https://twitter.com/substockman/status/1250435816704192513?s=20

«”the great and the good of what remains of the pre-Trump GOP”»

https://www.propublica.org/article/theres-been-a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-in-several-cities-that-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-are-higher-than-reported

Undercounts. Huh. Who knew?

Drain The Trumps 🇺🇸 (@DrainTheTrumps) Tweeted: Also buried in the Wisconsin election results is a “FUCK YOUR GERRYMANDERING @GOP” referendum that squeaked by with 80% of the vote. https://t.co/zklpvglczb

https://twitter.com/DrainTheTrumps/status/1249858873831370760?s=20

I’m guessing this is the beginning of a 10-15-year journey that will eventually result in the will of the people being enacted, as Republicans deny, deny, deny that this is valid.

https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1249860887592255489?s=20

This tweet + replies pretty much covers it, I think.

Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) Tweeted: Ok so remind me all the things republicans don’t get to stand for while POTUS is still head of the party: – states’ rights – fiscal responsibility/debt – morality What else?

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/13/21219715/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement-democratic-primary-2020

«One concern liberals and leftists have long had with Biden is his instinct for cutting deals means he’ll sell them out to the right to win Republican votes. Maybe so. But what Biden is proving in this campaign is he’s just as willing to cut deals with the left, and his coalitional approach to politics is an opportunity for them to influence him, as well.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-cia/2020/04/13/54129d64-7dba-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

«The CIA has privately advised its workforce that taking an anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump and some of his supporters as a promising treatment for the novel coronavirus has potentially dangerous side effects, including sudden death.»

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/states-band-together-reopening-plans/

Good-bye, Republican Party, the “party of limited government”. We always knew you were lying.

«During Monday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, Trump again asserted his authority to override governors, saying, Tthe President of the United States calls the shots.”

“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” he said. “And that’s the way it’s got to be.”»

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/upshot/polling-2020-biden-trump.html

I’m still hoping the mushy middle voters will *decisively* repudiate Donald Trump, but:

«At the moment, a reasonable estimate is that Mr. Biden is performing four or five points worse among likely voters in the critical states than he is among registered voters nationwide. As a result, he holds only a narrow and tenuous edge in the race for the Electoral College, if he holds one at all.»

So, speaking from my experience as an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker: you really don’t know if you’ve reached the peak until you are standing on it. Every time you look ahead and say to yourself “that’s the peak, just up ahead”, you’re wrong. Best just to keep plugging away until it’s clear.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249676310865219585.html

Structural racism in health outcomes, British edition.