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Firstly hardly a unique insight but hard to overstimate the difference between the two last inaugurals. America has meandered sharply along its political arc.
Biden's rhetoric reached high. Every sentence seemed purposefully...
BREAK: Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) January 20, 2021
The Trump administration is over.
...constructed to negate every political and personal characteristic of his predecessor.
And insofar as he's not Trump, that he does accept, cherish and understand democratic norms, institutions and conventions in a way that Trump never could, Biden will make a real difference.
He will change the tone and tenor of politics, not only in America but across the West. As I've said before, just replacing Trump is a substantial victory for him and will earn him praise from historians.
But that aura will disappear quickly. A governing project it will not make
But how much praise he receives and stature conferred by posterity will depend on what happens next.
Because the big overarching question for me, watching this, is which of those two inaugurals, Trump or Biden's, is going to seem unusual in the future.
The relief that many are feeling is predicated on a type of politics ending. But it is at least as possible that it is Biden ..not Trump who is the last gasp of something. Is it Trump who is the dying embers of a dying, increasingly powerless old white America...
With @seanoco78853943 and @LiviDeeHistory and John Privilege it's been a long road but very glad to see this report published today https://t.co/MpPPkmepxi
— Leanne McCormick (@Leannemcck) January 26, 2021
I (obviously) haven't had time to read the whole thing yet. (But at a first glance, it strikes me as well-written, so I have it on my list).
Like the ROI Commissioners, the academic authors here have huge power over the story. They carefully make themselves accountable for their scholarship and its effects. So here are some good things:
1) The Report attributes its origins to recommendations of UN Treaty bodies. It doesn't engage in sustained human-rights-based analysis, but doesn't ignore it either.
2) The researchers behind the report were appointed following a competitive tendering process.
From the epi reports where you ask the person what they did for a week, etc, and then find that they were close to a positive at some point, so the conclusion is "aha, close contact"
You're never going to know if its because of the 2m with that person, or being in some small room with someone else, because nobody is looking for air spread. Conclusion is that it's the close contact.
Why? because EPI STUDIES ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DROPLET
Every question, etc, asked, is from the point of view that nothing except certain specific viruses (measles, etc.) are airborne.
Because remember, to them, if air, R0 would = a billion.
https://t.co/cjJvGVY4Vr
Right now when people tell you there is no airborne spread remember THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR AIRBORNE SPREAD BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT.
— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne (@jmcrookston) December 2, 2020
This is why elevator buttons get blamed instead of aerial transmission - they don't believe in aerial transmission.
That's why if you read the CDC reports, it's rare for them to analyse beyond 2m. Usually its asian studies that do. And even then barely (the South Korean one, even still, used droplet language).
SK
This is a very important paper.
— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne (@jmcrookston) December 2, 2020
Transmission over more than 2m with only 5 min exposure - captured by CCTV.
Contact tracers don't even look for these connections.
Actual articlehttps://t.co/GyTJo5Y1Jb
cc @jljcolorado @kprather88 @DrPieterPeach @DrKatrin_Rabiei @NjbBari3 https://t.co/onPWqvNzhJ
Irrational anger & outrage which is easily manipulated, as we see being done, into tribal affiliation. Predicated not on some devotion to core ideals & principles of the country, but something else.
Notice what ea side appeals how they express it.
Wait for it, we\u2019re about to unleash 73 MILLION of this guy! https://t.co/34x0rTzC77
— President-Elect Lynn \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@lynnemiles01) November 20, 2020
One side largely is moved by wanting a system, a society, a government that is responsive to the situation and needs of the public. This has a number of aspects, from infrastructure, taking care of the environment, BLM, taking care of the 'least among us' &etc.
These folks...
These folks on "the other side"... Not sure what to call this other side. It is a collection of right wing people, some who are simply "members" by affiliation, by tradition, by location in the country...others by reasoned choice.
However they get there, a large % are like this.
Lets call this the Trumpian side, Trumper Cohort, since that is the current center around which these "73M" are organized.
Within this cohort, there are many who are simply "Republicans" by inertia. Their family has been so forever, and so they are too. In actual fact they
do not like what is being done in their name, wonder what happened to the party, but cannot imagine voting for a "Democrat", no more than the feud over Ford vs Chevy would resolve in welcoming in the other 'team'.
These don't really know or und what a "Democrat" is these days,
Communists bloggers like @mmfa run the same playbook of lies and smears on people they feel threatened by.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@mtgreenee) January 21, 2021
Produce fake news, spread it all around, then tag all fake news stories about their victim in all future stories.
Guess what?
Nobody cares about your BS.
Anyway, here are some of the "communist" blog posts about the Qongresswoman from Georgia (thread)
In 2018, she agreed with someone who said that 9/11 was an inside job and argued that the school shooting in Parkland, FL was a false flag.
And then there's another time she said that the Parkland shooting was fake
She claimed that there was "never any evidence" that a plane was flown into the Pentagon on 9/11
This thread is a list of groups and people I will personally be supporting today and I invite you all to join me. First up, @4directionsvote is committed to the full enfranchisement of Native people. To fight Native voter suppression, you can donate here:
Woodland Women is a group that offers mutual support & healing for women on my rez. It’s a crucial support system. They make regalia each yr to give away at the holidays. They need supplies & would like to add other care package items for folks in crisis.
To support a Native mom who has been doing a whole lot of mutual aid work, you can give to [email protected] on via paypal.
This Indigenous land defender who is always showing up for others, and for the struggle, could use help paying a few bills.
Donate:

