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Kate Brannen Profile picture
@K8brannen
Sep 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Who did Jared Kushner want on his COVID-19 task force?

"young generalists" newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
And that's what he got:

"all in their twenties, mostly from the finance sector and with no expertise in procurement or medical issues."

Must-read @JaneMayerNYer.
This is the kind of story I want to live-tweet as I read.
Fudging projected mortality models, catering to @JudgeJeanine, who "demanded that masks be shipped to a hospital she favored."

It's all bananas.

Truly Chernobyl meets Death of Stalin stuff.
"If you see something that might be illegal, and cause thousands of civilian lives to be lost, a person has to speak out."

Sound words to live by.

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Kate Brannen Profile picture
Mar 1, 2022
The Biden admin has been instrumental in creating a unified front against Putin.

So why didn't Putin try this when Trump was in the WH and no such effort would have been made by the US? washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
I know there are good answers to this question and yet, I can't quite shake wondering about it.
I think part of the answer is Putin miscalculated and didn't extract as much as he could out of Trump's presidency, perhaps expecting there would be a 2nd term.
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Nov 1, 2021
This reminds me of when the U.S. Army decided it needed to have a presence on Second Life.
I covered the effort for @insidedefense.

To do so, I had to create an avatar and then meet up with TRADOC and press officer avatars in a virtual conference room where I was shown a Power Point presentation. jstor.org/stable/2482786…
At one point, I got lost on the Army island and just wandered aimlessly on a virtual mountaintop.

Eventually the Army folks found me and helped me get back to headquarters.
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Sep 23, 2021
This puts Pentagon charts to shame: cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_…
Fascinating intvu btw @cwarzel & @swodinsky about covering the adtech beat.

Reminds me of covering the defense industry.

"A lot of this stuff is like, purposefully dense and dull. And the most interesting stuff is always the most impenetrable shit." warzel.substack.com/p/the-internet…
"I was looking into a story about Palantir and I found out they were easily able to sell their insights tech to the federal government using flashy campaigns and sales pitches. But they couldn’t really sell themselves to marketers..."
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May 12, 2021
Some thoughts about former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller's prepared testimony for this morning's @OversightDems hearing.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2070…
First, Miller says on Jan. 3 & 4, he convened Cabinet-level calls to prepare and coordinate for Jan. 6.

As Miller himself says, this is NOT a job for the secretary of defense.

Where was National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien?
In Miller's own words:

"It is not in the best interests of the citizens of the United States, our Armed Forces or our constitutional form of
government for the Department of Defense to take a lead role in organizing a domestic law enforcement response."
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May 5, 2021
"However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose an ‘indefinite’ suspension."
oversightboard.com/news/226612455…
The headline doesn't exactly match the ruling ...
"It is not permissible for Facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period, with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored."
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Mar 4, 2021
In 2017, the Trump administration halted the practice of routinely publishing the number of US troops deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
In April, @just_security filed FOIA requests with DoD seeking these numbers. theguardian.com/us-news/2020/a…
When that didn't work, @just_security sued the US government in October. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…
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