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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1557391394460794880Saying “is racist” in the hed successfully ensured the exact same reaction being described in the article. OTOH a less declarative locution wouldn’t have gotten as much attention among liberals. (From a clix perspective, for a young reporter at a new outlet, not a hard q.)
https://twitter.com/PETEKEELEY/status/1441272770977951750First, on numbers. Thousands of Haitians are getting expelled (not quite the same as deported, I’ll address this in a bit). Thousands more—probs ultimately a greater number—are being released. @Anna_Giaritelli’s sources (usually insider hawks) have this estimate:
https://twitter.com/Anna_Giaritelli/status/1441369886874161156
https://twitter.com/camiloreports/status/1364017482013560841The Biden administration could be expelling these kids under the CDC order, as Trump admin did before court order stopped them, but after order was lifted Biden chose not to resume kid expulsions.
https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/1356724733023313920I do, FWIW, think the first clause of that tweet is important. "Kids in cages" was a meme that referred to several different specific policies/events/periods, and also served as a catch-all for the ~feeling~ that Trump admin was abusive toward asylum seekers.
https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1356970924134776836To be clear the “morale is only invoked when it’s down because the line employees don’t agree with the policies” thing is also 100 percent true on the dovish side of the bureaucracy, e.g. refugee and asylum officers under Trump.
https://twitter.com/jessicabolter/status/1321816256786403329Increasingly, I believe that journalism in 2020 (at its best) isn't the first draft of history — social media and cameraphones mean we are _awash_ in primary documents — but the second draft: the effort to begin to move from simply bearing witness to taking _stock._
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1321077606700191744There is also a willingness to treat the messages of urban unrest as credible, when in 2016 they were tried out but pretty totally ignored, and therefore used less often.
https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1273601662532366337There is, in fact, a vision of policing that says that's what everyone should have! But it's a reformist vision that is focused on making police accountable and trustworthy to the communities they police. (2/3)