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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“Nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
– Chief Justice Roberts, in an Alabama voting-rights case (Shelby County) in 2013

Alabama Republicans, in 2021:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
John Roberts might be the wrongest man alive in the United States today — yet he heads a branch of the federal government.
What the GOP proposes in Alabama is ridiculous. Its map splits Jefferson Co. (the state’s most populous) in half, bundles the wealthy Shelby Co. suburbs with lower-income Blount Co. — and stretches the traditional Birmingham district through the Black Belt almost to Mobile.
There is — to explain this to anyone less familiar with Alabama geography, since I’m a native of the state — zero reason to do this, except to create one Blackity-Black district for the sake of bleaching the rest. propublica.org/article/redist…

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Greg Greene Profile picture
26 Oct
This column by @ddayen — which berates the tendency by Congress (or Dems in Congress, more properly) “to resolve longstanding policy issues by erecting complicated systems that an untutored public must navigate” — is spot on. nytimes.com/2021/10/26/opi… Image
A thought that’s stayed on my mind through the protracted negotiations over BBB is the imperative of driving home to key Dem decision makers that we—despite our educations, our experience, our standardized-test verified wisdom—are not so smart.
What I mean by this: with our big brains, Dem wonks have the brainpower to work up the most byzantine policy designs. But whatever brilliance gets put to paper by Congress — the proposal to run paid leave through private insurance companies, for instance — has to get executed.
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25 Oct
An ongoing 9/11, every two days.
I’d have thought at any point in my life before recent times that such deaths would fill the headlines. Instead, they make a mere backdrop for, tonight alone, four stories that depict a country set morally adrift:
We are cursed, it appears, to live in interesting times.
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24 Oct
In most eras, it’s taken some cultural competence to build a media property in a country: an understanding not only of the language, but of class, politics, history, and other aspects that require nuance and sensitivity.

For a social-media firm, it only takes a URL and a server.
Many of the phenomena documented around FB’s colonization of other countries — fueling religious extremism in India, ethnic cleansing in Burma, and so on — show an unexpected downside of the global web: the facilitation of communication unfettered by cultural competence …
… with perilous — even deadly — results. nytimes.com/2018/10/15/tec…
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24 Oct
Imagine our leading news organizations throwing this much attention at a 4% holdout faction on any other issue of consequence.
“For 4% of Americans, the idea that gulping DDT causes severe illness and an increased risk of dying still seems too fanciful to fathom.”
Right? Instead, all through August the NYT threw care about public opinion to the wind and directed rapt coverage at Beltway opposition to ending the Afghan war.
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12 Oct
I’m a fan of the 'deliverism' label; I’ve thought for a while now that Dems need to demonstrate facility at delivering policies/projects on time & on—or under—budget.

Messaging debates skirt the party’s core difficulty—which is one of actions, not words. prospect.org/politics/case-…
See also, e.g., the occasional conversation on here about the 20th-century successes of ‘sewer socialism’ …
… and @pareene on the wretched dysfunction of public services across much of the country … newrepublic.com/article/159339…
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12 Oct
“Mississippi’s relative poverty is … a consequence of federal programs” — like what, generations of upholding the ownership of people as property?

“… and a lack of liberty”: such as the treatment of thousands and thousands of people as property?
Mississippi: a state that ritually and ruthlessly impoverished the majority of its people for decades, and then chose to blame outside federal agitators for its impoverishment.
Meanwhile, in Alabama: “As a couple of companies … break ground on … new prisons paid for with [COVID relief] dollars, school districts all over Ala. are sending messages home to parents asking that they find a way to send food to school with their kids.”
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