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They asked for non-healthcare volunteers to help with visitor screening and my job became making families choose who would see their relative on their last day of life, and I usually don’t mention that anymore because I expect people to be dismissive about the circumstances in Spring 2020.

This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...

America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.

this sounds elitist but our recovery from the present moment will depend in part on being able to once again effectively malign, ostracize, and refuse a platform to cranks

Counterpoint. The Cooperative Election Study (CES) asked national samples to place the ideology of every Dem nominee since 2012 on a 1-7 scale. They rated all the Dem nominees at almost the same place on average.

The New York Time opinion section pushed out Paul Krugman, who had a dedicated readership and won the Nobel Prize in international trade, right before Trump’s second term, when international trade would be the number one policy issue. And never replaced him with another liberal economist.

I feel kinda bad for almost soiling myself laughing at this and yet, here we are.

The only significant candidate-specific anomaly here is Trump in 2016, when he was perceived as more moderate than other Republican nominees. But that had gone away by 2020. Source: cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/Ideology/

Counterpoint. The Cooperative Election Study (CES) asked national samples to place the ideology of every Dem nominee since 2012 on a 1-7 scale. They rated all the Dem nominees at almost the same place on average.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Sister Leticia Ugboaja's attorney says she has for years been granted protection from removal to her native Nigeria because she was likely to face torture there.

Going to link back to some very smart research published a while back showing that people consistently have a hard time estimating the size of groups, and that the mistaken estimates do not seemingly have much to do with perceptions of the groups themselves.

Instead, the administration and senators stayed locked in a standoff for months even after it was clear that confirmation was hopeless. Outside interests and the administration decided they’d rather leave the seat open for Trump “on principle” than abandon the nominee. But what was accomplished?

An example of a bunch of disfunctional dynamics. It was horrible that some senators gave in to bigotry and refused to vote for Mangi. But as soon as that happened, the Biden administration should have pulled the nom and put forth someone else to make sure the seat was filled.

To be clear, this is not a new position. The NY Times decided nearly 20 years ago, long before Trump, that we would stop attending, which was our policy under Obama and Biden. (The exception was for reporters if they won a prize to be awarded.) Last night made clear why that was a good decision.

*When Trump faces consequences for violating the Constitution: This should be left to the voters *When Trump loses the popular vote: We must follow the Constitution *When Trump faces impeachment: This should be settled in court *When Trump faces criminal prosecution: This is a political question

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Lewis F. Powell Jr. (future Nixon-appointed Supreme Court justice) complains about university faculty being too liberal in 1971.

His support for South African apartheid, for bringing race-based segregation back to American society, his constant dissemination of white replacement theory, his support for the neo-Nazi party in Germany, and his killing of millions of Africans by withdrawing aid, are not unconnected.

Disgraceful. Deepest shame on everyone who sat there and laughed at this fascist's jokes.

You must understand. Jaylen Brown just needed his own team.