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1 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This actually happened to me once!
Montana used to have no fixed speed limit–only what was "reasonable and prudent." It's a big state with few people and it takes a long time to get around. So driving 80 or 90 on the interstate was common. Turns out, this didn't apply inside the Fort Belknap reservation.
I wasn't driving, but the four of us all agreed that it was fine to pass the police car up ahead. So long as we put our signal on. Going like twice its speed.
The officers disagreed.
Thankfully, they were very nice and this probably happened a fair amount, and they were willing to let us off with a stern warning. I guess it helped that they thought it was cool we were on a dino digging crew.

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I mean, Manchin and Sinema could just say “we think reconciliation could be used any number of times a year” and no other changes and it would happen. It’s the most bizarre straightjacket.
I can’t stop thinking about this. Manchin and Sinema could keep the filibuster and yet propose any number of procedural reforms that would surely get approved. Why they insist the current dysfunctional system is the only one that can be countenanced is truly, profoundly baffling.
Like, we talked about the Byrd Rule because Robert Byrd wanted to preserve the filibuster while making legislating more functional. Why don’t they come up with some Manchin-Sinema rule that governs the Senate for the next half-century?
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Wood, McPherson, and the few others so misunderstood the nature of this conflict. Nice work.

(Orders of magnitude more historians endorse the project, even if they acknowledge a few inevitable errors. Which by the way Wood, McPherson, and every historian also makes.)
Yiiiiiikes.

Donor Hussman: White people don’t get enough credit for the Civil Rights Movement.

It’s precisely this demand of white people to be at the center of all American history that the 1619 Project was all about.
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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.
Madness.
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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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.
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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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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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