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RalphEsq@ralphesq.bsky.social |
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Jorge Caballero
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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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L O L G O P
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I'm a single-issue voter. My single issue is that I'd like to continue voting.
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RalphEsq
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Counterpoint:
apnews.com/article/trum...
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RalphEsq
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In 2022, the polls in AZ had republicans winning statewide with the exception of Kelly eking out a win against Blake for senate. Now we’ve got a Dem governor, SoS, and AG, and Kelly decisively won. Something was missing in the 2022 polling here. I don’t want to bank on it for 2024, though.
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RalphEsq
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I was scrolling through to find the Madison/UW joke. Thank you.
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RalphEsq
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It’s a shame the monsoon ends before the general election.
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emptywheel
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Updated: I read the NYT Front Page so you didn't have to.
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RalphEsq
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All that said, having the traveling theater troupe as main characters in a post-apocalyptic world is A+++. That’s the same in the book and movie, and it was delightful to see it on the screen.
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RalphEsq
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A little better than the book, tbh. I’ve read a couple by this author, and I thought Station 11 bugged me because it was clearly written pre-Covid and I was reading it post-Covid, but Glass Hotel bugged me in the same way. Great ideas, but left me unsatisfied!
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Don Moynihan
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There is a difference between reporting the news evenhandedly and creating the news to achieve a predetermined outcome.
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@lamiller.bsky.social
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This context- that the doctor has been visiting frequently since 2012, with **unknown** numbers of visits when the middle administration rescinded the open visitor log policy, was completely ignored when writing the headline
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RalphEsq
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@sababausa.bsky.social has a thread with 3 or 4 occasions.
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Marisa Kabas
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I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this:
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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RalphEsq
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As the resident of a different desert city that relies somewhat on the same water source, believe me, it’s maddening. We banned front lawns and were at the head of the curve on reclaimed water. They’re doing *waves hands frantically* gigantic fountains and fake Venetian canals and lawns…
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RalphEsq
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Our family “barf bowl” is the rectangular plastic bin you get at the hospital (eg ours had diapers in it when we had our kids, but they’re also used for sponge baths, etc., for any hospital visit). Keep just one in your life and make it the exclusive barf bowl. No one will ever cook with it.
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RalphEsq
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@kevinmkruse.bsky.social perhaps we should attempt a Threads-style pile-on on this site…
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RalphEsq
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The other guy is a sex pest, convicted criminal, and tax dodger, and he would be delighted if your entire staff was hacked up with a bone saw. But Biden has a stutter…oh no! STFU
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RalphEsq
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I’m in a swing state that just got 1/5 of all registered voters to sign for codifying Roe in an initiative. The Trump signs of 2016 were gone in 2020 and are still gone. I’m highly suspicious of all the pundits looking at national polls and giving up on Biden.
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RalphEsq
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I thought of punnet as in the square you learn about in middle school science—didn’t know there’s also a strawberry-related term! This is the one that bugged me. It’s how coroners describe shotgun wounds.
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RalphEsq
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Fireworks weren’t legal in AZ when I was a kid; same with IL when I was in college. So my first July 4 on the east coast was eye-opening! AZ sounds more like a war zone now; I do think it makes a difference that you don’t have to drive to New Mexico to get them.
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RalphEsq
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I’m just going to keep trying punctate till it works, dangit.
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RalphEsq
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Moody v NetChoice? CFPB? I’m also curious…
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RalphEsq
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In the same era, I attended a wedding where everyone rolled up in a rented HHR, including me.
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RalphEsq
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Why (Actually named that because two highways formed a Y, but place names needed 3 letters by law)
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RalphEsq
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I get really excited when I get to show that to someone for the first time.
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RalphEsq
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Nice! I think I was asked ten times to sign it and I don’t go to many concerts, events, etc. Someone actually came to my door.
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RalphEsq
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Also, your local Ace may have chicks, a local feed store definitely will, and you can order chicks shipped by USPS.
facts.usps.com/shipping-chi...
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RalphEsq
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Have they considered turning it off and never turning it on again? It should solve a lot of problems.
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RalphEsq
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Some of this is generational, right? Current suburban wine moms (myself included) are millennials, who haven’t taken the typical trajectory of getting more conservative with age.
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RalphEsq
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I was in northern Wisconsin a few weeks ago and passed a billboard that was just a photo of Epstein and Trump together, with the words “Please Remember.” Between that and the lack of Trump regalia on roads and vehicles (compared to my visits in earlier years), I think a switch flipped in WI.
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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RalphEsq
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I mean, you’d need this circuit, right? The case load alone…
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RalphEsq
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I’m in Tucson so I feel rage every time I pass the green courses in the foothills (water use PLUS removal of our precious saguaros).
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RalphEsq
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Wait, this is brilliant!
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RalphEsq
@ralphesq.bsky.social
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Just got back from there!
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RalphEsq
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Yep. There were actually two simultaneous recalls, one because all-weather mats caused two deadly crashes, and one because of a “sticky” accelerator (which didn’t cause major crashes, just slowed the rebound of the pedal when you took your foot off).
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RalphEsq
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I don’t think the “receipts” are the company’s, I read them as the PAC’s receipts (and therefore redundant), which of course means you’re correct that that it’s confusing and awkward. :)
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RalphEsq
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It’s redundant. Received…in receipts.
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RalphEsq
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Arizona was on the charter train 25 years ago and is also the home of BASIS. If you don’t get a suggestion in the comments I’d check profs in the ed schools at ASU, U of A or NAU, or someone in Gov. Katie Hobbes’s admin (fmr Sec of Ed). Not the current Sec of Ed—he’s bananas.
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RalphEsq
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It’s a concurrence because what the prosecutor did was still wrong under Williams. He very strongly disagrees with the majority.
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RalphEsq
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In fact, that’s how smaller governments (states) do it all the time. Some bill’s statement of purpose will say “this is in response to the case This v. That.”
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RalphEsq
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The G and C are Pac-Man.
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RalphEsq
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Ha! That’s amazing.
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RalphEsq
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with WITH That’s bananas, I love it.
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RalphEsq
@ralphesq.bsky.social
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But seriously, it’s a dry heat! I’m in Tucson, which is cooler and cools off better because it’s not a concrete island, but my kids just got out of the pool and immediately had chattering teeth. That humidity (or lack of it) makes a gigantic difference!
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RalphEsq
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Maybe not in as many words, but I think they’ve basically admitted it. I’m still surprised NYT said “racist” instead of a euphemism like “antiquated.”
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RalphEsq
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I do swear by the Sunday Afternoon hats with extra neck coverage. I hate having to fully sunscreen just to walk my dog in the morning, but I live in AZ, so I wear my hat and a long sleeved shirt (really, any long sleeved shirt) basically year-round.
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RalphEsq
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I don’t have a specific brand because they seem to all work > sunscreen. My one tip is to a get few and see what you like for your purpose—loose is comfiest and perfect if you’re just getting wet but not swimming, tight is necessary if you’re fully swimming or surfing (but sweaty for, say, hiking).
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RalphEsq
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Last time I checked, my pharmacy had cards in the aisle and you would take one to the pharmacist to get the actual medicine. Which actually isn’t weird anymore because I have to ask for help just to unlock the nail polish.
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RalphEsq
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I had a coworker who was big into Lost and would constantly speculate. As an Alias fan, I kept telling her there was no plan and there were no answers, but I still held out hope…
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