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Sep 4, 2018 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
.@DLeonhardt, not holding back at all on the hypocrisy of Trump-abetting congressional Republicans at John McCain's funeral: nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opi…
"It was all an act — a cynical, hypocritical act that McCain, who had a keen eye for hypocrisy, would have seen right through...Despite running a branch of gov't...equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump. Entrusted with power, they have chosen complicity."
"The congressional Republicans inside the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday would surely say they came to honor John McCain. But they were there for show. Faced with a choice, they have rejected McCain’s America for Trump’s."

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Feb 21
Your occasional Sunday evening quiz Q: which war witnessed the first ever racially integrated American military unit? Tiebreaker: what was it called?
Answer at 9 pm ET. No Google!
(Prize: a signed paperback edition of FULFILLMENT)
Bravo to @clinthendler and @SanhoTree for the right answer:
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Feb 17
"When students at San Jose State returned to campus last fall after more than a year of remote learning, lecturer Damon Moon thought they would be chatty and excited to see one another. Instead he noticed something concerning: They weren’t talking at all." wsj.com/articles/colle…
"They lost the skill to have small talk...Schools were an environment that encouraged students to have reasonable conversations and build relationships during their formative years."
"Recently, small groups of students went to Zoom breakout rooms to work on an assignment. Ms. Touneh said no one had their cameras on and no one spoke. 'It took me 6 minutes to say something. I finally gathered the courage. I said, Hey guys, so what are we supposed to be doing?’”
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Feb 4
"Never before has Texas—or any other state—involuntarily activated so many troops under state active duty authority for such a long-term mission." Quite a @TexasTribune story on the hardship faced by the thousands of National Guardsmen sent to the border: texastribune.org/2022/02/01/tex…
@TexasTribune "A few days after being told he’d likely sit the deployment out, the NCO was ordered to report within 72 hours, he said. If he didn’t, his commanders told him, the state would issue an arrest warrant. 'I had to cancel $60K worth of business contracts'...His employees all quit."
"As many as 1 in 5 troops in the 6,500-strong 'operational force' who have been sent to the border have reported problems with their pay, including being paid late, too little or not at all for months."
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Feb 1
This was my first day back in NY since returning to US last month after 4.5 months in Germany. When I was in NY over summer, you could sense things opening up. But now, the contrast with Germany seems so, so stark, especially as regards the basic fact of people going to work. 1/3
In Germany, even during their rough Delta surge of Nov and Dec, many people were still going to work, going downtown. The regional trains from the suburbs were still heavily used; you had to search for a seat. The train stations were bustling--in Berlin, in Essen, in Cottbus. 2/3
In NY, my goodness. Penn Station and shiny new Moynihan Hall are ghostly. There are no commuter crowds. Newsstands are closed. The bar at Moynihan closes at 8 (in NY!). There are so many visible people in distress bc there are so few others around. Public transit needs people.3/3
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Jan 28
The rise of Amazon and the rest of Big Tech used to be yoked to the Democrats. In the pandemic era, their fortunes have diverged. My latest, to mark the occasion of the paperback release of FULFILLMENT: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"The Democratic Party was becoming the Amazon coalition: highly educated professionals (mostly white) relying on home deliveries, and working-class people (mostly not white) getting stuff to them...There's undeniable awkwardness in the former keeping safe by relying on latter."
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Jan 1
Philadelphia ended 2021 with 562 homicides, 62 above its all-time high, from 1990, when it had the same size population as it does now.

Among other cities setting records in 2021: Louisville (188), Columbus (201), Indianapolis (271), and Portland (90).
And the full nationwide context:
I was remiss in not including another record-breaker: Jackson, Miss. It had 152 homicides, in a city of only 166,000. That's up from the previous record of 130, set last year. clarionledger.com/story/news/202…
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