As usual, May is a relatively short Twitter round-up here at Daughter Number Three. Just the usual hijinks from the current occupant, you know, destroying democracy, plus climate devastation on the way, and so on and so forth.
On Mulligan, his administration, and his policies:
We have gone from Mexico paying for a wall that will never happen to American consumers paying up to 25 percent more for cars and avocados until Mexico solves a problem that nobody in the history of humanity has ever solved.On the possibility of impeachment proceedings and the latest on the Mueller report:
Blake News @blakehounshell
Congress's own research service notes that while the Trump administration promised raises of $4,000 to $9,000 for the average worker as a result of the corporate tax cuts, pay for nonsupervisory workers crept up just 1.2% in 2018, far lower than the 2.9% GDP growth.
Steven Greenhouse
If Chelsea Clinton's husband's family scored about a billion dollars in loans while he was working in the White House, the New York Times would invent new font sizes.
LOLGOP
Trump will release highly sensitive intelligence documents that might endanger people’s lives but won’t release his own taxes...and no one in the GOP is saying a damn thing about it.
Blue Girl in a Red State @barbstudebaker
So Trump’s position is that his tax returns should be kept private but the CIA’s “sources and methods” should be made public.
Max Boot
At 19 I was fired from my job for being trans and became homeless. Women’s shelters rejected me because of my assigned gender at birth. Men’s shelters denied me for reading female. I ended up on the streets and encountered several near death experiences. Trump knows what he’s doing.
Ashlee Marie Preston
The *second* there is a Democrat in the White House there will be a *massive* coordinated hysteria about the debt.
Chris Hayes
Barack Obama spent five and half years of his presidency dealing with a lying loudmouth bigot who accused him of faking his birth certificate, and Obama never complained about a "witch hunt."
Keith Boykin
They wanted their tax cuts.
They wanted their judges.
They wanted the end of regs that make it harder to get richer.
They wanted their abortion ban.
To get this, they’ve been willing to burn down our house, set us on fire & destroy democracy.
They think they’re winning.
Steven Beschloss
Refusing to govern a country is the ultimate obstruction of justice. He is saying that, if he is made subject to the rule of law, he will not govern. This is an astonishing day in America.
Anand Giridharadas
I still can't get over how the Trump administration has a literal brain surgeon serving in the Cabinet and he's still as dumb as the rest of them.
Hemant Mehta
“Imagine what it’s like to be publicly marginalized merely for using public power to persecute women and minorities and cage children” they whined to the side that gets murdered for being out too late or being in the wrong neighborhood or holding hands.
@CascadiaForever
To avoid the appearance of impropriety, President Obama refused to refinance his Chicago home mortgage while in office. Trump, on the other hand, borrowed $11 million last year from a small Florida bank and then appointed the bank CEO to the Atlanta Fed.
Keith Boykin
So in the last 2 days we've heard about sending 120,000 troops to Iran, imprisoning women who have miscarriages, jackboots staging coordinated raids on immigrant families' homes in 10 cities, and tariffs that harm "great patriot farmers" and tank the stock market. Way to go @GOP
Seth Cotlar
The notion that we are "drifting" to war with Iran rather neatly absolves everyone of responsibility, doesn't it? What's happening is a cabal of lunatics are pushing for war and American people and institutions are standing by gaping and occasionally whining. Just. Like. Last. Time.
David Roberts
"The GOP wants a one-party state, and Trump wants to be the autocrat of that state. The idea that they are incompetent is a myth. They are very competent. They are just not interested in the process of governing. They are interested in ruling."
Sarah Kendzior
[Congressmember Jerry] Nadler just said there is justification to impeach Trump, but not before the public is on board. For goodness’ sake Nadler. The public is not on board because Trump and Barr gaslighted them. The only way to cut through their gaslighting is televised impeachment hearings.On the 2020 election, particularly the Democratic field of candidates:
Ryan Knight @ProudResister
STEP BACK A MOMENT: Republican Robert Mueller, a Marine and former FBI Director, just told America and the world that the sitting president may be a criminal. And that he was elected with the help of a massive Russian cyberattack. WATERGATE PALES BY COMPARISON. #ImpeachNow
Peter Daou
Mueller (shorter): Trump obstructed justice but the law won't let us charge him with a federal crime because he is president so if you want to deal with this prick, impeach him.
