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[Sally_Mahoney]

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is out of the hospital and doing great

Infection overruled.

[Nightflyer]

Glenn Greenwald was cancelled from the Harper's Letter warning about "cancel culture"

Groovy; I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page. Again, my rights are your rights, and your rights are my rights. That’s what equity and equality truly mean.

Amen.

[Immutable_Mike]

Roger Stone utters racial slur in interview

Even if Stone had used a more acceptable term, he’s still a racist for dismissing the interviewer as a POC, and therefore not worthy of his time. I can’t believe I’m commenting on this racist piece of shit.

[davide405]

This response is full of great ideas, especially useful in these days when “alternate facts” have become accepted at the highest levels of government.

How to talk to a conspiracy theorist -- and still be kind

I strongly disagree. Ignoring them allowed them to fester and grow in communities online. Our survival depends on figuring out how to reach these people. This is the completely buried lede in this entire thing. That reddit is very specifically a self-selected group interested in listening. That describes virtually no conspiracy theorists. I know there are many fellow skeptical movement participants here on BB, and we talk about this stuff a lot because it’s basically our mission statement- h…

[davide405]

Please, please, please click through the link on this post.

What Portland protesters want you to know: "This a fight for all of us"

This is a good account of what is happening in Portland: https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-is-whats-in-39533957

[Sally_Mahoney]

Lick-and-stick these 'tiny protest signs' onto your mail

Together we can lick racism! But please don’t lick anything. Pandemic and all.

[smulder]

@binaryhermit

rejected chocolate drink Ted Yoho

[davide405]

This is horrifyingly true and cannot be repeated too often.

Portlanders use leaf-blowers to isolate and return tear gas to the thugs who threw it

I said the other day that if Portland was in Hong Kong, more people would be on the side of the people- not the government.

[davide405]

For perfectly topical response

GOP Senator Tom Cotton describes slavery as "necessary evil"

Tom Cotton is an unnecessary evil

[gero]

Can insurance be used to reign in police misconduct?

We’ve been lying to ourselves about the ability to financial incentives to fix social problems for decades.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Portland is fining the US Government $500 every 15 minutes for its illegal fence

The federal government being headed by a responsible republican businessman will promptly pay all bills/fines /S

[Sally_Mahoney]

Microsoft says it has Trump's permission to buy Tik Tok

I think we can all agree that cool kids and influencers will flock to Microsoft Meme 365 Azure Social Video Foundation Services 2020.

[Nightflyer]

How emoji use can reinforce racist white supremacy

Come on BB Commentariat, we’re better than this. The majority of this thread seems to be: White people denying there’s a problem here, no matter how small White people debating the nuance with each other @Melizmatic having to go around the room re-explaining the basics of racism to everyone. An issue like this is the perfect time for white people (like me) to shut up and listen. You say yellow emoji are a problem? Thank you, I didn’t realize. Stop using white fist icons because of what it …

[davide405]

Another gem from Humbabella

Police mistakenly pull black family out of car at gunpoint, put them on ground in handcuffs

Our brains try to suss out whether bad situations happened by accident/error or through malice. That’s an important thing for us to do. There are people who will take advantage of us and hurt us and it’s important to detect those people. We want to successfully detect malice in other people. We want to make as few mistakes in that regard as possible. If I am a very privileged person (say a white male who has enough money in the bank to float some minor catastrophes, but obviously there are lots…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Mike Pence attacks Chief Justice John Roberts as "disappointement to conservatives"

Isn’t everything a disappointment to conservatives? They seem to be very much “glass half empty” kind of people to me.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch a live feed as 250,000 bikers come to annual Sturgis Rally

It really says something when the presence of a deadly contagious disease might not be the least pleasant thing about an event.

[Ratel]

Biden picks Kamala Harris as his VP

Do you think mommy will let little Mikey debate Harris without a chaperone?

[FGD135]

"I am starting to regret my vote for Trump" ad featuring comedian David Cross

Interesting which parts of the long list the Lincoln Project edited out (abortion for one). Reminder: the Lincoln Project is an expedient ally who will immediately pivot and toss Biden and Democrats under the bus the minute he wins. They are the rats on the lifeboat watching the ship sink and saying “just because we helped gnaw all those holes, it’s not OUR fault.”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi +174 House Democrats tell Trump's Postmaster General to reverse changes that threaten mail-in voting

It’s frankly a miracle that the Post Office works as well as it does considering that Republicans have been doing everything in their power to destroy it for decades. And the services they provide are really an astounding value compared to the free market alternatives. For 35 cents you can send a postcard from some tiny settlement in rural Alaska and have a uniformed government employee hand-deliver it to a private residence in American Samoa.

[Purplecat]

The SATS were literally invented by a eugenicist to uphold white supremacy

The test scores have been a reasonably significant predictor of scholastic success. Nevertheless, that sentence is itself fraught. First, further scholastic success is often founded on the ability to excel at more tests of the same format: those who excel at the 4th and 8th grade tests are likely to have the tools to excel at the SAT and ACT, and later at the GRE, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT and so on. Second, social privilege itself is a significant predictor of scholastic success, so if the tests selec…