https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1341743999217004549?s=20
I have found my people.
Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) Tweeted: I am so bad with faces that I now just routinely greet everyone I meet, new or not, with “nice to see you!” because I am never 100% sure whether or not I know them.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1341741643737821186?s=20
Huh. I wonder if they teach THIS in 6th-grade civics. Along with systems to track what got folded into the consolidated bill.
Alexandra Erin the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman (@AlexandraErin) Tweeted: If you’re lost as to why the stimulus bill has a passage dealing with this, that, or the other thing, or why it’s thousands of pages long if it was just written at the last minute: it’s not a stimulus bill. It’s an a must-pass spending bill the stimulus was folded into.
Alexandra Erin the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman (@AlexandraErin) Tweeted: I just saw somebody asking how they call it a “consolidated” bill when it’s so long and this is the answer: it’s long *because* it’s consolidated. They consolidated a bunch of funding and other priorities into one giant bill.
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
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
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.”»
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
Why is it always a RETIRING politician, hmmm?
(No, I’m not reading the article.)
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?»
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/house-conservatives-trump-meeting/index.html
This is the result of high-precision gerrymandering — Representatives who become ever more extreme because in a safe district, the primary is the real election. We definitely need to reapportion the house.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/14/magazine/pumla-gobodo-madikizela-interview.html
Looks interesting (I haven’t fully read it yet).
#readlater
