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19 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The handful of European destinations opening to vaccinated Americans are getting nonstop flights from the US: Boston-Reykjavik, JFK-Athens, Newark-Dubrovnik, etc. businessinsider.com/united-delta-o…
It seems on at least some dates Delta will be flying twice daily to Athens from JFK
Athens is very hot in July, yes?
Still kind of expensive in coach btw (these prices are round trip)... if the market can support these fares, I bet we’ll see more flights added

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Trump is also out there saying the J&J pause is unwarranted and Biden should stop withholding it from people. This is also a useful message for reducing vaccine hesitancy.
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This is just such horseshit. Conservatives who are vaguely mad about black activism but can't actually argue for Derek Chauvin's innocence have fallen back to this theoretical argument that the jury was under undue pressure. mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carl…
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You could theoretically have a condition where cops were unjustly convicted because people feared riots. But can people point to specific cases where that has happened? Whereas we can point to many cases where police and governments have been unaccountable.
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The GOP says it's mad at corporations even as it protects shareholders from taxes. But that's the thing: Firms aren't their shareholders. The GOP's "woke capital" beef isn't with capital, it's with *managers* & the workers and customers who influence them. businessinsider.com/woke-capital-i…
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19 Apr
I remember reading this piece seven years ago and it's amazing how mainstream the subcultural dysfunction described here has gone in the following seven years. thenation.com/article/archiv…
Particularly this sort of stuff, where anyone who can say their identity is marginalized can declare something "harmful" and that's supposed to be the end of the discussion, no matter how ridiculous they're being. Image
... and the power associated with ability this has caused bizarre efforts to classify new categories of marginalization, such as "college student" (in the Alex Morse fiasco) or "reporter."
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Literally all the time I see people wearing things I think they shouldn’t. It would be exhausting if I let that bother me.
There was a trend a couple years ago with men wearing crop tops, if we survived that we’ll survive some people wearing masks long after they’re useful.
Although, I dunno, it might be kind of fun if we had a new social norm where you could scold people in public for wearing something tacky
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What do you think Carlos Ghosn is up to right now?
Back in January 2020 it felt like Carlos Ghosn’s great escape from Japan was going to be one of the top stories of the year, and now nobody cares.
I guess it’s 8am in Lebanon and he’s probably having breakfast.
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