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Aug 20, 2020 9 tweets 9 min read Read on X
In June, #DeJoy bought $50,000 to $100,000 of #Amazon stock options. In July, a directive to sort Amazon packages 1st meant "deliberately delaying the delivery of 1st-class & priority mail" (@PressHerald 8/10). thread theverge.com/2020/8/13/2136…
"Hundreds" of #sorting machines "have been destroyed around the country," acc'g to #Maine Rep @chelliepingree. Some are worth more than $1 million. “There is no rational explanation that any mail sorting machines would be secretly thrown in the trash," centralmaine.com/2020/08/19/2-m…
"On the heels of Pres Trump’s assertion last week that he was deliberately blocking support to USPS, this report calls into further question the Trump administration’s attempts to hinder voting-by-mail and destabilize our elections": Rep @chelliepingree (D-ME).
Agrument that #DeJoy's just trying to run #USPS like a business is bullshit. No business destroys equipment worth millions. His new policies mean people are paid double time to sort mail that gets left behind & has to be manually resorted, adding an extra day of labor.
A #Maine letter carrier who got no sorted #mail & no explanation "asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution."

OUT OF FEAR. The Trump admin operates like the #mob. Who's #voting for these jackasses? pressherald.com/2020/08/10/pos…
#Maine has already lost 2 of 10 #USPS sorting machines: 1 was destroyed. Workers say all 10 are needed during the Christmas rush & expect election #ballots will equal that.

🔴 Union rep says #DeJoy has already made "radical permanent" changes to sorting capacity.
$25 billion in #USPS funding was PASSED by the #Democratic House in MAY, as part of the Heroes Act #Covid19 relief bill.

🟠 #McConnell & Senate #Republicans have failed to bring the bill up for a vote, withholding vitally needed funds for citizens, states, & the #USPS.
House #Dems will vote Saturday on $25 billion in emergency relief to #USPS. Bill will require USPS to treat election mail as 1st Class mail & reverse changes that delay delivery.

Trump says he opposes the bill b/c he opposes #voting by #mail.
🚩Got a #Republican Senator? Click this link & post this msg: Pass the Heroes #Covid19 Relief Act for people & businesses. Pass $25 billion in USPS aid, & tell DeJoy to reverse his new policies.

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Nov 25, 2020
#Migraine is a neurological disorder, not a terrible, disabling #headache," expert @DavidDodick explains. #Pain is "just 1 clinical manifestation deriving from a sensory processing disturbance affecting the nervous system" (Morgan, Lancet 2020). /Thread thelancet.com/journals/laneu…
Billie lost her insurance when #migraine disabled her: “There are days I don't see anything except for shapes." Visual warnings are the most commonly recognized auras, but these symptoms are highly variable, both in different patients & on different days for the same patient. 2/
Difficulty speaking or speaking clearly is another common #migraine symptom, either preceding or during an attack.

Poor St. Husband. He watched this clip & said, "Yup, that's you." I spent a lotta years in school to talk like this. 3/
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Nov 25, 2020
A Yale study of 10 patients found 1 dose of #psilocybin can cut #migraine frequency in half for 2 weeks. Each patient did 1 session with placebo, 1 with the drug. People who felt most high got the least migraine relief. /thread newatlas.com/health-wellbei…
The Yale researchers who conducted the small, but 1st of its kind study suggest #migraine patients might benefit from microdoses or sub-hallucinogenic doses of #psilocybin. Understanding how psilocybin prevents migraine might open new pathways for drug development, as well.
I did 2 #migraine clinical trials. I'm glad someone else took this one for the team. I hated Methysergide (Sansert), now discontinued, which was synthesized from lysergic #acid. A 1965 study said Sansert users experienced a "confused feeling of unreality." Tell me about it.
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Nov 24, 2020
“[W]idespread & variable dysfunction of the nervous system…comprises the aberrant brain state of a #migraine attack” (Charles 2017).

Daily/near-daily migraine is continuous migraine. Imaging shows our brains *always* look like brains during an "attack" (Brennan 2018). >thread
Recurrent #migraine & #pain aren't benign. “Long-lasting &/or repetitive pain over years leads to profound functional as well as structural changes in the brain networks" (Brennan).

Ineffective treatment is a leading risk of progression to continuous migraine. #MedicalTwitter
Brennan & Pietrobon's paper "A Systems Neuroscience Approach to #Migraine" (Neuron 2018) is @headsUPmigraine's favorite. I excerpted it for others like me who aren't fluent in #neurochemistry:

docs.google.com/document/u/2/d…
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Nov 23, 2020
It's hard to browse #library bookshelves from home. For other homebound readers, NYT best fiction 2009-19 as a thread for non-subscribers. (Your local library might let you read NYT etc on their website.)

Public libraries are my #SacredPlaces. #books nytimes.com/article/top-bo…
2019: DISAPPEARING EARTH Julia Phillips. THE TOPEKA SCHOOL Ben Lerner. EXHALATION Ted Chiang. LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE Valeria Luiselli. NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER Kevin Barry
2018: ASYMMETRY Lisa Halliday. THE GREAT BELIEVERS Rebecca Makkai. THE PERFECT NANNY Leila Slimani. Translated Sam Taylor. THERE THERE Tommy Orange. WASHINGTON BLACK Esi Edugyan.
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Nov 22, 2020
Holiday shopping from home? Support #Maine #Wabanaki businesses. The Wabanaki are the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Mi'kmaq, and Abenki People of the Dawn. #mepolitics #indigenous <thread>

#Passamaquoddy handmade moccasins facebook.com/PassamaquoddyF…
Who doesn't love a little syrup in their stockings? #Passamaquoddy maple syrup from #Maine. passamaquoddymaple.com/?fbclid=IwAR1V…
Meherrin Outpost is owned & operated by a Mi'kmaq (#Maine) & #Mehrrin (NC) couple. They make jewelry & sell a wide range of products from sage & sweetgrass to hand drums and (aw!) baby moccasins. facebook.com/meherrin/
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Nov 21, 2020
Even if they support the #DeathPenalty, most people think that only people who've killed should be killed.

🔴Prosecutors never claimed #DustinHiggs killed anyone, but #Barr has scheduled him to die 5 days before inauguration. Deeply moving video: /thread vimeo.com/194702182
#DustinHiggs was in his early 20s when he drove a shooter from a crime scene. Prosecutors said the shooter "acted alone," but they failed to get the #DeathPenalty. So they accused Higgs of being the mastermind.

The shooter got life w/ no parole. Higgs is to die on 1/15/21.
Jurors did NOT hear mitigating factors that might've led them to choose death in prison by no parole over execution. They didn't know he was 10 when he was his mother's f/t caretaker as she died of breast cancer. Nor did they know he has learning & developmental disabilities.
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