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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The big news here: Trump concedes there won't be a vaccine out by Election Day & is pivoting 100% to selling a therapeutic treatment he received as a "cure" for Covid. He's also pledging that this treatment will soon be free & accessible to all, which is a galling lie.
One of the most disturbing aspects of Trump's presidency is knowing that millions have failed to understand that we're dealing with a used care salesman who wants to sell us a car that has no brakes or air bags. Just a modicum of emotional intelligence is needed to spot this.
HIS FACE IS VISIBLY CAKED IN MAKE UP. ALL OF TRUMP'S VICES MANIFEST IN LITERAL TERMS.
Yes. Under-appreciated that Trump has effectively declared himself the person who has discovered the real cure to the crisis after being chosen by God. Seems legit!

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17 Aug
A lot of people are deeply concerned about how Trump could use his assault on the Postal Service to steal the election.

But what may be under-appreciated is that Trump does NOT have to succeed at giving GOP ballots a numerical advantage to do irreversible damage or win. /Thread
When I spoke with Lawrence Douglas, a legal scholar at Amherst College, he made a convincing case that there are scenarios in which Trump only has to succeed at creating *delays* to create politically advantageous chaos or trigger a "system meltdown."

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On the day in July that Trump floated the idea of delaying the election, the reaction was a mixture of horror at his brazenly autocratic suggestion and mockery of his ignorance that any changes to Election Day can only come through Congress. But another tweet that day was darker.
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11 Aug
Today I'm on the @nytimes' "The Daily" podcast talking with @Jonesieman about my personal brush with "cancel culture."

Here's a thread on the surreal story of the attempted "triple cancellation" I witnessed — and why I don't use the term "cancel culture" anymore.
So this whole episode went down in July, when I saw someone rallying a pack of online vigilantes to identify and pressure the employer of the infamous Florida Costco customer who went viral for yelling at a customer asking him to wear a mask.
From what I could tell, the Costco guy's behavior was terribly inappropriate, aggressive, and at least a bit unhinged. But I was skeptical of the idea that it was was judicious to immediately target this person for a job-firing campaign based on a 15-second clip.
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7 Jul
This successful campaign by @khoaphan to swiftly get someone fired for being an asshole in a grocery store is a good example of concerns that some of us — across the political spectrum — have about mob justice and so-called cancel culture.

I think targeting jobs is a bad idea.
There is no doubt that this guy was unhinged and behaved in a socially unacceptable manner. By all means, criticize the person, shame them on social media. But targeting someone's job when we live in an anarcho-capitalist dystopia with no social safety net is wild. /2
Our society has extremely weak protections for the unemployed, and most people get health insurance for themselves, and often their family, through their employer. Moreover, if this is how you lose your job you may end up radioactive on the job market for months or years. /3
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15 Jun
I think left intellectual discourse is going to fail in a very, very serious way if it deems research as "bad" because it opens up a line of inquiry that might not jell with perceived political priorities. /1

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A study into the effects of rioting on voter perception might be *used* to blame rioters, but the study itself is not doing that. It's asking a social scientific question about its effects. A politico-intellectual scene that fears asking and answering these Qs cannot be robust./2
Any serious intellectual scene should be able to disentangle the ethics of rioting from the efficacy of rioting. They are separate things! /3
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30 May
NYPD hitting a protestor with a car door in BK. Wow it’s almost like this isn’t really about protecting the public.
I have seen scores of protests in New York, and the cops have on many occasions been significantly more militant than the protestors at the scene. /2
As I said in an earlier thread, the police's different behavior based on the protest group shows that they aren't just policing behavior but *ideology.* /3
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28 May
This is Union Square in Manhattan. This is America.
2/ As @cbenavidesTV reports, cops took multiple protestors into custody at a rally in solidarity with George Floyd. Some of them were engaging in civil disobedience, per Benavides.
3/ The point has been before, but it will never cease to be important: look at the way that cops respond to unarmed protestors calls for an end to extrajudicial execution of black people vs. the way they treat white protestors with guns desperate for the right to cough on people.
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