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“So the 'party of life' becomes a sort of death cult.”
Mar 23: Falwell defends reopening Liberty University amid COVID19 pandemic by falsely claiming that "99% of students aren't at the age to be at risk."

Mar 29: Nearly a dozen Liberty students are sick with coronavirus symptoms after Falwell reopened campus.thedailybeast.com/nearly-a-dozen…
Falwell, a rabid Trump ally, reopened Liberty U last week. Now, a dozen students are sick with COVID19 symptoms.

“I’m not allowed to talk to you because I’m an employee,” a student living on campus wrote in an email. “We need help to go home,” he pleaded.nyti.ms/2UKAmlh
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BREAKING: Trump has fired inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who opposed then-DNI Maguire’s decision to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress, which sparked the impeachment inquiry.
NEW: Trump has fired intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official re Trump’s communications with Ukraine.politico.com/news/2020/04/0…
Schiff: Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.
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Trump is now verbally attacking and berating @Yamiche, talking over her and telling her to “be nice. Don’t be threatening. Be nice.” He never answers her question, then cuts her off, yelling, “Enough!”

He's such an asshole.
Unflappable badass @Yamiche persisted, ignoring Trump's tirade: “I was quoting you directly from your interview with Sean Hannity.”

Trump's bouncers then took the mic away from her.
YESSSSSSS!!!!!

Trump called on a reporter [@JDiamond1 I think?] and he gave the mic to Yamiche so she could finish her question.

Trump is now pretending he never yelled at Yamiche, as abusers always do.
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.@jaketapper: Are you saying Trump's denial/downplaying the coronavirus ultimately costs lives?

@SpeakerPelosi: Yes.

And that's a fact.
A shouting match broke out on Feb 5 when HHS Sec Azar requested $2B to buy masks, ventilators, and other medical supplies for the national stockpile.

The $2B request was cut to $500M when Trump *eventually* sent Congress the budget request *weeks* later.
Feb 5: Trump cuts Azar's $2B request to buy masks, ventilators, and other medical supplies for the national stockpile by 75%

Feb 7: State Dept sends 17.8 tons of medical supplies ––including masks, gowns, respirators, and other vital materials –– to China state.gov/the-united-sta…
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I see a lot of ongoing debate, and some snark, about people pivoting into #COVIDー19 related research, particularly in #psychology. As the PI of a lab working on one of these projects, here is a thread on my thoughts:
First off, I totally get the snark. Academics are like baby ducklings. Someone gets a Nobel Prize or a Nature paper on something, a year later there are 300 new projects on that topic. VSS last year was Deep Learn All the Things. No doubt that we love a good bandwagon.
When I first started seeing psychology papers rolling out, my first reaction was a) mild jealousy at being so incredibly productive at a time when my brain was in complete failure mode and b) mild ire at what seemed, at first, a bit opportunistic.
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Because there's literally not one single moment when these radical ideologues aren't obsessed with how to control women--especially poor women and women of color--they found a way to use the #COVID aid package to expand the unjust and discriminatory #HydeAmendment. It's sick.
This whole experience watching these people deal with #COVID is that those of us who deal with reproductive freedom and justice have seen this coming a mile away. You have a GOP entirely co opted at this point by a radical right for whom fundamentalism--religious and market-- /2
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This is a thread about why it is absolutely essential that we get people out of jails, prisons, & immigration detention during the #COVIDー19 pandemic. It will include information & demands for how to #StopCOVID19inJails .

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A back-of-the-enveloppe thread on the spread of #COVIDー19:

1) HUBEI province (ca 60 million people) has had close to 3000 deaths. It still has an active caseload of ca 20 K patients & some 130 new cases a day, & ca 30 daily deaths. So I expect up to 3500 deaths, assuming...1/9
...a winding down of the epidemic there by end March. If,stress IF, the rest of the world became like Hubei (0.8%of world population), the death toll could be of ca 400 K with a cumulative number of cases of ca 8 million.This possibly sets the outer bounds of a Covid pandemic 2/n
Of course, active measures in the world may prevent Hubei-scale outbreaks so this is unlikely to happen (conversely, late but tough measures in Hubei have also limited Covid's spread in that province).

2) GOOD NEWS though in rest of mainland China ( minus Hubei, HK,Macau): 3/n
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‼️Liberty University/Jerry Falwell Jr. Dictatorship thread‼️
From the inside: Written by a former student/school paper editor

How Jerry Falwell Jr. silences students and professors who reject his pro-Trump politics

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I’d spent the previous three years watching the university administration, led by President Jerry Falwell Jr. (who took a very micromanaging interest), meddle in our coverage, revise controversial op-eds and protect its image by stripping damning facts from our stories.
when my team took over in fall of 2017, we encountered an “oversight” system — read: a censorship regime — that required us to send every story to Falwell’s assistant for review

Any admin or prof who appeared in an article had editing authority over any part of the article;
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