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Torr Leonard 🧵@torrleonard.bsky.social |
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The topics of… Housing, transportation, unions, gun control, policing, health care, vaccines, civil rights, voting rights, education, taxation, climate change, alternative energy, and... music! All my WSJ links are gift-links. A unit of pressure.
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Torr Leonard 🧵
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“The culture wars have come for Britain’s stately homes.
The National Trust, the charity that manages many of them, changed displays in dozens of properties to explain the sites’ links to slavery and exploitation.
Right-wing columnists and academics got angry…”
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/w...
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written in 1963.
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“During the fall of 2009, San Diego County Board of Supervisors meetings were marred twice by incivilities such as threats and name-calling.
Last year, over the same period, there were 167 such incidents, an analysis found.”
www.kpbs.org/news/politic...
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“London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail -
Growing cities around the world are creating “rapid regional rail” systems that allow residents to commute across metro areas at high speeds.
Will the US get on board?” [No.]
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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“Further complicating matters for Democrats, pro-Palestinian activists hope to attract 100k demonstrators from around the country to protest President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Chaos in the streets could help Trump reinforce his core message of law & order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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“After Missing Housing Goals, SF Has Permit Process Slashed Under New State Law-
The change is expected to shorten the approvals process from 2yrs — the longest in the state — to less than 6 months. “No discretionary hearings, no CEQA lawsuits, no Board of Supervisors”
www.kqed.org/news/1199275...
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Deep sigh:
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“We are now in the midst of the greatest civilizational transformation - the green transition - since the industrial revolution and the mass adoption of fossil fuels for energy.” People DO NOT CARE.
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Chris Hayes
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Which is obviously not future-oriented! But it's a kind of alternate reality future. I do think whatever happens with this period and whether it's Biden or someone else, a vision of what's over the horizon is pretty important and has been a bit absent in this campaign.
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34 felonies vs “he’s not good at debating anymore now that he’s old.”
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My library had these well into the 2000s! Simpler time…
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Torr Leonard 🧵
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Hm?
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PARTY OF THE PEOPLE:
"The next Republican Party platform will be written behind closed doors.
In a break from decades-long precedent, reporters and spectators will not be allowed to watch next week’s party platform committee proceedings in Milwaukee."
www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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2023:
“in a historic decision, LA Times announced Thurs it would drop the use of “ internment “ to describe mass incarceration of 120k people of Japanese ancestry during WWII.
The decision comes 8 decades after LAT *campaigned* to incarcerate Japanese Americans.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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“Young people on TikTok are dancing to a catchy song called “Friendly Father.”
It’s a piece of North Korean propaganda about Kim Jong-un.”
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/no...
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“Old people have long punched above their weight politically because they vote proportionally more than the young.
In the 2022 U.S. midterm election, about two-thirds of citizens 65 and over voted, more than double the turnout rate for people 18 to 29.”
www.wsj.com/world/uk/old...
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"Among the AI tools created in support of the protests include Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving Kenya politicians.
Another is Finance Bill GPT, which helps break down the controversial bill and its potential impact on prices
www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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Torr Leonard 🧵
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"Scientists hope it could allow 88% of clothing worldwide to be recycled."
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"The problem is that many fabrics are mixed materials and mechanical recycling struggles to separate them into useful parts.
The new technique uses heat and a catalyst to break the long molecular chains of both natural and synthetic fibers into easily reusable units"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"Later this month, Putin will host India’s prime minister, whose government has sought to avoid "taking sides" in the Russia-Ukraine war, while Xi will welcome Italy’s leader."
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"— just a day after Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping headed a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit that hailed “tectonic shifts in global politics.” "
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...
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"Putin will today reportedly host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — a meeting that drew anger across Europe, particularly given that Budapest holds the rotating presidency of the European Union’s leaders’ grouping"
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Assholes:
"Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, plans to withhold donations to Democrats until Joe Biden drops out.
Gideon Stein said he’s decided to pause planned donations of $3.5 million."
www.cnbc.com/2024/07/04/d...
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Torr Leonard 🧵
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Side note: the website layout, ugh:
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"The radical "Project 2025" [Trump] policy agenda for student loan repayment would multiply costs for borrowers, increase defaults, and end existing programs that allow borrowers to earn cancellation."
www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
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“Trump tries to distance himself from Project 2025, a conservative group’s plan for GOP presidency-
Trump claimed Friday he knew “nothing” about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint spearheaded by former Trump admin officials”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that erases most references to climate change from state law. "
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
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"insurance turmoil caused by climate change — which had been concentrated in FL, CA & LA — is becoming contagion, spreading to states like IA, AR, OH, UT & WA. Even in Northeast, where homeowners insurance was still generally profitable last year,trends are worsening
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Allison
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This is correct for NY. Thanks for the reminder!
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Oregon the DM🕎
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in a lot of states you don't have to show cops your ID unless you are driving. So if you are wearing a covid facemask and they want to check your ID you tell them no thank you, and wish them a good day. If they stop you then you say no thank you, and shutup.
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Torr Leonard 🧵
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hey I like Gemini for many uses...
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The "watch show" tab on Google is the best feature they've introduced in years. It lists any and all services that a piece of content is available on.
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“I think it’s from abusive coaches. Or there are so many more issues, like equal representation, and equal pay. “Those are the issues I would love to address instead of trans women, because that’s not something we’ve ever had to have protecting from.”
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"For Hiltz, the point always boils down to this — inclusivity. “As someone who’s competed in women’s sports my whole life, I think we do need protecting, but I don’t think it’s from trans women,” Hiltz said last summer.
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"World Aquatics effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events and World Athletics, the governing body for track and field, has grappled with versions of this issue for a while. Last year, it implemented stricter rules for intersex athletes with differences in sex development
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"Hiltz competing in the female category doesn’t raise the same issues as faced by transgender women. Two years ago, swimmer Lia Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship. It triggered new policies across sports."
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"Hiltz, who’s always competed in the female category, uses the pronouns “they” and “them,” and highly suggests people get used to that because they aren’t going anywhere."
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"Hiltz, who’s transgender and nonbinary, is shining in two lanes — on the track as one of the world’s top middle distances runners with a trip to Paris Olympics upcoming, and away from it as a role model for the queer community."
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"Scientists said the intensity of storms such as Beryl, which is on track to hit Mexico and the southern US, is increasing due to global warming and the likely impact of climate change."
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"Home prices nationally have risen about 50% in the last five years, with rent increases not far behind at 35%.
Paying for the median U.S. home required 12% more of a household's income in 2023 than in 2019 compared to a 1.3% increase over the prior four years."
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"This doc explores the history of Clotilda, a ship smuggling 110 African enslaved people that crashed along Alabama coast in 1860, giving rise to community of Africatown.
For first time, archaeologists will explore the sunken wreck of the last American slave ship."
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One Who Walks Among the Dead
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"Vote third party!" they say. Yeah, well, stop having your third parties find the fucking dumbest, weirdest freaks on the planet.
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"Migratory sharks, rays & sturgeons are especially at risk: Their populations have fallen by 90% since 1970s.
Since migratory species pass thru multiple environments, humans need to rethink their impact on flight & swim paths, as well as land infrastructure."
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“Lab-grown embryo models: UK unveils first ever “rules” to guide research -
Countries are grappling with how to regulate research that uses stem-cell-based embryo models.
They will be watching the United Kingdom’s *voluntary* approach.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Wait a sec, I wanted to love this, but all the voice does is say the pitch count! It doesn’t tell any stories about the game or any stories about the players, which is the entire reason baseball is so pleasant to listen to! 😆
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