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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Voting in my local elections is a frustrating exercise in figuring out which Republican isn’t QAnon that I can vote for. #RedStateProblems
Lots of replies don’t seem to understand what red states are like.
There are NO independents or Dems running in my local districts.

None. Zip. Nada.
The best use of my vote is to make sure extremists don’t get to hold office.
The funniest part is we moved to rank choice voting for some reason so I literally get to choose which flavor of Republican I find least objectionable on a weird gradient. Sigh.
Just a pro tip for anyone struggling with the same thing. Often there isn’t party affiliation on the ballot for local seats and it may not be super obvious from their candidate website. The easiest way to figure it out is to look up their voter registration records.

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18 Oct
I’m seeing a lot of coverage of his fully vaccinated state without the context that Powell had multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells.

He would have been considered significantly immunocompromised.
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3 Oct
This Sunday morning we're asking the age-old question. WHY DOES POSTMASTER DEJOY STILL HAVE A JOB AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

I've answered this question several times previously but it's worth revisiting because some dynamics on the USPS board are shifting.

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(2) If you want to see background on why Biden can't fire DeJoy, you can visit this thread from back in February. Eseentially only the board can remove DeJoy.

And per usual we've got a DINO standing in the way of progress.

(3) We've been bitching about DeJoy for YEARS, but this is coming to a head as strategic changes at the USPS to slow mail delivery and raise prices take effect October 1st.

Western states will see mail delivery slowed to speeds not seen since the 1970s.

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26 Sep
This morning we're asking how 14,000 Haitian migrants ended up at the US Mexico border camped under the Del Rio bridge.

It made for a damning photo op, but the situation is much more complicated than it seems and has its roots in centuries of imperialism.
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(2) The images of border patrol on horseback riding down black men and whipping them certainly got our attention.

Our particular cruelty towards Haitian asylum seekers can be traced back to the 1970s. But Haiti's current situation is extremely dire.

vox.com/22689472/haiti…
(3) Most of the refugees trying to enter the US have been living in South America in encampments for years. Their country has been devastated by hurricanes, earthquakes, political instability, and violent crime.

And yet we're sending them back anyway.

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16 Sep
In today’s thread we’re taking a closer look at the CA recall. Does it tell us anything about Dem chances in the 2022 midterms?

What lessons can we learn about how to motivate voters and get the kind of turnout even the GOP can’t gerrymander away.

(THREAD)
(2) Saying the recall failed is a bit of an understatement. It fell flat as a pancake. 70% of CA voters said no to recalling Dem governor Newsom.

So the media framing that Dems should take to heart hard lessons here seems misplaced.

cnbc.com/2021/09/15/cal…
(3) In fact the CA recall, widely seen as a referendum on Biden and aggressive pandemic management should be seen as a bellwether.

CA overwhelming said yes to vaccines. Yes to science. And yes to abortion rights.

The GOP should sit up and take note.

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14 Sep
In today's thread we're taking a peak into the dark corner of the internet that is Facebook. Is anyone trying to do anything about the threats unregulated social media platforms pose?

Is Facebook going to be allowed to continue to poison us with misinformation?
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(2) One of the items Biden's FCC was set to tackle is what to do about tech giants.

After the role Facebook played in disinformation campaigns ahead of the 2016 election, it's clear we have to do something. And anti-trust laws aren't going to cut it.

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(3) Facebook knew this moment was coming and tried to position itself for the new era of accountability by suggesting some measures they could impose for better self regulation.

Basically a laundry list of relatively ineffective stuff they already do.

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26 Aug
In today's thread we're asking what's the cost of COVID? This is a difficult question to answer for several reasons.

Let's start at the beginning.
With straightforward healthcare costs.
Who is paying for the unvaccinated?

The short answer? All of us.
Let me explain.
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(2) The economic impact of the virus extends in all directions. Unemployment, loss of life, long term disability. All of these effects have costs.

A Harvard economic study published in JAMA last year estimated COVID had already cost the US 16 trillion.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
(3) Many of these costs might have been avoided early on with investment in more robust testing and other mitigation measures.

This year we have vaccines. And they are worth every penny. But the unvaccinated continue to cost us in more ways than one.

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