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9 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
uhhhh...and the rest of the piece continues apace 1/?

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7 Jul
I used to play in a creek/tunnel/ditch a mile away from my house. Where I would go, at age 9 or 10, and build dams and look at frog eggs. Also where I was accosted and/or chased, twice, by adult men. No convos with parents, this was all entirely normal. #GenX
So many instances where we kids, solo or in groups, were flashed, jacked off at, whatever by men—including on elementary school grounds. There were no all-school emergency meetings or…anything.

I also started babysitting at age 10.
We took ourselves to and from school. We’d walk or bike miles to friends starting at least in my case in 4th grade. No cell phones, parents may have not even had each other’s numbers or even names.
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7 Jul
1/ I'm outraged. Fourteen years ago @jengonnerman published this sickening expose on the torture "treatment" being used on autistic and disabled kids at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center motherjones.com/politics/2007/…
2/ Jen's investigation wasn't the last. All of them have found that this methodology of shocking kids who aren't behaving or are self-injurious is based on extremely dubious science. Myriad aluma of the school recount torture, essentially.
3/ There had even been an entire Law & Order episode clearly based on the "school" where, as in real life, desperate parents swore this was the only solution available to them, but which was exposed as a fraud and the "doctor" plead guilty: imdb.com/title/tt062922…
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1 Jul
Ok folks help me out. Washington DC, roughly 1985. And my HS date took me to an extremely art house film with a title that sounds something like

Quojanskanski

which, as i recall, was uttered over and over again, and perhaps was the only dialog?
It was our only date.
Thank you twitter it was: Koyaanisqatsi en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisq…
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1 Jul
I'm going to append this righteously eviscerating account of Rumsfeld the public figure with a gentler account per my dad of the man in retirement...at least compared to Dick Cheney.

This involves Chicken Hawks in retirement on the Eastern Shore, lets go.
So Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld both had homes ~St. Michaels MD, which is about 2 hrs away from DC, and where my Dad also lived. (Paul Wolfowitz, also nearby. And David Bradley! But anyway.)
Rumsfeld vs Cheney as public figures, I defer to Packer and others.

Rumsfeld vs Cheney as private neighbors? No fucking contest. Cheney was seen as a total monster, Rumsfeld as an ok guy. (To be clear, my dad reviled both their politics.)
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1 Jul
There is no one I’d rather read a scathing obit of Rumsfeld than from George Packer—one of the best chroniclers of the Iraq War—and this does not disappoint. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“ Wherever the government contemplated a wrong turn, Rumsfeld was there first with his hard smile—squinting, mocking the cautious, shoving his country deeper into a hole. His fatal judgment was equaled only by his absolute self-assurance. He lacked the courage to doubt himself. “
“Rumsfeld started being wrong within hours of the attacks and never stopped. He argued that the attacks proved the need for the missile-defense shield that he’d long advocated. He thought that the American war in Afghanistan meant the end of the Taliban….”
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29 Jun
1/ I'm sorry but this piece has several data/categorization flaws that need to be called out.
2/ Deep in the source credits comes this: "Axios created five groups of publishers based on assessments of their news bias, in consultation with news bias ranking service NewsGuard." But NewsGuard specifically categorizes us as "left-leaning", not "far left"
3/ I mean, I'd quibble with the one ding Newsguard gave us but if Axios is going to use their sorting methodology, then you don't get to arbitrarily reassign us to "far left" just because it better fits your bullet points thesis.
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