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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
New in the Maine constitution: “All individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to food, including the right to grow … consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being.” modernfarmer.com/2021/11/maine-…
Although it’s very telling that constitution amendment is very explicit that private property rights trump the “natural, inherent and unalienable right to food.”
“as long as an individual does not commit trespassing, theft, poaching or other abuses of private property rights, public lands or natural resources in the harvesting, production or acquisition of food.”
A mashup of Anatole France and Victor Hugo: The law in its majesty, guarantees to both rich and the poor the right to buy food so long as they don’t steal any bread.”

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As an American Jew, I reject Israel for many reasons: I reject the current violence, perpetrated by Israeli Jewish citizens and the state, against Palestinians; I reject the current politics of Israel which seems to encourage and embolden Jewish fascism, which is repugnant to me
I reject my government (that is, the United States government) supporting ideologically and materially the violence and dispossession Israel--state and citizens--visits on Palestinians. As a diaspora Jew I reject the ideology that insists I do not belong where I am.
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A quick thread about something I've been pondering. The two states I think the most about--Connecticut and New York--have radically different vaccination regimes.
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New York has done the opposite: a very complex system based on disability and health, jobs and age. The idea is that the complexity gives more entry points and so creates more equity.
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The worst part of the Nate Silvery nonsense today is that every epidemiologist, especially every infectious disease epidemiologist, is exhausted right now. They’ve been worried and overworked since January. Everything they’ve worried about, warned about, has come true.
It is exhausting and dispiriting to play Cassandra for months. Many of them have done so while their research budgets have been frozen, while their universities have imposed austerity on them. They’ve put their actual research on hold.
And they’ve done this while playing epidemiologist on call to all their friends and relatives, often while being forced to play Covid police (people call and bargain: can I do X? What about if I do it in Y way? Please?)
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I think nearly every day about how the American press and American policymakers ignore Asia's success fighting Covid.
It'S nOt JuSt ThE uNiTeD StaTeS!! EuRoPe ShOwS uS CoViD cAn'T bE cOnTrOLlEd!!
Maybe cumulative deaths per million makes the point better. (Although it is notable how the US curve looks different from my arbitrarily selected European countries.)
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