Stephen Colbert just skewered the way the administration tried to hide the president's condition and keep it not just from America, but "unethically" from all the people Trump exposed to the virus. #COVID19 @colbertlateshow
.@StephenAtHome reiterates what I wrote when the news broke: That Trump put the nation's security at risk.
CBS News medical expert Dr. John La Pook says when he was treating #COVID19 patients at NYU he saw many people who were doing okay the first few days and then took a bad turn suddenly. He says we need more transparency about Trump's status and his co-morbidities. @colbertlateshow
Dr. LaPook explains that people can be spreaders before they are symptomatic. He says, "If you are infected, you go into isolation. If you are exposed, you go into quarantine." @colbertlateshow
Dr. LaPook says that people are able to spread the disease for days prior even to testing positive. He also says that Trump MUST be in isolation for TEN DAYS from today. He says Biden was definitely at risk at the debate because of the spray from the yelling. @colbertlateshow
So @StephenAtHome says "COVID doesn't care what your party is." John Dickerson says Trump can't change the topic from the virus "which he has been trying to downplay for months." Dickerson says 207k Americans are dead and Trump can't surmount that, now. @colbertlateshow
Colbert says the lift off of Marine1 was so significant. Dickerson says "watching the president of the United States being cared for" is a scene that is usually hidden. Cites Harding. Eisenhower, Cleveland. He talks about not mixing the person and the office. @colbertlateshow
Dickerson says families of 207k dead are grieving and in this moment we need to think about them and speak respectfully as a nation about this crisis of the #pandemic. (Which Trump has never done.) @colbertlateshow
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OMG. This @ABC special #OnTheBrink with Diane Sawyer and @rachelvscott is absolutely gutting and should make everyone enraged that women are being subjected to this.
Termination committees are being convened to determine whether women deserve an emergency medical abortion. Insanity.
One woman was sent home with bleeding and fever and pain because she wasn't sick enough to be treated. She ended up hemorrhaging into the toilet and is rushed to the hospital, she is put on life support.
#OnTheBrink
Hollywood podcaster "reporting" on Hamas and the IDF from L.A. while real journalists like myself are covering the actual conflict. Yet folks like his narrative more--even as they blame "the media" for real reporting: They don't like what we tell them and how awful it is.
In reality IDF has razed northern Gaza and Netanyahu told hostage families his priority is attacking Gaza, not rescuing the 160 hostages still held. Thousands are demanding Netanyahu's resignation.
Pay more attention to people like @AlonLeeGreen, actually in Israel and doing real work.
Now I am flat out sobbing. Vivian Silver was such a remarkable person. So dedicated to making the world better. Oct 4th she was leading a peace march--she founded Women Wage Peace. Oct. 7 she was abducted by Hamas from a closet where she was hiding.
Vivian Silver worked constantly with/for people in Gaza. She drove Gazans to Israeli hospitals. She fought for wage increases. She was dedicated to a two state solution and put herself out there every day. She embodied tikkun olam.
May her memory be a blessing and a revolution.
Last night I read this lovely post by @LibyaLiberty who so generously opened her a space to people who disagree with her on Israel-Hamas and it was such an aspirational post. And I already admired Hend who I have followed for years and who I am fortunate follows me.
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Hend is doing a better job of living her faith than I am. She blesses people all the time. She challenges people without being too sharp or too harsh. I am failing Jesus every day because I am in a state of rage over the complexity and the clarity of this war.
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My wife was Jewish. Half my family + hers are Jewish. I have family anr friends in Israel. What happened Oct. 7 was horrific. Undeniably. What is happening in Gaza is horrific. As I said to Hend Thursday night, I guess I thought EVERYONE could agree killing kids is wrong, no matter whether they are Jews or Palestinians. I was wrong.
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Elijah McClain was a young sweet Black man with disabilities. He played violin. He loved cats. He was murdered horribly on camera and we all witnessed it. Another of his killers went free Monday because people with disabilities and young Black men are always suspect to police.
More than half of all victims of police killings are people with disabilities. Black men are 7% of the population and 40% of victims of police violence. The intersection of disability and Blackness raises the odds of being a victim. It's a crisis. namiillinois.org/half-people-ki…
Thr policing of Black disabled bodies is a constant in America. Elijah McClain is just one such tragic, unnecessary victim. americanprogress.org/article/unders…
The list of MSM journalists of longstanding who have given Trump a pass is disturbingly long. Every time a new one is revealed, the same people get outraged and the same people don't care. Yet the books get sold,the ratings go up. Which means a lot of that outrage is for show.
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No one gets cancelled. Rather the opposite: they get advanced to new positions and to better book deals. Legacy media and access journalism are inseparable. No one stopped watching Chuck Todd, they just complained about him.
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Anyone who has ever watched Kristen Welker before Sunday knew she'd never ask hard questions (as I predicted) because she never has. But she brought in other access journalists like Peter Baker to tell her it was okay and in fact necessary.
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