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In much of SF, you can’t walk 20 feet without seeing a sign declaring that Black lives matter and no human being is illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against the new housing that would bring those values closer to reality.

Poorer families — disproportionately nonwhite and immigrant — are pushed into long commutes, overcrowded housing and homelessness. Those inequalities have turned deadly during the pandemic.

And it's not just SF:

"What we see at times is people with a Bernie Sanders sign and a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign in their window, but they’re opposing an affordable housing project or an apartment complex down the street," @Scott_Wiener told me.

There is a danger — not just in California, but everywhere — that politics becomes an aesthetic rather than a program.

It’s a danger on the right, where Donald Trump modeled a presidency that cared more about retweets and owning the libs than passing bills.

It’s also a danger on the left, where the symbols of progressivism are often preferred to the sacrifices and risks those ideals demand.

sexnotgender.info
@Sexnotgender_

Hi @TaviAndPort @pauljthinks @paulburstow @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @RJHilsenrath @trussliz @GEOgovuk

I note the advert for a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for your Gender Identity Development Service

The Equal opportunities...

https://t.co/tCtFN6x2q8

1/11

The Equal opportunities section of the job application mentions the Equality Act 2010 four times and correctly lists sex as a protected characteristic.

However, you then ask, "Please indicate your gender" with options:

Male
Female.

2/11

'Gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

https://t.co/qisFhCiV1u

3/11

Sex is the protected characteristic and the only two possible options for sex are 'Female' and 'Male' as defined in the Act and consistent with biology, but you don't ask for that.

https://t.co/CEJ0gkr6nF

'Gender' is not a synonym for sex.

4/11

Asking about a personal characteristic such as 'gender' that is not a protected characteristic under the Act, may be in breach of the GDPR by processing personal - and potentially Special Category - data without a lawful basis.

5/11

$M\xe1ir\xe9ad Enright$

Máiréad Enright
@maireadenright

Ok so, the NI #motherandbabyhomes report and its ROI counterpart are not directly comparable for many reasons. However, the NI report models some best practice that deserves to be highlighted/praised.

With @seanoco78853943 and @LiviDeeHistory and John Privilege it's been a long road but very glad to see this report published today https://t.co/MpPPkmepxi
— Leanne McCormick (@Leannemcck) January 26, 2021

I (obviously) haven't had time to read the whole thing yet. (But at a first glance, it strikes me as well-written, so I have it on my list).

Like the ROI Commissioners, the academic authors here have huge power over the story. They carefully make themselves accountable for their scholarship and its effects. So here are some good things:

1) The Report attributes its origins to recommendations of UN Treaty bodies. It doesn't engage in sustained human-rights-based analysis, but doesn't ignore it either.

2) The researchers behind the report were appointed following a competitive tendering process.

Privacy International
@privacyint

1 - @EFF revealed today how the LAPD have been requesting Ring doorbell cameras footage of Black Lives Matter protests (https://t.co/FtPoYH3Hn2). Here is a short thread on why this is part of a worrying bigger picture.

1.1 - Over 2,000 public safety agencies have signed formal partnerships with Ring worldwide. The partnerships allow police to use a law-enforcement portal to canvass local residents for footage without

1.2 - Warrants exist to protect us. Law enforcement needs to justify access on reasonable suspicion.

1.3 - Normalising bulk footage requests from people without warrants is dangerous. It adds to the state's plethora of mass surveillance tools.

2 - Public-Private surveillance partnerships can seriously undermine our freedoms and alter democratic societies by normalising surveillance. You shouldn't have to worry that your tech purchases might be used for surveillance purposes.

Paul Mason
@paulmasonnews

The Chartwells/Compass free school meals package scandal is a teachable moment about capitalism. 1/ Why do so many families need free school meals? Because real wages have stagnated while profits soared...

2/ Why packages and not vouchers? Because the big outsourcers like Compass *lobbied the government* against vouchers, claiming they could use their scale to provide cheaper food...

3/ Here's the business model in a single graphic. Buy food as cheap as possible. Achieve growth by replacing/acquiring smaller, higher-quality providers, hire the cheapest possible labour...("we focus relentlessly on costs")... but it's not done to make huge bottom line profits

4/ If you look at a normal year, Compass and other big outsourcers make relatively meagre profits... they grow, and drive dividends, by acquisition - not by innovation... (except in ways to cut costs)...

5/ Businesses like this were created by the state. They're not the product of the market, or consumer choice, but of regulation. They survive on wafer thin margins because that's how the govt structured the market...

