#Thing

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

I'm so glad to see this story about Trump's Trump University scam. I've been saying (most recently on @Honestly_Tara) that the Trump U scam was the biggest story of 2016

Ya boy Angst-rom

EliElstein

Okay so I’m not a fan of the horrible things Israel has done to Palestinians but this is by far an oversimplification of a very complicated issue. Zionism has roots

David Hazony

davidhazony

One major difference between democracy and ultra-Orthodoxy (authoritarianism) is that the former was built to work even when leaders are self-serving, duplicitous, and often stupid; the latter only works when

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

I've been thinking about this and there's really a lot in common between HP Lovecraft and JK Rowling. Honestly. Seriously. And no, not just the fact both have/had repugnant horrid

MargaretSimons

MargaretSimons

Now the atmosphere around media in Vic is slightly less shouty, I'm going to say something about it. Perhaps we can now move beyond the binary of "all journalists suck"

Niamh Shields

eatlikeagirl

My brother would have been 38 today. It is a soft sad day. It is just over 23 years since he died but it never leaves. It does get easier

Molly Hunter

mollymhunter

Shocking images right now on @CNN, @OmarJimenez just handcuffed on the air by Minnesota State Patrol. Camera still rolling live on the ground.https://twitter.com/omarjimenez/status/1266212883718963205 Oh my god. (Image on the left

Erik Meira

erikMeira

This becomes a legal issue. When a body becomes a gate-keeper, they have a legal obligation for “fairness”. If I teach courses for a living, I have a right to

Oliver Willis

owillis

Liberals are gonna spend ten years and a day agonizing over social media content and coming up with unworkable solutions when the answer is simple: Blast people with info from

Don Zeko

Don_Zeko

There are a lot of tweets going around about the utility of voting for Democrats for people who want to change the police in this country. The thing is that

mighty ybaba

mcnostrilcom

Smug goat person wouldn't be so smug if she knew that's not proper work attire. Procrastinating by debating the dresscode for Sacrifridays. Help, I can't stop. Got a bit carried

Farrah Bostic

farrahbostic

A few thoughts re shame/shaming in the national political discourse:To begin, democracies rely on the concept of shame. What I mean is: They rely on ideas of decency & fairness

The Roam

theroambyafam

My father’s first generator was a tiny Honda thing more commonly known as a better pass my neighbour. The thing allowed us to run the television a necessary distraction from

TheRealGrumpyDad

TheRealGrumpDad

Ok, I don't know how to introduce this? I don't know if I've done it justice? all I know is it was the most rewarding thing I've ever done, well

عاصمة

ahsemasems

So here's what happened last night at Rockley Chefette. There were 7 of us and we got cold sitting inside so we came outside to sit on the tables. We

Chris "in 2020 reality is spoopy enough 👻" DeLeon

ChrisDeLeon

we'll be fine all we need is for Americans to:-care about people besides themselves-understand long articles or graphs about hospital logistics-listen to domain experts-comprehend exponential growth so they won't downplay