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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Third day in a row trying to sign up for a #COVID19 #vaccine in DC. System isn't working, third day in a row. @MayorBowser @_DCHealth
The phone lines are either past capacity or down entirely, depending on when I call.
DC had a budget surplus this year. Seems like they could've used some of it to, I don't know, hire competent software developers and/or server capacity.
UPDATE: the website went back up and a friend scheduled mine and hers. So unbelievably grateful and so hoping that the city resolves these technological issues—and finds ways to reach people who don't have the technological wherewithal or resources to do this.

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26 Feb
DC’s vaccination registration site crashed less than 10 minutes into the release of a new batch of appointments. #COVID19 #vaccine
I don’t know, maybe if one of DC’s local customer service billionaires *cough cough* Jeff Bezos *cough cough* stepped up the logistics of this so that the District’s residents aren’t waging what is effectively a DDoS attack on their government’s servers to get life saving vaccine
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When this is over, don't forget that neither Jared nor Ivanka stopped Trump.

Amazing, chilling reporting from @AshleyRParker @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
“He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV,” said one close Trump adviser. “If it’s TiVo, he just hits pause and takes the calls. If it’s live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold.”
"The man who vowed to be a president of law and order failed to enforce the law or restore order. The man who has always seen himself as the protector of uniformed police sat idly by as Capitol Police officers were outnumbered, outmaneuvered, trampled on—and in one case, killed."
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11 Jan
Look, I'm from the former Soviet Union. One of the reasons Putin, an alumnus of the KGB, the agency that committed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, came to power in 2000 and stayed is that people wanted unity rather than accountability. Chew on that.
NB: There were discussions after the fall of the Soviet Union to hold a tribunal, similar to the Nuremberg Trials, to hold members of the NKVD (as the KGB was previously known) to account for their crimes. There were also talk of lustration.
In the end, it was decided that, in the face of a massive economic crisis and a country that seemed to be splitting apart, it was better to turn the page and not pick the scabs of the country's historical trauma, not to dwell on the things that pitted Russian against Russian.
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8 Jan
There’s a reason this resonates for us former foreign correspondents. When I was reporting out of Moscow, we wrestled with the question of objectivity. In the end, we knew: Putin is objectively corrupt, Putin is objectively an authoritarian, Putin objectively was not good. 1/
Our editors back home in Washington and NYC agreed—and they ate it up. We wrote stories about “the man to take on Putin,” not the man in the version of the Russian diner who supported Putin. We agreed: the opposition was the good guys, the Kremlin was the bad guys. 2/
Then came Trump and it turned out that the standards we applied to writing about foreign countries had to be toned down to “racially charged” and “not supported by the facts” and both sides. 3/
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6 Jan
This is why the "calm down and let the process play out," "this is not who we are," "the institutions will save us," is so dangerous, arrogant, and stupid. It is a position born of ignorance and privilege.
It is a willful blindness to human history and human nature, a condescending belief that Americans are somehow constitutionally different—and superior to—the other 7 bln people on this planet, that our nature is one of calm deliberation, not violence—like *those* people.
It is a willful disregard for evidence screaming you in the face and therefore an inability to understand why things play out the way they do, leading to surprised and naive declarations of "this is not who we are."
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30 Dec 20
I love seeing the same people who were like “omg why do these hicks insist on going to church in the middle of a pandemic?!” now posting pictures from their tropical vacations to poor countries that don’t have the health infrastructure to take care of the resort staff they infect
It’s “I’m one of the good guys” syndrome on steroids. Loudly proclaiming your liberal values on social media or lawn signs doesn’t magically exempt you from the rules—or following public health guidelines that overwhelmed healthcare staff are begging you to follow.
It’s a simple question but it bears repeating: just who do you think you are?
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