Dr. Jane Clare Jones
@janeclarejones

To the small group of women, many of whom have platforms to protect, who are intent on throwing other women under the bus.

1. That a small number of transitioned trans women have been using women's spaces for a long time is not the same as the impact of a new rights movement

To the small group of cis women worried about sharing spaces with trans women: you\u2019ve almost certainly already been doing so for most of ur life. The online trend of anti-trans hysteria is new, not trans women existing in th world we all share (under patriarchy we all experience)
— Sally Rugg (@sallyrugg) January 15, 2021

that demands that *anybody is a women only on the basis of self-declaration* and explicitly includes cross-dressers under the trans umbrella. There was less than 5000 people who received a GRC. The estimates of the numbers of cross-dressers in the male population is around 4%.

THAT is a MASSIVE difference.

2. Therefore, any comments you make re: women's current resistance are irrelevant. We are not responding to the same thing.

3. Calling women's concerns about the number of males who may now have access to their intimate spaces 'hysteria'

immediately discredits you as a feminist. (Hello Judy!)

4. Female people are socialised into the rapeable class. They are subjected to objectification and violation from childhood, and especially from their early teens. This has a massive impact on

The world can be scary for women: we are at risk of violence from men we know and men we don\u2019t, we can be ridiculed and ignored in health settings, mocked in popular culture, excluded from opportunities for leadership and power. Cis women share all these experiences w trans women
— Sally Rugg (@sallyrugg) January 15, 2021

mental health and sense of their own personhood. Many of us experience being female as fucking traumatic. We *do not* share this experience with people who go through childhood and puberty as males, and whose impression of what 'being female' means is informed by patriarchal

Numberonepal
@numberonepal

1/ Stolen shamelessly from the boards...

Still trusting the plan?

Perhaps it's time to understand the plan?

Big Red Pill.

Can Anons Swallow?

Or will anons dismiss, cry LARP and follow the sword?

Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall

Some quick thoughts on what we just saw

Firstly hardly a unique insight but hard to overstimate the difference between the two last inaugurals. America has meandered sharply along its political arc.

Biden's rhetoric reached high. Every sentence seemed purposefully...

BREAK: Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.

The Trump administration is over.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) January 20, 2021

...constructed to negate every political and personal characteristic of his predecessor.

And insofar as he's not Trump, that he does accept, cherish and understand democratic norms, institutions and conventions in a way that Trump never could, Biden will make a real difference.

He will change the tone and tenor of politics, not only in America but across the West. As I've said before, just replacing Trump is a substantial victory for him and will earn him praise from historians.

But that aura will disappear quickly. A governing project it will not make

But how much praise he receives and stature conferred by posterity will depend on what happens next.

Because the big overarching question for me, watching this, is which of those two inaugurals, Trump or Biden's, is going to seem unusual in the future.

The relief that many are feeling is predicated on a type of politics ending. But it is at least as possible that it is Biden ..not Trump who is the last gasp of something. Is it Trump who is the dying embers of a dying, increasingly powerless old white America...

oatc
@_oatc_

@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 1/ Completely untrue. What benefit is there for you in such lies?

The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.

In 2009 the veteran gender expert Prof Richard Green, recently…

@NotRightRuth 2/…retired head of the world's largest adult GIC - London's Charing Cross - was so disgusted🔗 at the psychoanalytically-based pediatric clinic, GIDS' stubborn refusal to prevent the harm he had seen to those arriving at adult

@NotRightRuth 3/…by neglecting to provide "blockers" (GnRH agonists) other clinics had used for >20yrs(📽️1995) that he organised a conference of 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇧🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧 experts, patients & families on hormone treatment in adolescence with trans patients at @imperialcollege

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege 4/…advise them. The heads of GIDS - which had sought & just been granted an exclusive national contract - just sat silent the entire day. That so upset Prof Spack🔗📽️ of @BostonChildrens that he announced that any UK family with a trans

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 5/…who could get to Boston🇺🇸🖼️ would be treated free of charge. Yet it was another 4yrs before those peer clinics finally budged them by showing them that their last ground for refusal - that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 patients were different & it was impossible for GIDS to know which were trans…

Sunshiny
@sunnshiiny

Dr. Fauci is a renowned expert.

Here he communicates why the vaccination of as many people as possible as quickly is possible is required.

This completely debunks the conservatives rationale that lives

I’ll explain in more detail.

We now have two deadlier and more contagious variants of Covid circulating across the globe. The vaccines developed are less than 95% effective. It’s more like 50%, maybe less.

