And again, without fail, never quitting, Republicans are trying to take away people’s healthcare.

https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/1009051625380569089

This was a really interesting (and listenable) talk on Chinese history in the 19th and 20th centuries, for those who think history only happens in Europe.  (Ok, since it’s just “recent” Chinese history, it, of course, has a European flavor.  Oh well. 🙂 )

[Oh, I wanted to add one more thing that might be too late, now that IFTTT has shipped this: I found out why the U.S. attempted to create the League of Nations but then stayed out of it at the last moment: racism, of course (in part, because it made us vulnerable to a ploy by Japan that sabotaged it).]

This is pretty good. 🙂  [“NJP” is non-judicial punishment, whatever THAT means.]

Source: https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/04/duffel-blog-presents-ayn-rand-gives-your-safety-brief/

Yet another explanation of allyship.  Seems simple enough for me to get. 🙂

Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/900182099675811844.html

https://helenair.com/news/government-and-politics/montana-man-quit-state-job-rather-than-help-work-on/article_bd4b4327-f19e-5c0d-9434-95fd3f5ee27e.html

«“I’m white as rice and a guy, so there’s a different Twitter culture that gives me a latitude to say things without extreme harassment campaigns,” he said. “It’s a lot easier to be a straight white guy on Twitter than it is to be anything else.…»

https://twitter.com/lissawicks/status/1008719490815799296

(This is the case involving a numeric metric of gerrymandering, the “wasted votes” measure.)

«Take tweets saying Gill v. Whitford (gerrymandering) was dismissed with a grain of salt – it was remanded to the district court to give the plaintiffs a chance to “prove concrete and particularized injuries.” Still alive (in theory).»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts-law/gerrymander/?utm_term=.9cbb22189ac0

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/efficiency-gap-gerrymandering/551492/ has this to say:

«The danger isn’t the efficiency gap itself, but rather the temptation to look only at the efficiency gap, and make it the effective definition of partisan gerrymandering in the future.»

Well, dang, here’s what Nina Totenberg has to say (https://twitter.com/NinaTotenberg/status/1008719969532678145):

«Supreme Court punts on extreme partisan gerrymandering, but makes it more difficult to bring a suit in the future.»

https://twitter.com/sgtjanedoe/status/1008485159455412224

«I remember hearing my stepkid cry at age six when her dad left for Afghanistan. I will remember that sound for the rest of my life. And she was with me, who she knew and trusted.

I can’t imagine the cries of those migrant kids, and being able to do that to kids day after day.»

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/hitlers-rise-it-can-happen-here/

«In their different ways, Mayer, Haffner, and Jarausch show how habituation, confusion, distraction, self-interest, fear, rationalization, and a sense of personal powerlessness make terrible things possible. They call attention to the importance of individual actions of conscience both small and large, by people who never make it into the history books. Nearly two centuries ago, James Madison warned: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure.” Haffner offered something like a corollary, which is that the ultimate safeguard against aspiring authoritarians, and wolves of all kinds, lies in individual conscience: in “decisions taken individually and almost unconsciously by the population at large.”»

Got this from one of my friends on Facebook. Of course, when I went back to FB after reading, it refreshed and the post was lost, like a twig on a stream, carried out of sight by Father’s Day.

https://twitter.com/coffeeshopjihad/status/1008524087898058752?s=17

Mackenzie Wolf (@coffeeshopjihad) Tweeted:
@CarlPrinetweets When he didn’t like an article I wrote about him last year, he sent his minions after me. They tweeted out where my elementary-aged child goes to school.

Mackenzie Wolf (@coffeeshopjihad) Tweeted:
@ckshowalter @CarlPrinetweets Yup. Opsec pro tip: don’t follow your kids’ schools on twitter