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@AlisonB916

5 years

@nerdythor @eponawest I’m not offended by adulation. In fact, I’ve come to expect it.

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By Graham and Ian🌹🪟

@AlisonB916

5 months

I had the misfortune to come across this tweet this morning, did a little reading, and am compelled to comment.

🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻

@thrasherxy

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As the sheriff evicted an elderly couple and was removing a handicapped woman with Parkinson's disease from their home, her partner doused himself with gas and set himself on fire. "This," Aaron Bushnell so presciently said, "is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."

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@AlisonB916

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This is why you occasionally read about murder-suicides of elders being evicted. They have no options. And it’s one reason I’m appalled by the YIMBYs trying to move rent-controlled elders out of their apartments so younger, richer people can occupy them.

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@AlisonB916

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Moving is particularly hard on elders. They’ve often lived in a place for a long time, and even if neither is disabled, it’s a big big job. And that’s in addition to the cattle call that is today’s rental market, where you put up with any abuse to pay a lot for rent.

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@AlisonB916

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Interestingly, this wasn’t a non-payment of rent case. The tenants were evicted on a 30-days notice. In most states, a tenant can be evicted for any reason or no reason at all by service of the statutory notice. Most of the time, the tenant is fucked, and just has to move.

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@AlisonB916

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The tenants had lived there for some years. Indeed if you can bear the fire video, it looks like they’d been there for a long time. The wife suffered from Parkinson’s and dementia, which means that her husband was her caregiver.

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@AlisonB916

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Just one more thing. I mean it. I really will shut up. I have been rattling on forever about people retiring into homelessness, either because their partner dies, or they get a big rent increase, or they get evicted. This horror is going to become more common in future.

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@AlisonB916

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A few words about disability. They would need a place without stairs, with an accessible bathroom, or one that could be made accessible easily. You have no idea how hard this can be. The number of bathtubs that are too narrow for a shower chair…

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@AlisonB916

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One more thing. These folks may not have had pets, but this is how you find 10-year-old bonded cats or dogs down at the shelter, petrified at the loss of their family, and unlikely to be adopted. When they should never have faced this in the first place.

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@AlisonB916

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The immediate solution is strong rent control and just cause protections nationwide. And then the revolution, as there’s no amount of filtering that fixes this.

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@AlisonB916

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It becomes even harder when one spouse is the caregiver, of course. They have to continue with their caregiving duties, pack up the house, find a new place to live that is suitable for the disabled partner, arrange for movers, set up the new house…

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@AlisonB916

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Once the Writ is endorsed, the tenants are screwed. They have an eviction “on their record,“ and it would become nigh on impossible for them to rent anything. It is really like having a criminal record, but for housing.

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@AlisonB916

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And now you also understand why elder homeowners don’t sell their homes and go into the rental market. Eve if you can only live in three rooms, it’s better than having this happen to you.

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@AlisonB916

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The widow will likely end up in Medicaid-funded assisted living, which will be immensely difficult for her—removed from familiar surroundings and missing her primary caregiver.

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@AlisonB916

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A lot of elders have made their place work for them. I remember John asking me how I’d get down the front steps if I had to evacuate and he weren’t home. I told him that I’d sit down on the top step and scoot down on my butt, assuming the the emergency personnel would pick me up.

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@AlisonB916

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But I can’t just stop. Even for people who are young and unencumbered can’t move easily in 30 days. There’s no way older and/or disabled people can do that.

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@AlisonB916

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Now the Writ of Possession was endorsed on March 4, which means that the 30-days notice was likely issued on February 1. Gee, add insult by evicting elders in winter. The eviction was carried out within three weeks of the Writ.

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@AlisonB916

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The nicer of them might offer me a decent tent.

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@AlisonB916

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Moving on from my unfortunate snippiness, a couple of concluding remarks. I am going to shut up, really.

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4 years

@tousjoursmax53 @JohnHenryStyle The Fight for $15 has gone on for so long that it should be the Fight for $20.

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@Mano_nemvem @NikkiMcR No, that place is so awful that we just salvage what we can and tear it down. It’s a crime against architecture.

