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25 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Wait, is this the only piece of new evidence people are using for their "it was definitely a lab leak" takes? I'm not saying I think it definitely *wasn't*, but folks are going too far w/ using this as confirmation.
-It's not confirmed they were sick w/ COVID. Is this different than a previous year's rate of illness?
-More importantly, COVID was already circulating in November. . Is there some reason to believe these 3 cases (if COVID) are different from other emerging clusters in the city?
I don't have any skin in the "lab leak"/"animal-to-human" game, other than I find it interesting. But, that 3 people were sick at the Wuhan institute in November is not that confirmatory, absent other info.
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25 May
My article for @AlterNet: the GOP's decades of deceit about topics as various as Medicare, climate change, & President Obama's birthplace laid the groundwork for not just the Big Lie, but also COVID denialism & "vaccine hesitancy" alternet.org/2021/05/the-bi…
We talk a lot about the GOP's denial of the electoral results, as well as the prevalence of "vaccine hesitancy." These phenomena are not unrelated. The GOP managed to convince people to deny democracy, death, & personal health all in one year alternet.org/2021/05/the-bi… Image
I didn't write about this in the piece, but I think it's important to point out: cognitive science has shown that lying comes at a cognitive cost. Lying is harder than telling the truth. This is something we all know intuitively, b/c, well, we've all lied at some point.
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25 May
The actual facts are:
-Most hate crimes are not reported by the news
-Hate crimes are under-reported to police
-Even hate crimes reported to police are often miscoded and/or not reported to the FBI

Overall, hate crimes are *underreported* at every level. propublica.org/article/why-am…
Today is the anniversary of George Floyd's murder. Prior to Floyd's murder, Ahmaud Arbery was hunted down & murdered by 3 white men. His story faded, bc the media can only pay attention to 1 Black victim at a time

Imagine calling media-reported hate crimes "hoaxes" on this day
In the case of Mr. Floyd, a police officer was the murderer. In the case of Mr Arbery, the police screwed up the investigation, choosing not to arrest the suspects until a video of the murder went viral. Months went by before any arrests were made.
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23 May
Why
Honestly wanted to tweet something witty and sat there for about five minutes and all I could come up w/ was "why?"
Here's the thing. I am not opposed to interviewing Trump voters about their feelings about racial justice or the specific case of George Floyd. I'm in favor of gathering sociological information just for the historical record. But that's not what the Times' did here.
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23 May
My work as a member of Hillary Clinton's Street Team was frankly some of my finest
For the record, I loved Bernie, but never hated Hillary. I wanted a Dem to win the general. I grew disenchanted w/ Bernie over numerous things, including his tactics, class-exclusionary statements, late-primary behavior, & rhetoric that I felt fed the vitriol of some supporters
And, yes, the only thing more embarrassing than that scarf is that I literally chose to wrap it around my head. You're allowed to laugh.
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21 May
Antisemitic attacks have surged in the past weeks. There have been reports of hate crimes in the U.S., Argentina, & Canada, as well as across Europe. No one should be silent about this violence. Opposing actions from the Israeli state does not entail acceptance of antisemitism
I sense a lack of outrage over these incidents. We shouldn't make our condemnation of bigotry contingent. And I think it says a lot about our own biases that so many seem to think recognition of antisemitism and Jewish victims somehow entails support of Netanyahu's actions.
If that's the default in your brain, it is an antisemitic one & you should fight it.
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19 May
There are so many people who will be harmed by the new abortion restrictions, especially people of low socioeconomic status. Today I am also thinking of the people who want to be pregnant but find out their fetus has severe genetic abnormalities that may be incompatible w/ life.
In the case of such abnormalities, those who carry to term are not wrong to do so, nor are those who choose to terminate. Many base their decisions on survival rates. There are some abnormalities that result in very short, extremely painful lives for infants.
I can understand why some may be anti-abortion for religious reasons, tho I think it is immoral for them to impose those restrictions on others. There is something especially hypocritical about forcing people to give birth to infants who then only experience pain before death
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