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Mar 12, 2019 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Way to encourage confidence in American-manufactured aircraft, Mr. President.
(Not that anybody should feel confident in the model of plane involved in both the Ethiopian and Lion Air crashes — but there's a way to speak about this responsibly, without casting doubt on the safety of whole industry. For instance:)
We have a president who, it appears, can be bought off — by companies, foreign sovereigns, what have you — with a pocket-change nod to his pecuniary interests.

This is no effing way to run a government.
Relevant here:
Trump considers acting personnel — such as the ones now running the FAA — more pliable and subservient. He says so himself:

“I sort of like ‘acting’ … It gives me more flexibility; do you understand that? I like ‘acting.’” washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Welp, this seems … this seems significant. dallasnews.com/business/airli…
… and so does information that Trump idiotic shutdown delayed a fix to the 737 Max 8's flight-control software issue.
I adore how pundits say on occasion, even now, how we have yet to see Trump tested by a real crisis — one not of his own making.

Crises rarely first announce themselves as crises. And lives have already been harmed or lost. vox.com/2019/1/8/18173…
Since the shutdown was precipitated by Trump's fixation with his stupid wall, this point by @adamserwer applies as well as ever.

And as he says: the bodies are piling up in the background.
@AdamSerwer (Link to Serwer's article, since I forgot to paste that:) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@AdamSerwer To get back to the 737 Max 8: Why are Southwest and Americans still flying these planes?

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Jan 23
Oh, hey: my brother drove my mom home crying from the hospital last week, after she left my dad’s side overnight for the first time in 10 years of cancer treatments. With my father stuck in triage all night awaiting a procedure, overcrowding meant she couldn’t stay.
“I’m done with COVID”: oh, Bari, bless your heart (if there’s one in there).
(*drives past flaming wreck of two cars on the roadside*)

“… you see, I’m just done with car accidents.”
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I’m unsure why it makes sense that the AG of Va. _can_ fire the university counsel at U-Va., but we can make a good guess as to why he _has_: retribution for his role, while on a leave of absence from C’ville, as chief investigator for the 1/6 committee. cavalierdaily.com/article/2022/0…
“But they’re not Trumpy,” the narrative went. “They’re laser focused on what suburban moms care about.”

(*grimaces*) abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/a…
A former U.S. representative for Charlottesville:
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“Stay home or work sick? The shambolic state of public health policy, labor law, and common sense in the U.S. poses a conundrum.”
(Not aiming this barb at Zeke. Just making note that finding ourselves stuck on this _two years_ into this pandemic is truly bleak.)
(Anyhow:)
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Jan 9
“If nobody else in society gives a d*mn any more about controlling the spread of the virus, why should we give a d*mn about kids and teachers?”

There, that’s more honest.
I feel pretty certain that promoting the full closure of schools is a minority position. National unions don’t support it; most systems haven’t chosen it.

But in systems where teachers are out sick with active infections, and students are out for either the same reason or …
… parents and caretakers _choose_ to keep a child out rather than risk their exposure, why are we play-acting at having a normal educational environment? What point is served in that circumstance?
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We had better hope, for the sakes of the reputations of pundits who swear that COVID hardly affects children, that America doesn’t see a steep increase in post-COVID chronic illnesses in 20 years.
“New research shows that COVID-recovered youth face higher risk of developing diabetes, but in better news, Congress has moved to make insulin affordable at low cost.”

(*producer whispers into earpiece*)

“I’m being told that Congress has not, in fact, made insulin affordable.”
(To be clear: I was being drily sarcastic with the bit about pundits, who’ve been known to skate for being grievously wrong about … everything, really.)
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