https://twitter.com/stu_bot3000/status/1202176609253498880?s=20

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-kamala-harriss-campaign-failed/

Interesting take:

«As Joel Wertheimer, who served as associate staff secretary to Obama, wrote, “The story of Kamala Harris is one sports fans are familiar with: The scouts just got it wrong. That’s really it.”»

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/21/analysis/independent-alberta-would-be-worlds-worst-climate-polluter

#Wexit
#Brexit
#Blexit
#Calexit
#Texit
#Grexit
Is there a #Catalexit?
How much of a thing is #Itexit?

How odd that somebody keeps pushing for the breakup of successful unions of efforts that support a more-or-less liberal world order and generally stand in opposition to a more illiberal world order.

https://twitter.com/ClimateDesk/status/1201486173014769674?s=20

https://grist.org/article/this-company-wants-to-make-steel-and-cement-with-solar-power-heres-how/

Transportation, steel, cement.

Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) Tweeted:
Cement alone is responsible for a staggering 8 percent of humanity’s carbon emissions.
https://t.co/3XkZTp77U9

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1199767729366020097?s=20

Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) Tweeted:
30% of white children are born to single mothers. 40% of white marriages end in divorce with the father leaving the home. Most “deadbeat” fathers owing child support whose children are on welfare are white.

Why isn’t “fatherlessness” every cited as a problem for white families?

https://www.politico.eu/article/yougov-boris-johnson-on-course-for-68-seat-majority-in-uk-election/

Hmm. :-\

«The so-called MRP poll — Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification — was done by interviewing 100,000 people and feeding the results through a demographic analysis.»

Yikes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/theres-something-terribly-wrong-americans-are-dying-young-at-alarming-rates/2019/11/25/d88b28ec-0d6a-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

American exceptionalism:

«the broad trend detailed in this study cuts across gender, racial and ethnic lines. By age group, the highest relative jump in death rates from 2010 to 2017 — 29 percent — has been among people age 25 to 34.

….

“This report has universal relevance. It has broad implications for all of society,” said Howard Koh, a professor of public health at Harvard University who was not part of the research team.

The report reveals a broad erosion in health, with no single “smoking gun,” said Ellen Meara, a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

“There’s something more fundamental about how people are feeling at some level — whether it’s economic, whether it’s stress, whether it’s deterioration of family,” she said. “People are feeling worse about themselves and their futures, and that’s leading them to do things that are self-destructive and not promoting health.”

….

The average life expectancy in the United States fell behind that of other wealthy countries in 1998, and since then the gap has grown steadily. Experts refer to this gap as the United States’ “health disadvantage.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/

Social media (including Facebook, yo): careful what you like and re-post. You may be getting played.

(I normally think The Rolling Stone is junk, but this is dead on.)

(That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It)

«As good marketers, professional trolls manipulate our emotions subtly. In fall 2018, for example, a Russian account we identified called @PoliteMelanie re-crafted an old urban legend, tweeting: “My cousin is studying sociology in university. Last week she and her classmates polled over 1,000 conservative Christians. ‘What would you do if you discovered that your child was a homo sapiens?’ 55% said they would disown them and force them to leave their home.” This tweet, which suggested conservative Christians are not only homophobic but also ignorant, was subtle enough to not feel overtly hateful, but was also aimed directly at multiple cultural stress points, driving a wedge at the point where religiosity and ideology meet. The tweet was also wildly successful, receiving more than 90,000 retweets and nearly 300,000 likes.»