@NickAdamsinUSA @FPWellman What's your take on this classic, Nick?

10 meaningful deep quotes by Paulo Coelho.

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In Uvalde, a county without a medical examiner, this judge had the horrific duty of identifying slain children.
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@serrano_alej As the county’s justice of the peace, his duties usually include court cases and officiating weddings, but his role also includes serving as the coroner.

@RepJackKimble

The guy was a vile human on many levels. He was a Republican after all. But everyone, except for @SenTedCruz, gets it right now and again. And we can disagree with them 99.9% and be allowed to agree occasionally with no specter of hypocrisy. It’s called living in a democracy.

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⚡️ “75 Minutes: A Timeline of How the Police Failed in Texas Shooting” by @thedailybeast

The NRA is banning guns for Trump's appearance at their conference this Friday. If, as they, "guns don't kill people, people kill people," then why ban them at their own event?

*as they say

It's been a while since I've read a COVID19 preprint worth highlighting. I found one today that is *fascinating*

The study compares Delta vs. Omicron in terms of symptoms + rapid test results. Data was collected at a walk-up community testing site in San Francisco

Strap in. 1/n

They collected data from a HUGE study population— 63,277 persons over the course of 1 year (Jan 2021 to Jan 2022)

The other neat thing is that the testing site used the same eligibility criteria throughout and the same rapid test the entire time. 2/n

Another neat thing: the community testing site was located in a part of San Francisco that is predominantly Hispanic.

Yet another neat thing: they collected vaccination status.

Here's a link to the study for anyone who wants to follow along. 3/n

They found that symptomatic COVID-19 cases due to Omicron tended to experience cough (67%) and/or a sore throat (43%) and/or congestion (39%).

They also found that *fewer* persons reported fever and/or loss of smell/taste as compared to the Delta wave.

Another fascinating finding: fevers and body aches were *less* common among persons that had received boosters compared to those who received 0, 1, or 2 doses. 5/n

CHUMLEY Michael Moore demands end to Second Amendment - https://t.co/wLfHU6rOOs - @washtimes Founders may not have carried AR-15s. But they knew their biblical truths, they knew of God, and they taught godly, biblical truths to their children. And that made all the difference.

@misstessowen “1st acknowledge the brave men and women of law enforcement,” not condolences to the family first. Also, the cops engaged the shooter before he entered the school, and they are still alive? Finally, cops went in and pulled their own kids out during the active shooter threat. WTF?

Polices that could make us safer, that could prevent massacres of children and people in public places are incredibly popular.

The problem isn't a lack of support.

The problem is that our leaders have failed us by lacking courage and

I wish I could say what happened in Uvalde is an unfathomable tragedy.

But it's not. It's completely predictable.

This disgusting state of affairs and these senseless tragedies could be prevented if our leaders had courage and were concerned about more than the economy.

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We absolutely have to address gun culture in the United States.

We need to admit our white supremacist foundations have led to a state of paranoia, of firearm fetishism.

That is a massive part of the problem and requires a sea change of cultural proportions.

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We must recognize that the GOP, with its radicalization, its dependency on fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories has created an environment where guns and violence are a main part of their appeal.

This state we're living in isn't independent of that. At all.

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And any conversation about gun violence or mass shootings has to involve the NRA, an institution that has done more harm to Americans and created more tragedy than nearly anyone else.

It is an absolute blight on the American body and its influence cannot be downplayed.

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Sad update… Families tell me they’re going one by one inside getting swabbed for DNA to help investigators

NEW: Families in Uvalde are having to get their DNA swabbed because the bodies of the dead children are so unrecognizable because of the military-style weaponry used by the shooter, per @AnayeliNews.

THREAD. I was invited to give a lecture at Oxford last week about police and prisons in the United States. After my talk, a student from Europe asked me if there was any hope to avoid fascism in the U.S. given the state of U.S. police and corporate media. A few thoughts.

The student’s question is urgent, and I hope prominent journalists will at least think about it. The below image is from a New Yorker article this weekend. Things like this are happening all over the U.S., (and much of the world). The threat of fascism is imminent.

In the face of existential threats like fascism—and to the ecological survival of our planet—many U.S. journalists in outlet after outlet are running story after story about whether a few types of narrow police-reported crimes are up or down by a number of a few dozen per city.

This coverage is absurd on its own terms. Crime is near *historic lows,* and fluctuations (up or down) discussed in crime stories are small on any objective view of total harm. They don’t compare to death/illness/injury from poverty, pollution, traffic, lack of health care, etc.

I want to say this clearly: Safety is important. I do this work and I write these threads because I care about everyone’s safety, including the most vulnerable people in our society.

There’s a giant story unfolding in Michigan right now and the national media has no idea, because Georgia. By Thursday they’ll have it figured out.

CliffsNotes: 5 of 10 MI GOP candidates for Governor - including top two front runners - likely won’t make primary ballot due to tens of thousands of fake petition signatures submitted by fraud ring.

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