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12 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read
If your focus is on "court packing" and not on refusing to promise a peaceful transfer of power /1
And not on tax fraud and money laundering campaign contributions /2
And not on raking in millions in personal profit /3
And not on calling the military "losers" and suckers" /4
And not on the racism, misogyny, and pathological narcissism /5
And not on 210,000± dead, you are doing it wrong. /fin

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18 Sep
Four years ago, when the US gave up its contractual control of the DNS system, I thought it was unwise. My reasoning was simple -- I thought that the US govt had stood as a bulwark against authoritarian influence on the network since it was created and that continued US /1
influence as a protector of network freedom would be a net benefit to the world. Critical to that assessment was my belief that no USG would ever support an effort to severely restrain freedom of expression on the network. There were exceptions to this general rule /2
of course, like the dot xxx fiasco, but as a general proposition I thought it was well-supported.

I was wrong. Today the USG actually moved to control the content that US citizens can put on their phones, purporting to ban WeChat and TikTok. Besides being utterly /3
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6 Sep
How bad a president is @RealDonaldTrump? Let me count the ways:
1.#DerangedDonald: Thinks windmills cause cancer
2.Thinks nuclear bombs stop hurricanes
3.Still thinks the hurricane is going to Alabama
4.Thinks UV light and bleach stop C29
5.Thinks QAnon followers are OK
6.Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
7.#TrumpsNotWell: Can’t walk down a ramp
8.Needs two hands to drink water
9.Slurs his words
10.Won’t release his medical records
11. #PutinsPuppet: Took Putin’s word in Helskinki over the ICs
12.Shared Israelis secrets with Russia
13.Is taking troops out of Germany
14.Won’t support democracy in Belarus
15.50+ days an no response to Russian bounties on US soldiers
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20 Jun
Barr lied. It is that simple. Yesterday he said that Berman had resigned. That was not true.

This is not, of course, the first time that Barr has proven to be a stone cold liar. He lied about the contents of the Mueller report. /1
But the question is why? And the answer lies at the intersection of the effort to fire Berman (now, apparently, approved by the President -- though maybe Barr is lying about that too) and the firing of Jessie Liu. /2
By firing Liu, Barr and his henchmen took control of the DC US Atty's Office. With that control they intervened politically in the sentencing of Roger Stone, and now in an effort to dismiss the case against Flynn. This is how an authoritarian works to subvert justice. /3
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10 Apr
Congress cannot, directly, prohibit the President from firing Inspectors General -- though it could at some point amend the IG Act to allow the IGs to contest their dismissal as pretextual in court. But that would take a new law that won't pass anytime soon. So what to do now?/1
In the forthcoming Covid-19 bill, Congress could consider any number of ways to condition aid on the President's actions. Here's one draft possibility: "Provided, however, that no funds authorized or appropriated under this Act may be obligated or disbursed on any day /2
on or after the date on which the President exercises his authority under [cite to IG Act] in dismissing any Inspector General." I can think of other formulations, but that is a start.

One further point: To drive this home, Congress would need to explicitly declare /3
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25 Feb
In 2006/2007 I participated in a large scale effort by the USG to figure out the right response to potential outbreaks of avian flu. Questions ranged from figuring out the speed of transmission and vectors to issues relating to border screening to ways in which (if needed) /1
we might use the US Postal Service to deliver supplies to people sheltering in place, and every other possible question related to this (communications; resources; provisioning; distribution; treatment; you name it). It was one of the singularly most difficult /2
and challenging policy questions I worked on while at DHS, requiring coordination with almost every other agency of government and strong leadership from the National Security Council. We didn't have all the answers; we weren't even sure we had all the questions /3
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12 Oct 19
Trump's very bad, not good day:
1) Loses THREE injunction cases involving his attempt to change the "public charge" immigration law;
2) Loses another injunction case involving his attempts to transfer military funds to the border wall project; /1
3) Loses his appeal to prevent the House from seeing his tax returns;
4) Has a former ambassador testify that she was fired because of inappropriate pressure from Trump regarding access to the Ukraine /2
5) Finds out that another Ambassador will defy his orders and testify next week on the same subject
6) Loses his Acting Secretary of DHS because the Secretary is being undermined by "Fox News" appointees who control the anti-immigration message /3
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