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Andy Barnett

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Retired librarian, author and 3rd generation Packer owner. thedriftless.net

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Jorge Caballero's avatar Jorge Caballero @datadrivenmd.social
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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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Meredith's avatar Meredith @librarianmer.bsky.social
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I hope people will save a bit of their righteous indignation for ALA and other organizations that no longer require masks or testing at their conferences. They have abandoned people with disabilities utterly. Personally, I've decided not to give my time or money to any (1/7)

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night Now they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk, they're getting ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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You can use a library without ever walking in the doors. Ebooks. Consumer reports online. Genealogy-local especially. Audiobook downloads. But you need a card.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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You can’t spell felon without Elon.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Apparently his basement is in Madison Wisconsin. Must mean he’s a badger now.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Personnel is policy, as you are pointing out.

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD 's avatar Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social
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Americans have a real problem with older people and the concept of aging. The culture is rife with ageism. It’s going to official bite us in the ass if we don’t address it. Wow.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Think about the baselines here. Taney inherited a vile political system and dedicated his career to perpetuating it. Roberts inherited a system that, although flawed on any number of dimensions, sought to uphold a modest version of democratic equality. He's dedicated his career to dismantling it.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Today in history, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the first lines of his obituary.

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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13 circuits. 39 justices. Panels at random. 26 year terms. I’m not afraid of 13.

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Nicholas Wallace's avatar Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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Each person is given a dial. You can turn it up as high as 100. If you love what you are hearing, turn it down as low as zero if you hate what you are hearing, and every time Trump opened his mouth, those dials dropped, they just absolutely plummeted..
www.politicususa.com/2024/06/30/t...

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Dan the Gnome's avatar Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social
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Something that probably flew under most people's radar, but is kind of a big deal (it allows those veterans to access VA care and disability etc) A very good thing.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just finished gary wills’ “Bomb Power” and the chapters on the dubya administration are a good reminder of a) the horror show of those years and b) the remarkable fact that in an administration of degenerates, john yoo stands apart as the absolute worst

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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The only advice I’d give the Biden campaign is to go to war with the NYT. They’re even less popular than Biden or Trump, would form a good rallying cry, and reframes the campaign to be an underdog attempt to push good policy against elites who don’t want it. “NYT is for the billionaires, we’re not.”

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Blame the pants. Bad design.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Use bridge software to reconnect with the best of Twitter.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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There’s bridge software that will help you find all your X follows. Depends on your browser.

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Daniel Abraham's avatar Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social
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I feel like there were a bunch of guys who read the story and thought “What would it do for Omelas’s stock price if we shoved a bunch more kids down there?”

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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I bought a special device to play the Packer radio broadcast through my pc instead of the tv announcers. Totally worth it. I’m keeping an old laptop just for that purpose.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Amazing considering you don’t have a storyline or plot that you can build on. I also read Dumbing of Age and he has strips through December. But he has characters and a plot.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Disc golf courses are ok though. Never seen one that was fertilized or had sprinklers.

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Rusty Foster (derogatory)'s avatar Rusty Foster (derogatory) @rusty.todayintabs.com
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If you remove regulation, a lot of decisions still have to be made, so something has to replace it. What replaces it is corruption.

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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the conservative movement's roots is an alliance of business interests livid about the new deal, southern racists livid about the civil rights movement, and church ladies livid about the sexual revolution. scotus will continue unabated until they've rolled all those back (or democrats stop them)

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Live sports are like live music. Less perfect but you should enjoy the experience.

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Personnel is policy. This isn’t close on any metric.

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jon ben-menachem's avatar jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com
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After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

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Andy Barnett's avatar Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social
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Personnel is policy. There is a stark difference in the race.

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