He's right about this part: schools are sitting on gobs of rescue cash. Spend it! Fix it!
Policy aside, this tone is much better, much more appropriate to the situation.
One of the reasons Biden stood out in the primaries was because he kept *not* freaking out. He kept *not* living on twitter's outrage cycles. He rarely took bait. He was just calmer. Voters interpret that as faith that the ship isn't about to capsize.
The Georgia speech was a disaster because it was a total freakout. This is a more productive tone even in a crisis.
His poll numbers really were atrocious. He seems like maaayyyybe he got the message. We'll see.
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The amount (and type) of coverage antisemitism receives in much of the US media depends *entirely* on the perpetrator and not the victims. Even in our own story we are relegated to pawns in a political narrative, complete afterthoughts.
At the same time we have to be careful what we wish for. I remember expressing my frustration at the left-of-center blackout on antisemitism and then seeing articles like this and thinking maybe the silence is the least-bad option here
I mean just look at the Sharpton thing. We want left-leaning pubs and networks to talk about antisemitism, so MSNBC brings on the guy who led an actual pogrom.
Good excuse to repost the greatest Friedman takedown ever, Matt Taibbi's NYPress essay Flathead. "He has an anti-ear, and it's absolutely infallible; he is a Joyce or a Flaubert in reverse, incapable of rendering even the smallest details without genius." delong.typepad.com/egregious_mode…
""Let me... share with you some of the encounters that led me to conclude that the world is no longer round," he says. He will literally travel backward in time, against the current of human knowledge."
"Friedman is a person who not only speaks in malapropisms, he also hears malapropisms. Told level; heard flat. This is the intellectual version of Far Out Space Nuts, when NASA repairman Bob Denver sets a whole sitcom in motion by pressing "launch" instead of "lunch"."
This is the explicit and intended end result of the BDS movement and the left's attempt to single out Israel: companies stop taking Jewish clients jta.org/2022/01/11/ny/…
"Anti-Zionism" isn't a thing. If you're just criticizing a state, that's called criticism, and if you support the dismantling and destruction of the Jewish homeland, that's genocidal antisemitism. "Anti-Zionism" stopped being a thing before most of these activists were born.
"Anti-Zionism" doesn't exist. It is merely the term for antisemitism that cowards prefer. Time to grow up.
He's also getting dragged for calling it terrorism but he's right there too. Ppl in that mob committed political violence specifically intended as such. No reason those individuals should get a pass from the label.
Terrorism doesn't require planning and organization, it's an act plus intent. (To respond to some of the objections I'm getting.) A few ppl can be said to have crossed that line without it meaning the entire protest on Jan. 6 was in the same category.
I think part of the problem is that there's so much generalization that ppl are defensive (understandably) about the whole Jan. 6 contingent getting tagged with the same label. But I think Cruz is referring to a tiny minority, not saying everyone protesting was a terrorist.
These are the children's books Facebook bans--after hearing from commenters who said to literally burn the books: bios of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Margaret Thatcher, Thomas Sowell, etc.
In case you were wondering why Bethany's work is so important.
We read the children's bio of Sonia Sotomayor to our kids, but FB bans the children's bio of Amy Coney Barrett. Our kids are going to grow up learning important lessons from figures of all politics, races, ethnicities, religions, etc. The new cultural commissars abhor it.
When ppl ask, we rave about these other children's books series--my kids worship folks like Brad Meltzer. I've tweeted repeatedly how such books have facilitated real and meaningful conversations about history with my kids. Heroes of Liberty is about adding value to value.