This needs to be stated loud and clear:

The folks coming into black and brown communities and immigrant communities promoting antivaxxer messages, in an attempt to dissuade black and brown people from taking the #coronavirus vaccine, are not doing us any favors.
The same people had no care or concern when it came to issues ranging from the Tuskegee Experiments to a range of prison inmate experiments and other horrific abuses for decades in the past. The question is why are minority communities singled out and targeted for these messages?
The sudden care and concern now is not believable, especially since black and brown people are demonstratedly the most susceptible to sickness and death from #COVID19, and no other treatment alternatives are available at this time.
Black and brown people must decide for themselves if the vaccine is for them, and not be persuaded by individuals who have no interest in our health and wellbeing, Who are promoting their own agendas at our expense,...
...and who are promoting harmful, dangerous and potentially deadly messages that amount to racist propaganda, white supremacy and white nationalism wrapped in community service.
To the racist antivaxxers: If suggesting the avoidance of a vaccine during deadly pandemic to the groups who need it most is your best advice, then you are advising suicide. Stay home. We don't need you.
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9 Dec
OBSERBVATION:

Big businesses with lobbying and donor capacity are doing whatever they hell they want, are open are largely not implementing let alone enforcing #COVID19 safety provisions, and have access to government support.
What logic is behind small businesses being forced to close for safety reasons when malls are not had have virtually no restrictions? What makes malls more safe or less threatening from health perspectives?
Or maybe the question should be what makes malls more economically important and sacred that other businesses.

And it's not just malls, so I'm not picking on them. Large national chain stores, department stores, restaurants, etc., are proceeding much the same way.
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1 Dec
I've come to like Tom Friedman, NYT, over the years, and it took a lot for me to get there. But the kinds of characterizations and assumptions he makes below are why getting there has been a struggle.
nytimes.com/2020/11/29/opi…
For him to state that that it's not the same middle East that he once knew verges on being hubristic.

Everyone who cared to pay attention to what has happened in the middle east over the past 4 years did.
And what happened there wasn't lost on of the people who did pay attention. Despite all of the changes, all of it is still predicated on Iran's nuclear threat potential regardless of the other alliances, or Iran's refined and upgraded tactical capabilities.
Read 4 tweets
1 Dec
I'm just not having it.

Republicans - particularly @JohnCornyn - have no right or any business attempting to pick apart any of Joe's nominees. This is especially true for @SallyQYates and @neeratanden.
The republicans have been missing in action for the past several years in that they made no effort to vet any of Trump's totally unqualified and corrupt nominees.
Then at other times, Trump simply ignored congress altogether as he installed acting secretaries, directors and other principals while following not rules, and with no accountability ore repercussions.
Read 13 tweets
1 Dec
Keep your apology. It's worthless.

In the midst of a pandemic, idiots like her, the Kardashians and others keep pretending like it's easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission to be stupid. How about just following instructions?
yahoo.com/news/rita-ora-…
While useless, narcissistic, photo op media whores insist on being seen, they have no regard for the health and safety of the workers serving them who are exposed to harmed just so these folks can put more BS up on Instagram.
Those workers have no choice if they're to put food on the table. The celebrities do.

And don't hand me any crap about those people having no jobs or income during the pandemic if it wasn't for these celebrities.
Read 5 tweets
26 Nov
Why it's important to listen to the news, really pay attention, and then take each thing reported with an individual healthy dose of salt:

In Atlanta, one report discussed the extreme difficulties and hardships people are experiencing caused by the #coronavirus.
The report discussed how many people never got their unemployment compensation despite having requested it. The systems for handling and managing unemployment are outdated, dysfunctional, and overwhelmed. People are out of work and many businesses have closed, some permanently.
People are suffering because the promised relief under the CARES Act never arrived. Lines for food banks and Thanksgiving assistance are longer than ever.
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15 Nov
REFLECTION:

I always get in trouble for thinking aloud, so why stop now?

Aside from the spectacular success and game changing effect of mail-in ballots, the DNC, DCCC, DLCC and the DSCC all seem to spend as much time and effort running the same money raising political...
...campaigns and strategies as 25 years ago. And they all seem to spend way too much time relying on polls and fundraising from their offices as opposed to getting out in the field with the grassroots organizer who actually know what's going on. It seems kind of hubristic.

Why?
Mail-in voting is to be the most creative thing accomplished since the passage of the Motor Voter Act of 1993. Some states are ahead of the game and have been doing it for years.

So what's the excuse in other states that are dominated by democratic legislatures and governors?
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