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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Winning the 2 GA Senate races would give progressives in Congress a lot more power. Bernie, for ex, has more room to bargain in a D Senate. But some progressives on this website are focussing all their energy on abusing a progressivism Congresswoman over a strategic disagreement
If we have 50 D senators, Bernie or Markey etc could threaten to withhold their votes for some more progressive action. If you have 48 D Senators, progressive (or center left!) action won't even see the floor. McConnell won't let anything on the floor from Democrats. . . .
And, if he does, it will be an issue of compromising with him & other republicans. A Democratic Senate means a hell of a lot more power for all wings of the D party. It means we get to negotiate more w/ each other than we do w/ McConnell. & that will apply to the House as well.
Manchin will also have more power in this scenario. However, Manchin also has a lot more power in a R-Senate than Bernie. 1 is theoretically a gettable vote for the GOP & the other is not. In a D-Senate, the balance of power would shift, such that D's would compete for both votes

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4 Jan
I'm increasingly convinced that a lottery may have been good, after distribution to med workers & nursery homes. There are always ethical & logistical trade-offs, but a lottery would have been less vulnerable to some of the effects we're seeing, incl. lack of federal planning
There are good ethical & logistical arguments for tiered distribution, but only if you can pull it off. If you can't (which appears to be the case here, again, due in part to lack of fed planning). If you can't pull it off, I think a lottery is more compelling as a plan.
The way things are working out now is that there are log jams of vaccines at hospitals & hospitals are not necessarily in charge of the distribution plans. That's public health, in conjunction w/ hospitals. But public health is overloaded & underfunded.
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3 Jan
We are "polarized" in the sense that people increasingly identify w/ one party or another. But once you get to looking *w/in* the 2 sides, they are very different. One is ideologically diverse (& messy!) & democratic, whereas the other is ideologically homogeneous & authoritarian
Twitter is not real life, but it is a microcosm of extremely partisan political life. Left-of-center twitter argues amongst itself endlessly. right-wing twitter does nothing of this sort.
On a macro-level, there are two sides between "left" and "right," but once you look w/in these levels, the polarization diagnostic fails to capture both political discord on the left (which is good for democracy) & political homogeneity on the right (which is bad for democracy)
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28 Dec 20
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"
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28 Dec 20
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 20
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 20
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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