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24 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
2020 transition coverage from @NPR sure looks slightly different than 2016 transition coverage, huh?
Also, in case you needed a reminder, here’s the lobbying history of top Biden appointees:

💰CoS Klein lobbied for asbestos & Fannie Mae
💰DHS chief Mayorkas is currently a partner at lobbying shop Wilmer Cutler
💰SecState Blinken currently runs a consulting shop called WestExec
WestExec comes up often.

💰DNI Avril Haynes is a former WestExec partner
💰NSA Sullivan was at consulting its Macro Advisory Partners where he worked on behalf of Uber
💰Counselor Riccheti is one of DCs best known lobbyists
💰Leg Affairs Director Terrell is a former lobbyist at Facebook
💰John Kerry is, well, John Kerry

I’m sure there are more that I’m missing, but you get the point.

@NPR and other outlets have more than enough ammo to write the same piece for 2020 and choose not to.
This one is better though.

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See, if cities and states would simply allow everyone, and not just the people in charge, to make their “decision as a husband and father,” this whole mess would blow over.
What I wish people like @MayorHancock and @NYGovCuomo and @LoriLightfoot and @GavinNewsom could just wake up and realize is what they’re telling people is that they don’t think their rules matter enough to follow.
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Three years ago, America was locked in a battle for #NetNeutrality, and, by extension, life as we knew it.

For the lucky few who survived, I invite you to join me on a quick stroll down memory lane to revisit the doom and gloom we were promised.
There was a concerted push in the Senate, so it makes sense to start there, where we had many, many examples of people who get paid by your tax dollars pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that repealing #NetNeutrality would mean no more internet.

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24 Nov
Quick🧵(1/6)

We haven’t talked much about it, but Biden’s cabinet is chock full of lobbyists.

Here’s a quick rundown of top Biden appointees:

💰CoS Klein lobbied for asbestos & Fannie Mae (& others)

💰DHS chief Mayorkas is currently a partner at lobbying shop Wilmer Cutler
(2/6)

💰SecState Blinken currently runs a consulting shop called WestExec

💰 WestExec comes up often.
DNI Avril Haynes is a former WestExec partner

💰NSA Sullivan was at consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners, where he worked on behalf of Uber and others
(3/6)

💰Counselor Riccheti is one of DCs best known lobbyists, working with the Podesta bros & on health care + other topics

💰Leg Affairs Director Terrell is a former lobbyist at Facebook

💰John Kerry is, well, John Kerry

Despite this, we see only puff pieces on his team.
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I really do hope that the democratization of pornography is what finally wakes cultural conservatives up to the fact that unfettered capitalism isn’t some moral good.
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My general view on capitalism is that it’s done great good (please don’t send me The Graph I have seen it many times) but that in well-developed post-industrial societies we can and must have some bumpers here and there for the things capitalism forces into externalities.
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I am especially surprised because he has seemingly has so many nice things to say about Republicans, like how they’re evil and want to kill people.
Perhaps if he had made clear that Republicans are willing to tolerate any type of evil and can’t be expected to do the right thing it would’ve helped broker more understanding with his subjects?
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If so, I think some apologies are in order👇
We’ve gotta start this one with the elected Democrats who pushed it.

Surely you remember when it was an “alarming threat” that the Trump Admin wanted to make a few changes? @SenWarren sure does.
@RonWyden told us - repeatedly - that Trump was doing this to “steal the election” through suppressing the vote, which sounds exactly like what Democrats are now accusing Trump of doing.
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