excellence terrible

hey all, I know I'm not a dying Palestinian child but uh. I'm having money problems!

yall know I'm getting married. however, i got laid off back in January and haven't been able to find a job. I've tried unemployment, that's in progress, but for the time being we still have contracts with people for the wedding and those need paid. so we made a gofundme, consider maybe helping me out so I can like. pay for food and a photographer and stuff.

(Actually spent a good few months thinking I was genetically unlucky and researching ancient family curses with my grandma.) 

So today I don’t know what I was hoping for - nothing, really?

(I mean, that part of me that’s still twelve was probably expecting this sweet old woman to have a set of glitter stickers in her purse and just go ‘You know what, you’re right - I’ve been saving this one for you all these years, here you go’ but I’m a solidly rational person and I know that’s stupid.)

No, I thought we’d just laugh and it would be a good shared memory and that would be it. Instead, my teacher got flustered and a bit embarrassed and explained the game was rigged. It was never about learning French at all. She’d just noticed some kids couldn’t afford even basic stationery, so she’d buy a few half-fancy items every month with her own money just for them. She didn’t want them to feel different or left out. And obviously the way she used to walk around in the classroom, looking over our shoulders - it wasn’t to prevent cheating. It was because she was cheating herself, wanting to see which number a particular child needed to get a Minnie Mouse pencil case.

Guys - the world is fucked up, but so many people out there are just good and kind and humbly heroic it honestly gives me hope. 

It wasn't a surprise when President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo late Monday. She was a Biden appointee who had used the agency to expand workers' rights.

But Trump went further, also firing Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented move that will be met with a legal fight.

Due to existing vacancies, Wilcox's ouster leaves the board with just two members, short of the quorum it needs to adjudicate even routine cases. (The board, when fully staffed, has five members.)

With this move, Trump has effectively shut down the NLRB's operations, leaving the workers it defends on their own, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement.

. . .

While courts have upheld the president's authority to remove the NLRB's general counsel, the National Labor Relations Act states that board members can be removed "for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause."

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Benjamin Sisko & Julian Bashir Talk About The Political Climate of the Early 2020′s in Past Tense, Part I

Original Dialogue:

These names aren’t all necessarily “weirder than Gloyd” but fall into three rough categories which I’ve dubbed: “that’s got a nice ring to it”, “if I used this in a novel it would be considered too unrealistic” and “you’ve got 5 seconds to name a character that lives in 1920s Oklahoma, GO!”:

Manford Armontrout

Buster Banks

Weldon Barnhart

Auvanelle Bartlett

Heartwell Bateson

Delbert Benson

Alchesto Blair

Garold Bowlby

Johnny Bristow

Eulalia Brown

Forrest Burns

Burley Bush

J. B. Buzbee

Claud Callaway

Carmelada Collins

Maudie Chipman

Arlee Chitwood

Vada Cockerham

LeRoy Cragar

Willis Cushenbery

Loralu Dean

Buster Boy Dennis

Opal Emberton

Luther Faulkenberry

Selwin Fite

Thornbrough Gaines

Dixie Lee Geist

Myrtle Goodpasture

Lurelie Greenwood

Oretho Gregston

Leola Gurley

Jewel Hunt

Woodrow Huff

Oveda Huffstutler

Jesse Leo Livengood

Imogene Lovelace

McJunior Martin

Junior Mayberry

Alesterine McBride

Bland McCraw

Grover McGee

Dorotha Mae McKeever

Odell McKerley

Verline McMurphy

Denzel Moon

Rex Murrow

Bobby Nuckolls

Cleotha Parham

Cleetus Penrod

Pearl Perkins

Cowell Peoples

Delton Phillips

Dilmond D. Postlewait

Darlington Potter

Nadine Pridemore

Waldo Proffitt Jr.

Harrel Quattlebaum

Roxy Rayne

Vinnona Revard

Wade Rigsby

Patsy Jo Sapp

Ellison Shaddrack

Opal Dean Schwennesen

Dillard Spradling

Erma Sternberger

Merle Sumpter

Hoyt Sweeney, Jr.

Stanley Swink

Claudine Thorpe

Tommy Threadgill

Sonny Boy Thurman

Tommy TIngley

Peggy Jane Tinker

Sammy Lee Truelove

Freeda Merl Tucker

Roscoe Vandolah

Otice Vanhoosier

Belva Jean Waddle

Taft Wake

LeRoy Welfington

Idabell Wheat

Ouida Wieder

Marjoria Worsham