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Feb 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Hitchhiking on the saliency of anti-China rhetoric, the GOP has found another way to behave like climate change deniers.

It's very obvious when one cherry-picks renewable tech from all the billions of Chinese goods the US imports. ImageImageImage Ironically, being tough on clean energy means being "weak" and dependent for a longer time on China.

csis.org/analysis/why-n…
Dec 17, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
1/ Given the stress hospitals are under across the country (even those with few Covid-19 patients) and the shortage of bedside HCWs who are beleaguered, this Omicron wave is going to suck. 2/ It's going to be a wave of high cases and mild illness.

Large volumes of very mild cases in Emergency departments can stress a system that's already bending.

Fortunately, in this view, the number of fatalities will be fewer and the Infection Fatality Rate lower.
Sep 15, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
"what got the movement going as a political movement was the attempt on the part of the IRS to rescind the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University because of its racially discriminatory policies, including a ban on interracial dating that the university maintained until 2000." nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opi…
Sep 15, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Trying to be generous here:

I keep seeing headlines saying police are firmly unvaccinated, and even threaten to quit, while some are suing the state.

Trying to see if this coverage is representative of reality. Cause it 'feels' like a lot. 1/

timesofsandiego.com/politics/2021/… But AFAIK, Police are immune from polling on this. 2/
Sep 13, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Liberal democracies aren't perfect They do allow a wide spectrum of free thought and expression. Sometimes those ideas are extreme and antisocial.