Further, framing of this issue without historical or international perspective, is so indicative of the failings of Beltway journalism, (yes Politico, yes Axios, but also) in an era that could see an end to democracy and a habitable world...what are these journos doing?
Trying to insist this is an important fight is like... every tired family fight where we all know it's not important and is a stand-in for larger irreconcilable differences but hey, it's all what kind of stuffing/dressing is best
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1/ This weekend @MotherJones and @reveal/@CIRonline published a big investigation into conditions inside the Fanjul's sugar Dominican plantations, which provides much of America's sugar and in which workers face horrible conditions: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
2/ @Sandy_Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel spent two years trying to find a Haitian boy trafficked to the cane fields 20 years ago, a mission that eventually morphed into documenting the full picture of current abuse: revealnews.org/podcast/the-bi…
3/ 20 years ago, kidnapping gangs took kids and adults from Haiti to work on Domincan plantations; today some 20,000 Haitians work there without papers or any protections.
Exit polls (which, grains of salt, but usually about particular demographics) show that Californians approve of mask mandates and other ant-pandemic measures.
100%. It's a mystery to me why this wasn't included in Biden's announcements today.
Mandate you'll need to be fully vaccinated to fly for Thanksgiving and watch a whole bunch of hesitant/stubborn but not totally insane people leap at the chance for a jab.
“Nobody can tell me to wear a mask but I can tell you must have a child”
GOP: The "freedom of the individual"—even if the supposed infringement of that freedom is passingly small and the collective cost is staggeringly high—is paramount, right up to the uterus' door.
And expect no help in feeding, raising that child.
GOP: An unborn child is precious. But once they leave the womb, they must be sacrificed to the gods of "freedom," if that's what it takes for people to watch football at a sports bar without a mask.