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THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919.I'm not kidding I went HAM researching thisSo, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco

I came into the U.S. more than a decade ago on a J visa, then scrambled for years on H-1B work visas.I sought and received a green card.Then I earned

NEW from me: Marc Short, the Vice President's chief of staff, holds as much as $1.64 million in individual stocks for companies doing work related to the Trump administration's pandemic

Dr. Rick Bright says that the reason U.S. is having trouble with simple things like manufacturing swabs is because there is no comprehensive national plan to source these strategic items,

NEW: The Justice Department is specifically looking into Sen. Burr's statements around the time of his stock market sell-off, NPR can reporthttps://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824958381/justice-department-looking-into-senators-stock-selloff Media outl

Scoop: The National Rifle Association's legal troubles and infighting have cost the powerful gun rights group $100 million (!!!) according to tape of an NRA board meeting obtained by NPR.https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/839999178/secret-recording-r

The 1918/1919 protests against mask wearing and other public health measures have parallels to today We learn through this episode that various groups of Americans have been pushing back against

The Whole Foods at Logan Circle has had 12 workers test positive for Coronavirus, the local CBS affiliate in DC @wusa9 is now reportinghttps://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1250130325356888064 CBS report: "Whole Foods employee: 12+

Quest Diagnostics is furloughing employees, cutting pay, dismissing temporary workers, freezing hiring, cutting OT (Reuters)Despite performing 40% of US COVID-19 tests, social distancing is destroying Quest's bread and butter: the

THREAD: A month ago, Trump declared a Coronvairus national emergency in a Rose Garden address. NPR's investigations team went through every promise he made at that critical time and contacted

The president has removed the inspector general chosen to oversee $2.2 trillion in Pandemic relief funds, his latest step to hamper oversighthttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-ov