Kathleen

DC-based writer and copyeditor. Here: a mix of policy-shouting, cognitive neuroscience, healthcare and education reform, and cute animals wearing hats.

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@DonnaDixon1954 @BrandonCopicWx @foxweather Glad you get it! Climate change is absolutely weather manipulation, and our government refusing to even acknowledge its effects lest it upset the billionaires is wild and upsetting and putting us all in danger. Thank you for speaking up!

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Congratulations, #JusticeforJohnny crusaders: you’ve further isolated victims/survivors of abuse, especially those who worry they don’t have enough documentation of abuse or that mental illness will disqualify them from getting help. You sure made a real difference in the world.

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Biden on your swearing in: “Don’t tell me things can’t change.”
Madam Vice President, mind that you don’t cut your feet up there, because there is glass ceiling EVERYWHERE. @JoeBiden #InaugurationDay @VP

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Ready to serve.

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The phrase “uncivil war” just blew me away. #InaugurationDay #Inauguration2021 @JoeBiden

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Absolutely incredible.
Future hopeful citizens of a new world order, take note: your old-world government-issued identification still makes it easier to find you if you break any of those, what are they called, law things on the way out the door.
I hope the podium was worth it.

[Ray [REDACTED] @RayRedacted]

This will be studied in information security college textbooks one day.

[Kathleen @standing]

There’s an angry mob that has spilled blood outside of the Capitol and broken into the building, endangering the lives of everyone inside. Your law and order looks an awful lot like chaos and anarchy, sir.

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It’s not the flashiest thing on the news, but for those of you who are VA residents and drivers: heads up! @WTOP

[Fairfax County Police @FairfaxCountyPD]

Hands free, Virginia! Beginning January 1, 2021 it is against the law to hold a phone or mobile device while driving. Visit our Facebook page, https://t.co/6Q50ROs2r2, for exemptions and alternative options if you need to make a call. #FCPD

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This truly is the public health dream team. I’m so excited and relieved to see these superstars on their way in.

[Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick @MeaganCFitz]

I cannot overstate how qualified these experts are.

Honestly, after the last 4 years my bar was set at "not openly corrupt, hopefully a professional in the field" but @gregggonsalves has it right: this is actually a dream team for fighting COVID-19

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@JessicaTaylor https://t.co/5E5ZPYSYde

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I’m increasingly worried that when the pandemic ends, we’ll see a mass uprising of the cats and dogs that have gotten used to our constant company.
Citizens, we may well have a civil war, but our opponents might be an army of disgruntled pets. #COVIDCats #COVIDDogs #Covid_19

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I’m increasingly worried that when the pandemic ends, we’ll see a mass uprising of the cats and dogs that have gotten used to our constant company.
Citizens, we may well have a civil war, but our opponents might be an army of disgruntled pets. #COVIDCats #COVIDDogs #Covid_19

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@JoeBiden https://t.co/ZM5z04p8AU A friend reminded me that I published a piece on this earlier, and this sentiment reminds me of the piece. We are at war with so much more than the virus, but today, here and now, COVID is still killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Focus up, y’all.

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That “Biden Won Arizona!” should not be the lesson learned from this state in reading electoral tea leaves, as tempting as it is in our winner-takes-all system. The lesson is that the RNC lost because it killed too many of its own. And nearly half the state was still ok with it.

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Arizona had 6,020 confirmed COVID deaths by 11/3; Biden won Arizona by 10,986 votes. If the majority were Trump voters and 2-3 family/friends voted for Biden because of it, then it’s not at all illogical to think that if the dead could vote, Trump may have won, not lost, Arizona.

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Dems et al: this is not good news. The implication is that AZ may well have been won only because the Trump administration literally killed off too many of its conservative voters, and an average of 2-3 people were outraged enough to vote against the architect of their demise.

[Engin Eroglu @EnginEroglu_FW]

As an EU representative, I could not sign this letter myself, however this is a very important step to initiate concrete measures against the #UyghurGenocide in #Xinjiang. @ipacglobal @CUyghurs @UyghurCongress @FreeUyghurNow #UyghursLivesMatter

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Signal-boosting!

[Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response @HHS_ASPR]

Got questions on #MedicalCountermeasures or issues in #HealthSecurity? Send them my way! I’m taking questions over Twitter from now through October 16. Follow me for answers during @BARDA Industry Day on October 27! Tag your tweets #AskTheASPR!

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@BettyBa62091585 @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @TJAlumniAG @KayeKory @FCPSSupt Lol, fair enough. They do sound like sweet kids, though! I’m sure you’re proud of them. ❤️

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This isn’t hysteria and this isn’t a joke. An infected president surrounded by infected staff is bringing a crowd of POC to him. Even if these folks are die-hard Trump supporters, statistically, their families they will go home to and infect likely are not. @CharlesMBlow

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Next in our weekly roundup of “things Republicans might not have realized they weren’t just saying to their three closest friends!”, Lindsey Graham, a favorite guest, enjoys a few laughs with a room full of people and microphones! Now that’s just a rookie mistake. #LindseyMustGo

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, declared that Black people “can go anywhere in this state” as long as they are “conservative and not liberal” during a candidate’s forum on Friday night.
https://t.co/i2G1krwYwS