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Alex Howard

6 months

Whether you stay on @X or leave, if you want to stay connected, I’m online: 🧵 🦋 🐘 📇 FB: 🖥️ 🤳 @CivicTexts 📱4108499808

Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Earnest advocate for FOIA, open governance, & democracy. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. 1.8K Followers.

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Alex Howard

@digiphile

1 year

I followed the new Twitter owner & CEO today, as I did @jack @ev @dickc & @paraga . @Twitter suggested follows, showing a “set of accounts that work well with @ElonMusk .” Algorithmic suggestions can be insightful about ideological alignment then public statements.

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Congresswoman @AOC is from Brooklyn. @RepPressley from Chicago (born in OH). @RepRashida is from Detroit. @ilhanmn was a refugee from Somalia, before she won election to Congress in Minnesota. They're all Americans, leading a new generation representing their constituents in DC.

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Check, meet balance: a federal judge rejected an argument from President Trump that a sitting @POTUS is immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s office to subpoena 8 years of Trump’s personal & corporate tax returns.

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@elonmusk Data do show asymmetric polarization – but the opposite of this claim. The GOP has shifted to the far-right since the 1990s, embracing illiberalism & anti-democratic views. The Democratic Party has not shifted far-left. @TheEIU :

V-Dem Institute

@vdeminstitute

4 years

The #Republican party in the #US has retreated from upholding #democratic norms in recent years. Its rhetoric is now close to #authoritarian parties such as #AKP in #Turkey & #Fidesz in #Hungary , the new V-Party Illiberalism Index shows. @CNN :

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All along the northern edge of Lafayette Park, people are leaving signs & notes, & have woven in messages. It’s a striking, organic memorial, remaking the ugly new fencing as public art in a reclaimed space for passerby & protestors to honor remember the messages & people in them

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June 2020: @FoxNews runs faked news, producing digitally altered composite photos of Capitol Hill in Seattle: Fox retracted after @SeattleTimes contacted them. This goes beyond abysmal ethics. Fox made propaganda to support Trump’s lies about “terrorism.”

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The @ManhattanDA has hired a top prosecutor with deep expertise in investigating organized crime & racketeering to “follow the money” at @Trump : Tax fraud is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

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@RudyGiuliani You were once a US Attorney in @SDNYnews , but were never appointed US Attorney General nor served in that capacity. Why are you misrepresenting your public service?

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In 5 days, I expect @BarackObama will take back his Twitter account from @ofa . 80.5 million followers. 4x Trump's reach, for those counting.

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@digiphile

3 years

@JaclynLeeTV @BensalemPolice @6abc BEWARE: As Halloween draws near, local news & police will fearmonger about our kids being given candy laced with THC, instead of holding local governments accountable for addressing risks from air pollution, housing, lead pipes & paint, cities made for cars, & school shootings.

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@PatrickRuffini They need to reach out to three-armed voters in an all-hands-on-deck moment?

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@digiphile

3 years

A reminder from one year ago today that most Americans come to our @USCapitol in peace, bearing ideas, questions, petitions, and pens. The walls outside of @AOC ’s office were a memorial to love, not hate. To open expression, not closed denialism. I hope we can all return to it.

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4 years

Outside of some -— but far from all — of the offices of US representatives there sits a small desk with a guestbook. But there is only one office that looks like @RepAOC ‘s.

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6 years

Dear tech press covering today's Facebook hearing: Please consider not mocking Members of Congress for not understanding the tech. The public also doesn't understand, and you're going to alienate them. Educate everyone, & report on why there's no Office of Technology Assessment.

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@digiphile

7 years

Why is a taxpayer-funded government agency promoting @IvankaTrump 's book? cc @OfficeGovEthics @GOPOversight @OversightDems

Voice of America

@VOANews

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In New Book, Ivanka Trump Gets Serious About Women at Work

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In 2016: 19.8% Americans voted for Clinton 19.5% for Trump 2.2% for other 29.9% didn't vote 28.6% ineligible #ddj

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3 years

And there's the new The source code includes a call to serve from the @USDS .

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Alex Howard

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3 years

@drdrew International travel requires vaccinations, & has for decades. I had to get them to visit Brazil in 1999, & India in 2015. The USA requires foreign nationals to be vaccinated: I felt fine. Vaccines work. I want to be protected against preventable disease.

