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Apr 7, 2020 13 tweets 8 min read Read on X
Wisconsin GOP officials knew concerns about public health risks and voter disenfranchisement, yet they wielded power in courts to force state to hold primary in pandemic.

Thread will document many of problems at polling places. #WisconsinPrimary #coronavirus
Here is a line at one of only five polling places open in Milwaukee. Polling place were consolidated from 180 sites to five.

#WisconsinPrimary
Line at Waukesha polling place. This is the only place where residents can vote. The city's population is over 70,000.

#WisconsinPrimary
Plenty of video circulating of Riverside High School in Milwaukee, one of five sites in a city of 595,000 where residents can vote.

Line is very long, as people try to space as close to 6 feet as possible to avoid getting sick.

#WisconsinPrimary
Another video of line in Milwaukee at Riverside High School. Voters brought whatever makeshift personal protective equipment they could find in order to participate "safely" during a pandemic. They'll likely spend at least hour in line.

#WisconsinPrimary
.@fightfor15 shared this video from Milwaukee around 9:45 am when the line to vote was 1 hr 40 minutes
#WisconsinPrimary
From yesterday but important because it relates to the sheer number of people disenfranchised by conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Voters followed guidance of federal court, but that court was overruled. So now they don't count. #WisconsinPrimary
The New York Times updates that many requests for absentee ballots (mail-in ballots) were not filled between March 20-24 because elections offices were overwhelmed.

Wisconsin doesn't have vote-by-mail system like Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, or Utah. #WisconsinPrimary Image
Jill Swenson is a 61-year-old who suffers from "chronic lung disease and fears contracting the coronavirus." NYT detailed all the steps she took to remain quarantined and still participate in the primary. In the end, it was all for nothing. Vote won't count. #WisconsinPrimary ImageImage
"The whole voting situation is fucked up"

This Wisconsin voter story comes from the Daily Beast, and it involves a 29-year-old who was eight months pregnant and did not vote because it would have put health of her baby at risk. #WisconsinPrimary ImageImage
Twitter does not allow for me to edit the incorrect information so this will have to do. Sorry I got this mixed up. Thanks, Pat.

Christopher Sullivan, a voter in Holmen, Wisconsin (near Minnesota border): "Because it is this unsafe to vote, maybe we should have postponed the election or done mail-in ballots." #WisconsinPrimary Image
Photo by @Pmcknightnews of Jennifer Taff holding "This is ridiculous" sign went viral.

Taff waited in line for 2 hrs and told Journal Sentinel: "I have a father dying from lung disease, and I have to risk my life and his just to exercise my right to vote." #WisconsinPrimary Image

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Feb 20
Today is Day 1 of extradition appeal hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the British High Court of Justice.

His legal team has requested that the court grant Assange a full appeal hearing.

Thread with articles on what Assange's team considers grounds for appeal.
The CIA allegedly plotted to kidnap, poison, or kill Assange. To extradite Assange would undermine his right to life & right to be free from “torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” under European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Since the Espionage Act has never been used by US to prosecute a publisher, Assange's attorneys argue extradition is barred. Publishing info was not a “criminal offense under national or international law at the time when it was committed.”
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Jun 22, 2023
The media delusion that Daniel Ellsberg blew the whistle 'the right way' thedissenter.org/media-delusion…
Video version that includes the clip of David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart erroneously arguing that what Ellsberg did was somehow different from Snowden's whistleblowing. Or that Ellsberg did it the "right way."
Incredibly, while contending that Snowden was an egomaniac, Brooks and Capehart spend the part of the show that is supposed to be a tribute to Daniel Ellsberg focusing on themselves. They make it about their views on Snowden—views they know Ellsberg absolutely didn't share.
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Dec 31, 2022
Not only was 2022 yet another year with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in prison, but it also was another year in which Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) refused to include Assange in their annual jailed journalists index
The United Kingdom, which has kept Assange in Belmarsh prison for over 3.5 years at the behest of the US government, should be light red on this map - just like Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Philippines, Turkmenistan, etc. But CPJ’s leadership can’t bring their organization to do that
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ own methodology suggests Assange qualifies, and should have qualified long ago.

Assange frequently commented on “public affairs” for print, radio, TV, and online.

So why doesn’t CPJ include Assange in their index?
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Dec 25, 2022
Bah humbug from @SouthwestAir to far too many passengers flying their airline.

This is Midway airport in Chicago, where families with crying children had to deal with the fact that they were lied to by this airline. Because their flights were never going to leave Chicago. ImageImageImage
I was booked on an 8:10 PM flight to Denver to visit family for Christmas. The plane was there at the gate, but @SouthwestAir had no pilot. They must’ve known, yet they waited til 15 min before boarding time to cancel the flight.
Apparently, @SouthwestAir is in the middle of major crisis in Denver. They are dealing with a staff shortage that’s so bad that at least one flight from Tampa was turned around and sent back to where it took off.

How many flights to Denver were canceled today due to this crisis? Image
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Nov 16, 2022
US Senate investigation confirmed that dozens of women at the Irwin County Detention Center were medically abused by a single ICE doctor, who was hired even though the Justice Department and state of Georgia had sued him thedissenter.org/senate-investi…
Here is Karina Cisneros Preciado at the Senate permanent subcommittee hearing on ICE's medical mistreatment of women. She courageously shared her incarceration story, including when OB-GYN contracted by ICE subjected her to treatment without her consent.
Sen. Ossoff grilled the ICE official who is in charge of oversight for doctors contracted by the agency. His negligence allowed Dr. Mahendra Amin to treat and abuse dozens if not hundreds of women who were in ICE custody at Irwin County Detention Center between 2017-2020.
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Oct 8, 2022
Rallies in Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Tulsa, San Francisco Bay Area, & Washington DC, to support Stella Assange & supporters who formed human chain around UK Parliament to free Assange.

All part of global day of action that has been underway. I'm speaking at the DC rally.
LIVE: Hands Off Assange rally in DC at 12pm ET

thedissenter.org/livestream-han…
DC Free Assange rally at DOJ about to begin
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