https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1350313493229146115.html

Former pizza restaurant manager (I guess?) does math.

https://twitter.com/Barbiewithatude/status/1349979776778346496?s=20

☃️🎄🎅😷 Wear a mask, already 😷🎅🎄☃️ (@Barbiewithatude) Tweeted: ‘This isn’t the final chapter’: Analyst warns, again, about rise of right-wing extremists https://t.co/YKWZin5S3P via @nbcnews

https://twitter.com/Barbiewithatude/status/1349980329952481280?s=20

Yay.

☃️🎄🎅😷 Wear a mask, already 😷🎅🎄☃️ (@Barbiewithatude) Tweeted: Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers’ lungs, surgeon says https://t.co/5OmPjdJ8D2

https://twitter.com/AimeeCho4/status/1349840846380802054?s=20

How does that work? How does a judge decide there’s no proof? How does that work?

Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) Tweeted: Prosecutors initially charged Urbanski w/ a hate crime. He belonged to the FB group “Alt-Reich Nation” + had racist pics on his phone. A judge threw out the hate crime charge, saying there was no proof the murder was motivated solely by hate https://t.co/buzCFDIzVV @nbcwashington

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/Kevin-Seefried-arrested.html

Suddenly, the fact that Raphael Warnock was arrested during a protest in the past loses its punch and people will need to find a different dog whistle.

«The top federal prosecutor in Washington said this week that he expected the number of people charged with crimes tied to the Capitol riot to rise into the hundreds.»

(Good.)

https://livewire.thewire.in/politics/racism-and-covid-19-remembering-guns-germs-and-steel/

I’ve always wanted to read Guns, Germs, and Steel, and I finally started. The preface to the paperback edition starts off with “I’m not a racist” and I was like, “Hold up.”

Off to Google. “Is guns germs and steel racist?” I guess not, but also: exercise care here. A book that says “we were just lucky” might (a) be wrong, and (b) not even touching on the morality of treating the Other poorly. (I don’t know, I haven’t read it yet. I did read this article, though: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/guns-germs-and-steel-reconsidered.)

But I also found another fascinating article (essay, I guess) on the racism associated with accusations that the Third World is responsible for all the world’s plagues, with bonus asides about non-white racism. So here it is.

Honestly, doesn’t this read like Chinese propaganda?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

American business decides not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

«It may also be an attempt… to mollify advertisers that are concerned about being associated with programs that could be inciting listeners to violence.

But it also reveals some of the hidden corporate hand behind what is said and discussed on talk-radio programs. Rather than a medium of freethinking individuals expressing passionately held beliefs, the memo reminds that hosts are subject to corporate mandates and control.»

https://twitter.com/LisbethMA/status/1348530399664861184?s=20

Lisbeth Ash (@LisbethMA) Tweeted: @parlertakes “But we’re being siiiiilenced!!!!” as they decide which of 19 other platforms they want to join.