Your initial tweet, which portrayed it as an unjustified shooting, has thousands of shares. Entire neighborhoods are being destroyed and innocent people being hurt based on that perception.

If press can't report on these incidents responsibly, they shouldn't do it at all.

https://twitter.com/EllieRushing/status/1320916292568813568

The video clearly shows him chasing 2 officers with a knife and threatening them. Could they have waited for him to take another step closer?

Maybe.

Is this a clear example of misuse of force? Not based on that video.

You get the feeling that some people, including those at many press outlets, are almost rooting for violence every time one of these incidents happen at this point. That's the only explanation for how irresponsibly they frame their descriptions after them.

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@AGHamilton29

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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@AGHamilton29

19 Oct

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1318037237271949312

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.

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1318037237271949312

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.

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@AGHamilton29

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.

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@AGHamilton29

18 Oct

https://twitter.com/klcmurphy/status/1317618522147721217

*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.

https://twitter.com/klcmurphy/status/1317618522147721217

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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