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13 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
If the 5th Circuit gives a flying fig about “the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions,” a few million people of child-bearing age in Texas would like a word — okay, several — with its judges.
If expansion of the Supreme Court goes too far for some, will lawmakers just consider dismembering the 5th Circuit and reapportioning each of its three states to entirely different circuits?
I mean, hell: throw Republicans a bone by tinkering with the 9th Circuit, too. Just make that division on north/south lines, with Hawaii, California, and Arizona on one hand — and Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Nevada on the other. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The truth here, alas, is ugly & simple: those for whom the judges would reserve “the liberty … to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions” also presume the prerogative to make intensely personal decisions for _others_ according to those convictions.
(What an infuriating state of affairs, though.)

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14 Nov
This thread is correct. The Texas blackout — the result of derelict regulations — not only claimed dozens of lives. It also made the global chip shortage, currently inflating prices in sectors from cars to appliances, dramatically worse.
A story can be told about how Republican policies — such as the decade of negligence that led to the Texas blackout — contributed to the price surges now afflicting Americans’ budgets. But Democrats have to tell it.
Mm-hm. ↘️
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12 Nov
“Some critics,” in my view, should:
a) know that “thé” in French is pronounced “tay” — as in “whew, Tay just dissed the bejesus out of Jake Gyllenhaal”;
b) be told “nique tes mères” — in which “tes” is also pronounced “tay.”
Seriously, what thee f––.
If she wanted to affect a French air, she could’ve said “le” instead of “the,” or rolled her “r” and used a short ‘a’ in “conversation.” But the supposition of “some critics” here is absolute horse manure.
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9 Nov
The Jacobin survey making the rounds never offers a precise definition of “woke” as a political characteristic — but proceeds as if that term draws a sharp distinction between AOC and Bernie Sanders. Quite a choice, that.
What words or terms best describe the characteristics that set Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, AOC and Ayanna Pressley apart from Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden: “woke,” or race and gender?

Asking because it’d be helpful to clear up what we’re driving at.
(This also seems like the latest in what has become a series of clumsy attempts to characterize the race-class narrative — see, e.g., this thread contending with a study from earlier this year:)
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9 Nov
This might not have been fully foreseeable before the Delta wave it the U.S. — bit in hindsight, the failure by the Biden administrtation to prioritize approval and distribution of rapid tests in its very first days was a mistake. propublica.org/article/heres-…
One effective way to hold viral transmission down & get schools feeling more ‘normal’ would have been ubiquitous testing, in order to allow students and their families to know their standards — and to isolate, if that were necessary, for briefer periods. nytimes.com/2021/11/08/opi…
The monumental effectiveness of the vaccines might have influenced the choice to focus on vaccinating the country back to normal. For a fortnight in early summer, it looked all set to work.

But then, it didn’t. Sigh. nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/…
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Greg Greene Profile picture
7 Nov
There was a term in usage in my home state, Alabama, before my time — a term for people seen as too concerned with the rights of people on society’s margins.

That term was “n––er lover,” if you wonder.

Anyhow: that’s what comes to mind when I hear “are Democrats too woke?”
Am I saying anyone using “woke” as a pejorative might as well be using the N-word? No.

What I _am_ saying is that this article on America’s penchant for reactionary backlash is spot on — and with the words “too woke,” one identifies oneself with the latest backlash.
But don’t just take my word about this.
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5 Nov
This thing that right-wing opinion leaders and media outlets have aggressively mischaracterized and mislabeled for nearly a year must be real, because people nowadays keep talking about it! Image
“We didn’t start the fire,” he said, holding a jerry can and a match.
Imagine someone applying the same logic to Havana syndrome, or the lab-leak theory: “people talk about it now, so it must be real.”

People would look at someone who made such arguments with a straight face as if they were mad. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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