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@AlisonB916

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@brianonhere There is nothing wrong with a woman reading a book at a bar. Why is everyone so judgy over stuff like this?

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@AlisonB916

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It looks like Cuba made a good bet by developing their own vaccines. Soberana 2 has 91% efficacy. It would have been years before Cuba could get internationally available vaccines. Mambisa, still in testing, is a nasal vaccine (like they give kids for flu).

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@androidwyrm @sonyaism It’s a joke, comrade.

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@DamonLinker I wish more people were upset that we bailed out banks and enabled private equity to buy up a bunch of houses and raise rents. I’d much rather bail out college students. And the greatest benefit will go to Black women. I’m good with that.

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@AlisonB916

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@fadeastride @DominoComics I always tip in cash now. And I will continue to do so until it’s proved that workers for delivery services etc. are getting the full tip (every blessed penny) in addition to their regular wage.

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@red_winer @zerobeta @chrislhayes No, they should monitor our credit and fix any problems for the rest of our lives.

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@AlisonB916

6 years

@latimes @latimesopinion I’m proud of California. We encourage people to vote, have a good paper trail for accountability, and take the time to count all the votes. That’s only bizarre if you want to keep people from voting.

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@irenazej @emilyabenfer But if the tenants don’t have a lawyer, and most don’t...

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If you think YIMBYs don’t want to move older, rent-controlled tenants out of their apartments, just read the responses to this.

Leah Goodridge

@leahfrombklyn

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I know that's right! If I snagged a rent-stabilized apt 30 yrs ago for $250 and was then able to live my dream as a writer and photographer because I'm paying affordable rent, I'd be standing tall in front page news too. I don't know her but I'm cheering her on.

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@MadinaJadeed @Hereticalmist Many people who rent can’t do that, as they can be evicted for allowing additional people to live in their apartments. And people who have roommates would need their roommates’ consent.

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@BrandonHarami And let’s all be like Bernie when Warren supporters come to Bernieville.

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@kittynouveau @RioSlade LL apparently deleted the post. Thanks for saving it so we can remind ourselves of how gawdawful these people are.

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Why do people think that apartment-dwellers want to live on major arterial “transit corridors”? We don’t really.

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California has a nearly $100 billion surplus. If we don’t fix housing, it’s because we don’t want to.

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@BethLynch2020 And we’re in a pandemic. We WANT people staying home.

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@DEFStories @SorahyaM Every parent who doesn’t want her kid to take sex ed should be told this story and asked, “Do you want her friends to think she’s this ignorant?”

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@ChristyTending You made my day!

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@nytimes @MLNow should have been credited with breaking the story.

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@nometellme @nostalgicuItra During the foreclosure crisis some homeowners too k out their frustration on the house. Not one of them removed the window frames intact and broke the glass. The kitchen is in pristine condition.

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@ZibdyHealth @zerobeta @niamyaraghi @Equifax We aren't customers--we're product.

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@kittynouveau @RioSlade The landlord should also understand that most young people don’t have much of an estate, and the parents don’t become independently responsible for the rent.

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Los Angeles reported 8,064 COVID cases and 20 deaths. Cuba reported 97 cases and 0 deaths.

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@dskamper @adamm0rgan I had that happen a couple of times. People told me that they had been flirting with me. I had absolutely no idea—totally oblivious.

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@AlisonB916

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@DavidKlion @ChrisSturr One thing that’s gotten lost—it’s because we supported those murderous thugs that people are fleeing Central America today. The military/police/gang alliance can be traced directly to Reagan’s policies.

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If we really aren’t going to bail tenants out, and it looks like that won’t happen, we need to start planning for formal encampments for unhoused people—ones with sanitary facilities and services.

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@AlisonB916

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LA comrades. Never forget that it was Kevin De Leon who said, “Fuck the renters.”

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@jeeeberts @LouisPeitzman What part of “it’s the law” are they not getting?

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@RedwoodGirl @PpollingNumbers Wow! Maybe it because he doesn’t go around trying to speak Spanish.

