“No self-governing society can survive [‘an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy’]
by denying that it exists.”

@jayrosen_nyu, I thought you might have commented about Sat @nytopinion editorial.

@nytimes newsroom seems stuck in SOP mode.
The @nytimes EdBoard makes this disconnected from reality claim:

“Democrats aren’t helpless, either. They hold unified power in Washington.”
😳🤦🏼‍♀️🥲

🎁 nytimes.com/2022/01/01/opi…
Burying the lede: the @nytimes ed board calls for an to end the filibuster, “at least” for voting rights legislation.

With this appeal (found in 3rd to last graph), they admit that their earlier claim about “unified power” was describing a paper tiger.
STOP calling the #Jan6th insurrection a riot!!

“the Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.”
What is the @nytimes response - news and editorial? Crickets here

And what can ordinary people do in response to Trump/GOP authoritarianism?

I am weary of those who wield power wringing hands and gnashing teeth.

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More from @kegill

3 Jan
I remain amazed at (1) thin-skinned TV news people and (2) journalists who refuse to provide sources for photos, videos etc in their tweets.

Three years ago I politely asked @BeschlossDC for the source of a photo. Image
I discovered tonight that he had blocked me. 😂 Image
A journalist I respect RTed one of his unsourced photos; I didn’t recognize his name and clicked through; then I discovered I’ve been blocked.
Read 6 tweets
31 Dec 21
“A very instructive case of how greed is not good, of self-interest run amok, is cancer.”

ABSOLUTELY (types the woman with breast cancer and an MS in ag economics)

“Cancer cells cheat on their body’s biological social contract. “

Article from July 2021
“most economists … have been too influenced by ‘methodological individualism’”

Economics was once a field of philosophy. Lots of math attempted to recreate it as a “hard” science. It is not a hard science. Neither is poliSci. Image
There’s a field of cooperation within economics: cooperatives. Probably not mentioned anywhere in K-12 unless very rural. I don’t recall their being part of my graduate work, either.
Read 4 tweets
7 Dec 21
MARCH: 4% of American adults didn’t trust 2020 election results and were prepared to join a protest that might turn violent. That’s 10 Million Americans. @ProfessorPape @TheAtlantic @bartongellman
🧵/1
JUNE: 8% of American adults agreed “the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and Joe Biden is an illegitimate president” & “use of force is justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency.”

More extreme; 2x support.

21 million American “committed insurrectionists”
/2
This needs to be repeated, daily:

Trump et al have convinced millions of Americans (including 68% of all Republicans in a Nov 2021 PRRI poll) of #TheBigLie : that Biden stole the election from Trump.

/3
Read 21 tweets
4 Dec 21
What's causing inflation? Might it be record profits?

A jaundiced view on Wednesday's SCOTUS news; a question for the NRA; US reported the most daily COVID cases since September 15th and about 1,800 deaths

kathyegill.substack.com/p/03-december-…
The past few weeks, TV news and newspapers have run lots of stories on inflation. On the political pundit side, those stories have a common theme: inflation up, Biden approval down. What seems totally missing from mainstream news > @business

Corporate profits are at record levels, due in no small part to the Trump-McConnell tax cuts. Image
Read 6 tweets
24 Oct 21
Because the NW probably isn't as familiar to most folks as the Gulf coast, I've annotated this satellite image. That dot in the pink county is approximately where we live (Snohomish County, Lynnwood WA). Seattle is south of us in King County.
This is the strongest storm system to ever hit the Pacific NW (942.5 MB). The third most powerful was Thursday. We have rain and wind gusts; the coast has lots more of both; mountains will be getting snow. Heaviest rain/snow in CA.
NWS on probability. And we've had two of these inside 72 hours. Just saying.

Read 6 tweets
24 Oct 21
Someone help me understand how this is not like pre-WWII Germany.
@HC_Richardson?
@KevinMKruse?

🧵

First: school board harassment, 1 #florida #COVID19 @washingtonpost

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
First: school board harassment, 2 #Wisconsin #COVID19

upnorthnewswi.com/2021/09/23/my-…
First: school board harassment, 3 #COVID19 @NPR

npr.org/sections/back-…
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