posted by Angeles Rios in Heather Cox Richardson's comments:
"I love Heather Cox Richardson and her Reconstruction analysis is exactly right. But when she said "we have the internet and phones, that's our advantage," I wanted to gently say: that's what people thought about Hillary's data operation in 2016. "The redistricting happening right now in Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, it's not the old Jim Crow playbook. It's being guided by data analytics precise enough to identify which individual blocks are likely to organize, and draw lines around them surgically. "And the platforms we're using to resist? They're feeding that same infrastructure. Every comment, every coordination, every registration drive generates a political profile in real time. "Elon's real contribution to 2024 wasn't just his megaphone. It was X's behavioral data fused with a voter targeting operation run by a Palantir co-founder. A closed loop below the level most analysts could see. "Our tactics need to match the actual threat, which means state supreme court races (elected, and they control redistricting law), in-person networks that don't leave a digital trail, and understanding that the fight is happening at the infrastructure layer, not just the political surface."
Heather Cox Richardson posted this around midnight...
"Today Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. " Read the rest of her post here
While getting dressed this morning, I had a thought that has never occurred to me before, simple minded as I am.
Just as we have military service academies whose graduates are bound to a certain number of years' service, in the same way we need a Public Health Service Academy. It would have to be a complex with med school, nursing school, school of pharmacology and whatever else is necessary. As with the military service academies, students would be sponsored by their congressman, would attend tuition free and be bound to a certain number of years in the Public Health Service, being transferred where needed and the like.
For years, people have been complaining about the shortage of doctors and nurses. Why has nobody proposed this simple, commonsense solution?
Some towns in remote places sponsor a student in medical school who will then serve them for a few years after they become a doctor. So the idear is out there. In fact, it was the premise of the TV show Northern Exposure, in which a young Jewish doctor from NYC finds himself shocked to be sent to a very remote town in Alaska.
I like your idea of an academy. I think National Nurse Teri ought to hear about it!
Well, this is unsettling...
ReplyDeleteposted by Angeles Rios in Heather Cox Richardson's comments:
"I love Heather Cox Richardson and her Reconstruction analysis is exactly right. But when she said "we have the internet and phones, that's our advantage," I wanted to gently say: that's what people thought about Hillary's data operation in 2016.
"The redistricting happening right now in Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, it's not the old Jim Crow playbook. It's being guided by data analytics precise enough to identify which individual blocks are likely to organize, and draw lines around them surgically.
"And the platforms we're using to resist? They're feeding that same infrastructure. Every comment, every coordination, every registration drive generates a political profile in real time.
"Elon's real contribution to 2024 wasn't just his megaphone. It was X's behavioral data fused with a voter targeting operation run by a Palantir co-founder. A closed loop below the level most analysts could see.
"Our tactics need to match the actual threat, which means state supreme court races (elected, and they control redistricting law), in-person networks that don't leave a digital trail, and understanding that the fight is happening at the infrastructure layer, not just the political surface."
And that makes organizing difficult.
DeleteHeather Cox Richardson posted this around midnight...
ReplyDelete"Today Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. "
Read the rest of her post here
Disgusting! That is not equal representation. Federal anti-jerrymandering legislation is long past due.
DeleteWhile getting dressed this morning, I had a thought that has never occurred to me before, simple minded as I am.
ReplyDeleteJust as we have military service academies whose graduates are bound to a certain number of years' service, in the same way we need a Public Health Service Academy. It would have to be a complex with med school, nursing school, school of pharmacology and whatever else is necessary. As with the military service academies, students would be sponsored by their congressman, would attend tuition free and be bound to a certain number of years in the Public Health Service, being transferred where needed and the like.
For years, people have been complaining about the shortage of doctors and nurses. Why has nobody proposed this simple, commonsense solution?
Come to think of it, a Public Health Service Academy would elevate the PHS' visibility. It's not something most people think or even know a lot about.
DeleteSome towns in remote places sponsor a student in medical school who will then serve them for a few years after they become a doctor. So the idear is out there. In fact, it was the premise of the TV show Northern Exposure, in which a young Jewish doctor from NYC finds himself shocked to be sent to a very remote town in Alaska.
DeleteI like your idea of an academy. I think National Nurse Teri ought to hear about it!