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28 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I feel like the GOP clinging to every method of apartheid as if legalized racism was their favorite baby blanket may have been a clue
HOW CAN THEY UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY IN THIS WAY people ask of a political party that has spent the last 60 years finding different ways to ensure that 13% of the population cannot participate in democracy after more explicit racial apartheid was struck down
"It's simply baffling to me that white people who spent decades ensuring that Black people must suffer for voting and then went on to claim our first Black president was not American (because he was Black) would have the *audacity* to try to undermine our democratic system"
Anyway, democracy has been undermined this whole time. That's what happens when you find ways to legalize racism and disenfranchise citizens over and over and over again.

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28 Dec
The Hilaria Baldwin story is giving me LIFE. She even pretended to forget the word for cucumber (she's from Boston😂). I think a lot of Americans who go to EU as teens come back w/ inexplicable accents, but usually they slough it off after a week or two. Hilaria got in too deep!
Full disclosure:I kinda faked an accent once (😬). Not a foreign one, but I "softened" my American accent when I was a teen living in France. My friends there were like, "The Alaskan accent is so much more elegant than the regular American accent. . " Don't judge! Bush was POTUS!
Then my mom got there for a visit. I remember meeting up w/ her in a Tabac and her peering at me through a fog of cigarette smoke before asking, "Why are you talking that way?" And I responded, "I think the muscles in my mouth have changed. It's common" & my mom was like, "What?"
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27 Dec
It's almost impossible to discuss Israel/Palestine b/c 1. the history is complex & 2. the discourse is both reasonably charged &, in some cases, unreasonably toxic.
The Israeli gov't oppresses Palestinians (fact). Americans who wish to show solidarity w/ Palestinians achieve nothing thru anti-semitism (fact). Americans & others make it *harder*, not easier, to discuss how to help Palestine when they pollute the convo w/ anti-Jewish bigotry
I do not believe that I ever said that the behavior of Netanyahu & his government was difficult to define as "bad." I said it was a fact that they oppress Palestinians. I said the overall convo around the history of Israel/Palestine is complex. That is just true.
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24 Dec
Putting COVID-relief aside for a moment, here are many things that I want in a mostly ideal world:
-Better housing, incl permanent housing
-Universal healthcare, w/ a strong publicly funded component*
-Heavy investment in K-12, as well as universal pre-K
-Free childcare b4 pre-K
-Increased food assistance
-Subsidized public transport
-Free college
-Student loan cancellation
-Literally any investment you have to make to mitigate climate change
-And a whole lot of other things
But we don't live in the mostly ideal world I would like us to live in, so we do have to make choices. I want college to be free or very, very cheap. But if money in this imperfect world were taken to make that possible at the expense of K-12, I would be unhappy.
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21 Dec
These data are interesting and should be studied by Dems, w/ Latino politicians, academics, etc. taking the lead. I am not going to opine on why I think these shifts occurred, given I do not belong to one of the aforementioned groups. I will make a few other comments
1st, the visualizations are of shifts. Biden still won many of the areas in the article by a lot. The shift scale is from 10-30%. The shifts indicate changes in proportion from '16-'20. There's no way to tell if we're talking about primarily new voters, swing voters, or a mix
So, a few comments: after the election, based on the data I saw at the time, I said it was possible that the new Democratic weakness w/ Latinos was perhaps overstated by the media & very regionally specific (mostly S. FL). I think that was clearly incorrect.
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21 Dec
I would say this website turns self-righteous hindsight bias into an art (& I would be correct) but at this point I don't even think a lot of folks who are aggressively engaging in such bias are applying it to memories that are factually correct.
I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but my personal recall of October is not that McConnell passed a bill that Pelosi turned down. I also recall that the 1.8 T deal was discussed between Mnuchin & Pelosi. & Trump lost interest at one point--entirely calling off stimulus talks altogether.
There are a lot of moving pieces here. The 1.8 T bill had a liability shield that Democrats found too much of a poison pill. There was also, of course, hope we would win the Senate and could get a better bill.
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I think a few things are true:

1. It's absolutely rage-inducing to see privileged GOP members of congress get the vaccine when they've downplayed the crisis + refused aid
2. continuity of gov makes sense*
3. politicians should get the vaccine to instill public trust
in terms of 2: continuity of government: of course Pelosi, the current occupant of the WH, Pence, Biden, & Harris should be prioritized. Why Lindsey Graham has a part in this group is understandably questionable, but it also makes logistical sense to just vaccinate them all
So, personally, I think broad government vaccination makes sense + I think it has some societal benefits beyond government continuity (addressing vaccine skepticism). At the same time, people have the right to be angry when they see COVID denialists getting vaccine-priority.
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