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Jun 28, 2019

Ohio is such a *deliberately* badly run state that we are much better off separating from it. Ohio needs Cleveland *way* more than Cleveland needs Ohio. Thus:#cuyexit: Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties should secede from Ohio and become a new province of Canada. Who's with me? 🇨🇦

I guess it's possible that capitalism can find a way to reduce carbon emissions, but why HASN'T it?

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Ben See

@ClimateBen

How many journalists picked up on the sensational 2022 IPCC & IEA projections/calculations that point to industrial capitalism definitely having virtually no chance of avoiding world-ending 2/2.5°C of global warming by 2040 - 2060, but said nothing? How many simply don't know?

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🎯 Viz. Cleveland "leadership" making statements but still NOT IN COMPLIANCE with the plan to meet bare minimum 4th Amendment standards, still exhibiting a "pattern & practice of excessive force."

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Bree Newsome Bass

@BreeNewsome

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The very fact that the establishment regards police brutality as a public relations challenge, with no sincere concern for the violence committed by police until/unless it makes national headlines, tells you all you need to know.

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Mondaire Jones

@MondaireJones

If you think the Memphis police officers had to be white in order to exhibit anti-Blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course Ron DeSantis just banned.

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We have definitely tried NOT defunding police. How's that working out so far?

The Anakin/Padme meme. He says "#DefundPolice won't work and it will alienate moderates." She says "Okay! So you have a better idea?" He stares back silently. She says "You have a better idea, right?"

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A specific, concrete thing #Cleveland

@CleCityCouncil

@MayorBibb

can do VERY SOON is #DefundPolice. Budget hearings start in about three weeks. If that's not a good solution then they should have a better solution ready to go already.

Policing minus public accountability is The Mob. It's inherently anti-democratic and it's not a legitimate function of a small-d-democratic society. That's why actually truly literally #DefundPolice. It's foolish & reckless to pay people to oppress you. That is all. 3/end

It would be one thing if they found fault with how that oversight is carried out. Politicians suck! I get it. But many cops object to the principle that they work for the public and not vice versa. We simply can't have that. That's not what a free society is. 2/

When I'm talking to a cop casually, and they're more or less at ease and speaking freely, about 1/4 of the time they will complain about the IDEA of civilian authority. They object to the very RIGHT of the public to decide how to go about policing ourselves. 1/

A thousand people have said this already, but I don't need to watch a video to know what happened to Tyre Nichols and to know how wrong it is.

Jan 27

The "party of personal liberty" keeps telling me what I can and can't do. Go figure.

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Erin Reed

@ErinInTheMorn

Jan 27

This doctor is citing the Republican platform: "The government should strive to not infringe on the lawful activity of its citizens" and "Republicans believe that only parents should have the right to direct the recognize health of their children"

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Keep it down please

@InternetHippo

Jan 26

They taught AI how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the AI was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't

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Jan 26

Among the abundant receipts.

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Segregation_by_Design

@SegByDesign

Jan 26

Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, Brooklyn, before-and-after the construction of the BQE. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut Red Hook in half along its central thoroughfares, Hamilton & Hicks, requiring the demolition of dozens of blocks and the forcible displacement of thousands.

Jan 25

I'm 57 years old. I have a bad knee. I have heart problems. And it STILL makes me sick when #Cleveland land use decisions are made in favor of parking, parking, and more parking. Parmatown Mall has parking. Go there if you want parking.

Jan 24

If you resent the people you're claiming to represent, maybe electoral politics isn't for you. Shout out to

@CleCityCouncil

today.

Le Tigre

@letigreworld

Jan 24

Tell your mom and her friends! We're going on tour! (photo by Leeta Harding 2004)

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Jan 23

If "to trans" is a verb now, it's intransitive! RIGHT: "Hey, did you hear Will transed?" WRONG: "Vague unknown evil people transed Will!"

Jan 22

Look, I'm just some cis dude here, but I don't think "Is This Bad For The Democrats?" is a valid concern in a NYT article about how schools deal with trans kids. It's okay for things to be about what they're about! And not center political parties!

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As others have noted, only Congress can authorize any spending. This trillion dollars has *already been spent.* That was never the issue. The Republicans will as usual have a big hissy fit over it, but the Constitution remains the supreme law of the land.

The 14th Amendment says there is no "debt limit." If some statute says otherwise, too bad, the Constitution trumps statutory law. Congress is making this WAY too complicated.

The idea that political conflict is ultimately about better arguments is flawed. It's not a contest of ideas.

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Thomas Zimmer

@tzimmer_history

The problem is not just that this particular person obviously wasn’t going to be moved by empirical evidence or by pointing out flaws and inconsistencies in what she was claiming – the very idea that the political conflict is ultimately about better arguments is flawed.

