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Sep 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
News from Western North Carolina:
- things are improving in some places, not in others
- I personally have cell service, home internet and running water this morning, but no power
- anyone with tap water has to boil it
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Western NC update:
- most people have no water, power, cell service or Internet
- I’m still without power on day 4
- the few places open are running on cash, they have no power or no Internet
- vendors & businesses are being very helpful, a few individuals are price gouging
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May 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I hope this breaks Twitter:
The Supreme Court is out of control and so politically and religiously biased they have abandoned their obligations to the law, the constitution, decency, reason and civil society.
1/5, keep reading... then retweet if you agree.
The GOP, right-wing media, Maga, Evangelicals are crazy & out of control radicals who, whether they realize it or not, are working to undermine hundreds of years of civil society. In most of the world it's literally a war crime to rape a woman and force her to bear a child.
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May 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Chief Justice John Roberts is investigating:
- leak of a legal opinion, because it's embarrassing and affects the court
Chief Justice John Roberts is NOT Investigating:
- 4,000 FBI tips about Brett Kavanagh being corrupt or sexual predator, because it's not important
continued
Continuing... NOT investigating:
- who paid off over $1M of Bret Kavanagh's loans, because there's nothing suspicious or corrupt about that
- a justice and his wife linked to an insurrection, because Justice Thomas has a right to privacy (but not an abortion)
continued...
Oct 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just reported on MSNBC: the CDC has been prohibited from doing contact tracing for any of the COVID infections at the White House or Trump's contacts.
Update: just reported that the White House isn't going to do any contract tracing.
Apr 11, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A thread about economic recovery:
- consumer spending drives 70% of the US economy
- this recession is a consumer spending recession
- 17 million unemployed in 3 weeks
- 5-10+ million more by the end of month
- 20-30 million total
- majority of workers are at home
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Page 2:
- 90%-95% of Trump/GOP stimulus going to the top 10% richest people, ~$10 TRILLION DOLLARS
- everyone else gets $1,200, for one time only, that's it
- while the fed is flooding big businesses and and the investor class with cash
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Jan 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Here's a short lesson on weather, climate & climate change. The first thing to know is the difference between weather & climate.
Weather:
- it's what happening environmentally at a "particular place" at a "particular time"
- the weather today is hot, cold, rain, snow, ....
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Climate:
- climate is the "average" of the weather
- take the weather at particular place and average it over time (often a year)
- a hot climate is, on average, hotter than a cold climate
- example, the climate in Phoenix, Arizona is hot & dry, even if it's raining or snowing
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Jan 18, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The concept of innocent until proven guilty is a legal bedrock doctrine that is a corner stone of our "legal system." However, it is not part of our political system.
- in a court of law you have the "right" to be considered innocent until proven guilty
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When serving in politics you don't have a "right" to be considered innocent, honest, or anything else. Serving in government is a "privilege." It is granted by the voters through fair elections. The voters can take that privilege away at any time through various means.
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