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    Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic struck the United States, and the economy sputtered in the direction of collapse. Social distancing protocols

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    • Let’s be 💯% clear: work requirements help CREATE more poverty. ⁦@WHCOS, ⁦@VP⁩ and ⁦@POTUS⁩ cannot sacrifice the most vulnerable Americans to the ⁦@GOP⁩’s hostage taking. It’s grotesque, reprehensible, cruel. Cc: ⁦@just_shelter⁩ https://t.co/Pl8agMFLSP

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    “I remember, along with other nurses in my workplace, feeling like canaries in a coal mine,” said Elizabeth Lalasz of the early days of Covid-19, when

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    • .@sarahljaffe raises Kotsko's ideas of moral entrapment and demonization in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic in her @nybooks piece from April 2022. https://t.co/dO6AXd3As9

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    “I remember, along with other nurses in my workplace, feeling like canaries in a coal mine,” said Elizabeth Lalasz of the early days of Covid-19, when

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    • I don't know how I missed this when it came out. This piece by @sarahljaffe is a must-read: "The Great Ungrieving." Most of our pundits, politicians, many on this site, will bristle at what's in here, but it's only to justify their own words, actions. https://t.co/dO6AXd3As9

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    Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: Is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is…

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    • It's OK to say, hey, we were a product of our times, as the late Tony Judt said, ill fared the land, and we were the heirs of Reagan and Thatcher, reacting to the ascendancy of their ideas by accommodating to the power of their influence. 4/ https://t.co/6zFnSrqjzq

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    On the morning of Sunday, June 23, the day the prepublication embargo on Bob Woodward’s The Choice was lifted, The Washington Post, the newspaper for

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