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@SorahyaM I once had to explain to 4 young women (this in the 1990s!) that you could get pregnant the first time you had sex. I thought we’d gotten rid of that in the 1970s!

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@ahouse4all Younger Boomers (1955 and later) are particularly precarious. They didn’t get the pensions of the older Boomers, lived through the double recession of 1981-82, rode the wage crash down, and were less likely to have children. Many become homeless when their spouse dies.

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@JChrist10783 @tousjoursmax53 @JohnHenryStyle The grocery stocker is really important to our lives right now, as is the delivery driver, letter carrier, trucker and myriad others who turn out to have essential jobs. I can’t believe there are people who still haven’t realized that. And they should be paid decently.

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John Kwasnik November 30, 1948-February 22, 2023

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@andrewheiss @mgb5000 They’re assuming that most people will eat the cost because getting reimbursed is too much hassle.

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@JeppeSun @ASlavitt Not only does it protect you, but wearing a mask shows respect for the people who serve you. Essential workers have become expendable workers.

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Blackstone didn’t buy houses because supply was constrained, but because the houses were cheap. They got a once in several decades opportunity to buy very, very cheaply, and they did. In many communities, supply wasn’t constrained at all—empty house littered the landscape.

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@petsobel @_pem_pem And he’s been vaccinated!

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@LorrieScott @Bob_Wachter @UCSF Me too. We’ve mastered contactless pickup and delivery, Zoom lunches and so on. We want to be liberated, but those at higher risk and who are the essential workers who enable our comfort should get it first.

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In San Francisco they should upzone Seacliff, Pacific Heights, St. Francis Wood, and Forest Hill, and tell YIMBY to go for it.

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It was amazing to have John Oliver talking about tenants’ rights and the problem of eviction. It’s almost never talked about in the major media. And they never even mention what it means for the lives of people who suffer eviction.

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Landlords don’t want to hand over their tax info, most likely because they’re cheating on their taxes.

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@oneunionmom @WorkingPod And in some stores customers are berating them too! Some people never learn.

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@mtsw Don’t discount racism and sexism in setting wages. For generations women had few employment options, and teaching was one of the few occupations open to them. Underpaying teachers stems from that.

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@DanielDenvir It was really hard for them. They came of age during the Reagan years, and faced the wage collapse of the 1980s. A lot of Gen X was very conservative, so the Gen X left was fairly isolated.

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Landlords are already evading the law prohibiting Section 8 discrimination. Now they don’t say “No Section 8”. They say that the rent subsidy doesn’t count as part of the tenant’s income. If the tenant had 3 times the rent as income without subsidy, they wouldn’t get Section 8.

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Rents in California will be paid off because some right-wing crazies decided to recall the Governor.

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@IanColdwater @faintdeception Only $4.25. It should be A LOT more.

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@IDoTheThinking And if you’ve been convicted of a felony, you can’t live in public housing, get Section 8, or get federal education grants. It’s no wonder that our recidivism rate is so high.

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@BigMeanInternet When I first heard that synagogues were doing this, my thought was, no, no one would do this. I was stunned when I found out it was true! It violates both US and international law.

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@Estrus_flask @thomasfullerNYT In fact, it’s the only way to solve the problem. But it requires a willingness to spend money on poor people. And that’s what Mayor Breed and her corporate sponsors don’t have.

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Any developer worth their salt would tell you that there’s no way the market will produce enough housing to do any more than reduce rents slightly. For one thing, no banker is going to fund a project if rents are falling.

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@AlisonB916

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Now the Feds should fix the rent assistance programs. Not more than one page form. Easy to work. If the landlord won’t participate, the money goes to the tenant. And if local/state government doesn’t do it right, the Feds take it over. Period.

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@winnerwinsor @red_winer @zerobeta @chrislhayes But my identity is compromised for the rest of my life. I can't change my birth date or SSN.

