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30 Dec 20, 4 tweets, 4 min read
I suspect the bonafide reason Trump veto’ed the NDAA was not Section 230 reform or renaming US military bases named after Confederates: it’s the anti-corruption provisions that would create a beneficial ownership registry that would impact money laundering heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-… ImageImageImageImage
Why? Opposing names is red meat for his base, but I doubt he cares.
He may obsess about Section 230 because Twitter or Facebook secretly blocked him.
But money laundering & following the money affect Trump where he cares most: his complicated finances & foreign entanglements.
If you’ve followed for a while, you know I’ve been talking about the need for a beneficial ownership registry for years, revealing money laundered in shell companies & offshore accounts. The USA has to clean up our own house to lead global reforms & #anticorruption. #FinCENFiles
It‘s be tremendous if the @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ @USATODAY @propublica assigned reporters to cover this angle, spread & impact of beneficial ownership registries in other nations. They’ve been a priority of good governance watchdogs & #anticorruption advocates for years.

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31 Dec 20
Per @CDCgov
12,409,050 Doses #COVID19 vaccine Distributed
2,794,588 inoculated (1st Dose)
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Why the gap?
Chronic lack of funding, fantasy, hollowed out systems:
washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12… Call out the @NationalGuard. Act like it’s an emergency, because it is ImageImageImageImage
Give kids memories of @NationalGuard coming to a block or town with vaccines for grandparents, masks for all, & chocolate, & then coming back to check in, give the booster, & the family a first dose.
Or of driving to a mobile clinic to get inoculated.
Make America healthy again.
Perna cited holidays & winter weather delaying uptake, a learning curve for hospitals on storage & admin, & states setting aside doses for long-term care: nytimes.com/2020/12/30/hea… Inoculation at pharmacies will help.
So would using the @NationalGuard. Need a whole of society push. Image
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5 Dec 20
…Our protests & marches to indoor pleasures.
Grim-visaged death hath smooth’d his dark shroud;
And now, instead of heart attacks & cancers
To fright the souls of fearful Americans,
He capers nimbly indoors
Borne by the promiscuous breathing of our youth
But we, that are not used to pandemic restrictions,
Nor bade to mask our plagued breaths;
We, that are rudely cramped, and in want of love’s tragedy
To dance before a wanton ambling nymph;
We, that felt curtail’d of our fair proportion,
Cheated of life by a dissembling cretin
Sickened, uninformed, sent before our time
Into this breathing world, alternative facts made up,
And so lame and irrational
That dogs bark as they halt by them;
Why, we, in this bleak time of plague,
Have tried to vote away the crimes,
Hoping to drive away shadows with the sun
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5 Dec 20
This the first official use of @Twitter’s new fleet feature by a mayor or governor that I’ve seen.
I don’t see a way to link to @MayorBowser’s fleets.

Will @Twitter archive fleets for @verified government accounts, @TwitterGov?

Any cities & states memorializing ephemeral media?
The fleets by @MayorBowser feature key links:
🔬DC’s coronavirus website for free at-home testing (!) & help with rent:
coronavirus.dc.gov/rent

🎁shopping local: ShopInTheDistrict.com

🍱ordering food: DCToGoGo.com

A reminder of how new features can have civic uses
In a sense, mayoral fleets about COVID testing, help with rent, holiday shopping, & food are fantastic: it’s meeting people where we are, online.

It’s using social media to connect us to services.

I talked with @carolynlawson about this a *decade* ago:
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4 Dec 20
6 months later, we can see the consequences of far too many leaders across America who were not responsible, from the White House to state houses.
Governors ignored or dismissed the science.
As in 1918, businesses & churches resisted mask mandates & closures.
Deaths followed. Image
If you need a laugh along with a way to score risk, @xkcd’s chart remains relevant: xkcd.com/2333/ Singing in church, going to a bar or restaurant, party, or cruise are high.

It’s congruent with how epidemiologists score risk. ImageImage
When the @nytimes asked epidemiologists how they were living, this is what they said nytimes.com/2020/12/04/ups…
Key takeaway: avoid crowded indoor spaces where people are not wearing masks.
Bars, churches, restaurants, malls, holiday parties are high risks for super-spreader events ImageImage
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22 Nov 20
SCOTUS had upheld the constitutionality of state & local health authorities enforcing codes in a pandemic, from masks to closing churches or bars: americanbar.org/news/abanews/p… Once an emergency is declared, they have power to restrict liberties & enforce mandates.

This is subversion:
Typhoid Mary showed a limit for individual liberty.
In 2020, SCOTUS upheld state restrictions: “Our Constitution principally entrusts “[t]he safety & the health of the people’ to the politically accountable officials of the States ‘to guard & protect.’” supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
“While protestors in 1918 fought against the hated mask, their act of gathering, which was at the time entirely legal, was helping to spread the disease." time.com/5830265/1918-f…
The leaders who do not learn from American history doom their constituents to repeat it.
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22 Nov 20
+💯@brianstelter for calling out @potus @vp @presssec for not holding press conferences & avoiding questions. Public servants are accountable to the public. Regular press briefings are part of the transparency that arms us with the info essential to self-governance in a democracy
Today, @JimVandeHei told @ReliableSources about how @axios governs the speech of its staff on social media & TV: they can’t “pop off” on Twitter, or tell @BrianStelter about their views.

Was this the apotheosis of the “view from nowhere” on a Sunday morning show, @jayrosen_nyu?
The behavior of members of media is irrelevant to the obligation of the officials.
In a healthy democracy, press conferences are not a privilege or treat to be doled out at the discretion of those in power to favored reporters.
This isn't like state TV in an authoritarian regime.
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