The month of March ended with DJT's indictment. It also included the Nashville school shooting, Silicon Valley Bank's collapse and other bank closings, the IPCC's increasingly dire final report, even more state repression in Florida and other parts of the country, the ongoing panic about the existence of trans people, a newly created panic about 15-minute cities, the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Jimmy Carter entering hospice, and confirmation that Reagan operatives were involved in keeping U.S. hostages in captivity past the 1980 election, which was clearly a major factor in Reagan's election.
Twitter has made it through another month. Many people predict
there could be a major death spiral in April, as the fool in charge
removes the legacy blue checks and allows people to pay for blue checks
without validation, and it was announced that a chunk of Twitter's source code was leaked. Right-wing vitriol continues to proliferate. I
remain there, watching only people I follow and the people they retweet.
It doesn't seem that different to me, aside from missing all the people
who have fled the platform, which is one of those hard-to-quantify
absences. It does seem less useful as an immediate news source.
Everything below the line is a quote from the attributed account, and is shown in reverse chronological order that I saw it, except a few of the images, which I sometimes move up or down to get better visual distribution in the list.
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Women who miscarry in the State of Florida are being sent home to develop sepsis before they can receive needed abortion care. And with the new abortion ban, it will only get worse. This is not freedom.
Lauren Book @LeaderBookFL
[If they were armed,] teachers would be shooting Black kids and saying they were afraid for their lives. just like police.
Karla @k_zac
one of the most informative maps you'll see. the ‘true size’ of countries when not distorted on a sphere:
ian bremmer
The essence of authoritarianism is getting away with crime. That's why this indictment is so important
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
As predicted, CNN's lurch to the right cost it viewers on the left while gaining zero new viewers on the right.
Bruce Bartlett
Think we need to acknowledge climate action doesn't have a political home in the United States. Republican catechism is to deny its existence to defend their benefactor (oil/gas), Democratic catechism is to deny its cause to defend theirs (car makers and suburban drivers).
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo
Via Wil Wheaton's Tumblr:
Cory Doctorow
You know what Climate Action Plans need, in addition to reducing VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled)? Reduce average Vehicle Mass & Size (VMS: I just made that up). Demand that small EVs get made in the US, while putting size taxes on larger ones.
Lou Miranda @TheNewLou
Climate change is *not* just a problem of "CO2 from burning fossil fuels" problem. That's about 58% of the problem we have today. We also have to seriously address agriculture, land use, materials, and industrial processes that go beyond CO2 and fossil fuels.
Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
One takeaway from this chart: most mass shootings aren’t in schools. The other: The spike in mass shootings since the national assault weapons ban expired is remarkable. We are not taking about about this. Chart source: The Financial Times (full link in the original).
Karen Vaites
You don't need to have a trans person in your life or be trans to care about the rights and well-being of trans people. You just need to be a decent person.
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing
A lot of what's held up as "utopian" is actually realistic about what it takes to fit into the biosphere and a lot of what is held up as "realistic" is actually a fantasy about a society that could last in defiance of earth system limits.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Ursula K. Le Guin bot
Gun ownership and gun death rates, by country
Dr. Julia Raifman
It’s the guns. Not the doors. Not video games. Not Godlessness. It is the guns. It’s the fucking guns. It’s the guns. The guns. The guns. For fuck’s sake, what are we doing?
Brian Tyler Cohen
Social conservatives have taken over the “culture in decline” stuff by associating it with gays getting married and trans people living their lives. Fetishization of guns is the real “culture in decline,” and liberals need to start shouting that everywhere we can.
@a_bit_too_effy
The NRA exists to facilitate the international trade of illicit weapons. Money laundering, illegal drugs, and human trafficking are part of the global arms trade. The NRA does NOT exist to protect our civil rights—yet we allow it to bribe politicians and direct policy.
Leah McElrath
I keep seeing right-wingers call things "demonic" like we're in the 6th century. Weird to see adults with such a childlike understanding of the universe.
