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23 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
There have been over 100 homicides already this year in DC. Obviously this shooting is a tragedy, but it’ll make news more because the sun was out and white people were running than anything else.
The Post did good reporting on this issue along with an analysis on where bullet casings were found. Here’s a map. Hard to overstate how serious gun violence is within many less affluent parts of the district.
Full piece is here: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/…
DC has a long-standing overcriminalization problem that the city’s government has chosen to treat as if it were an over-enforcement problem because “defund the police” fits on a bumper sticker.

The results shouldn’t surprise us.
And to boot DC continues to enact laws that will exacerbate the actual problem, overcriminalization.

This law will mean more people - likely more people, and youth, of color - have avoidable interactions with law enforcement.

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21 Jul
Pound sand.
18 months of government overreach really did substantively erode our collectively capacity for living in a free society, huh?
no to lockdowns. never again.

how could anyone look back at the human and economic destruction of the last 18 months and think that we need to repeat that??
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17 Jul
You should be terrified at the prospect of regulating “misinformation.”

The last year or so has been a crash course in how bad the powers-that-be can determine what is or isn’t misinformation.

Below, I’ve got a🧵 of 🧵’s compiling some of the most egregious examples⤵️
The best place to start is with the origin of the most consequential event in our lifetimes: the Covid pandemic.

You’ll remember that the very thought that it could’ve come from a local biolab run by a secretive autocratic regime was dismissed as a bigoted conspiracy theory.
We had supposed misinformation around a viable treatment, too.

The supposed war on misinformation led the world to write off hydroxychloroquine, a treatment we now know helps save lives.

How many died as a result?
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15 Jul
Any follow up on this, @brianstelter?
Or perhaps you, @JaneMayerNYer?
Will @MSNBC and @JoyAnnReid revisit this claim?
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15 Jul
This is hard to read, but I beg you not to turn away. It’s a vivid, haunting story about life in Xinjiang under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

And it recounts an evil worse than is easier to imagine. theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chr…
I know there’s been a brouhaha about The Atlantic lately but, at it’s best, it’s the most important source of reporting and conversation in the United States dating back to the days of Abraham Lincoln.

This piece honors that legacy.
We live in a time where it’s hard for anyone to think in more than seven second increments. But the evolving - and escalating - horror taking place right now in China is hard to overstate, and should be impossible to ignore.
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10 Jul
I don’t want to wade into the ‘who can Twitter ban’ discourse but I will just say that Fuentes is what happens when a little man goes through his youth without ever getting punched in the face.
Every man should have an intuitive sense of how punchable their personality is and my hot take on DC is that it’s biggest problem is the percentage of men for whom that isn’t true.
Gonna start a DC masculinity cult where dudes go to the gym and actually lift weights, love their neighbors as themselves and don’t ever think about wearing sunglasses like Fuentes has here.
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8 Jul
🧵THREAD🧵

The downfall of Michael Avenatti was obvious many miles away. Well, to everyone except the mainstream media.

With the news of Avenatti’s sentencing, I thought it was time to go down memory lane for some of the best Avenatti takes. ⤵️
We need to start this with some of the all-time greats.

Perhaps my favorite comes from @ChrisCillizza.
Now I say perhaps because these two takes from @JoyAnnReid should be etched into stone for the rest of human history.
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