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Jul 21, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Anyone else notice the disconcerting parallels between the current climate change conversation and our Covid response? When gatekeepers deem dissent as socially irresponsible, we bludgeon our way through policy changes that deserve surgical precision. A 🧵 on the similarities:
Biden has considered declaring a Climate Emergency, presumably opening the door for the administration to use unilateral, bureaucratic power to force policy changes they can’t accomplish otherwise. (Emergency declarations opened the door for significant power grabs during Covid.)
Jul 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I always read @AlecMacGillis and he never disappoints. On a 5,300-mile, 10 state, Western USA road trip this month, my 11yo observed that San Francisco seems like a place where "laws don't matter" and that "this place would be better if the police were more strict." 1/5
She's sheltered from the news and controversies and the debates about policing and criminal justice reform. She's just making her own observations after seeing a drug deal go down on a train, stepping over a comatose person on a sidewalk, seeing side streets filled with tents 2/5
