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Why govt can't be "run like a business"-"Businesses get to choose their customers, gov has to serve everyone"-Boston CIO @jfh at #cfasummit
Micah Sifry
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Micah Sifry
@Mlsif
Co-founder, CivicHall.org. Read theconnector.substack.com, on democracy, organizing and tech. Also find me at mastodon.social/@msifry & msifry.bsky.social
- A dear old friend who is an NYC high school teacher posted this on his door at school today.
- “My question is whether this speech was a politically savvy move”—literally the first words out of Asma Khaled of NPR’s team commenting on Biden’s democracy speech. Gah. They’re hopeless.
- It's funny that Facebook makes its users (the product) use their real names, but it allows its custormers (the advertisers) to use any name.
- I'm starting a White House petition demanding that Rachel Maddow release Trump's tax returns.
- A short thread on what it feels like to be in NY right now: Yesterday is when I understood what our friends in Italy were trying to tell us a few ago, about the intensity of so much loss in such a short time. (1/n)
- Endorsing, and adding that this is what happens when you treat news as a game.
- Replying to @MlsifWhen I hear people elsewhere in the US talking about a death rate of 1 or 2 percent being an acceptable cost, because we can't bear the economic pain, I want to shake them by the throat. Losing just a tenth or twentieth of that level is already a horror. (5/n)
- Enough with the open nastiness and outright hatred being normalized by so-called leaders of the Westchester Jewish community against @JamaalBowmanNY. I am a Westchester Jew, a supporter of Israel, and consider JB a friend, even if we don't always agree.
- I wish no one described 1/6 as terrorism. Terrorists attack civilians to make a statement. This was worse: the coordinated use of violence by a party leader, aimed at stealing power. It was an attempted coup. The people who did it and encouraged it should be tried for sedition.
- On Holocaust Memorial Day, recall what "Fortress America" advocate Sen. Robert Reynolds (D-NC) said in 1941