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“In the same area that #GabbyPetito disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between 2011 & 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles, Internet sleuths didn’t clog Instagram & Twitter trying to solve the mystery”— @MollyJongFast

What Gabby Petito’s Case Says About Cops—and Us

While domestic abuse is freqeuently ignored, the disappearance and possible murder of an attractive young white woman often gains outsized attention.

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@RudyGiuliani What government are you an “official” in right now? If the USA, which agency? When were you sworn in? If not, have you registered at as a foreign agent?

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Fred Trump was born in NY. Friedrich Trumpf was born in Germany, emigrated to America at age 16, made a fortune as a hotelier in the Yukon Gold Rush, & was later denied repatriation to Germany for dodging the draft #FactCheckingDay

Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher

@tommyxtopher

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Trump just said "my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany." Fred Trump was born in New York.

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The @StateDept condemned the murder of an American citizen working as a journalist in Turkey. The @POTUS just tweeted about Stephen Curry.

Louisa Loveluck

@leloveluck

7 years

Shockwaves in Turkey after Syrian dissident and her American daughter killed in their Istanbul home:

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In 2014, @JonathanTurley wrote it's a myth that an impeachable offense must involve a violation of criminal law: "While there’s a high bar for what constitutes grounds for impeachment, an offense does not have to be indictable." He was correct – then.

Opinion | Five myths about impeachment

Is Obama in danger?

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walter dellinger

@walterdellinger

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Prof Turley says an act, to be an impeachable offense, must be a crime. That would exclude the most serious impeachable acts, such as a deliberate refusal by a president to defend the country against foreign attack.

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Hundreds of people are outside of the @uscapitol at 9:30 PM. Men, women & children, standing & sharing

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@FoxNews *Senator* Duckworth lost both legs & partial use of her arm in combat serving our union. The VA rates her as 70%+ disabled, & thus eligible for a full property tax exemption for disabled veterans in Illinois. Does @FoxNews oppose exemptions for disabled veterans?

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*more insightful, & than, that is. Sigh. If all goes as normal, this is one of the tweets that will go viral. (I still haven’t paid for @TwitterBlue , so I can’t edit my tweets.)

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1 year

Yep, the immutable law that tweets with grammar or copy errors will go viral holds true.

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Alex Howard

@digiphile

4 years

Ford pardoned Nixon. Bush pardoned Iran-Contra felons. No Bush administration officials went to jail over Iraq. No CEOs went to jail after 2008 $ crisis. Without accountability, trust withers. Congress needs a special commission, like Truman’s, to investigate Trumpian corruption:

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

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My new piece in ⁦ @VanityFair ⁩. Even if Democrats retake the White House, we’ll still need a full accounting of the Trump administration’s misdeeds and full accountability for those responsible for them.

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@elonmusk Nope. Investigative reporting at newspapers involves digging through public records, making FOI requests+suing, finding human sources, making phone calls, obtaining & collecting data, verifying claims, getting comment, writing code. It's not just googling & printing out websites.

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“That’s what happens when hometown journalism fades — neighborhood stories don’t get reported until it’s too late, after the deal’s gone down. Most local papers are gasping for life, & if they die it will be their readers who lose the most.”— @Carl_Hiaasen

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When @abbydphillip asked if he wants @MattWhitaker46 to rein in Mueller, @realdonaldtrump said it was a "stupid question." When @yamiche asked if he was emboldening white nationalists, he said it was a "racist question." He called @AprilDRyan a "loser." There's a pattern here.

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@joshtpm

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Trump lashes out at female reporter over "stupid question".

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Trump is violating @Twitter ’s election integrity @policy by claiming (without evidence) that a Congressional race is “rigged.” @jack @vijaya : will you keep the tweet up because he’s @POTUS & add a warning label? This won’t be the last violation in 2020.

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President Trump went golfing by himself at his private club in Virginia this morning. His motorcade will have to return through a District of Columbia in which people are spilling out into the streets, erupting in celebration after news networks called #Election2020 for Biden.