Mikel Jollett
It seems dumb to me that a president can get away with literally any crime as long as his party controls at least one chamber of Congress, and that it's therefore improper to formally accuse him of a crime even though you clearly believe he is a criminal, but what do I know
David Klion
Trump Spent More Than Three Times the Cost of Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Playing Golf at His Own Resorts
Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew
If Dems never conduct a formal House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry, Trump's 2020 message will be that Dems' failure to conduct impeachment proceedings "proves" that even *they* didn't think he did anything that was all that bad, including his obstruction of justice.
Elizabeth de la Vega
This period in U.S. history is light years more perilous than Watergate. Now the whole Republican Party, not just Trump, is involved in undermining The Constitution, money grubbing corruption, and openly engaged in the demolition of American democracy with foreign assistance.
Langdon Winner
According to Barr if you feel like you are being investigated unfairly you can obstruct an investigation, and the fact that investigators are prevented from obtaining evidence because of your obstruction and don't ultimately charge you is evidence that you were right to obstruct.
Asha Rangappa
The US Attorney General says it is not a crime for the President to order his employees to lie! Whenever I think that I can’t imagine anything more outrageous, this administration tops it.
Alan Mills
Elizabeth Warren thrills small donors with personal phone calls and impresses voters during town halls.I'm trying to put a label on the range of tweets about false equivalency, lack of equivalency, and the urge toward centrism, which often has to do with media coverage:
Media: “Is she likable?”
Joe Biden holds private fundraisers for lobbyists and big donors while his campaign hides him from voters.
Media: ”A man of the people!”
Adam Best
As Elizabeth Warren was making a decent living as an excellent bankruptcy attorney, Trump was busy having us pay for his bankruptcies. Easy choice.
LOLGOP
What's funny about the white guys running for the Democratic nomination is that they all seem to think Trump voters were motivated NOT by racism or racial resentment but by economic anxiety, and yet they seem to think only THEY as white guys can win. Sit with that a minute...
Tim Wise
For the record, I acknowledge Elizabeth Warren is killing isht substantively on the campaign trail; she has articulated the best ideas and vision for the country (thus far). But her campaign has a ticking timebomb that will continue to vex her until she does right by Native communities.
@BigIndianGyasi
“People extrapolated too far from social media and Bernie’s primary and AOC’s win. I will now publicly condemn that and proceed to extrapolate extremely far from Biden’s early polls.” –every column this week apparently
Rachel Cohen
Joe Biden is appealing to the faux-left that refuses to acknowledge the toxic elements of culture in the US—racism, classism, sexism. Biden allows some to pretend to be progressive while remaining a part of that toxic culture.
Paul Thomas
I get all the eye-rolling, I do, but it’s also a *little* odd that a guy who’s run the biggest city in America creditably is perceived as a joke but the mayor of...South Bend is the Next Big Thing.
Chris Hayes (commenting on Bill DeBlasio's candidacy)
Wondering if there’s something else that Biden and de Blasio could be president of. Like a tuna sandwich, or a pair of old boots.
Ben Ehrenreich
I’ll be voting for a woman in 2020. Again.
Killer of Men @gabsthehuman
Just heard Anderson Cooper on CNN imply that Nancy Pelosi saying Trump needs an intervention is exact equivalent of Trump posting a doctored video of her. When our democracy is ultimately destroyed, corporate media will be more to blame than Trump.And it wouldn't be a month in America without its share of tweets about racism and white supremacy…
Frank Conniff
Man it sure is weird how every time a fascist gets hit in the face with some food we have a week-long discourse about left-wing political violence but every time a fascist murders people we’re treated to a smorgasbord of excuses for how it’s not political.
@thoughtxriot
LEFTWING DOXXING: hey, we ID'd this person as a member of a hate group, and he's a cop.... in a school... so that's probably bad
RIGHTWING DOXXING: here's a feminist's home address, someone should go literally murder her over a YouTube video
CENTRIST: these are the same
AntiFash Gordon
When a mass shooting is committed by a Muslim, the crime is almost automatically labeled as Domestic Terrorism. But when White Supremacists like Dylann Roof shot up a black church, or attack the Tree of Life Synagogue, the FBI declined to charge them w/ Domestic Terrorism. Why?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"If the news media has an 'identitarianism' problem, it’s not so much that people bunker down into racial, gender or sexual groups, but that a whole class of journalists and thinkers never seems to be able to wander out past its own pool of references" YEP
Soraya Nadia McDonald (writing about how Pete Buttigieg’s meaningless erudition made him the ‘smart’ candidate)
There is no position that is apolitical. Not in medieval studies, not anywhere. Ignoring the world is just as political as engaging it. We have a responsibility to the world we live in. Thank you to all our BIPOC colleagues who remind of that every day.
