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17 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
are you kidding me
Just so we're clear, @MnDPS_DPS is saying that the likelihood of its officers shooting people for complying with their orders is so high that they recommended drivers carry a special device to prevent that from happening.
.@MnDPS_DPS is evidently partnering with Philando Castile's mom on this dps.mn.gov/divisions/ooc/…
I blogged the new @MnDPS_DPS "don't shoot me" pouches because how could I not thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/minnesota-po…
I think it's one thing for members of an over-policed community to devise extraordinary measures to protect themselves. But it's another entirely for authorities to then say "yes, you need to take extraordinary measures to protect yourselves" thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/minnesota-po…

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2 Sep
Did we really need a gauzy soft-focus profile of a man who murdered his kids with a fucking spear fishing gun, @latimes?? Jesus H. Christ.
You could have profiled the wife, @latimes. You could have written about the kids. Instead you wrote a puff piece about a murderer. What the fuck were you guys thinking?
Editors will respond with some pablum like “we wanted to understand what happened here.” But this piece does *none* of that. No insight into any radicalization. No serious probing of the mental illness. Just 2,000 words of “he was such a great guy and then suddenly this happened”
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31 Aug
This is only happening because the Trump admin decided to take wolves off the endangered list last fall. Now would be a great time for the Biden White House to put wolves back on the endangered list, where they belong, and put an end to this nonsense.
Just bloodlust, plain and simple. Trophy hunters deserve nothing but our mockery and ridicule.
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31 Aug
New on the Why Axis: August mortality data show how GOP Covid policy is killing GOP voters
Covid mortality in the Trumpiest counties was *three times higher* than in most staunchly Democratic counties in August. Republican attitudes, conspiracy theories and policy failures have created conditions in which the Delta variant can thrive. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/gop-covid-po…
As these data show this is not just about cases: people in GOP strongholds are dying at disproportionate rates. At some point you'd think raw electoral self-interest would kick in and the party would make vaccination a priority, but no.
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31 Aug
Epic story of small-town assholery:
> Family moves to a house at the end of a dead-end road
> Town refuses to plow all the way to their house
> Town also refuses to allow them to plow their own road
> Town eventually eliminates road entirely. startribune.com/rural-minn-fam…
I feel like there's something missing here? Like a number of townies are quoted talking about how much they hate the family but they give no reason given beyond "they think they're better than us"
Real reason is probably something as stupid as a Facebook post that someone didn't like lol. Facebook absolutely destroys lives in small towns
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30 Aug
For subscribers only: Every waterfall in the Lower 48, in one cool map! thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/map-every-wa…
Fun fact: North Dakota only has one waterfall, and the state's tourism board calls it "breathtaking" and "one of the seven wonders of Ransom County." But it is hilariously shitty, it may be the world's ugliest waterfall. Would you like to see it?
Here it is: the breathtaking Mineral Springs Waterfall! ndtourism.com/blog/north-dak…
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27 Aug
Recently started watching Alone, where they drop a bunch of people off in the wilderness, alone, to see how long they could last. First guy out was a cop. He saw a black bear and was convinced it was "stalking" him, bailed almost immediately.
The bear was like, sniffing at his tent or whatever, just regular curious bear stuff. He yelled and the bear ran off. But in his telling, it was "stalking" him. Like he was convinced that the bear was out to get *him,* personally.
Watching that gave me an understanding of how so many cops can see a person or a dog or whatever going about their business, and panicking and deciding that said person/dog is a *threat to the cop,* and opening fire.
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