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Jun 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You don’t come here for the movie reviews but humor me. #TopGunMaverick was perfect. Seriously. During the 25 minutes of the secret mission, I may have stopped breathing. A son told me I yelled at one stage. It was magnificent, thrilling. 1/
Despite my better judgment, Tom Cruise still got it. I really don’t want to admit this but he does. And Jennifer Connelly is so age appropriate hot that it all worked and she’s got it too. I digress. 2/
It has no ultra nationalism, no long speeches about the American way. There is an enemy. A threat. A mission. That’s all. Not too deep. Enjoy the ride. “Don’t think too much” to quote the recurring theme. And so don’t. 3/
“Highway to the Danger Zone” does open the movie. I hate the song. Still do. But there is an orchestral version during the training scenes that is stunning, haunting. I would love if somebody found it. I can’t. The song is now redeemed. 4/
Anyway I had long missed big blockbusters, popcorn, twizzlers and a random matinee when schedules align with a kid who is game. Since early 2020, I had wondered what movie would bring me back. Found it. Don’t think to much. It is amazing. 5/5

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THREAD (a diffcult one) on what this DOJ review of the #Uvalde tragedy means. In my book, the last chapter is called "Listen to the Dead." And in some ways, this review will be a chance for the children, each victim, to be heard. 1/
The story we know now will change. I was skeptical from the start of the original narrative; the new one, of an incident commander who failed to execute active shooter protocols, sounds more believable. But this one is likely to be revised as well. 2/
As I write, "(t)hese initial assumptions about what occurred . . will change over time. We must accurately memorialize how people die. That people die in a crisis is, unfortunately, a given. Things break, institutions falter, societies buckle under stress. . . 3/
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"Immediate Action Rapid Deployment" (IARD) is what law enforcement learns in active shooter drills and training. From lessons of Columbine, to the others that followed, speed of entry is the defining feature. Gunmen, as we have learned, are not there to be negotiated with. 1/
The timeline is confusing and I don't know right now. Holding parents back from school entry is actually part of the training; you just can't have people storming an active shooter site. But that presupposes that IARD has been utilized. 2/
It could be that officers outside were told that the gunman has been isolated but not killed and they should secure facility. It could be that they had no idea what they were doing. Reporting like this is important because we are hearing a lot of contradictory statements. @AP 3/
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May 18
A note on replacement theory (RT) since #BuffaloMassacre. RT has come to be used by its critics for a broad array of issues across legal and policy disagreements. We should stop. We risk diluting RT's violent underpinnings and help its proponents wiggle out of consequences. 1/
As I've noted many times before, RT is about eliminating the "other" in a world where opportunity is limited: us or them, me or you. #stochasticterrorism is the means. When political and media leaders promote RT, they promote random violence but maintain plausible deniability. 2/
You see that now; they too are diluting RT, claiming it is merely a reflection of accurate demographic shifts in this country. Those shifts are real, but they of course don't call it a demographic issue. They call it RT for a reason; RT justifies violence. It is unique, evil. 3/
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May 10
Hurricanes and how people die from THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS. We have gotten better about surviving hurricanes. In 2020, Laura was described as "unsurvivable" but nobody died from the storm surge. Still, 28 lost their lives because of the hurricane. What happened? 1/
People die from disasters but we often make the wrong assumptions about how people die if we simply think "oh there was a hurricane." If we can figure out how -- how come this person died and this person didn't -- then hopefully we learn for next storm. 2/
So what have we learned about hurricanes? We are getting better about hurricane preparedness. Storm surge is still the greatest threat, but we've built up preparation for that. But then, after the storm passes and basic needs aren't met, the loss of life occurs. 3/
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May 5
Wow. Boeing's move to Chicago in 1997 was due to its merger with competitor McDonnell Douglas, the tenth-largest merger in US history at the time. Boeing got to keep the name. McDonnell Douglas got location. Boeing also lost its safety culture that year.
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In 1997, Boeing not only lost its Northwest roots, but also adopted the corporate culture of McDonnell Douglas. I interviewed a bunch of people about the crashes for THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS and all put the date of merger as some explanation of what happened. 2/
I'm interested in corporate disasters b/c they aren't easily dismissed as mere greed. Greed animates many companies; only few lead to tragedies like the 2018 and 2019 737 MAX accidents by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, killing 346 people. Boeing was once a safety god. 3/
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May 4
This @nytimes story on Japan's fraught relationship with the nuclear question -- the legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Fukushima meltdown to Ukraine -- is a must read. I wrote @theatlantic an excerpt from THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS on this history. 1/
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The nuclear attacks during WWII meant that in order for Japan to "sell" nuclear energy, it had to convince populations that it was safe. That was a myth, excusing the industry from investing in how to fail, safer. Fukushima wasn't just the result of a natural disaster. 2/
Human agency, the ability to adapt, a strong response team all were factors in protecting a nearby nuclear facility, Onagawa. It too was damaged by the earthquake and had water rush in. It did not, in the way we measure success, have a radiation leak. "Less bad" is success. 3/
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