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Feb 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#ChristinaYunaLee fought her attacker, who was out on supervised release from previous assaults, for some time. One resident of her 6 floor building heard her screams but "thought nothing of it."

Woman Followed and Fatally Stabbed in Chinatown Apartment nytimes.com/2022/02/13/nyr…
Police are not calling this a hate crime,but there have been a series of attacks on Asian women & men in recent weeks. Michelle Alyssa Go was killed when she was pushed in front of a subway train in January. Mayor Adams says he stands in solidarity with the Asian/AAPI community.
Anti-Asian hate crimes escalated starting in 2020 due to Trump claiming China as the source of the coronavirus.
I wrote about the rise in violence last March after the horrific mass murder of Asian women in Atlanta, but little has been written since.
epgn.com/2021/03/17/sto…
Two of the top GOP candidates for Senate in Pennsylvania--Dr. Oz and David McCormick--are now claiming China caused the virus in their ads, which could spark yet more anti-Asian hate crimes.
epgn.com/2022/01/26/ana…

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Feb 15
Incredibly disappointing piece that reduces Malcolm Kenyatta's run to a paragraph and mentions Black voters--still the Democratic base and the majority of Philly voters--twice.

The left neutralizes the Dem establishment in Pa. Senate primary politi.co/3gMgkCw
Kenyatta has more endorsements than any of the top three candidates and ranks side by side with Fetterman in polling. Dismissing the actual left candidate--Kenyatta--for Fetterman while ignoring Fetterman's and Lamb's problems with Black voters is lax at best.
But Otterbein does nail that Lamb is more of the same wrt Democratic centrism. But the fact that Rendell and Carville are quoted here is part of the problem. No one under 50 (or 40 or 30) could care less what they think.
I wrote about the race here:
epgn.com/2022/01/26/ana…
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Feb 12
Well, I've been a politics reporter for three decades for five dailies, three weeklies and several national magazines and this assessment, while cool snark, is only that. Quislings like Haberman and Schmidt aren't the norm. Most of us are working hard for real news.
It's convenient to forget all the news we reporters break that is fundamental to maintaining democracy--even when it is about politicians you align with. Have less fealty to fave politicians. That's what allows a Haberman or Schmidt to evolve.
You can't have it both ways--claim that all political reporting is just gossip and rumors and then complain that someone didn't reveal what you call gossip sooner. Some examples: when Watergate, the S&L scandal, Abu Ghraib were exposed, no one on the left thought it was gossip.
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Feb 11
🧵I have been so sick the past 36hrs I was really afraid I was going to have to go to the ER. Fortunately the NP is coming tomorrow, so hopefully it will ameliorate and she will tell me this is just more episodic CHF. I have no idea why folks are so eager to get COVID.
🧵There is no such thing as "mild" COVID. A full 10% of people (like me) get long-term disabling illness from the virus: heart, lung and kidney disease.
Also, people who don't go to hospital can develop long-COVID later.
🧵Kids are more and more susceptible to #LongCovid yet are the least vaccinated at less than a third.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Feb 9
All those Black children traumatized today by that bomb threat at Dunbar High School should matter to you and it is literally not even part of the story.
So I see this tweet is literally buried on here and I have to wonder why this, my latest tweet, appears algorithmically after all yesterday's tweets about non-racial bias issues. Not a conspiracy theorist here, but.... it's more than a little odd.
I deliberately didn't put Doug Emhoff in the tweet, which would've altered the algorithm. Not because 2nd Gentleman doesn't matter--obviously he does. But because I wanted to center those Black kids whose emotional and physical well-being were under threat who the ⬜media forgot.
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Jan 29
Today is day 2,000 since I was paralyzed. I cannot begin to tell you how much those 2,000 days have changed and restricted, challenged and harmed me. The way disabled people are treated in America is absolutely criminal, yet we are THE largest minority at 81M people. ♿🧵
The crushing lack of services and access makes every day a struggle--most of it unnecessary. Disabled people are victimized: More than half of all police shootings are of disabled people. Disabled women are 70% more likely to be raped.Most disabled people live in poverty. ♿🧵
People with disabilities must fight for every scrap--often
literally,as we're the most food insecure of any group. The ADA was signed into law in 1990 yet about 75% of businesses remain inaccessible and access to other accomodations is also limited. Discrimination is rampant. 🧵
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Jan 25
He is only 31, with two kids and a 3rd on the way. He refuses because "it's his body, his choice" and he "doesn't believe in [the vaccine]."
What an incalculably selfish man.

Hospital refusing heart transplant for man who won't get vaccinated cbsnews.com/news/brigham-a…
But as medical ethicists explain, transplants shut down the immune system, so vaccines are required. "We can't waste a precious organ on someone who won't follow the criteria."
cbsnews.com/news/brigham-a…
"Like many other transplant programs in the US, the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates in the in order to create the best chance for a successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation."
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