emma jean
@emmajean.bsky.social
please build more houses so we can save the earth
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The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
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the housing crisis is a feature of blue state prosperity combined with a land use policy which is not distinct to dem run areas.
March 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
the housing crisis is a feature of blue state prosperity combined with a land use policy which is not distinct to dem run areas.
They should invent a way to be a short woman sitting at a desk without swinging her legs like a small child
March 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
They should invent a way to be a short woman sitting at a desk without swinging her legs like a small child
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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.
apnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
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This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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That LGB without the T thing isn't working out, bro
Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men’s Chorus Concert operawire.com/kennedy-cent... - per Francisco Salazar / Opera Wire
Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men's Chorus Concert - OperaWire
The Kennedy Center has canceled The Gay Men's Chorus concert on May 21.
operawire.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
That LGB without the T thing isn't working out, bro
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The CHAMPIONS and ONLY TRUE DEFENDERS of women’s sports did WHAT?
NEWS: Trump's Department of Education has rescinded the guidance saying Title IX, the statute governing gender equity in sports, applies to House v. NCAA revenue-sharing payments.
It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...
It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...
Trump Education Dept. Pulls Biden’s NIL Pay Equity Rule
It’s one of several Biden-era policies related to Title IX that the Trump administration has almost immediately reversed.
frontofficesports.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The CHAMPIONS and ONLY TRUE DEFENDERS of women’s sports did WHAT?
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this guy being the shadow president and posting like this is proof that, just like the cold war, gamergate never truly ended
February 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
this guy being the shadow president and posting like this is proof that, just like the cold war, gamergate never truly ended
think its a mistake to call elon a "boss" or a "king", instead call him and his freaks "consultants" and "auditors"
February 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
think its a mistake to call elon a "boss" or a "king", instead call him and his freaks "consultants" and "auditors"
anecdotally but all my French colleagues are like making fun of me lightly for Trump so
February 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
anecdotally but all my French colleagues are like making fun of me lightly for Trump so
Someone at a dinner told me NY would be fine.
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Someone at a dinner told me NY would be fine.
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When your life’s work has been achieved but you still want to be invited to media parties
January 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When your life’s work has been achieved but you still want to be invited to media parties
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Coffee tariffs are a great excuse for Panera to bring back the cardiac arrest lemonade tho
January 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Coffee tariffs are a great excuse for Panera to bring back the cardiac arrest lemonade tho
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I think the extent to which election postmortems revolve around fights between libs and the left over policy, and Inside Baseball recapitulation of factional disputes over policy, is actually much more closely related to why we lost than any of the policies being disputed
January 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think the extent to which election postmortems revolve around fights between libs and the left over policy, and Inside Baseball recapitulation of factional disputes over policy, is actually much more closely related to why we lost than any of the policies being disputed
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
Fetterman vs Lamb was a real test of like - do vibes matter or political positions matter and lemme tell you, most people did not pass
January 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Fetterman vs Lamb was a real test of like - do vibes matter or political positions matter and lemme tell you, most people did not pass
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Donald Trump just pardoned this guy. Are we gonna get another statement from the ADL tonight?
January 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Donald Trump just pardoned this guy. Are we gonna get another statement from the ADL tonight?
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So... I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender is X, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone worked late to get the X passports done today.
Thank you, random worker.
Thank you, random worker.
January 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
So... I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender is X, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone worked late to get the X passports done today.
Thank you, random worker.
Thank you, random worker.
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Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.
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all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
I know I'm a YIMBY but when Jeremy Allen White is acting as if Gowanus is economically deprived 1970s Asbury Park - we can build more and faster tbh
January 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I know I'm a YIMBY but when Jeremy Allen White is acting as if Gowanus is economically deprived 1970s Asbury Park - we can build more and faster tbh
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cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys.
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
The first several speakers at this morning's comprehensive plan meeting have been longtime homeowners in Seattle's wealthy Madrona neighborhood, arguing that a two-block "neighborhood center" where some apartments will be allowed, saying it will destroy their neighborhood.
January 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys.
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically