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On 03 June, Yale Professor of History @TimothyDSnyder warned us that "The next few months will determine the future of our republic" and he tweeted each of these 20 lessons in a thread.
He is now tweeting them one-by-one with detail. Not as a #thread. I'm threading them.
Normally, I say "thank goodness for smartphones" but in this case it's "thank goodness there was an NPR news crew."
The cop who pushed the 75 year old man down went out of his way to do so. Another told the TV crew to stop filming. They appear to have filed a false report.
Think about this for a moment. There was a someone from a news crew on the steps immediately in front of these cops. Those microphones are distinctive.
These cops either had zero situational awareness or they didn't care that there might be a witness with a megaphone.
From Northwestern University - 07 May
Vitamin D may suppress cytokine storm in COVID19 patients. Data from 10 countries suggest patients with vitamin D deficiency were 2x as likely to experience severe complications, including death. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/0…
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I have extremely mixed feelings about this thread.
First yellow flag: No report that the mother had talked to a doctor or that daughter had been directed to get #covid19 test. You can't just "show up" and get a test.
Nor should you just "show up" at an emergency room ...
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear...
“You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
“You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
“You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for...
“You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did...
But if all the people of moral courage and conscience in DOJ resign ... Trump will fill with toadies. There is no hammer over his head like there was with Nixon.
You @davidfrum and the other male east coast pundits need to get out from behind your gilded keyboards and talk to women and PEOPLE OF COLOR.
Because WHITE MEN WILL, IN THE MAIN, VOTE FOR TRUMP.
GIVE UP ON THEM, dammit.
Women seem to have been making almost 9-in-10 calls to Congress in 2017 to block Trump. And it was POC and about 1-in-2 white women who voted for HRC. (And remember, she won popular vote).
Seriously, all of you guys writing about this story should have talked to someone about how the dairy industry works.
Dean Foods is dairy PROCESSOR. It. Owns. Manufacturing. Plants.
IT IS NOT A MILK PRODUCER.
It buys milk from farmers and sells packaged milk to retailers.
Dean Foods does not OWN the Land O'Lakes brand, @FastCompany . Most Americans probably associate LOL with butter, as that's its national brand. So headlines like this are incredibly damaging to the brand.
GEE. This sounds A LOT like cooperative business models.
A BIG reminder that grocery store margins were historically very low single digits. Ditto most department stores (although theirs were a bit larger due to slower turnover).
Costco is using the countervailing power of its large membership (customers) to negotiate price with mostly very large sellers.
Yes some aren’t huge (Tillamook farmer cooperative comes to mind). But most name-brands: big.
Costco also used its market power for private labeling, a staple (pun intended) of traditional grocery stores. It invests in research and prepares healthy take-home-to-cook food.
This is one of the “intellectuals” of the Right. His 1+1=2 claim here is breathtakingly false and designed as red meat for his followers. Propaganda at its worse.
A reminder that Dinesh is a convicted felon for making an illegal campaign contribution. Trump pardoned him. Yes, I’m deconstructing the messenger; it’s not always a rhetorical error.
A native of India (privileged upper class) D'Souza attended Dartmouth, where he was an editor of the Dartmouth Review, “the leading conservative college publication of the early 1980s”
From an interview with ex-KKK leader complete with pic of lynching ...
“Thinking, Fast and Slow” documents the challenge of moving from emotional (fast) to thoughtful (slow) reactions when communication was slower and paper-based. Now, with frictionless likes/shares and bite-sized windows into text on phones... kahneman.socialpsychology.org
Researchers like @MaryanneWolf_ point out that “slower, time-demanding deep reading processes” help the brain (us!) think critically, form empathy, develop logic (reasoning). Yet our smartphone/Kindle/iPad culture discourages those practices.
“Urologist Helen O’Connell and her colleagues described all of the important internal clitoral structures and their dimensions in a Journal of Urology paper— in 1998”
Yet here’s a 2005 critique of textbook illustrations of the clitoris (aside: my phone doesn’t have clitoris in its dictionary). NOTE: urologists, again.
Second, news reports do not articulate that Cokie Roberts died from metastatic breast cancer (aka Stage 4). You don't "die of complications from breast cancer") at stages 0-3. @MBCNbuzz
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