Reading Ratchet

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Reading RatchetSep 14, 2024
Show threadMarkSep 13, 2024
@Sablebadger @GottaLaff Biden can’t just fire DeJoy, no matter how much that needs doing. I guess it just wasn’t a priority until it’s too late. Many of us who did significant business with the USPS thought DeJoy’s mission was to screw things up to both move deliveries over to private for-profit entities (in which he has interests) and to screw up vote-by-mail so Trump could crow about it. Here’s a pretty good summary of how the USPS Board works: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/04/28/why-president-biden-cant-fire-the-postmaster-general-of-u-s-postal/73443709007/
A Ballot didn't mail out in time? Too bad! Biden can't fire the postmaster. Here's why.

Joe Biden might be the world's most powerful person but he still can't fire a postmaster general. The Civics Project column explains why.

The Palm Beach Post
Reading RatchetSep 14, 2024
Tristan SnellSep 14, 2024

Trump now proposes to deport LEGAL immigrants from Haiti.

And he won’t stop there.

One of the most chilling words in Project 2025?

“Denaturalization.”

That’s right. They want to STRIP citizenship from immigrants who’ve become American citizens.

THAT is the Trump platform.

Reading RatchetSep 14, 2024
Endless ScreamingSep 14, 2024
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Reading RatchetOct 26, 2023
onecaliberalOct 26, 2023
The Atlantic’s Norman Ornstein, the well-known Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), urged voters to, “Keep track of every House Republican who votes for Mike Johnson for Speaker. Each is endorsing an end to all abortions, an end to gay marriage, attacks on LGBTQ and trans people, overturning a legitimate election, supporting Putin. This is a radical, dangerous man.
Show threadReading RatchetOct 8, 2023
@cookiesinheaven I'm getting my Moderna shot in a couple of weeks and -- with so many changes -- fully expect several days of misery, just like the second shot back in 2021. Feel better soon!
Show threadReading RatchetOct 8, 2023
@RandomWriter It's horrible that Hamas chose this, because this is -- make no mistake -- what Hamas chose. You can be appalled at Netanyahu on multiple levels (including everything he has done to undermine the center and left in Israel, which apparently took so much time he missed the run-up to yesterday's attack) and still understand that Hamas made this choice for hundreds of thousands of innocents.
Reading RatchetSep 15, 2023
Tim ChambersSep 15, 2023

"This week, a report from Brand Keys, a consumer research firm, found that #X had the largest fall in brand loyalty sentiment among the 100 brands it tracks, dropping from No. 47 to No. 92. The report speculated that the rebrand could explain the precipitous decline since last year’s report."

#Twitter

https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/brand-loyalty-ranking-mattel-surges-while-twitter-falls-after-x-rebrand/2515976

Brand loyalty ranking—Mattel surges while Twitter falls after X rebrand

Annual Loyalty Leaders report from Brand Keys shows several streaming brands moving in opposite directions.

Ad Age
Show threadReading RatchetAug 16, 2023

@roo_44

@shoq

This right here. It's as if we're all trying to parent a child through one of the bad spells (certain parts of toddlerhood and adolescence) and they're just... never growing past those. You resolve every day to be the adult and to model better behavior, but it's truly, deeply depleting when it Just Does Not End. (Thank heaven kids mature; wish the GQP would.)

Show threadReading RatchetAug 6, 2023
@tjowens
Thank you! I will read those while I wait -- probably safest that way for the physical book, as it's harder than one would like to dog-ear / add excessive marginalia to a screen. (Though don't think I don't try)
Reading RatchetAug 4, 2023
Hayley BrownJul 6, 2023

Another day, another worrying piece of literature on what even ‘mild’ COVID-19 does to people’s brains. Not something we see (to this extent) with flu or other respiratory infections.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41420-023-01512-z

Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human brain and memory - Cell Death Discovery

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have caused several waves of outbreaks. From the ancestral strain to Omicron variant, SARS-CoV-2 has evolved with the high transmissibility and increased immune escape against vaccines. Because of the multiple basic amino acids in the S1-S2 junction of spike protein, the widespread distribution of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor in human body and the high transmissibility, SARS-CoV-2 can infect multiple organs and has led to over 0.7 billion infectious cases. Studies showed that SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause more than 10% patients with the Long-COVID syndrome, including pathological changes in brains. This review mainly provides the molecular foundations for understanding the mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 invading human brain and the molecular basis of SARS-CoV-2 infection interfering with human brain and memory, which are associated with the immune dysfunction, syncytia-induced cell death, the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, microclots and biopsychosocial aspects. We also discuss the strategies for reducing the Long-COVID syndrome. Further studies and analysis of shared researches will allow for further clarity regarding the long-term health consequences.

Nature