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If she says no the proposal went off without a hitch

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y'all told NFL players that free speech has consequences so ABC told Roseanne.

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I stared at this fucking thing for 5 solid minutes because I thought it just wasn't loading the pictures until I realized that's Twitter blue, Facebook blue, and Tumblr blue.

There’s a difference between

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Admirer of Columbine shooters sentenced to life in prison.

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Manhunt underway after shooter wielding rifle kills four at Tenn. Waffle House, police say.

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Suspect in latest Florida school shooting: 'I shot through the door'

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HuffPost: Ohio Police: 2-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot Dead By Mom.

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👆👆👆 startlingly true

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The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”

Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.

On Monday, this went down:

That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.

On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.

Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.

People.

We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.

There was no warning.

But it gets worse.

Keep reading

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With so much that’s been happening and all of the more important fights happening right now, I just wanted to take a sec to see if I could remind a few people that there was a special election in Kentucky last night. More than that, Democrats won in Kentucky.

Kentucky should keep up the good fight, it’s always a great way to keep spirits up in the rest of the country.

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More than this being a hard fact check/ logical argument against 45, I just wanted to share how sassy this cnn article is.

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