Lapsed historian of science. Educator, amateur sociologist of Orthodoxy, tweeter in the early morning. US history/politics, race, feminism, SAR HS Color War, 🏒
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I am not saying this is fair. I am saying it's important and I'm gonna try to do it, and I invite you to do the same
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friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"
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Right now, Iranian women are risking their lives to stand up against one of the most misogynist regimes on the planet. It's incredible to see, and I hope feminists the world over will stand with them, amplify them, and support them.
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Perhaps if we connect the dots between Bob Nicholson as CEO of Hockey Canada from 1998-2014, to Nicholson as CEO of the Edmonton Oilers who have now brought in multiple people with accusations of violence against women...we'd see how organizations can choose to handle violence.
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Let's check in on whether Mississippi banning abortion will mean that the state will start helping mothers and young children
The Mississippi welfare scandal gets worse and worse for former Gov. Phil Bryant and Brett Favre with every new revelation. @ayewolfe has crushed this story and deserves a Pulitzer for opening up Pandora's box of corruption implicating the most powerful people in Mississippi.
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The point here isn’t to bemoan racism, but instead to first face facts like adults and then to figure out what it means for the future that the golden age of progressive politics existed side by side with the darkest age of American apartheid.
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The country remembers that period as producing giants in Congress - and there were indeed giants - and as producing extraordinary progressive gains - and there were indeed progressive gains. But those giants and those gains came about by making sure Black people could not vote.
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It’s nearly impossible to make the factual statement that follows this clause without sounding like a crazy polemic and yet: even after the civil war, between roughly 1895 and 1966, there wasn’t a single southern state in the US - not one - that functioned as a democracy.
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Demonizing folks who were *wrongly convicted* is a really good window into a person’s actual values.
Y’all have got to be kidding me. Both men were unanimously pardoned after serving 27 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
@JohnFetterman hiring them is good. But here it’s spun as scandalous, as if we should actively punish folks who were…wrongly convicted. I just.
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When you’re someone who just really cherishes the value of human life newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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If you want to read more, @SuzanneMettler1 wrote a whole book about this. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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The bigger point here is that American public policy is set up to make some benefits visible & others, like the mortgage interest deduction, invisible. While virtually everyone receives some benefits, the invisible benefits allow people to do so while opposing “handouts.”
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Pardon me: The VAST majority of benefits go to households with incomes over $100k.
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The mortgage interest deduction has cost ~$750B since 2010 and the vast majority of benefits go to households with incomes over $100k. But tell me again about how redistribution is bad.
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My PPP loan for 150K was forgiven. That's completely different than having a student loan forgiven. Let me explain why...(1/213)
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TIL a lot more people than I realized got PPP loans and got them forgiven. I learned this because of the relentless stream of dunks when they opposed student loan forgiveness.
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Iraq. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Black sites. Waterboarding. Rendition. Katrina. Enron.
The rehabilitation of George W. Bush is truly a sight to behold and a reminder of why *accountability* matters.
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also if you want to know what people mean when they say “structural racism,” real estate and housing are probably the paradigmatic examples.
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A Black professor who studies housing discrimination had his house appraised: $472,000.
He then did a “whitewashing experiment,” removing indications of Blackness, and had a white colleague — another professor — stand in.
The appraisal? $750,000. nyti.ms/3QVJP4P
