https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/texas-mask-mandate-no-effect/618942/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

«Yet another explanation is that Abbott’s decision didn’t matter because nobody changed their behavior. According to the aforementioned Texas paper, Abbot’s decision had no effect on employment, movement throughout the state, or foot traffic to retailers. It had no effect in either liberal or conservative counties, nor in urban or exurban areas. The pro-maskers kept their masks on their faces. The anti-maskers kept their masks in the garbage. And many essential workers, who never felt like they had a choice to begin with, continued their pre-announcement habits.The governor might as well have shouted into a void.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people/

«Unvaccinated people are getting the wrong message, experts said.

“They think it’s safe to take off the mask. It’s not,” said Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “It looks like fewer numbers, looks like it’s getting better, but it’s not necessarily better for those who aren’t vaccinated.”»

https://twitter.com/swolecialism/status/1395097290096926724?s=20

Actually a pretty cool quote. Hasn’t heard that before (about engineering).

yr himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) Tweeted: in engineering you talk about how every safety regulation being written in blood first and then inked over, same is true for things that act like banks

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/abortion-fight-roe-v-wade/618930/

Oof.

« In the conservative magazine First Things, John Finnis, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, recently made an argument that could provide the framework an anti-abortion-rights Supreme Court could use to outlaw abortion across the country: that the legislators who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment viewed unborn children as persons. If the Constitution recognizes fetal personhood, then unborn children would have the right to equal protection under and due process of the law. Abortion would be unconstitutional in New York as well as in Alabama. Other leading anti-abortion-rights scholars have made the same argument.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/donald-trump-criminal-civil-grand-jury-investigation/618927/

This is rich.

«”…ultimately the state of New York can go to court and get an order to extradite the former president.” In fact, this is a rare circumstance in which the Constitution is quite explicit regarding a governor’s obligation to respect an extradition request from another state: Article IV, Section 2 provides that “a person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime … shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.” A statute of troubling origins dating from 1793 and known as the Fugitive Slave Act sets forth procedures for extradition, which the Supreme Court has affirmed.»

http://threevirtues.com/

Hey, wide world of social media, is there more to McCook, Nebraska than one museum and a Walmart? I’m 100% serious, I’m planning on spending four nights here as part of a grand train trip through the middle of America. What should I not miss? Or should I just walk into a bar and announce “HEY I’M AN EAST COAST LIBERAL WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT THIS PLACE?”