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Pretty short one today
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Abuses of the pardon power have happened in the past (including under Trump) but the fact that *all* crimes committed in the District of Columbia are federal crimes eligible for presidential pardon creates a terrifyingly vast loophole in the constitutional system.
Acyn @Acyn
Trump says if he’s re-elected, he may pardon people prosecuted for their actions on January 6th https://t.co/VLlkGyUr32
12:56 PM · Jan 30, 2022
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This got a lot of discussion today, seems bad.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
They did this study in Philadelphia because of course they did. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
5:23 PM · Jan 30, 2022
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Hey, there we go, more interesting study design!
Bob Wachter@Bob_Wachter
SF has turned Omicron corner. Hospitalizations ⬇10%, cases⬇50%. Both these %'s confounded by challenge of discharging Covid+ patients; test availability.
Better metric (less confounded): asymptomatic test pos. rate @UCSFHospitals: way⬇. 10d ago, it was ~16%. Last 3d:~4%.(1/2)
5:32 PM · Jan 30, 2022
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I'd like to see those curves going down faster, but this is at least some good news.
Tom Wenseleers@TWenseleers
Seems that the second Omicron subvariant BA.2 may soon be about to cause cases to start rising again in South Africa... Or at least to stop the decline in new infections. Shows how fast immunity wanes & evolution can catch up.
10:45 PM · Jan 30, 2022
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And of course, there's always some possible bad news if you look for it.
