North Carolina!
HOLY SHIT! This new ad from a state senator in North Carolina is incredible!!! pic.twitter.com/tkoITcxymc
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 20, 2024
Tennessee!
Volkswagen workers just made history!#StandUpUAW pic.twitter.com/hRFaiFlPtq
— UAW (@UAW) April 20, 2024
Open thread.
Ishiyama
Gotta say yes to that ad!!!
Parfigliano
NM legalized and contrary to the catastrophe predicted by the usual GOP shitheels all is well and The State has a new revenue source.
WaterGirl
@Parfigliano: New revenue source. Will capitalism save us after all? :-)
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: No, but it may make the end slightly more palliative.
danielx
@Parfigliano:
I’ve read the cops are of two minds about it, where it’s occurred: one group are relieved they don’t have to fuck up people’s lives over simple possession charges, and the other group is sad because they’ve lost an excuse to roust people and confiscate their assets. Plus stoners are (I would guess) at least slightly less inclined to commit violet crimes, per the cliche about five drunk guys start a bar fight, five stoned guys start a band.
HumboldtBlue
I’m no Star Wars nerd, despite being in the key target demographic when it came out (I was far more interested in Revolutionary and Civil Wars rather than space wars of some obscure origin), but this critic’s review is worth a watch.
Barry Norman
Mike in Pasadena
All three of those were good for the heart.
Poe Larity
@HumboldtBlue: It looks like Lucas got the last laugh
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2024/04/14/disneys-star-wars-box-office-profits-fail-to-cover-cost-of-lucasfilm/?sh=61e1957c6bb7
KrackenJack
@Parfigliano:
I was traveling through the back roads of NM last week and the dispensaries were *everywhere*! California gave a lot of zoning control to local governments. Apparently NM took a different approach.
mrmoshpotato
But the pantslessness goes on.
smike
@KrackenJack: I smile when I enter NM these days. One of the first things you see upon crossing the NM/TX border at Texico is a dispensary. But even in Texas, weed is legal if you buy it from a smoke shop. Indica, sativa and blends are offered. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Aussie Sheila
The victory for the workers at VW in Tennessee is the best news out of the US in a decade, apart from the Biden/Harris victory in 2020. In my opinion, of course!
Together with many other comrades here and in the US I have been celebrating this as the beginning of a fight back by the organised working class in the most dangerous, revanchist region of the democratic world. I hope and cross my fingers that it is the first of many union victories in the US South.
Well done all!
Congratulations to the workers for their overwhelming victory and congratulations to a newly invigorated and democratic union, the UAW for their support of the workers.
I hope and pray it is but one of many to come.
AM in NC
Graig Meyer is an acquaintance of mine (I used to direct an education-related non-profit that had an office next to the education nonprofit Graig directed).
Love this ad, especially for his district, but I also think an EXTREMELY effective ad for state-wide play would be to reverse the colors of the men and say : Why do Republicans want you in jail for the same behavior?” Get the racist AND the weed vote out in the sticks.
And YES on the VW vote!