Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi since 2019 — Teacher, Traveler, and Sounder
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Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi since 2019 — Teacher, Traveler, and Sounder
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/natebowling
Getting olay'ed at home by City stings, ngl
Some highlights All the initiatives are bad I-645 ❌ I-001 ❌ I-638 ❌ Elected Sheriffs aren't working in Pierce County Amendment 53 ✅ The judge from the Manuel Ellis trial wants to be County Prosector — hell no!!! Transit funding ✅ Tenant protections ✅
For people like myself who vote in Tacoma/Pierce County there's a lot of important items on the ballot: bad initiatives, State Supreme Court seats, contested legislative seats, and charter amendments. I'm working on a audio voters' guide for the mid-terms. Look for it Monday on the podcast feed.
No one was bombing civilian airports, targeting desalination plants, or sinking tankers in international waters before the US President started another Middle East war
The US is the threat to peace and stability in the region
Chess at 3 Magnets, dinner at Saigon Rendezvous, and a nightcap at the Brotherhood would leave me in tears of ecstacy and nostalgia
I know you love Olympia as much as I do. There's a pretty great chess community down there that does in person meetups, tournaments, etc.
Only downside, you might run into @smashleyfc.bsky.social 🤣
I'm down near the Coliseum right now and that helicopter is a pretty fair distance away, like @faineg.com said, over the train station
This is such a gloriously niche beef
US policy is incomprehensible. We've loosened sanctions on Iran and Russia in order to get relief from soaring fuel costs — driven by the way we started. At the same time we're retreating from electric vehicle adoption and reembracing century old internal combustion technology.
Isn't the inevitable answer here really a salary cap on one end and salary floor on the other?
We've been doing this since 2015. Learn to recognize a pattern, FFS. They don't care about your norms. They don't care what they said or believed four years ago... hell, four minutes ago.
Liberals pointing out the hypocrisy and ideological inconsistency of a morally bereft movement and acting like they found the prize at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box will never cease to amaze me
Bud, they don't care Like, it's been the same routine since 2015. They don't GAF about norms, precedent, and institutions They want to punish and humiliate their perceived foes—that's the whole ideological movement
The US is planning to livestream the execution of a paralyzed man Target is permitting ICE to use its facilities in NYC to stage their operations Ranchers in the West are sounding alarms about climate change drying up rivers and making it impossible to grow feed
Cacio e Pepe is the simplest dish on Earth but it tastes absolutely incredible: lunch and dinner today
Okay, that's happening tomorrow!
He got the majority of the non-melanated vote in the United States THRICE
From ATL????? Hell, Cairo to Seattle is like $720 each way. That feels like a bargain in comparison.
HALF OF A BILLION DOLLARS
I'm just putting it out there that Harper and Cranor each have appeared on my podcast twice and you have a new book coming out. Lemmie holler at you over Zoom.