#WashingtonPost

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

I was HEAVILY lambasted on Twitter for saying I thought it sounded possible that the coronavirus *might* have escaped from a lab.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-co

Isaac Stone Fish

isaacstonefish

Chinese coronavirus statistics are problematic. I propose that American media outlets should add an asterisk next to mentions of Chinese statistics about the disease. Here's a thread on why.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/07/why-d

Josh Dawsey

jdawsey1

Giuliani is extensively promoting experimental coronavirus treatments, talking to the president several times in recent weeks about them. He has criticism for Fauci and others skeptical of the drugs. Latest

Andrew Hayashi

at_hayashi

This WaPo piece is light on details about how this happens, and racially disparate impacts have popped up several time in my property tax work. Mechanisms: (1) minorities have been

Gene Park

GenePark

#𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙾𝚙𝚜𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚆𝚊𝚛 central theme is finding the truth in conspiracy theories. The game prominently features Ronald Reagan, some guy a lot of people are talking about these days. And it'll have

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

See my piece in today's Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/25/trump-peaceful-transfer-power/?tid=ss_tw If you are Donald Trump, and your image is based on the claim that you are a winner, what do you do when

Jon Favreau

jonfavs

No more important context for the negotiations on Capitol Hill than this story. Take a few minutes to read it.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-unemployment-delays-dc/2020/08/01/50016264-c522-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

Sabrina Joy Stevens

realsabijoy

If you want to safely vote in November, protecting the U.S. Postal Service needs to be one of your top organizing priorities.https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1249032058493681664 This thread has a great explanation of all

Aaron Blake

AaronBlake

Birx rejects idea promoted on Fox that deaths inflated because ppl really die of other things:"Those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their

Radley Balko

radleybalko

Congress needs to codify the provocation rule into federal law. Here’s what this means: Let’s say a cop breaks down your door without a warrant, or with a bad warrant.

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

arabbitorduck

[thread] It has begun. First, they take your job and put you under house arrest indefinitely. Next, they force things like this on you, to use resources you don't have

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Will we reach herd immunity?We might. In some places. For periods of timeAnd not sure it matters that muchExperience from UK, Israel clearGet enough folks vaccinated, pandemic fades into the

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shOoObz

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Y2K and how the story 20 years ago was “scientists overreacted” instead of “scientists worked round the clock to avoid disaster when an

blacklightontv

blacklightontv

In 2008 Kamala Harris opposed Proposition K, a San Francisco ballot measure brought by sex workers to end prostitution arrests in the city.She said: “It would put a welcome mat

Peter Montgomery

petemont

Great story on the big-money right-wing group Convention of States helping push "reopen" protests @isaacstanbecker @TonyRomm @washingtonpost Here's the thing: COS is all about radically limiting the power of the

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Non-enforcement should expand to include all conservative rulings by the Supreme Court. Any liberal victories remain binding, because they cut against the Court's illegitimate conservative biases (due to appointments by