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28 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“We showed strength and courage and power and commitment,” Ms. Cone said, “that we the shut-ins, or the shut-outs, we the hidden, supposedly the frail and the weak, that we can wage a struggle at the highest level of government and win.” nytimes.com/2021/03/26/obi…
She helped mobilize ”a coalition of supporters among other activist groups, including the Black Panthers, who supplied hot meals to the protesters, and machinist union workers, who rented trucks to transport them when they took the fight to Washington” nytimes.com/2021/03/26/obi…
“Kitty Cone believed in the depth of her soul that the broader you build something, the better chance you have of success.” That vision & activism ultimately led to the Americans with Disabilities Act. For more, see the superb, Oscar-nominated doc CripCamp netflix.com/title/81001496
Despite progress since ADA, much work remains. @JimLeBrecht could win for co-directing Crip Camp yet Academy has not confirmed if he ”will be able to experience the surprise and thrill of taking the stage to receive an Oscar, just as other stars do.” hrw.org/news/2021/03/2…

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People talk a lot about the threat of surveillance capitalism. The remarkable research in this thread highlights another threat: massive private data collection used as a tool of control by a surveillance state.
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”Economic anxiety” arguments haven’t held up well but this is noteworthy: ”The group’s bankruptcy rate — 18% —was nearly twice as high as US public. A quarter of them had been sued for money owed to a creditor. And 1 in 5 of them faced losing their home…” washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
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Private jet lady? ”Ryan had struggled financially for years. She was still paying off a $37,000 lien for unpaid federal taxes. She’d nearly lost her home to foreclosure before that. She filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and faced another IRS tax lien in 2010.” washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
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8 Feb
”We are now potentially dealing with a problem of *mass radicalization*. We’re not talking about the case of a few people that got themselves caught up in an extremist milieu and then radicalized. We’re potentially talking about millions of people.” npr.org/2021/02/08/964…
One response to this tweet a few days ago was to dismiss the idea of ”mass radicalization.” Yes, it’s unlikely millions of citizens are going to engage in violent insurrection against the US. That definition is too narrow, though. Radicalization isn’t just about violence.
In any movement, people who commit violence will tend be a small percentage of the group. That in no way precludes millions from sharing a radical ideology, endorsing violent tactics, using violent rhetoric, dehumanizing outgroups and working to undermine democratic institutions.
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”Microhousing allows people to live in places they’d otherwise be priced out of; but Seattle’s policies thwart this low-cost home type.” The city has mostly ”killed off congregate housing as a source of more affordable market-rate homes.” sightline.org/2021/02/04/whe… via @danbertolet
It’s not just Seattle that uses zoning regulations to restrict access to affordable, market rate microhousing. Los Angeles could benefit enormously from better zoning policy, too. See this thread summarizing a paper on the benefits of micro-units for LA.
We can do better. “Tokyo saw construction of 145,000 new housing units started in 2018—more than NY, LA, Houston & Boston combined. Nationally, Japan has managed to add close to same amount of new housing as US, despite having about half the population.” reason.com/2019/04/02/nim…
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