Mary Kate Hurley
Dear Centrists,
What is the center between wanting a white ethnostate and not wanting that?
Asking for a friend
@absurdistwords
When it comes to racist acts, it’s not helpful to ask what folks’ intentions were. Instead, Robin DiAngelo says we should ask ‘How does this function?’ The impact of the action is what is relevant.”…as well as sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity…
Alexis Goldstein
Be wary of anyone employing the "let's not create division [by dealing in reality]" talking point. Re-upping tweets where I warned about politicians calling for an end to "division" and not an end to things like racism and corruption. They want power for themselves more than they want to change anything substantively for us. Y'all to stop using "we" pronoun when discussing the nature of the division this nation finds itself in today. This is not an issue of everyone contributing to an uncivil climate; this is about racist white backlash toward the first Black president and the communities that elected him.
Bree Newsome Bass
@NativeTexan74
White kids go to PhD school and dissertate on 14th century Beowulfian theology through the lens of Paradise Lost and no one says a mumbling word. A Black student wants to use AAVE in their prospectus title and has to cite 47 sources.
Capitalize the B in Black @DrRondreaMathis
Who’s the one who “contributes to society”?
A) The woman who escaped war/poverty, speaks multiple languages and is uplifting generations to come.
B) Trust-fund heir who gets paid to scream into a camera all day to satiate racists.
Imraan Siddiqi (commenting on Tucker Carlson's latest attack on Ilhan Omar)
Republicans are far more united around white supremacy than Democrats are united around anti-racism. And that's why a lot of things.
Bree Newsome Bass
the surprise around AOC and the new congress is just white people finally realizing that "twice as good" actually means that for us
E. Alex Jung
Green/blue Maori facial tattoos are invisible to wet plate photography. As a result, photos of Maori from the 1800s are often misleading:
Waldo Jaquith
There are acres of novels about whiteness. Honestly, that's most of the novels in print. The problem is there aren't enough that are aware that that's what they're about. Whiteness and so many white people's investment in it is fascinating. Let's write more novels critically investigating that.
@JustineLavaworm
George Wallace would have loved charter schools. White charter schools. Black charter schools. That’s where “School Choice” was born, in resistance to Brown Decision.
Diane Ravitch
Blacks who've attended college are about 2X as likely as blacks who haven't to say they face racial discrimination on a regular basis (17% vs. 9%).
Monica Anderson
Do men know they don’t have to comment on everything or is that why you can’t spell comment without men?…this month with extra-special sexism because of all the laws that were passed restricting abortions:
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham. She becomes a sort of folk hero for the women of Gotham. She unleashes financial records for companies that don't compensate women properly. She blackmails cheaters and misogynists. She threatens the goddamn Patriarchy. It's terrifying and wonderful. The Batman needs to stop her to restore the order of things, but on some level, he's conflicted. She's a villain. But she's right. Her catchphrase would be "Well, ACTUALLY ..." and then she'd just trail off and laugh maniacally.
Geraldine @everywhereist
The far right has linked the 2nd Amendment so deeply with culture war that it’s become a dog whistle for the armed defense of white male supremacy. That’s what gives the NRA its power. Every mass shooting victim is a sacrifice to white male supremacy.
Ed Overbeek
Happy to hear MacKenzie Bezos plans to give half her billions to charity. Still baffled that major news orgs keep saying she *became* one of the world’s richest women when she divorced. She was also one of the world’s richest when she was married. This error smacks of patriarchy.
Charles M. Blow
Hospital programs that require spousal approval for tubal ligation should be challenged in every court in this country. Women are autonomous citizens, not incompetent minors or marital property.
feminist next door @emrazz
I'm just entirely done with being asked to indulge the revolting pretense that men who inappropriately touch women don't know that what they're doing is wrong and/or that it isn't sexual. Do they do it to other men? No? There's your fucking answer. The end.
Melissa McEwan @Shakestweetz
When a guy says, "You're not like other girls," he's admitting that he has a generally low regard for your entire gender but is willing to make an exception for you. This is not a compliment. Girl, run.
Shannon Hale
Not a fan of (very normal) attitudes that treat women being in public with children as a big unacceptable inconvenience to everyone else. Women with kids are supposed to hermit themselves away so you don't suffer some minor inconvenience?
