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5 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The majority of people who followed Trump's Jan 6 call weren't there for "a rally". They were there to witness history or make it.
The Jan 6 crowd didn't just think that Trump had won the election; they ALSO thought Trump had everything under control, that there was a plan, and that Jan 6 was going to be the day of their triumph. Nothing makes sense unless you remember this.
Since election day, the most hardcore MAGA were getting more and more hyped, 100% sure that Trump's eventual triumph would cause Liberal heads to explode. On Jan 5, many were smug, not angry.

When Trump called for them to come to DC on 6 Jan, they assumed they were there to do a job. A lot of them thought that job would be to respond to mass Antifa liberal protests when Trump unexpectedly won!

But within hours of Trump's initial call for a rally, there were also people who assumed he wanted them to storm the Capitol.

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Israel will begin giving older people a THIRD DOSE of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, following the recommendation of a government advisory panel. PM Naftali Bennett will make the final decision today.
Israel is currently seeing a sharp spike in infections of the Delta variant, and preliminary figures seemed like older people's vaccine-induced protection *might* be waning.
Pfizer and the Health Ministry have been mooting a third dose for months, backed by former PM Netanyahu who's been an advocate of a booster dose since before the Delta wave arrived.
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27 Jul
In honour of @wesstreeting's return to politics, I think it's time to tell the story of how he (unknowingly) became a source of tension in my marriage. Thread/
@wesstreeting My wife @shaynale68 is originally a New Yorker. Wes was visiting Jerusalem on a delegation and had a little free time, so we took him out to Gatsby, a speakeasy-theme cocktail bar with a hidden entrance behind a bookcase.
@wesstreeting @shaynale68 I remember we grimly predicted that Trump would win the 2016 election and that Brexit would narrowly pass. Also we drank cocktails and politely argued about Israel/Palestine.
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23 Jul
This could be the reason that the Pfizer vaccine effectiveness numbers against delta appear to be so different in Israel and the UK. The UK mostly stuck to an 8-12 week dosing interval, while Israel used 3 weeks.

bbc.com/news/health-57…
It's also an argument in favour of Israel giving a third dose at, say, 6-9 months to the over-50s — a dose which might be unnecessary in the UK until 1-2 years.
In April I speculated that the real test of the UK's dosing interval would come in 9 months. I was wrong; it was sooner.
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20 Jul
Wow, Tom Barrack, a Trump advisor and friend who ran the Trump 2017 inaugural committee, charged with acting
as an agent of the UAE. justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
Barrack charged with "influencing the foreign policy positions of the campaign of a candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and, subsequently, the foreign policy positions of the U.S. government in the incoming administration" on behalf of the UAE.
Barrack allegedly had a secret mobile phone with an encrypted app to communicate with UAE officials. He told the FBI he'd never done anything for the UAE, under questioning.
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15 Jul
Thanks to vaccines, Israel looked like the first country in the world to reach herd immunity from the coronavirus. But then Delta arrived. Daily cases shot up from less than 20 to around 750 in three weeks. Image
Most of the daily cases in Israel are now among vaccinated people. 56% of Israelis are vaccinated, and they make up roughly the same proportion of daily cases (though there are lots of demographic confounders in that data!) Image
On the other hand, only 1% of daily cases are people who previously tested positive for Covid, despite this group constituting 9% of the population. Again there are confounders here, but I think the effect is probably real.
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14 Jul
So I just looked at this Freedom Phone and... wow. Is it a scam? It looks like a scam.
It's "uncensorable" and it's 500 bucks and you can pay now but it doesn't exist yet. freedomphone.com
It promises an "uncensorable App Store" which means an app store full of spyware, scamware and malware.
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