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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Alden to strip more newspapers for parts.
A big, maybe even the biggest, reason we're in this hyper-partisan, post-truth, conspiracy reality is because of the destruction and underfunding of legit reporting media, up and down the food chain.
Hopefully this is good for the @baltimoresun. (Not a lot of detail out there yet.) As with every place, that place needs good local media. baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz…
But the Chicago Tribune, the Hartford Courant; the Orlando Sentinel; the South Fla Sun Sentinel; New York Daily News; the Capital Gazette in Annapolis; The Morning Call in Allentown, PA; the Daily Press in Newport News, VA; The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk will all be gutted.

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16 Feb
I feel like #TexasFreeze folks could use some tips from people used to extreme cold. No better source on that than dog sledder @BlairBraverman. Here's her thread
put on layers of down/wool/anything to create pockets of air and pile everyone into one bed.

and make sure to pee. don't waste body heat on a full bladder.
If you're just miserable but know you'll be ok, please check on any elderly or disabled neighbors.
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14 Feb
Watching “Ace in the Hole,” my rec for my movie club. Very cynical film about journalism, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas, costume by Edith Head.
“You’ll be glad to know I’ve been fired by 11 papers with a total circulation of 7 million for reasons I won’t bore you.”
City/country joke about “belt *and* suspenders” pays off immediately
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13 Feb
Nothing more cynical that Mitch McConnell speachifying about Trump's is "practically and morally" responsible for insurrection but saying it didn't meet a "criminal" standard.

This was not a criminal proceeding.
Mitch was happy to use Trump's lies and conspiracies when he thought it would secure him control of the Senate and was happy to provide himself and other Senators cover from base by voting to acquit. But just in case the weather starts changing, he wants this on the record...
Somewhere there is a portrait of Mitch McConnell looking very young and iron jawed.
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13 Feb
BURR votess guilty!
Cassidy guilty!
Collins guilty!
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13 Feb
1/ Catching up but: If McConnell made clear that he'd hold up Covid relief and nominations and all Senate business if Dems called witnesses—after he'd announced his and other votes to acquit were forgone conclusion—their decision not to is clear.
2/ The House managers have made a compelling case. Nobody is moving to acquit in good faith. The fact-patterns for Trump and his enablers will only get worse. And their cravenness will stand against that backdrop, as hearings and court cases proceed.
3/ McConnell, while Leader, had already maneuvered to delay the trial until after inauguration given the Republicans their fig leaf of an out—claiming (falsely) that the process couldn't proceed once Trump was out of office.

He'll stop at nothing. He's announced his vote.
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13 Feb
Here is a high school friend of mine who has taken picking up trash—also a ritual for me and @kate_icct—to whole new levels. Bravo!

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021…
Billy is right that if everyone did just a bit more, our streets, parks, beaches would be a whole lot cleaner.
Picked up two bags of trash today in honor of my friend Billy. Unlike him I did not need to cover 12 miles to do so. I did it in less than two blocks. SF has a huge trash problem. We have shitty and sparse public trash cans and and way too much littering/dumping.
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