Thread- History Explains.

Trump being taken out by the Senate is the same a Caesar, in that: The elite despise populist reforms because they dislike the lower classes.

They believe Trump has only ingratiated himself to the common people to take power from the Senate. 1/7

As with Caesar the Senate are removing him in order to protect their institutions.

If folks knew anything about Roman history, this take down signaled the end of the empire as a Republic.

Years of civil war following Caesar’s death resulted in... 2/7

...resulted in a senate that granted Octavian full control. He became the first Augustus.

A God-King.

The very thing Caesar was assassinated to prevent.

Jesus came during this time of God-Kings. They also wanted to kill Him.

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Mark 10:45 “I did not come to be served, but to serve.” -Jesus.

Jesus was seen as ingratiating Himself to the common people by healing & forgiving them. His ministry was said by the religious to be that of Beelzebub (Lord of the flies). 4/7

They had to be careful about grabbing Jesus in public, because those filthy common people flocked to Him.

The people were supposed to revere the institution of religion. Something had to be done to restore things...

The Sanhedrin was a religious Senate. 5/7

#AYA

1. Precious Beloved Ones!

Breathe Deeply As I Hold You Near. Let Us Be Together As ONE. Allow The Love That You Truly Are, To Come Forth And Heal All Around You!  Without Love, There Is No Hope.

With Love, Everything Is Possible.  Everything.

Here are there I’m seeing surprise expressed at the white women players in storming the capitol.

I want to talk about that because I’m not surprised.

I’m not surprised because as a fiber artist I’ve seen these women for DECADES.

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These are the women who were tone policing knitters of color on newsgroups and mailing lists in the 1990s.

These are the women who don’t see color and just came here to do their craft thing and why does everything have to be about politics?

These are the women who were doxxing and swatting other crocheters in a group I moderated (and shut down) in 2005 on livejournal.

These are the women who, along with their hovering spouses, have open carried in my handspinning classroom.

These are the women who made lists of anti-trump fiber arts teachers and circulated those for harassment.

These are the women who post reviews on Amazon saying “she’s a racist who banned me because I’m white.”

These are the women who hate it when someone says “fuck.”

These are the WHITE WOMEN who say “stop the hate! This is supposed to be about the knitting.” Or spinning or weaving or whatever.

Twitter is a wasteland. Evidence...

In 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring, thousands of union members occupied the Wisconsin state capitol - shutting down the legislature in an effort to stop anti-union legislation. Months later, the Occupy movement exploded. A thread on how this relates to #DC + why it matters.

Mass demonstrations of upwards of 100,000 union members, community groups, and their supporters broke out in early 2011 against the Wisconsin Act 10, which attacked collective bargaining, health care and pensions. By February 20th, a physical occupation of the capitol began.

"In Wisconsin, public sector workers, students, and others more generally occupied the Capitol building to stop it from functioning. They prevented the legislative process, the transition from paper, to voting quorum, to the laws taking effect, and thus manifested a force..."

In early March, after being locked out of the capitol, union protesters re-occupied the building while chanting "general strike!"

Inside the occupied capitol, assemblies were held and food was shared communally. On the outside, strikes were called and solidarity occupations broke out at universities. Talk of a general strike filled the air.

A brief update to the focal S:N501 builds to start your Friday off right! This one includes data from 7 Jan 21.

We have about 20 new sequences each in 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2.

Let's take a look at the new sequences, starting with 501Y.V1

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https://t.co/kT1gFsSZn0

There are 22 new non-UK sequences in 501Y.V1, including for the first time from Luxembourg (3), & additional seqs from Singapore (1), Australia (4), France (12), & Switzerland (2).

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First, Luxembourg has 3 sequences in 501Y.V1 for the first time. Each represents a separate introduction.

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France has 12 new sequences (orange). Many of these represent independent introductions.

Zooming in (divergence view), we can see 2 new sequences are identical (possible local transmission), & 2 differ by 2 mutations (1 each).

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Australia has 4 new sequences (red and orange) which are spread across the tree, representing separate additional introductions.

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There's more today on the weirdness of a housing boom in the midst of the worst economic crisis in 300 years, helped by temporary tax breaks that will expire - probably before Lockdown3 comes to an end.

It's always puzzling why people aren't more repulsed when lenders report "soaring" house prices; we wouldn't, for example, welcome "soaring" gas or electricity prices - or soaring bread prices. But in any case that's what Halifax says they have been doing:

"Soaring" sounds very different if you're hoping to be a first-time buyer than if you're a potential seller who thinks 'ah - freebie time'. That something for nothing mentality has led politicians for decades to think it's bad politics to have prices fall.

