We’ve sure slid down the slope from “protect to vulnerable” to “the vulnerable need to protect themselves” to “the vulnerable are the danger” in record time.
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Peaceful Californians in the 1930s:
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The place I spent a good deal of my childhood (Stockton) was/is a central location in this dynamic. A whole section of town called Okietown. Also a good place to look to understand how CA's special flavor of Sheriffs team up with farmers politically.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_
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one thing i find a lot about when people talk about the 60s and the civil rights movement is their brain just forgets the whole 'churches being bombed' and 'national guard had to be used to protect ruby bridges' bits, among others
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Older but still valuable is Richard Hofstadter's introductory essay to American Violence (1970):
"What is most exceptional about the Americans is...their extraordinary ability to persuade themselves...that they are among the best-behaved and best-regulated of peoples.”
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The crew and I were tired because the film was under-budgeted, which is typical for my movies since there’s often an African-American protagonist. I’m usually shooting 4 to 5 scenes a day with a shorter schedule.
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Thank you for talking about this. Very few know. My dad avoided getting medicaid for this reason. As a legally blind amputee with a kidney transplant he needed the coverage but also didn't want to sacrifice his home. Professionals who refer you to sign up never mention it
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Medicaid clawback plus a number of states that have “filial responsibility” laws. In a country where long term care is unaffordable & largely owned by predatory venture capital, Medicaid’s actions to “recoup” plus these laws are outrageous
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Michael Peña was the best part of the first 2 Ant-Mans. Such a mistake.
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I enjoyed Quantumania, but the cheery, fun-to-watch friends of Scott are removed entirely, not even mentioned. Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfiefer move from interesting background characters to middle-of-the-action players, and the daughter, as well.
Everyone else is a toy.
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I clicked a link on Twitter and got the error "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint".
I guess this means Twitter is so desperate for cash that it started charging Twitter for API access to Twitter, but Twitter couldn't pay for it.
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1919 coal miners: more progressive than 2023 democratic party
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Boom.
I'm A Virgo.
Comes out later this year
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Wow. A thread of +20 historical tweets that claim to explain what is happening in Israel without so much as a mention of the occupation or Palestinians, the native population. 🤦🏽♂️
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1/ THREAD: Israel is currently undergoing a period of revolutionary change, and the pace of events can be difficult to keep up with, even for those residing and working here. Let me attempt to clarify some of the developments we are witnessing.
(video of Sat demo, @NTarnopolsky)
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All these stories are like “well, we could save lives or we could save twenty cents, so we’ve gotta go with the twenty cents.”
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The drinking water in many communities is contaminated with harmful “forever chemicals.” Removing those compounds will be expensive and especially difficult for small towns. apne.ws/vQXSYKn
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Victims of Japan's wartime forced labor protests gov't compensation plan
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The US Congress has urged the US Defense Department to take immediate measures to fix more than 1,000 errors on the Washington memorial wall erected to remember service members and Korean augmentees killed during the Korean War.
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A group of cats relocated from the southernmost island of Marado are being temporarily housed at a provisional shelter at the Jeju World Natural Heritage Center in Jocheon-eup, northern Jeju Island on Monday.
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An Alabama youth girls' basketball team told they would lose their practice facility unless they agreed to play in a boys league was denied the championship trophy, despite winning the whole thing
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This is absolutely outrageous and should be a bigger story.
Alabama girls' basketball team denied championship after being forced to play in boys' league, then winning it
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Hey so remember how I turned down an ambulance after a three-lane car wreck into a sign, a tree, & a concrete wall b/c I couldn’t afford it?
Guess who just got a bill for $150 for refusing transport
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Boy it really sucks here in the US that my 1st thought after a major car accident is “I can’t afford an ambulance”
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Neither My Memory Nor My Mobility Are Quite What They Used to Be But On Occassion I’m Overtaken by an Enraging If Still Somewhat Vague Recollection of What You Did Last Summer (2024)
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I will ask my able-bodied and healthy CA friends to please do me this favor: write a complaint at the link below, and help us keep masks in medical facilities, the most unavoidable places for the high-risk people in your lives.
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Lodged a complaint w/ @CAPublicHealth (cdph.ca.gov/Pages/contact_) over the removal of masking requirements in healthcare settings & asked Alameda County (@Dare2BWell, ncov@acgov.org) to #KeepMasksinHealthcareCA
Feel free to copy-paste my alt text & keep the pressure on
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Anyone know if you need to see the first 2 Creeds (or remember Rocky) before seeing the new one?
Clearly the window screws preventing bus windows from opening to increase potential covid exposure is policy. The 1856 is the third in as many am rides to have them in place.
PSA: Vudu has Alienoid (part 1) for digital purchase for only $4.99!!!! It's insane/insanely fun. Get it, watch it and then join its fans impatiently waiting for part 2. (Is not streaming in the US, but so cheap!!)
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Emile Berliner invented the microphone in 1876. He will pay for his crimes TODAY.
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there’s like a kajillion bytes of beautifully produced Murdaugh content out there and not one (that I’ve found) has answered one of my first questions about the family, so I end up deciphering cryptic wikitree pages to find it: yep they were slaveholders wikitree.com/wiki/Murdaugh-
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Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief
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This was always the purpose of inventing "organized retail theft." The term implies hierarchy and premeditation, and distracts people from the fact that shoplifting has a tiny footprint and is overwhelmingly a crime of poverty.
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because of the fake retail theft panic, virginia has created a new habitual shoplifter offense. it's a class 3 felony, which puts it on par with the crime of shooting or stabbing someone with the intent to kill or grievously harm. fox5dc.com/news/virginia-
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Every campus "free speech" tirade
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It’s a bill that will allow Mississippi’s Chief Justice, State Attorney, & public safety commissioner (all white republicans) to APPOINT judges, prosecutors, public defenders & police. Appoint. Bc the 2nd BLACKEST city in America can’t govern themselves so they don’t get to vote
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Y’all remember when I said they’re gonna try to bring back Jim Crow…well it’s happening in Jackson Mississippi and I wish I was exaggerating but I’m not. The bill has passed the house vote.
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Commentary from Minn. Dept of Health has announced in advance that it has no intention of enforcing its rules. What gives? minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/02/min via
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this description is, as they say, goals
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Maurice Sendak described Dr. Seuss, born on this day in 1904, as “a creature content with himself as animal and artist, and one who didn’t give a lick or a spit for anyone’s opinion, one way or another, of his work.” Here is his secret art: themarginalian.org/2012/03/23/the
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It’s extremely difficult to find a picture of Stackhouse coaching where he doesn’t look like a dignified yet super confused Vampire.
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Groeschel had raised repeated concerns about COVID-19 safety as Trader Joe's started to unwind precautions. She became a "squeaky wheel" (judge's words), and management wanted to get rid of her.
Judge's decision here: big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2
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