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10 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This piece is well-intentioned but I think the headline is misleading & bad. Everyone has different understandings of "safe"; should be "Experts say no need to cancel Thanksgiving, so long as you actually f-ing quarantine"

apnews.com/article/thanks…
I've had people tell me "they're being really really safe" and then tell me they just got back from a trip to Puerto Vallarta
"I'm being really really safe" and then that night I see an Instagram of them eating indoors with masks off
The piece is being reprinted in papers across the US; in the one where I saw it, they added the Fauci caveat to avoid gatherings in places that are COVID hotspots. But basically everywhere in the US that isn't Vermont or Maine is a hotspot right now?

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11 Nov
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."

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"We’re not taught to see the forces that operate beyond our control – forces like capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy....Instead, we — esp. women & people from other systematically marginalized groups — are taught to self-help-book our way out of structural problems."
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11 Nov
Update from Southern Idaho
This was in the NYT Live COVID Report yesterday: Across the upper Mountain West — Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming —  the pressing problem is staffing: "the going rate for an I.C.U. nurse in the region has doubled to $120 an hour, more than small hospitals can afford"
[one problem with the NYT Live Update blogs — for COVID, for Politics, whatever — is that there is no record of previous iterations of the story]
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9 Nov
Reading Twitter today is just seeing local reporters from half of the states in the US post similar tweets:
In Tennessee:

In Utah:

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1 Nov
Here's some additional footage from the Graham, NC March to the Polls where police pepper sprayed multiple participants—including young children &, as seen here, members of the Voter Protection Legal Team. This was sent to me by a member of that team who was subsequently arrested
For more on what happened, here's a detailed local news story: newsobserver.com/news/local/art…
The person who was arrested is a volunteer for the Democratic Party, working as a Poll Observer for Legal Protection Team. And they were *arrested.* They can't speak further because they have a pending court case. This is voting in 2020.
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31 Oct
This piece gets close to and then darts away from how militias et. al. will attempt to justify actions if Biden wins: they do not believe they are subject to the laws of the government, only their interpretation of the constitution

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
I've heard this called the "Bundyification" of America and I think it's an apt description, but only if you understand the Bundy's actions as ruled by their very specific understanding of a divinely inspired constitution
You can't just say "these people are wackadoodles." There's an incredibly resilient world view & understanding of "liberty" at work. It can expand to include everything from BLM land to mask-wearing and vaccines. There is a real sense of righteousness & martrydom to defending it
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29 Oct
All of the people I know who are handling COVID Month 8 (and the week before election) the best = people who are doing some sort of volunteer or mutual aid work.

I asked a bunch of them to tell me about their work & how it helps (themselves and others)

annehelen.substack.com/p/how-not-to-f…
Prison Book Programs, Hyper-Local Radio Hosting in AK, Grant Writing, Coat Drives, Deep Canvassing, Lunch Making, Universal Preschool Initiative Advocating, Fruit Picking

These stories will absorb you & make you feel better & hopefully (!) look for opportunities where you are
"When I was in Brownies, we sang a song encouraging us to “pick a good turn to do each day.” This feels like a throwback to that, rather than the more resume-oriented volunteering I’ve gravitated towards as an adult."
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