Ali Zaslav

@alizaslav

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Biden2020 flags wave in Lafayette Park outside the White House

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5 years

Mussolini was one of the key creators of fascism, which Hitler adapted. The Italian dictator passed abhorrent anti-race laws & tried to create a totalitarian state. The US & our Allies defeated the Axis powers (Italy, Germany & Japan) in WWII at great cost

Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia

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Senator John Cornyn

@JohnCornyn

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“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.” Benito Mussolini

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@Mike_Pence @StevenTDennis Why did you make room for @realDonaldTrump , then? He praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “smart” & “genius.” He stood before the world, & said he believed Putin over US officials. He denied Russian active measures in 2016-2020:

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6 years

Brian is a @WashingtonPost reporter at the @FCC right now. @ceciliakang is there for the @NYTimes . Note that security is asking if they took pictures. Please circle back to that, @AjitPaiFCC : it's an open meeting. Should be no issue with media photography.

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Barr’s memo prompted @TheJusticeDept official who oversees investigations of voter fraud to resign in hours Barr’s authorization ignored policies intended to keep @TheJusticeDept from affecting the outcome of an election. An abuse of power to keep power.

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4 years

The executive committee of the @GOP voted not to adopt a new platform for 2020, carrying over the 66 page document from 2016: As a result, the 2020 Republican platform now contains statements that are biting assessments of the illiberalism of this @POTUS .

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5 years

Listening to @gtconway3d talk with @PreetBharara now: It's a reasonable, friendly, rational, legally grounded conversation about this crazy moment, diving into Trump's narcissism & corruption, impeachment, & much more.

‎Stay Tuned with Preet: Diagnosing Trump (with George Conway) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Stay Tuned with Preet, Ep Diagnosing Trump (with George Conway) - Oct 10, 2019

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Preet Bharara

@PreetBharara

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He hasn’t done a TV, radio, or pod interview in a year, but @gtconway3d joined me on #StayTuned today. He doesn’t mince words. Episode drops tomorrow morning.

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Trump’s talking points echo the Kremlin’s. Again & again. Russian playbook of active measures: *Discredit US intel agencies *Stir up racial tensions in US *Start rumors about conspiracies *Create & spread false stories *Covert media placement *Buy agents of influence Familiar?

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“What proved even more deadly was the government policy toward the truth”-John M. Berry, on the 1918 flu pandemic “while influenza bled into American life, public health officials, determined to keep morale up, began to lie.”

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@AndrewRoseSC Did you get any or all of the other vaccines the @DeptofDefense requires members of the military to receive to protect them & their families from diseases? Why did you choose to refuse a safe & effective vaccine & get discharged instead?

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5 years

Given what @realDonaldTrump to told @JudgeJeanine , the public should expect him to release a transcript of his Helsinki meeting with Putin at the same time he releases his tax returns.

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father (Published 2018)

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of...

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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

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"That meeting is open for grabs," Trump says about readout of Trump/Putin meeting. Then says Russia probe is a "hoax." "Everybody knows there was no collusion whatsoever."

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FLOTUS @MelaniaTrump said her heart goes out to” the seditionists who died in a violent insurrection seeking to overturn the election, & Capitol Police officers who died defending against it. Trying to imagine Laura Bush saying her heart went out to 9/11 attackers on 9/16/2001.

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If a presidential nominee breaks a transparency norm without electoral consequence, cascading influence on disclosure expectations follows:

NBC News

@NBCNews

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Corker: Committee won't demand Tillerson's tax returns during confirmation for state position

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"No, no, I'm not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you"- @POTUS , last night. As @DLeonhardt @ianprasad document, @realDonaldTrump has talked about & treated people differently based on their race for decades:

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@HawleyMO You (or a staffer) tweeted a link to your book on @Amazon on @Twitter using an @Apple iPhone. If "Big Tech" were trying to "cancel" you or your words, would any of that have been possible?

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“Basically, @Twitter ’s own lawyers are admitting in a court filing that the guy who owns their company is spewing utter nonsense about what the #TwitterFiles revealed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like this.”- @mmasnick 🧌 👑 has no👕👖

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@prolibshow Amplifying a parody account like it’s a verified Member of Congress is a form of misinformation, whether intentional or not. Please retract (delete) & be more careful.

