1869: Congress refused to seat Congressman-Elect John Willis Menard from Louisiana District 2 b/c he was Black
Today: SCOTUS approves extreme gerrymandered Louisiana map that gives Black people only 16% rep even though they’re 33% of voters
Systemic white supremacy alive & well.
So, I wrote about *that* mask study. We need to stop giving so much air to bad faith actors. Their goal is to exhaust us and numb us into losing empathy and giving up. Masks protect ourselves and our communities. Let’s put that science into action.
Once again, we should take people at their word and believe them when they tell us who they are. The NYT is in full-on “DeSantis can’t possibly be this bad and really isn’t serious about all the far right authoritarianism” mode (see also: https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109937250816588340). Maybe it really all is an act. The stakes, however, are simply too high to make this the default position. We really should know better by now after 2016-21.
From: @UROCKlive1
https://toad.social/@UROCKlive1/109939929465616388
New York Times pans new DeSantis book In the book, DeSantis pans “wokeness” and “legacy media,” which dismissed his rhetoric saying, “all the culture war Mad Libs can’t distract from the dull coldness at this book’s core.” “the overall sense you get from reading his new memoir is that of the mechanical try-hard — someone who has expended a lot of effort studying which way the wind is blowing in the Republican Party and is learning how to comport himself accordingly.” https://thehill.com/homenews/3875557-ny-times-review-pans-new-ron-desantis-book/
Wow.
Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
The US has seen 21,378 #COVID19 deaths already in 2023, per the CDC.
That is 7x more than were killed on 9/11.
It's more than the number of gun homicides in all of 2020: 19,384
It's almost as much as the gun suicides in 2020: 24,292. We'll surpass that next week.
In just six weeks, COVID has caused half the number of deaths as caused by traffic fatalities in an entire year: 42,915 per the NHTSA
Tell me again how COVID is “over” and those in masks are unnecessarily fearful.
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