Erik Loomis
Writer at Lawyers, Guns and Money
Labor historian. 1st Gen. Receipt keeper of American evil, then & now. Academic union thug. Beer. Music. Energy is my currency.
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2 days ago |
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis
Thanks to the people who recognized that this set of images came from My Perestroika. There were people trying to use AI to answer this question and again, I’d rather die than use AI and the very wrong answers AI was presenting didn’t change my mind. So yeah, this is the last of these great images. Here’s one more from this excellent film: Let’s talk about the Funeral of Brezhnev game. Whatever you want to think it is.
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2 days ago |
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis
Gavin Newsom makes Jared Polis look like J.B. Pritzker:Gov. Gavin Newsom will call Wednesday for California to scale back health care for undocumented immigrants to help balance the state budget, retrenching on his desire to deliver “universal health care for all.”The move comes days after the Trump administration targeted a different state-funded program for immigrants in California and signaled that it would continue to scrutinize benefits for undocumented individuals.
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lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis
In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor? Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas.
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2 days ago |
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis
It annoys me that it was Donald Trump who convinced Rob Manfred to end the lifetime suspensions of those believed to have gambled on the game. But it’s the right call. I always thought it was dumb to ban Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson from the game after their deaths. I highly doubt that either make the Hall of Fame, for that would then focus attention on the even more egregious and ridiculous blocking of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Alex Rodriguez.
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2 days ago |
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis
Another reason why I reject the current liberal world of “let’s all just be the big tent and talk about the insane orange man and focus on the next election” is that it completely ignores the longer term power issues that must be fixed if Democrats are going to hold power long enough to flush this generation of Republicans down the toilet.
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Our next Modern American History seminar on Tue, 22 Apr, at 5p (EDT), features @DrEinavRFox's "Left on Broadway: Pins & Needles and the Cultural Work of Labor Unions." @ErikLoomis commenting. Free online event. Register here: https://t.co/62Sm4rW7ly https://t.co/paBT0M0Xzd
RT @ddayen: Nobody wants to say that Bidenomics worked at anything, but we really did have a successful targeted industrial policy that was…
Horrible human Alan Simpson is dead. Anyone who thinks Social Security should exist is celebrating. https://t.co/GbzKwz3y21
