Yes. Michael Moore:
"The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.
Because this anger is not about the killing of a CEO. If everyone who was angry was ready to kill the CEOs, the CEOs would already be dead."
I just came across the word ‘mockney’ for the first time. Apparently it means, in short, fake cockney:
‘pronunciation of English by someone who pretends to speak like a cockney, in order to seem as if they are from a lower social class’
I like it. I don’t think we have an equivalent word in Dutch.
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If climate tech is dead, what comes next? Let’s try “resilience tech,” climate reporter Tim De Chant writes. Read about it at @Techcrunch:
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AXIOS [Dec 21] 4 big Trump misses already: 1) Thune elected Senate majority leader 2) Gaetz forced to withdraw as Atty Gnl 3) R's defeat of his spending deal 4) R's pass spending deal w/o his increase in debt ceiling. 2nd term Prezs always lose power &…
The governor gets to appoint election board members in North Carolina. Democrats won the office in November; they also won other offices like LG and AG.
The GOP changed the law to give this power to the auditor’s office, a race the GOP won in November.
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“He’s not gonna get any favors out of us,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett says after Dems prevented a gov’t shutdown. “I am going to make sure that the American people can know the nice things that they can have if they just put the right people in power, & that means putting the Dems back on top” #Velshi
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“He’s not gonna get any favors out of us,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett says after Dems prevented a gov’t shutdown. “I am going to make sure that the American people can know the nice things that they can have if they just put the right people in power, & that means putting the Dems back on top” #Velshi
msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/rep…
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Nevertheless, we could use a similar word in Dutch, for instance to grumble about marketing campaigns that try to use hip language and fail.