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Segregation in MN

Posted onApril 3, 2018February 7, 2019 By David Perry

Minnesota remains highly segregated when it comes to adults with disabilities. Read this new Star Tribune report.

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"Although Trump’s willingness to denigrate wounded and fallen soldiers flies in the face of American norms, he’s done it before. In 2015, he called Sen. John McCain a “loser” for getting captured during the Vietnam War, and one year later, he mocked Ghazala Khan, the mother of a fallen U.S. soldier. What’s different about the latest reporting on Trump’s comments is that it comes as we’re mired in a terrible medical crisis, when his terror of sickness is shaping his bungled response and endangering all of us.

I think we’ve generally underestimated the policy implications of Trump’s disgust toward sickness, though the evidence of his sentiments has been present from the start of his political career."

https://gen.medium.com/trumps-contempt-for-the-sick-and-disabled-is-written-all-over-his-covid-response-ff21217ce36e

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Trump’s Contempt for the Sick and Disabled Is Written All Over His Covid Response

The president’s disgust for anyone he deems weak is key to understanding his handling of the pandemic

gen.medium.com

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We woke up like this.

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He smiles at the end of this clip and my heart ... he’s so good at biking and loves it. We went over 3 miles today.

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This is the best thing to read today. Read to the end. Then call your school board and talk about tents and the cheap adaptations to fans.

https://time.com/5883081/covid-19-transmitted-aerosols/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

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COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act.

Aerosols are more important when it comes to transmitting COVID-19 than we thought six months ago—and we need to act accordingly.

time.com

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"There are no perfect options. As Bret C. Devareaux points out in The Atlantic, over the last three decades, public universities have effectively backed themselves into a corner: as state legislatures vote to decrease funding year after year, they’ve shifted their business models to depend on out-of-state tuition, cheap labor from adjunct and contingent faculty, revenue from sports programs, and the “experience” of college life. When COVID makes so much of that impossible, these institutions are, to put it mildly, between fucked and a hard place.

But that doesn’t mean that people need to die. That’s the truth we need to keep shouting: there is no institutional hardship that can excuse people losing their lives or suffering for years to come. It doesn’t have to be this way. And the faculty and staff telling their stories here, from institutions large and small, are here to reaffirm as much."

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/between-fked-and-a-hard-place

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between f**ked and a hard place

What does it feel like to watch a bad idea slowly descend on you — even when everyone realizes it’s a bad idea, but once set in motion, it feels impossible to stop? I realize that’s just what it feels like to live in the United States right now, and that essential workers have been dealing wit...

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My latest for CNN. The decisions our leaders are making are literally life or death and they should be held accountable for results. Please read and consider sharing. Thanks.

"Not only should our leaders be held accountable for what happens next, but right now they should also be fully transparent: publish plans with metrics and thresholds for how they'll decide when to abandon ship on in-person education. Any decision-makers must ask themselves: How many students, faculty, and staff are you willing to let get sick because you reopened dorms and brought students back into classrooms? How many deaths will it take until we once again close our doors? I hope we don't have to find out."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/opinions/unc-coronavirus-and-colleges-reopening-perry/index.html

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Opinion: UNC fiasco reveals truth about reopening colleges

The reopening of on-campus life then near-immediate closure after a surge in Covid-19 at UNC-Chapel Hill -- along with outbreaks and quarantines at other big schools -- are just the first wave, says David M. Perry, but they seem to indicate the worst is yet to come.

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