Kevin Gallatin
still kinda feel like attempting a coup ought to be met with swift judicial response rather than slow methodical investigations. it's exactly the moment when years to investigate, consider charges, let a trial play out over a couple of years ... ain't the way.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Tired: randomly placed potholes in spring only
Wired: potholes in advance of carefully chosen pedestrian crossings that are there year-round with lights and signs
Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz
An Iowa correspondent shares with me some photos of this cool package of Smead’s Spi-Roll typewriter-ready blank labels, depicting the Spiral Bridge at Hastings, Minn. (1895-1951) Found in the back of a cabinet during an academic office spring cleaning:
Gary Hornseth
A caption in the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit mentions that Tulsa later destroyed Greenwood a second time by driving a highway through the rebuilt community.
Jared Alves, AICP @JAlves6
When you realize that Twitter is very much being treated like a prospering Black neighborhood and you can't unsee it
Sydette Cosmic Dreaded Gorgon Clydesdale @Blackamazon
How [did the Nazis come to power in Germany]? Inch by inch. Piece by piece. Goon by goon. Thug by thug. Speech by speech. Rally by rally. Fear by fear. Hate by hate. Until one day, Germany woke up to find their country had been stolen by madmen who promised to make them great again in a thousand years of glory but instead led them to ruin and disaster in an orgy of blood. That's how.
Stonekettle
I’m still in complete amazement that parents are complaining about school, library books, and most of them have given their kids a smart phone.
@Sisyphus38
600k in North Carolina stand to get health care and it’s because the state’s Republicans embraced Medicaid expansion. It’s a remarkable turnaround, the kind we haven’t seen in a while.
Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn
The democratic backsliding in India and Israel is tragic, and perhaps inevitable when you make the domination of a specific religion a core of state rule.
@LOLGOP
I am really aggravated by Minneapolis butchering pedestrian facilities to avoid buying even a couple square feet of sidewalk easement:
Sean Hayford Oleary @sdho
Thanks, Obama! In order to spite President Obama, the Wyoming GOP wrote into their state Constitution "each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.” This insert is the reason why they can't pass an abortion ban.
@ask_aubry
White people now define "woke" as anything that doesn't center and solely focus on white cishet able-bodied men. Do I have that right??
Shana V. White
Florida is on the precipice of becoming an anti-democratic education regime with this trifecta:
1. Illiberal education censorship laws
2. Universal vouchers privatizing education at the expense of public schools
3. Constitutional right to education unenforceable in courts against the legislature
Joshua Weishart
How the standards-and-testing juggernaut has soured children on reading for pleasure: "There's a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment now." A book is seen not as fun but as something to be "analyz[ed] within an inch of its life" (linking to an Atlantic article called "Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love with Reading").
Alfie Kohn
The recent "final" version of the IPCC report on the climate disaster facing humanity has been greeted with the same "Ho Hum..." that has met its earlier dire warnings decades over several decades. "Oh, please don't interrupt our ongoing festival of production and consumption!"
Langdon Winner @langdonw
SUVs are driving climate change...and the increase in pedestrian deaths. The only reason they exist is government regulators captured by industry. ban them.
Stair Daddy @holz_bau
Trumpers don’t believe that the election was stolen in a legal sense. They believe it was stolen in a racial sense. The insurrection was spurred on by racial panic driven by replacement theory. This is a large group of Americans who look at the George Floyd protests coupled with Black and Brown voters tipping scales in battleground states as a provocation of a race war and an attack on “Real Americans.”
@exavierpope
This is absolutely disgusting. This is climate denial. #EndClimateSilence
End Climate Silence
Every hand-wringing essay about work ethic is either written by a white-collar criminal or someone who draws a paycheck from them
david a banks @DA_Banks
Compromise is a funny word. Some politicians love to use it as a cutesy talking point, but when it comes to street projects, what almost always gets compromised is the safety of anyone outside a car, whereas even the mere perception of driver inconvenience is too much to bear.
Pedaling Professor
Say you’re in a room with 400 people. 36 don’t have health insurance. 48 live in poverty. 85 are illiterate. 90 have untreated mental illnesses. And everyday, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what’s happening right now.
