Mike Pesca
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Mike Pesca
@pescami
Host @pescagist daily news analysis podcast. Daily Newsletter is The Gist List RT ≠ what's really transpiring in Russia Today
- I think you may be confusing freedom with Amazon Prime.Freedom is the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need. Obamacare is Washington telling you what to buy regardless of your needs.
- If you aren't familiar with the grammar of the Times front page layout here it is: The top right story is the lead story, the top left story is the sub-lead everything else above the fold is the important news of the day. Today the New York Times says the second most important
- The institution that the Democratic Party reminds most Americans of is their HR Department.
- Nate SIlver's most lilely election outcome was for Trump to end with 312 electoral votes. If he winds up winning NV and AZ where he's ahead he ends with...312 electoral votes. So tell me again that Nate got it so so wrong?
- I could shoot a guy on 5th Ave! Then have my staff argue self defense. Then the next day tell Lester Holt, nah, I just wanted the guy dead.
- Now Chris Rock is the devil? And he doesn’t get an apology? And all these women who Will is “protecting” are used in service of this self justification we’ve all been thrust into? This is very hard to take. Unfair to Chris on many levels.
- The Minimum Salary for a 4th year NBA Player is 10x that for a US Senator.
- Announcement: In today’s Vikings vs Packers game the US Supreme Court has decided that any play where the ball is legally snapped at 0:07-0:01 but the game clock hits 0:00 during the play might not count. In the Eagles game it will count,although they might decide later it won’t.
- Update : I have been suspended from Mastodon for the following exchange. Guess what was my offense.Here's the article by @By_CJewett and @mega2e. nytimes.com/2022/11/14/hea… Here's my response to Parker, who summarized the article as "On one hand, here's what doctors say... on the other, 'Republican politicians and other critics' say"
- Want a good laugh? Ask your 11 year old to dial his grandparents rotary phone.
00:00 - The greatest voice in NPR history. And what the voice said was also amazing. Distinctive, important, engaging, humane, profound. You’d want to listen, then realize during a Wade report that you needed to listen; that was the order. An absolute legend.
- Leaf blower neighbor. Movie sequels. Flannel shirts that have been through a lot. Obama rightly gets praise for his soaring rhetoric. But it's the these moments of shared connections that provide the launchpad for his poetry. He is so very good at this.
- Replying to @pescamiIt is actually impossible not to situate a clinic in most major cities that isn't within 2 miles of any census tract that has over 12% Latino or Black population. Planned Parenthood is not targeting minorities, they're serving Americans, 40% of whom happen to be non-white.
