Philosophy prof; views tweeted are mine and not UMD's. Yup, I'm a liberal. Nope, I don't care whether you're an atheist.
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Allen Stairs retweeted
Unpopular COVID take🧵: Just putting this out there—but if you’re not masking in public spaces anymore, your vulnerable friends/family/coworkers have clocked that you’re not a safe person and they’ll never forget it.
Allen Stairs retweeted
Republicans are getting very upset people keep retweeting this ad so I figured I would post for any of you who haven’t seen it yet and then I am going to retweet myself tonight.
Allen Stairs retweeted
The Supreme Court has gone rogue. We are in a full-blown Constitutional crisis. Congress must act. And we must pressure Congress to act, while it still can. #TheMajority
Allen Stairs retweeted
Read @rortybomb on the incredible labor market we have right now—one we can’t afford to sacrifice in the name of calming inflation thenation.com/article/econom…
Allen Stairs retweeted
Folks. I’m tired of washing my hands before surgery so I’m not going to do it any longer. If you get an infection, it’s not my problem.
Allen Stairs retweeted
How do you want to be remembered, @Sen_JoeManchin @SenatorSinema? Ending the filibuster to save our democracy or destroying our democracy to save the filibuster?
Allen Stairs retweeted
Child care. Universal pre-k. Free college universities. Medicare expansion. Climate action. Taxes on the rich and corporations. It’s all in the budget reconciliation package. Why isn’t the media giving this the airtime it deserves?
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Doesn't it seem weird that after one UNSUCCESSFUL shoe-bombing attempt, we have to forevermore take off our shoes to get on a plane, 600,000+ died of #COVID19 + we can't find the will to require vaccination before flying...
Allen Stairs retweeted
Listen, I’m all for space exploration and it must have been an amazing view.
But maybe – and I’m just spitballing here – if Amazon and other companies paid their fair share in taxes, we could lift all kids — if not into space — at least out of poverty.
Sincerely,
Earthlings
Allen Stairs retweeted
Paxton Smith is the valedictorian of Lake Highlands High School's class of 2021. She submitted her commencement speech for approval, then tossed it aside. She had something else to say about the new state law that bans abortions as early as six weeks. dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…
Allen Stairs retweeted
Why did Boehner go along with a government shutdown his members demanded?
"A leader without followers is just a man taking a walk."
Why's Boehner think Kevin McCarthy went along with lies about the election?
"Remember, a leader without followers is just a man taking a walk."
Allen Stairs retweeted
People claim solar power is environmentally friendly, but they don't like to tell you that the key raw material—a known carcinogen—is blasted through 92 MILLION miles of untouched wilderness, nonstop, 24 hours a day.
Allen Stairs retweeted
I've often wondered whether a reason Canadian politics has been more moderate in the 21st c than UK, US, or Australian politics is that there are no Murdoch-owned media properties in Canada.
Allen Stairs retweeted
This pandemic is really complicated
Every day, I interact with colleagues struggling to get it right
I also encounter folks confident they're right.
For them, life is easy: they selectively pick data from complex sea of information and win points
Please don't be that person
Allen Stairs retweeted
I'm old enough to remember when people thought it was hyperbole to say people will die because of Donald Trump's incompetence and negligence.
Allen Stairs retweeted
Dr. Fauci on CBS: "Even though we need to anticipate these rather disturbing numbers, we shouldn't give up and accept it and say, 'OK, that's gonna happen'. We need to push and push with the mitigation to try and get that number lower than the projected number by the model."
Allen Stairs retweeted
A (longish) thread on tradeoffs and false tradeoffs during the COVID-19 crisis
With the unrelenting drop in the stock market and off-the-charts UI claims, there are growing concerns that the economic costs of the “cure” are worse than the health costs of the “problem”
Allen Stairs retweeted
things are so bad in New York that Trump could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and not find anyone to shoot
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Sigh. Feels like we're all suckers in a non-stop political game of three-card Monte.
The new sick-leave bill has giant holes in it — employers with more than 500 employees were exempted. nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opini…
