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13 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Major moment. Are you ready to go maskless (in most places)? “The science is clear: If you are fully vaccinated, you are protected, & you can start doing the things that you stopped doing because of the pandemic” the C.D.C. said in a statement on Thursday. nytimes.com/2021/05/13/hea…
At least for me, this is going to take a while to get my psyche adjusted. Not sure I am ready.
This move by CDC will also almost certainly generate scenes of conflict/confusion indoors at stores/malls/other venues as we transition here and some are with masks and others not. Is it the end to retail mask mandates?
This from the White House...

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A few examples. Binance hires former Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus. binance.com/en/blog/421499…
BinanceUS hires former acting head of Office of Comptroller of the Currency--i.e. one of the top banking regulators in the United States. businesswire.com/news/home/2021…
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THREAD: The US has more than enough lithium in the ground to supply the needs of all electric vehicles that will be made here. The massive open question is how will it be extracted from the ground? Let's look at those choices. First a story then documents nytimes.com/2021/05/06/bus…
One model is open-pit mining. Take the LithiumAmericas plan on federal lands in northern Nevada. Dig a giant pit and a sulfuric acid manufacturing plant. Extract a massive amt of water from the ground. Then pull the lithium from the clay to get what you need.
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Trump's effort to silence a former campaign aide named Jessica Denson & punish after she claimed sex discrimination/harassment by his campaign is effectively voided today as federal court judge rules that non-disclosure agreement Denson signed as campaign aide in 2016 is invalid
I wrote about this case--and others where Trump used his campaign funds to punish former aides that had been critical of him or his campaign--late last year. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…
Here is the full story on how Trump drew on campaign funds to pay tens of millions in legal bills. Jessica Denson, his former campaign aide, was one of his many targets. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…
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House Republicans, one at a time, each attempting introduce same HR682 "Reopen Schools Act" (over, over again) even though Dems have not that allowed it to be amended into stimulus bill. These sounds bites will be used in reelection efforts obviously. Sounds like a broken record
So much of what happens in Washington is political posturing. The campaign ad/fundraising appeal here is so obvious.
Given that they're reading exactly the same script it's almost like the House Republicans are auditioning for a TV part, some of them adding little flourishes in their voices as they read the same line
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Interior Department kicks off a fundamental review of the oil and gas leasing program for federal lands. If you are pro oil and gas, or critical of it, hard to not agree this program needs to be reexamined. Most of leased land is banked by speculators, not really used to produce
We wrote about this in 2018. Leases on federal land for energy production at times being given away for pennies, and then sat on by speculators. With @HirokoTabuchi nytimes.com/2018/11/27/bus…
I went to a Houston industry conference in 2018 where land speculators were RESELLING leases they had bought from the federal government. You have to wonder. Why are they profiting by re-selling them?
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BREAKING: Biden administration today reverses action taken in final days of Trump administration that had benefitted an Israeli billionaire and mining executive who wanted access to US banks again. A Trump-era lobbying campaign backfires. nytimes.com/live/2021/03/0…
Here is statement from State Department as Treasury reimposes the sanctions on Dan Gertler, the Israeli billionaire, who State says "engaged in extensive public corruption"
Here is our story from February detailing the elaborate lobbying campaign that Dan Gertler undertook, with the help of Alan Dershowitz and others, to get the last-minute reprieve from Treasury Sec Mnuchin, a secret deal now reversed nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/…
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