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The Prospect and The Intercept have learned that Renata Hesse, a former Obama Justice Department official who then went on to work for Google and Amazon, is a leading contender to head up the DoJ Antitrust Division.
— David Dayen (@ddayen) January 15, 2021
Former Google attorney Renata Hesse when working at DOJ antitrust tried to change the details of the BMI and ASCAP consent decrees that would have made a $1 Billion lawsuit against Google go away. This is horrendously corrupt. This is a terrible terrible start for Biden.
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Axios has some spectacular reporting on Trump's plan to steal the election. Read it all, but this bit was especially incriminating: https://t.co/EfLKPZn0eJ pic.twitter.com/CqMjEPIaVs
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) January 16, 2021
2/ Ohio and Texas counted vote by mail early so those states would misleadingly seem stronger for Biden than they would prove to be when all votes were counted. The reverse would be true in Michigan and Pennsylvania. We’d been reporting this for weeks to prepare viewers.
3/ Trump knew this too and it was clear he intended to mislead the country by declaring the election decided before all the votes had been counted.
What I think many of us didn’t realize is the extent to which some Republicans and MAGA media would help him perpetuate this lie.
4/ This was one of the reasons that lawsuit from the Texas Attorney General was such utter garbage. There were a lot of just plain lies in that lawsuit, which the US Supreme Court rightly kicked to the curb, but this was one of the starkest.
5/ The suit claimed the “probability” of Biden “winning the popular vote in... Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion.”
It's interesting that even a condition as common as #Migraine is still not well understood.
Significant overlap with many other conditions mostly impacting women that are also "not well understood" is present.
https://t.co/EhrnxfItsm https://t.co/R7QUKrZvhR

2/ As a women’s health clinician & #COVID researcher I know ME/CFS, #LongCOVID & most autoimmune diseases disproportionately impact women after puberty. Female preponderance has likely contributed to the historical neglect of funding & subsequent lack of interest in studying them

3/ Paradoxically, the ongoing dismissal of many of women’s symptoms and abuse by the medical system is a direct result of our lack of understanding & ongoing LACK of funding.
cc: @jenbrea @ahandvanish @AthenaAkrami @Dr2NisreenAlwan
If you work on #longCOVID and say \u201cI\u2019m not an #MECFS expert, I don\u2019t know anything about it, it\u2019s not my job to know about ME or \u2019fatigue\u2019\u201d then you really, REALLY need to learn about ME. This is what MANY infections can do, not just SARS2. pic.twitter.com/zke0MqwrEd
— Jennifer Brea\U0001f992 (@jenbrea) January 14, 2021
4/ This pattern of ignorance/lack of understanding and dismissal, further perpetuates the trauma women suffering from chronic illness must endure. @ahandvanish @AthenaAkrami @jenbrea @RanaAwdish @VirusesImmunity @angie_rasmussen
Example stats ME/CFS:
In ME/CFS is about 80/20 female/male. Before puberty, gender ratio is 50/50. Many anecdotal reports of trans people who take hormones: F to M improve, M to F experience worsening symptoms. Female preponderance is found in both sporadic cases and historically, in outbreaks.
— Jennifer Brea\U0001f992 (@jenbrea) January 12, 2021
5/ Or Functional Neurologic Disorder (FND) aka Conversion Disorder, Hysteria, or Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES).
Majority of patients with PNES are women, outnumbering men by a ratio of 3:1. Female sex preponderance occurs after puberty & usually before the age of 55
Here are the relevant passages from the brief

He cites this as the reason he voted to reject the electors on Jan 6, 2021
.@RepRickAllen letter to constituent in #GA12 #Georgia #gapol justifying his Jan 6 vote to reject electors from certain states. #elections #ElectoralCollege pic.twitter.com/OznoglV55X
— Ayman Hossam Fadel (@aymanfadel) January 16, 2021
.@GaSecofState announced a partnership with @universityofga to study absentee ballot signature matching
Another post-election effort by @GaSecofState is a signature matching audit beginning with Cobb County, identified as a model of proper election procedures