Postcards from the Clown Show

https://twitter.com/celinedryan/status/1377637546646249477
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Occam's Banana said:
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1378573167724224514
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FTA (https://www.koin.com/local/portland-school-fears-evergreens-mascot-tied-to-lynching/):

The adoption of a new mascot for Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School was put on pause, after concerns about potential connotations of lynching.

After adopting a new namesake earlier this year, the Southwest Portland high school also wants to ditch its Trojan mascot. A committee comprised of students, staff and community members suggested the evergreens as the school’s new mascot.

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But just before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education’s vote to approve the new mascot Tuesday, March 30, Director Michelle DePass shared community concerns of an unwanted correlation between Ida B. Wells—the historic Black activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who documented and crusaded against lynching—and a tree which could conjure up reminders of hanging people with ropes from branches.

“I’m wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree … as our mascot?” DePass asked the renaming and mascot committee. “I think everyone comes with blind spots and I think that might’ve been a really big blind spot.”

[...]​
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Evergreen trees? Really?

There's actually somebody out there who thinks you can hang anything bigger than an ornament from an evergreen tree?

People! If you want to hang someone, and all you have is an evergreen tree, shoot them.
 
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Brian4Liberty said:
CDC Director Meltdown: 'Please Hold On A Little While Longer!'



Biden Administration CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appeared to break down into tears yesterday, pleading with Americans to avoid the urge to begin living normally again as the virus continues to fade. She warns of "impending doom" if Americans begin going back to "normal." But what about Texas and Florida? What about numbers? Science? Also today, Tyranny in the UK.
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1380405369965514753
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Occam's Banana said:
"Enjoying your $1400, you schmucks?"

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1380113212910227457
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New York will offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic. The effort — a $2.1 billion fund in the state budget — is by far the biggest of its kind in the U.S. https://t.co/NT8NZy3V9r

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2021
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Huh, not just “undocumented workers” but hey, let’s pay everybody!!!
 
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