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13 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’s a shame we don’t learn more of this history. It’s essential stuff.
Twelve-year-old kid is so traumatized by slavery that she burns her enslaver's house down, killing a baby. Two years later, she poisons the enslaver's sons.
And then she's hanged by the government. At fourteen.
And all that is assuming she actually did it. And similar cases suggest there's a well-above-zero chance she didn't.

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Wow. No more late fees at the New York Public Library. At all. Ever. Period. Forever.
If you're wondering how it works, basically replacement fees are still a thing. When a book is 30 days overdue, they bill you for that, but if you return it, the bill goes away.
And if you lose a book, pay the replacement fee, and then find the book later, they'll refund the fee.
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Feels like "Why are young people in despair?" and "Why are activists adopting such polarizing tactics?" takes are both on the upswing at the moment.

Feels like the folks behind the first take and the folks behind the second take should have a chat.
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And "politics is fundamentally broken" and "the crises facing society are overwhelming" strike me as eminently reasonable positions to hold right now.
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This is such an odd, and oddly persistent, urban legend. (Hitler didn't design the Beetle.)
The earliest designs for what would become the Beetle date from before the Nazi rise to power, and were dusted off and —by actual car designers—when Hitler was like "I'd like to get a cheap car with certain broad specs into production."
But then the war happened, and as a result the Beetle didn't go into mass production until the late 1940s. There weren't a zillion of them zipping around Berlin during the Nazi era—more like a hundred, tops.
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Thursday night: Biden, congressional leadership, and progressive Dems stand unified against Manchin and Sinema, raising hopes for joint passage of reconciliation and infrastructure bills.

New York Times front page, Friday morning:
I'm reading the first article now. It's even worse and stupider than the headline.

"Short of support amid a liberal revolt." "A humiliating blow to Mr. Biden and Democrats."
How do you characterize a situation where the president, the leaders of the House and Senate, the squad, and 95+% of House and Senate Dems are all in lockstep against two Senators?

Why, "the distance between the party’s left flank and a few centrists," of course.
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A woman just won a ruling that British police violated her human rights by allowing a cop to engage in an ongoing sexual relationship with her while working undercover in her activist community. theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/s…
The tribunal found that the officer in question pursued sexual relationships with a long list of women while spying on their activist circles, and that if the Metropolitan Police wasn't aware of it, it was only because they chose not to be.
The ruling came down on the same day that an officer in the same police department was sentenced to life in prison for using his authority and badge to abduct, rape, and murder a woman he took from a London street this spring. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/c…
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Teachers are supposed to get federal student loan forgiveness. But they have to apply to get it, and when they do, @usedgov frequently turns them down with no justification. politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
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