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Anthony LaMesa
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Aug 20 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
"During the pandemic, Kamala and I helped states and cities get their schools back open..."

First, I want to recognize President Biden's wise decision to step aside and honor his service -- what a remarkable speech last night.

That said, this statement requires some context. 🧵 In July 2020, at the same time as Europe and many U.S. states -- including ones governed by Democrats, like Rhode Island and Connecticut -- were working to reopen schools, the Biden campaign, DNC, elected Democrats, and activists (e.g. MeidasTouch) launched a campaign attacking Donald Trump's push to reopen schools.
May 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
TSA PreCheck is a joke. A bunch of people standing in Staples about to pay $78 to a private firm (IDEMIA) just to be spared the indignity of shoe removal for five years. In normal countries, everyone is treated with respect at security. One woman is going to be late for work. This does absolutely nothing to make airports safer or security more efficient. It’s literally just opportunistic parasitic firms intersecting with the post-9/11 security paranoia.
Mar 21 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
The Swedish advice-making process for distance learning in schools, November 2020 − April 2021
ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/…
Image Guiding principles of the advice-making process
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Oct 25, 2023 • 43 tweets • 11 min read
BART isn’t even trying to win back passengers with a basic level of service at SFO. Broken fare gates, empty station attendant booth, and I witnessed a suboptimal interaction between a confused customer and BART employee. “New train” is dirty.
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Image The train is insanely loud and rough.
Sep 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"The Science"


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Image The Medal of Honor is America's highest military decoration. It was absurd for the White House to force this war hero to wear a surgical mask while walking to the front of the East Room with President Biden. The masks were then awkwardly, randomly removed.
May 24, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"Much of that growth, economists said, has been propelled by an influx of white-collar professionals who’ve decided that if they can work from anywhere, they’d like to log on from the beach." "Ryan Lutz and his wife, both software engineers, moved to Land O’ Lakes...early last year from a Minneapolis suburb, in large part because Florida doesn’t have a state income tax. Both had gotten high-paying remote jobs during the pandemic and wanted to stretch their money."
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Brutal description of consequences of the Covid pandemic response from @KevinBardosh in his important new paper. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Image Extremely important: "Planning and response for future global health emergencies must integrate a wider range of expertise to account for and mitigate societal harms associated with government intervention."

Must mainstream child rights, gender, etc.
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May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The refugee experience offers a window into the United States' intractable social problems. In New York, overcrowded shelters are disorderly and unsafe. In upstate cities, there's no transportation infrastructure. It's literally impossible to live without a car in the vast majority of the United States. In contrast, car-free living is possible in almost all European and Latin American cities, with some combination of formal and informal transportation, walking, and cycling.
May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"After a journey that took him across the U.S. border with Mexico, he landed in a shelter system in New York City he found frightening and overcrowded. In one Brooklyn shelter, a room with 40 beds, someone stole his few remaining possessions as he slept." apnews.com/article/immigr… “It’s like the desert,” lamented Mohamed, who studied law and taught himself English in Mauritania. “There’s nothing here for us.”
apnews.com/article/immigr…
May 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It's pretty dishonest how some U.S. urbanists argue that police don't play a major role in European traffic safety. Cameras, better designed roads, tougher licensing standards, and, yes, police.
thelocal.dk/20230522/danis… “These studies show that action is needed in this area and it’s therefore positive that police are responding with controls,” Danish Road Safety Council CEO Mogens Kjærgaard Møller said in the statement.
thelocal.dk/20230522/danis…
May 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bizarre argument for James Clyburn to make, given New Hampshire is likely to deliver electoral votes to the Democratic nominee -- at least if they forgive Joe Biden for messing with the primary calendar -- and South Carolina will definitely deliver zero.
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May 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Important paragraph from Swedish Public Health Agency's "School closures and other non- pharmaceutical interventions in Nordic schools during the academic year 2020/2021" 👇 Image 👉 "In all four countries included in this study, the oldest age-group, 68 years and older, had the lowest incidence rate throughout the entire study period and the trend did not follow the fluctuations in other age groups."
May 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"These comments are so silly."

Univision interviewed working-class Latino women and men.

They believe that La Sombrita is useless:

-"no vale la pena que lo pongan aquí"
-"no, pues, que no cubre nada"
-"no creo que es suficiente para las mujeres"
univision.com/local/los-ange… Here's the light that La Sombrita provides at night.
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May 20, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
No evidence that closed schools reduced the spread of covid-19

Joint Nordic analysis published by @Folkhalsomynd on May 17, 2023.

h/t @HansKoppies
folkhalsomyndigheten.se/nyheter-och-pr… Image Important comparative analysis that looks at "the countries [that] have used school closures to a lesser extent than many other countries."
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May 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Compare Mexico City’s progress on street lighting to Los Angeles.
May 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Australia: Hundreds of students return to remote learning and masks amid COVID outbreaks
smh.com.au/national/nsw/h… Short-term reactive school closures have happened in the past -- for flu and other things -- but I do worry that the bar is much lower now for "pivoting" to "remote learning" than it was in the past.
May 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Atlanta: "Traffic fatalities rose during the pandemic and have not subsided. And thousands of commuters have not returned to MARTA trains and buses, and it’s unclear if they ever will."
ajc.com/atlanta-traffi…. Moving in the wrong direction.
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May 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"A deadly week in the District that included a student fatally shot in a high school parking lot in Petworth and a fifth-grader hit by a stray bullet on Mother’s Day has left city leaders and residents frustrated over the seemingly unrelenting violence." washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/… A 17-year-old fatally shot outside a Washington, DC high school was brought to the United States as a child from El Salvador "when he was 9 months old to escape gangs threatening the family."

He lost his life to DC gun violence.
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May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
$1,770/month. You have a kitchen with appliances appropriate for a large family, but nowhere to put a table. And, because you have an unnecessarily large bathroom, you can't have a separate bed and loveseat. Weird wasted space by the door. Inoperable windows. Image Gigantic walk-in closet and bathroom, so no space for a separate bed and sofa. Image
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The people who should have cared the most about preserving social, cultural, and economic life in cities in 2020 kind of abandoned them with excuses about Covid. Oh no! Covid cases are surging in Arizona. I guess we can't start riding trains and eating at restaurants thousands of miles away in Seattle and New York. But, if we travel to Tulum or Mexico City and do this where our friends can't see and shame us, all good!
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Democrats race to avoid a Biden embarrassment in New Hampshire politico.com/news/2023/05/1… "The bizarre predicament is one of the president’s own making, after he pushed for changes to the party’s presidential nominating calendar that stripped the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation primary. The move was designed to reward South Carolina.." politico.com/news/2023/05/1…