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Young, dumb and full of good intentions 🥲 | "Codes, even the best codes, can become idolatrous traps that tempt us to complicity in violence."

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

Oh, you've identified a problem? Have you considered calling it an "emergency"? Have you considered throwing everything at it, no matter the cost? Have you considered destroying ppl's lives over it? Have you considered bombing it?

No? Well then maybe you're 🫵 the problem.

[Dan Evans @dai_alectic]

@RhonddaBryant Quite right Chris! Btw how does your work with the Henry Jackson Society or Labour Friends of Israel relate to your job as MP for the Rhondda?

[Stakeholder Consultant @echetus]

The evil Labour Right are evily making Burnham admit his fundamental political differences from voters on a key constitutional issue.

It would be much more democratic to hide his views until after he got elected.

Genuinely awful.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@MurielBlaivePhD Thanks Muriel!

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

How are we to make use of science in a representative democracy? How are we to integrate scientists into our polity’s policymaking processes?

Read the text from my talk at Muriel's invigorating 'Care, Control, and the Biopolitics of Crisis Governance' conference to find out!

[Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD]

Max's excellent talk at our Graz conference 💪 😎

NB: Gotta love the pic, too 😅

https://t.co/f2SkjLrYsw

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

“Anti-Semite!” often has the same political function on the right as “Racist!” (or homophobe!, transphobe!, whateverphobe!) often has on the left: it is a thought-ending meme that excuses one from having to substantively engage with what an opponent is saying.

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

I resent living in a world that asks me to take Polanski and his fans seriously.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Well done to @ZackPolanski for calling out the fact he was being interviewed by a former Lab minister & husband of the current foreign secretary!

Since the start of this year #GMB is produced by @itvnews. How can they think this is tenable?

Oh & Ed took it in good grace (not)

[TTN @tintinades]

C'est le retour du printemps.

[Circe @vocalcry]

Wake up babe the Pope is Baudrillard posting

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath Quite.

[Daniel Hadas @DanielHadas2]

Tintin at home and abroad.

https://t.co/wf7HV9UkxO

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath Are they victories *against* or *within* pandemicking?

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath And others do not. Are they---including Clare---breaking with 'pandemicking' in their critiques?

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath Are each of these victories against 'pandemicking'?

https://t.co/5SnAJK4mV4

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath Perhaps (or indeed, probably) but that is beside my point, which is that just because Boris spearheaded a mass vaccinatiion program, it doesn't follow that he is a hero on (what you call) pandemicking's own terms.

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath "styles of reasoning" is key here

https://t.co/FzTqoT8heQ

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath And yet vaccines are sometimes marked as 'unsafe' and removed from the market, based on much the same styles of reasoning as the ones that are used to justify lockdown-till-vaccine. If it's 'all one thing', then safety debates and occasional withdrawals are a part of it.

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath The debate over the safety, efficacy, and morality of vaccination is about as old as the (modern, Westernised) practice itself, including in England. Clare is arguably continuing, rather than naively countering, a venerable English tradition.

[​🇲​​🇦​​🇽​ @MaxFromMax]

@Medical_Nemesis @ClareCraigPath When we invented the ship, we also invented the shipwreck; when we invented vaccination, we also invented the vaccination safety debate. Why is the latter any less a part of the national life of vaccinators than vaccination itself?

[Tim Chapman @IslingtonChap]

What if Keir just went for a jog? And didn’t stop. Like in Forrest Gump.

Brits of all shapes and sizes joining him as he runs across the country.

What would the far-right do then??