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Benjamin Daniels (he/him)

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Georgetown University (gui2de). 🌍 Global public health research. 💾 Statistics and reproducibility. www.benjaminbdaniels.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · Jan 6

swing and disaffected Dems say their biggest problem with the party is that THEY DONT FIGHT

@anatosaurus tweets: Over 3 years of focus groups with swing and
disaffected Dems, never have they
volunteered "border" (or "too woke") as their
chief beef with Dems. Sure - you can plant
that for them and get that answer. But their
default answer is.../4

They don't fight. If you render the election a referendum on who is a bigger asshole, Republicans will always win.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jan 6

I love how the New York Times, which ran more than five dozen articles on Gay and almost single handedly maintained the drumbeat for her resignation, switches into Neutral Observer Mode here.

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/b...

Excerpt from NYT article “Newspaper articles about Dr. Gay and the board kept coming.”

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Jan 6

Wyoming? Yeah that’s a statistical quirk, it’s inhospitable and has fewer people than most individual cities, including Washington DC, meaning it has the highest number of US Senators per capita 🫠 (about four per one million)

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Jan 5

I’m sure you don’t need me to post this 🤗

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Jan 5

It’s so depressing that every single map of the US on any essential civil rights issue like this looks exactly the same

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Dec 25

☹️😱🫣

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · Dec 8

WE JUST GOT NATIONAL FREE TEST-TO-TREAT FOR COVID AND FLU IN THE US

www.test2treat.org/s/?language=...

If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · Dec 5

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

A letter to our readers

docs.google.com

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Nov 24

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3. A SKELITON SMOKEN AND THE SMOKE SAYS "IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO LOG OFF"
4. A SKELITONE HANGEN OUT AND IT SAYS "IM MAKEN POOR CHOICES AND IT ROCK'S"
5. BORN TOO WALK FORCED TO DRIVE!!!! FUCK CARS AND THEIRS A PIC OF ABURNING COP CAR ON IT
6, A SKULL WITH A RED NOSE AND ANTLER'S AND IT SAYS "DA CHRISTMAS GENIOUS" WITH PRESENT'S
7. DA BEST ONE WHICH IS A SWEATER WITH A SKELTONES HEAD ON IT AND IT SAYS "TIS THE SEASON" WITH GULLOTINES THATS IN THE PATTERN OF THE SWEATER ALONG WITH XMAS COLOR'S AND CLASSIC DESIGN'S ,
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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Dec 4

And 50% before adulthood. Half!!

ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

Mortality in the past: every second child died

The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. This article asks how we know about the mortality of children in the past and what we can learn from it for our ...

ourworldindata.org

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johnny connolly @jcons.bsky.social · Dec 4

Jesus dude I didn't realize the $7.25 minimum wage was still in effect anywhere, let alone the entire south

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · Nov 28

Well, what's left to say

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Nov 16

Fascinating Late Twitter experience tonight. Posted photos and video from the ceasefire protest outside DNC. QTed a congressman who (falsely) said protesters tried to break in. Spent *hours* watching accounts tweet videos that didn't show them breaking in, claiming it did show that.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · Nov 16

I wrote about Elon Musk affirming the deadliest antisemitic conspiracy theory in recent American history, and what it means for the rest of us:

Elon Musk’s Disturbing ‘Truth’ - The Atlantic

The billionaire affirmed the deadliest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in recent American history.

www.theatlantic.com

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Nov 10

Oh don’t worry, I’m nothing like that, I just find the general bogey-manning ridiculous. I mean look at this paragraph, it implies they have some kind of incredibly advanced technology or adaptation that the world’s best-equipped armies can barely compete with? How can they print this stuff?

NYT screenshot, reading: John W. Spencer, who studies urban warfare at the U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute, describes it as more like “fighting under the sea than it is on the surface or inside of a building.”

“Nothing that you use on the surface works,” he said recently on the Modern Warfare Project podcast. “You have to have specialized equipment to breathe, to see, to navigate, to communicate and to deploy lethal means, especially shooting.”

One of the main dangers of going into the tunnels is that Hamas has booby-trapped the entrances with explosives, experts say.

“The moment they realize the Israelis have entered the tunnels, they will just press the button and the entire thing could collapse on the Israelis,” said Ahron Bregman, a senior teaching fellow at King's College London who specializes in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Nov 10

Omg they’re doing the bin laden tunnels thing again

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Oct 30

We used to get these all the time before my friend who loved them went permanently Whole30…., Wah Mee on Rhode Island Ave still has them and I ~think~ Jerry’s on Georgia does too

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Oct 27

Oh, look, Elon Musk is stoking incredibly dangerous white supremacist Great Replacement fears where millions can see it on social media again.

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.
More on the process:.. Show more
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Literally my ancestor. We carry the Lee name as a first/middle in my family
While I didn't need a directly insulting gesture to tell me that my kind is hated and many seek our extinction (the implicit cues were strong enough) I appreciate this image making it absolutely clear.
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They absolutely want your extinction

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Neil but spoooooky @burghpunk.bsky.social · Oct 27

Leaving Twitter is like planting a tree or building public transportation. The best time to do it was years ago; the second best time to do it is today

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Oct 27

"They absolutely want your extinction."
Today, Elon Musk wildly increased his race-war rhetoric and promotion of white nationalism in a reply to a complaint by a white supremacist about the melting down of the Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue.

Elon Musk: "They absolutely want your extinction"

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Oct 24

Oops this troll got owned by facts and deleted his posts

Economics Watch: From Robin Brooks: Biden & Powell get an A. Obama & Bernanke get a C. A 1.5-year burst of moderate inflation is a very low price to pay for what looks like a permanent 8%-higher level of real production:

Robin Brooks: <https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1716109470311305312>

Atlas Talos (he/him)
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the economy IS in depression right now. right now, under Biden.

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Oct 24

You are either a right wing troll or living in Venezuela because that is very clearly the opposite of true in the US, this is the largest economic expansion since the 1990s.

Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Oct 24

And civil rights go without saying, because the difference there is the Grand Canyon

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Oct 24

This is fantasyland right-wing propaganda. There is no way to say with a straight face that a GOP-led government would have led massive pandemic response, post-pandemic public investment, dramatic real wage growth, inflation suppression, etc. Trumpism would have the economy in depression right now!!

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 24

- doctor
- doctor who?
- no, the former one / the eighth doctor / ???

Something along those lines?

Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 24

The only hope humans have against any animal is literally running away, getting some other humans together, and building a clever trap or a weapon. Which is obviously not the kind of fight these chuds envision! I.e. that big soft brain with those soft cooked-food-eating-teeth against a living weapon

A chimp baring its teeth. It has never eaten cooked food. Its teeth are made to crush bone, and its skull and head and muscular to make sure that works on the first attempt. Never mind the other four pointy ends (not pictured), which are also weapons with more less the same purpose, not playing the piano or some shit like that

Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 24

Classic advice here

TikTok screenshot reading “pretty sound advice”. Overlaid on printed paper reading: “Handling: General considerations. The cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. It has no code of ethics or considerations for its own future. (Underlined) In a fair fight it will win. (All caps) 1. Don’t fight a cat. 2. Use your brain. 3. Use drugs.

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 17

Here you go!

www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1...

www.npr.org

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Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 17

Try Memento if you haven’t 🫠🙃

Benjamin Daniels (he/him) @handle.invalid · Sep 17

You got this