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@dillonliam @ericgarcetti @CNN @FrancisSuarez @ankurjain_2 3 problems: Landlords often don’t have the security deposit. (For decades, California landlords have resisted having to put the money in a separate account.) And most would just apply it to back rent, so there would be no stimulus effect. 1/2

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@katewillett @mayavada This issue was settled more than 100 years ago, in part as a result of the 1918 pandemic. The windowless tenements of the time spread infection with dispatch. Lack of ventilation is bad.

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Los Angeles reported 6,342 COVID cases and 16 deaths. Cuba reported 44 cases and 0 deaths.

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@wideofthepost @davidsirota You’d think we’d never heard of Google.

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@davidjmadden @loud_socialist @rcmoya84 fixed it.

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Dashiell August 1, 2006 - December 31, 2021

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Los Angeles County has a population of 10 million. Cuba has a population of 11.3 million. Yesterday LA County had 8600 new COVID cases. Cuba had 89. There were no COVID deaths in Cuba, but 24 in Los Angeles.

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@LLW902 The US tried to claim that the Cubans had lied about the effectiveness of their literacy campaign. It was only in the 1970s that a study (by an Italian educator, as I recall) provided definitive “proof” that the Cubans had not lied. I cannot believe that we’re re-running this.

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@ajeffrey1234 @Jbrous14 Since WWII, not a single war has been fought by the US for our peace and security. We could have skipped them all, and we’d probably be MORE secure.

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@Wippy_J @theashleyray Seniors and disabled people are dependent on friends and relatives bringing them supplies.

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@BruinoogeA @cnnbrk Even if it turned out not to be true, the world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, so we have to find alternative energy sources anyway. The evidence for human-caused global warming is overwhelming though.

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And for anyone surprised by this, the Cubans have been doing their own vaccines for decades.

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@DEFStories @SorahyaM Yeesh! When I was younger, all my friends who were parents wanted their kids to take sex ed. It was always funny to us that people who went through the sexual revolution had such trouble talking to their kids about sex. But the kids didn’t want to hear it from parents either.

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@dillonliam @ericgarcetti @CNN @FrancisSuarez @ankurjain_2 Finally an insurance plan would require that landlords show that the tenant did damage in order to collect, and denying claims that were wear and tear. One of the dirty little secrets of security deposits is that landlords keep them unlawfully, and tenants write them off.

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@Freudianity @laborgiant @SAMOYEDCORE And I hope the people who live there DO get to go out for ice cream.

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@JuboktimusPrime @KawsachunNews Imagine if the US government had given Cuba a billion dollars for vaccine development.

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@thrasherxy Lots of people with kids are getting it because schools are mostly unmasked and even if your kid is masked, they’re kids.

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And now to cheer you up.

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@KUTV2News

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"It's working!" Check out the critters big and small who are using Utah's first wildlife overpass to cross Interstate 80. The @UtahDWR shared this video on Thursday.

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J had a heart attack and died tonight. I’ll be back eventually.

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@denise_dewald Rent control and just cause eviction would make the rental market a lot less attractive to them.

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@threedukes @chrislhayes @Larakate No, the increase, about $80B, brings the total defense budget to $700B. The $80B is nearly twice the entire HUD budget.

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@Jbrous14 It’s a cost of doing business, like paying the electric bill or the rent. If you can’t pay it, close your business or sell it to someone who can.

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@itscred1t @ragdus @MarkHubbard33 @ggreenwald Okay, folks, lesson what a marginal rate is. The marginal rate is the percentage you pay on the highest part of your income. 1

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YIMBYs are making me hate bicycles.

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@threedukes @chrislhayes @Larakate I try to be a little ray of sunshine, but...Trump.

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Who could have known? Just about every tenant organizer in the country.

Why Some Landlords Don’t Want Any of the $50 Billion in Rent Assistance

A federal program designed to help people avoid eviction by paying their rent is running into an unexpected hurdle: Some landlords are turning down the payment, saying it comes with too many condit...

www.wsj.com

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@kittynouveau @RioSlade Credit card companies always try to hunt down relatives to pay off a credit card bill, even if the estate is nothing but debt. Ignore them.

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This is the photo I’m using for J’s obit. I told him that I loved the pic, because his most common expression when looking at me was exasperation.

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