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14 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The f**king cops in this area, I swear.
On a related note: At least once a day, I stop at 1 of the convenience stores around town (Diet Pepsi addiction) Last summer I began to count the cops I saw inside who were masked (city had a mandate then). From then until now: TWO. And I guarantee I saw cops over 100 times.
Like, there were big signs on the doors-"You must wear a mask inside-required by city ordinance"-and the cops would just be in there maskless, getting their free sodas or coffee. This may seem like a petty grudge, but I think it's really telling re the attitudes of most LEOs here
For my DSM-area tweeps, I never once saw a Windsor Heights cop wearing a mask inside the K&Gs. Not a single time since I started counting last June-ish

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They're gonna have to wait a bit to talk to his agent though. She's...busy
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There. Is. No. Constitutional. Prohibition. On. DC. Statehood. These are bad-faith arguments in service of keeping a majority Black city unrepresented in Congress. A mini-thread. /1
2. Those who say that the constitution prohibits DC statehood argue that the document gave Congress the exclusive legislative power over "the seat of government," which was to be no more than 10 sq mi. But location of that district wasn't decided until 1790. /2
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Students did NOT experience "learning loss." Students absolutely learned during Covid: how to navigate new and shifting learning environments, persisting when all society's institutions failed them, responding to adversity, on and on.
The "Learning Loss" framework simply amplifies already-existing inequities in K-12, and reinforces the deficit model of higher ed, where all we talk about is what our students *can't do*, as opposed to what they can. Curricula were disrupted. Learning, though, did not stop.
We're gonna have a whole bunch of campuses that say they're committed to DEI work, and then turn right around to talk about how to "compensate for learning loss," as if that whole framework isn't an archetype of "the college-ready student" saturated in whiteness and wealth.
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I had the chance to speak to a group of HS sophomores and juniors today as they visited GV's campus, and was asked to offer some advice/perspective on academics and such for folks just starting their college discernment process. Here's what I suggested (brief thread)
2/when you enroll in a college/university, that institution is asking you, and your family/care group, for a significant investment. Not just money. But your time, labor (emotional, cognitive, perhaps physical), willingness to take risks/question your priors, and more.
3/but you need to ask: is this an institution that wants me to invest all that, and yet doesn't reciprocate that investment? The "asks" associated with college are big ones. You shouldn't be asked to undertake all of that work alone and/or unsupported.
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Watching the Dodgers game, and Justin Turner just hit a HR that landed right in this guy's nachos. Legendary.
They did a replay review to make sure it was a home run and I'm like DID YOU NOT SEE THE CHEESEPLOSION
I mean, my team got no-hit tonight, so I'm glad there was the nacho bomb to bring joy back to my baseball viewing tonight
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Of course Prager misquotes Jefferson. The actual quote is "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
Also, I doubt Prager sees the irony of deploying this bootstrapping language as uttered by someone like Jefferson who, as an enslaver, built an entire life by "wasting the labors" of people "under the pretense of caring for them."
And by "labor," one could also include the coerced sexual labor of Sally Hemings, given that Jefferson began raping her when she was 14 (carrying on a tradition of white Jefferson men raping enslaved Blackl women).
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