...and to spend taxpayers' money propping them up (from mortgage interest relief in the late 1980s to Help to Buy to the current stamp duty holiday). But the reality is that unless your next move in the housing market is to downsize - rising house prices work against you.

Today the estate agency chain Chestertons highlights a huge imbalance in supply and demand: “There were 4% more homes for sale in 2020 than the previous year compared to a more than 40% rise in buyers." And apparently the outlook for the market is therefore 'positive'.

I turn 44 later this year; God willing of course; earlier today I was thinking about how a lot of this went down; I remember the OJ case, and Rodney King - is right around where things started to go 'backwards' again; Let me explain if you don't mind ...

Look at TV in the 80s

if some of you follow me you 'might' remember me talking about a TV Show, I used to watch as a kid, but must not have watched it too faithfully; I forgot all about it, till I saw a clip on YouTube; and a lot of memories came back; The theme song; dude being clumsy, etc -

still I probably never saw entire seasons; most likely I just caught it when it was on; the show was called #TheGreatestamericanHero :: just 'an example' here :: not even sure what's in this episode... but, I bet it was 'diverse' -- I'll explain

one of these episodes I saw, featured a black man as one of the 'main friends' of one of the characters; another was In charge of an entire army division; Neither, were shuckin or jivin; playing 'lesser than' roles; and again this is the 80's - who watched Magnum P.I. ?

On #MagnumPI our brother, was also an Equal; One of the baddest cats ON the show in fact; Did it all - highly skilled, but at no points, "Lesser than" anybody. 80's tv was actually presenting a 'narrative' of equality in America; or at least,

Unconfirmed points that Pashinyan might sign in Moscow on his official visit:

1- Withdrawal of all Armenian troops from Karabakh, the surrender of 16 settlements in Armenia, a corridor to Azerbaijan through Meghri.

2- Aliyev will demand from Pashinyan to agree to disband the OSCE Minsk Group. Instead of this group, a trilateral or 4-way negotiation format will be created.

3- Aliyev will demand that Pashinyan no longer raise the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, since Azerbaijan has already resolved this issue, and the maximum that the Armenians can count on is cultural autonomy within Azerbaijan.

4- Aliyev will demand from Pashinyan that official visits from Armenia to Karabakh be stopped. All official visits should have permission from Baku. Only private visits, as well as humanitarian visits, can be carried out without the permission of Azerbaijan.

5- In the process of establishing the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Yerevan must cede 16 villages to Azerbaijan and this process must be legislatively enshrined in a special agreement dated January 11.+

1) I
don't like watching videos of people dying.

I forced myself to watch the #AshliBabbitt video.

I won't post it, but it can be found.

I have some questions.

To my quasi-untrained eye, it appeared to be a Glock .45 ACP that killed her.

So: by popular demand (my mum) a quick guide.

The 25th amendment was ratified- i.e. became part of the US constitution in 1967. The amendment is basically about clarifying the presidential and vice presidential succession.

You see, Article 2 of the Constitution says "In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President"

But this is quite vague.

So when W.H. Harrison was the first president to die in office in 1841, it wasn't really clear what powers his VP, John Tyler, would have, nor what he would be called (president? acting president?)

Tyler took the oath and became president. This set a precedent.

Until the 1960s, convention dictated that if a president died in office, then their VP became president, was called the president, and had the powers of the president. Fine.

But this was not spelled out in law. And there were some outstanding questions:

1. If a VP becomes President, then how is the VP replaced?

2. What if the president is unwell, or unable to perform his role for some other reason? How can that be managed?

Delhi High Court begins hearing PILs seeking recognition of same-sex marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act, the Special Marriage Act and the Foreign Marriage Act.

#DelhiHighCourt #samesexmarriage #marriage

PIL with respect to Hindu Marriage Act has been preferred by Abhjit Iyer Mitra, Gopi Shankar M, Giti Thadani and G Oorvasi.

PIL with respect to Special Marriage Act is by Dr Kavita Arora and her partner, Ankita Khanna.

#samesexmarriage

@Iyervval

Petitioners in Foreign Marriage Act PIL are Vaibhav Jain and his partner, Parag Vijay Mehta.

Petitions are before Division Bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Sanjeev Narula.

#samesexmarriage

Are pleadings complete? : Court

No reply has been filed : Counsel

Counsel for UOI , Nehul Sharma: We need three weeks time.

Medical/Science Twitter - Do not trust IT hotshots with actual science data unless they have been trained in the real processes, know scientific method and their account/project/product managers approach with an established and medically respectable kind of taxonomy, plan, etc.

