Musician, writer, unrelenting systems-changer. Dad of adorable flesh-eaters.
savannah, ga
Joined September 2008
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How one small town at the center of the outbreak has cut infections virtually to zero: test all 3,300 in town, isolate the 3 percent who tested positive. Infection rate 10 days later down to .3 percent. ft.com/content/0dba7ea8-6713…
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"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks." --
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh, February 24:
rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/…
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BREAKING: Sacramento County judge authorizes the Sheriff's Office to release jail inmates with 30 days or less remaining in their sentences. Ordered signed today and in effect until May 30. Includes misdemeanors and felonies. @MarshallProj
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No industry -- not airlines, not hotels, not cruise ships -- should be bailed out. They can stay in business by borrowing at rock-bottom rates, using their assets as collateral.
Taxpayer money should be used to bail out people, not corporations.
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For the media the bar is so sooo low.
It’s described as ‘remarkable’ and there are calls to ‘applaud’ the President being ‘the kind of leader we need”—‘at least in tone.’
This kind of take is embarrassing and pathetic.
Finally the President appears to be doing his job.
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There is a *huge* difference between UBI proposals that kick millions of people off Medicaid, SNAP, etc (aka people ending with net less $) w/o consent and a UBI proposal that provides people with net more in their lives.
Conflating the two is dangerous and creates resistance.
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[THREAD] As we navigate the health & economic impacts of #COVID19 together, here are some resources that may be helpful. Please share widely with your networks and your communities #justschools
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@ICEgov just threatened to pick up a client of ours whose appeal is pending, because she missed an ISAP phone call, as her employer required her to work her minimum wage job and she could not answer the phone. Then they threatened to arrest the whole house when they come.
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We've done direct payments to individuals in previous recessions (including the "recovery rebates" in 2008). One-time Keynesian stimulus when economy is bad ≠ monthly universal payments in perpetuity, regardless of economic conditions
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COVID-19 has forced capitalists to confront an inconvenient truth: that capital accumulation cannot happen without labour.
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BREAKING: We can, of course, afford a Green New Deal. That’s been true all along.
.@FoxNews has learned that @realDonaldTrump will ask Congress for more than $800 billion in economic stimulus: $500 bil in payroll tax cut, $250 bil in Small Business Association loans, $58 billion for the airlines, and a smattering of other items.
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American companies denying workers paid sick leave:
McDonald's - 517K workers
Walmart - 347K workers
Kroger - 189K workers
Subway - 80K workers
Burger King - 165K workers
Pizza Hut: - 156K workers
Target - 51K workers
Marriott - 139K workers
Wendy's - 133K workers
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So I’m hearing many myths about #COVID-19 and would like to quickly clear the record.
Coronavirus will go away in Sumer months.
Wrong. Previous pandemics didn’t follow weather patterns plus as we enter summer, there will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Virus is global.
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What I keep coming back to with restaurants:
In 1990, manufacturing had 3X more jobs than food services. Today, they're practically tied.
What would be the national response if American manufacturing were facing an extinction level event?
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Pelosi’s defense”of the paid sick leave loophole illustrates a basic problem which is: The GOP is so callously indifferent that the Senate took a three day weekend during a pandemic, and elected Dems believe it’s important on principle to meet that callous indifference halfway.
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Here is an idea, someone in Congress PLEASE take it & run with it: Congress should pass legislation providing waivers & federal reimbursement to state Medicaid programs that opt to expand coverage to cover all #coronavirus testing & treatment for all people, regardless of income.
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A female VP is not the same as endorsing a feminist agenda.
Joe, up until last summer you supported the Hyde Amendment, which would prohibit federal funding for abortions.
