{"id":25948,"date":"2021-02-12T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25948"},"modified":"2021-02-12T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:43:53","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-i-always-feel-like-clown-eggs-are-watching-me-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25948","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, I Always Feel Like Clown Eggs Are Watching Me edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Butch lesbian opens up about ‘increasing harassment’ she faces when she uses public toilets<\/a>
    \n“This hostility towards butch lesbians is believed to be borne out of people challenging the rights of transgender people to use single-sex toilets.”<\/li>\n
  2. There was never a time when pink was just for boys and blue just for girls.<\/a>
    \nHistorically, either color was fine for either sex.<\/li>\n
  3. Twitter NSFW Ban Possible Over SESTA-FOSTA Lawsuit<\/a>
    \n“The lawsuit utilizes SESTA-FOSTA\u2019s Section 230 exceptions and could theoretically force Twitter to purge sex workers and adult content creators, adult industry experts warn.”<\/li>\n
  4. Q-Nuts: “It’s the Great Storm, Charlie Brown” | Boing Boing<\/a>
    \nBrilliant Q-Anon\/Peanuts mashup.<\/li>\n
  5. 5 ways cursing can be good for you – CNN<\/a>
    \nFuck yeah.<\/li>\n
  6. The Insurrection Was Put Down. The GOP Plan for Minority Rule Marches On. \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a>
    \n“No one has benefited more from minority rule\u2014and done more to ensure it\u2014than Mitch McConnell. For six years, he presided over a Senate majority representing fewer people than the minority party, the longest such stretch in US history…”<\/li>\n
  7. Life Inside a Pre-Release Center: Like Prison, But More Work<\/a>
    \n“Months can pass where the inmate is working but has no money left from her check because it\u2019s all going to pay for fees and expenses. Some inmates complain that their financial statements are hopelessly opaque or even flat-out wrong. ‘I don\u2019t even know what they charge you for half the time. For breathing!’ Norman quipped.”<\/li>\n
  8. I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled – McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon | The New Republic<\/a>
    \n“Democrats should try campaigning on the truth: The Republican Party is controlled by intelligent, college-educated, and affluent elites who concoct dangerous nonsense to paper over a bigoted, plutocratic agenda and to justify attacks on the democratic process. That agenda and those attacks are supported by millions of reasonably intelligent voters…”<\/li>\n
  10. Oregon Bill Would Enable People to Vote from Prison – The Appeal<\/a>
    \n“The proposed bill would restore the voting rights of people incarcerated over felony convictions in Oregon\u2014a population of at least 13,000 as of the 2020 election that is roughly 9 percent Black in a state whose Black population is just 2.5 percent.”<\/li>\n
  11. Abigail Nussbaum \u2014 What color Big Bird is depends on where you live.<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. The Federal Deficit is No Reason to Fear Biden’s Climate Plan – Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. After Trump Failed to Overturn the 2020 Election, Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Next One \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a>
    \nThis is the sort of thing that terrifies me and makes me thing the GOP is going to win a permanent minority ruling party.<\/li>\n
  14. There\u2019s No Such Thing as Cancel Culture | by L.D. Burnett | Jan, 2021 | Arc Digital<\/a>
    \nAlthough I think she could have used very nearly the same arguments to argue that cancel culture is everywhere and unavoidable.<\/li>\n
  15. The Debate Link: The Antisemitic Quote That Wasn’t in California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum<\/a>
    \n“What does one do when one’s favored ogre appears to have turned over a new leaf? The answer, if a widely cited Tablet Magazine article by Emily Benedek published earlier this week is any indicator, is simply to lie about it.”<\/li>\n
  16. Letter To President-Elect Biden on Central America Policy – The Americas Program<\/a>
    \n“In a spirit of constructive criticism, we would like to underscore what we consider to be problematic aspects of past and current U.S. policy towards the governments and peoples of Central America. Drawing from our own observations and experiences, as well as those of our Central American partners, we also wish to offer our recommendations as to how we believe U.S. policy toward the region can be improved.”<\/li>\n
  17. When Broadway Shows Resume, Should ‘The Book of Mormon’ Be One of Them? \u2014 OnStage Blog<\/a>
    \nJust because it’s a comedy doesn’t mean it isn’t racist: “Yes, the show is satirical but its satire is directed at the Mormon Church while the stereotypical depictions of the Ugandan characters are just stereotypical depictions.”<\/li>\n
  18. Does Dieting Work?<\/a>
    \nI added my third (and final) letter to my exchange with Helen Pluckrose.<\/li>\n
  19. Searching for Shelley Duvall: The Reclusive Icon on Fleeing Hollywood and the Scars of Making ‘The Shining’ | Hollywood Reporter<\/a>
    \nPrevious sources had given me the impression that Duvall, and actor I’ve always liked, is now miserable and completely incoherent; I’m glad that’s not (entirely) true.<\/li>\n
  20. This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful – POLITICO<\/a>
    \n“The long, sordid history of New York\u2019s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things.”<\/li>\n
  21. The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs – BBC Future<\/a>
    \n“The earliest egg registry dates to 1946, when Stan Bult \u2013 a chemist by trade, though not a clown himself \u2013 began painting the faces of prominent circus clowns on eggs as a hobby.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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