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In Calmer Debate, Biden and Trump Offer Sharply Different Visions for Nation
Jonathan Martin - Nytimes.com 133d 2 tweets
In a more restrained appearance, President Trump depicted Joseph R. Biden Jr. as an ineffectual Washington insider. Mr. Biden accused the president of heartlessness for separating migrant families and inflaming racial tensions.
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Tom Maguire Who does not love the "All The News We Need To Bury" ? Their debate recap: Paragraph eight: Biden made no significant mistakes. VERY last paragraph: Oh, yeah, Biden said something about shutting down the oil industry. 133d
A Conservative's Approach to Combating Climate Change
The Atlantic 154d 1 tweets
It's possible to address global warming without handing the government more control over the economy.
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Tom Maguire One mini-example before I tackle first world problems like power-washing the patio - I *know* there are thoughtful conservatives out there (eg, ) but the Rep Party is dead in the water on climate change. Partly a separate reality problem. 154d
Five Things Biden and His Allies Should Be Worried About
Nytimes.com 163d 15 tweets
Interestingly, the suburban vote may not be one of them.
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Tom Maguire Woke Whites: In touch with themselves and no one else. Here is T. on "dog whistles": A Rep message condemning “illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs” was backed by 3 of 5 whites. And Blacks. And Latinos. Ooops. 163d
Another Salvo in the ‘Burn It Down’ Wars
Frenchpress.thedispatch.com 219d 4 tweets
Also, what’s left of the Free Exercise Clause in a pandemic?
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Tom Maguire annoys many righties but his discussion of the "Burn It Down" problem is interesting. A troubling point - voted out will be swing seat moderates; strident Trumpists will gain, proportionately. 217d
Donald Trump’s Weak, Self-Defeating Call for Delaying the Election | National Review
National Review 218d 4 tweets
The election won’t be delayed; Trump has no legal power to do this. Begging for something he has no power to do just makes Trump look weak.
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Tom Maguire Dan McLaughlin () blasts "Delay the election": "If the goal is... to ensure that the [Reps] are never able to move on from Trump... then it makes sense to... harm his reelection prospects now, in order to save face for more Trump later." 217d
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
Derek Thompson - The Atlantic 221d 63 tweets
Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
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Tom Maguire COVID: Wash your hands but do note - surface transmission is rare relative to airborne transmission. Our time, money and effort could be better-directed. 221d
Europe Said It Was Pandemic-Ready. Pride Was Its Downfall.
David D. Kirkpatrick, Matt Apuzzo - Nytimes.com 228d 24 tweets
The coronavirus exposed European countries’ misplaced confidence in faulty models, bureaucratic busywork and their own wealth.
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Tom Maguire The Globalization of "Stupid": NY Times on What Went Wrong in Europe's dreadful response to COVID. Because they don't need to provide fan service with a "Dumb Trump, Dumb Republicans" lens, they hit general flaws with democracies and bureaucracies. 228d
Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants
Nytimes.com 701d 16 tweets
As a tight labor market raises costs, employers say the need for low-wage help can’t be met by the declining ranks of the native-born.
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Tom Maguire This Apr 2019 NY Times article reads as if they re-wrote a Chamber of Commerce press release. ZOMG! Farmers and builders have to pay higher wages! Where will we live, what will we eat?!? Weird how hard it is for them to relate to the working class. 239d
Why more men than women die by suicide
Bbc.com 437d 2 tweets
In countries around the world, women are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and to attempt suicide. So why is the male suicide rate still several times higher than female?
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Tom Maguire Hard to over-sell this. An issue with Epstein's "suicide" was that the Feds had lots of evidence but no case in which they could legally present it. Now they have a platform for [some/most/all] the material. Bonus Drama: Women attempt suicide; men die. 246d
Homeowner's lawyer: Ahmaud Arbery may have entered property for water breaks before fatal shooting
ABC11 EyewitnessNews - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham 288d 1 tweets
Video released Friday shows a black man in a T-shirt and shorts leaving the home-building site Dec. 17. He walks a few feet, then runs to the street at a jogging pace.