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If someone is flying into CLE and taking their kid to check out

@WoosterEdu

, what's their best breakfast or lunch stop? And where should I send them for the quintessential Cleveland cultural experience?

Jan 17

It's a common and very effective rhetorical tactic. Right wingers simply ignore all the receipts and pretend to be outraged when you state a thing that is obviously true if you care about facts.

Rodrigo Camarena and 9 others

showed up to Sunset Park and not only used MLK legacy but also Sunset park community as pawns to push her conservative judge. And the worst part was she brought police with her and kicked out a respected, afro-latina leader who belongs to the church. #NoLaSalle

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Jan 16

I'm looking for the free speech absolutists out there.

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Phil Bildner

@PhilBildner

I still don’t think most people realize the extent of the horror that’s unfolding in so many states right now. In North Dakota, recently introduced HB 1205 would ban from public libraries ALL books that include ANY depiction of gay or trans humans. This is monstrously evil.

Jan 16

It's undeniably true that many highways are in fact racist. Receipts are abundant. Traffic planners and politicians admit it out loud. It should be embarrassing to try to pretend otherwise, but here we fucking are with the fucking suburban shitthinkers.

Exactly. The thing they're angry about and protesting about and seditioning about is egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy. That is the problem they are trying to solve.

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Thomas Zimmer

@tzimmer_history

Jan 14

It’s really hard to keep track of everything that’s happening, on so many levels, in so many states, so many communities, all at the same time. But it’s all one big story: A multi-level reactionary counter-mobilization against egalitarian multiracial, pluralistic democracy.

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I know a guy who drives a Volt. I can buy solar panels for my house in Cleveland. I personally try to avoid flying. This is *nowhere near* the scale of change that is required.

Perhaps this is simplistic, but very nearly *nothing* is visibly different in my daily life that might indicate any systemic effort on climate remediation. Setting a "target" at a UN meeting means nothing. Taxing the shit out of fossil fuels last week, that would be something.

Vega Shah

@dr_alphalyrae

Jan 13

Recently heard ‘it costs nothing to be nice’ at a meeting. And I strongly disagree. Continuing to be nice to people with harmful/toxic behaviors only creates a reward feedback loop encouraging them. And that is a heavy cost indeed.

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E.g., "dictatorial thugs!" isn't an argument against regulation. "idiocy!" isn't an argument. "woke narcissists of compassion!" isn't an argument. "Ideology-addled bureaucrats to issue diktats!" That's how you frame things when you don't have an actual point.

Jan 14

I'm noticing that J*rd*n P*t*rs*n doesn't bother making arguments anymore. It's just hyperbole, pejoratives, and invective. I realize Twitter's about brevity but one can still condense a point IF THERE IS ONE.

Jan 12

The fuck is wrong with you? This is a stupid question and you suck at your job.

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Great 🧵 with excellent replies. I'm bookmarking this.

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Mark Jacob

@MarkJacob16

Jan 10

12 dirty little secrets of journalism. A thread: 1. When a reporter writes a warm human-interest story about a politician, it’s often an attempt to soften up the pol to get a better story later. Stories that make pols look good are known in the business as “beat sweeteners.”

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Budget hearings start in about a month. I am urging all of Cleveland City Council, especially my guy

@KerryMcCormack1

, to zero out funding for Sus Cleveland. Kill it. Climate and sustainability are not PR problems; Sus Cleveland is a way to avoid doing the real work.

Sus Cleveland is simply the public relations cheerleader for whoever happens to be Mayor of Cleveland at any given time. It has no programs and no concrete responsibilities.

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Sustainable Cleveland

@sustainableCLE

In the @CityofCleveland , the @MayorBibb is developing a framework to build more housing near transit, fix sidewalks, and construct more bike lanes to make this 15-minute accessibility a reality. #SustainableCLE twitter.com/ClimateMayors/…

Jan 10

New single from

@totaldownerband

: "Taylor Lautner." YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=CC6fc5 Preorder for the 1/27 album release: totaldowner.bandcamp.com/album/caretaker

Terry Metter

@TerryMetterJr

Want to tell someone how little you value and respect them as a professional librarian? Give them a "desk" that's smaller than the scissors you use to cut the ribbon at the new branch

Hey

@cleveland19news

how many stories have you aired about wage theft? More or fewer than about bar fights in other time zones?

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Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

The researchers found that there was not a single article about a multi-million dollar wage theft settlement paid out by Walgreens to its CA employees. (On January 5, 2022, a Walgreens executive admitted publicly that the company had overblown their claims about retail theft.)

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In case anyone missed it, "de facto" means how things actually work rather than the rules and laws as they are written and strictly construed. 2/