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PhD. Prof of philosophy & lit now disabled by daily migraine. EJI volunteer. Director, Reading Justice prison study group. Director, headsUPmigraine.

Aug 28, 2020, 7 tweets

✔️@maddow factchecks Trump's speech: There are not any approved life-saving therapies for #coronavirus. We don't have the best testing system in the world. We have a disastrously failed testing system. We have the largest & deadliest coronavirus epidemic in the world. /thread

✔️@maddow factchecks Trump: US is 4% of the world population, but 25% of world's #COVID19 deaths.

#Biden does not support #abortion at the time of birth.

NY #Police Dept has not endorsed Trump's reelection.

✔️ @maddow factchecks Trump: There have not been 300 new miles of wall built. Acc'g to Trump Dept of Homeland Security, it's more like 3 miles of wall.

It was #Obama who signed the #Veteran's Choice Act.

✔️ @maddow factchecks Trump: Our troops are not "coming home." There are more US troops overseas now than when he took office. He has not ended any of these wars that he supposedly vowed to end.

#Biden has not promised to "abolish the production of energy in the US."

✔️ @maddow #Biden will not "bulldoze suburbs."

Trump is in court right now to abolish protections for preexisting conditions & overturn the entire Affordable Care Act. #SCOTUS will hear the case 1 week AFTER the election.

@MSNBC @JoyAnnReid @NicolleDWallace @11thHour

.@NicolleDWallace puts it poignantly: You could fill the seats at the @WhiteHouse tonight with the Americans who died of #coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

.@MaryLTrump Trump's running as if #Biden is the incumbent, and he's the challenger. He enumerates a long list of terrible, apocalyptic things that are happening now and acts as if he's not yet the president and has nothing to do with them. #PhD #Psychology

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