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Jim Lasko

@JimLasko

Tentative Tweeter: Art, Civic Engagement, Public Space.

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America consists of a huge majority of basically moderate people who want to have a functional country, being jerked around by a tiny sliver of megalomaniacs who have used social media to hijack the national conversation and fight their insane wars.
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Past Presidents, from Lincoln to FDR, understood the dangerous stakes of allowing an unchecked Court overreach its authority and threaten our democracy. Lincoln ignored the court to issue the emancipation proclamation. FDR, in the plunges of the Great Depression, also sought…
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So basically your choices are to get vaccinated or to get COVID.
Adam Kucharski (@adamjkucharski) profile pictureAdam Kucharski
@adamjkucharski15 Jul 2021
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In scenario where R is 6 (plausible for Delta in susceptible populations without any restrictions), and vaccination reduces infection/infectiousness such that onwards transmission reduced by 85%, above calc suggests would need to vaccinate (1-1/6)/0.85 = 98% of population. 2/
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This is pure gold. Im done 😂😂
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Much of Halsted being boarded up right now. Many storefronts have written messages of solidarity along the wooden planks. #chicagoprotests #chicagoprotest #chicago #blm #BlackLivesMatter
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Wow....
Michael Tisserand (@m_tisserand) profile pictureMichael Tisserand@m_tisserand26 Oct 2019
I keep reading this Nixon-era Jules Feiffer comic over and over.
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the idea in the 90's was that democracy was inherent to capitalism bc of choice, competition, and all that adam smith shit. therefore globalization would naturally export democratic ideals. then china went and became an economic powerhouse without democracy and whoopsy.
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Mr. President, can you think of ANY reason the El Paso shooter might have railed against an "invasion" of migrants in his manifesto? Oh. #ElPasoShooting #gunreformnow #domesticterrorism
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Journalism pioneer #Idabwells endured death threats and everything she owned was destroyed by a mob because she dared to speak the truth. It's #Idastime for a monument in #Chicago idabwellsmonument.org
Now could be a real tide turning moment. Let's get something done. #BoycottFedEx
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Hey @amazon stop selling @RealDonaldTrump related products! #BoycottTrump via @donegoodteam bit.ly/2laXatH
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ccoletta@ccoletta24 Feb 2017
What is the price of changing violent behavior? $12-$13 an hr jobs -- Arne Duncan @chicagoideas
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McDonald’s Built A Big Mac Vending Machine flip.it/6VM7pa
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It should concern all Americans that those cheering loudest for Trump's new immigration policies are the jihadists and the neo-nazis.
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Donald Trump just deleted the judiciary from the White House website flip.it/xB5I6p
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Look I get it's awful that Trump hired an anti-Semite for a top WH position, but he didn't have a private email server, so it all evens out
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So brilliant in its simplicity/impact: Women in Iceland protest 14 percent pay gap by leaving work 14 percent early nytlive.nytimes.com/womenint…
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