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L.A. Kauffman
@LAKauffman
Organizer / journalist / writer. Books: HOW TO READ A PROTEST (2018), DIRECT ACTION (2017).
Joined August 2009
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L.A. Kauffman
@LAKauffman
Popping in from social media hiatus to recommend LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, the terrific new book from @MsKellyHayes and Mariame Kaba, which speaks directly to these broken, crisis-ridden times with a visionary politics rooted in collective care. Pub date 5/16 -- preorder now!
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Puff the Magic Hater
@MsKellyMHayes
Let This Radicalize You will be released one week from today! I recommend preordering from indy bookstores like @PilsenCommBooks, Chicago’s only employee owned and operated independent bookstore. pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/MsyLPnlFY
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L.A. Kauffman
@LAKauffman
Honored to have contributed to this terrific book, edited by Sarah Tobias and
@SteinArlene
-- if you're alarmed by right-wing populism, please join the online launch event on October 25 from 12-2 Eastern time
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Arlene Stein
@SteinArlene
You can't fully understand the populist wave in the US and elsewhere without understanding its gendered dimensions. Join us online for launch of the new book #PerilsOfPopulism--sign up below. @IRWRutgers @sabine_hark @LAKauffman @hboothgo @scotnakaga @josephsonjyl
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L.A. Kauffman
@LAKauffman
Just got my copy in the mail today! Honored to have my essay on feminism & the anti-Trump resistance included here, alongside so many remarkable scholars and organizers, digging into deep questions about the dangers of our time.
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Arlene Stein
@SteinArlene
Hot off the press! With contributions from @khadastrophic @milleridriss @sabine_hark @LAKauffman @hboothgo @JosephsonJyl and others! @IRWRutgers @RutgersSAS @RutgersSoc
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L.A. Kauffman
@LAKauffman
Just got my copy in the mail today! Honored to have my essay on feminism & the anti-Trump resistance included here, alongside so many remarkable scholars and organizers, digging into deep questions about the dangers of our time.
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Arlene Stein
@SteinArlene
Hot off the press! With contributions from @khadastrophic @milleridriss @sabine_hark @LAKauffman @hboothgo @JosephsonJyl and others! @IRWRutgers @RutgersSAS @RutgersSoc
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Dorry Segev
@Dorry_Segev
If you're thinking the new CDC mask guidance is premature, ignores prevention, ignores long Covid, ignores the tens of millions with compromised immune systems or not eligible for vaccines, and ignores the risk of new variants... Well, sadly, you're right.
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Rob Smith
@RASmith2017
Folks, not to ruin everybody's good time, but there is probably something very fundamentally wrong with a society that is telling you that you are experiencing mental health issues because you find the idea of thousands of people dying preventable deaths every week.... disturbing
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran
100,000 deaths: “AN INCALCULABLE LOSS” 900,000 deaths: “BUOYANT ECONOMY” + “Many Americans Move On” This is how they manufacture consent and desensitize the public to mass death
New York Times Headline: “US NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS”
New York Times Headlines: “AMID COVID WAVE, BUOYANT ECONOMY ADDS 467,000 JOBS” “900,000 Dead, but Many Americans Move On”
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Rebekah Fenton, MD, MPH, FAAP (she/her)
@RFentonMD
This toolkit is…(pauses to gather my angst) the most irresponsible thing I have read all day. Its been terribly frustrating to see remote school and masks blamed for the negative mental health impacts of living in a PANDEMIC rather than a focus on keeping kids physically safe.
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Lucy McBride, MD
@drlucymcbride
Proud to partner w 13 🙌 MD/scientists @TracyBethHoeg @MonicaGandhi9 @JeanneNoble18 @kwadwo777 @notaproviderMD @DrScottBalsitis @DrAmyBeck @doctortara @JVergales @korystotesbery @etholland71 & A. Bole to create #urgencyofnormal school advocacy toolkit ... urgencyofnormal.com
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Jen Jennings, PhD
@eduwonkette_jen
1,150,543 kids last week ~2M in last 2 weeks ~3M in last 4 weeks We have no clue re long-term impacts I don't You don't Nobody does Bc it's a new virus In light of that fact we are achieving new heights of stupid [Where stupid=putting kids at risk w unknown consequences]
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Anna-Lysa Gayle
@AnnaLysaGayle
JUST IN: Ahead of tomorrow’s student-led walkout, #MCPS “has committed, on a case-by-case basis, to offer virtual instruction to students who are not in quarantine but have concerns about attending school due to COVID-19.”
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MCPS
@MCPS
This Jan. 20 community message includes information about virtual instruction, equity hubs, KN-95 masks for students and more: montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/pu
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Dr. Cecília Tomori
@DrTomori
Funny how people who vigorously advocated against looking at rising cases in December/earlier in Jan are now thrilled about falling cases in some areas - even as hospitalizations remain at a record high. Over 142K hospitalizations = "normal"
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran
Like clockwork, every COVID minimizer, one second past the peak of every surge: “The pandemic is over! Off-ramps! Back to normal!” Do they have no shame?
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton
@realLandsEnd
call me a doomer but it’s a stupid idea to make people come into a small store to get free masks when we could mail them or set up many small outdoor/indoor public access points. this is the lazy-Dem consultant way to do things, which is public-private partnerships or bust
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The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
The U.S. will distribute 400 million free N95 masks at pharmacies and health centers nationwide starting next week, the White House is expected to announce on.wsj.com/32bC1YO
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Swaggering Toward Bethlehem
@SwagBethlehem
This is so many DOE policies within memory, mechanics not thought thru, disproportionate, inequitable impact. Path of least resistance/quick fix/change the headlines.
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Jen Jennings, PhD
@eduwonkette_jen
NYC's new attendance policy is predictably chaotic 👉some marking all kids who do work at home present 👉others doing so only for kids w COVID or quarantine Bronx Science👇 Mechanics weren't thought through & the btw sch variation is bound to bring equity q's to the fore
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Blake Butler
@BButlerTweets
We agonized over the decision to send the boys to school. We shared the common concerns around social development. "Balancing" work & child care was untenable - I was an increasingly ineffective mentor, colleague, & scientist. They made it exactly 1 day before contracting COVID
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@LAKauffman
Wtf
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Michael Mina
@michaelmina_lab
Wow Harvard will have uninfected students sleep in same room as their infectious roommates unless they petition for a new room. I’d be pissed if it was my kid A slippery slope for when cases are manageable & Harvard is trying to keep outbreaks at bay. thecrimson.com/article/2022/1
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