The fuss over the New York Post piece on school openings puzzles me. The scoop: a union advised for inclusion of language permitting closures if aggressive variants spread, and a WFH dispensation for teachers at high risk of severe illness.
Who feels outrage over that? Anyone?
The eruption of the B.1.1.7 variant in the UK led to a lockdown that reversed school openings there. Macron followed suit with closings when B.1.1.7 hammered France.
Is the Post’s position that throttling the spread of a deadlier variant is _bad_, actually?
If people want to perform resentment of teachers, along with the unions they form to protect their bodily safety, I wish they would just get at _that_ — and skip the incessant prowl for weak pretexts to yell ‘gotcha!’
Seriously: this is an acerbic but fair summary of that NY Post exclusive.
How do these common-sense acknowledgements harm kids, exactly? Can anyone identify an argument here?
“A manufacturing facility of one of the country's major suppliers of chlorine tablets … burned down last Aug., right after Hurricane Laura.”
This comes after the Texas blackout shuttered some chip fabricators for over a month—worsening the chip shortage. cnbc.com/2021/04/30/a-m…
Disrupted chlorine supplies, a chip shortage with no end in sight: why, it’s almost as if America’s climate disasters keep wreaking havoc on supply chains in multiple industries.
In the case of Texas, it’s also almost as if lawmakers — who propose retribution for the outage against renewable energy suppliers that had little to do with causing it — are dead set on making the situation worse. texastribune.org/2021/04/28/tex…
“Samsel is the 2nd Kan. lawmaker to be arrested this year. [A former] Senate Majority Leader … was charged w/ felony eluding & fleeing from police and also faces misdemeanor charges of drunk & reckless driving.”
Joking about Giuliani aside, I’m dead serious when I say the GOP itself presents a clear example — a clear *negative* example — of the broken windows theory of order maintenance.
For years, the GOP has chosen to turn a blind eye to the broken windows in its political edifice — ignoring shady to flagrantly unlawful behavior by Roy Moore, Gerry Falwell, Jr., Donald Trump, Denny Hastert, Jack Abramoff, Duncan Hunter, Matt Gaetz …
The M1 MacBook Pro reflects years of work Apple put into making computers do more work with less power, the apartment is passivhaus-certified and stays cozy year-round with almost no HVAC — and to cost $10, that lattè has to use unicorn milk.
Even the lattè has grown less energy-intensive in some respects — with consumers shifting gradually from dairy and nut-based milks to oat milk, whose primary input requires less water to farm.
Bitcoin, _by design_, swallows up the energy-efficiency gains made in computing, architecture, and even the lattè — and puts them to use making play money for techno-libertarians.
Love a senator who would rather be in a minority, with no legislation that voters might hold him accountable for, than in a majority freed to carry forward an agenda. washingtonpost.com/local/dc-polit…
Manchin says he objects because the 23rd Amendment gives the District electoral votes. The fact that the Constitution makes the District wholly subject to the whims of Congress, however, makes this pretty straightforward to solve.
Here’s what gets me about the institution of the “police union”: in the Department of Defense, do uniformed personnel — entrusted by the state to deploy deadly force —have a soldiers’ union? An airmen’s union?
Uniformed military personnel hold in their hands the most important power a state controls: the power to unleash violence and extinguish life. The state has a clear and compelling interest in maintaining direct, and unquestioned, control over how that power is used.
Law enforcement agencies, in the American experience, hold similar power — and have drifted, since the early 2000s, toward increasing militarization of their capacity to use force.
I was today years old when conservatives taught us that Jim Crow, an oppressive system adopted in some states that were majority Black, came about through “pure, unchecked majoritarianism.”
The idea that Black majorities in the South were too unfit and corruptible to govern was an intellectual cornerstone of Jim Crow. The reactionaries who crushed Reconstruction weren’t coy about that, at all. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
In other words, in arguing against “unchecked majoritarianism,” writers such as Mr. Crank hearten back to Jim Crow, alright — but not on behalf of the side they might think.