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9 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Speaking as someone with a positive COVID test and very mild symptoms, PLEASE isolate and quarantine if you also find yourself in that boat. Data from NYT today is scary. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
On the one hand, data shows what folks like me have noticed. Omicron feels like a very mild cold for those of us with vaccinations; we wouldn't think twice about it outside of our COVID moment.
On the other hand, the surge in deaths, even in these highly-vaccinated cities suggests that the unvaccinated are much more at risk than from earlier variants.
And if you're thinking "well, they should have gotten vaccinated", banish that thought from your head. No one deserves to die. No hospital wants another surge. No one with non-COVID needs for health care needs to be stuck in a waiting room waiting for a doctor or nurse.
The right thing to do hasn't changed in 2 years. Wear a mask. Socially distance. Get vaccinated. Get boosted. Your actions today will determine how many people are still alive 3 months from now. /fin

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5 Jan
Some thoughts on our history and our democracy - and our COLLECTIVE obligation to know the former as we defend the latter on this eve of January 6. Thread:
1/ There is a tension at the heart of our founding documents. We were founded by rebels who rejected one authority, then sought to build a country around a new authority they created.
2/ Our founding declaration takes it as a stated truth that it was "necessary to dissolve the political bands" that previously held them together. How would then then ask Americans to commit to a new set of bands?
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16 Dec 21
This is not a "small circle of Republican lawmakers". It's the majority of the @HouseGOP, including their leadership. It is no hyperbole to say that if they get control, it is the end of US democracy as we know it. nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/…
Remember, on December 10 2020 126 members of the @HouseGOP signed onto the amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking them to overturn the results in GA, MI, PA and WI. Those signers included McCarthy, Scalise, Brady. projects.propublica.org/represent/memb…
You don't get a delegation this big without prodding from leadership. They decided democracy was against their interest and worked to subvert it.
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15 Dec 21
Oil industry shills gonna shill. But what if I told you there was a way to lower the cost of fossil fuel by 100%? Efficiency, conservation renewables. And its all in the Build Back Better Act. Spare me your crocodile tears, shills. ogj.com/general-intere…
Here's the thing: no one in the oil and gas wants cheap oil and gas prices. And no one outside of the oil and gas industry wants to spend a penny more on keeping themselves warm and well lit than they have to.
Their hostility to Build Back Better isn't because they are suddenly advocating against their economic interests. Its because they know that every time we invest in a clean energy asset that's one more nail in their coffin. They can't compete on price once those assets are built.
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14 Dec 21
Do not lose sight of the fact that - notwithstanding their panicked calls to Meadows - the majority of the @HouseGOP voted to overturn the election just hours later and their media shills acquiesced.
There is a deep, anti-democratic rot that has infected their party. Most are traitors. The rest are cowards. It is a righteous and welcome thing in a democracy to disagree on policy. It is something else entirely to disagree on democracy itself.
@GOPLeader couldn't lead his way out of a paper bag. He will not save them. The media is too obsessed with both sides-ism to acknowledge the rot.
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9 Dec 21
A quick conversation about what happened in the House last night that distills the rot at the heart of the @GOP. If you think that sounds partisan. Read on, cause these are all facts...
1/ We spent 3 hours on the floor voting individually on 30 separate "suspensions". These are bills that our rules allow us to pass without the more formal process of debate and deliberation, but only provided we can secure 2/3rds on passage.
2/ To be clear, they are important bills. Administrative changes to procedures. Honoring those who served with the naming of public facilities. Clarifying research budgets. All, by definition, very bipartisan.
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7 Dec 21
Great to see supply chains debottlenecking, trade deficits narrowing and US business exports surging. Thank you @POTUS! cnbc.com/2021/12/07/us-…
BUT... watch this data. So much of our recent surge in natural gas and gasoline prices has been because of the surge in exports rather than increased domestic demand. Will be eager to see raw data and see if domestic supply is keeping up to avoid price inflation.
See this for some data on how gasoline exports have been putting upward pressure on prices at the pump in recent months.
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