🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

The Sermon on the Mount, according to MAGA.

#Epstein

Not to be pedantic but I feel like NYT editors should know that ”scores” and “hundreds” are not the same order of magnitude

Which was how he met Roy Cohn

And that's also where he learned to destroy all the records, lie about everything, and get away with it.

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

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I would much rather we (as a community, I am in no way speaking for my employer) make bike travel and buses work for people to get to work, shopping, etc. within Charlottesville and Albemarle before we focus on the airport.

Hey, Cville, can you imagine being able to get to our airport on a bike? The distance isn’t far, we just need better bike paths

Name one

Just one you can't

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
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It's because Catholics have long been part of the threat Trump represents.

Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?

Ha! The White House has branded its latest attempt at extortion of universities as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

In non-fiction I'm interested in WHEN TREES TESTIFY: SCIENCE, WISDOM, HISTORY, AND AMERICA’S BLACK BOTANICAL LEGACY by Beronda L. Montgomery. She was recently a Michigan State prof, so I'm partial. #ewgc #booksky

Um, what?

Yes! Thank you! Caught the typo in a follow-up.

Latino Studies.

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.