@gayblackvet
We need a serious conversation in this nation about the purpose of education, and who should be responsible for our system of public education. Because I don’t think it should be focused narrowly on job training, and it shouldn’t be testing companies and billionaires in charge.
Mitchell Robinson @mrobmused
"When it comes to child labor we should be putting tighter curbs on it ... What doesn’t make sense is for one party to be more concerned about the imaginary threat of drag queen story hours than about jobs for children that could cause irreversible harm."
Helaine Olen
A husky next to a wolf. My entire life I thought they were the size of dogs. I’ve been heavily mistaken:
Today Years Old @todayyearsoldig
Honest question: do people racialized as White ever ask why the spaces they occupy are almost always consistently made up of people racialized as White?
Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts
Trying to square the persistent conflicting narratives that our "failing schools" where "kids are out of control" are also sites of perfect indoctrination only when it comes to non-tested content and subversive values...
Nick Covington @CovingtonEDU
If Trump is actually indicted there’s going to be a lot of focus on the unprecedented nature of it happening to a former president. That comes from reverence for an office. The real story is how this person has been protected by power structures for so long.
Jared Yates Sexton
How in the actual FUCK is the theory behind no-knock warrants that you don't want to let the criminals know you're coming, but we're giving Trump and his PROVABLY VIOLENT forces a damn WEEK to plan their moves ahead of Trump's arrest? --Thoughts while being Black in the shower.
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
Meritocracy musings: Successful people, including scholars, want to believe their status is earned. David Labaree is honest enough to tell a different story about his own career trajectory. This passage on teaching/assessing jumped out at me: 
Alfie Kohn
Been thinking about the fact that Florida legislators want to ban kids from discussing their periods before they are in the 6th grade, and it also *requires* them to report their period data to the state if they participate in sports. The control they are being taught to accept.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI
“increased time at home [during COVID pandemic] led to a significant drop in the diversity of “activity chains” — linked activities such as shopping that commuters [add] to their trips.” Transit works best when there is time and destinations along your route — and you commute often.
Lou Miranda @TheNewLou
They prosecuted one Mayor of Baltimore for embezzling $500 worth of gift cards; another for scamming sales of her children’s book. The idea that illegally writing off your hush $ payment for a sexual indiscretion while running for President is somehow “too small to indict” is bunk.
Sherrilyn Ifill @SIfill_
It hasn’t been 24 hours yet since the release of the IPCC “final warning” climate report - but the news cycle prioritised throughout the fact that Rupert Murdoch is set to marry for fifth time at 92.
Assaad Razzouk
One lesson I draw from 20 years ago is that we would've been morally justified to be 100 times more disruptive and destructive to try and stop the [Iraq] war, which was everything we said it was.
Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet
"I'm not a Christian Nationalist, I just believe America is a Christian nation and the laws should reflect that." –Christian nationalists pretending they're not Christian nationalists.
April Ajoy
Changed my mind. The bus should not be free. Instead, people who ride public transit should be paid for not contributing to this bullshit:
Kerri Ana @KerriAnaProvost
I honestly believe that once we told everyone “it’s fine if you give someone a deadly disease… you do you!” we conceded ground on climate change, women’s and LGBT+ rights, racism… everything that matters. If we can’t even ask people to mask in a subway car, why should they care?
Gyda Arber
20 damn years [since the Iraq war] and it feels like every pundit who cheered that clusterfuck on is still out there being wrong about everything and getting paid handsomely for it.
Tom Tomorrow
I cannot stress enough to young people that in 2002–03 most US media outlets treated the coming war in Iraq like a combination of the Oscars and the Super Bowl. Truly gruesome era.
Ryan Boyd
raccoon dogs *do* look like the type to start a global pandemic and then lay low while pangolins were wrongfully accused:
Tess Owen @misstessowen
“2022 emissions consumed 13%–36% of the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5 °C, suggesting permissible emissions could be depleted within 2–7 years.”
