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11 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
funny how this guy never got a day in court to argue his case for self-defense washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09…
Trump: "They knew who he was; they didn't want to arrest him ... That's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this."
cnn.com/2020/10/15/pol…
justice is blind, folks
also recommend watching through this investigation of the Reinoehl killing (h/t @chrislhayes). witnesses say the cops just rolled up and instantly opened fire. they almost hit several bystanders too nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/…

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12 Nov
this Guelzo fellow is apparently a Civil War historian? anyway the idea that critical theory comes from the 18th century, is crudely anti-reason, and that it *inspired* Marxism and Jim Crow is a doozy of a take
this is breathtaking. like this guy is a Princeton professor
nobody was more of a utopian, rationalist, Enlightenment guy than Marx. he thought we could figure it all out, and indeed we basically had to
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11 Nov
looks like a huge difference between countries that have managed to get to what should be herd immunity against Delta (~75% vaccinated and up) and those that haven't
no US state has gotten to 75 percent fully vaxxed. only Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine are above 70 percent nytimes.com/interactive/20…
and @notdred corrects me that herd immunity is probably more like 85%. it's going to be a grim winter in a lot of states, I would guess
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10 Nov
no mathematician and especially no good math teacher would write something so ignorant. this is basic stuff to defuse the absolutely rampant "I'm bad at math" complex …saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2… Image
the common trope that "math is about doing boring-ass algorithms by hand to get The Right Answer" is like 3/4ths of the reason why so many people hate the subject
that real math is about abstract, difficult, and often totally bizarre chains of reasoning is hard to communicate, but that it requires calmness, patience, and even playfulness in addition to intelligence is a good place to start
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10 Nov
"as COVID-19 is much more contagious, its total harms for children exceed that of the flu, a very simple point that often eludes those who compare these diseases." sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-is-de…
regarding Covid and heart inflammation among young people, "you have basically one in 20,000 phenomena at its peak for the vaccine and a one in 43 phenomena with the disease." webmd.com/vaccines/covid…
let me just recommend this @shaun_vids essay again
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3 Nov
so Democrats whiffed the governor's race in a state Biden won by 10 points and probably lost the House of Delegates. remember, the key thing at this point is to panic and deflect blame
this seems about right to me? but as far as lesson for the midterms, who knows. it's a chaotic environment
I would say the key lesson regardless of why they lost is not to flip out and despair. exact same thing happened to the GOP in 2017. take the lumps and move on
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2 Nov
quick note on the tankie dingbats denying that Stalin's collectivization policy caused the Ukraine famine in 1932-33
here's Eric Hobsbawm (who remained a communist most of his life, though a heterodox one) in Age of Extremes on the question
here's Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin (a centrist but a serious historian). in addition to causing the famine, collectivization was a *net drag* on Soviet industrialization. it was a horrific failure that killed millions
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