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18 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The President encouraged supporters while maintaining formal deniability. Congress has the right and power to prevent him from seeking the office again. It should. Then President Pence should issue the pardons necessary to prevent political witch-hunting.

The nation is more important than any person. Our focus on Trump is unnatural—we have been drawn into his self-obsession, and if the Senate does not act, the next four years will become a cataclysmic battle between his tormentors and his disciples. The republic can’t afford it.
This is neither a ‘pro’ nor ‘anti’ Trump proposal. This is a non-partisan proposal to get our democratic republic out of a tailspin. Pardons would have historic precedent in the response to Shays’ rebellion. Alexander Hamilton describes the reasoning for it in Federalist #74.
Pardons should go beyond the President and his family. I truly believe this is our best chance to staunch the national bloodletting

Some will disagree because they project all hope onto Trump, others because they relish the prospect of hounding him. Neither instinct is patriotic
Those who love this fine, flawed country should agree on whatever course allows us to prevent further national disintegration and to confront the systemic disfunction that set the stage for this perilous chapter in our history.

It’s fair to say the world is depending on us.

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5 Jan
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How many of the idiosyncrasies of COVID might be the result of viral adaptation to the lab and to a particular experimental protocol?

If the virus was enhanced in a lab, it's urgent we find out everything about the protocol--a matter of life and death.

And what are we now to make of the year long "natural origin" consensus from all our top virologists?
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Three of the authors that designated people from across the political spectrum as "far right" have a previous paper on--wait for it--under and overfitting in network community models. So they're ostensibly experts in avoiding the exact error they made. arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10582…
I have tagged the two who are on Twitter, so maybe they'll explain themselves. Who knows, maybe it's a very clever attempt at Sokal^3.

cc: @ConceptualJames, @peterboghossian, @HPluckrose, @MikeNayna
Looks like Homa Hosseinmardi (@homahmrd) is also here on Twitter if she would like to explain the methodology used to assign positions on the political spectrum.

I'd ask others to be respectful. There is nothing wrong with critiquing a paper, but it shouldn't be personal.
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8 Oct 20
A strange error, in the weirdest possible place. There are, of course, many honest liberals pushing back on CRT, with millions of followers. Mainstream press often portrays us as conservative when it isn't ignoring us. BUT @WSJopinion has been a notable exception.

What gives?
By @peterboghossian

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By @HeatherEHeying

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3 Aug 20
Interesting that the link in no way reflects the claim being made about @MrAndyNgo. Is that because the claim is false and #UnverifyAndyNgo is really a coordinated attempt to stigmatize Mr. Ngo and prevent him from continuing to report what is really going on here in Portland?
I live in Portland. When I have checked Ngo's claims about the Portland riots, they turn out to be accurate. This stands in stark contrast to the claims of "protestors" whose portrayal is consistently misleading and clearly exists in service of a dangerous false narrative.
With the mainstream press reporting fiction from Portland, Ngo has become the only window into the violent and incoherent riots nightly riots. It is very clear why he is under attack, and equally clear why no accusation should be entertained without compelling evidence.
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21 Jun 20
Fathers are important, making sons and daughters wiser and more capable. In black America, fatherlessness is disproportionate.

#BLM wants to spread fatherlessness.

Reason suggests we should improve black women's bargaining position instead, so men stick around.
The obvious response is 'Hey wait a minute, #BLM isn't spreading fatherlessness, they are swapping community in for missing fathers'. But that only works where community IS family. It will not work in the U.S. You need STEM to understand why.
Fatherlessness is a result of uneven sex ratios within the black community, which place available men in high demand. Men with options are difficult to pin down. And free black American men are in high demand and behave accordingly. It has nothing to do with being black.
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8 Jun 20
This isn't a smoking gun, but it's big. Thread summary:

SARS-CoV2 has a short genetic sequence (furin site) that makes it ultra-infectious in humans and allows it infect many tissue types and jump between species. No closely related (beta CoV) virus has ever been found with one
In 2006 a virology lab reported experimental insertion of a furin site that produced a big jump in the ability of the altered virus to infect human cells. There insert was at precisely the same location in the genome as the furin site in SARS-CoV2.
Others have found natural insertions at this location in beta CoVs, but never a furin site. Why? Given the effect of modifications at this location, selection 'experiments' and 'discovers' useful changes. But furin is like a cheat-code for transmission--Hard to find, and powerful
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