David Wallace-Wells
Republicans colluded with Iran to steal the election from Jimmy Carter
They then colluded with Russia to steal the election from Clinton
They then tried to extort Ukraine to steal the election from Biden
Turns out GOP traitors have been stabbing us in the bloody back all along
Lindy Li
MN GOP on school lunches for all: "Why are you giving this to wealthy people who don't need it?"
MN GOP on Social Security tax cuts: "Why aren't you giving this to wealthy people who don't need it?
Aaron Klemz
We are not talking about the indictment of a former President so much as we’re talking about the indictment of a life-long criminal who lied and cheated his way to becoming President by tricking half of the country into thinking he’s a Christian man who cares about each of them.
yvette nicole brown @YNB
"60% of gambling industry profits come from the top 5% of users... The government estimates 8% of suicides are gambling related."
Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark
Always thought this building was how you say 'customers not wanted' in Architectese.
Gavin Sullivan @thatgav
American towns: we turned our main streets into high-speed commuter roads and replaced half of our buildings with parking lots!
Also American towns: why does no one spend time here anymore???
Strong Towns
2009: Racism is over, hooray!
2023: Whoops, someone came up with a generic substitute for the n-word and now half the country is using it even though it's impossible for them to even define what it means in polite conversation.
Velodus
This is such an amusing little Tesla design oversight:
M. Nolan Gray
Every time you find yourself using the passive voice, ask yourself who you're protecting and why. "A warming planet." Really? The planet just up and warmed?? Passive voice is a tool of the enemy. A powerful tool.
Mary Annaïse Heglar
If you're lamenting the lack of radical action in response to exploitive fiscal policy in the US, maybe we should look at the fact that the police have been given functional impunity for harming protesters with right-wing militias increasingly being deputized as well.
Righty The Left Hander @chadstanton
Years ago Thomas Gordon (author of Parent Effectiveness Training) said to me, "Autocratic environments make people sick." He was referring to families — control-based parenting — but now I'm thinking about the relevance of his comment for an entire nation. Starting with Florida.
Alfie Kohn
I dream that one day drivers will attempt to avoid me on my bicycle the way they do a discarded cardboard box on the road.
@tomflood1
Conservative Historian Claims Diversity Ultimately Doomed Third Reich (linking to The Onion).
Cory Doctorow
Should we take bets on the first state to eliminate its compulsory school law? This was very much a ‘parental rights’ issue in the late 19th century.
Ethan Hutt @ehutt1
I know that AI is all powerful and Will Change Everything. I will also say that, *as of now*, whenever I ask eg ChatGPT version 3 or 4 something I know about, the answers are ludicrously wrong — but stated with great confidence. This is an "of the moment" status report.
James Fallows
Imagine thinking that the solution to ordinary people climbing gantries in desperate opposition to genocidal policies is 'more resilient' gantries:
Just Stop Oil
For the 99.99% of us that are not enrolled in a political theory seminar, why does the distinction between fascism and authoritarianism matter? Will one's experience be different and is there an appropriate response to fascism that's different than the one for authoritarianism?
Stan Oklobdzija @stan_okl
Fascism is a type of authoritarianism that creates specific (often racialised) outgroups, and attacks/oppresses them in favour of the chosen national in-group. Its logic is ultimately inherently genocidal, so it needs to be opposed more robustly than mere authoritarianism.
@mhuzzell
Authoritarianism comes from across the political spectrum, it can creep up on you. Fascism comes from a particular place and is easier to spot, not necessarily less hard to stop.
@martin_westall
Fascism requires your willful participation while authoritarianism merely requires your obedience.
Darrel Menthe
There is a large and very meaningful difference! In authoritarian countries, public political participation is typically very low, while fascism is a form of totalitarianism and in such nations public political participation is very high — if not all-consuming.
Stephen Dotts @sdotts136
discussing the difference is meant to keep us talking while they build the scaffolds
@WattleOfBits
This is from 2018, not 1918 (just to be clear):
:
Sam Duncan @EnvHstySam
There is a deliberate, targeted, systemic, ruthless dismantling of the public commons and honestly the entire American project underway and we can’t even get national media to wrap their brains around it because it’s couched in bad faith horseshit like CRT hysteria or transphobia
@ambrown
I assume all the major news outlets will be running stories about the happy shoppers once again able to buy cheap eggs [prices down 41% Jan to Feb], just like the crisis stories we saw about how high egg prices were bankrupting American consumers.