👋I will literally volunteer to sit in on these vendor pitches and translate snake oil sales pitches to make sure the stakeholder/end user requirements and needs and priorities are clearly defined so shit like this stops being a viable business model that does nothing but harm.👋

Very few people in IT at any actual level that is being given respect right now out of dire necessity have the kind of training or experience to handle this shit. Few if any of the data models that have been accepted and are being used follow the HIPAA-grade science methodology.

I only know this stuff because I built and managed informational and compliance portals for a pharmacy chain's operations team and designed/built/launched a ton of stuff for uses with ACA. And my best friend from home is doctor who keeps me in medical research journals if I ask.

But the need to approach this virus as a true unknown with constant expected variable shifts and false positives and correlating behaviors that may or may not even be related to each other as the real research work is being done is imperative. Don't buy IT's easy answers to this.

BIG NEWS: The NYT just published this adapted excerpt from my forthcoming book! They titled the excerpt "We Need a Second Great Migration." The title of the book is #TheDevilYouKnow. The excerpt will be the cover of the Sunday Review. So excited...

1. Because this is an excerpt, and the entire book is an argument that builds, the excerpt can only capture so much and will likely leave people with question (a good thing). But, let me address a few things in this thread...

2. This for me is not a theory or thought experiment. I believe completely in this plan. I have moved to Atlanta myself.

3. The idea of moving with political intentionality, to take over a state or colonize it, is not new. People have been talking about it in one from or another since slavery.

4. Perhaps the most successful example of it was not carried out by black people but white ones. In 1971 two Yale law students publish an article in the Yale Law Review called "Jamestown Seventy" in which they propose this idea of "radical federalism," taking over a state.

This #thread describes Banda Singh Bahadur's entry into Delhi on February 27th, 1716, taken from from a letter dated March 10, 1716, written by Messrs. John Surman and Edward Stephenson to the Hon'ble Robert Hedges, President and Governor of Fort William, Council in Bengal.

John Surman and Edward Stephenson and their Secretary, Hugh Barker, were then present in the Mughal capital as ambassadors of the East India Company's Council in Bengal to the Court of Emperor Farruk-Siyar.

Under instructions of their principals, the ambassadors maintained a regular diary of the events and transactions at the royal court, and wrote to Calcutta to keep the headquarters informed of the political and other developments there.

🗺️Historical Map of India 1700-1792

The letter can be found in the Madras Diary and Consultation Book for 1715 to 1719, No 87, Range 237 in the India Office (Commonwealth Relations Office), London.

It has been reproduced in C.R Wilson's The Early Annals of the English in Bengal, volume II, part II (Calcutta, 1991), pp. 96-98, it has also been reproduced in J.T Wheeler's Early Records of British India, pp. 180.

THREAD on conspiracy theories & attachment.
I keep seeing frustrated social media posts asking why people believe conspiracy theories. Answer: It gives a sense of control - includng belonging, predictability & safety. It's emotional regulation. Here's research to unpack that.

2. "Participants with an 'ambivalent attachment style' were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories....The findings add further evidence that attachment not only influences how a person interacts with others, but also influences world views."

3. "People have a strong need to feel positive abt the groups they belong, such as their nationality, political party & religious group. A conviction that others conspire against one's group is more likely to emerge when the group feels undervalued." 2019

4. "Conspiracy theories are consequential as they have a real impact on people's health, relationships, and safety. They are emotional given that negative emotions and not rational deliberations cause conspiracy beliefs."

5. "Ostracized participants were more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs related to political issues. Moreover, heightened vulnerability mediated the link between ostracism and conspiracy beliefs."

Here are some resources you need as a designer/developer to work on your level of productivity.👨‍💻🍀

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After some conversations with friends around $DIGG it seems like @BadgerDAO needs to do a better job explaining how we are tackling composability with $bDIGG.

1 of the most frequent criticisms of rebasing tokens is the lack of composability with DeFi protocols.

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For those unfamiliar, DIGG is based off the AMPL code base. The most battle tested elastic cryptocurrency in the market.

Instead of being pegged to USD, DIGG is targeting the price of #Bitcoin

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Due to the elastic nature of rebasing tokens, centralized parties (like exchanges) and DeFi protocols (like money markets) have some trouble integrating.

DeFi in particular thrives because of the composable lego pieces. Not having that is problematic.

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The secret sauce Badger has are its vaults which currently hold over $600M in tokenized Bitcoin.

When you deposit in a vault today you get a “b” token back which represents your share of the vault.

We then ask you to stake that to quantify your multiplier.

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Our attempt at making a rebasing asset more composable is by using the vault representation of your deposited DIGG aka $bDIGG which DOESNT REBASE.

At launch we will have a DIGG only vault where users can deposit to earn APY in the form of $BADGER & $DIGG.