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28 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Love to see news tonight of a Senate Republican filibuster for a bill to which no one expected objections — blocking a scheduled debate on the compromise 1/6 commission bill, which Republicans will filibuster.
Everything is just immensely dumb right now.
Let’s see how close we are to bipartisanship now, everybody— oh, no.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
12 May
… or while deposing the House Republican conference chair — who refuses to pretend the insurrection never happened — in a voice vote.

It’s all part of a single, ongoing, assault on constitutional democracy, really.
(^ apologies for the extra comma, which pains me.)
Yes, it is.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
10 May
“It is not always savvy to be chill” — yes, precisely.
Take this, for instance.

No one can predict the future — but the potential of an overturned election warrants consideration and response _now_, rather than a decision to cross this bridge once we find it.
Why? First: because come 1/2025, *if* the U.S. arrives at a spot where leaders in authority, in states and the Congress, reject popular-vote results, there may be few options left for rectifying that.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
4 May
Yes, this.

I’m feeling very, very tired this afternoon of the “why are these people still wearing masks” discourse — and wondering whatever happened to “you know what, this is none of my business.”
There’s just something about the tone of much such commentary that calls to mind, frankly, field notes from an anthropological expedition.
The wearing of masks amounts to a _very_ low-effort measure to signal to others that I have their welfare in mind — irrespective of my confidence that the risk of spread outdoors is low. I don’t know what others fear or have gone through.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
2 May
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!’
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1 May
“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…
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1 May
“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.”

Republicans aren’t sending us their best. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
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 …

Folks, it’s a long list.
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