Angie Schmitt
Simply telling students about gender bias in student evaluations increases female instructors' ratings by .3-.5 points (on a 5 point scale).
John B. Holbein
I cannot imagine a male runner being asked to physically alter his body to make competition with other men more “fair,” which really reinforces that men are seen as people and women are seen as this weird subgroup with a long list of rules for entry
Lux Alptraum
I know i’ll get pushback for this but there must be a path towards redemption for men who have done bad things. But it needs to be paved with genuine private & public apologies + using their platform to challenge the culture that taught them to do bad things in the first place.
Liz Plank @feministabulous
Women who have children take a 30 percent pay cut and never catch up. Men who have children get a 20 percent pay bump. (The word you are looking for is “sexism.”)
TalkPoverty.org
With all the Christian fever over stopping abortion, it's worth remembering abortions were going on in days of Jesus. But he never once preached about it. Never once said abortion was murder. Never once said life begins at conception. Never once said anything about heartbeats.Then it's on to the climate crisis and sustainable cities:
John Oberlin @OMGno2trump
To the GOP extremists trying to invoke “the unborn” to jail people for abortion: Where are you on climate change? OH right, you want to burn fossil fuels til there’s hell on Earth. If they were truthful about their motives, they’d be consistent in their principles. They’re not.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Why can't Republicans just use thoughts and prayers to stop abortions like they do for school shootings?
Axis II of Evil @joannathemad89
America does not lack a pro-choice consensus; the pro-choice majority lacks the power to hold Republican lawmakers accountable to that consensus.
Eric Levitz
Men know what consent is when it comes to other men touching them without permission. Lawmakers know an embryo isn’t a baby when they’re destroyed IVF leftovers. Seems like it might just be that society is having trouble letting go of the idea that women are property.
Catherynne Valente
Children being murdered in their schools, children with no drinking water in Flint, 400,000 children in foster care and they want us to believe they care for children. #AbortionIsAWomansRight
@lucyonobed
The abortion debate has never been about abortion. It's about the legal status of women. Are women people? Do we have ownership of our bodies? Or does the state own our bodies? If you are celebrating Alabama's new abortion law, you are celebrating the ownership of women.
@LaurenMcWoof
A weird thing about US culture is a complete fetishization of pregnancy and birth and a complete public ignorance of how either of those things work biologically and/or are experienced structurally
Kaitlyn Greenidge @surlybassey
there's not a single thing in this world a male could experience that would even come close to the indignity of being legally forced to carry your rapist's baby to term
Brandon McCarthy
Unwanted Alabama embryos should be implanted into the peritoneal cavities of the male legislators who voted for the state’s new abortion statute.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I keep seeing folks pointing out that abortion bans are not representative of popular opinion, but folks keep voting these zealots in. What are these legislators supposed to think? They aren’t punished for their positions. Would seem these positions show revealed preferences.
@surlyurbanist
Georgia bans abortion after six weeks & will punish women who go out of state. Alabama bans abortion even in the case of rape & will punish women with 99 years in jail. And Republicans fearmonger about “Shariah Law coming to America”? It’s obvious they’re the ones bringing it.
Nathan H. Rubin
Convinced at this point that men feeling entitled to own and control things that they have no right to is the root of pretty much every harmful thing in society. We need a revolution.
Eric Holthaus
I've talked about this before, written about it and what I learned then was that no one in the "pro-life" movement wants to admit that abortion is medical care. Until they need one or their child does. Then they decide their need is exceptional. Because it was always about control.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
“Electric cargo bikes are most definitely the future for us,” says @AskAbsolutely, the oldest courier company in London. “Our van drivers are averaging between 10 and 12 deliveries a day while the e-cargobike riders can do more than 30 deliveries a day.”There are just a few general tweets on immigration. I have to say I have been neglecting this topic. Our southwestern border has become a site of near-genocide and I can't bear to think about it. These two tweets barely touch on the news of the month:
International Cargo Bike Festival
If climate change is a global threat to humanity it seems logical that modeling the cost to fight it should follow World War II mobilization Who gives a shit about forced rationing or saving if we’re all drowned or burnt to a crisp?
Rob Steinernomics
Some mayor's climate action plan should be we're going to phase out surface parking, with actual reduction goals pegged to years.
Angie Schmitt
Walkability requires irregularity at a super fine grain.
