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Looks like that conversation is still happening: This impending meet-up is pregnant with hot takes. Shane Gillis reached out. Looks like we will be sitting down together soon. — Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) September 16, 2019
Yangs UBI lottery seems to have paid off: In the last Democratic debate, Andrew Yang offered to give 10 families $1,000 a month for a year as a part of his “Freedom Dividend Pilot Program. It was a strange debate gambit , but one that garnered him $1 million dollars in 72 hours, according to the Yang campaign. Full disclosure: I donated $1 to enter the lottery—for RESEARCH PURPOSES. (Also because UBI is the only way I can pay off my student loans, which are nearly $1,000 a month until I die. And thats just for undergrad! At a state school! Us millennials arent lying when we say were fucked!)
Batten down the hatches: The Seattle area may experience strong marine winds on Tuesday, also known as gales. Winds could get up to 39 mph.
8 years of Trumps tax returns have been subpoenaed: 🎵 Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when state prosecutors in Manhattan come for you 🎵 From the New York Times : Even if the Manhattan district attorney’s office is successful in obtaining the president’s tax returns, the documents would be covered by secrecy rules governing grand juries, meaning they would not become public unless they were used as evidence in a criminal case.
Milo Yiannopoulos would like to be a furry: But the furries dont want him . Yiannopoulos, the far-right commentator known for being banned from Twitter, Facebook, colleges, Breitbart, and now the Midwest FurFest, recently announced he has adopted a fursona—a furry persona. He even purchased tickets to a furry con, the Midwest FurFest, but organizers of the con rescinded his invitation. “The board of Midwest Furry Fandom, consistent with our posted code of conduct, has rescinded Mr. Yiannopoulos’s registration. He is not welcome to attend this or any future Midwest FurFest event, organizers of the event told Right Wing Watch.
Yiannopoulos isnt the first far-right commentator to try to recruit or co-opt furries: A passage from Mark Brays Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook , p. 111:
By framing feminism, queer liberation, and anti-racism as facets of a stultifying, unnatural, PC hegemony, the alt-right have given frustrated racist white people, especially men, a rebellious outlet to express what they had been thinking all along. Fascists and white nationalists have pursued this line of recruitment by infiltrating white-majority subcultures such as the skinhead scene, punk more broadly, metal, neo-folk, goth, video games and fantasy genre communities (evident in Gamergate), hipster culture (Nazi hipsters known as Nipsters), and even furries and bronies (men who are fans of My Little Pony ) .
This tendency shows the important of anti-fascism in subcultural contexts.
The mysterious (and deadly) vape-related illness is spreading: The Washington Department of Health is now calling the vape illness a “ state-wide outbreak .†As someone commented on Twitter , Waitll they hear about cigarettes.
Jerry Nadler says the House Judiciary Committee will not be immediately investigating recent Brett Kavanaugh accusations : Because they are busy impeaching the president, he says. “We have our hands full with impeaching the president right now and that’s going to take up our limited resources and time for a while,†Nadler told WNYC .
Jesus showed up to the Seattle City Council today: How can Seattle be dying when Jesus is living, baby? jesus wants us to pass the green new deal pic.twitter.com/mrLOZR2sUu — nathalie graham (@gramsofgnats) September 16, 2019 To get this delivered to your inbox, subscribe to The Stranger s Slog AM/PM newsletter. Subscribe 10 Chase Burns
Chase Burns is The Strangers digital editor. He started at the paper as a Tech-Savvy/At-Risk Youth for Savage Love and has been reading your smut for too many years. He writes Slogs evening news round-up, Slog PM.
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