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Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Going to be posting some job opportunities over the next few days. First up is a climate/enviro justice reporter position. Past @MotherJones climate reporters include: @rebleber @kate_sheppard @bradplumer @juliawhitty... motherjones.com/jobs/climate-r…
2/ We also launched @ClimateDesk more than a decade ago, so that news orgs who were serious back then could team up and amplify each other's work.

Where was @billmckibben's initial essay on "350" published? That'd be @MotherJones (in 2008): motherjones.com/environment/20…
3/ There is no more vital topic, and we don't silo it off from the rest of the newsroom, or treat it like an afterthought. But we want candidates to tell us how they'd like to approach the beat in 2022. motherjones.com/jobs/climate-r… Image
4/ We have offices (remember them?) in SF, DC, NYC, but this position can be done from anywhere. So please apply or spread the word. @sejorg @WritersofColor @NABJ @najournalists @NAHJ @aaja @IRE_NICAR

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Jan 19
1/ Attn screenwriters & true crime podcasters: the further down this rabbit hole you go, the more insane this story gets. Top line is that this guy, a rape suspect, fakes his own death, flees to Scotland, where he's found on a ventilator for Covid. But... nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…
2/ a few minutes of Googling unearths so much more. he claimed that he was abused in RI's child welfare system. Became a state legislative page at 14. There a state rep felt so bad he offered to adopt him. He was waived off by a family judge (!!)
3/ Do you know how sus you have to be for a family court judge to warn a state rep not to adopt you? I mean... (also, the judge's name is Jeremiah Jeremiah? That's just insanely on the nose, writers.)
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Jan 12
1/ @daveweigel is a great reporter, and no piece for a national audience can summarize a 2+ multifront debate but from where I sit, couple of things this misses washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
2/ First, I think it's a mistake to look at the SFUSD recall as mostly/just a progressive vs moderate debate. There are a lot of very left people who've had it with the school board.
3/ Nor are people who are pro SFUSD recall necessarily aligned with the Boudin recall. Some are, some aren't. Lots of people passionately care about one and don't really care about the other.
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Jan 6
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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Jan 6
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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Jan 6
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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Jan 4
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
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