https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1024789640283348995.html
Republicans will never stop assaulting healthcare. Ever.
Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) Tweeted:
I’m a big fan of Popper of course, and his writings on the open society should be essential reading today, along with Orwell and Arendt. Funny to see it in a cartoon. https://t.co/eO6bpuUa1M
. @JeffJacksonNC for President. Tl;dr: vote against all six. (“Marsy’s Law” post: https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/nc-lawmakers-propose-marsys-law-and-changes-to-nc-constitution-news-observer/)
southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) Tweeted:
A private restauranteur politely asking Sarah Sanders to take a free cheese plate and go was an crisis of civility calling for days of cable panel preoccupation. But the first family inciting truly vicious mobs against reporters will only be a side story.
(But this technology needs its own extensive support structure.)
CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) Tweeted:
If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale.
https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1024698533503492098?s=17
Whoa. What’s going on here? A Senator I don’t like is correctly referencing a meme I like and is on the right side of an issue? Does he know NC might not be quite as red as people might think?
Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) Tweeted:
Republican @SenatorBurr gets it. https://t.co/1d4W8LXAAs
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/
«“There were more tweets in the year AFTER the election than there were in the year before the election,” Warren said. “I want to shout this from the rooftops. This is not just an election thing. It’s a continuing intervention in the political conversation in America.”»
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/all-thats-left-is-the-vote
«None of the other forces that might have checked the rise of a corrupt homegrown oligarchy can stop or even slow it. The institutional clout that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon no longer exists. The honest press, for all its success in exposing daily scandals, won’t persuade the unpersuadable or shame the shameless, while the dishonest press is Trump’s personal amplifier. The federal courts, including the Supreme Court, are rapidly becoming instruments of partisan advocacy, as reliably conservative as elected legislatures. …. Congress has readily submitted to the President’s will, as if legislation and oversight were burdens to be relinquished. And, when the independent counsel finally releases his report, it will have only the potency that the guardians of the law and the Constitution give it.
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Behind these institutions lies public opinion, and we are quickly learning that it matters more than laws, more than the Constitution, more than the country’s supposedly inviolable founding principles. “If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it,” George Orwell wrote, in “Freedom of the Park.” “If public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”….
Democrats have a habit of forgetting to vote between Presidential elections. Republican turnout has exceeded or equalled Democratic turnout in every midterm since 1978, no matter which party held the Presidency, with an average margin of three per cent—more than enough to decide control of Congress in a closely divided election. The demographic groups that are least likely to vote—young people, Latinos, and those with a high-school education or less—tend to be Democratic constituencies. This tendency has been especially stark in the past two midterm cycles: in 2014, the turnout among eligible voters aged eighteen to twenty-nine was seventeen per cent—one in six.….
Republicans, for their part, don’t always entrust their hold on power to democratic methods. Since 2010, nearly half of the states have passed laws that make it harder to vote—from restrictions on early voting to I.D. requirements, mandatory proof of citizenship, and purges of voting rolls. The purpose of these laws is not to fight a mythical epidemic of fraud but to depress turnout of normally Democratic constituencies.….
In November, just to achieve a bare majority, Democrats will have to win the national congressional vote by nearly eleven per cent. (Other studies put the number at around seven per cent.) And legislatures elected this year will redraw state and federal districts after the 2020 census. There’s a thick seawall standing in the way of a blue wave.….
The greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it won’t matter, and that feeling seems to be more prevalent among Democrats.»
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/politics/trump-koch-brothers/index.html
Nice job, Kochs. Your crop of dragon’s teeth seems to be coming along very well.
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Jessica Lee (@BusquedaJess) Tweeted:
I always get pissed off when I hear “x will get girls interested in STEM.”Girls are ALREADY interested in #STEM. It’s just hard to STAY interested in STEM when faced with teachers and a society with one narrow (male) vision of what STEM practice is.
#WomeninScience
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