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@SenThomTillis @renato_mariotti That’s true. Senator, Trump praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “smart” & “genius” in 2022. He stood before the world & said he believed Putin over US officials. He denied Russian active measures in 2016-2020: Is he fit to serve as POTUS again?

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The record shows that the @PressSec does not always treat the journalists covering the @WhiteHouse with respect.

Perspective | Sarah Sanders is at her worst at a strange time — when she’s talking about respect...

A Monday press briefing showed the White House spokeswoman’s trademark disrespect for reporters.

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Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived

@PressSec45

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Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so

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@DanRather …Made inglorious bummer by this son of Queens; And all his tweets that low’r’d upon the House Impeachment charges by the Senate buried Now are our brows bent to funeral wreaths; Our bruised hearts debate traitorous monuments; Our schools & work changed to virtual meetings

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4 years

Like I said, follow @waltshaub . When a former @OfficeGovEthics director is this upset, pay attention: your government is under threat.

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@digiphile

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@GOPLeader That map is misleading. 19.8% of (65.8M) Americans voted for Clinton, 19.5% (62.9M) for Trump, 2.2% other. 29.9% didn't vote. 28.6% ineligible. Try dasymetric dot density, or cartogram: Also: Impeachment doesn't "reverse" elections. It checks corruption.

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The former director of US @OfficeGovEthics warned Congress in 2016 that removing due process protections for civil servans could lead to "politically motivated personnel actions." In 2018, the public is now seeing that play out at the @FBI .

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@JohnCornyn Loopholes, enforcement, access to guns outside CA. But Californians are ~25% less likely to die in mass shootings. California’s rate of firearm mortality is 8.5 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2020, vs 13.7/100,000 nationally & 14.2/100,000 in Texas.

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Some of the most disturbing survey results I've seen in 2017. Worse: @POTUS bears responsibility, @GOP leaders remain silent or fuel flames.

Evan McMullin 🇺🇸

@EvanMcMullin

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63% of Republicans and 38% of Independents think journalists are an enemy of the people. They couldn't be more wrong.

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Does this mean @IvankaTrump won't: •need a waiver from anti-nepotism law? •need to disclose assets or divest? •need a security clearance?

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BREAKING: Ivanka Trump is joining her father's WH staff with a West Wing office. She won't have an official position or take a salary.

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@peterbakernyt @sbg1 Do you know anyone who can make the authoritarian threat clearer on a front page?

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@digiphile

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Every state should do this — along with the territories + DC that should be states.

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Breaking: A federal judge on Monday required paper backups of voter registration and absentee voting information at every Georgia polling place, a safeguard to allow voters to continue casting ballots if computers fail on Election Day: #gapol

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Outside of some -— but far from all — of the offices of US representatives there sits a small desk with a guestbook. But there is only one office that looks like @RepAOC ‘s.

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@Jim_Jordan Is it? How about @whitehouse visitor logs? Tax returns of the @potus ? Declassification at @USNatArchives ? Credit card fees at @cfpb ? Targets of consumer complaints filed at @FCC ? New @OpenGovPart plan? Missing FOIA policy at @FOIApost ? Leak investigations?

E Pluribus Unum

@EPluribusUnum

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@PressSec @POTUS @ODNIgov @TheJusticeDept @carterwpage @FBI Disclosures that are timely, accurate, & meaningful can & do inform public debate: Overclassification & secrecy is an enormous problems in US democracy, but neither is being addressed by this @WhiteHouse ’s approach to transparency. Cf @opengovpart neglect.

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@LucasFoxNews While on Twitter, a Fox News correspondent was asked if it was ethical for him to use the passive voice to obfuscate the fact he had asked POTUS this question, & then reported on air POTUS was being asked questions about his age. If not, how will you practice journalism better?

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@LindseyGrahamSC The @HolocaustMuseum in DC has an exhibit on the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing persecution that the USA turned away: What are the differences between those men, women, & children & the refugees fleeing Honduras today?

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@digiphile

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If you have information about Russia undermining democracy, securely send it to the @washingtonpost :

WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

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Do you have information on the CIA undermining democracy? Securely send it to WikiLeaks:

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Reminder: voter intimidation is illegal. call the @FBI if you are threatened.

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@BasedMikeLee I predict that you will delete this embarrassing tweet without notice or apology, Senator, after a staffer or concerned colleague tells you this man is holding a vape.

Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

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Actually he’s not a cop, he’s holding a vape, and he’s got a photo he stole from Nancy Pelosi’s office hidden under there. He’s been sentenced to four years in prison. Nice try tho!

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@karaswisher AOL, 1993: You’ve got mail! @Twitter , 2023: You’ve got fail!

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It's been 411 days since the @POTUS has held a solo press conference: He's likely to take 1 question at a joint press conference, now:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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I am getting great credit for my press conference today. Crooked Hillary should be admonished for not having a press conference in 179 days.

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Doxxing is posting non-public personally identifiable info (PII) online with malicious intent. A reporter tweeting when a @POTUS returns to the White House or a CEO comes on-stage at a conference or concert is not doxxing them. Live-streaming a person in public is not doxxing.

Alex Howard

@digiphile

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“Doxxing” is the act of gathering personal identifying information, by licit & illicit means, & posting it online with malicious intent: A journalist who identifies the author of a popular social media account is not doxxing them:

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@postpolitics @mateagold “Neighbors say” suggests there‘s multiple versions of an objective truth. Instead of repeating a false claim, please consider a headline that stats the facts 1st, then the claim, then the fact check. “There is no 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ DC house, contrary to Trump’s lie”

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The most recent tweet from the 45th @POTUS , who remained in denial this week & this year. 4 years of denial of science, facts, expertise, math, logic, democratic norms, rules, laws, rules, truth, justice, & common decency. 73 days to go until Inauguration Day.

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@GenFlynn @elonmusk @Twitter General Flynn, do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America? Do you believe the seditious mob violence that injured dozens of police officers on January 6th, 2021 was justified?

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@DrLeanaWen @CNN You're proposing airports should tell the same people who've refused to get vaccinated or wear masks for over a year that they have to sit in an anti-vaxx section of a terminal or plane, & task flight attendants with enforcing compliance with masking only for that group in air?

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@SenBobCorker Where have you been for the past 2 years, Senator? The problems have been obvious. Why have you failed to hold hearings on this @POTUS ' foreign entanglements, his lack of disclosure, & corruption that places his private interests over national security & characters of our nation?

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The @VP is the only person not wearing a mask in this photo at a medical clinic. This is a failure of leadership. It signals to partisans that they don’t need to wear one, either. Masks are not a sign of weakness. Remember: “I protect you, you protect me”

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In 2017, the @AtlantaFalcons were leading, often solidly, in many key football fields, in almost all instances @Patriots -controlled. Then, one by one, the 28-3 lead started to magically disappear as surprise touchdown dumps in the 4th Quarter & overtime were counted. VERY STRANGE

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@digiphile

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There are many competing visions & narratives about what the USA or stands for today. I choose to stand with my fellow Americans who feed, house, clothe, & welcome those who are in need, without fear or favor. To those to whom much are given, more is expected. 🙌 @chefjoseandres

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳

@chefjoseandres

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This photo of our @WCKitchen team distributing sandwiches to hungry Venezuelans on the Francisco Bridge in Cúcuta says more than my words can describe... #ChefsForVenezuela #ChefsForThePeople

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@juliamacfarlane Our moment didn’t get global attention, but I think the response held up. Jump ahead for my daughter’s giggles.

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Folks who work on good governance & democracy integrity have been raising the alarm for years. The slide of the US away from healthy democracy is much further along than the public realizes. Read this thread from former @OfficeGovEthics director to get a sense of the risk/danger:

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Steve Martin as Roger Stone was an unexpected casting call on Saturday Night Live tonight. Having him ask for a pardon directly the TV on Fox News was a razor-sharp cut. I laughed at Martin’s riff at the end, parodying his classic “wild & crazy guy” bit. #SNL

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@ChuckGrassley Mr. Chairman, @potus44 criticized a Supreme Court decision, not Justice Alito. That’s not a rebuke. @realDonaldTrump is attacking the independent judiciary itself, politicizing the courts & law enforcement, & Roberts by name. On Thanksgiving Day, no less.

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@realDonaldTrump Like “John Barron,” who lied to Forbes about your wealth? Or the “senior administration officials” your @whitehouse @presssec still insists must be “on background?” You’re lying to the public: editors must know who a source is. Reporters don’t invent them.