Some believe it’s hardly worth the effort to achieve 50% efficacy.

This is untrue. Viruses mutate quickly and effectively when transmitted from person to person. Becoming infected allows the virus to mutate. Eliminate transmission or widespread infection, and the virus’s ability to mutate into deadlier forms is eliminated.

While the vaccine may not prevent infection, it will boost human immunity that transmission is more difficult. Reduced amounts of covid transmission means less opportunity for the virus to mutate.

That’s how everything works.

The same applies to toddlers and teenagers. (No they aren’t viruses, this is an analogy).

The busier toddlers and teenagers are, the less likely they are to get into trouble. Which is why a good parent keeps their toddlers and teenagers active and engaged in supervised activity.

$#SalmondIsComing \U0001f352 ( Bridges For Indy)$

#SalmondIsComing 🍒 ( B...
@bridgesforindy

Joanna Cherry threatener named.
Make him famous Twitter.
#GrantKarte

#GrantKarte

#GrantKarte

https://t.co/Gvd6TGkop4

#GrantKarte

The *Real* History Wom...
@historywoman

THREAD- So racist Leeze Lawrence has been elected as office bearer in an SNP affiliate group. How can it be? We’ve all seen the racist, sexist abuse. Is it anything to do with a new twitter name? Unfortunately for Leeze we’ve got proof that the abuse is from the same account 1/19

So has Leeze convinced the SNP that the abuse is from a fake account? “Nowt to do with me, Guv?” Leeze’s account name used to be @Miss_Leeze, it's now @Ms_Leeze, apparently it's an attempt to deny association with the vile bile, archived below: 2/19

The trans activist Leeze Lawrence posted racist tweets then deleted them then claimed they were fake. Unfortunately for Leeze she has a lot more racist tweets as yet undeleted but this time they're archived. It's shocking stuff. Here's a thread with links to archive and originals pic.twitter.com/n2lWxkVISR
— The *Real* History Woman (@historywoman) June 23, 2019

Harsh Vatsa
@HarshVatsa7

One in four hydropower project sites along the Himalayan Rivers are likely to face severe damage from earthquake-triggered landslides, according to a research. #UttarakhandDisaster #earthquake @nivedita_Him @yamunajiye @Upadhyay_Cavita @Indian_Rivers @hridayeshjoshi

The research was conducted by researchers from the University of Potsdam, Germany, who compiled damages to 41 hydropower projects after Nepal’s 2015 #earthquake, and used that data to estimate earthquake-triggered damages to projects in other parts of #Himalayas. @yamunajiye

The model developed by the research team took into account the combined effect of ground shaking (Peak Ground acceleration) & river steepness (Mχ) and was applied to projects in Indian, Nepalese and Bhutanese #Himalayas.
@yamunajiye @hridayeshjoshi @nivedita_Him @Upadhyay_Cavita

The findings indicate that more than 10% of Himalayan rivers may be unsuitable for hydropower infrastructure given high probabilities of high co-seismic damages and ~25% of Hydropower projects are located along these reaches. #UttarakhandDisaster
#earthquake

The study points to an urgent need to re-evaluate hydropower development in the Himalayas. The model used in the study would also help in making a more accurate assessment of risks at locations for potential hydropower plants. #UttarakhandDisaster

papa wemba!
@lexyy4real

Age has nothing to do with delivery of good governance.. Yahaya Bello, Bukola Saraki, ORJI Uzor Kalu, Tunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi were all in their early/mid 40s when they became governors, we know what their report cards says as regards their performance...
There was a time

We had a speaker at the national assembly who was in his 30s, single and very eloquent...He didn't pass any meaningful bill as regards the problems we have today...If you elect the so called angels in political offices today, will you also terminate the appointments of your

Parents, family members, husbands, wives and friends who are also stealing in the ministries that they work? It's really a difficult thing to do..The problem we are faced today isn't institutional but foundational...
Some of u abroad who see some of us that Partisan

As traitors, always wishing the worse for us and having a mindset that we will call you to our rescue are just ignorant and unnecessarily dramatic!
We can't change or take charge of these political offices from outside!
The US have better candidates than Trump and Biden, they

Both belong to parties that we have all known since we were born..The UK has the labour and the conservatives..If you feel we are not doing it well here, fucking come back home and take charge! I wouldn't be intimidated because of my partisanship! I will support my party and

Dr Finn Mackay Adult H...
@Finn_Mackay

There is so much wrong with this article, it's hard to know where to begin. Lesbians are not extinct, nor are lesbians close to extinction. The L Word has never really been as popular as "gay" & this has long been the case, it's not a new thing....

