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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Biden's press secretary made a sarcastic joke about this exact idea at a press conference 13 days ago, implying the cost (a result of the President's own policy) would be prohibitive. The tests will start to arrive after the omicron wave has crested.
Paying a fortune to pharmaceutical companies who profiteer from FDA dysfunction in order to deliver an insufficient number of tests through a broken postal service too late to matter will be a real full body workout for the American government.
Policy brought to you by the makers of the USNS Comfort, the farce projection hospital ship that can fail to deliver health care at any point on the globe
Important to note this is not just Biden's failure. At any point since they became available, Congress could have made it their priority to get reliable, inexpensive tests and quality masks to every American home

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23 Dec
There's a disconnect between critiques of Telegram and its practical use that have made me uneasy about joining technical pile-ons around how it's not really encrypted messaging. Let me use the example of Telegram use in the Hong Kong protests
I arrived in Hong Kong with each hair standing individually on end because everyone was using Telegram, which of course stores every group chat server-side like Moxie says. It took me a while to understand why it was so popular despite this shortcoming
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22 Dec
Good thread on how the FDA is preventing cheap, rapid covid tests from reaching the American public.
I'm not on a campaign of hate against the Biden Administration. I voted for the guy. But I did so on the understanding that he would bring competence and seriousness to a government that had been a clown car, and I am genuinely appalled at how little changed around fighting covid
This same agency, the one holding back public testing in the US, doesn't have a commissioner right now because the Biden administration neglected to file paperwork on time. Who does that in the middle of a pandemic? Why can't we have serious leadership? thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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21 Dec
According to The Hill, the Democrats' new plan is to drive a wedge between Manchin and his voters by making this popular senator from an R+23 state vote against a whole series of Democratic bills.
If Biden really wants to get Manchin in trouble with WV voters, he should recall the Senate from vacation, have Manchin write a 1.8T spending bill of his choice, and pass it immediately. This would have the added benefit of being the only sane strategy, and good for the country
Alternatively, the party can continue a campaign of character assassination and personal humiliation against a man whose vote they need to pass any law, or appoint any Supreme Court justice, in the brief time remaining to them in power.
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20 Dec
I find these highly public attacks from within the party inexplicable. Manchin is someone who pretty capably represents the interests of an extremely conservative state, and I can think of 50 senators who it makes sense to attack before you start eating your own like this.
Democrats who do well in Trump districts are the only hope the party has for winning in rural America, and we need more of them, because rural America is the only path to a Senate majority. So maybe tone down the civil war and fight the pandemic or something.
It's not Manchin's fault that Sara Gideon got fewer votes than Trump in a blue state that Biden carried, or that the DSCC chose to run a complete nonentity in Iowa. Stacy Abrams saved the Democrats' hide, and the response has been to attack people who actually know how to win.
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19 Dec
Is there interest in a good faith technical explanation of this? I feel like a lot of those exist, but if smart people like Jay Rosen are not getting their minds around it then there is something amiss. What's the missing piece? I like to write and would gladly take a swing.
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19 Dec
The story here is that the party in power wasted its first year unwilling to pare down a bill to something that would pass its caucus, sent itself home for the holidays, and now blames the senator by some miracle we still have from WV for why people's child tax credit got cut off
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