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21 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Yes, it is quite a punchline that the Idaho Legislature had to shut down b/c of a COVID outbreak while.....trying to pass a bill that would prevent local govts from instituting mask mandates:

idahostatesman.com/latest-news/ar…
But as this was happening, a handful of far right legislators met and managed to advance a bill that would prohibit racism or sexism from being taught in school:

postregister.com/news/governmen…
Under this bill, schools could not teach:

- An individual’s race or sex means they are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist or oppressive

- An individual bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by members of the same race or sex
Or, truly some great irony here,

- Merit-based systems are either racist or sexist

- The state of Idaho is fundamentally racist or sexist
I am so fucking tired of people labelling this shit "karmic." You know who else got COVID in this? The Democrats, wearing masks, who tried to fight these bills on the floor.

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21 Mar
I asked teachers to tell me about their demoralization — and how it differs from burnout.

It’s about the pay, but it’s more than that. It’s about the effects of standardized testing, but it’s more than that. It’s about COVID, but it's more than that.

annehelen.substack.com/p/what-demoral…
"I'd leave tomorrow if I could find a steady job w/benefits. I feel like the past year has really unearthed what the community thinks about teachers, & I'm going to find it very difficult to continue to work in that environment without succumbing to really paralyzing resentment"
"Many days I find myself unable to move through the rage I feel, my anger rising as our nation’s teachers are blamed for the failings of the downright cruel society we’ve built. Teachers are once again a scapegoat for all of the failures of all the systems in America."
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18 Mar
Substack recruited me and gave me an advance based on my unpaid newsletter subscribers and my open rate. They had an idea of what my subscriber income would be, and they offered significantly less. In other words: people who take the advances make significantly less money
This is something that is absolutely getting lost in this conversation — which is a very important one. Substack has bungled the messaging at every turn. They missed an opportunity to come down very clearly on hate speech on the platform.
They have also missed an opportunity to highlight all of the people they've given money to who are not Greenwald et. al. *through their public fellowship programs.* This is not private information. It is all right here:

on.substack.com/p/introducing-…
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18 Mar
This is *such* an important point and totally lost if this reporting is performed without Evangelical context
"Sex addiction" within the Evangelical context = he looked at porn and/or masturbated. It doesn't mean he went to or knew these women. It means that they represented an evil within his mind, something that felt impossible to control and yet damned him if he didn't
Every Evangelical/Xvangelical woman has a memory of "don't tempt your Christian brothers" with....your spaghetti string tank tops. The fault in this scenario is on the "temptress" for leading men astray. You can very easily see how this understanding could escalate.
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16 Mar
the person who wrote this is the *personal health columnist* for the new york times
the responses to this remind me that this attitude towards eating is *so* familiar to many of us b/c it was/remains the dominant attitude towards "health" aka "maintaining your figure" for a certain generation of (mostly white) American women
i like to think of it as the "oh i quit smoking so i should probably eat like a bird and passive aggressively judge everyone else around me for their choices & aggressively judge my own family" approach to health
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10 Mar
The answers to this tweet are the answers to every other "passion economy" job query: it will use your love for the vocation as a means to exploit you; it will acquaint you with white (and male) privilege in ever-more alarming ways; it will disillusion you & radicalize you
If you're up for disillusion and radicalization:

If you are teaching students who aspire to this path, it is your moral duty to teach them about the necessity of labor protections, full stop
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8 Mar
Scandal, historically speaking, occurs when there is a rupture in the status quo and attempts to immediately repair or narrativize it fail. The monarchy has been able to absorb & withstand massive scandals in the past but I don't know if it has the fortitude to absorb this one
There are no new romances, no new babies, no deflection. There is only an ailing Great-Grandfather. I'm not trying to be callous; I'm just thinking of how these narratives actually function
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