Shooting ourselves in the foot, just for racism.

https://twitter.com/TheToddSchulte/status/1171947381983711233?s=20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-begin-denying-migrants-asylum-while-legal-fight-continues/2019/09/11/94b90da4-d017-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist

Good article. This quote doesn’t summarize it, but I liked it:

«…in 1926, [Stoddard] gave a lecture before two thousand at Tuskegee University, in Alabama, informing them that the Nordic race was superior to nonwhites and that, for the good of all races, the world must continue to be governed by white supremacy. A black newspaper reported that the students “sat awestricken during the address, which terminated without any applause.”»

“Awestricken.” I bet. 🙂

The replies to this are pretty cool.

(Ok, that’s enough of a work break.)

Never mind the video, the conversation itself was interesting.

https://twitter.com/jerodmcdaniel/status/1161355305609039872?s=17

I just discovered ag Twitter. I think. Pretty interesting, although it’s mostly a foreign language.

Jerod McDaniel (@jerodmcdaniel) Tweeted:
Today, IMO I’d say Trump is giving Carter an honest run for the worse president for Agriculture in the last 50 years.

Be interesting to see how he finishes this race.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/cnn-climate-town-hall-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-nuclear-power.html

Hmm. Lotta links in this article.

https://t.co/HeS8BfqxzW https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1169438965197410309?s=17

Oh, that’s disappointing, @ewarren. 😦

(I was also disappointed when Hillary decided to oppose TPP, which, as it turns out, doesn’t seem to have done her any good.)

Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) Tweeted:
“Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that she would oppose nuclear energy as a way to combat climate change should she be elected president in 2020.” https://t.co/ecZznxiu5F https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1169426149363073024?s=17

Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) Tweeted:
Nuclear power an interesting example of how much you care about combatting climate change per se, as opposed to articulating the liberal orthodoxy (which is obviously way more climate-friendly than the conservative orthodoxy, to be clear) on a range of climate-adjacent issues.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Factfulness

We’ve cut the number of people living in extreme poverty by half over the last twenty years, but there was never a morning when “POVERTY RATES DROP INCREMENTALLY” dominated newspaper headlines.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/A-question-to-ask-about-every-climate-plan

Turns out we like buildings and roads made of concrete and steel and we like plastic because it’s lightweight (takes less energy to transport) and durable and stuff.

Plus, entire continents, like Africa, are about to move up the economic ladder and build… more roads and buildings.

Really, we gotta go nuclear.