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"It's the economy, stupid," remains one of the most succinct political aphorisms of modern American politics.
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Jeanne d’Arc, a peasant girl, heard voices telling her to save the kingdom of France. Seeing the Dauphin in disguise, she somehow discerned his identity and convinced him to let her command the French army. She then won battle after battle. Mark Twain called her the only seventeen-year-old, of either gender, who had led the armed forces of an entire nation.
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Dude couldn’t win public office in Somalia, so he moves to Minnesota to run a fraudulent daycare and win a state legislative seat.
This state is cooked.
EXCLUSIVE: Newly-elected Minnesota lawmaker Abdi Daisane ran for seat in Somalia's parliament
St. Cloud daycare owner Abdi Daisane made history earlier this month by winning a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives, becoming the first Somali lawmaker to represent central Minnesota.
But Alpha News has learned that just five years earlier, he was pursuing a seat in another nation's legislature — more than 8,000 miles away in his East African homeland.
"I am a candidate for Member of Parliament in the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia," Daisane says in an English translation of a 2021 campaign video.
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Chick fil a almost always just hires local American teenagers who speak English, instead of foreign adults, and theyre known for their great service and ability to flawlessly handle long drive through lines.
I think about this often because its not a coincidence that their service is so superior.
Companies need to start hiring American teenagers for jobs that were always meant for them again.
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ANALYSIS: @9NEWS is now willing to discuss the @coloradodems single party rule because there are no more Republicans left to scapegoat for things Democrats do.
#copolitics #9news #heynext
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four Black boys lured a white boy to an abandoned house and fatally injured him and left him for dead a few days ago. the white boy called his mom but didn’t know where he was so he wasn’t found until he was dead.
that was just a small local story, though.
the big news is two white college girls made rude noises in a hallway. that got extensive national news coverage bc it dramatically demonstrates the dark truth of our white supremacist society and how dangerous it is for Black people.
#NEWS: Ole Miss freshman Alaina Kunes, 18, is no longer enrolled at the University of Mississippi following the viral doorbell camera footage showing students making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment occupied by three Black students.
The university confirmed her departure but has not clarified whether she voluntarily withdrew or was dismissed.
Kunes has since issued a public apology, describing her actions as “insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful.” She also said she intends to cooperate with the university’s investigation.
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Multicultural democracies inevitably devolve into waring ethnic blocs battling for control of the state so they can extract money for their people and punish their enemies
You can have representative government or diversity, you can’t have both
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The Republicans lost the midterms in a landslide because of the Iran war and the effect it had on the economy and gas prices.
So the lesson they learned is they have been too harsh on immigration and need to do amnesty.
These people all belong in a cell
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🌾 CONGRESS IS SLIPPING AMNESTY INTO A FARM LABOR BILL
Don't take my word for it. Read the official summary from the Congressional Research Service.
H.R. 9535, the "Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act." Sponsored by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson. 61 cosponsors, 52 of them Republicans.
One line tells you everything. The bill "establishes an H-2A visa pathway for current unauthorized agricultural workers who otherwise meet requirements."
Current unauthorized workers. People who are here illegally right now.
The sponsor's pitch: "With the border now secure, it is time to address these shortcomings."
The border is more secure because we finally started enforcing the law. You don't reward that by handing a visa to the people who broke it.
And the timing couldn't be worse. Monday night the President said, "We haven't put the same pressure on waitresses and on farmworkers, etc. Not even close." That's exactly the opening this bill's supporters have been waiting for.
We've seen this movie before. In 1986 Congress created the Special Agricultural Worker program, and it was riddled with fraud, with applicants claiming farm work they never did. My career taught me that every carve-out turns into a business model. Make farm work the safe lane and the fake employment letters will show up by the truckload.
Farmers have a real labor problem and I'm not dismissing it. Fix H-2A. Speed it up. Cut the red tape. Let it run year-round. That's legal labor and I'll support it.
But a visa for people who are here illegally isn't a workforce plan. It's amnesty in overalls.
Call your representative and ask one question: are you one of the 61?
@POTUS @StephenM @RealTomHoman @SecMullinDHS @ICEgov @HouseAgGOP @CongressmanGT @Jim_Jordan @JudiciaryGOP @Phase2Deport @NICEnforcement @itsyourgov
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Rep. Brandon Gil masterfully exposes that a SNAP advocate's organization is funded by organizations that make money from food stamps
Watch her face after he calls her out on that
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Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh, who’s celebrated as the first muslim elected to the Colorado legislature, is advertising an internship program at the Colorado Capitol
Qualifications are you have to be muslim or north african.
This is illegal.
Cc @CivilRights
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Illegals are not Americans but please explain why deporting them would cause a civil war
Be very specific
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This is why you just have to be “extreme” about the screens as a parent. If you want your kid to have a personality and actual interests outside of mindlessly scrolling and passively consuming short form slop all day, you have to put very tight controls on the screens and you can’t give your kids a smartphone at all until at least high school at the absolute earliest.
None of our kids have phones. The older ones have laptops for school work that they aren’t allowed to use in their rooms or for anything not school related. They can use tablets on long car rides (3+ hours or more). And that’s it.
The result is that our kids love to read and write, they have hobbies, they spend lots of time outdoors, they’re artistic, they can hold a conversation, and they’re helpful around the house. Maybe you can be slightly more generous with the screen than we are and have similar results, but not much more generous. Allow the screen to consume them and eat their personalities, attention spans, interests, and conversational skills, and it will.
And for anyone who says that you need to let the screen take over your child’s life and mind because that’s the only way they’ll learn how to use technology, that’s nonsense. The technology is extremely easy to pick up, and there are very few (if any) actual technological skills developed by scrolling your phone all day. The average brain rotting teenager isn’t any more skilled or adept in that department than my kids, who have spent 99.99 percent less time using it.
Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
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So, let me get this straight. The “No Kings” and “Trump is a threat to democracy” people are trying to overturn a girls’ sports law that was enacted through …
*checks notes*
… the democratic process of voting?
🤔
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Democracy is fake
Elites don’t respond to voters, there is no market place of ideas, popular sovereignty is a lie
The ruling class has an agenda that they implement no matter what, the Constitution doesn’t govern the United States
Shortly after the GOP was defeated in a landslide over the cost of living, incoming Republican House Leader Jim Jordan said that Americans would be okay with higher gas prices to finish off Iran.
Follow: @AFpost
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C.S. Lewis, everything we call beauty is just a scent of what we have forgotten
ALT The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
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ON THIS DATE IN 1911: 115 years ago today — November 11, 1911 — the central United States lived through the wildest 24 hours of weather in American records: the Great Blue Norther.
The day began like spring. Oklahoma City hit a record high of 83°, Springfield, Missouri reached a record 80°, Kansas City a record 76°. Then the front arrived — a wall of Arctic air behind a dark, blue-black bank of clouds, which is where "blue norther" gets its name.
At Springfield the temperature fell from 80° to 40° in fifteen minutes, with a 74 mph wind gust, and rain, hail, sleet, and snow all fell within two hours. By midnight Oklahoma City was at a record low of 17° and Springfield a record low of 13°.
Both cities set their record high AND record low for November 11 on the very same day — and both records still stand.
Ahead of the front, tornadoes tore across the Midwest — an F4 killed nine people near Janesville, Wisconsin — and within an hour of the tornado, blizzard conditions had set in over the wreckage.
Shorts at noon, parkas by supper, tornadoes and a blizzard on the same afternoon. That's 11/11/11. Listen to this week's WeatherBrains podcast for more on this remarkable event.
