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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Its going to be good to have a President who will not treat a deadly pandemic like a wife he has grown tired of washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/… Image
The White House distributed PPE at the direction of Fox News allies washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/… Image
"think of masks as a cultural wedge issue" washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/… Image
The President's son-in-law, former college football player turned bag-man, and former model turned personal assistant, none of who have medical expertise, pushed someone with no infectious disease experience to shape a pandemic response based on appearances on state TV. Image

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Don Moynihan Profile picture
22 Dec
Translation: My factually incorrect statement went viral so I’m not taking it down. ImageImage
So, Israel was trending on twitter, and a lot of that messaging was centered on the idea that the stimulus bill was providing $600 for Americans but $500M from Israel. Sounds bad, not not accurate. ImageImage
A good chunk of that traffic was driven by Bragman's original tweet, which, between the combination of the blue check and screenshots of appropriations language looks pretty persuasive. It's at about 15K RTs and another 8K quote tweets right now. So, why is this wrong? ImageImageImage
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20 Dec
Great to see folks who downplayed the virus hop to the front of the vaccine line
I realize there is a concern with getting public figures vaccinated esp. those whose followers might be science skeptic. But we are still early trying to get the vaccine to health workers, Amit at the point we are trying to persuade the doubtful.
If public perception is you concern, there is a moral hazard issue and elitism issue: politicians who have modeled bad behavior get rewarded out with better medical treatment and a spot at the front of the vaccine line. Undermines sense of solidarity or shared risk.
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17 Dec
This is the same pattern we see again and again (see also, Jewish refugees before WWII, Iraq War military translators).

1. US govt promises visa spots to particular group.
2. US govt uses administrative burdens to make it nearly impossible for groups to redeem the promise.
Step 1. Increase learning costs by failing to inform the population they are eligible for visas. Then provide contradictory directives so people are unsure what they need to do to apply.
Step 2. Impose high compliance costs. $1000 fee. Limit acceptable documentation to one that is hard to get: A current passport from a country you have not been to for years, which requires travel during a pandemic.
Reject if people fail to fill in a non-relevant blanks on a form
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16 Dec
A public university fires an outspoken professor outside of the tenure process, after he had been critical of private donors.
On the face of it, little real justification, raising real concerns about first amendment violations and attack on academic freedom.
Not a historian, but Felber's CV (Phd granted in 2017) and progress (received a fellowship at Harvard, a few journal articles and book project) does not suggest someone who was removed for his academic performance history.olemiss.edu/wp-content/upl…
I've been a department chair - the idea you would fire a junior faculty member for not talking with you is absolutely crazy. Removal of any tenure track faculty member without consulting the rest of the faculty is also something I have never seen.
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14 Dec
Wisconsin Supreme rejects Trump campaigns efforts to overturn the election (again). Two observations:
1) Again, it was 4-3 with one conservative joining the liberal minority. That is really too close for comfort.
2) Great football metaphor.
Justice Patience Roggensack argues the court should have heard the case because of low confidence in the election. But the low confidence is entirely driven by false partisan claims of fraud. "Successful conspiracy theory" should not be grounds for hearing cases.
The dissenting Judges do not say they would have thrown out absentee votes, but signal they were open to such arguments, writing that guidance that the state election Commission provided to jurisdictions and voters was "erroneous." Not reassuring. wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/Dis…
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13 Dec
All signs point to Biden being confirmed as President. This is cause for celebration, but lets take a moment to push back against a simple narrative of an anti-democratic putsch failing against strong institutions.
It's not that black and white. 1/
In the aftermath of a pretty routine election where Biden won more convincingly than Trump did in 2016 we have:
*a majority of GOP supporters say they do not trust the outcomes
*the majority of the GOP House Congressional delegation and 18 AGs proposed overturning the election 2
*Courts pushed back against fairily bizarre claims, but in some cases (MI and WI) decisions were 4-3, suggesting more openness to those claims than we would like
*significant and routine disinformation from Fox and other media platforms that people trust 3/
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