@happifydesign
Capitalism not overpopulation is killing all life on earth. It's up to us to connect the dots- because mainstream media is too entrenched in the corrupt system to #TellTheTruth #RebelForLife #ClimateEmergency
Extinction Rebellion Twin Cities
The idea of a “shared street” doesn’t work if the theory is that everyone’s on an even playing field, because they’re not. Cars need to be prioritized last, usually moving no faster than a pedestrian strolls. The relative size of the images on this Paris street conveys priority:
Brent Toderian
On congestion pricing: "Few equity agendas in other areas of social policy, after all, demand that all goods be free. Almost no one, for example, suggests that all food be free because some people are poor. Society instead identifies poor people and helps them buy food. So why should *all* roads be free because *some* drivers are poor? Most drivers aren’t poor, many poor people (including the poorest) don’t drive, and most driving is done by the middle and upper classes." –The Conversable Economist.
Stu Donovan
Lawns and pools are the largest household use of water in California. Golf courses are the largest non-household/non-agricultural use. I imagine it's the same in the rest of the desert Southwest. We'll keep our Great Lakes water here, thanks.
Jason Segedy
All urban areas should be dense. Cities should be cities. Living in a suburban house with suburban land in the middle of a city is *only* possible thanks to injustice.
David Roberts
When you build things to last, they last. Buildings on this street in Woodstock, UK, date as far back as 1627 (that was the oldest I saw). Imagine if we committed to building places to last? We shoot ourselves in the foot by focusing on building quickly as a first priority:
Jennifer Keesmaat
Seriously, how much time, energy, and attention did [Elon Musk's hyper tunnel idea] take away from serious conversations about real solutions to urban mobility? To end up with what many of us expected — just more paved tunnels for cars that would continue to cost billions and induce more driving.
Brent Toderian
Fun anecdote in this profile of Madrid’s mayor: “She heard from a German journalist who complained at length about the complications that new traffic rules had created in her neighborhood. ‘Please use the bus,’ Ms. Carmena responded, with a big smile.”
Laura J. Nelson
Doesn't matter whether motor vehicles run on gas, diesel, electricity, or even autonomously. Not Healthy. Not Sustainable. Not Livable. Stop tinkering.Truly prioritize walking, cycling and public transit with actual conviviality. Waiting is not an option. Fix our cities!!
SharkDancing
Berkeley resident: Bus Lanes will ruin the historic character of the street!
Historian: The street used to have no autos and streetcars running down the middle.
Berkeley resident: Not that historic!
Skip Pile
Me: “Please don’t park in the bike lane!”
Guy parked in the bike lane: “I’m doing my JOB!”
Ok guy, well me and the other six people biking here are just trying to get to our jobs and your actions are illegal and endangering us.
Biking in Mpls
Wow, a thing I just learned: India has 900 *million voters* - and Indian law says every one of them must have a polling place within 1.5 miles’ *walk* of where they live. Can you imagine? A walkable democracy?
@mateosfo
If we use public dollars to subsidize agriculture, helping farmers weather these hard times, shouldn’t we get public benefits — like a healthier environment, cleaner water, and cleaner air — as a result? Seems only fair.
Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
What percentage of all global fossil fuel CO₂ emissions (since 1751) have occurred in your lifetime due to government inaction on and complicity in #ClimateBreakdown and #EcologicalCollapse?
Extinction Rebellion
DeCARonization 101: without intending to, we are teaching our kids that a car is the only legit way to get around:
1. We’ve decided other options are too dangerous, retreating from streets and public spaces, making biking and walking more dangerous for being rarer.
2. We hide the costs of car ownership and use from them.
3. We shame other parents who let their kids bike and take transit, and in some cases even call the police.
Russ Stark
Great news!! The Guardian has stopped using the misleading phrase “climate change” and will as from now call it “climate crisis.”
Greta Thunberg
"All urban streets should be a challenge to drive and easy to walk or bike." –Michael Ronkin. And if they're not...you've got the wrong idea about what a city should be in the 21st century:
Taras Grescoe
Someone added this rug to a Metro Transit shelter and now I want every shelter to get its own sweet styling from random neighbors and riders:
@happifydesign
We did polling for Data Progress that showed equitable zoning is overwhelmingly popular. People believe otherwise because the opposition is loud and shows up to local zoning meetings because it’s largely retired people.
