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Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Trump was known inside the White House for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor... despite the Presidential Records Act"

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
"The National Archives on Monday took the unusual step of confirming the habit, saying in a statement that records turned over from the Trump White House “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump.”"

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
"the former president’s infrangible shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency."

Why would someone develop the habit of shredding their paperwork and continue to do so after being asked to stop?
"Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and constitutional scholar, said White House documents torn up by Trump are clearly the property of the government under the Presidential Records Act."

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…

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Feb 2
I've been stressing about the possibility of losing power since I have week-old chicks (7 of them) under a heat lamp.

No power, no heat lamp, dead chicks. 😰

So I did an online search for ways to keep chicks alive without a heat lamp and found a couple of suggestions. Image
The most useful was to build an insulated "hut" for them to huddle under.

So, using some cardboard and an insulated shipping bag, I gave it my best shot.

It has air holes & and a flap so the chicks can get out if they really want to. Image
Another suggestion was a sort of hot water bottle.

The water in a hot water tank (assuming it's not tankless) will remain hot for a while. So, when the power goes out, immediately fill some plastic containers with hot water and put them in the brooder box with the chicks.
Read 8 tweets
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Jan 30
"The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages...

Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrow’s."

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"The school proposals are not only surfacing in more states, but also increasing in their breadth."

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"The singer and activist John Legend previewed another response when he tweeted, “Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced. We are parents too.”"

#education
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Jan 28
The Krause List being used to ban books across the USA was created by Texas Republican State Rep Matt Krause.

The @BookRiot associate editor went through the 850 books on the list and "found some interesting and unsettling things."

#BANNED
#BannedBooks
bookriot.com/texas-book-ban…
"Perhaps the most disturbing trend I saw in this list is the challenging of books that teach students their rights.

Of all the things to teach in school or for kids to have access to, this is one of the most important."

#BANNED #BannedBooks
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"Not only is every book on human sexuality disallowed, from The Baby Tree to teen books about STIs, but also anything that mentions teen pregnancy, including YA novels. About 5% of the books banned have to do with pregnancy."

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Jan 16
"Increasingly, experts have identified misogyny as one such ideology that motivates violence and can be a component of far-right extremism."

everytownresearch.org/report/misogyn…
"In addition to motivating deadly and violent behavior on its own, misogyny in the US also has well-documented ties to other extremist movements, whose far-right supporters have both adopted misogynist attitudes and used hatred of women to recruit new supporters."
"The first section of this report examines the ties between misogyny and far-right extremism, and how their association leads to the radicalization of their respective adherents."
~@Everytown
everytownresearch.org/report/misogyn…
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Jan 16
"many of the Oath Keepers present at the Capitol were military veterans. The U.S. government is unintentionally training its own insurrectionists"
~Clint Watts @selectedwisdom

#Jan6th
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"the Oath Keepers prepared to carry out terrorism — violence in pursuit of political change — unlike anything the United States has witnessed in recent history."

#Jan6th
#OathKeepers
#DomesticTerrorism
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Unlike in the case of international terrorism, where the US State Dept designates foreign terrorist organizations so that the Justice Department can then preemptively pursue investigations based on affiliations, no such designation process exists for domestic terror groups"
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Jan 11
"But fury is useful only as fuel. We need a Plan B for democracy.

Plan A was to pass H.R. 1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Neither bill, as of now, has a path to President Biden’s desk."
~@ezraklein

nytimes.com/2022/01/09/opi…
"Steve Bannon has made it his mission to recruit people who don’t believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers."

#DemocracyInDanger
nytimes.com/2022/01/09/opi…
"The difference between those organizing at the local level to shape democracy and those raging ineffectually about democratic backsliding... remind me of the old line about war: Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics. Right now, Trumpists are talking logistics. Image
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