Tweets from 01/06 to 01/10
As promised (or threatened), this is the weekly Twitter roundup. Note that tweets of articles generally include header images from the articles, which are not included here unless they happen to be available under a free license. Most are not.
9:02 AM ¡ Mon 06 January 2020
Immigration Detention Is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else from The Intercept
âŚimmigration prison is a reminder that human bondage based on racial and economic markers of undesirability canât be relegated to some distant pastâŚ
12:00 PM - Mon 06 January 2020
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
9:03 AM - Tue 07 January 2020
Extinction Rebellion is using holacracy to scale its international movement from Quartz
âWeâre not dogmaticâŚitâs an adaptive versionââŚ
12:02 PM - Tue 07 January 2020
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
9:05 AM - Wed 08 January 2020
How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again from Vice News
âŚan ocean of costly servicesâall rushing to hide exclusive content behind paywallsâŚ
12:03 PM - Wed 08 January 2020
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
9:04 AM - Thu 09 January 2020
When auto assembly plants close, opioid deaths rise from Futurity
âŚfive years after the plants closed, opioid overdose mortality rates among adults ages 16 to 65 in those counties were 85% higherâŚ
12:01 PM - Thu 09 January 2020
We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9:01 AM - Fri 10 January 2020
Deceased GOP Strategistâs Daughter Makes Files Public That Republicans Wanted Sealed from NPR
âState legislature, it doesnât matter who votes for what. Congress, it doesnât matter who votes for what. And president, it doesnât matter,â she says.
12:04 PM - Fri 10 January 2020
One dies only once, and then for such a long time!
Molière
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