At 6:26, the @POTUS tweeted that there would be a news conference at 6:30.

10 minutes later, @WhiteHouse livestream says "the President Delivers Remarks," & it hasn't started yet.

I still recommend that news networks don't air him live, but some will.
@POTUS @WhiteHouse Nope, he's not conceding.

It's the same lies, misinformation, & conspiratorial BS about the election & polls you can read here on Twitter, except delivered by the sitting POTUS from the White House podium.

But I'm watching him undermine democracy on TV, as I have for 5 years.
@POTUS @WhiteHouse "Kwin-a-pee-ock"
@POTUS @WhiteHouse This feels like a 70-something great uncle who has spent days watching Fox News & reading lies on Facebook & Twitter from radicalized friends & children, rambling on the phone about conspiracies & corruption, deep in denial about the election returns –  except he's the President
@POTUS @WhiteHouse So far there is no hard news in these remarks – other than the world seeing an aging narcissist deep in denial about a public rejection, desperate to create an alternative reality that will explain what has happened, claiming litigation will shake things up as cases get tossed.
@POTUS @WhiteHouse This is quite a photo, @evanvucci.

Thank you for bearing witness for the members of the public who could not be present. Image

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6 Nov
I'm split-screening again today, watching election results while I participate in the #FWD50 conference on digital government. (I'm hosting a channel for @fwd50conf this afternoon.)

Watching @bethnoveck talk with @acroll now about historic lows in trust: Image
@fwd50conf @bethnoveck @acroll Countries with historic lows in trust in government should be treat it as an civic emergency. Cf USA:
pewresearch.org/politics/2019/…

Solving public problems like @bethnoveck describes means politicians & officials should should optimize for trust:
solvingpublicproblems.org

#FWD50 ImageImage
Thanks to @acroll for asking my question! Transparency DOES breed trust in open source software: it's mission-critical if, say, the US government is deploying tools to be used by dissidents & human rights activists globally: But people != software. #FWD50
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2 Nov
Just logged on. I'll be speaking later about transparency & public engagement.

Did YOU know the USA has a Federal Data Strategy?

Or that it's part of National US Plan for #OpenGov?

This @POTUS & @WhiteHouse should have told you: e-pluribusunum.org/2019/07/08/how…
@POTUS @WhiteHouse I will talk about how this administration's record of lies, data deletion, censorship & attacks on science has utterly eviscerated the mission defined in the Federal Data Strategy: Public trust in open data & government depends on good governance. #opengov
@POTUS @WhiteHouse Some real -- if polite -- talk about how crazy it is that the @NYTimes & @COVID19Tracking are canonical sources of #opendata about #COVID19 instead of @CDCgov @HHSgov by @dcorliss_astro
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28 Oct
I'm watching the @SenateCommerce hearing on #Section230 with @Twitter, @Google, & @Facebook CEOs now: commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-s… @SenatorWicker now. @Jack @finkd @sundarpichai to follow.

Reminder: public officials blocking people violates the 1st Amendment: e-pluribusunum.org/2018/05/23/fed…
Claim by @Jack: #Section230 is the most important law protecting speech online.
True: radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/sopa-p…
The First Amendment only protects Americans from government censorship.
What I'm watching: whether any CEO or Senator acknowledges
1) asymmetry of media ecosystems &
2) how that affects @Policy violations & enforcement:
3) Conservatives are "working the refs" in media & tech to get false equivalence nytimes.com/2020/08/09/bus…
Read 17 tweets
28 Oct
As this letter outlines, the path @DCPSChancellor has chosen for reopening @dcpublicschools is deeply flawed, both in process & outcomes. @MayorBowser & @CouncilOfDC members, please read this.
Scrap the custodial CARES model. Work with our principals to build something better.
A century ago, @nychealthy ordered windows to remain open for ventilation, even in cold weather, to combat TB & flu. So engineers designed steam radiators to keep them warm in that condition:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
How many @dcpublicschools have radiators, @DCPSChancellor?
Dear @mayorbowser:
How did @colbycollege open safely? Universal masks, outdoor classes, & bi-weekly testing.
Testing symptomatic folks won’t be enough: Test students & staff before opening, & weekly.
Ventilate, test air, open data.
Don’t gag principals.
washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
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28 Oct
WOW. @HuffPost @highline has published one of the best features on the disappearance of data in the Trump administration & its impact: highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disapp… Bravo. Deep, detailed breakdown of the tragic degradation of one of the USA’s precious public resources: self-knowledge.
March 2017: “The ways that the Trump administration could mess with government data remains the same: budget cuts that could reduce quality, frequency of release or even collection, & alteration or miscommunication of research or statistical information.”
sunlightfoundation.com/2017/03/10/the…
2020: “The erosion of data across the federal government is particularly insidious because it’s relatively invisible to the public at large. Often, the only people who know the value of these sets of numbers are those who work with them daily.”

I’ve talked with so many.
Tragic.
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27 Oct
Past presidents allowed the @SecretService to stay at their properties for free. As POTUS, @realDonaldTrump has chosen to visit @Trump properties 280 times, & to charge taxpayers high rates for rooms & official events washingtonpost.com/politics/ballr…
This @WhiteHouse won’t say how much.
5 questions journalists need to answer covering Trump:
Can what appears to have happened be confirmed?
If so, was it unprecedented?
Is this recent act of governance normal by the usual standards?
Is what happened a threat to transparency — or democracy? politico.com/magazine/story…
1) Can what appears to have happened be confirmed?

Absolutely: @realDonaldTrump has visited @Trump businesses 503 times. He has spent a third of his presidency there. 303 visits to @TrumpGolf.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

Every time, Trump businesses charged taxpayers. Image
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