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“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

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1944 “Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando at the German Nazi Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp organized a revolt. They set crematorium IV on fire, causing serious damage, as well as attacked the SS men in the vicinity.” https://x.com/auschwitzmuseum/status/1710538410119606439?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to threads
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I quit Facebook years ago over this kind of right wing nonsense. Even with the demise of Twitter you couldn’t pay me to join Zuckerberg’s Threads.

micchiato, to random
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wHo CoULd hAvE SeEn tHiS cOMinG? 🙃

“Hospital admissions with in England increased by 25% in-week.

Our R-value has risen to 1.14.

Admissions slightly fell in London (-8%) but rose elsewhere. Biggest increases in the South East (+51%) and North West (+37%).

Acute bed occupancy is up by 22%” https://x.com/covid19actuary/status/1709856557763039554?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to politics
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You’re either fascist or anti-fascist. There’s no safe middle ground on that question.

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Democrats who insist on courting disaffected Republicans by funding the police, enabling the military-industrial complex to be the world’s cop, and electing blue no matter who—even when blue is anti-abortion—continue to grasp at the mythical middle ground between fascism and anti-fascism.

micchiato, to Nashville
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It didn’t take long for the new progressive mayor to make me regret my vote for him:

“This is a bad omen for Nashville. Metro Legal made a preemptive effort to dismantle the [Nashville Community Oversight Board] before the new Mayor touched down. The Mayor has bought into the hype. We can expect more attacks on diversity-based boards, commissions, & policies in the future.” https://x.com/sekoufranklin/status/1708465502941503803?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

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Looks like Nashville’s new mayor has changed his tune in the last 24 hours and plans to support Community Oversight Board staffing. I have been reading some blowback on his earlier equivocation. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/10/02/nashville-mayor-expects-community-oversight-leader-to-stay-amid-change/71036853007/

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Republicans privately know that masks work even when they gainsay prevention and downplay in public.
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micchiato, to Nashville
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“That so many ‘cop cities’ are popping up (e.g., Baltimore, , SF, ) as cities are being inundated with houselessness, unaffordability, and human misery means that surveillance, punishment, and incarceration are elected influencers’ chosen solutions to poverty.” https://x.com/blackleftaf/status/1708431873238593828?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to Travel
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The highest CO2 ppm reading on a Southwest flight this afternoon from Boston to Nashville (just after leaving the departure gate). 😷

micchiato, to nyc
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“Today conducted yet another a homeless sweep in the midst of historic flooding.

Instead of providing help during a citywide state of emergency, City staff were instead forcing homeless ppl to move from where they had found shelter and threatening to take their belongings.” https://x.com/safetynetujc/status/1707922714818695526?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to climate
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“NYC 3 months apart. The crisis will manifest in hundreds of ways and we need to be ready” https://x.com/xiyebastida/status/1707855186318758149?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

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“Cop math is taking 50% of a city’s budget and solving 2% of crime.” https://x.com/berniehoe2/status/1707364299306393695?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to Ukraine
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According to the Canadian speaker of the House, literal Nazis are now Ukrainian heroes and Canadian heroes. Fascism is alive and well and officially celebrated in North America. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trudeau-zelensky-nazi-ovation-embarrassment-b2418720.html

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@Grant_M He said the quiet part out loud; that was his real sin in the equivocating world of establishment politics.

micchiato,
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@Grant_M Ignorance of historical fascism is no excuse except for those jonesing for WWIII.

micchiato,
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@Grant_M bye, warmonger, you’re blocked

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“The State of Tennessee broke ground this morning on their own new cop city that will house the TN Dept of Safety, Homeland Security, & TN Dept of Corrections. The site is located on 800+ acres of beautiful rolling hills immediately next to 2 prisons & will include a mock village….appears to be separate and distinct from [Nashville PD's] plan to build their own ‘state of the art’ training facility” https://x.com/nashpplsbudget/status/1707098184697196601?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

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10 individual cops collectively cost NYC taxpayers $68 million in misconduct lawsuits at no cost to themselves. They’re all still on the force, with salaries + benefits. https://gothamist.com/news/over-a-decade-10-nypd-officers-accounted-for-68-million-in-police-misconduct-payouts-report

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“A randomized trial approach that allows a few studies to cancel out a huge body of research from other disciplines has no basis in science…. For masks, are randomized trials an appropriate way of evaluating a basic engineered safety system in the first place? We don’t rely on such trials for seat belts, bike helmets or life jackets” 😷 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/

micchiato, to random
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I confess I don’t have much sympathy for progressives who joined the establishment’s chorus to push us “back to normal” and let rage under Biden, even when those progressives come down with

The policy of you-do-you is failed policy, and maybe Dr. Leana Wen, who pushed vaccines devoid of all other mitigation measures, is experiencing karma now. Of course, the most unpleasant aspect of all is that her partisan advocacy likely enabled spread.

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micchiato, to random
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A building designed to withstand a pandemic 100 years years ago:

“Air was brought from the outside and blown through a series of water sprays or screens, heated to any desired degree, then forced through a system of ducts which distributed it to every part of the building through hundreds of small pipes which opened beneath the seats. A complete change of air took place every three minutes”
https://montecristomagazine.com/community/secret-tunnels-orpheum-theatre

micchiato, to history
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“the official death toll was 21 miners killed, but historians have established that 55 women and children were also murdered by the National Guard and its accomplices …. Howard Zinn describes four women and 11 children who suffocated as they hid underneath a tent. The Guard had gone from tent to tent, pouring oil on them setting them ablaze.” https://www.leftvoice.org/the-national-guard-is-no-friend-of-workers-and-the-oppressed-a-lesson-from-ludlow/

micchiato, to random
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Giving people without houses money helped them pay for new homes and saved the system money. Go figure.

“This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program saved money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person….the transfers paid for themselves. It's literally free money.”
https://x.com/rcbregman/status/1699406128902447476?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

micchiato, to Ukraine
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Some of you won’t be happy when I say this, but the war was always more about bankrolling the military-industrial complex, draped in blue and gold, than it was about justice or sovereignty.

micchiato,
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@nf3xn You lost me at McCain, who voted in support of civil rights only 22% of the times civil rights legislation was offered. He was the Republican who establishment Dems loved to love even as he received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign finance from Betsy DeVos, destroyer of public education and hand-picked by Trump, friend of Putin.

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