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16 Jun, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Excellent essay on motherhood in America. Interesting that last week’s dire WSJ story was written by a White man, where he relegates “economic forces” to the last graph. (Well it is the WSJ)
@washingtonpost @MonicaHesse
In the @FiveThirtyEight story referenced by @MonicaHesse, the reporter quotes four men, one woman. The @WSJ story quotes one man, one woman. BOTH quote Lyman Stone, from the conservative at the American Enterprise Institute.

NEITHER TALKED TO A WOMAN ABOUT DECISION ISSUES.
In addition, NEITHER story mentions the US maternal mortality rate: 2018 data were not anomalous > we ranked last overall among industrialized countries. WOC are at greater risk than White women.

commonwealthfund.org/publications/i…

commonwealthfund.org/publications/i… ImageImage
The US maternal mortality rate in the US has more than doubled in 20 years, from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 17.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017.

cdc.gov/reproductivehe… Image
TRUTH: “My family values are fine. The country’s are not. For many years I did not have children because, in policies and practices, the United States is hell for mothers.” @MonicaHesse

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18 Jun
THIS Silverado did NOT cut off the semi, @infamous_dinero

This 2016 FATALITY accident was on I20 in GA. The truck driver and passenger were killed, not at fault.

Semi #1 ran into the back of semi #2. The 1st and 2nd semi ran over the silver pickup. ImageImage
The 2nd ran into a 3rd semi that ran into a FOURTH semi.

The victims: Larry Donnell Adams, 53, of Benton, Louisiana, and Peggy O'Neal, 51, of Bossier City, Louisiana.

You should delete the damn tweet, @infamous_dinero

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Hell, the erroneously labeled image you just shared, @infamous_dinero, was debunked in SEPTEMBER 2016. @TwitterSupport WHY DO YOU ALLOW CRAP LIKE THIS TO PROLIFERATE?

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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
17 Jun
So … @PringleforAL01 is NOT in a class by himself. These GOP “leaders” have no idea what critical race theory (#CRT) might be, also.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told the Daily Dot that Critical Race Theory is “different things to different people but the bottom line is that it is a distorted view of racism…. [one that is] trying to turn it into a positive…”
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL):
“there’s a lot of people that have a lot of different definitions.”
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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
15 Jun
It’s not unusual for politicians to propose legislation to ‘correct’ things they know nothing about.

@PringleforAL01 is in a class of his own RE #CriticalRaceTheory.
Wait. Probably not. Scratch any GOP objector to see the same idiocy.

From @WarOnDumb
al.com/news/2021/06/w…
What does the bill that @PringleforAL01 pre-filed (by 8 months) say?

“It’s pretty simple,” Pringle said. “All it says is you can’t teach critical race theory in K-12 or higher education in the state of Alabama.”

Note: CRT is Not taught in K-12 public schools in Alabama.
You see, @PringleforAL01 got bogged down while reading to @WarOnDumb from a link (FOX?) that criticized workshops creating awareness of white male culture. Image
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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
8 Jun
Trafficking and belief in the Big Lie isn’t a new virus infecting the American psyche.

It’s an evolution of disbelief that Isaac Asimov identified in his 21 January 1980 essay, “A Cult of Ignorance”, published in Newsweek.

🧵 follows

justinclark.org/blog/the-anti-…
<< It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
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None of those things, of course . In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism…
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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
8 Jun
To capture the financial reality of the richest Americans, ProPublica compared how the 25 richest Americans paid in taxes each year to how much Forbes estimated their wealth grew in that same time period. Groundbreaking analysis.

propublica.org/article/the-se…
ProPublica asked every person whose tax information is described to comment; “all said they had paid the taxes they owed.” Which is true by the letter of the law but not by any concept of fairness or morals.
As the @nytimes notes: the US tax system is rigged in its emphasis on taxing labor differently (more harshly) than it does income from wealth. We need a wealth tax for expediency + increase in corporate rates (I’d take Reagan’s) but we truly need overhaul.
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8 Jun
SO WHY were rank-and-file unprepared?
Capitol Police had seen comments on a pro-Trump website about the Capitol's tunnel system and that encouraged demonstrators to bring weapons to subdue members of Congress and police and to reverse the presidential election's results.
Here’s the Senate bipartisan report on US Capitol Police and #January6thInsurrection

rules.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
And a blow-by-blow summary
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