I'd estimate as many as 1,500 people turned out in the mostly-conservative Portland suburb of Tigard, and hundreds or even thousands of cars honked or gave a thumbs-up compared to only half a dozen birds or thumbs-down that I saw.
In Tigard. That's a BFD. At least half the Teslas that drove by gave us honks and waves (including the one driven by two women in hijab). #HandsOff
"Major League Baseball ha[s] altered what was once its 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' webpage, removing that title, and scrubbing the word "diversity" from it... [and] has almost completely eliminated the webpage for its Diversity Pipeline Program. And it's not even clear if the program itself exists any longer."
This wouldn't be a bad time for all offended ballplayers to strike. Let's see how well the owners do without minority and minority-ally players.
So hey, if anyone hasn't blocked and reported enough people today and feels like flushing an assferret, may I suggest you do so to @ chanon @noauthority.social ?
Dear #Canada: I'm so fucking sorry. Really. Your friend, Scott P.S.: Please boycott us massively, and also get your defenses buffed. We need you to win this thing no matter how much it hurts us along the way.
Also, even if you were vaccinated as a child, you nevertheless might not be immune to measles if you were born between 1957 (when a vaccine came out that didn't always work) and 1968 (when a better vaccine was released). I just got a "childhood" Measles Mumps Rubella ("MMR") vaccine at age 63 because measles is continuing to spread and I'm in that unsweet spot.
You: "Eh, it's just measles. No big deal." Science: "Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia
@FantasticalEconomics@academicchatter I'm fine with Harvard doing this, but not Yale Law, because it might help more Appalachians attend and then write books that get turned into movies that let them get hired as Thiel acolytes and then become evil vice presidents.
Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.) He/him.