In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

Wealthy white South African who grew up during apartheid. That's all he is.

 

Opinion | I wanted to be rich. I did not want to be Nazi.

by Melania Trump

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 3, 2024

 

If only she could do something about that!?!

 

Do we have a good thread to discuss housing?


A success story from Minnesota.

“No single legislative action did more to contribute to housing creation than the elimination of parking minimums.”

- Director of City Planning

📍 Minneapolis, MN pic.twitter.com/yVNYD51qAJ

— Jonathan Berk (@berkie1) October 3, 2024

 

I wonder when she can put her hands on that Swiss bank account.. Then the next day...

 

@roby avert your eyes!

 

NEW: Two former Trump White House officials told me they had to show voter data to Trump to get him to release disaster funding to CA wildfire victims. He released it after learning that he had as many GOP supporters in Orange Co. as he did in Iowa. https://t.co/VU9fbGsOBl

— Scott Waldman (@scottpwaldman) October 3, 2024

 

NEW:
CNN reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview. After several exchanges, the publisher sent a contract with a price tag: $250,000. Now the publisher says it was a “miscommunication” https://t.co/pds7jezT8i

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) October 3, 2024

 

A federal judge will let expire the temporary restraining order against President Biden's sweeping new student loan forgiveness plan — a massive win for the administration.

The ruling, from a Bush 43 appointee, means Biden may move forward with the plan just weeks before the…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 3, 2024

 

1841864564595728694 is not a valid tweet id

 

The legendary independent muckraking journalist I.F. Stone was asked why he, with all his sources and contacts in high places, bothered to read the NYT every day. “Because they always have the most important stories. Of course, you’ll usually find those stories on Page A23, continued in a different section, but those stories will be there.”

Looks like he was right, again.

 

Some good news.....

“The International Longshoremen’s Association, the union that has been on strike since early Tuesday at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, and the management group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port authorities have reached a tentative deal on wages, ending the work stoppage,“ CNN reports.

 

Good, because Costco, according to NPR’s Marketplace, was reporting toilet paper hoarding. Quoth Kai Rysdall, “people, we’re not going to do this again, are we?”

Apparently, not.

 

Life really was better 50 years ago.

Here's proof: pic.twitter.com/qJmF1JURAN

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) October 3, 2024

 

It's doubly stupid because consumer toilet paper is a domestic product. All the major brands (I checked Charmin, Cottonelle, and the Koch brands) are made in the US or Canada.

 

My great-grandmother was born in 1915. In that time, she lived through the flu pandemic, the creation of the Soviet Union, Prohibition, The Great Depression (Those stories were heartbreaking), WW2, JFK, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, and passed in 2008.

Yeah, things are a lot better.

 

I suspected that. And I knew that it was imports that were likely to run short. That’s why I bought 300 bananas today.

 

In my Latin 4 class in high school, I wrote a paper on Juvenal, who wrote that same nostalgic shit 2 millennia ago. That was an important piece of learning, not about Juvenal specifically, but because doing that research showed me plainly that this kind of nostalgia is bullshit and always has been.

And that’s even before noting most people aren’t white straight men, so the idea that things were better in the past is dumb just in that level.

 

Lots of banana bread for you then, huh?

 

Growing up, I disliked hearing the phrase "best years of your life" when I was in high school. I always thought it was naive in a lot of ways.

I had fun in high school and college. But in a lot of ways, I'm having a lot more fun now (Despite some things that could be better) as an adult. Would it be nice to be able to be a kid again? Only if I got the no responsibilities thing, otherwise, I'll take being an adult right now.

 

Guess who the #1 exporter in the world is? The strike could have been devastating for us.

 

Nerd!



(I also took Latin in HS)

 

Rinse them in water -- get rid of the artificial ripening agent -- and then tape the stems to seal them ( that's how moisture gets into the banana) and they'll last a couple months.