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FEMA worker fired for telling hurricane responders to avoid homes with pro-Trump signs FEMA's administrator said the employee told a team responding to hurricane survivors to skip homes with yard signs showing support for Donald Trump.

www.npr.org/2024/11/09/g...

When a FEMA worker tried to skip aid for Trump voters, she got fired, and rightly so. But now we have a whole ass case of our politicians talking about putting limits on aid to US citizens, and people are cheering this on? Like WUUUUT?

I'm not mad at Meghan Markle for delaying the premiere of her new show due to the wildfires. Such an appropriate response, and what any decent person would do in the face of such devastation happening in her home camp.

The countdown now starts for March 4th!

How the Democrats Blew It Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaign insiders talk about the 2024 campaign, voter outreach, social media, and that Las Vegas Sphere ad.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

What's that, you say? Democrats failed to actually engage and reach *anyone* worthwhile to get voters? They focus on their select few at the cost of everyone else? They want to totally control the message instead of allowing for organic spread?

*roll eyes*

We need more of this, a big reason why the DNC is losing support is because it doesn't raise up their future leaders.

We could have had Walz nationally :(

To all the haters making up stories about The Sussexes.

#SussexSquad
#SussexSquaddie
#PrincessMeghan
#DukeAndDuchessOfSussex

Elon "I bought Twitter for the feemales" Musk

6) There are tons more magazines out there, and it'll take a while, but I hope to read a lot more of them

I did not expect the variety in reporting, and a lot of it is still fascinating even today! It will take a while, but I'm committed, at least one a week

Little girl showing off dress. Print dress in shades of gold, green, copper, and blue on a gray background, has puffed sleeves, a bouffant skirt, and is sashed with satin ribbon tied in big bow in back. Simplicity Pattern No 3248 comes in girls' sizes 7-14, $.50

5 cont) And then we get to this picture of an older girl, maybe 8 or 9, and it felt icky, like why would they have her pose that way to show off the bow in the back?

(Note, I learned later this pose was most likely to show off the petticoat, but I am copying over from Threads)

5) There was a style feature of various dresses being promoted for Black mothers to sew for their little girls. There were several pictures of toddler and preschool girls, and those dresses were adorable and the little girls were staged adorably.

Recipe for Eggnog Pie: Combine 1 pkg. coconut cream pudding and pie filling mix with 2 tbsp sugar, 1/8 tsp nutmeg, and 1/2 cup milk. Add 1 egg and blend well. Add 1 1/2 cups milk and cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a full boil. Remove from heat and add 1 tbsp brandy and 1 tbsp rum. Cool 5 minutes, stirring once or twice. Whip 1/2 cup whipping cream and fold into filling. Pour into pie shell. Chill until firm. Garnish with more whipped cream and pastry cut-outs, if desired.

4) I would personally not try out the pie recipes, but I get that other people would be interested. Here's their Eggnog Pie recipe, that I feel like people would be interested in.

3) How many problems reported on in the 1950s and onward are still timely today. The example of the biracial babies following WWII needing to be adopted out is particular, with the difficulties noted of finding proper homes for the babies in their unique situation touched upon.

2) cont: I particularly enjoyed reading about Ruth Jenkins, who helped 1000s of soldiers and their families transferred to San Diego get acclimated to moving to their new home as the first Black USO volunteer

2) The variety of reporting. The magazine reported on everything from international affairs, to the challenges of adopting out biracial babies following WWII, to the efforts that women made registering fellow Blacks to vote in Baltimore, to Black Madonnas.

1) The advertisements! I knew to expect, but it's still a shock to see multiple ads for bleaching creams, Lysol as a feminine douche, and even MLK Jr. being used to advertise a life insurance company. The last one somehow feels the most shocking, because nowadays, MLK feels deified as a person.

I was directed to an archive of older Black magazines, and I've started reading through Ebony magazines. Why? This year I've wanted to read through more Black content, both past and present, expand myself culturally and learn through other POVs. The earliest edition is from 1959, so here's a read

I saw someone post else that Zuckerberg looks like Justin Timberlake in his Blaxploitation era, and now I can't unsee it. Not sure what's cringier, the comparison being right or Zuckerberg being 20 years late fashionwise.

Reading more, watching more, listening more, doing things that would be great to do for *my* sake, instead of hoping that someone takes notice and sees me. Because honestly, with the way this country is today, there are a lot of people in the country alone that I just don't want to know

I've already been thinking about my New Year's Resolutions for next year, and I think my end result is going to be to focus on self. Stop trying to make friends, to limit myself to fit in, to get myself back into society and focusing on what is happening here and now

Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars The bidder that lost last month's auction of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' assets had complained that the process was rigged and "fatally flawed."

Oof, so a judge rejects Onion's bid to buy InfoWars, with the judge claiming that "it doesn't maximize profit to the families". But.. some of the families agreeing to it is why the Onion got the traction it did! Did all of the families not agree or something?

www.npr.org/2024/12/10/n...

Man, fuck NY Post. Didn't even need to see much else to know this is from that rag

Study suggests some men don’t know meaning of ‘rape’ A recent study found that nearly one-third of college male participants said they would “force a woman to [have] sexual intercourse.” When asked if they would “rape a woman,” that number dwindled to 1...

"OMG, how could you accuse X man of rape, he wouldn't do that!" He might if he called it by a different name: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Meh, I'm not a fan of her music, but I can still acknowledge that she's at least somewhat ethical as a billionaire.

Allegedly the reason why the McDonald's worker called 911 on CEO Assassin is because an elderly customer noticed that the guy at McDonald's looked like the photos the NYPD released.. proof once again that boomers ruin everything

OMG, you're not supposed to focus on OUR wrongdoings!

I know that I ideally would get another job, but the job market here is terrible, and they have a couple of benefits that, if I managed to last, could help with retirement. Meanwhile, I just do the job and don't do the whole job worship BS

That's a CRAZY concept!

When I first started working for this company, I had to fight them b/c my store manager at the time would edit time punches to make it look like we left earlier than we had. His labor was high b/c he left 2-3 hours early, so we had to work to make up for his slacking

His former revenge porn site, Is Anybody Down?

If anyone is following Craig Brittain's account, dude is not only cosplaying as anarchist (he ran for the Senate race in Arizona as a far right candidate), dude also used to run a revenge porn site that might still be up in various other names.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Anyb...

Isn't this the same woman who joined up with that huge sexual harassment lawsuit that ended up dethroning Roger Ailes? How's that work that now if a woman is alone with a man that she's asking to be raped?

Leave it to Nazis to not want to relive sexual traumas related to pooping >.>

So Brandy toured with Boyz 2 Men in the 90s, she was 16 to Wanya Morris' 23. They claim they just knew each other, and waited until Brandy was 18 before they dated. But that background makes Brokenhearted just sound so much different, and cringy.