Emissaries Guide to Worlding thread

We (including me) spend a lot of times talking, shouting, tweeting, posting, strategizing, meeting, etc., about so much. When - even acknowledging how complicated the world is - it really comes down to this.

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.

The left: We need to prevent homelessness & hunger, end state violence & ensure a functioning democracy. The right: COVID isn’t real, Trump won, he’s taking down an elitist satanic pedophile ring & we’ll die for him “Centrists”: The extremism on both sides is out of control!

Not very long lived.

Door 3: The Burner

This is a must-read: From the AARP Bulletin, the saga of #COVID19 death in America's nursing homes. aarp.org/caregiving/hea…

REPUBLICANS: “We just lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the respect of the world and 350,000 lives, meet us in the middle.” No.

Who will be the one with bold plans to prevent the impending wave of evictions and an alternative to broken unsheltered homelessness policies? Without these more lofty production goals will remain an essential yet insufficient part of the solution. rb.gy/savxnd

"There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak” washingtonpost.com/world/africa/e…

It is a big deal that Trump is out. It is a big deal that McConnell can’t turn the Senate into a graveyard anymore. But be clear. This isn’t where we rest. The real work of ending poverty and racism is still before us. We have system changing work yet to do.

Please help me archive all the best Bernie inauguration memes here.

I’m getting the strong impression from everyone around me that academic peer review is in a state of collapse — reviewers are increasingly difficult to find, program committees and editorial boards are collapsing, and yet there are more submissions than ever. Discuss.