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5 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Youngkin spokesperson: Just "a 17-year old kid who honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote; when informed he was not, he went to school."

Twice? In the same day?
The election fraud was coming from inside the house
If the kid made a honest mistake about voting rules...twice...while his Dad was running for Governor, that's fine. But our tolerance for such errors often doesn't extend to former felons or immigrants unsure about their voting status. aclu.org/issues/voting-…
Youngkin made election integrity a campaign issue, but to be fair did not emphasize prosecution of voter fraud - more an emphasis on regular audits of voting machines. This was a signal to Trump supporters but fell short of Big Lie nonsense virginiamercury.com/2021/10/08/you…

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Don Moynihan Profile picture
4 Nov
More than anything, this is an example of how culture wars has broken people's perspective. In other countries like NZ, Aus and Canada (I think) acknowledgment of native peoples is routine. And people seem to be fine with it. But here its viewed as some new cradical wokeism.
Folks from other countries can chime in here, but when I visited Aus and NZ, acknowledging native peoples seemed routine. Pretty sure they figured this out themselves rather than learn from the US (or whatever McWhorter's thesis is)
Its perfectly reasonable to view this as cringe, as empty theater. But by making the acknowledgement, the parties involved create some normative expectation where they either do something more than empty words or being accused of hypocrites. Thats not nothing.
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4 Nov
These are the human cost of the CRT moral panic: a school principal was accused of CRT. No evidence was offered but he was fired. Students say his real crime was trying to create an inclusive environment for those who were traditionally excluded. washingtonpost.com/education/inte…
Much of the emphasis of the anti-CRT movement is centered on the importance of not making students feel uncomfortable. But which students? The comfort of the majority seems to depend on ignoring the discomfort of the minority.
The best way to make sure students don't believe in the false allure of CRT is to *check notes* punish previously apolitical students for protesting when the community's first Black school principal is fired for dubious reasons.
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4 Nov
It’s incredibly telling that these pieces don’t point to specific CRT policies, or specific Dem candidates pushing CRT. They acknowledge actual CRT is not being taught, but suggest that it’s disingenuous not to take the issue seriously.
Anyway, it’s cool the NYT hired a linguist who acknowledges that language is misleading but never mind, it’s more important that we launch a national campaign against progressive vibes
How desperate is the effort to make Kendi, rather than Biden, the face of Democrats? Douthat's case is that he was included on a reading list shared by a school superintendent. Uh, ok.
By contrast, Douthat touts a guy who promoted a book banner of a Black novelist for President.
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3 Nov
Rodgers was not vaccinated according to reports.

Every year Rodgers basically plays a different character for the season. This year he has gone with "douchebro who records youtube videos in his car" and it's hurting his team.
Not going to characterize all of these looks, but most seasons Rodgers adds some modification to his base model
This year's look for Rodgers is "super sketchy guy who has made some poor choices." Maybe a drug informant, definitely a guy with some interesting views.
While he is playing as well as ever, his off-field choices show a real commitment to that character.
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1 Nov
A week on, and this story gained no real traction in The Great Free Speech Discourse.
FWIW here is a measure of web interest in the protagonists of three stories: professor disinvited from MIT (Dorian Abbott), the Yale Law student threatened by an administrator (Trent Colbert) and the professor who was fired after criticizing Mike Pence (Lora Burnett)
There is a certain type of campus free speech story that is pretty cut and dried - firing of faculty for political speech, reducing tenure protection, censoring faculty talking about voting rights - but strangely don't draw in the support of certain free speech warriors. Why?
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30 Oct
I'm deeply troubled by the news that the state of Florida barred faculty experts from testifying in a voting rights case.

You should be too.

When governments erode our individual rights, they also seek to erode dissent.

New from me:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/an-assault-o…
Why, oh why, might the politicians who made it harder to vote in Florida not want credible national experts to give evidence-based testimony under oath? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/an-assault-o…
At the same time Florida politicians made it harder to vote or protest, they also made it illegal for teachers to suggest there was any race-related pattern to this, and started to surveil professors political beliefs and classroom discussions. These things are connected.
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