The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s [image or embed] — Paul Krugman (@pkrugman.bsky.social) November 23, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Month: November 2024
Jerky Turkey (1945)
Where Will You Be
Yes – “Where Will You Be”:
(more…)Trans bathrooms on Capitol Hill
Trans bathrooms on Capitol Hill are banned because Republican legislators don’t want to be distracted from the important task of making everyone safer by enabling a statutory rapist and sex trafficker to become the number one law enforcement official in the country.
– fconniff
TikTok Ban
TikTok Ban – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
(more…)Mmmm, Canned Chopped Beef
MST3K 00K05 – Gamera
No man is above the law…
(more…)this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o…
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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Last Week Tonight – S2 E4: Infrastructure, Net Neutrality & Gerbils
S2 E4: Infrastructure, Net Neutrality & Gerbils (March 1, 2015)
(more…)The Star Wars Holiday Special
Back in 1978, this happened…
