Teaching #composition & #rhetoric. Researching the intersections of #narrative, hegemonic masculinity, and political identity. Following all sorts of folks. #Running middle distances. Watching #Arizona basketball. He/Him. #AZCats #Suns #Nba
If Democrats weren’t focused on internal wrangling, they could really start exploiting some of the divisions that are appearing in the MAGA block
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Rural Republicans Pushing Back Against School Voucher Expansions — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/rural-republicans-school-vouchers-education-choice
My mother in law who insists that she's objective despite living in Alberta and listening to Alberta news just said that there is so much we don't know about #ClimateBreakdown. There is so much sun activity the sun is just giving us too much heat
I'd like to point out this woman has a PhD in Chemistry.
Just being in Alberta rots the brain.
Don't tell me only China has a propaganda problem. This is state sanctioned bullshit.
Sometimes people ask me (as a historian of the period) about the super rich in Renaissance Florence, whether the art/culture/science boom was an example of trickle-down working. (A) Florence had a wealth tax, (B) its richest man Palla Strozzi had the equivalent of only $250 million. Want more Leonardos? Tax the Rich. 🎨🧑🎨🖌🎭🔭🖼📚📐🏛🎻💰
Research suggests people associate minorities with more extreme characteristics. This ‘minority extremity bias’ is stronger for small minorities, ie the smaller the group ⇒ the more extreme the judgment: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3084
The U.S. Economy Is Absolutely Fantastic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/us-economy-excellent/678630/
@samlitzinger
How about we quit spilling ink on dystopian worlds "if Trump wins" and start writing about the good that can happen if #Biden and a big #BlueTrifecta win?
Think of 20-21 (Inflation reduction act, Infrastructure, judges, real House investigations) but even better!
#VoteBlue2024
Alito is 74. Thomas is 75. A Trump victory will extend the MAGA hold on both seats by ~30 years.
You’re free to ruminate about what’s happened previously, but there’s a new bad thing that can still be prevented.
India is probably the biggest coal-for-electricity nation, and India Dropped Coal from the newest 5 Year Plan, all the money will be spent on batteries.
India is building renewables, preventing new coal burning, a HUGE STEP for India.
Biden cancelled Coal in the US.
This is Germany, look at the EXPONENTIAL growth of renewables.
Look at the fall of all carbon sources.
WE CAN stop carbon. WE ARE.
We MUST do it FASTER
"Memory scientist Lisa Fazio has found that we are so primed to confuse a statement’s familiarity with veracity that the bias persists even when listeners are warned to look out for it, even when they are explicitly told the source was untrustworthy. “Some of these cliches catch on not necessarily because we believe them to be true but because they feel comfortable and are easy to understand,” she says."
These are wonderful facts and figures, that prove the _direction is right, _toward solutions.
Biden's economy gives the UAW power to END two tier contracts. Ford new hires, formerly below standard wage, got a raise of 176% and equality.
And fairness WORKS, billionaires taxed, and economy soars, that's the Biden economy: 👉 Fairness WORKS GANGBUSTERS.👈
FDR got elected President four times building an economy like Biden's.
Biden is on a great road to solutions, lets help/
President Joe Biden has taken more effective climate action and done more to protect, restore, and secure our health and environment than any president in U.S. history.
Donald Trump promised Big Oil CEOs that he will gut environmental protections and allow them to pollute at will if they donate $1 billion to his campaign.
Trump is an existential risk to our planet.
How Biden is outflanking Trump on China trade, clean energy and climate change:
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4661110-how-biden-is-outflanking-trump-on-china-trade-clean-energy-and-climate-change/
In case you haven’t read this yet…
Compelling on-the-ground reporting by student journalists, w first-hand accounts & multiple quotes from students & faculty with varied perspectives on what’s happening. Far more informative and revealing than the glib, shallow, misleading coverage thrown up by mainstream corporate cable news & newspaper platforms.
NY Magazine does us all a service highlighting this:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-university-protests-israel-gaza-campus.html
While the median age for men & women world leaders is the same, there are far more men than women: 173 vs 14. And the age range is much wider for male leaders. Men: 36 to 91; women: 46 to 76. 55 yr age range for men; just 30 for women.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/01/as-biden-and-trump-seek-reelection-who-are-the-oldest-and-youngest-current-world-leaders/
They seem capable of describing things in other countries in plain terms.
"... most new e-bike users continued to regularly use their bikes as a substitute for car travel, even a year after purchase. Low-income households reduced their car trips and decreased carbon emissions the most. And incentives are a cost-effective way of reducing carbon emissions." 💚
#eBike #fediBike #cycling
E-bike incentives prove to be worth the investment
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/04/30/e-bike-incentives-prove-to-be-worth-the-investment/
Lawrence O’Donnell:
“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald #Trump, but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”
I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.
The #protestors have made a mistake in messaging. They have let #israel control the narrative.
Don't say you are "pro-Palestinian" because they will create a false dichotomy and twist that into "anti-israel".
Say you are anti-war or anti-genocide and don't let them twist it.
You can't argue with that, /they/ are either pro-war or anti-war, and they won't go there because they can't be pro-israel and anti-war at the same time.
Normal people can be, but the shills can't be, too much dissonance.
Via Ben Wikler:
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
Trump Media audit firm charged with fraud
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/media-audit-firm-charged-with-fraud/
