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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House S/C on coronavirus crisis, just released 6 weeks of WH Coronavirus Task Force reports obtained by the committee showing the WH was aware of an alarming rise in COVID cases as Trump publicly downplayed it and held crowded events.
The reports show the WH knew after Labor Day that COVID cases were spiking but chose to hide the reports, says the committee.

Meanwhile, Trump was saying COVID “affects virtually nobody” + hosted potential superspreaders in states the WH task force warned had rising cases.
The White House task force reports specifically warned of rising COVID cases in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Carolina -- all places that Trump went ahead and held potential superspreader events in anyway.
Here's more details on these leaked White House reports + what the White House has known for more than a month about the spike in COVID rates as Trump is out there falsely claiming it "affects virtually nobody" huffpost.com/entry/white-ho…

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22 Oct
Democratic Judiciary Committee members are outside on the Senate steps protesting Barrett's confirmation process.

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"Now, however, Republicans are proceeding regardless." Image
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"They broke their word to finish a confirmation process that has become a caricature of illegitimacy." Image
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21 Oct
A day before her committee vote, Amy Coney Barrett just refused to answer another round of basic, fact-based questions from Senate Democrats.

She wouldn't even say whether it’s legal to vote twice in a federal election. (It’s not.) huffpost.com/entry/amy-cone…
Look at this exchange. Barrett refused to say -- again -- if she accepts the science behind climate change.

She said the Supreme Court has called climate change "controversial" so she can't talk about it. huffpost.com/entry/amy-cone… Image
Last night, the Senate Judiciary Committee released 184 pages of Barrett's follow-up answers to Dems' questions, which is where this is coming from.

Here's another exchange where Barrett won't answer questions about things that are obviously, factually true. Image
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21 Oct
A moment that stood out in Amy Coney Barrett's hearing is when she wouldn't say if climate change is real.

In her responses to the Judiciary committee's follow-up Qs, released tonight, she said SCOTUS has said climate change is controversial so she can't discuss it. 🤔 Image
Barrett also refused to answer any of these questions in her follow-up responses.

The first 2 have easy, fact-based answers. Image
She wouldn't even say what a "policy question" is. Image
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20 Oct
Leaked reports show the White House has known for more than a month that COVID-19 is surging as Trump has downplayed the crisis
huffpost.com/entry/white-ho…
Rep. Clyburn says the White House has been hiding these reports from the public. Why?

Oh, because they're awful!

The # of states in the "red zone" of the coronavirus pandemic (where you def don't want to be) jumped from 18 to 31 between Sept. 13 and Oct. 18.
In its Sept. 20 report, the WH COVID task force warned the number of states in the “red zone” was at 18. Wisconsin was seeing a particularly high increase in positive cases, at 145%.

On Oct. 1, Trump held 2 rallies there.
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20 Oct
Here's today's snapshot of each state's progress in reducing COVID cases/hospitalizations/death, via covidexitstrategy.org

Green is trending better.

Yellow is caution warranted.

Red is going downhill.

Bruised red is uncontrolled spread.
I look through the data on this site every Monday to see how we're looking compared to the previous Monday.

Overall, we are doing worse. Here's last Monday vs this Monday (last night).
By nearly all of these metrics, we're doing worse nationally.
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19 Oct
We've reached the [insert extreme adjective because I've run out] point in the election cycle when Ted Cruz is a self-described "TOP" Trump supporter who is hawking his book to raise money for Trump.
This tweet is still up btw.
"I don't want his endorsement. Just, Ted, stay home, relax, enjoy yourself."
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