Tweet from ʟᴜʟᴜ ʟᴇ ᴍᴇᴡ ᕕ( ͡ ͡°‸↼‶)ᕗ (@LuluLemew)

https://twitter.com/LuluLemew/status/1341601505284153344?s=20

Interesting. Canadian citizen had his phone searched at the border. I wonder if U.S. citizens can assert 4th amendment rights.

Answer: mmmaybe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception#Searching_of_electronic_devices

ʟᴜʟᴜ ʟᴇ ᴍᴇᴡ ᕕ( ͡ ͡°‸↼‶)ᕗ (@LuluLemew) Tweeted: The three men—a 17yo Ohio teen, a student at Purdue University, and a Wisconsin man—are said to have wound up on the FBI’s radar in late 2019 after a rifle-toting Canadian with “Nazi” and “white power” imagery on his phone was stopped from entering the US https://t.co/C0oVIf2VTN

Tweet from Kate 🌿🇪🇺 Ⓥ (@katie_jr)

https://twitter.com/katie_jr/status/1341462165136531456?s=20

Oof.

Kate 🌿🇪🇺 Ⓥ (@katie_jr) Tweeted: In March, I’d been on 3 dates with a guy and we got on well. We joked about doing lockdown together but decided against it. We kept in touch but things fizzled out over the summer. I just heard that he passed away from Covid complications 2 weeks ago. 42 yrs old.

#FuckCovid

How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/police-misconduct-discipline.html

«Chiefs and reform advocates say that even one high-profile reversal can send a devastating message to the public — that a chief doesn’t control discipline, and that seemingly dangerous behavior will be tolerated.

“It looks bad,” said Gil Kerlikowske, a former police chief in Seattle and three other cities. “The department has fired someone. And then this person is back.”»

Tweet from Dr. Carmen Brown (@AutismDrMom)

Dr. Carmen Brown (@AutismDrMom) Tweeted: We lost another doctor today To COVID But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her… She called the patient advocate… She called the chief medical officer… https://twitter.com/AutismDrMom/status/1341357439501791232?s=20

On using EBT cards to buy junk food

https://twitter.com/Vickisfunstuff/status/1340949978882162691?s=20

This discussion is super-interesting to me. Lots of good reasons why junk food is the smart/only choice, but also: a WHOLE lot of “MYOB, don’t judge”. As if human dignity is more important than the calories. (Sorry, Vicki, I know it stings getting jumped on like that.)

Vicki Schaan 🌊 (@Vickisfunstuff) Tweeted: «@jourdayen When I’ve cashiered, the only thing that bothers me about some purchasing with EBT is the $100s on potato chips, doritos, and similar snacks, $100s on soda pop, no juice, 1 gallon milk, no fruits or vegetables. Are children getting nutrition?»

Where Immigrant Neighborhoods Swung Right in the Election – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/20/us/politics/election-hispanics-asians-voting.html

Eh. I’d be interested to know who the extra voters were. I imagine a neighborhood becoming more and more immigrant over time and ticked-off white voters showing up to vote, driven in part by Trumpist rhetoric (and permission to vote their bigotry) and in part by the rate of change in the makeup of their neighborhood, while immigrant voters (particularly Latino) continue their low-propensity trends.

I do agree there’s a pool of social conservatism among immigrant and Black voters, and the Democratic story is lacking when speaking to those voters. This is part of that whole pro-life-movement-being-a-cover-for-racism thing: Dems aren’t fooled, but in fighting the racism, they also wind up fighting pro-lifers, which has a cost in immigrant and Black communities. (Indigenous, too, i guess, so… BIPOC?)

Another, sadder, possibility is that ethnocentrism is a worldwide phenomen, not just white, and immigrants are both voting their own ethnocentrism AND voting their I-got-mine-screw-you feelings. Which I hope isn’t true, but… the problem with humanity is the humans, sometimes. If so, that means we might eventually be heading in the direction of Yugoslavia, with epic ethnic violence. (That would be generations down the road, not in one or two.)

It takes a Republican – Digby’s Hullabaloo

https://digbysblog.net/2020/12/it-takes-a-republican/

Well, here’s a line:

«GOP leaders are now divided between the fearful and the deluded — between those who have lost their nerve and those who have lost their minds.»

Here’s another:

«These Republicans have allowed conspiratorial lies to take root that will encourage extremists for decades and cement the GOP’s image as the party of seditious crackpots.»

(Note he said “cement”, not “create”.)