Henry Kraemer
If we want to slow climate breakdown, it’s time to stop habitually purchasing brand new shit: every manufactured product generates emissions and co-opts limited resources. Not so with previously existing, post-consumer options.
julie kearns
All the U.S. agencies charged with traffic safety are engaging in basically a conspiracy to not warn the public that SUVs are more likely to kill pedestriansWe don't have to ban SUVs. At this point, it'd be a step forward, IMO, if people were just informed that they were a lot more likely to kill another person if they drove one. Maybe that changes nothing but at least they know..
Angie Schmitt
The before and after shot shows what a difference it makes:
helen warlow
Why are roads in bad shape in America? States are neglecting maintenance so they can build more expensive new highway lane miles. That just adds to the total maintenance bill.
Streetsblog USA
At any one time, 500 million empty parking spaces in the US. (Avg size: 153 sq ft—which adds up to a parking lot the size of Delaware.) Annual taxpayer subsidy to free parking: $374 billion. via: Donald Shoup
Taras Grescoe
From Washington state ...
Chris Steller
Zoom zoom car improvements never need any public process, but anything for bikes or pedestrians takes over a year and features a lot of making sure this is what people want.
Alex Schieferdecker
Found some notes for a story on the ecological crisis as an intergenerational injustice that I (unsuccessfully) pitched around in 2002. It just occurred to me that most of today's school strikers weren't even born then. We've raised an entire generation underneath our failures.
Alex Steffen
dearest adults: we don’t want your hope. we don’t want you to apologize or sympathize, we want you to be as scared as we are. And to take action with us. because we by all means are all in this together, whether you like it or not.
anna grace @queenbeetheag
What if, and hear me out here, tilting the future balance in favor human survival depended on adopting economic degrowth, by prioritizing human needs, ramping down physical resource use and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity? Wouldn't that be at least worth considering?
Prof Julia S. @JKSteinberger
Obstructions for bicyclists are normalized, while obstructions for cars are immediately seen as a major problem.
Alex Schieferdecker
By all means possible, we must reverse the pro-motorist regime that has made us all more dementia-prone: tax carbon, gas, and congestion; narrow roads; replace parking with bike lanes; upzone; boost transit; raise toll, parking, and registration fees; and yes, cities should ban cars.
Max Ghenis
We all know air pollution is bad for us, but 3 new studies show it is way worse for our health than previously imagined. Compelling evidence suggests it contributes to dementia—and the stats are so overwhelming many researchers believe it’s conclusive
WIRED
I wish we gave even a fraction of the effort we spend working to limit scooter numbers and speeds and storage locations to doing the same for cars. We could transform our cities overnight.
Luke Klipp
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." Amsterdam in the 1970s:
Brent Toderian
Engaging with the climate crisis has just started opening up here in Minneapolis and I’m so thankful, though also worried for the mental health of those learning about and facing climate breakdown honestly for the first time. I’ve had twenty years to come to grips with what’s happening. When I became fully aware, we were in a much better position to address it; I didn’t have to immediately face the same totally existential threat. But I was also completely isolated in it, emotionally/intellectually. I don’t know which is “easier” emotionally. I hope I can somehow help buffer others from and hold others in some of the deep grief inherent in facing the truth. I worry about accidentally compounding others’ pain by still being in my own grief and trauma of it.
@happifydesign
Oops. Emissions from Alberta tarsands seem to have been underestimated by, hmm, 64%. Because industry gets to estimate its own pollution
Bill McKibben
Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast that scientists are losing their equipment.
Rob Hopkins
A 10-year mobilization to completely decarbonize the country, revitalize forests, completely transform agriculture, etc. is the bare minimum and any presidential candidate that can’t commit to that should be disqualified.
@SydneyAzari
Paraphrasing: Across the ten most congested urban areas in the U.S. the poor are 14% of the population, but 4% of the peak hour drivers. Households earning $150K+ are 15% of the pop, but 28% of peak drivers.
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Carter Rubin
Glad we've hit the 'it's cheaper to just die' section of the climate change debates
James Colley
The morning after a truck driver killed a cyclist (and drove away), NYPD did a ticket blitz at that very intersection. Against cyclists. And ticketed people *on a memorial ride* for the victim.