Dean Baker
Crime rates fall sharply for 30 years, but only make the front page when there’s a slight uptick. Food prices fall for 60 years but only…
Doug Saunders
“if you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish, you should charge him tuition, have you considered the moral hazard? And sure you have work requirements on there, oh and add some means testing, seems wasteful” –Jesus
James Medlock @jdcmedlock
Honestly, the fact that Florida has become this much of a fascist state this quickly without mass, unruly protests erupting is a bad sign for the future of freedom and liberty in America.
Ashton Pittman
this is what climate action actually looks like
Stair Daddy @holz_bau
In acquiring church status, the Family Resource Council told the IRS it holds chapel services at its office, averaging 65+ people. But when we called to inquire about service times, a staffer responded, “We don’t have church service.”
ProPublica
Republicans: It's not fair to say systemic racism exists
Republicans, also: One Black person on a board will crash your entire bank
@LOLGOP
Every now and then I think about how serious the former mayor of St Louis was about traffic calming. Photo: @NEXTSTL
Angie Schmitt @schmangee
I think it’s cool that the best picture Oscar went to a science fiction movie about a young adult lesbian threatening to destroy the entirety of existence, all because her mom refuses to accept her. Family rejection is hard. Just. Love your kids.
Leigh Finke
its funny to me that most americans know the history of 1750–1776 or so, then 1840–1865, then 1929–the present, when in reality, the 1866–1929 part is arguably the closest to what is happening right now and clearly has important lessons
matthew ellis @matthiasellis
What if I told you there was a giant money-making industry in the US premised on grooming and sexualizing children, encouraging body dysmorphia, and pushing young people into altering their bodies in ways they may later regret?
David Roberts @drvolts
People should be able to enjoy/explore your city, day or night, without spending huge cash and without having to drink. If not, most people have little incentive to be out. Not only do you have a dead city, you lose one of the best reasons people have not to move to the burbs.
Rik Adamski
What if I told you human suffering and environmental destruction were actually bigger problems than traffic congestion?
@Qagggy
Still don't understand why people decided that trans children was the thing to panic over when climate change is right there.
@KendraWrites
An editorial cartoon in the Citizens’ Council newspaper, July 1959, demonizing teachers and condemning assertions of racial equality, civil rights activism (note the NAACP poster) and integrated education:
Lawrence Glickman @LarryGlickman
one of the largest banks in the United States just collapsed because of the same 2008 risky gambling shit and without even blinking the very same people who were melting down over your $600 unemployment check are now demanding that we bail them out
Robert R. Raymond @robpertray
Thinking about how HIPAA exists because hospitals and clinics were selling lists of patients with HIV/AIDS to tabloids.
@TylerAlbertario
You know who hated Jesus when Jesus was alive? Conservatives.
Steven Delpome @NA_Dellsey
The right's book-banning agenda is not driven by a broad consensus of concerned parents but rather by a handful of fringe cranks. Seems obvious but rarely discussed, maybe our free speech defenders could devote the same attention to this that they spend on woke college students.
Hemry, Local Bartender @BartenderHemry
Funny how “you knew what you were getting into” applies to barely-adults signing student loan paperwork but not like billionaire venture capitalists forcing all their start-ups to use the same bank.
Courtney Milan
Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic:
Lego Lost At Sea
Also don’t let your public officials say “unexpected” or “unprecedented” about [Minnesota's potholes]. Every climate model has been saying warm and wetter winters for MN with more freeze-thaw for years. If they ignored that information, that’s 100% on them.
@anu_wil
Temporarily storing CO2 in the biosphere has value, but fundamentally cannot neutralize fossil CO2 emissions given the vast difference in residence time. Re-emission of biosphere carbon in the future quickly undoes any temporary climate benefits.
Zeke Hausfather @hausfath
There are under 5 million American members of the NRA. There are 20 million college students in America. Guess which one represents "normal America" in most media?
