I love this!
Except that I have a master’s degree so I want my room to be known as the master room. I’m still paying for that degree, it needs regular recognition.
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Your room is the Master Degree Bedroom. It has high standards.
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The Dixie Chicks changed their name to The Chicks and put out this song and video yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBjF_VVFvE
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Oh fuck. Why’d you make me cry? It was a million years ago when Bush and fake weapons were the problem.
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Although on the plus side celebrities can insult politicians now
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Bush and his fake weapons almost sounds cute these days. 
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Oh god I remember HS me being just so unbelievably outraged at Bush and raging so hard about all of that. If only I knew then what we were in for…
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2016-2020 is one long political ad campaign by the Bush family so that they win every future election ever
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But Bush II had only daughters. shakes head sadly
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Looks like Mississippi is going to take the stars and bars off the state flag.
https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article243848412.html?fbclid=IwAR3HmLY2qL9UeKPoQg-D2Dkzr8l8yvh0GdCPfZ_KOpzlrIgbFdV9T4dy2qo
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Younger wife, sex selective ivf. waits forcompensation
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That’s a good share.
The upside of inadequate WFH soundproofing is overhearing my spouse & his CEO talk about setting up an internship & hiring pipeline with a HBCU (historically black college/university). I’ve so far been ineffective at initiating similar with my employer 
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At our d&I meeting yesterday, we talked about setting up MOUs with 3 different HBCUs. Hoping that translates into a more diverse student population! We also went into some diversity with disability stuff which was a nice change from so much focus on visible diversity.
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Earlier this week I participated in a survey by my city about my experience with the police department and the future of policing. It was very detailed, with a lot of opportunity for commentary, and took me about five hours to complete.
It’s obviously a strategy that doesn’t reach many people whose voices are chronically not heard, but it was readily available from links on social media platforms so should capture at least the same demographic of respondents as an in-person town hall meeting would, with more room for individuals to share complete thoughts.
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I’m putting together a training about surveys and representation. Would you be ok if I used this as an example of unintentionally losing some voices? paraphrasing the story, not linked to you
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Sure!
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How many people who protested are now following the National Defense Authorization Act?
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I’ve been following only as far as the elements Trump has threatened to veto over - renaming bases currently named after Confederate soldiers and more recently, he wants to add a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - the thing that protects websites from being punished for what their users publish on it.
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The current version of the 2021 NDAA has some clauses that are progressive:
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Prohibit the pentagon from transferring a variety of militarized weapons to state & tribal LEO entities;
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Require annual training in “participating” LEO agencies in de-escalation of force, and review of the rights of the individual inferred by the Constitution.
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Require all federal LEOs (those guys out during the protests in all black tacs, with no identifying marks) to wear identification badges of affiliation and name.
Some pretty major clauses, and at the Federal level(!), with almost no discussion by the population. It’s a variance, and I have assumptions about what the lack of attention means, but I’m trying really hard to extend questions instead of snap opinions
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