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Hi, I'm Keith and happy new year! I'll be live-tweeting today (Monday, January 4, 2021) Cuyahoga County Council's Remote Organizational Meeting at 2:00 PM for #CLEDocumenters
@cledocumenters @NeighborUpCle
Join us at this meeting via
To learn about the Cuyahoga County Council go to their website https://t.co/aklNWVyPUC
To find your County Council representative, identify your district,
https://t.co/0uz8a1klEL
Then see which representatives represents your
The meeting's agenda can be read here,
https://t.co/f5gQaW6bCW
The meeting has started.
Item agenda 1 a CALL TO ORDER BY CLEARK OF COUNCIL has been accomplished.
Item agenda 2 ROLL CALL has occurred.
@cledocumenters @NeighborUpCle
Join us at this meeting via
To learn about the Cuyahoga County Council go to their website https://t.co/aklNWVyPUC
To find your County Council representative, identify your district,
https://t.co/0uz8a1klEL
Then see which representatives represents your
The meeting's agenda can be read here,
https://t.co/f5gQaW6bCW
The meeting has started.
Item agenda 1 a CALL TO ORDER BY CLEARK OF COUNCIL has been accomplished.
Item agenda 2 ROLL CALL has occurred.
Election Litigation Update: DC - the "let's sue the Electoral College" case.
This is a bit surprising, given that as of last time I checked nobody had been served and no appearance had been entered. I suspect it's an effort to make sure the case isn't "pending" on the 6th.
And, sure enough, still no proof of service on ANY defendant, still no appearance from defense counsel. And this is denying the motion for preliminary injunction but does NOT dismiss the case - which is potentially ominous for plaintiff's counsel.
This isn't a "happy judge" kind of first paragraph. Not even a little bit. Nope.
Y'all, this isn't even directed within a few hundred miles of my direction and I sill just instinctively checked to make sure that there's room for me to hide under my desk if I have to - this is a very not happy, very federal, very judge tone.
Also - the judge just outright said there's a bunch of reasons for dismissal. And not in "might be" terms. In definite fact ones. But the case isn't dismissed yet.
If I was plaintiffs counsel, I'd definitely be clearing under my desk right now, and possibly also my underwear.
This is a bit surprising, given that as of last time I checked nobody had been served and no appearance had been entered. I suspect it's an effort to make sure the case isn't "pending" on the 6th.
Link: https://t.co/oOJZD1F4x2
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) January 4, 2021
And, sure enough, still no proof of service on ANY defendant, still no appearance from defense counsel. And this is denying the motion for preliminary injunction but does NOT dismiss the case - which is potentially ominous for plaintiff's counsel.
This isn't a "happy judge" kind of first paragraph. Not even a little bit. Nope.
Y'all, this isn't even directed within a few hundred miles of my direction and I sill just instinctively checked to make sure that there's room for me to hide under my desk if I have to - this is a very not happy, very federal, very judge tone.
Also - the judge just outright said there's a bunch of reasons for dismissal. And not in "might be" terms. In definite fact ones. But the case isn't dismissed yet.
If I was plaintiffs counsel, I'd definitely be clearing under my desk right now, and possibly also my underwear.
The judge in this case has now issued an absolutely brutal smackdown that you'll enjoy reading. It comes complete with a well-earned threat of sanctions.
Here's the decision. Some highlights follow
Pretty sure I said this, using slightly different words!
Hey, @questauthority, it sounds like Judge Boasberg was about as pleased about the long "none of this matters but we want to say it anyway" section as we expected him to be
You CANNOT run into court claiming there's an emergency and you need an expedited schedule so you can be heard before 1/6 and then just not bother serving anyone for 12 days
Folks, this is the single dumbest election lawsuit of the entire cycle, and I've read kraken filings front to back. https://t.co/PLHTf7HhbM
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 22, 2020
Here's the decision. Some highlights follow
Pretty sure I said this, using slightly different words!
Hey, @questauthority, it sounds like Judge Boasberg was about as pleased about the long "none of this matters but we want to say it anyway" section as we expected him to be
You CANNOT run into court claiming there's an emergency and you need an expedited schedule so you can be heard before 1/6 and then just not bother serving anyone for 12 days
I had assumed that the #DisruptTexts movement was organic. But I recently discovered https://t.co/55JVkOeyO7, and I think that, in addition to publishers springing into action to meet market demand, they may possibly be playing a role in fostering abandonment of classics. 1/
Because, there is perhaps much less money to be made selling classics. 2/
I need to be VERY clear that I am wholly in favor of *expanding* the cannon and adding relevant, engaging texts for students in middle school, high school, and (of course) college. Students can and should read Baldwin, Marquez, Tan, Walker, Morrison, Malcolm X, and on and on. 3/
But this website suggests 'disrupting' so many valuable classics that one has to wonder if the interests of real education are being served.