*Most* Americans 25+ have attended college or university.
*Most* professors haven't had secure jobs or high salaries. For 40 years.
*Most* students attend public state universities or community colleges.
The *biggest* major is business.
No current pundit knows any of this.
Ted McCormick @mccormick_ted
The people who teach little girls that their sole purpose in life is to make babies and submit to their husbands’ every demand want to yell at you about how grooming is bad.
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
Republicans don't care if their agenda is unpopular. Their plan is:
1) Lie and say it's popular and assume it'll be repeated a lot, thus reassuring their supporters they are the majority.
2) Minority rule based on disenfranchisement, control of the courts, and mob terror.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't point out that their positions are unpopular; it gives our craven electeds motivation to fight. Just like we should indeed point out hypocrisy and use it to rile up our base, to mock them, to control discourse. But the solution is to gain power and then use it without apology to preserve access to the ballot and to make people's lives better, and then to tell them that the reason their lives are better is because of progressive policies.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
and revenge is the only thing on his mind:
@dylanwoodley
Anytime someone proposes "personal responsibility" as the solution to a systemic problem, it is wise to identify how that person benefits from or otherwise wishes to see that systemic problem maintained.
@bcmFietser
Racial inequality persists because the US (1) reduces racism to an individual-level character flaw and (2) treats racialized groups as biologically real. Taken together, the move towards racial equity is packaged as "personal responsibility."
Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts
By mileage death rate, roads today are 22% more dangerous than before the pandemic. And traffic loads are still lower than pre-pandemic. injuryfacts.nsc.org
@BethOsborneT4A
In 1972 historian Al Crosby speculated that introducing corn to Africa so reduced hunger that population density rose, which in turn “enabled the slave trade to go on as long as it did.” Today I learned that 2 economists examined the evidence for this in 2019 and... Yep.
@CharlesCMann
Markets value automation primarily because automation allows capitalists to pay workers less. The textile factory owners who purchased automatic looms weren't interested in giving their workers raises and shortening working days.
Cory Doctorow
Smart point:
David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ
A reminder that the crusade for “parents’ rights” is really a crusade for one select group of parents to dominate all the others.
@jbouie
Ever notice that when people describe something as “more art than science,” they're really just saying that we haven't figured out how to do it successfully? The (annoying) implication is that "art" is synonymous with inadequate science.
Alfie Kohn
It’s a tough call, but it was probably Titoist Yugoslavia that produced the most hideous buildings in post-World War II Europe. Here, a bank in Tuzla, Bosnia, built in 1977. Via the grim site Socialist Modernism on Facebook.
Mark Higgie
Folks, I've seen much discussion here of the missing workers since the pandemic. Out of curiosity, I looked at the last CBO projections before the pandemic (January 2020). CBO projected that we would have 154,800 jobs in the first quarter of 2023. The January employment data put us at 155,070 jobs, slightly above the average projected for the quarter. Where are the missing?
Dean Baker
70 years ago today [March 5], Stalin died. The first American to learn of his death was Johnny Cash.
Chris Dillow @CJFDillow
This seems too bizarre to be true, but it is. He was an Air Force radio operator stationed in Germany. He told me and my siblings about it many times over our lives.
@rosannecash
Maybe any trains carrying hazardous material should be required to have a manned caboose? The hot boxes could be spotted then?
Craig A. Stone @StonedomeMN
Imagine if we cared as much about trying to have a #1 transit system as we do about having a #1 airport.
wpb003
Bill Sowder @SowderBill
Those claiming only rich people bike are very, very wrong: "We find that individuals in low-income, car-owning [US] households are associated with up to 14% more walking trips and 33% more cycling trips in a week compared to higher-income households."
David Zipper
Reactionary psychology seeks clarity and hates ambiguity. It needs clear lines between in groups and out groups; between who's up in the hierarchy and who's down. It craves certainty and security. It is attracted to conformity, to everyone doing things the same/right way. This also helps illuminate the otherwise-slippery meaning of "woke." That term is used a million ways, but what unites them all is that it is "woke" to question or flatten hierarchies, to attempt to put (what they see as) deviance on the same level as (what they see as) normal.
