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4 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This is a thought-provoking piece on the racial implications of what the Jan 6 rioters are being charged with, or not, by @aeconwright. And a fascinating history lesson to boot: motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
Did you know that Francis Scott Key—yes that one—charged an abolitionist with sedition in an extremely high-profile trial in which a mob tried to lynch the abolitionist only to turn their wrath on the free Black people of DC instead? motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
Did you know that, after the FBI charged a coalition of white supremacists with conspiring to assassinate civil rights leaders, rob banks, and create a free white state the jury acquitted them? motherjones.com/politics/2022/… Image
Here's what one of those defendants went on to do: motherjones.com/politics/2022/… Image
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6 Jan
1/ It's a mistake to think that kids' mental health problems are just because of school closures as opposed to pandemic trauma broadly, plus climate change, school shootings, and all the ways adults are fucking their future.

just as...
2/...it's a mistake to think that teachers are concerned only with their own health. Or that the POC parents who were among the most reluctant to send kids back before vaccines were available/pandemic ebbed aren't making nuanced risk assessments of relative risks to their kids.
3/ You don't have to have kids to recognize that these tradeoffs aren't easily reduced, you only need to listen to a wide variety of parents, kids, and educators.

but...
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6 Jan
Lot of liberal pundit handwringing to the effect of "we can close schools now that we know of the great harms to kid's mental health"

which, yes, but...

(CTU maybe aside) is anyone pushing closures that aren't solely prompted by staff shortages due to their own infections?
Like pundits seem to be fighting the last war. Excepting SFUSD, they've been mostly back for a year. And even SFUSD isn't headed toward indefinite closures.
But if 30% of a school's staff is out sick/isolating, then yeah, duh, there are going to be some closed schools or classes.
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6 Jan
Can a native French speaker tell me what he really said? Is it piss off? Fuck off? Fuck with? Fucking penalize?

The latter two pointing to a strategy of stick, given that we're all out of carrots.
NPR spent more time this morning dancing around the fact that his language was "more vulgar" than they would repeat/Anglicize than what (if anything) he was trying to signal re strategy.
"make life really shitty for if they won't get vaccinated" is pretty different than just "shit upon."
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4 Jan
The shit-show on 1-95 is further evidence that people have to swap weather/disaster tips with those in other regions. For example, in the Upper Midwest, most would be prepared for blizzard road conditions with boots/blankets/fire starting stuff/food/water in trunk.
Now, as a DC/NOVA native does it seem insane that folks there would need to know like...how to drive on black ice? I guess. They can't even drive in the rain! But extreme weather is the norm and we need to swap expertise accordingly.
When I lived in MN, not only did we drive around with chains, and xtra boots/gloves, and blankets, and jumper cables, and ice scrappers, and even boards and sand, but you always had a tin can, some newspaper, and some matches, in case you needed to start a fire to survive.
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4 Jan
Me, refreshing @JohnCarreyrou's feed
Don't know how to feel about "defrauding the DeVoses" being one of the handful of charges she's been convicted on:
Totally curious how the jury could find that she broke the law by defrauding (some) investors as to the claims of devices but not the patients who had life-altering misdiagnoses. Image
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3 Jan
Gen Z is going to have an unbreakable affinity to pajamas.
Like if you used to be like "why are millennials wearing jammies and bringing huge pillows on airplanes?" that ain't nothing.
First thing my 13 yo kid asks upon getting home from school is "is it ok to get in jammies" and who am I to question, having barely ever upgraded from sweats these past two years.

He's not even asking, really. It's a ritual.
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