For example, disrupt Shakespeare https://t.co/oLB38lXmRH
given "violence, misogyny, racism" in the texts. 4/
Disrupt "To Kill a Mockingbird"
https://t.co/7e020R5jaN
given Atticus Finch's alleged limitations and failings.
To be clear, few real persons have half the moral strength (& parenting skills) of the fictional Atticus Finch (Nelson Mandela or Sophie Scholl re the former?). 5/
Because, there is perhaps much less money to be made selling classics. 2/
I need to be VERY clear that I am wholly in favor of *expanding* the cannon and adding relevant, engaging texts for students in middle school, high school, and (of course) college. Students can and should read Baldwin, Marquez, Tan, Walker, Morrison, Malcolm X, and on and on. 3/
But this website suggests 'disrupting' so many valuable classics that one has to wonder if the interests of real education are being served.
For example, disrupt Shakespeare https://t.co/oLB38lXmRH
given "violence, misogyny, racism" in the texts. 4/
Disrupt "To Kill a Mockingbird"
https://t.co/7e020R5jaN
given Atticus Finch's alleged limitations and failings.
To be clear, few real persons have half the moral strength (& parenting skills) of the fictional Atticus Finch (Nelson Mandela or Sophie Scholl re the former?). 5/
Honestly our prices aren't even high considering the huge amount of work that goes into what we do. What we deserve is to actually be well paid and then get some reparations on top of that lmao
Every time I see a bead artist break down their pricing, they always give themselves "minimum wage", which as we know is less than half of an actual living wage. We deserve a living wage for our art, but I know none of us actually gets that
Beadwork is my full time job, I've charged up to 200$ for a single piece because I need to make rent and pay bills and some of these large pieces take me days or even a week to complete.
I give myself minimum wage for my labour, I don't charge for the hours I spend packing and shipping orders, Etsy takes a cut, and I still have to charge upwards of 100$ for many pieces because beadwork is hard fucking work. It's a slow process, literally one bead at a time.
I constantly struggle with balancing paying myself a fair wage, keeping my work accessible, not giving people a lowball idea of what beadwork actually costs therefore undercutting other artists... its not easy.
Indigenous beadwork prices are high bc it's reparations
— mango \u2606 (@pamiuqtuq) January 4, 2021
Every time I see a bead artist break down their pricing, they always give themselves "minimum wage", which as we know is less than half of an actual living wage. We deserve a living wage for our art, but I know none of us actually gets that
Beadwork is my full time job, I've charged up to 200$ for a single piece because I need to make rent and pay bills and some of these large pieces take me days or even a week to complete.
I give myself minimum wage for my labour, I don't charge for the hours I spend packing and shipping orders, Etsy takes a cut, and I still have to charge upwards of 100$ for many pieces because beadwork is hard fucking work. It's a slow process, literally one bead at a time.
I constantly struggle with balancing paying myself a fair wage, keeping my work accessible, not giving people a lowball idea of what beadwork actually costs therefore undercutting other artists... its not easy.
1/ Market Musings is back but with a glitch so here's the tweetstorm instead. December set some capital markets records. DoorDash, Airbnb and Wish all priced $1bn+ IPOs leading up to the Christmas holiday.
2/ It wasn’t long ago that investors were bemoaning how long it took companies to go public. Only a handful were going public each year and they were fueling their growth with private capital.
3/ Starting in 2018 we started seeing more than a dozen IPOs that raised >$1bn each, in the US and globally. Many of these large IPOs have been tech companies and the markets are rewarding growth.
4/ Why did we see 4 big tech IPOs (airbnb, doordash, https://t.co/8Z1JDLbiDS and Wish) price last December? Is going public right before year end common? No, it’s not.
5/ Here are a couple of factors that make the IPO market hot right now:
- Companies originally pushed their IPOs when Covid hit
- The stock market is surging
- Election provided certainty
- The market is rewarding growth cos
2/ It wasn’t long ago that investors were bemoaning how long it took companies to go public. Only a handful were going public each year and they were fueling their growth with private capital.
3/ Starting in 2018 we started seeing more than a dozen IPOs that raised >$1bn each, in the US and globally. Many of these large IPOs have been tech companies and the markets are rewarding growth.
4/ Why did we see 4 big tech IPOs (airbnb, doordash, https://t.co/8Z1JDLbiDS and Wish) price last December? Is going public right before year end common? No, it’s not.
5/ Here are a couple of factors that make the IPO market hot right now:
- Companies originally pushed their IPOs when Covid hit
- The stock market is surging
- Election provided certainty
- The market is rewarding growth cos
