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May 14 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Made it to the #BansOffOurBodies protest in New Braunfels.

This ain't exactly a liberal city, but even here a fairly substantial crowd has started to form less than half an hour into the protest. Image
There's a voter registration stand set up here too, but it's not very busy. I would hope because everyone here's already registered.
Despite this being a Trump+42 county, I haven't see any signs of counterprotest yet. Every driver in the traffic circle who has reacted has waved or thumbs-up.
LOL, there's like this one single QAnon lady standing at the corner of the protest, just standing there doing nothing, and everyone is ignoring her.

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May 10
There's a simple reason gas prices are rising again: summer is coming. Gas prices always go up in summer because 1) families drive more when school's out, and 2) refiners switch to the summer blend, which is designed to be evaporation-resistant and costs more to make.
Prices will fall again in a few months... but only to where they were a few weeks ago. As I said before: there are long term factors here too. Oil companies anticipate climate change will phase down consumption, so they just no longer have a financial incentive to make gas cheap.
Much as Republicans want you to believe otherwise, there is no magical way the govt could just relax regulations and let oil companies drill more. Oil companies have all the permits they need to drill more if they wanted to. It's about long-term energy trends.
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May 8
Re: whether it's appropriate to protests at the justices' homes, I have some mixed feelings.

On one hand, yes, I think it's *appropriate*, given the magnitude of the threat these officials pose to the protesters' basic liberty, assuming no one riots or makes violent threats.
But on the other hand, I don't think going to a person's home and chanting is a particularly *effective* form of protest either.

In retrospect, I think one of the biggest failures of our education system is the failure to teach kids how the civil rights movement actually worked.
We sort of walk away from school with the impression that civil rights protesters just marched around picketing and holding signs until Congress said, okay, we'll pass new laws changing the unjust system.

That's not really how it worked.
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May 7
I feel like there's a whole conversation around what counts as a "national fast food chain" but in any case you're wrong, the best national fast food chain is Dairy Queen.
Frankly, even if I want cheap tacos from a national chain (which is rare because I live in Texas and have a million better options) I'm not going to Taco Bell — I'm going to Jack in the Box.
The real problem with Taco Bell is they don't use queso, they use "nacho cheese sauce" which basically tastes like microwave velveeta. It's just totally wrong and ruins the flavor profile of the whole menu. Similarly, the guacamole is very processed and definitely not fresh.
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Okay. Since apparently the ambush question GOP strategists and media have settled on is "Is there ANY limit on abortion you would support? Should abortion be allowed up until birth?"

Here is how Democratic candidates should respond to that question.
"Yes, there is a point after which elective abortions shouldn't be done: VIABILITY. Roe already says abortions can be restricted past viability, every state does so, and doctors' medical ethics wouldn't allow them to do elective abortions past that point anyway. Nobody is...
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This is honestly the best explanation I've heard for why gas prices got so high.

(The short version is: oil companies anticipate no potential for demand growth thanks to climate change, so they've cut production to capture as much profit as possible.)
This is great for the planet long term, as many of these oil companies are genuinely shifting over to produce renewable energy. But it also means people who need oil now are going to get squeezed at the pump by producers manipulating the market to get profit while they can.
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I have frequently noted, the American understanding of politics is badly distorted by the fact that we are one of the only countries in history — literally, one of the *only* ones — that had violent revolutionaries create a better government than the one they overthrew.
It is impossible to overstate how rare that is. Almost unheard of. Nearly all successful democratizations happen through peaceful reform; nearly all violent uprisings lead to regimes as bad or worse than the old one.

Americans really don't appreciate how weird their history is.
And our weird history leads us sometimes to badly overestimate the usefulness of violence as a tool of political reform, rather than political destruction.
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