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Alex Howard Profile picture
@digiphile
Mar 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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A million Americans have died from #COVID19
wsj.com/articles/one-m…
@POTUS45 knew #SARSCoV2 was airborne & deadly, & lied to us:
washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w…
@WHNSC45 said it threatened national security.
He disarmed

& politicized masks
digiphile.info/2020/07/06/pol… ImageImageImageImage
“The sheer scale of the tragedy strains the moral imagination”—@edyong209
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
More Americans died last week than on 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
~9 million of us lost a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or grandparent.
~149,000 children lost a parent or caregiver Image
Why did the CDC issue new guidelines allowing the end of indoor masking after 1000+ people died of COVID daily for 6 months?
If the US faced daily hurricanes that each killed 1,000 Americans for half a year, would we stop building levees, pumping water, & providing aid & shelter? Image
“As tragedy becomes routine, excess deaths feel less excessive. Levels of suffering that once felt like thunderclaps now resemble a metronome’s clicks—the background noise against which everyday life plays.”-@edyong209 theatlantic.com/health/archive… Beware normalizing preventable death. Image
"As with similar epidemics and disasters that disproportionately strike vulnerable populations, the #Covid19 pandemic has witnessed a multilayered process of erasure that cloaks its victims in invisibility."–@RichardCKeller somatosphere.net/2022/memoriali…
“Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner,…people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is…what America is built on”-@DrDebFurrHolden Image
2 administrations framed the pandemic as a matter of personal choice, focusing on vaccines, failing to make rapid tests, better masks, antibody cocktails, & vaccines accessible to the poorest Americans until 2022 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Better plans ahead:
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Aug 26, 2024
Cold take: The arrest of Pavel Durov is not a global threat to freedom of expression, but rather a threat to executives of tech companies who behave with impunity when a platform they operate is abused by organized criminals or corrupt politicians.
civic-texts.ghost.io/what-the-arres…
This is not the “end of global social media,” as @semaforben suggested, but it may be the beginning of the end of impunity for tech billionaires who behave as if they are beyond the reach of accountability for harms that their unregulated platforms cause offline.
“We have spent many hours at 404 Media discussing amongst ourselves why there is so much crime on @Telegram itself and why Telegram has continued to let blatant criminal organizations operate on its platform in open, unencrypted channels. The only theory that makes any sense thus far is that the company sees itself as operating entirely outside the law.”
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Jan 5, 2024
Transparency & accountability have not been a priority for a @WhiteHouse that briefs on background & relegates open government to a compliance exercise.

I remain hopeful @POTUS & @VP will see the value in investing in a bulwark against authoritarianism: e-pluribusunum.org/2024/01/05/ope…
Opacity atop secrecy: @politico granted US officials anonymity to say @DeptofDefense did not tell @POTUS @JakeSullivan46 & NSC aides @SecDef was hospitalized for 3 days,
Austin recognized he “could have done better job” informing the public.

404 #OpenGov politico.com/news/2024/01/0…

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@politico @DeptofDefense @POTUS @JakeSullivan46 @SecDef Official opacity: @Axios granted the @WhiteHouse anonymity to claim that President Biden & Austin had “a warm conversation” & that @POTUS “has full confidence in @SecDef & is “ looking forward to him being back at the Pentagon.”

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Jun 4, 2023
I heard a thunderclap in DC on a sunny day.
It appears it was a sonic boom from @DeptofDefense fighters scrambled from Andrews @airforce Base to intercept an unresponsive Cessna that overflew DC.

@FAANews (via @PenguinSix) confirmed a crash in SW Virginia.

@NTSB to investigate. Image
This is the least useful PSA I’ve encountered in some time, @AlertDC — could you please investigate and then elaborate when you confirm what has happened, @DC_HSEMA @SafeDC ?
🚨✈️🛫💨💥?
I take it back, @AlertDC: it was useful to hear that “there is no great at this time,” but being aware of reports of a loud “boom” doesn’t add much context for millions of people wondering what we heard.

If you know there was a sonic boom from scrambled fighters, please say so. Image
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May 23, 2023
I’m at the historic @WarnerTheater in DC to bear witness what @PowerUSAID invited all Americans to learn about this morning:
How Ukraine is delivering services online in a democracy at war with @USAID.
@karaswisher live now:
usaid.gov/diiaindc
19M Ukrainians using DIAA now ImageImageImage
As @karaswisher said, there has a been backpack against disruptive technologies like the Internet, smartphones, & social media.
We now worry about AI.
But all governments must harness these technologies to provide critical info & deliver services to networked publics, everywhere. Image
Today, @PowerUSAID says delivering services showed how “robust & secure digital public infrastructure” enabled Ukrainians to access services in a war while minimizing corruption.
She says @USAID supported in e-gov in Ukraine since 2016. “
The result: “Government in a smartphone.” ImageImage
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May 8, 2023
The @opengovpart launched its new strategy & encouraged people to engage multistakeholder fora about it.

The USA never established such a forum, & @WhiteHouse has declined to restore @OpenGov44 & lead a U.S. government revival of #OpenGov domestically: obamawhitehouse.gov/open Image
As with #SunshineWeek, this @WhiteHouse is not hosting any public events for #OpenGovWeek, despite the US government being elected to @opengovpart leadership: groups.google.com/g/us-open-gove… & the void in public updates on US commitments. @POTUS isn’t leading by the power of our example. Image
Ongoing efforts to improve public participation in rulemaking at @WhiteHouse OIRA are a ray of sunshine: governing.digital/2023/04/25/pub… as are efforts across agencies, from @USNatArchives to @CommerceGov.
This #OpenGovWeek, this @POTUS should be building on @OpenGov44, not ignoring it.
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Mar 28, 2023
Despite @WhiteHouse45: opengovpartnership.org/members/united… & @WhiteHouse acting "contrary to process":
in the last 2 cycles – which @OGP_IRM didn't sanction – folks voted to add the US to @OpenGovPart steering committee?
Um.
NB: #OpenGov 404: wh.gov/open
I find it encouraging to see @USAID @StateDRL rejoining international open government circles.
It’s discouraging @OpenGovPart @OGP_IRM have said so little about @WhiteHouse45 @WhiteHouse acting contrary to process after @POTUS45 made a mockery of the US being in “good standing.”
In 2022, @WHOSTP didn’t reference @opengovpart or past US #OpenGov commitments in its press release whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
In 2023, @opengov44 is history: obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
& @WhiteHouse never delivered any self-assessments for the 3rd & 4th plans: opengovpartnership.org/members/united…
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