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20 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
More than anything else I feel an incredible sense of relief.
Chauvin has been remanded to custody.
Amazing that the entire country anxiously waited to see of white policeman, who murdered a black man in front of many witnesses & on tape, would face any accountability. So relieved for due-process, justice in this case: but we need to keep fighting for full racial justice.

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22 Apr
It is really amazing how lucky, ungrateful, selfish baby boomers are as a generation.
Boomers complain about younger generations getting participation trophies & not "adulting", but they are ones that got cheap housing, cheap education, lifetime jobs w/ pensions: the real participations trophies! Then they let our infrastructure & meager social saftey net crumble.
Younger generations saddled with student debt, endless cycles of boom & bust, endless war & terror, they want to adult but cannot afford it! Children born in 1980's first decade to have less real income than parents (on average).
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19 Apr
I get where @Nate_Cohn is going by trying to highlight elite polarization from general population polarization, but ultimately the greatest threat to our democracy is not accepting the goal of Republican elite is to end the democracy (rather than taking that threat personally).
Lede: "American democracy faces many challenges: New limits on voting rights. The corrosive effect of misinformation. The rise of domestic terrorism. Foreign interference in elections. Efforts to subvert the peaceful transition of power." Everything on list Republicans did to US.
High levels of affective polarization where the people hate each other is not good! But, Republican elite have whipped up anti-Democratic polarization for decades while directly trying to end the republic, as Democratic elite have urged treating Republicans as loyal opposition.
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12 Apr
@jonkarl Actually impressive that @jonkarl was able to *ram through* so many bad faith Republican talking points in one segment.
Biden ran for president on massive health & economic relief for COVID-19 fallout: he reached out to Republicans, they told him to go fuck himself, and so Democrats passed a wildly popular & successful (so far) bill with massive Republican voter support (i.e., super bipartisan)
Biden also promised to pass comprehensive clean infrastructure bill (as @jonkarl described in this screengrab): again bill he promised is super popular, even with Republican voters. Only most pathetic pundits cling to support from Republican senators as definition of bipartisan.
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10 Apr
"In return [for access] @maggieNYT & NYT often normalized [Trump] in ways large & small. NYT spent years painting a false portrait of adult decision making at the WH, suggesting Trump was surrounded by a beehive of aides who plotted policy, instead of a madman setting the agenda.
"Example: In March 2020, when Trump changed his mind about America 're-opening' by Easter, @maggieNYT reported the 'decisive' U-turn came after he pored over sobering data points about the pandemic ...
"Normalizing seemed to be the goal. When @maggieNYT sat down with Trump in early 2019 for an extended Q&A, he lied nonstop and came across as utterly incoherent, yet the Times politely typed it all up as a normal White House interview ...
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5 Apr
Perfectly reasonable that Republican leaders are shocked & confused by people & companies suddenly holding them accountable: they have basically had the same agenda of tax cuts for rich, slashing basic saftey net for poor, white & identity politics, authoritarianism for decades.
Mainstream media's false equivalency did great job of hiding Republican agenda from American people while tearing down Democrats. And Democratic quest for "bipartisanship" neutered Democratic leadership. But something broke in last 5 years between Trump & insurrection against US.
While mainstream media continues to carry water for Republicans, The People forced consumer facing companies to embrace a baseline of position of pro-democracy. And Democratic leadership did what felt impossible for decades: accepted reality of Republican disloyalty to US.
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2 Apr
After 4 full years under President Trump, we *lost* a total of 2,876,000 jobs.

After 2 months under President Biden, we *gained* a total of 1,384,000 jobs.
We are still down about 8.4 million jobs compared to right before COVID-19 hit, but certainty today's *massive* jobs numbers from February 2021 are a good sign. Image
At this point, a meaningful amount of the remaining 8.4 million missing jobs are long-term lost: will be critical to see how what can be gained back immediately as country opens up in next 2-3 months, then expect the growth slow dramatically and the hard work to begin.
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