How low has the GOP sunk that a recount in *Georgia* is cause for celebration?!
But, as @edroso might say, this is a fundraising email, and there ain't no position too low for this dude to grift
No shade to ppl who are countering authoritarianism, but my read isn't that he won't leave. Yes, he'll drag his feet & GSA may balk, and this will mean work that could start January 20 could start in Feb or March (& with COVID, that will mean more death, yes. Outrageous.)
But my read on why he's dragging his feet is simple and crude: As long as he can con ppl into giving money to his 2020 fundraising, he'll keep bilking them. He doesn't care if anyone dies, he has no shame, and he'll bilk bilk bilk bilk bilk until January 20.
Then, on January 21, he'll start fundraising for 2024. But until then, he'll bilk as hard & ruthlessly as he can. Every midnight, he'll send Pence out trawling into our inboxes like a trick on Grindr searching for T until he's squeezed every last penny he can out of his peeps.
"a Reuters review of the legal language" reveals "a donor would have to give more than $8,000 before any money goes to the 'recount account.'” Always listen to @edroso. It's about the grift. It was always about the grift. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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1/x Something I find fascinating in the slow-moving transition of POTUS power & COVID lockdown is a reaffirmation of how existence is RELATIONAL. No one, office, no nation, no honorific exist independently; we depend on one another for our very existence.
2/x Trump can't stay in power w/o relationships. The presidency depends on recognition of others—not just internally by voters recognizing Biden as next POTUS and opposition party (recognizing Trump) but externally by other states (already recognizing Biden as next POTUS)
3/x "The world is moving on." When the United States was formally conjured into being, it wasn't only England recognizing it which will it into existence, but it was Spain, France and the Dutch Republic willing it into existence.
For Scientific American, I wrote an essay assessing the Biden-Harris COVID-19 plan and critiquing the people who will implement it scientificamerican.com/article/we-fin…
One of the things I contextualize in the essay are the concerns of many disabled ppl active with #CripTheVote about the inclusion of Ezekiel Emanuel on the COVID task force, which I first explored in this thread
One thing I'm critical of are the simplistic suggestions to "listen to science" unquestioningly, which we'll hear a lot after an explicitly anti-science presidency. But as I illustrate by linking to @TheTinaVasquez's important work, science can facilitate help or harm
Bursting w happiness that @snehadey_ has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of @thedailynu. Like current EIC @mar1ssamart1nez, Dey will guide Evanston's paper of record in rigorously covering policing, education, racism and health.
Their reporting has really highlighted the stark ways the connected pandemics of policing and COVID are experienced racially. Take @mar1ssamart1nez's analysis of COVID in Evanston dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/11/cov…
Deleted, but here's the screenshot of @DeanBrowningPA in gay blackface.
Do you know how often ppl troll me with sexually violent, racist filth, just deplorable stuff, while obviously just pretending to be Black & gay?
Always wondered who they were- thx for exposing yourself.
What grotesque contempt @DeanBrowningPA has for Black & queer ppl, for the whole world. That he thought his minstrel act could fool anyone shows he is the naive one.
*This is a grotesque number. (I’m very tired after a very long day.)
On the same day Northwestern announced a new Chief Diversity Officer, I am APPALLED to see police in tactical riot gear threatening our very brave students who are protesting racial injustice.
Follow @BinahSchatsky for reporting from the scene for @thedailynu for updates. What’s going on, Binah?
Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother who argued in this 2019 essay that his life should end at 75 because life after that age is longer productive and may involve disability, is joining the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Advisory Board theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Interesting to see how @jaketapper amplified #CripTheVote just this weekend. In my reporting, this essay by Ezekiel Emmanuel has been among the most reviled in the disability community over the past two years.