Notices tagged with politics
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 26-Nov-2020 15:13:55 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @mangeurdenuage Well, most of the states have certified their results and most of the lawsuits are over. So, barring either a Supreme Court decision or faithless electors at the electoral college, we know #Biden will be the next President, taking over in January.
I'm still trying to avoid nearly all #politics / #USPol / #Election_2020 news and discussion, but it is time for #Trump and his supporters to face reality and accept defeat. A better focus is the upcoming runoff elections for two #GA Senate seats. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 07-Nov-2020 16:37:33 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @feld It is good that such cases arouse suspicion. The systems obviously hadn't been fully tested. And in some of the contested states, there is a history of corruption. Let's allow every reasonable claim to be investigated, so there are no questions as to the actual winner.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 06-Nov-2020 18:31:39 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures
I'm particularly unhappy about Prop 22 passing. That's the one in which Uber and similar companies spent record amounts of money to give themselves a loophole from laws requiring that they treat their "independent contractors" as employees, since they exercise employer level control over the way work is done.
This is as repulsive as the one several years back in which Walmart spent heavily to prevent the state from implementing its own mandatory medical coverage for employees. (Up until ACA, many Walmart employees tried to get on the state's Medi-Cal program for coverage. At the time of that election, Walmart was one of the largest employers in the nation.)
#USPol #Politics #Election2020
Now, I'm getting pretty weary of election-related stuff, so I plan to take a break from the subject of politics. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 07:15:07 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Politico: this might take a while https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/03/presidential-election-2020-433952
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 06:00:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Philadelphia stopped counting mail-in ballots for the night, so the pinkish color in #PA could turn out to be wrong. Also, Detroit had very high early voting and mail-in turnout, so #MI's pinkish color is also potentially misleading.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 05:38:18 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} According to a commentator on Politico, #CA Prop 16 is going down in flames. This would repeal prop 209 and allow state and local government and educational institutions to once again use ancestry / race and sex / gender in hiring and admissions decisions. Proponents painted it as affirmative action needed to right historic wrongs. Opponents painted it as enabling racism.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 03:58:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #FL: #Trump leads 51.2% to #Biden's 47.7% in Florida with an estimated 94% of ballots counted.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 03:32:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} 03:27 UTC / 19:27 PST / 22:27 EST
#USPol #Politics #Election2020
NBC News: Trump leads in battlegrounds Florida and Texas, Biden pulls ahead in Arizona
NBC News: Biden wins New Mexico
NBC News: Democrats keep control of the House
NBC News: As Michigan tallies its vote, Democrats are encouraged by high voter turnout in Detroit
NBC News: Alabama Senate seat goes Republican, Colorado seat goes Democrat -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 03:16:43 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I've reloaded the #NBCNews page so many times that their "please turn off your adblocker" interstitial stopped giving me the view site anyway option. Turning off #JavaScript got rid of that, but no more nice election results map. Switching to #CNN.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2020 00:15:35 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I got a chuckle out of seeing people asking where Belarus is. I attended California public schools. At that time, CA schools were 47th out of the 50 states. As a result, in times like this, I expect everyone who did not live in Mississippi to have received a better education than I did.
Tags: #CA #California #MS #Mississippi #schools #Belarus #politics #protests -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 06:14:01 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #Anti-masker kicked off plane, other passengers applaud. https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Anti-masker-kicked-off-plane-15431769.php [www sfgate com]
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCoV | #coronavirus | #politics | #stupidity | #air_travel | #hairport -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2020 00:18:24 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #GA Governor Kemp sues #Atlanta over mask mandate https://nypost.com/2020/07/17/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-sues-atlanta-mayor-over-mask-mandate/
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCov | #SARS-CoV-2 | #coronavirus | #politics | #stupidity -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2020 15:56:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://battlepenguin.com/tech/fighting-with-the-data/
"Big data" and visualizations make everything look simple, but #COVID-19, like everything else in the real world, is messy. OP argues that the data is noisy, contradictory, and incomplete ... and that it will be years before we can reliably draw any conclusions from it.
#data_science #statistics #visualization #2019-nCoV #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease #politics -
coldacid ⚔️?️ ?? ✔️ (coldacid)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2020 01:04:43 UTC coldacid ⚔️?️ ?? ✔️ The United Nations: even the worst girls are better. #anime #politics #NWO
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2020 01:12:19 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #IA caucus results ... these are NOT final, but wow ... look at this. Source: #NYTimes #politics #US_Pol https://nu.federati.net/attachment/261228 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 04:54:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-democrats-election-2020-trending-1479699 [newsweek]
Oof!
"Body blow! Body blow! Left hook!"
Newsweek gives #Sanders the beat down like he was "Glass Joe" in the game "Punch Out".
#uspol #politics #pollies (tagged so people can filter these posts, either into or out of their feeds) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 02:41:41 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #Vox examines the similarities and differences between Bernie #Sanders and Elizabeth #Warren https://nu.federati.net/url/257341 [vox]
As you know, I generally avoid #politics and #pollies (politicians). But I’m reading a little bit more these days in preparation for the election in November. So far, I’m still not likely to support any #twin_parties candidate. #uspol -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2019 19:01:55 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} WaPo: "... no president since World War II has lost reelection when unemployment was below 7.4 percent." https://nu.federati.net/url/254352 [washington post]
Is that really true? I haven't checked yet. I realize that wallet issues are life issues, but I'd expect other major issues to occasionally outweigh the economy.
!econusa #politics #federal_reserve #trade_war #tariffs -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2019 19:52:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://nu.federati.net/url/251960 [marketwatch . com]
An opinion article talks about causes of the student loan crisis (and a little bit of #politics in saying that candidates will not address any of his suggested causes during the debate). -
Ricardus (ricardus)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2019 21:35:25 UTC Ricardus Make no mistake. "Electability" is just the main stream media's way of influencing you to vote for the establishment candidate. Don't fall for it.