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1 Apr

Back in 2019, we profiled Rep. Matt Gaetz. Here are some fun/terrible things we found out about him.

It’s a bit of a long thread.

First, you should know that Gaetz is from a place called Niceville, a town of about 15,000 nestled on Choctawhatchee Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The Gaetzes owned a second home, in the nearby town of Seaside. The Truman Show was filmed in their house.

If anyone is responsible for Gaetz’s rise to political fame, it’s his dad, Don Gaetz, whose deep pockets and even deeper connections in Florida politics are one reason Matt is known in his district as Baby Gaetz.

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24 Mar

@PeterHotez

Dr. @PeterHotez is joining us LIVE to talk about the vaccine, how to increase vaccine acceptance in a time of rampant anti-science rhetoric, and how we can prevent the next pandemic. It should be an informative conversation! We'll be live-tweeting below 👇 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@kieraevebutler

.@kieraevebutler asks, "In the war between the vaccines and the variants, who is winning so far?"

We're facing a "tipping point," @PeterHotez explains, but there is good news! "By the summer," he says, "I think we could potentially vaccinate our way out of the epidemic."

@PeterHotez

The not-so-good news, @PeterHotez adds, is that the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom, is accelerating in parts of the US. "That's really worrisome."

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18 Feb

Here's a list of “bedrock Federal environmental laws” that were waived to build Trump's wall, according to Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee:

1. The National Environmental Policy Act
2. The Endangered Species Act
3. The Clean Water Act

4. The National Historic Preservation Act
5. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act
6. The Clean Air Act
7. The Archeological Resources Protection Act
8. The Safe Drinking Water Act
9. The Noise Control Act
10. The Solid Waste Disposal Act

11. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
12. The Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
13. The Antiquities Act
14. The Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
15. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

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18 Feb

@RevDrBarber

The attack on the Capitol was, for many Americans, an unthinkable attack on democracy. For @RevDrBarber, it was an old hat.

"These people today we are saying are moderates were the extremists who were birthers two or three years ago. And then they were the Southern strategists."

“I was just screaming at the TV when people said, ‘We’ve never seen this but twice,'” Barber. "Are you out of your mind? Poor folk, Black folk, labor, people fighting for women’s suffrage, abolitionists all knew this mob violence, this attack on our bodies and sacred place.”

@RevDrBarber

.@RevDrBarber's daughter, @HealthEquityDoc, is a social epidemiologist. That means part of her job is measuring the amount of death the pandemic has wrought.

"It's been heartbreaking to have to bear witness to the amount of death that we've seen."

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18 Feb

COVID doesn’t discriminate, but the havoc wrought by the virus—the deaths, economic devastation, and intergenerational trauma—has disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Native American communities. The numbers are awful.

A thread (1/x)

Due to COVID, Americans’ life expectancy has dropped 1.2 years.

For Black Americans, life expectancy has dropped 2.1 years;

For Latinos, life expectancy has dropped 3 years. (2/x)

The COVID death rate for Black Americans ages 30 to 49 is four times that of white Americans. (3/x)

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11 Feb

Last year, Wilson Truong posted this message to Nextdoor warning about a local policy change in CA that would limit natural gas in new buildings. It ignited a debate among neighbors.

But what the residents didn’t know was that Truong wasn’t their neighbor at all. (Thread.)

Truong was writing in his role as an account manager for the public relations firm Imprenta Communications Group. Imprenta’s client was Californians for Balanced Energy Solutions, a front group for SoCalGas, the nation’s largest gas utility.

The Nextdoor incident is just one of many examples of the newest front in the industry’s war to garner public support for gas. As more cities move toward electrification, gas companies have launched a stealth campaign of direct-to-consumer marketing. bit.ly/3a9Q1nc

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