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Jan 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Margaritas cost the same as a beer where I live. What is everyone talking about?
Also, there are a lot of behaviors that are elitist & I'm not sure what the cut-off is, but are we really going to pretend to get mad about *any* activity someone engages in that we can't personally afford?
Please don't tell me you own a house or a mattress that is less than 15 years old. You might as well just spit in my face.
The other funny thing about this outrage is that people on this site are basically revealing they never hang out w/ folks who have very little money. Some of us like to go out to drink & some of us even like margaritas. I've paid for drinks w/ quarters, as have my friends.

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Jan 23
A lot of info is coming out about Trump's various plots before January 6th. It's important to compile this timeline to get an idea of the big picture. It is especially crucial to understand what, exactly, was going on at the DoD & the extent to which Trump tried to use hard power
After the November election, Trump began restructuring the DOD. He fired Def Sec Esper on Nov 9th & replaced him with Christopher Miller. Trump also installed Ezra Watnick Cohen in a top position. Watnick Cohen was a longterm ally of Michael Flynn's. alternet.org/2022/01/damnin…
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Jan 23
"Many who marched"
"A galvanizing new beginning"
"The spirit of the day carries on"
"The sense of community resonates"
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I think it's important to document what's going on with this crowd. They are a political movement with political power. That said, language matters. Journalists should avoid words that valorize both the *purpose* of the Jan 6th "protest" & those who still fight for that purpose.
Greater clarity is also worthwhile.

"Protest a democratic election" almost sounds benign, particularly given what happened next.

"An emblem of resistance" to *what?* Democracy itself? ImageImage
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Jan 23
I keep hearing from the press that "Biden should be focussed on inflation" and I'm curious as to what that means, exactly. They're working on supply chain issues. Biden can't interfere w/ the Fed. What should he be doing differently? What does greater focus on inflation entail?
I'm not saying there aren't things Biden couldn't be doing differently, but just that the press isn't really telling me what those things are. I just hear inflation is bad and Biden isn't fixing it and this is a drag on his presidency.
Couple of other points:
-Inflation is striking many countries due to the pandemic
-Both BIF and BBB have provisions that will address long term inflationary concerns
-If we care about food prices in particular, we better start framing climate change as an economic issue
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Jan 20
Yes. I'll add to this that Schumer is treated as bumbling & ineffectual, whereas McConnell is portrayed as a Machiavellian wunderkind.
Obviously, Senate Democrats have had a rough couple of months, but the Democratic vision Schumer is trying to carry through is transformative. Dems also passed ARPA & BIF. Compare that to tax cuts & a failed bid to take away people's healthcare w/ a visionless Frankenstein plan.
After the failed ACA repeal, McConnell should have carried egg on his face for a lot longer. He brought signature legislation to the floor w/out knowing how his own caucus would vote. Meanwhile, Schumer is weak for using the Senate floor to shine a light on voting rights.
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Jan 20
There's a dynamic in press coverage wherein Republican politicians' racism, authoritarianism, obstructionism, & lack of policy vision are treated as normal phenomena, but, conversely, Republican voters are viewed as exotic creatures straight out of a David Attenborough film.
The Republicans' abjectly anti-democratic behavior is accepted as a baseline, rather than abnormal & worthy of intense inquiry, but Republican voters' *loyalty* to this abnormal behavior is worthy of extreme curiosity. So we get a lot of "Trump voters still love Trump" stories.
Meanwhile, Democratic politicians are messy for attempting to participate in democracy. Democratic voters, in contrast, are treated as bores. The press largely ignores them. What's interesting, after all, in being committed to a party that's actually trying to be democratic?
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Jan 19
The obvious answer is that vaccination is proven to reduce illness & death. Vaccination also likely mitigates immune responses that trigger Long COVID. Another under-recognized variable is that transmission between vaxx'd people is likely different than between unvaxx'd people
To be clear, here: I'm making a general point about the prevention of community harm induced by vaccination & corresponding immunity. Vaccinated individuals absolutely can spread Omicron & infect other vaccinated people. Everyone should follow guidelines closely.
When we're thinking about the power of vaccination, we need to think on the community level. Data from the Delta period indicate that the probability of breakthroughs goes UP if community vaccination is low. Every vaccinated person attenuates the spread.
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