I feel sorry for you that you believe @DarrylLeroux, have you done any independent research into "The Other Metis" at all ? LAC - Metis Circle Special Consultation -- Rock Matte, Claude Aubin, Frank Palmater etc.

Have you read the RCAP reports, specifically RCAP 432 and RCAP 433 ?
CBC - RCAP - Viola Robinson sat on the commission. https://t.co/3cD8CA8tu6

Métis Circle Special Consultation- Viola Robinson , asking if the Metis Nation Accord would be a vehicle that the Metis in the East could use.

If it\u2019s snowing in your area today please put some food out for the endangered lesbians.
— Sally Hines (@sally_hines) December 29, 2020
On a scale of 1 to 10 how funny is it for children to start a lifetime of medication? How funny is it that other comorbidities such as autism, anxiety, depression are not thoroughly explored? How funny is it that girls as young as 12 in US & 18 in UK have healthy breasts removed?
How much does it make you laugh to imagine a child agreeing with her clinician that she never ever wants to have children? And how funny is it that she knows now, as a child, that she is the opposite sex, because peer pressure & social media tell her so?
How hilarious it is that lesbians have no social places of their own - either as young people or adults? That they are not welcome in LGBTQ+ clubs unless they agree that TWAW & thereby can be lesbians. That they are told they are transphobic if they do not agree.
Will you be splitting your sides when legislation like the "Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020" in Victoria, Australia is passed? (Be aware that similar Bills are being discussed around the world).
Goodbye 2020 and good riddance.
Thank you all for sharing the journey with me. Thank you for the questions, comments, gifs. We got through 2020. 2021 will be better.
2021 will be the year to Make Democracy Cool Again.
How about a few resolutions?
#1: Run for Something
(or help someone else run for something)
Want to really make a difference in politics and government? Don’t just march, @runforsomething.
Make sure things are done right. Be the person in
#2: If you can’t run for something, find someone you know who would be terrific, and encourage that person to run.
You can also volunteer to help Run for Something screen candidates.
#3: Be a Community Organizer
Do you have a talent for organizing? If so, democracy needs you. One reason the Tea Party was successful was that they organized locally and put pressure on local officials.
#4: Register New Voters
Start now. It's not too early.
In some states, you can become an official volunteer voter registrar. James Williams in Maryland told how he did it in his state.
How to become a volunteer voter registrar
— 5 DAYS UNTIL THE GEORGIA RUN-OFF. KEEP THE FAITH. (@JamesMWilliam18) May 31, 2019
It is actually very simple. I live in a Maryland suburb, and I called my county Board of Elections to schedule a meeting. Once that was done, I spent about two hours going over the laws, rules and regulations.
One weird coincidence is that they share a building with my ex-employer CGD on L St in Washington DC...

It is just a weird coincidence. But these streets around K
St are lobbyist-central around the Capitol.
Organisations who pay for this real estate do it to be close to decision making of US government. Thats their focus
(* or the World Bank/IMF for international development).
The Endocrine Society is a "global community" but it is very US focused in its membership, meetings and advocacy
https://t.co/4y7Utw3Zhn
https://t.co/hJk4MEgKMi

Their position on transgender health has a particular focus on making sure US insurance companies will pay out for it
https://t.co/R8TOlUJ0iL

This is what the ES they say about themselves in the application to intervene
They say its endocrinologists who are responsible for deciding if patients should be prescribed PBs, and assuring their informed consent.
Is that really the case in the UK?
