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"Two people familiar with the matter say that in recent days, Trump has told advisers and close associates that he wants to keep fighting in court past Jan. 6 if members of Congress, as expected, end up certifying the electoral college results."


"'Must block Dem and [Republicans in Name Only],' one planning graphic posted on pro-Trump forum 'The Donald' read, showing a map of key streets around Congress that protesters want to obstruct. 'There’s 535 politicians and ~3500 guards.'"
Big conspiracy theory right now is that NPR "mistakenly" published news on what conspiracy theorists believe was a planned faked invasion ahead of time. Just look at the time when this was published and look at the headline they are saying! Here's why that's idiotic.


Here's the URL to that story. Notice something about the end of it?
https://t.co/KTpdsjl0Mz sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/ 2021/01/06/953616207/ diehard-trump-supporters-gather-in-the-nations-capital-to-protest-election-resul

The end of the URL often encodes a page's original headline. And in this case that looks like "diehard-trump-supporters-gather-in-the-nations-capital-to-protest-election-resul" not the violence piece.

Via the Wayback Machine we can get a snapshot of it from about when it was published, and yep, a different headline. https://t.co/38O7tynorf


Why is that? Well news organizations often run a story in the morning and update it throughout the day as events unfold. When events change substantially, they often change the headline as well.
Here's a thread documenting the epic incompetence of the Trump administration + the GOP in dealing with the pandemic. Some Democratic politicos deserve severe critiques also (Cuomo and DeBlasio being the poster children there) but a national problem requires a national response.

Remember, that for pandemics as well as for climate change, "Speed trumps perfection". Stop obsessing about "optimality". There is nothing optimal about responding to a pandemic or to climate change, just move as fast as you can.


Hey look, the GOP (not Trump) hamstrung the Obama Administration's effort to build up strategic reserves to fight pandemics going as far back as 2011:

Hey look, there was a pandemic response plan developed by national security officials in 2016, which Trump and the GOP ignored:


Hey look, Trump and the GOP disbanded the pandemic response unit in 2018:
Vaccines don't save lives, vaccinations do. The Trump administration's plan to get vaccines in to the arms of Americans has largely failed, with now only 28.4% of the distributed doses administered. Here I propose my vaccination plan, leveraging key locations for vaccination.


First, my initial tweet from over the weekend drawing attention to the


Let's first identify the problem. Operation Warp Speed has excelled at producing a vaccine and accelerating its development, but it's the "last mile" problem that has failed. Underfunded health departments and lack of a federal plan has inhibited rapid vaccinations.


Additionally, America lags behind other nations significantly when it comes to vaccinations per capita. While speed will increase into this month, we still have more work to do.


We have also seen discussion on whether to consider a single-dose regimen in order to speed up vaccinations. There are some valuable viewpoints captured here, but I will not weigh in as I believe that doses administered will never catch up to
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