The US Presidential election will have very little impact on global warming.

It's rather insane and completely baseless for a news organization to suggest the world is headed for catastrophe if not for a particular outcome.
Especially obvious once you realize Trump's election hasn't made much difference in the trajectory of US emissions, which have been steady or declining since 2006 or our share of global emissions.
Their main evidence for the claim was that the US withdrew from the Paris agreement, but they fail to note that most other countries failed to live up to their promises in that agreement, U.S. has continued to reduce emissions, and there was nothing binding in that agreement.
Also, the fact that the article cites Michael Mann as its main expert and praises China's empty pledge for carbon neutrality by 2060 as a "game-changer" are good signals that you shouldn't take it seriously.

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20 Oct
The coverage of the PA SCOTUS decision today makes it rather obvious that a lot of reporters have no idea how to cover court cases or what is the court's role. They always seem to imply the court ruled to promote a certain policy outcome, which is rarely what happened.
In today's case, SCOTUS rejected stay requestS from the PA GOP after the state Supreme Court ruled ballots can be received up to 3 days after the election as long as it wasn't postmarked after the election. They didn't provide an opinion/explanation.
The 4 Justices who wanted to grant the stay likely wanted to do so because the PA statute is rather clear in limiting ballots to being received by 8 PM on election day and such a change needs to come from the PA legislature, not the courts. They'd argue it's not the court's role.
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18 Oct
Follow me here:

If I had a goal of making it to 100K followers by election day, that would be very difficult/unlikely. But it would not be impossible. I would need a few viral tweets, some help, and luck. Most importantly, I would need to avoid doing things to lose followers.
The way I run my account now would make it almost impossible because I undermine that goal daily. I tweet things critical of Trump, Biden, D's, R's, the press, celebrities etc.

When I do that, I knowingly alienate some people from wanting to follow me.
If I wanted just to gain followers, I would target one group and exclusively try to appeal to that group.

But my goal isn't really to gain followers. Instead, my goal is simply to inform people and share my views. Thus I don't mind alienating some potential followers.
Read 4 tweets
18 Oct
*Sigh* We need to kill this myth. A few things:

1) Neither being outside nor many participants wearing a mask fully prevents virus spread. Those measures just reduce it. Especially with events where many people are in close proximity, chanting/screaming, & touching.
2) Anyone who tells you that a march with thousands of strangers in a small space, even w masks and outside, is safer than a family gathering for Thanksgiving has no idea what they are talking about.
3) Notice this logic isn't applied to Trump rallies. We haven't seen major spikes in cities after those rallies but press/same people never use that as evidence that they aren't an issue...
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16 Oct
So need to talk about something.

Really frustrated with some of the people in my timeline and on the right who have been promoting Ice Cube for several days because he apparently said something pro-Trump.
Ice Cube weeks posting daily antisemitic content a few months ago. When confronted, he posted even more.

He received little backlash outside of some of us because apparently, that is acceptable nowadays.

He never apologized or backtracked. The guy clearly hates Jews.
Now you guys are promoting him because he said something positive about a politician you like?

So your message is that Trump is liked by bigots that happen to also be black celebrities? That's your big win?
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10 Oct
There was a shooting in Denver after dueling rallies between pro-Trump groups and BLM/Antifa. The victim has been pronounced dead.

This comes after a similar shooting by an Anitfa associate in Portland a little over a month ago.
Immediately after the shooting you can see at least one Antifa member walking away yelling:

“One less white supremacist.

Hell yea! Right in the f*cking dome”

theblaze.com/news/denver-sh…
Here is a freeze-frame of the shooting.

Denver police are reporting that the suspect is an unnafiliated private security guard. Unclear what he was doing there or who he was with.
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1 Oct
This is important because it shows how groups like WHO have been selectively quoting "experts" to promote pre-determined conclusions even when those conclusions clearly contradict basic science.
WHO has been consistently terrible on COVID-19, but this phenomenon isn't limited to them. We saw the same thing with the press extensively citing "experts" to claim that protests and riots were not contributing to the spread of COVID-19.
"Public health records, scores of scientific studies and interviews with more than two dozen experts show the policy of unobstructed travel was never based on hard science. It was a political decision, recast as health advice"

Clear as day.
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