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25 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Don’t let Republicans always be the ones to narrowly police language in their own interests. No, “infrastructure” DOES NOT MEAN only physical stuff like bridges and roads. Those are STRUCTURES. “Infrastructure” just means the things necessary to do other things.
It’s an “infrastructure” bill not a “structures” bill because the prefix “infra” actually means something:
I’ve said this before and it’s really important, especially for all the journalists trying to neutral arbiters of the merits of Republican and Democratic plans. Article after article posits that “real” infrastructure is physical stuff (that traditionally men build). It’s not.
“Is childcare ~really~ infrastructure??”

Does it make participation in the economy possible? Does it allow families to grow in ways they want? Then yes, that’s literally infrastructure.

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Peter A. Shulman 📚 Profile picture
26 May
Completely breathtaking. The sadly deluded anti-vaxers are on the precipice of dismantling a century of public health advances in Ohio.

And because we have a grossly gerrymandered legislature, we are at the mercy of Republican politics. Image
Madness. Image
Imagine a hospital unable to require its staff be immunized against measles as measles outbreaks become more common.

Imagine a college unable to require immunizations against meningitis for students in its dorms as meningitis becomes more common.
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25 May
This is a fair point about the undercurrents of The Eternals, though even from their beginning in the comics, it was more complicated. The progenitors of the superbeings were inscrutable space gods, the Celestials. Most definitely raceless. Mysterious beings with omnipotent power
Yes, the Eternals themselves were taken to be gods on earth, but in multiple cultures, and not of any one race themselves. And the Celestials formed both them and the Deviants out of the same ancestors as modern humans. One of the points was all were really just different humans.
But on the other hand, it is still another not-so-subtle argument that ancient humans didn’t/couldn’t develop on their own. It’s hard for most people to think on the time scales of pre-history.
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24 May
Unlike mythology, Tom Segev’s 1949: The First Israelis describes the complex history of early Sephardic immigration to Israel..
Some Arab governments were oppressive and wanted Jews to leave; others wanted Jews to stay.
Mossad agents could report that the condition of Jews in Arab countries varied widely. Some were in danger; others comfortable.
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23 May
To be clear: it’s not that these schools are “in states that voted for Trump”—it’s that they are in states that *right now* have right wing Republican legislatures who can impose a range of punishments on schools that impose vaccine mandates—and even on schools that don’t.
A vaccine mandate is unnecessary if the community is overwhelmingly vaccinated anyway—and some schools are just asking their students, faculty, and staff to tell them. But in Ohio, there is the threat of a bill that would prohibit schools from even being able to ask.
It’s going to be very interesting when presumably first Pfizer and then the others get a regular FDA approval and not an EUA. It’s a convenient excuse uniting a range of mostly incoherent but deeply felt concerns, but it won’t hold much longer.
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2 May
If there is one thing that I wish journalists would cover better when it comes to taxes is that it’s not that Biden’s tax plan only hits earners making more than $400,00ish *it’s that it applies just to the dollars earned above this threshold*.
These aren’t the exact cutoffs but say the top bracket begins at $400,000 & an earner were to make $450,000–they’d pay $19,800 instead of $18,500 on that last $50,000–a difference of $1,300.

If that is a problem for someone making $450,000, maybe cut back on the avocado toasts.
(Yes the cutoff for the Trump-era marginal bracket begins a little higher but again, we’re only talking about income over this threshold and even then, only with pretty small changes that are basically at the level of random yearly fluctuations for the vast majority of payers.)
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2 Apr
I can't believe people are still going on about the 1619 Project but the only thing that united its many essays was the argument that Black history, rooted in slavery, is intrinsic to US history. There were like two sentences in the intro essay that generated huge debate....
because they overstated the case. There was one essay on slavery and capitalism (by a non-historian, fwiw). That's a subject that is indeed much debated within scholarly circles and no one is pulling punches.
If you don't sometimes decline to tweet something you believe correct because you just don't want to deal with the inevitable responses *in this particular context* than you will not understand why some scholars might not want to wade in, in print, on slavery & capitalism.
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