https://twitter.com/thebrownhijabi/status/1135247582781935616?s=20
Via @iyad_elbaghdadi. I think the thing that’s most awesome about this is the fact that some Muslims at a particular mosque are having trouble with their Trustee Committees, too. 😀
(For those not aware, which is all y’all: the Trustee Committee at my local church made some decisions that caused a ton of… angst? I don’t have a word to describe how angry it made some of us.)
«Why We so Rarely Look Back on the Great Leap Forward
What accounts for this neglect? One possible answer is that most of the victims were Chinese peasants – people who are culturally and socially distant from the Western intellectuals and media figures who have the greatest influence over our historical consciousness and popular culture. As a general rule, it is easier to empathize with victims who seem similar to ourselves.»
https://indyweek.com/supporttheindy/keep-it-smart-keep-it-indy-zack-medford-indy-press-club/
Local journalism, baby. I am now a proud member. Local peeps: I recommend this. Non-local peeps: I recommend you find something like in your area and chip in (The Independent Weekly really is high-quality local journalism, but it can’t be the only one).
So, not only is demographics NOT destiny, by the time you get the kids to vote, you’ll find they’re voting to protect their “way of life”.
«Democrats hoping for younger voters to reduce the country’s political and racial divide could be disappointed.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html
Systemic failure. Who’s responsible for how the system gets set up? (Rhetorical question; I think I already know the answer.)
«As Boeing rushed to get the plane done, many of the employees say, they didn’t recognize the importance of the decision. They described a compartmentalized approach, each of them focusing on a small part of the plane. The process left them without a complete view of a critical and ultimately dangerous system.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135034292382314497.html
Ouch. It’s like a Thomas Hardy or Herman Melville novel.
The power of story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-question-hofeller.html
Wow, fascinating. Really interesting story.
«Mr. Hofeller’s exhaustive analysis of Texas state legislative districts concluded that such maps “would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,” and would dilute the political power of the state’s Hispanics.
The reason, he wrote, was that the maps would exclude traditionally Democratic Hispanics and their children from the population count. That would force Democratic districts to expand to meet the Constitution’s one person, one vote requirement. In turn, that would translate into fewer districts in traditionally Democratic areas, and a new opportunity for Republican mapmakers to create even stronger gerrymanders.
The strategy carried a fatal flaw, however: The detailed citizenship data that was needed to draw the maps did not exist.»
https://twitter.com/ManlnTheHoody/status/1132867136320299010?s=17
(DON’T read the thread.)
ɯ ᴉ ʇ ɥ (@ManlnTheHoody) Tweeted:
look i fucking get it. warren has great policy stuff going on and if i was voting on JUST policy shed have my vote right now. and that’s cool and all but booooooooring af so im voting for the person I find the most likeable which right now would have to be warren
If #nottheonion isn’t a thing, it should be.