Then in the context of Queer activism, DIY activism & the burgeoning internet culture in the 90's younger adults did not seem to like to be labelled, or boxed into labels. It is still popular for younger adults to describe themselves as fluid, in terms of sexuality, gender...

Earlier, 70s/80s there had been an attack on #butch lesbians in the LGBT community, not from trans women, but from lesbian feminists & lesbian feminist theory, which branded butch #lesbians sadomasochists copying het roles & eroticising sexism & the oppression of femme lesbians..

There was also the so-called 'lesbian sex-wars' of the 80s which was really about Radical Feminist theory & lesbian feminist theory politically critiquing the industries of porn & prostitution, but also reflexively critiquing sexual practices like BDSM in the lesbian community...

There should always be space for such reflexivity, but what this was turned into was a false dichotomy between 'anti-sex' & 'pro-sex' feminists. This played into ancient misogynistic beliefs about lesbians as prudish, ugly, non-sexual, monstrous spinsters etc etc, NOT that this..

$Antifascist Trash Panda \u2199\ufe0f\u2199\ufe0f\u2199\ufe0f\U0001f99d$

Antifascist Trash Pand...
@trashpandaAFA

1/ Meet Mark E Smith, 50, of Ravenna, OH. Mark was part of the riot that did the insurrection at the U.S. capitol 1/6 in Washington DC. Thanks to a couple tips we were able to place Mark with several Ohio Proud Boys at the U.S. capitol.

Welcome to hell, Mark!

2/ Mark E Smith's aliases: Joel, Big Moe, Moeloco Venice, & the lesser known "Moskaroni the Morni" which we'll get to in a hot minute.

Anyway, Mark hung out with the Ohio Proud Boys 1/6 in Washington DC. Circled is Joe Sitosky who we exposed here: https://t.co/tmRABvit2b

1/ Meet Joseph Robert Sitosky (aka Joe Spadaro), 27, of Mogadore/Ravenna, OH. Joe was part of the riot that did the insurrection at the U.S. capitol 1/6. He thought it'd be cool to f*ck around, and now he's gonna find out.

Welcome to hell, Joe! pic.twitter.com/LyfIt8V6Ka
— Antifascist Trash Panda \u2199\ufe0f\u2199\ufe0f\u2199\ufe0f\U0001f99d (@trashpandaAFA) January 26, 2021

3/ FAIR USE to show context.

This short video clip shows Joe Sitosky, Mark Smith, and the Ohio Proud Boys all marching together in Washington, DC on 1/6.

Listen to Mark yell, "CRIPS for Trump!" Yes, *those* Crips.

4/ Mark Smith was (is?) a member of the Crips, a gang based in the coastal regions of Southern California, hence the aliases Moeloco Venice and Big Moe.

Mark mentions being a teenager in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Venice is a neighborhood in Los Angeles.

5/ Mark Smith of Ravenna, OH volunteers in his community...we bring this up because in the next tweets we'll show that Mark is racist & fascist. Mark's community needs to be warned about his beliefs.

Jonathan Mesiano-Crook...
@jmcrookston

[From a chat. Someone asked what the origin for most infection comes from close contact]

From the epi reports where you ask the person what they did for a week, etc, and then find that they were close to a positive at some point, so the conclusion is "aha, close contact"

You're never going to know if its because of the 2m with that person, or being in some small room with someone else, because nobody is looking for air spread. Conclusion is that it's the close contact.

Why? because EPI STUDIES ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DROPLET

Every question, etc, asked, is from the point of view that nothing except certain specific viruses (measles, etc.) are airborne.

Because remember, to them, if air, R0 would = a billion.

https://t.co/cjJvGVY4Vr

Right now when people tell you there is no airborne spread remember THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR AIRBORNE SPREAD BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT.

This is why elevator buttons get blamed instead of aerial transmission - they don't believe in aerial transmission.
— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne (@jmcrookston) December 2, 2020

That's why if you read the CDC reports, it's rare for them to analyse beyond 2m. Usually its asian studies that do. And even then barely (the South Korean one, even still, used droplet language).

SK

This is a very important paper.

Transmission over more than 2m with only 5 min exposure - captured by CCTV.

Contact tracers don't even look for these connections.

Actual articlehttps://t.co/GyTJo5Y1Jb

cc @jljcolorado @kprather88 @DrPieterPeach @DrKatrin_Rabiei @NjbBari3 https://t.co/onPWqvNzhJ
— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne (@jmcrookston) December 2, 2020