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Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Biden says Russia is trying to provoke Ukraine in the Donbas, and pushing out disinformation

"It defies basic logic to believe the Ukrainians would choose this moment... to escalate"
Biden says what is happening in Ukraine is in alignment with the pretext arrangements that the U.S. has been warning about

Biden says they believe the Russians will target the city of Kyiv

"If Russia pursues these plans, it will be responsible for a ... war of choice."
Biden: "Russia can still choose diplomacy... it is not too late."

Notes that Russian and American diplomats are planning to meet late next week
Biden: "As of this moment I'm convinced he's [Putin has] made the decision... [to invade]"

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Feb 3
The NRA's revenue has HALVED since 2018, the high-water mark of the organization before it began its decline

A series of important stories from @StephenGutowski and The Reload this morning:

thereload.com/exclusive-nra-…
@StephenGutowski NRA also spending 20% of its expenses on legal fees, more than 10x what it spends on education/training/community engagement combined

One could argue that its morphed from a 2A org to one fighting desperately to keep Wayne LaPierre in power

thereload.com/exclusive-nra-…
@StephenGutowski Brian Mittendorf warns of an NRA death spiral:

"Drastic declines in spending on core operations create the potential for a revenue ‘death spiral’ in which cuts in core programs scare off members, which in turn necessitates further cuts... can be hard to reverse.”
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Jan 19
Florida state health officer put on administrative leave for encouraging own public health employees to get vaccinated

“I am sorry but in the absence of reasonable and real reasons it is irresponsible not to be vaccinated,” he wrote

google.com/amp/s/www.orla…
“As the decision to get vaccinated is a personal medical choice that should be made free from coercion and mandates from employers, the employee in question has been placed on administrative leave" said an agency spokesperson
The state health officer, Dr. Raul Pino, is a Cuban refugee who started by picking blueberries in CT but earned his masters in public health

google.com/amp/s/www.orla…
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Jan 4
I really do like the lede here on this WaPo profile:

"Let's start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn't used to have one."

washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
J.D. Vance seems to think his changing image is a part of being a more interesting person:

“The price of being beloved by the establishment is you don’t say anything interesting... Dominant elite society is boring, it is completely unreflective, and it is increasingly wrong."
This was combined with Vance being upset with the negative critical response to the movie 'Hillbilly Elegy,' based off his book
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
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Jan 4
Over the holidays I was cleaning my apartment and came across an old Blackberry.

Powered it up out of curiosity and it was like a time capsule. Texts, emails and yes, tweets, frozen in time from 2011.

(and on Ubersocial, the twitter app -- remember that?)
What struck me especially is how much kinder, funnier, and insightful Twitter was a decade ago, compared to today.

Genuine conversations between people with opposing views.

And with less characters per tweet!
I've struggled over the past two years or so to find the value of Twitter -- other than to get my blood pressure up.

I've tweeted less, and read less too. Twitter used to be a kind of informal assignment editor: conversations/ideas/pitches all whirling around
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Dec 6, 2021
Hard to imagine now, but just years ago the House Intelligence Committee was seen as one of the most bipartisan in Congress.

Nunes and Schiff once had a bromance! They jointly launched an investigation into Russian meddling into 2016 election!
That all changed when Nunes, who was traveling with a cmte aide, jumped out of an Uber and disappeared one night in 2017.

The next day Nunes gave a press conference, saying a whistleblower had given evidence of Trump wiretapping

I broke the story here:

thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-va…
Nunes then rushed to the White House to brief the president.

It later came out that White House officials were the ones who gave Nunes the information. But it did stir up a lot of dust at the time around Trump's wiretapping allegations

nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/…
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Dec 6, 2021
Journalist Ian Urbina accused of using his NYT email after leaving the publication to solicit musicians for songs about the ocean, which he then published for personal gain

"The allegations are troubling," said a NYT spokesperson

inputmag.com/culture/ian-ur…
Benn Jordan, in a video, says that the former NYT reporter "creat[ed] a marketing scheme that resulted in him collecting the majority of royalties for an immense collection of music that he did not write."

Jordan claims that the work of 462 artists were accumulated by the former NYT reporter in this way, leading to hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify for Ian -- who never wrote any music.
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