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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New contender for America's dumbest governor: @GovParsonMO
Reporter finds massive state security breach.
@stltoday holds off on publication until breach is fixed. @GovParsonMO calls reporter a hacker (uh, no) and threatens them with prosecution.

Incredible example of conter-productive dumbassery and basic tech ignorance. Image
If you're going to create a definitive ranking of America's dumbest governors (which I am not), you have to separate "dumb" from "venal." Some are both. Some of the most venal play dumb. But then there are just the actual idiots.

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1/ Great job alert: Come run the @MotherJones fact-checking operation and fellowship program as Research Editor. You get to recruit and train beginning journalists, and make our work bulletproof. Intense, but a career turbocharge: motherjones.com/jobs/research-…
2/ Past MoJo research editors have gone on to senior editorial leadership jobs here and elsewhere. And you'll have a huge hand in making other people's careers. More about the fellowship program here: @WritersofColor @IBWellsSociety #journojobs motherjones.com/jobs/fellowshi…
3/ For which we are also hiring!
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Blue Angels are the worst. Total noise and air pollution, for outdated tech propaganda. Whhhhy do we have to endure this every year. Why.
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If nobody drank bottled water (and we installed fountains/filling stations to compensate) how much delivery congestion would be cut down.

I have no idea, but am guessing a measurable amount.
A thing you notice in countries with much better infrastructure, in addition to great transit, and bike lanes, and public space, is you can refill a water bottle easily.
During prohibition, often quite massive Temperance Fountains were installed all over big cities. We could do that now. Some airports have done to great success.
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28 Sep
Is there any polling data to indicate Americans a) understand the debt ceiling limit and b) give a shit about which party steps up to raise it?

Feels like *such* an inside the Beltway bit of agonizing
Anyway show me any politician whose reelection bid was spoiled by voting to raise the debt ceiling, I’ll wait
Another reason this is an entirely manufactured debate
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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/…
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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.
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Reminder that the recall cost the taxpayers of California some $276 million. (Plus the gobs donors spent.)

Seems like that could have been put to better use.

In a pandemic.

And a climate crisis.

And a housing crisis.
"Reform the recall" campaign should start tomorrow. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Exit polls (which, grains of salt, but usually about particular demographics) show that Californians approve of mask mandates and other ant-pandemic measures.
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