The text of the resolution is now available.
Highlights from Ryan Goodman:
Looks like it covers the bases, from what Goodman says.
Another open thread!
This post is in: NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up
The text of the resolution is now available.
Highlights from Ryan Goodman:
Looks like it covers the bases, from what Goodman says.
Another open thread!
by Adam L Silverman| 43 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
Figured it made more sense to post this rather than update the earlier one:
UPDATE: Jesse was just found at a local Hospital! Thank you to everyone who shared to bring visibility to this. Our family greatly appreciates it ♥️ https://t.co/qMpjUhwySr
— Doc (@witticus10) June 28, 2021
UPDATE: Jesse was just located!
— Doc (@witticus10) June 28, 2021
He is. He was found at a local Walgreens tearing up papers and was taken to the hospital.
— Doc (@witticus10) June 28, 2021
Open thread!
This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Voting Rights
… The Repubs wouldn’t keep trying so hard to take it away.
Voting rights activists are trekking on a week-long “Freedom Ride” through the South en route to the nation’s capital.
The two 45-foot buses are wrapped with the mug shots of the activists who were arrested for defying Jim Crow laws 60 years ago. https://t.co/o5RXof1n7n
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 26, 2021
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This post is in: Music, Open Threads
This made me smile on what has been a sad day at the blog.
(Also: Beethoven had it coming, ya follow?)
The thread. It is open. In particular, though, any truly wacky musical links gratefully appreciated.
ETA: Twitter friend (and real-life science engagement colleague) John Dupuis sent me this to come at the same experience from a different angle:
Sharing is caring, amirite?
This post is in: Open Threads, Rofer on International Relations
Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. World War I began a month later.
I’ve thought a lot about this and the bloody first half of the twentieth century. It was those two world wars that made the atomic bomb seem necessary.
In a way, those two wars were the last major wars fought on the basis that wars had always been fought – over disputed territory, or insults to the ruling class. The wars that followed have been more limited and more civil wars of who is to rule a country.
From Twitter:
I know, not particularly cheerful. But I think we’ve learned some things from that bloody half-century. Now we need not to forget them.
Like that first tweet – we’re beginning to learn that sometimes the locals may need to be offended.
Open thread!
by Adam L Silverman| 17 Comments
This post is in: Bleg, Open Threads
I was killing time and reading Norm Ornstein’s twitter feed when I came across this tweet he’d retweeted:
Please share if you can. This is my cousin who has been missing since yesterday in New Orleans, LA. Jesse has severe autism and we are afraid he wouldn’t be able to tell anyone his name even if they did find him. pic.twitter.com/rH1zn6taLl
— Doc (@witticus10) June 28, 2021
My cousin Jesse is still missing in New Orleans. It has been over 48 hours since he was last seen in the French Quarter. Jesse has severe autism and may not be able to communicate if he is frightened. #FindJesse #NOLA #MissingPerson #Autism #AutismAwareness https://t.co/rtOcgeFyQt
— Doc (@witticus10) June 28, 2021
Reporting from WDSU in New Orleans:
NEW ORLEANS —
The New Orleans Police Department needs the public’s help in locating a man reported missing from the French Quarter.
The report says 34-year-old Jessie Lewis was last seen around noon Friday in the 1000 block of Decatur Street.
He was last seen wearing the pictured clothing.
Anyone with information on Lewis’ whereabouts can contact the NOPD at 504-658-6080.
Any of you who live in New Orleans, who have friends and/or family in New Orleans, please amplify this on your social media feeds if you can!
Thanks!
Open thread!
This post is in: Readership Capture
I am now demanding that no one’s pet dies for the next 72 hours and we need some hero to step up and post something substantive and witty. Betty? DougJ? Mistermix? Your blog needs you.