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2 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I can't imagine how long soldiers had to police call and search for that optic/rifle before they concluded it was missing
There was a big sign at Fort Jackson warning sergeants:

'Lose a Rifle, Lose Your Stripes' -- meaning a very serious demotion and other dire consequences. It is among the worst things a soldier can do out of negligence in a garrison setting
Here's a great piece explaining why:

"Short of actively committing a crime, in the peacetime US military the worst thing a soldier can do is lose a weapon"

edwardsrobt.medium.com/on-losing-a-ri…
It is considered so serious to lose your rifle that it's not just you who gets severely punished. So will your boss, and your boss' boss

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9 Mar
Incredible story of law enforcement refusing to compensate a woman despite:

--driving an armored vehicle through her fencing

--detonating explosives on her garage door

--driving through her front door

--covering everything in tear gas

--rendering her dog deaf and blind
You might think, doesn't the constitution require that this home owner be compensated?

Well yes, but also, and more importantly -- no?

reason.com/2021/03/05/swa…
The woman is 76 years old, and was set to begin retirement, funded in part by selling her home

She had found a buyer for her home, but of course the sale fell through after the home was rendered unlivable. She's also battling stage 3 breast cancer

reason.com/2021/03/05/swa…
Read 4 tweets
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24 Feb
Just returning from book leave! Here's my latest:

Internal docs show that a nationwide concierge medical provider, One Medical, has let -- and in some case actively facilitated -- patients to skip the COVID vaccine line.

Washington State has halted COVID doses to them:
One Medical, a concierge medical provider valued in the billions, set up COVID vaccines for ineligible patients with links to the company's leadership.

npr.org/2021/02/24/970…
One Medical, which advertises itself as a tech-infused boutique health care firm, also had a booking system that in January did not stop you from booking even if you indicated you weren't eligible.

Obviously word about this spread like wildfire.

npr.org/2021/02/24/970…
Read 9 tweets
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15 Jan
There remain some serious legal questions about whether the NRA can just up and leave New York. THREAD here:
Any nonprofit doing business in New York still falls under the jurisdiction of the New York attorney General.

And generally speaking, you need the approval of the NYG before transferring assets/dissolving
The NRA appears to be using the 'exit New York' messaging as a way to mask the more important story, which is that they're filing bankruptcy.

wsj.com/articles/natio…
Read 5 tweets
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4 Dec 20
MIT study: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and other vaccines may not do as well covering people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry as they do for white people

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
"Preliminary results suggest that, on average, people of Black or Asian ancestry could have a slightly increased risk of vaccine ineffectiveness," one of the study's authors wrote.

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
"[The] weakness [of the vacines], the MIT report contends, which is that they do not use a sufficiently diverse set of viral particles to stimulate the same level of immune response in all people in the population, depending on genetic makeup."

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
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3 Nov 20
Will never forget Election Day 2016, wandering down to the White House with @swin24 to get some last color around 2 a.m., pressed up against the fence. These were those scenes: ImageImage
@swin24 I'll be back in front of the White House tonight, all night, with @MEvstatieva as we contribute to NPR's live coverage. I hope you'll tune in!
Differences between tonight and 2016: no one is allowed into Lafayette Square up to the White House fences.

And I'm carrying a trauma kit this year when four years ago it would have been considered unthinkable and unnecessary
Read 5 tweets
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9 Oct 20
This is a smart story that I wish I had written.

And it highlights that this election the threat for disinformation may be less foreign misinformation, and more of domestic origins
Continuing along that line of thought, the disinformation that affects us in and around Election Day may be what we Americans subject ourselves to.

Hysteria and rumor around an already tense and fraught polling day could lead to an explosion of untruth
I've been thinking a lot about the DC Blackout, which happened in the wake of the George Floyd protests in DC

This rumor emerged on June 1 that all comms in DC were being jammed and it spread like wildfire
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