Aaron W. Gordon
"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale
Taras Grescoe
funny to see the hedonic treadmill of vehicle size and income. my retired parents "need" an suv b/c they have a dog. i'm like "but in 1996 you had two kids, two dogs and a mitsubishi mirage. I dont remember it being hell":
lewis lehe
Future generations, if any, will look back and struggle to understand how willing Boomers are to destroy their own countries rather than pay taxes or see immigrants.There were a few on education:
@gin_and_tacos
Pretty wild that in America right now you can dress up in an army combat uniform and point machine guns at migrants in the middle of the desert, but if you give them water or a granola bar you go to jail. Imagine how many people here think that shit is just normal and ok now.
blackmask
In 1979 teachers in US earned 92.7% of other grads. Today only 78.6%.I put together my usual conglomeration of tweets on economic transformation, income and wealth inequality, and fair taxation:
Adam Tooze
Just heard from my niece this a.m. who just ended her college semester with a 3.25 GPA. She had to drop out of school at 18 to help raise her sisters because her mom was suffering from mental illness. She’s now a single mom whose faced eviction, job loss and turmoil. She’s the type of young woman our society likes to write off, to give up on. But my mom’s union paid for her college and with that help and the help of her family, she got the confidence to go back to school to better her life for her children and herself. She’s had to rely on public assistance to help feed her family and help with medical care and without government help to pay for childcare she would not be able to work and attend school. Our investment in her made her able to help herself. And it’s made her not want to give up. When we as a society invest in each other instead of hoard our resources and penalize people for making mistakes, it makes us all better. She wants to be a teacher to help other kids who were like her. I am proud of her.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
The state fails to invest in public schools and housing. Over time, those institutions degrade to a level where they are labeled "failing," which then legitimizes private entities to take them over and social cleansing proceeds. This is happening across the Western world.
Nikhil Goyal
Gains on NAEP were larger pre-NCLB. More testing does not lead to better education. What are we doing to a generation of kids?
Diane Ravitch
Dublin you’re alright:And then, at last, the best of the rest:
Emily of the State
Philanthropy got one kid in need a walker. Taxation gets EVERY kid in need a walker. Taxation is better than philanthropy. Make Billionaires pay their fair share & parents won't have to beg Home Depot for their child's healthcare needs.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Pretty incredible. EIGHT out of the 10 jurisdictions with the highest corporate tax haven scores are British territories. Which makes the UK the 'greatest enable of corporate tax avoidance' worldwide. And it'll probably only get worse with Brexit.
Rutger Bregman
I don't want to tax rich people because they're bad or evil or deserve to be punished. I want to tax rich people because it's just *so much easier* to make money when you already have money. Tax the people who work less per dollar earned because that's the /sane thing to do!/
Hank Green
OK, one more time. If a business spends money on employees or growing the business, that money isn't profit. And. Only. Profit. Gets. Taxed. Higher taxes are a significant incentive to reinvest capital rather than extract it as profit.
Hank Green
The wealthiest 10% of Americans control 70% of the nation's total wealth - and almost everyone telling you inequality doesn't "really matter" comes from that bracket. It is not moral for almost everything created in this country to be owned by so few.
Sen. Mike Gravel
Next time you suggest a policy that will help millions of Americans, and in response someone smugly asks you: “how ya gonna pay for that?”, tell’m 60 of America's biggest companies paid no federal income tax in 2018.
Keith Ellison
I LOVE what Robert F. Smith has done [in paying off the loans of Morehouse graduates] but know this truth: If billionaires today were taxed at the 1940s-1970s rate when USA had its strongest middle class growth in history — Robert F. Smith wouldn’t have needed to pay for this student debt because college would ALREADY be affordable.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Letting the billionaires go to space would actually solve a lot of problems down here. Godspeed fellas!
Ben Ehrenreich
Capitalism tends to inequality and crashes provoking angry backlash. Smart capitalists then briefly reverse inequality and impose stability till anger fades. W/ stupid capitalists, no reverse and inequality deepens, leading to revolutionary surges. So it is with Trump and his ilk now.
Richard D. Wolff
“When a billionaire whose life is an emblem of the very extreme inequality we are trying to address offers a grand solution to that problem, be very suspicious.”
Anand Giridharadas
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” —Lucy Parsons #MayDay
Haymarket Books
If I could teach my children one scientific topic it would be the relationship of surface area to evaporation rate:
Joshua A. Weiner @JW_UI_Neuro
The abuse of marginalized people is baked into ad-driven social media by design because it increases engagement. Harassment and threats are profitable. YouTube is chumming for sharks, using marginalized creators as bait.
Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist
It's been interesting watching some Liberals try to come to terms with the reality that for the powerful the LAW is what they say it is and mostly doesn't apply to them.
