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Mar 15 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
All right, hitting the road. My audio companion is Hero of Two Worlds, by @mikeduncan. I've been *saving* this for a road trip.
amazon.com/Hero-Two-World…
And while we're here, the reviews I've seen speak of Duncan's unflinching rebuke of George Washington and his stubborn refusal to see enslaved people as people.

So, you know, you don't have to be a Black guy to tell the truth about the people who founded this country.
I got to Philly the same time Lafayette did. :)
… i forgot my copy of my book at home. :(
Does anyone else ever feel like a smart person trapped in a stupid person’s body? Cause I feel that way a lot.

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Mar 8
Wait this is real? A bunt (a low analytical play that will happen less than once a game in a all-DH world) is not the reason young people don't like baseball!!
I don't think there's anything about *the game* that turns kids off from baseball. I'm biased (as baseball is my favorite sport), but aside from maybe endless boring pitching changes, I really don't think the game is the problem.
The problem is that the sport is almost exclusively marketed to old white guys and suffused with that demographic crankily talking about "unwritten" rules of decorum that take THE FUN out of the base game.
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Mar 3
Oooh, I have trigger white wing media this morning by noting that their slaver's organizing document is trash. :)
Literally could write a better one in two weeks. One if I had a good scotch.

They big mad now.

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Mar 3
In any event, the kind of racism Tucker is throwing at KBJ happens to Black people *all the time* in the legal profession. We're constantly asked to *re*prove that we're "qualified" by white people who are never satisfied no way.
And all of us develop different strats to deal...
Over the course of my life, I've run the full spectrum. Started at "I will prove to whites that I belong" all the way to "how bout y'all kiss my black ass." I've gone from trying to gain white approval, to actively rejecting it, to not caring about it at all...
I've learned there's no way to "win." There's no way to do whatever it is white's want you to do to make them leave you the hell alone.
Every black person has to choose how much white nonsense they're willing to put up with, because there will always be more nonsense on offer...
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Mar 2
I normally don't really care if rando white people on Twitter believe what comes out of my own kids' mouths. I always think "maybe they don't have children" or "maybe their kids are dumber than mine." But this breed of troll seems particularly angry at me right now.
I didn't get it for about 20 minutes. But now I think I understand. Why *MOST OF US* real parents have children who have grown accustomed to masks, for better or worse, there's a certain breed of dumbass which relies on the notion that masks are the worst thing ever.
So my kid, innocently and earnestly emphasizing that he had no problem wearing his mask, like, breaks their small minded world view in ways that make them lash out. So they need to believe my kid is lying (Or I'm lying about my kid. Or whatever black-man-bad thing think).
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Mar 2
Gov Kim Reynolds (Republican) says that Biden is sending us back in time to the 80s... WHICH IF I RECALL WAS WHEN RONALD REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT.

Is Kim Reynolds against the Reagan Era?
Kim Reynolds is worried about [checks notes] SHOPLIFTERS "roaming free."

Wha...what does she think happens to shoplifters? Does she think they get the death penalty?
Kim Reynolds: "So many children will never catch up"

Umm... WHY??? WHY CAN'T WE INVEST IN CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY COVID RESTRICTIONS AND MAKE SURE THEY "CATCH UP" BY THE TIME THEY'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL?
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Feb 28
Hello friends. You might know me as "Guy with *super timely* book destroying bad faith conservative law arguments in plain English."

But, thanks to [checks notes] land war in Europe, the *best* way to see me will be the following, open to the public, virtual events:
On Tuesday at 6:00 I will be at the @cwclub talking with @ProfMMurray.

Professor Murray is a professor *of law* so I assume this will be the event where I most directly challenge @FedSoc to a dance fight.

commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-03…
On Wednesday at 8:00, I will be doing @PoliticsProse with @MalcolmNance

About my book, not the global geopolitical situation. Tho... having done after events with Nance before... let's just say where our convos start aren't always where they end up.

politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-…
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