As ever, the incisive @mashagessen: “American politicians responded to Zelensky by valorizing him, as Americans usually do. Zelensky resists this, wisely.” https://t.co/uTrJMr5F5S
@UberEats you're overcharging and (literally) not delivering in Northern Virginia. Has happened to quite a few people. Your chatbots aren't able to help. Can someone reading your Twitter thread help?
“In the decades since the Vietnam memorial opened, Americans have become increasingly sophisticated in their anti-intellectualism, tenacious skeptics of ambiguity, adept at finding dark meaning in public art.” https://t.co/KNeAjhEoT8
“If we … spent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we’d realize how clueless we are and moderate our views.” https://t.co/SnoFCM7WS8
As @ErikWemple says, “democracy is the uber-issue. Without it, there’s not much point talking about inflation, immigration, abortion.” https://t.co/oKOTV8wxcC
So it’s not just me. (Don’t know if this makes me feel better or worse.) “The ‘forgetting curve’ is steepest during the first 24 hours after you learn something. … Unless you review the material, much of it slips down the drain after the first day.” https://t.co/BZoa4eZVcq
“Rage — and the way it evolves as we grow older and the world changes — seems to preoccupy these late novels.” Thanks for the thought-provoking profile, @BerryFLW https://t.co/wgZEGk0elz
“How do we know people won’t click — or subscribe — if the news were designed for humans? How do we know, if hardly anyone has tried?” https://t.co/JGzyj7eaqa
Yes yes yes. I was fuming as I read Romney’s “America Is in Denial” and @JRubinBlogger nailed why: “Romney’s lamentation of both parties smacks of, well, denialism.” https://t.co/dBIf51KMqY
“The Court has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than just another political actor in Washington, and it needs to be covered as such.” https://t.co/9V9eWwoIGW
States issuing trigger bans on abortion should probably bring that same energy to addressing subsidized healthcare, daycare, maternity leave, formula shortages, etc.
More than a year after reading this story, I still think of it (and misremember it a bit).
“Even as we experience an event,” Robyn Fivush has written, “we are already beginning to think about how to tell this event to another person at a later time.” https://t.co/zpnhWrNRh2
“Research shows the link between mental illness and violent behavior is small and not useful for predicting violent acts; people with diagnosable conditions…are in fact far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence.”
https://t.co/azeogUGOaM via @MotherJones
“It’s not happening as some chaotic or spontaneous thing,” Andreyuk said. “This is very targeted detentions — and it’s a very targeted policy to get more control over society.” https://t.co/18AG6TtZ3c