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Favorites February 20th 2022

David Watson
Feb 21, 2022
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Matt Ortega @MattOrtega
Biden has handled Ukraine crisis incredibly well. Pursued diplomacy the entire way, armed Ukraine, refusal to commit any U.S. forces to Ukraine, call bullshit on Putin’s obvious attempts at setting up a false pretext for war. I’m incredibly thankful he’s there and not Trump.
10:15 AM ∙ Feb 20, 2022
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Competence in our elected officials is nice, things could still go very badly, but I don't think it'll be because of US missteps.

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Robinson Meyer @yayitsrob
What a scandal. For months if not years, the CDC has been collecting wastewater data for cities and states—which is the *best* data for predicting a local COVID surge, far better than tests or positivity or cases—but not publishing it.
nytimes.comThe C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It CollectsThe agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
5:37 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2022
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The justification was that the data "wasn't ready for prime time," which definitely doesn't seem like the right way to be thinking for the first 2 years of a pandemic.

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Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma
I think I end up in a lot of arguments with people who call themselves socialists because what they mean by socialism isn’t “egalitarian economic system” but “land where there are no tradeoffs, no one has to work, and Mom keeps making me hot pockets forever” https://t.co/ZEzXIsoEdU
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Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 @TaplinTerry
Still thinking about the time someone looked me straight in the eye & said we don’t need traffic calming because “people are speeding to work; what we need is to end Capitalism.”
5:54 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2022
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"Hot Pocket Socialism"

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HulkLawyerHat @Popehat
Dear fellow Americans: Canadians are not bound by our laws. They are citizens of their own proud sovereign nation with its own rich and distinct legal culture based on ice, Tim Hortons, and genocide instead of oil, Arbys, and genocide.
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nilay patel @reckless
The First Amendment as an all-purpose magic internet law finds itself in a Canadian court, where the judge is not amused https://t.co/Rltcp1qp4A https://t.co/0C2ZPxv315
9:02 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2022
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It was a bail hearing for an organizer of the Canadian Truck protest, one of the Canadians seemed to be confused about which country's laws they're bound by. Reminds me again of Neal Stephenson's point about American Legal Culture being exported via Starsky and Hutch reruns.

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