Tressie McMillan Cottom

LIES LIES LIES OMG we all saw it

A domed building sits on a lot with trees and greenery beside a roadway with a car. A headline reads: "This City of Prisons Is Suing Over a Planned ICE Detention Center" Photo by David Robery Elliott for The New York Times

Leavenworth, Kansas, was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are now divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town. nyti.ms/3IW2Kh3

2000: Stay in school or you’ll end up flipping burgers

2008: Oh you think you’re too good to flip burgers?

2015: Oh, you want to be paid more than $7.50/hr to flip burgers?

2020: How come everyone is too lazy to flip burgers?

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

Real bad. I have a whole class on this, btw.

It’s often a woman and if they hire them, a person of color. Even the find out portion of these things happen I always imagine pouring some liquor out for them.

Ahem

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Reminded of Brandon Taylor’s response to anything that went unexpectedly viral on Twitter: “nope that’s none of my business”

I deleted previous post.

But for the six people who see this one.

A lot of tech is aimed at death and grief industries. The necropolitics of it all is a bit on the nose.

Everything I know about Fox & personalities like Gutfield was 2nd hand exposure from relatives. But I absolutely feel like I’m ahead of the curve compared my liberal centrist peers. Because I know it’s not random bringing him on, he’s long been positioned to be their answer to Stewart/Colbert.

It’s horrible.

Yeah I was trying to get liberal centrist critics to appreciate that different kinds of humor were beating them in the smug late night race. Just because we didn’t find it funny, didn’t mean it wasn’t.

If chiggers get on you during your big “oh no it’s already August and I’m panicked” hike through the mountains? Just go ahead and saw that leg off. It offends thee. It cannot be saved.

I wrote about Gutfield in a column on how the right uses humor…maybe two years ago now? While late night ratings have been in a steady decline, Gutfield had a strong audience. They were honing.

It seems strange and unlikely to me that this is news to the dems THIS week.

Do I say I’m upset? I must have missed that part.

Good news for economists: This is the golden age of talking shite.

Bad news for economists: They have invented machines that talk unlimited quantities of utter shite.

I play a little game sometimes where I imagine what assumptions people chose to make to generate the outrage they express. For example, what do I think they’ve made up here?

I’m not the person who was talking about Kansas. I am familiar with the area.

Third mention this week I’ve heard from democrats now convinced that they, too, should gerrymander.

I feel like I’m on drugs.

“It was in Manhattan, KS. Who the heck is applying for this??”

Well, you are. Not sure he got that part.

Because he is mirroring his parents’ beliefs.

Maybe HR used AI to reject applications with “tone”. That would be poetic.

I mean…you were applying? How strange could it be?? Whew.

Strange, it doesn’t worry me at all??

Got to love these poor, abused boys 🙄😳

A 3rd grade boy classmate of my daughter’s wrote a letter (I’m assuming w his parents’ help) to complain that the girls’ magazine my wife publishes—w girl readers in mind—is “racist to boys.” He gave the letter to my daughter in school & asked her to deliver home.

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

You can just get a martini and read the new Chinese mom detective book on a patio. No one can stop you.