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A @nytimes analysis of travel patterns based on “anonymous cellphone data” from 15 million people, measuring distance travelled, vividly shows where Americans have complied with #StayHome orders, & where people kept moving. Takeaway: Florida acted too late

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@realDonaldTrump The new US government report found “that Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. The impacts of global #climatechange are already being felt in the USA”:

Fourth National Climate Assessment: Chapter 1: Overview

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the second of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment,...

nca2018.globalchange.gov

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You won’t find a better, more lucid explanation of complex legal matters on Twitter than Mariotti provides in these threads.

Renato Mariotti

@renato_mariotti

5 years

THREAD: What does today's news that Manafort's attorneys briefed Trump's attorneys about what he told Mueller after he agreed to cooperate tell us?

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Confederate flags “were not widely used after the Civil War but were reintroduced in the middle of the 20th century by white Southerners to fight against civil rights for African Americans” They are to racism, @NikkiHaley , as a swastika is anti-Semitism.

Analysis | What Nikki Haley gets wrong about the Confederate flag

It was the fight against civil rights that brought the flag back.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@digiphile

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It has now been 160 days since PEOTUS held a press conference. He has neither disclosed his tax returns nor divested

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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" @FoxNews : Julian Assange on U.S. media coverage: “It’s very dishonest.” #Hannity " More dishonest than anyone knows

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“Any American president ought to know that that phrase does not have a noble pedigree”- @JeffFlake on @realDonaldTrump calling the press the enemy of the people, noting that authoritarian leaders around the world now use “fake news” to delegitimize journalism. #SummitforDemocracy

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2018: Pornography website announces a ban of videos created with software that grafts the faces of celebrities onto the bodies of other people. (NB: The site in question is still full of user-generated "deepfakes." Dystopia has arrived, & it's getting darker fast.)

Motherboard

@motherboard

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Pornhub is banning all AI-generated fake porn on the grounds that deepfakes are "nonconsensual"

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@KevinMKruse @justinhendrix @parscale 46%. (36+10.) Addition error.

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Dear @POTUS , @POTUS44 promised us an but the website fell short of his promise. ( @POTUS45 , the most corrupt President in US history, took it down.) Please create the database @waltshaub describes at @OfficeGovEthics , & redirect that (apt!) .gov URL to it.

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7 years

There are now 6 states in the US Climate Alliance & 100+ Mayors committed to upholding #ParisAgreement

United States Climate Alliance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Matt Viser

@mviser

7 years

Significant: Governor Charlie Baker (a Republican) announces that Massachusetts is joining NY, CA, and NY in the US Climate Alliance.

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Concise summary of last evening’s Trump administration news. In the morning, the President penny called on the Attorney General to prosecute his political opponent, & the press & public seems to have mostly yawned:

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7 years

PSA: If you see something, save something. Like, say, U.S. government tweets. #opengov

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@laurenboebert President Biden went to multiple Memorial Day events today, Congresswoman, as anyone who wished to learn can see, including mourning for his son on a Sunday. Our union will be stronger if we all show more kindness, empathy, & respect for our fellow Americans.

Kevin Baron

@DefenseBaron

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Commander in Chief Biden spent this Sunday 1) at church, 2) at his Army veteran son’s grave (it’s the anniversary of his death), 3) and then giving a Mem Day speech at Veterans Memorial Park near the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

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@AP One insurrection, one seditious conspiracy, one former president indicted after inciting mob violence with lies, one wire service determined to frame a signal event in US history as having two sides instead of seeking truth & reporting it.

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@digiphile

7 years

Public meeting "will ensure transparency in how we approach ethical governance"-Director @OfficeGovEthics to House

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7 years

@starwars @IndianaJones Not May 4th? Missed opportunity.

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“Denying access to the polls, questioning the legitimacy of the results, throwing up legal challenges, forcing voters to stand in long lines: these have all happened, in our lifetimes,in the US—we don’t have to look to foreign tyrannies for examples”- @sbg1

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📈This delta is even starker with elders. The CDC estimates unvaccinated people aged 50+ had a 14X risk of dying from #COVID19 in June 2022 compared to people with primary series + 2 boosters 💉💪🇺🇸Please help seniors get boosted:

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