David Roberts @drvolts
Invest in public schools. Make housing affordable. Take domestic violence seriously. End child poverty. Destigmatize mental health. Pass gun control laws that can actually save lives. That’s how you protect kids — not by banning drag shows.
Renée Graham @reneeygraham
Let's give the GOP its due: With a very unpopular program, they instead developed 2 words — "fake" to dismiss any media criticism and "woke" to dismiss any Dem policy — to stay politically competitive. 2 words. Impressive. Can Dems pick this lock? Are they even trying? Closest rhetorical parallel: Hitler used "Jews" for 20+ years to sustain German support for a World War and Holocaust without ever explaining how they actually hurt his homeland (saying Jews "stabbed us in the back" in WWI being mere scapegoating). No facts. Just speeches.
ShadowingDC
people really built a society with no third spaces, made it illegal or unsafe to be outside, and then blamed phone use for making teens depressed
salem pierce @aWildSalem
1886 cartoon opposing the creation of the Paris metro, on behalf of the Society of Friends of Parisian Monuments (Société des Amis des Monuments Parisiens), Albert Robida. Musée d'Orsay, Paris:
Jarrett Walker @humantransit
How would you feel if you needed a LICENSE to travel out of your "home zone?"
What if you couldn't leave without an escort until you were 17?
And you had to pay every time you wanted to move around?
That's car dominance for you.
Support #15minutecities
Ed @OnFootJesmond
TSA has a budget of almost $8,000,000,000 a year.
Biden just extended the emergency declaration from 9/11.
COVID has killed 1,000s every week for the past three years straight and he is about to let the public health emergency end with no pushback, forcing millions off insurance.
@senorhettler
Even though biking kids to school is basically the job I’ve been preparing for my entire life it’s still a lot. The whole vibe on the roads is “the audacity of this woman to bike somewhere with her kids.” We do our best to avoid cars believe me. But they’re everywhere. The whole vibe of our society is kids belong away from society (mostly in front of screens).
Angie Schmitt @schmangee
What if I want my kids educated to understand and accept that America is diverse? What if I want my kids' education to be free from religiosity? What if I want my kids to not catch an easily preventable childhood disease? Don’t I have a fundamental parental right to that?
Anti-fascist Jack @430inthemorning
As we fight against the neo-fascist right, let us not forget what we are for. We are building a country on the principle that human beings are enriched by difference. This is an awesome and rare project. And a worthy one.
Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites
Every Ivy League and comparable university is a conservative institution in every way but the political identities of some of its faculty in some of its departments. They are hedge funds with students. They operate as powerbrokers in deeply conservative ways.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Since I have been tracking major national and local TV and print news, I haven't found a single example of a single corporate outlet that, when reporting on *any* debate about prison sentences, has included the following scientific facts:
Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
If anything, the 15 Minute City conspiracy fiasco has taught us how quickly misinformation takes root. A frenzy that is truly much ado about nothing.
Jennifer Keesmaat
The [mainstream journalism] obsession with perception entrenches biases already present in society. Whose perception do we privilege? Not every reader agrees, for example, what should be called racist or how to cover trans issues. When we hyper focus on *perception*, whose presumed views do we calibrate for? We know the answer to this. Reporters — and more importantly editors — presume readers share their values and experiences. At mainstream American media, that means the reader is presumed an upper middle class white person with moderate politics who imagines themselves progressive.
@WesleyLowery
Bigots don't belong in office. Trans people DO belong in our communities, and they have a fundamental human right to live safely, authentically, proudly, and without fear.
Women's March
An annual lament that taxpayers can deduct home loan interest up to $750k but only deduct college tuition costs on a sliding scale, declining from $2.5k. Quite a statement about the values (and demography) underlying the policy.
Jon Commers
When you say someone is ‘olive skinned’ do you mean:
This or This:
@lizzo
"Right on red" is a dangerous maneuver that's only allowed thanks to a flawed idea about emissions from the 1970s. We don’t need it.
Mother Jones
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