regurgitated only one original source at a time,

    Meh. You’d just pick something else to bitch about.

  128. 128.

    lamh36

    @Mike504ever
    5h5 hours ago
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    #LivingWhileBlack After Katrina, the State Police rolled up on me, my parents and my family and demanded to see our I.D. because they were told by SOMEBODY that a group of black people pulled up to a two story house-IT WAS MY PARENT’S TWO FUCKIN’-STORY HOUSE. ?

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    Anne Laurie

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: I have to confess — I’ve never seen any of the Rocky movies, although the first one was so ubiquitous in its day (even without social media!) that I know most of the tropes & catch-phrases. Got dragged to the first three Indiana Jones movies, but IMO they descended from passable to obnoxious to areyoukidding me; even if the contemporary reviews hadn’t been absolutely terrible, I doubt I’ve have watched Crystal Skull!

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    lamh36

    @_brown_recluse_
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    I asked cops in suburban Illinois for directions once. When they told me how far away my destination was, I was disappointed but thanked them politely.

    The cops (both white) unclipped & reached for their guns & told me to watch my attitude. I was sixteen. #LivingWhileBlack

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    hitchhiker

    @Corner Stone:

    No, that’s exactly why it seems unfair to me. Comey wasn’t objecting to the term himself. He was explaining to Obama how it was perceived by the police, not how he, Comey, understood it.

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    lamh36

    @lowehavmercy
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    Once my cousin & I was riding on an elevator with this wht lady. We got off, but later realized he left his papers in an office @ the bank we were @. We then ended up getting back on the elevator with the same wht lady (how)? And she called the cops. #LivingWhileBlack

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    She said that we tried to steal her purse WTF. We were put in handcuffs and everything. Even though they realize that she was lying, they never reprimanded her or nothing. They just let us go. ??‍♂️ #LivingWhileBlack

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    lamh36

    @Jus_L_4_Short
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    Replying to @Freeyourmindkid
    at Howard friends n I were sitting outside on the stoop a few blocks from campus. Cops showed up saying they got a call about people breaking into a house. We had to show him a lease. #LivingWhileBlack

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    Yes. I walked from my job to a building next door to get lunch. When I came out a cop coming through the parking lot and asked for my ID. Says someone called saying a black guy was walking around spitting on cars. I was pissed!! #LivingWhileBlack

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    lamh36

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    #LivingWhileBlack with ex gf who is also black. We left a movie theater, got to my car an Audi. Just as we closed the doors, cops come up out of nowhere asked to see my ID, ins and reg. Give that to them, they started asking where I bought the car & what kind of work I do.

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    #LivingWhileBlack Leaving friends house, saw neighbor watching me.I got a call, so I sat in my car to take the call, police showed up, asking me ?’s. asked me to step out of my car. Friend came out told cops I was there guest & to leave me alone. They did, friend is white.

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    lamh36

    @CateCosburn
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    The worst part of the #livingwhileblack is you all know darn well there are even worse stories that we aren’t hearing.
    Because there is no internet access in jail and you cant tweet when you’re dead.

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    lamh36

    @cnnbrk
    Mitt Romney fails to secure the Utah GOP nomination, meaning he’ll have to compete in a primary as he seeks to replace retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch https://cnn.it/2HTeDAY

    9:07 PM – Apr 21, 2018

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    Sm*t Cl*de

    @Nicole:

    I love the idea of an open casting call for Central Park 5

    Wait, did I miss Central Park and Central Park II and III and IV?

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    Marcelo Teson

    @Frances Perkins: Steve Ross is a really fun guy, I took a class of his at USC when I was there. I enjoyed it very much and his book “Workers on the Edge” had a real impact on my worldview. #liberalindoctrination on an actual college campus!

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    Corner Stone

    @lamh36: Just in that schools, etc, have very specific demands made on them. Not excusing any bad/racist behavior but my ex can’t pick up our son early from school without me signing a form. And he’s old enough to say that’s his mom and he’s safe to go with her. Every person in the admin office knows me by sight, and they know my son, but I still have to show ID to check him out.
    Not saying that’s right, just saying it’s not always something evil.

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    Corner Stone

    @lamh36:

    Mitt Romney fails to secure the Utah GOP nomination, meaning he’ll have to compete in a primary

    Hopefully that gets nasty AF.

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    frosty

    @A Ghost to Most: @Corner Stone: From your comments, I’d have to characterize my stuff as whittling, not carving. By the time I figured out that a v-shaped carving blade would be better for carving out raised letters for the ship name in the base, I’d moved on to other things. Mostly work, since I’d finally gotten a job.

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    Uncle Ebeneezer

    If you love Ava Duverney you REALLY need to check out Queen Sugar. It’s one of the most visually stunning tv shows I have ever seen. Doesn’t hurt that most of the cast is absolutely gorgeous. But everything about it is pretty awesome. Great plot, twists, acting, score, and a wonderful look at the dynamics and complexity of a Southern, Black family.

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    Schlemazel

    @Corner Stone:
    I carve stone fetishes, mosty in soapstone and alabaster which are soft enough that the yield nicely to blades and files. I am not sure if wood would respond similarly but I find that small files allow me a lot more control and precision. I bought a set of 8 different shaped files at the local hardware store that work nicely. I use a Dremel and/or carving knives for the gross work but once the outline is complete it is almost all file work.

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    Steve in the ATL

    @M. Bouffant:

    I know some Hollywood moguls weren’t too happy about films that might cut them off from the (pre-war) German market, but working w/ Hitler? Sheesh.

    Even worse, Prescott Bush financed Hitler while we were at war with him

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    Citizen Alan

    @Mike in NC:

    The first one in my opinion was undeniably good. Unfortunately, after that, still undecided that it was better to be rich than respected, so he decided to be as derivative as possible instead of, you know, acting.

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    Matt

    @Brachiator:

    Of course he’s connected to the boxing world – it’s corrupt AF and has a major hub in NYC. It’s exactly his wavelength of ridiculous showmanship combined with brutal violence.

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    NorthLeft12

    @jharp:

    I gotta be honest. Since the election I have not been able to stand hearing Trump’s voice or watching him on the T.V.

    And now just today, after seeing that photo of Trump leaning on his golf club, I now cannot stand the sight of that fucking asshole period.

    Thank you for saving me the trouble of typing the above. I turn off the radio or TV the second I hear his whiny ass voice, and quickly pass by his oafish image.

    Please vote this miserable excuse for a human being out of office.

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