Prison Culture
Among Canada’s provinces, Ontario is the lowest per capita spender. Ontario is last in total spending – 10th out of 10. The lie that spending is out-of-control is being used to fuel the dismantling of our transit, healthcare and schools. Shameful.
Jennifer Keesmaat
Every university has someone with a title like ‘The Robert J and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business’, who will use evolutionary psychology to argue that sweatshops shouldn’t have fire escapes.
@wise_executive
Every single comedian who says “funny is funny” or complains about safe spaces has yelled at a crowd of 20-year-olds for not laughing at a joke that ends with them asking if something is gluten-free in a gay voice.
Gonzalo Cordova
I don’t know why the balloon store in my neighborhood has a menacing font that suggests they’re adapted from a graphic novel about vampires, but I kind of admire them for sticking with it. Also, “Every Party Starts With a Balloon” may be untrue, but it’s an AMAZING note to improve the “Eyes Wide Shut” orgy scene:
Tim Carvell
never forget who debt-free college would hurt the most: military recruiters who'd then have to prey on high schoolers using only that "see the world" bullshit
@robwhisman
Imagine sitting an exam at the start of a 3 year course. You don’t fully understand the subject and you only get a mark of 48%. You are then not allowed to retake the exam at the end of the course, even though you've learned so much more about the subject by then. #Brexit
James Melville
I will never understand people’s need to stand on top of tall things as a form of accomplishment.
Christina @StinaMo
What is especially concerning is that jurisdictions now excluded from federal pre-clearance under Section 5 of the VRA had purge rates that were significantly higher than other jurisdictions — leaving 2 million fewer citizens eligible to vote.
Brennan Center
The progress-themed way we teach American history makes it kind of impossible to convey the pretty straightforward fact that Lincoln's assassination was a tide-turning political victory for the Confederate cause.
Tom Scocca
The US has 705 billionaires. Collectively, they own a little more than $3 trillion. The US has 44 million student debtors. Collectively, they owe about $1.6 trillion.
Jeff Stein
Anyone else ever see stories about legislature “having to work overtime” and think who gives a fuck do your jobs?
@rawales2
Conservatives: Children aren’t ready to see gay marriage on TV.
Also conservatives: Children are ready to give birth to their rapists’ babies.
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
I strongly suspect that history will reveal most of the "populism" of the last five years to have Russian intelligence fingerprints all over it, because that's where the evidence points, today.
Alex Steffen
I hate that “basket weaving” is so often used as shorthand for something irrelevant and useless. Do you know how much math, plant care, planning, symbolism, story and skill goes into basket weaving? It’s such settler arrogance that dismisses these knowledge systems
Kat @awahihte
26% of jail suicides occurred within the first 3 DAYS of incarceration. We must wholly eliminate pre-trial incarceration, including EM, toward the abolition of all forms of incarceration. Full stop.
MUAVI @MomsUnitedChi
Telling someone they not the sharpest tool in the shed and then realizing they not familiar with the concepts of sharp, tool, or sheds, is a really bitter victory.
Bigfoot TheBigfoot
maybe instead of rebooting batman for the 971st time in the last decade we could... do anything else.
lindsey romain
Federal spending on infrastructure has not increased significantly in decades. That leaves state and local governments to pick up the slack, which means state and local tax revenues are even more critical:
Joint Economic Committee Democrats
Let the kids go outside like you did when you were a kid. Believe it or not, it’s actually safer now.
Breakdances With Wolves
In '71, there were 2 biz majors for every English major. Today it's 8 to 1. @LisQuart of @Econhardship smartly writes about how humanities are crucial for technological innovation (and society). Humanities are crucial for technological innovation
Mike Smith @MSmithTweets
My child exclaimed his disbelief that a company as rich as KFC would spend so much effort producing a detailed head, but then just draw a stick figure body.
Me: “I thought it was his bow tie.”
He glared at my stupidity.
But now I can’t unsee a giant head on a stick figure:
Belinda Hope
Let’s just say in light of these last episodes [of Game of Thrones] I now fully trust Benioff and Weiss to handle something as fraught and complicated as race, slavery and the American Civil War.
jelani cobb
It costs NYC, $2,000 to arrest someone. It costs them $500 per night to jail them on Rikers Island. If someone is sentenced to 60 days in jail because they didn't pay a $2.75 subway fare, it costs the city, $22,000.
Rebecca J. Kavanagh
Prairie Phlox might be the most perfect prairie wildflower. Hot pink spikes all over the prairies just before all the heavy hitters start blooming:
Prairie Czar
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