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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Whoa.
Not sure I saw the "they were old anyway" coming...
@bethanyshondark I don't want to take this out of context or ascribe views to you that you do not hold. So let me just ask: What exactly do you mean by this? It really sounds like culling-the-herd argument to me.
Also, quite apart from the morality of the point @bethanyshondark is making, her tweet is quite misleading as a factual matter. Yes, COVID deaths disproportionately affect the elderly. But the majority of them, as the data below reflect, are not people...
statista.com/statistics/119…
...above life expectancy by any means.

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9 Jan
A very special #BeastOfTheDay today to round out our Jan. 6 week of beasts who fight fascists, comfort victims, and otherwise commit acts of valor. @lageneralista yesterday nominated a veritable menagerie of valorous beasts—a thread of whom follows: amp.theguardian.com/science/2004/n…
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8 Jan
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is “Wojtek”—a Syrian brown bear who fought the Nazis on behalf of a Polish battalion fighting with the British. Bought as a cub by soldiers at a train station in Iran, he was enlisted and had his own rank and serial number.
He was promoted to corporal.
Wojtek served in campaigns across the Middle East and in the Italian campaign. He moved crates of ammunition. After the war, he spent the rest of his life at the Edinburg Zoo in Scotland, visited regularly by Polish soldiers, who lovingly fed him cigarettes. He died in 1963.
There are memorials to him all over Poland and Scotland.
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6 Jan
Support/therapy dogs play a valuable role in high stress law enforcement environments. I remember walking into the FBI cafeteria with @Comey one time and watching him stop to pet the therapy dogs there.
These dogs are today's #BeastOfTheDay
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6 Jan
Boom!!!!
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28 Dec 21
Piece of advice to my dear friend @jon_rauch: don’t let @ByronYork drag you into an argument about the Steele material. Unless you made arguments about the Trump-Russia scandal based on it, it’s just a sideshow related to Cater Page and some botched FISAs. It’s irrelevant…
…to the Mueller findings and to the facts we have learned about Trump and his minions’ long engagements with the Russians, his many lies about it, and his frankly criminal efforts to obstruct investigation of the matters.
So here’s an interesting fact about the Steele material: I don’t believe a single article on @lawfareblog relies on it for anything. We ran one article in which Chuck Rosenberg and @segrant39 tried to evaluate its claims based on what was public at the time.
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24 Dec 21
A thread on @KoriSchake, @AEIfdp and Jimmy Quinn's hit piece on Kori in @NRO, which I have now read. Here's the tldr: this is a form of conservative cancel culture that we should be super-savvy about.

Also @KoriSchake is a badass @nro is going to have a hard time intimidating.
For those who didn't read the piece, which I don't recommend and am not going to link to, it basically says the following: Hill staffers are complaining about Kori because she doesn't follow current GOP orthodoxy on a few discrete issues: Nord Stream II, the Iran deal.
None of the quoted staffers will put their names to the criticism of Kori, who is the only named source in the piece.

There's another important theme in the article: Kori has never buckled from her Never Trump stance.
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