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On alternate truths.
Sometimes the alternatives are jarring – you look and count a certain number, another person proffers a radically different amount. Surely one of you is mistaken. In the United States, there’s a rift between those who overestimate certain values (size of inauguration crowds, number of crimes committed by immigrants, votes cast by non-citizens, rates of…
45, almond milk, alternate truths, alternative facts, anarchy, animal welfare, capitalism, cashew milk, citizenship, civil liberties, crowd size, dairy industry, extremism, free market capitalism, government, government intervention, Henri Taijfel, overestimaters, political philosophy, politics, property rights, psych experiments, psychology, soy milk, Trump, underestimaters, us vs. them, vegan, veganism
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On Vaughan & Staples’s ‘Saga’ and parenting metaphors.
‘Saga’ beautifully depicts the trials of parenting … like the risk of plunging into a black hole and never seeing your friends again.
A. Zee, astronomy, astrophysics, babies, big stuff, black hole, blame, Brian Vaughan, child abuse, children, comics, curved space, event horizon, fatherhood, Fiona Staples, graphic novel, gravity, Hawking radiation, interplanetary travel, Interstellar, Lying Cat, math, numeracy, On Gravity, overcoming sexual abuse, overcoming trauma, parenting, physics, PTSD, relativity, saga, shame, space fetus, the universe, time suck, timesuck, trauma
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On substitutes.
High school classrooms turn chaotic when a sub is running the room … and now they’re sending substitute teachers to maintain order in prisons??
classroom culture, corrections, education, federal hiring freeze, gang control, gang violence, guest teachers, head count, high school, incarceration, insufficient prison guards, Issac Bailey, Issac J Bailey, jail, jail guards, jail staffing, jail violence, mass incarceration, My Brother Moochie, New York Times, prison, prison gangs, prison guards, prison head count, prison murders, prison staffing, prison violence, prison walk throughs, rehabilitation, safety, secretaries patrolling prison, staffing shortage, sub plans, subs, substitute teacher, substitute teacher training, substitute teachers, substitutes, teacher training, teaching in jail, trauma, unsafe jails, unsafe prisons, violence, violence in jail, violence in prison, walk through, who deserves good teachers
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On the dangers of reading.
When my kid reads stuff she can’t quite understand, she only hurts herself. Others cause more harm. Please, vaccinate your child.
45, altering children’s literature, anxiety, books, breast milk, breastfeeding, Calvin and Hobbes, censoring children’s books, censoring children’s literature, censorship, children in human evolution, comics, conspiracy theory, cultivating a child’s reading habits, curating a child’s reading habits, death of a child, disease, disease burden, do vaccines cause autism, do vaccines work, do you like my hat, Donald Trump, Eula Biss, evolution, fatherhood, flu, flu vaccine, Fox Is Famous, Fox on the Job, gender stereotypes, get your child vaccinated, Go Dog Go, growth mindset, H1N1, herd immunity, human evolution, independent reading, James Marshall, kids’ books, learning to read too early, measles, milk, Mutts, Olivia Dahl, On Immunity, open communication, parental censorship, parenting, Patrick McDonnell, preventable death, preventable illness, raising children, Raquel D’Apice, reading, reading too early, research journals, Roald Dahl, science, science deniers, scientific discourse, scientific literacy, scientists, stereotypes, teaching children to read, too young for independent reading, undervaccination, unvaccinated children, vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccines, vaccines don’t cause autism, when a child starts reading
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On intent.
Our criminal justice system routinely destroys lives after divining a person’s intent from actions. But now, suddenly, we need proof.
45, bankrupting the U.S. government, climate change, collusion, conspiracy, Donald Trump, falling tax receipts, handouts to billionaires, heroin, impeachment, inequality, intent to sell, interference in free elections, Is Trump a Russian agent, jail, kickbacks, mass incarceration, methamphetamine, political kickbacks, politics, possession with intent, PotUS, President Trump, proof, racial injustice, racist policing, Rikers, Russian agent, Russian collution, sabotage, soda straw, straw, Trump
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On asymmetry and ‘The Hatred of Poetry.’
