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25 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Area Senator unfamiliar with concept of inflation
Jamelle providing the math I was too lazy to do.
Really feels like these guys might have prepped a little more before using their own experience of low college tuition and relatively high minimum wage to launch their arguments against raising the minimum wage during a period of high college tuition
There are a variety of benchmarks you could compare the minimum wage against, and different arguments to oppose it. But the "back in my day I was only paid $6" is not a good one. epi.org/publication/la…

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22 Feb
Trump DHS officials (including Stephen Miller's wife) worked with Breitbart and Fox to further Trump's narrative that immigrants are criminals by illegally disclosing personally identifiable information. democracyforward.org/lawsuits/seeki…
This could be seen as a continuation of Stephen Miller's emails with Breitbart, where he was obsessed about the trope of non-white immigrant crime that features in white nationalist narratives
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
As always, it bears mentioning that the best empirical research shows that immigrants are, if anything, less likely to engage in crime than native borns. In other words, systematically tying immigrants to crime is an effort to build a false narrative.
pnas.org/content/117/51…
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22 Feb
Macron investigating academics for wrong speak shows that the basis for these anti-university attacks is to appease the far right (in his case, Le Pen voters).
Just to confirm this point: the WSJ editorial page applauds it as a defense of liberalism, invoking Orwell.
Abuse of Orwell is standard practice of course, to the point that when Josh Hawley lost a book contract for encouraging the Capitol Insurrection, he described it as Orwellian. nytimes.com/2021/01/13/boo…
It does seem to odd to invoke Orwell, who worried about government regimes targeting and silencing dissent, as someone who would support a government targeting academics who hold dissenting views from the French political class.
But that's the WSJ editorial page!
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21 Feb
One way of reading this story is that someone who took place in the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 has used his position at Facebook to maintain the influence of people who took part in the Capitol Insurrection buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
The people who took place in the Brooks Brothere riot - trying to stop vote counting in Florida to ensure their candidate won - are emblematic of how the right set of connections protects you from any professional penalty.
Of course, the design of Facebook ensures that Zuckerberg has final say on all decisions. Instead of insulating himself from political decisions, he personally intervenes, overturning internal Facebook processes and principles to protect figures like Alex Jones.
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20 Feb
Scott Walker oversaw the worst gerrymander in the country. His "election integrity" proposals are aimed at solving the same problem: undermining the political participation of people who disagree with him.
Here are things we know: there are almost no cases of voter impersonation. Efforts to prevent these non-problems with voter ID and signature verification end up falling heavier on younger and minority voters. The problem Walker et al want to solve is not fraud, but turnout.
Q: What do the mob who attacked the Capitol and state legislators launching voter suppression bills have in common?
A: Both are participating in an extraordinary backlash against *democracy* itself, fueled by the Big Lie.
brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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20 Feb
Bari Weiss: countless people all over America are telling me about how anti-whiteness has gone mad.
Everyone: Should be easy to produce some compelling examples.
Bari: this white lady was told she was not allowed to rap at a library orientation. Image
Some people can’t tell the difference between being persecuted and being saved from making a fool of themselves.
Weiss said the rapping librarian "is turning down a settlement that would have given her a much easier way out"
Smith College disputing this saying she "demanded an exceptionally large sum in exchange for dropping a legal claim."
Shaw has picked up more than 200K from GoFundMe. ImageImageImage
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16 Feb
The most dangerous threat to campus speech over the past few years is authoritarian and far right governments shutting down dissent. In Philippines, Duterte has empowered the army to arrest students in one of the few spaces free speech was allowed. nytimes.com/2021/02/14/wor…
While not authoritarian, the French government is pivoting right to pick up votes away from Le Pen supporters. Their strategy for doing so? announce an inquiry into the speech of faculty. So much for academic freedom.
The right win UK government is also creating what are euphemistically called "free speech champions" to police campus speech, and to sue protestors.
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