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19 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Here's an entry to #sn2021xo from an Ontario-based listener...

My favourite episode this year was the most recent one - “a 2021 look-back”...

sandyandnora.com/episode-178-a-…
As mentioned in the episode, it was another rough year for frustrating content but I loved the insights you both provided within the episode.
It really is incredible how much community organizing has happened over the past year or two and I’m so excited for what the future holds with community organizing. Over the past year, I started volunteering with a local reproductive justice organization...
and listening weekly really fuels me to continue the fight for better access to reproductive healthcare for all. Thanks so much for the work you both do. Looking forward to listening in the new year! Happy holidays! :)"

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20 Dec
Reminder: sign up to see tomorrow's big story and the inauguration of this space. In 2022, I'm going to stop trying to shop my pieces around and instead, publish them myself. I'll still write where places welcome my words, but it'll also be here too.

noraloreto.substack.com
And just to give you an idea, with the number of sign-ups, I'm already equal to what I'm paid for my column, to write 17 pieces. The rate is low (the pub is new and does what it can!) but having a more stable income stream will absolutely rule.
(hell -- it's already higher than the advance I was paid to write Take Back the Fight!)
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20 Dec
A listener from unceded Coast Salish territory entered #sn2021xo with this: "My favourite episode of all is Abolish the military? Abolish the military. I've been anti-war for some time and abolishing the military makes sense (it works for Costa Rica).

sandyandnora.com/episode-170-ab…
Almost before defunding the police, we should abolish the military (let's do both at the same time.) All the arguments you raise are absolutely cogent ones; our armed forces do fuck all abroad and at home ...
...they're just kinda sorta ok at logistics when they're not sexually assaulting their female members. We get them to drive trucks and deliver things when we could just get Canadian organizations to do that instead ... it makes more sense...
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19 Dec
Ok it's past 10 PM on a Saturday night. The snow is gently falling and I'm heading down to record my penultimate episode of Take Back the Fight podcast -- the final one for 2021.

harbingermedianetwork.com/show/take-back…
This Thursday, you'll hear about how ineffective it has been to have feminists in positions of power and how this has actually weakened, confused and disoriented the feminist movement.

The one I'm recording tonight ...
Will explore how the only real feminism (that is political feminism that actually seeks to dismantle patriarchy) must be anti-capitalist, anti-racist and decolonial. And I explain the ways in which we are failing in that ...
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18 Dec
Of the 30,032 people who have died from COVID-19 in Canada, I've linked 18,653 deaths to 1822 residential facilities and 205 workplace deaths.

That is up 5 deaths and 1 new residence since Saturday. 5 deaths in 6 days is a very encouraging trend.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Of course, deaths lag by several weeks so what we're seeing today is the impact of 3-6 weeks ago, but still, it's great to see that finally, in residential care, COVID-19 seems mostly under control.
One thing to note: I have it on solid authority that in Ontario, there are voices at the Ontario Science Table who are worried about hospital capacity in Toronto and Kingston, and as such, have argued against testing asymptomatic healthcare workers.
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18 Dec
Entry into #SN2021xo from a listener in Victoria:

"Why: Words are really fascinating to me because of their versatility, their power, how subjective they can be, and the granularity of meaning.

sandyandnora.com/episode-160-ca…
Like, you can get SO detailed about what words and phrases can mean. Then you throw in the idea of rhetoric, where the relationship between the words and their meanings is skewed and distanced.
So, I just really appreciated the breakdown of exactly what role and influence rhetoric has in social and political discussions. It gave me tools to hear what people say more critically, which was especially effective for scanning election news shortly after this episode aired.
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17 Dec
The data suggests that you have 33% protection against illness and 7o% protection against severe illness. So, no, or isn't like you haven't been vaccinated at all.

timesofisrael.com/2-pfizer-shots…
This is especially bad messaging for everyone who refuses to be vaccinated.

We need to trust that people are mature enough to get the message that 80% w/booster is better than 33% without.
Anyway, I'm sure the doom train will be chugging away again tomorrow. Time for sleep.
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