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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
a little self-promotion
first, we did a big package at @nytopinion looking at what the trump years have meant for the united states, you can read through the whole thing here. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
my contribution argues that the only thing we've lost is our illusions about what this country is nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opi…
i'm also sending out my newsletter today, which will include entirely too many words on some movies i watched this week. you can sign up here. nytimes.com/newsletters/ja…

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30 Oct
.@surlybassey made this point earlier, but it is difficult to see this incident without reflecting on how white supremacy has exploited black motherhood throughout this country’s history, in exactly this way
i.e. slavers stealing children, destroying family bonds, and then using that destruction as justification for enslavement, “they don’t care about their own.”
or more recently, immiserating black communities through segregation, incarceration, disinvestment and capitalist exploitation, then pointing to the results as evidence of the fundamental unfitness of black mothers. i.e.
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29 Oct
The big flaw in this argument is that it takes practically world historical conditions — a once-in-a-century pandemic and historically unpopular president — to produce an electoral majority that is *just large enough* to even have a chance a these reforms.
“You overcame unbalanced structural impediments by capitalizing on a once in a generation circumstance, therefore there is no need to try to eliminate those structural impediments.”
Right. You can play this game with literally any reform. “If it was necessary to pass a Voting Rights Act then you wouldn’t have been able to pass it, you can, therefore it’s not necessary.” It’s dorm room nonsense.
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29 Oct
This thread has a lot of people asserting that fraud is real & significant, so for those of you who don’t know the numbers, studies find an almost imperceptible level of impersonation fraud. In its study, the Brennan Center found found incident rates between 0.0003% & 0.0025%.
A 2014 study in the Washington Post found 31 incidents of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, out of 1 billion votes cast. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
You can find other analyses here. The general takeaway is that no matter how you look at the issue, the rate of impersonation or non-citizen voting is so low as to be nonexistent. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice in the same day. brennancenter.org/sites/default/…
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27 Oct
rather than try to defuse a situation that hadn’t become dangerous, philadelphia police opted instead to execute a mentally-ill man in front of his mother inquirer.com/news/west-phil…
ah, as always, here comes the “yes he deserved to die” crowd, who have never found a boot they didn’t want to lick
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27 Oct
a fun thing about conservative SCOTUS deference to state legislatures is these are the same justices that have permitted the kind of hyper-partisan gerrymandering that has allowed wisconsin republicans, for example, to lose the statewide vote but win a supermajority of seats.
"oh you want authorities to count all the votes? well, win a majority and change the law. oh, we've allowed our fellow travelers to turn voting minorities into unbreakable legislative majorities? weird how that happened"
and of course, as we've seen in wisconsin and michigan and north carolina, if you manage to elect a governor as a counterweight to the gerrymandered minority legislature, that legislature will just strip the governor of power
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26 Oct
one thing that has always struck me about the post-reconstruction period is how quickly the political consensus for civil rights collapsed.
the last civil rights act of the era is passed in 1875. the supreme court invalidates much of the civil rights legislation of the era in 1883, ten years later is plessy v. ferguson.
what may have seemed like a final political victory in 1870 with the 15th amendment was a dead letter in nearly the entire south by 1900.
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