Dropped the kid off at school on this last school day of the year, and it's 52 degrees outside.

So naturally the conversation between every parent was, "So how about this weather?"

Why are we all are very good at asking the obvious question about weather, but not very good about asking obvious questions across other areas of life?

Like, imagine we asked each other: "So how about the Child Tax Credit getting cut from the omnibus bill...?

Senate passes $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. Goes to the House for easy passage.

What's left out of the bill: An extension of the enhanced Child Tax Credit. This tax credit reduced poverty rates; lifted millions of children over the poverty line.

When politicians wrap themselves around "family values" it should be clear to everyone now that they actually don't care about Americans and our families.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/22/omnibus-government-spending-bill-2022

A teenager in the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. The police arrested him.

Couldn't make bail. Would spend 2 years on Riker's island awaiting a trial.

-only for the charges to be dropped. Many were appalled, they set it up for him to go to community college. That's where I met him once- my electronics club. Made an LED Christmas tree-he seemed... so so so sad.

He took his own life later that year.

Anyways. Uh, Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail. #cw

RT @[email protected]

Exciting news: NYC’s iconic 5th Ave, from 42nd to 59th St, is going to be reimagined as a safer, less congested, pedestrian-centered blvd that also prioritizes cyclists, mass transit, and the public realm.

This will be a game change for Midtown.

Details: https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/917-22/mayor-adams-moves-reimagine-fifth-avenue-bryant-park-central-park

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1604597190227369984

Who is Taylor Lorenz and why should we care?

She's a technology columnist for the Washington Post, suspended this evening from Twitter apparently for asking Musk to comment on a story involving Musk. Musk is demonstrating that he can extort censorship from the media with the ban hammer. Taylor was targeted to be an example. Other journalists are put on notice it's not them...this time, and reminded to toe the line. This is about press freedom. That's why we all should care.

#twittermigration

1/12 This 🧵 is called "That Ol' Black Magic".

My Sister and I were having one of our long, deep, philosophical conversations today, and she asked me:

“Given that you are science minded, do you think Black people are magic?”

I thought on this for a long, long moment.

My conclusion is that Black people are magic, and here is my proof.

The expanded Child Tax Credit cut child poverty by nearly half.

Manchin and the GOP let it expire and child poverty spiked by 41%.

In other words, an additional 3.7 million children were thrown into poverty.

Reinstating it is a moral imperative. Do it during the lame duck.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X on the media

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