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30 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I think I'm just going to post cat gifs until next Wednesday.

WATCH ME GAIN TEN THOUSAND FOLLOWERS.
I mean... It's Friday... And I'm trapped.

It's hopeless. I'm stuck.

What else can I do?
MORE CAT GIFS!
#cat

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1 Nov
“They haven’t got a hate speech policy, they have a Trump policy,” sniffed a Facebook exec

“Patently false,” Gadde said. She also strongly rejects the critique that Twitter’s shot-calling is driven by partisan politics. "

Anyone believe that?
politi.co/2HH5dfP
I'll believe Twitter the moment they release data on the break down of people they have blocked, especially their blocks and sometimes downright harassment of blue checks and other high end users.
"Gadde herself doesn’t shrink from the notion that she wants to help make a more comfortable and empowering world for marginalized people."

If this is your world view...how could you possibly ever not take a side?
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31 Oct
Oh man.

Do I have thoughts about this.

LOTS OF THOUGHTS.

And none of them will make me any friends.

Oh well, you know me...diving right in...
Tom starts:

"What I do know is that...two aspects of the Never Trump movement will outlast Trump. First, we will always be able to say that when Trump and his thugs took over GOP and then the elected branches of the govt, we did not cut and run. We stood and fought."

LOL.
There was no fight. Some of the capitulated. Some of the TRIED to capitulate (look for jobs, and didn't get them). Others valiant stormed the beaches of Twitter, and that was it.
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30 Oct
Good piece from @jimgeraghty: Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem nationalreview.com/corner/why-abs…
"When the polls close, we want election workers to know precisely how many legitimate ballots exist in a voting “universe.” They don’t need to immediately know who won, but they need to know there are, say, 12,345 votes that have been legitimately cast in their jurisdiction."
"This makes it much easier to catch accidental over or under-counts. If, after counting all the votes (and any blank ballots), if the sum comes up to 12,352, they know a few ballots were counted twice. If the sum comes up to 12,335, they know ten ballots didn’t get counted."
Read 4 tweets
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30 Oct
So:

The law says ballots must be in by election day.

MN Sec State, with no stated legal power to do so, extended the date.

The Court says they must abide by the law and ballots must be received by election day.

Who is the authoritarian here?

THE DEMOCRAT SECRETARY OF STATE.
The MN Secretary of State took the responsibility to CHANGE THE LAW without the consent of the legislature and Governor.

How is that not authoritarianism?
Whether the MN SecState did it for good reasons or not is IRRELEVANT.

The law is written by our representatives, and those representatives express the will of the people.

The SecState has no power to ignore the will of the people unless given specific powers to do so.
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29 Oct
I commented on the joke of an article from @jonathanchait yesterday, but @NoahCRothman rightfully takes him to the woodshed.

The Hunt for Secret Trumpers commentarymagazine.com/noah-rothman/t…
"Chait provides us with an example of this kind of spectacle. The thesis of his latest piece is that Trump’s supporters, even the reluctant sort, have endorsed the president not despite his penchant for racial agitation; they support him, rather, because of all that..."
"You’re not going to find many Trump supporters confessing to such a thing...But the subjects the author chooses, Daily Wire proprietor @benshapiro and National Review’s @charlescwcooke , are more revealing of Chait’s motives than the right’s."
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29 Oct
I remain... Skeptical.

How Biden would fix the US COVID response. huffpost.com/entry/biden-co… via @HuffPostPol
Agree on this:

"One enormous change would simply be difference in tone and attitude... unlikely to deny the severity of the pandemic, encourage Americans to ignore basic safety precautions, tout miracle cures or promote advisers who spread misinformation, as Trump has done..."
"Americans would hear less from... political appointees, and more from scientists, physicians and officials at the CDC, FDA, and other key health agencies"

This will happen until these folks tell teachers they have no scientific reason not to go back immediately.
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