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Don Moynihan @donmoyn
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Why is everyone freaking out about John Bolton? He has a consistent record of being wrong in ways that tend to get many people killed vox.com/world/2018/3/2…
He is also such a bad manager that he could not get confirmed in a Republican Senate
His new job running the National Security Council will require him to make balanced & nuanced judgements of intelligence, and coordinate multiple agents and personalities. He is demonstrably unqualified for both roles.
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Grover Norquist knows how marginal tax rates works. He and his organization has done more to shape our current tax system than perhaps anyone else.
The point of this tweet is to underline that much of the conservative DC brains-trust are perfectly comfortable with propaganda. 1/
For those of you unfamiliar, Norquist is the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, whose great policy contribution has been to coerce Republican elected officials into signing a pledge to never raise taxes, promising to primary anyone who doesn't sign. 2/ newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Norquist is hugelyy influential, nominally because of his tax policy expertise. But given his obvious bad-faith arguments, why give him op-ed space? Every time he testifies in Congress, lawmakers first question should be "why should we take anything you say seriously?" 3/
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The debate about campus speech is a lot easier to understand when you get that it is mostly driven by people who care neither about campus or speech, but instead dislike universities because they assume they foster liberal thought. And its not just the US.
Authoritarian Orban in Hungary not just shut down an independent university - the definition of state censorship. He is also obsessed with removing gender studies from higher education. 2/ edition.cnn.com/2018/10/19/eur…
In the UK, the nationalist UKIP party has also blames university-inspired political correctness for the world's problem - including the EU! 3/
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Jazmine Headley went to a welfare office to get childcare vouchers so she could take a cleaning job. With no available chairs, she sat on the floor with her 1yr old. She was told to stand, refused. Then police came, yanked child away & arrested her. 1/ nytimes.com/2018/12/09/nyr…
Eyewitnesses said she was not blocking any entry way, but she is charged with obstruction. She is charged with endangering her child, even though it was the security officials and police who directly put the child in danger 2/
This story made me think of @jbsoss's work abt welfare encounters. I assign it to my students, who have mostly never encountered this sort of treatment by the state. Joe's work illustrates how such experiences teach citizens lessons abt their standing 3/ dropbox.com/s/7tsmsxugn7jk…
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The new IPCC report is out. The top line is familiar: we can still limit climate change to non-catastrophic levels if we act quickly. But underneath that, what counts as "quickly" has grown ever more ludicrous. vox.com/2018/10/5/1793…
Basically, stopping warming at 1.5C would involve an immediate, coordinated crash program of re-industrialization, involving every major country in the world. It would be like the US mobilizing for WWII, only across the globe, sustained for the rest of the century.
Nothing like that has ever happened. Nothing even remotely similar has ever happened. There are currently no indications that any such effort is getting underway, and indeed the US is vigorously moving the other direction.
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Everyone freaking out about voter fraud or illegals voting look at this. This is currently being implimented.

@drawandstrike @ThomasWictor @TheChiIIum @HNIJohnMiller @jihadaeon1 @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @LarrySchweikart
The REAL ID Act establishes minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum standards.

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The purposes covered by the Act are: accessing Federal facilities, entering nuclear power plants, and, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft.
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You know what I want to talk about today?
Legacy.
The legacy of films, the impact they have on generations, the way they shape our moment and the way they influence our future.
So yes.
Today, we're talking about Star Wars.
A lot of people talk about Star Wars.
Obviously, because a lot of people love Star Wars.
There are probably more people who love Star Wars than there are people who love Jesus
But unlike a lot of other movies, people who talk about Star Wars almost inevitably talk about how Star Wars was made.
The stories behind the scenes of Star Wars are almost as fascinating as the stories the films tell.
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