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4 Dec, 9 tweets, 3 min read
REMINDER AS YOU READ about "widely respected" attorney Abbe Lowell... many DC BigLaw lawyers are "widely respected" for... bogus reasons. It's a mutual back scratching culture. nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/… (1/x)
As the Wall Street Journal summarized... Lowell is an equal opportunity fixer for both parties. He went MAGA fixer for Jared Kushner + if indications of as yet unproven allegations bear out, maintained as much ethics as one expects for a Kushner lawyer. /2 wsj.com/articles/both-…
Please keep Abbe Lowell in mind if and when a BigLaw partner is chosen by Biden as Attorney General. Any such pick (e.g., Trump law firm King & Spaulding's Sally Yates) will receive bipartisan hosannas. As did BILL BARR!!! (3/x)
I recommend ignoring all law firm partner analysis of any individual appointed to a position of power. In order to build their book of business, Neal Katyals & Lisa Blatts & etc will often embrace a Gorsuch or a Kavanaugh.

The media shouldn't take such opinions seriously. (4/x)
Sally Yates' King & Spalding is on this list: "Law Students, Sign the Pledge: Protect the Legal Profession and Disavow Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Litigation."
peoplesparity.org/trumpfirmspled…

Biden's AG shouldn't be someone a conscientious law student would boycott. (5/x)
And note @Dahlialithwick's discussion of King & Spalding here: slate.com/news-and-polit… (6/x)
Yates' law firm partner not only represented the Trump campaign.... Her partner Bobby Burchfield is the Trump Org's "independent ethics lawyer." That's the kind of law firm where Yates chose to put out her shingle.... politico.com/blogs/donald-t… (7/x)
Sherrilyn Ifill, Tish James -- they have not spent most of the Trump years as law firm partners with Trump's 'ethics lawyer."

Can you IMAGINE the type of law firm that is Trump's choice for ETHICS work???? (8/x)
King & Spalding also 9th worst of 100 top law firms on climate litigation: ls4ca.org/firm-profile

Yates had options. We should judge her based on her professional decision. (9/x)

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5 Dec
Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and ignoring... washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden… (1/x)
how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing). nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/… (2/x)
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4 Nov
Here's my hot take -- one I kinda believe, even as I suspect no one will agree.

COVID-19 ultimately didn't hurt, and may have helped, Trump & the GOP in the election.

Arguments:

1. Biden will end up winning by amount he was beating Trump in head to heads pre-pandemic. (1/x)
2. COVID-19 became THE STORY, crowding out...well, all of the other stories.

3. It *IS* a pandemic, & 1 that throughout October became increasingly terrible across the world. Blaming Trump for COVID-19 much less fair than blaming him for cutting taxes for rich, anti-ACA, etc 2/x
4. Trump got to make essentially unchallenged claim that economy all good pre-COVID-19. Why blame him for a pandemic also crushing Europe.

5. Biden spent shockingly little time describing the medhanics of Trump's HHS/CDC effing up pandemic response, just assumed people knew. 3/x
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4 Nov
We had an alternative vision for how @SpeakerPelosi could have handled the past 2 years.

We emphasized connecting the dots between Trump the buffoon, the executive branch, and outcomes for real people.

Here's some of what we urged @revolvingdoorDC:
therevolvingdoorproject.org/tag/congressio…
Now it is up to a President Biden -- and forgive me, we DO know that is what's happening -- to view running the executive branch effectively as the main way to both deliver results and de-radicalize the country. (2/x)
The most important article for people to read today is newrepublic.com/article/159339… by @pareene

Biden GESTURED at this theory of the case, but with no detail. And pelosi's STEADFAST AVERSION to oversight made it an unnecessarily hard story to tell. (3/x)
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14 Oct
My thoughts on the failed Schumer-Feinstein approach to #SCOTUShearings:

1. Polling to determine the best message for paid media is not relevant to earned media strategy. This ought to be basic, but it's been hard for Establishment Democrats to understand FOR YEARS. (1/x)
2. There's a kabuki style of question deflecting that means that Democratic Senators can NOT get the storyline out of straightforward substantive questions they seek.

So ACA, Roe, etc polling is irrelevant to what questions should be asked. The question is what can get noticed!
3. Democratic Senators should ask principally about:

A) Her violation of innumerable Washington DC laws in attending restaurants and the like while she and her family were REQUIRED BY LAW to quarantine.

B) Her masklessness in DC = also illegal. (3/x)
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9 Jul
Eduardo Rodriguez myocarditis -- professional athlete, 27 -- is a BFD:
"Long COVID," thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/20… ImageImage
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11 Apr
2 appalling aspects of discourse:

1. Deaths statistic is being treated as factual even when we know it's a WILD undercount. This is deeply irresponsible. EVERY sentence referencing the stats MUST include the fact it is SERIOUSLY too low.

2. MANY "models" project only 1 wave. Image
SOME LINKS (but there are many out there):

nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyr…
nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/…

I *strongly* suspect red state/rural counts are WAY off, given inadequacy of testing & political incentives.
Why does this matter? By underplaying the human cost of our irresponsibly delayed social distancing, "stats based" people are facilitating a premature return to normalcy.

Statistics *seem objective,* and so limitations must be highlighted.
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