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Tom Maguire The owner of the home under construction speculated that Arbery was there getting water. 288d
Cuomo's plan for layoff restrictions on government aid makes 'no sense whatsoever,' Fertitta says
CNBC 289d 1 tweets
Landry's CEO and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said on "Power Lunch" that he doesn't expect the restaurant business to bounce back for several years, making it too difficult to require those companies to rehire all of their workers.
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Tom Maguire Landry's CEO is right that Cuomo's plan to require 100% re-hiring by firms that take gov't aid is daft. With the economy in shambles and business models in ruins, we don't want firms to re-hire, eg, 75% of their workers? But I bet it makes 'woke' sense. 289d
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Coronavirus Testing | National Review
National Review 310d 20 tweets
A deep dive into the logistics of testing.
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Tom Maguire As is so often the case is all over this. It's as if I worry about the news and he actually researches it. Good division of labor! 310d
Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not
The New Yorker 313d 107 tweets
The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.
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Tom Maguire A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Duhigg in The New Yorker compares COVID-19 in Seattle and NY. Having a mayor willing to step back and promote the science jocks and business leaders (Amazon, Microsoft) quick to embrace working from home get nods. 312d
Why Doesn’t Flu Tank Economy Like Covid-19?
Jo Craven McGinty - WSJ 329d 9 tweets
Early comparisons between the two diseases—based on infections and deaths—missed a range of differences.
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Tom Maguire Why is coronavirus so much more of a burden than ordinary flu? WSJ notes patient turnover: "The median length of stay for adults hospitalized with seasonal flu is 3.6 days" per CDC. In nine Seattle-area hospitals... the median stay was 12 days. 327d
It’s a False Choice to Pit Public Health vs. Economic Health
Frenchpress.thedispatch.com 329d 3 tweets
The relationship is far more complex than the online conversation suggests.
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Tom Maguire on reopening the economy: 1. It's governors and mayors, not Trump, that end lockdowns; 2. It begins with believing and much of the public correctly sees danger; 3. The US economy relies on big cities, which are especially vulnerable. 328d
Dokument visar vilka som inte får intensivvård - DN.SE
DN.SE 328d 1 tweets
Mitt under pandemin tvingas sjukvården fatta tuffa beslut.
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Tom Maguire Always Trust Content From Mickey Kaus. Google Translate of a major Swedish daily has the same story. (I feel as if I'm watching "Mermaid" again.) 328d
Surviving the Outbreak - State Magazine
State Magazine - State Magazine 329d 1 tweets
Opening photo: ConGen Wuhan staff discuss luggage handling procedures to U.S. citizen evacuees at the Wuhan International Airport, Jan. 28. Photo by Jamie Fouss By Russell J. Westergard By mid-October 2019, the dedicated team at the U.S. Consulate...
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Tom Maguire I want to push this as a BFD - per their in-house mag, the US Consulate in Wuhan began monitoring a vicious flu season in mid-October, which worsened in November. Formal report to Beijing when schools were closed in Dec. but early chatter in November? 329d
Transcript: Sen. Tom Cotton on "Face the Nation," January 26, 2020
Cbsnews.com 329d 1 tweets
The following is a transcript of an interview with Senator Tom Cotton that aired Sunday, January 26, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
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Tom Maguire I'm not sure what your inclusion criteria are for "our politicians" but Sen. Tom Cotton was pounding in the table in January. - Chinese gov't not honest; - Chinese travel ban; - FDA needs to expedite emergency use authorizations for tests. 329d
Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion
Jeremy W. Peters - Nytimes.com 337d 18 tweets
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned a pandemic into a battle of us-vs.-them — the kind of battle President Trump has waged for much of his life.
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Tom Maguire The clings to their narrative: an allegation that the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan virology lab is an allegation it was bio-engineered. has repeatedly offered "lab accident" as a possibility. 337d
COVID-19
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation 344d 387 tweets
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Tom Maguire Mid-April peak? The Times: "Mr. Trump suggested, without citing evidence, that he and his advisers expected the number of people who test positive to peak around Easter." UW/IHME model peaks mid-April for deaths, hospital use. 339d