Like you, the people in jail have stories to tell.
45, agitation for change, asymmetry, asymmetry of attention, attention, attention economy, Ben Lerner, By Any Measure, county jail, criminal justice, dipole moment, Donald Trump, grammar, hate crime, Hatred of Poetry, idiosynchratic grammar, imprisonment, In Between Poems, incarceration, Jack Gilbert, jail poetry, Jana Prikryl, lockdown, lyric, lyric poems, lyrical poetry, mass incarceration, MFA, Orlando shooting, Philip Warren Anderson, physics, physics of poetry, physics of symmetry, plea for attention, poet, poetry, prison poetry, reading poetry in jail, rehab, rehabilitation, school to prison pipeline, symmetry, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, terrorism, The After Party, The Hatred of Poetry, the internet, the power of words, Thirty Thousand Islands, waning attention spans, why read poetry, why water flows, why write poetry, writing poetry in jail, [jumpsuits]
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On Tao Lin’s ‘Trip,’ targeted advertising, and finding scraps of life in books.
Psychedelics could help you change your life, but our government insists that they have “no accepted medical use.”
A Really Good Day, abusive relationships, addiction, advertising, Ayelet Waldman, Best of Photojournalism, better living through chemistry, body, book review, business cards, capitalism, corporations, dimethyl tryptamine, ditch your phone, DMT, domestic violence, drug rehab, drug use, drugs, entheogens, finding shit in books, hallucinogens, healing power of nature, healing power of psychedelics, incarceration, inner space, jail, jail poetry, LSD, lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethyl amide, magic mushrooms, Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, mind, murder, mushrooms, nature, Pages to Prisoners, Perdue Meats, pharmacology, photography, prison, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychonaut, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, relapse, review, scientific method, self-discovery through drugs, sending books to prisoners, shrooms, slaughterhouse, smartphone addiction, spirit, state-mandated rehab, stuff inside books, Tao Lin, teaching in jail, Terrance McKenna, trip, tripping, tryptamines
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On gerrymandering (a prequel).
The U.S. Senate was designed to subvert democracy and allow a political minority to perpetrate great evil. The system is still working.
congressional districts, democracy, districting, gerrymander, gerrymandering, how much does your vote matter, Michigan 14th district, minority control, murder, rape, representative government, Senate, slavery, stealing representation, suppressing voting rights, the Senate was designed to suppress the vote, torture, U.S. constitution, U.S. politics, U.S. Senate, United States politics, vote, voter suppression, voting, voting rights
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On Tara Westover’s “Educated.”
How can you learn to trust in a world where your beloved family member’s visage might conceal a monster?
alternate histories, alternate history, apocalypse prepping, behavioral change, Charles Reznikoff, cocaine, coke, cultural knowledge, drugs, Educated, eels, endangered eels, etymology, gaslighting, government aid, Hillbilly Elegy, history, Holocaust, Hulk smash, J.D. Vance, jail poetry, Jekyll and Hyde, memory, paranoia, perception, poetry class, poverty, preppers, prison poetry, SNAP, storytelling, Tara Westover, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, The Hulk, the mutability of memory, traumatic brain injury
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On protest, the Supreme Court, and autocratic minority rule.
I was planning an essay on cell phones and surveillance. The central thesis was that our Supreme Court is a massively flawed institution. Many of our current Supreme Court justices are both willfully ignorant and opportunistically illogical. This set of people are not exceptionally knowledgeable, nor are they particularly clever. But we have given them…
45, changing demographics of the United States, detention centers, Donald Trump, free market, gerrymandering, hate machines, human migration, immigration, immigration detention centers, incarceration, Issac Bailey, migration, minority control, murder, My Brother Moochie, political power, PotUS, property rights, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court opinions, supressing influence, Trump, U.S. politics, United States, violence, wilful ignorance, wrenching apart families
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