Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread):

Inside: No health care for part-time TSA screeners, Akil Augustine on Radicalized, Wendell Potter rebuts Joe Biden, best Covid-19 explainer and more!

Archived at https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/12/boeing-crashes/

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If you've got a monster kid in your life, please consider pre-ordering POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER, my first picture book, out on July 14!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145

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TSA boss doubles down on taking away health care from part-time screeners: They're touching your junk with diseased hands.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1237780644022767616

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Akil Augustine on Radicalized: My book's Canada Reads champion lays out the case for Radicalized.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1237781455670890496

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A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD: Wendell Potter is the prodigal corporate villain.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238086195067777024

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Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic: Beth Mole has outdone herself.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238091148654067713

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Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering: The $43B they incinerated through stock buybacks would sure come in handy about now.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238094624637370368

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Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic: Sick leave is cheaper than pandemics, but pandemics generate cost-plus contracts for the donor class.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238098182753538052

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The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics: Snooks cocked at Apple and other US Big Tech monopolists.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238112113261858816

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How to run a virtual classroom: Masterclass from the 14-year-old Stanford Online High School.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1238124055078686725

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#10yrsago Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright https://craphound.com/BPDigitalEconomyBillweeklyminutes.pdf

#5yrsago Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone https://news.streetroots.org/2015/03/06/homeless-phone-charging-thief-wanted-security

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#5yrsago How Harper's "anti-terror" bill ends privacy in Canada http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/why-the-anti-terrorism-bill-is-really-an-anti-privacy-bill-bill-c-51s-evisceration-of-government-privacy/

#5yrsago RIP, Terry Pratchett https://web.archive.org/web/20150312202353/http://www.pjsmprints.com/

#1yrago Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI

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Yesterday's threads: Saturated fat and obesity, which foods produce satiety, spying VPNs, Twitter's research-friendly terms of service and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1237779446741889024

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These threads are archived daily on http://Pluralistic.net, my tracker-free, ad-free, cruft-free blog.

Here's today's: https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/12/boeing-crashes/

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I'm also posting these to the fediverse (apols for today's double posts! beware of falling rocks!). Here's today's:

https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810893997528840

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