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Evan Greer - Picket line song

Funny I was just reading about the Holy Land Foundation yesterday

Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development’), originally known as Occupied Land Fund, was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas,[1] and run by Palestinian-Americans.[2] The organization’s mission was to “find and implement practical solutions for human suffering through humanitarian programs that impact the lives of the disadvantaged, disinherited, and displaced peoples suffering from man-made and natural disasters.”

During the 1990s, American politicians, including Chuck Schumer and Eliot Spitzer,[3][4] alongside the Israeli government[5] and Steve Emerson,[6] lobbied the U.S. government to take action against the Holy Land Foundation.[7] In December 2001, the U.S. designated HLF a terrorist organization, seized its assets, and closed the organization. At the time it was the largest Muslim charitable organisation in the United States

I lost my dog of 12 years this summer and it was devastating. Noticing his “presence replaced by absence” is so crushing to face. I have to remind myself that I gave him the best life I could and loved him every day, and he knew that.

There’s no shortcut to grief. I just teared up typing this. I’m glad we have this community to help carry these burdens

My lib mom (who is somewhat well read) loves this fucking hack and this book in particular

Edit: a while back, someone posted a PDF takedown of this same book. I remember the first vignette they picked apart we the apocryphal story of the “starving young man digging his own grave”. Anyone know what I’m talking about?

FTL soundtrack is great

A friend of mine plays video games on speakers and has the Hotline Miami soundtrack playing in the background of all games, so whenever he mics in, I hear that playing in the background

You gave him a home and a family and love

Pumping and storing milk is a middle class privilege.

My sister bought a $500 milker and separate storage fridge so she could plan out her pump schedule and meals for her newborn. She also had the kind of email job that has a private pumping room with plush chairs, dim lighting, and nobody asking questions as to where you were for the last hour.

The average mother of 3 working at Taco Bell needs to resort to using formula

Cuz they were on the winning side of WW2. Security council veto power is held by China, US, UK, France, and Russia

Maybe he means that people eventually settle into a monogamous relationship which is very likely to be either gay or straight?

Related - the governor of Oregon was noted for being a bisexual woman but was married to a man

Hope you like reading

Yeah no you’re exactly right. It’s essentially a Catch 22 for getting real “middle class jobs” (the ones with PTO and health benefits).

I had a master’s degree and many years teaching experience, but when I quit teaching, I had to take entry level administrative support office jobs to get my foot in the door. Upon hire, my new boss said they had 100 qualified applicants but I’m the one who made the cut. They weren’t sure I would be able to do things like “run copies” and “take minutes”.

I don’t have any real advice except to treat the application materials as seriously as you would a college essay.

I mean, if the goon squad is coming after you, then just

I don’t really like pie

I’d be fucking livid. You know your way around a knife, they should really take that into consideration

Paige Defense League checking in. I’m guessing because she brought conflict into the show with the betrayal she felt, instead of just going along and embracing her parents’ lies

Fr, January is a shit month, you bet you’re ass I’ll be drinking. What the fuck else is there to do? It’s freezing!

:losers: is what came to mind for me, too

Merrick Garland has entered the chat

Goddamn we’re cynical

Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen’s announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease

Something to keep in mind was this was still essentially the depression, so a farmer saying “I can’t afford the taxes to build a new school” might actually be true

It probably wasn’t racism cuz let’s be real, Vermont on 1940 was 99.9% white. I’m not making that up, I just checked the census records

During FDR’s presidency in the lead up to WWII, he made the “Four Freedoms” speech, which the artist Norman Rockwell illustrated in four different paintings. This one, “freedom of speech” is the most well known/reproduced.

Source: I was a high school us history teacher