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Published November 27, 2021 by CZ Edwards

Kagan, COVID, Expanding SCOTUS

Originally a Twitter thread.

From Slate: Elena Kagan warns the Supreme Court’s new California COVID decision may kill people.

This is why we lack time for a 180 day thinking period on the USSC. 5 members are radical hard right Catholics. They are extremist activists far outside of mainstream.

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Published March 22, 2021 by CZ Edwards

The Monstrous Arrogance

Originally written on Twitter, February 21, 2018.

Nothing has changed, except it’s gotten worse.

Reposting it here, now, because there is no room in my heart to say this again.

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Published September 15, 2020 by CZ Edwards

Recycled Satanic Panic 3: Displaced Anxiety and Role Playing

Twitter thread. This was also an extemporaneous thread, rather than pre-composed, so this post corrects any egregious lack of clarity. Twitter was my first draft.

Subtitle: Another way conspiracy displaces real anxiety

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Published September 14, 2020 by CZ Edwards

Recycled Satanic Panic 2: The myth of Stranger Danger & (white, child) Trafficking

Twitter thread/ minor grammatical fixes included for clarity. The twitter thread was an off-the-cuff first draft, not polished.

Trafficking?
1) It applies WAY more to the guys at Home Depot you hire for $30/day to tear out the weeds, not children.
2) And the women who sew all the cheap crap you wear.
3) And the people who pick your vegetables.
4) And teens thrown out of their parents’ home & forced into sex work to eat.

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Published March 25, 2020 by CZ Edwards

Dying for the Dow

Originally a Twitter thread, posted on March 25, 2020 (minor edits for clarity)

It’s no secret that I orbit Ursula LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. I read it first when I was 11 or 12. It started my relationship with ethics, utilitarianism, pro-social responsibility, …everything. I love it & hate it. (It’s short.)

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Published May 12, 2019 by CZ Edwards

Cardiac Cells and How Communities Can Learn to Beat Again.

Expansion on a twitter thread.

Let’s talk about cardiac cells.

You know we can grow them in a Petri dish? When they’re alone, they just twitch. But if they’re touching? They start beating together. It’s What They Do.

Hearts are simple.

They’re just muscle pumps.

It’s why we can yank & reinstall if we have parts.

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