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Apr. 7th, 2020 12:00 pm
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  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: The Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly -- whose sum total qualification for his job was that he was once a junior…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: Modly called USS Theodore Roosevelt's former captain "too stupid or too naive to be a commanding officer of a ship like th…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: The Navy Secretary told the crew of a stricken warship their Commanding Officer -- and you'd have to understand the DECADE…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: Modly literally made that announcement over the ship's 1MC (the general announcing system) to the very crew who Crozier ha…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: Modly went on to say Captain Crozier had somehow betrayed not only the Trump Administration, and Modly personally, but als…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: This is the epitome of the Trump Administration, of modern Republicanism, right here. The staggering arrogance by unqualif…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: Modly pushed Trump's message that the media -- one of the very institutions called out in the Constitution and thus the ve…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: And there it is. THERE it is. Honestly at last. In Modly's own words: YOU don't matter. YOU shouldn't expect anything f…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: On the deckplates -- and whatever the proper term is in the other services -- the NCOs and the Officers might put their pe…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: They can always get more people. 10/
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: If people actually mattered, there wouldn't be a black marble wall in Washington with 58,000 names on it -- testament to t…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: I fucking TOLD you so. And there it is in Modly's own words. You don't have to like it. You just have to do it. And don't…
  • Mon, 17:21: RT @Stonekettle: It's all lies. Even that bit about the mission coming first is a lie. What comes FIRST, is politics. That's Modly's comp…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Predictable as clockwork. YOU should die without complaint. ME, well, man, you don't know how hard I got it. 14/ https:…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Modly, telling the crew of a sticken warship, men and women that may die due to failures of his own leadership, that he, M…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: "It's not about me," Modly continued. Oh, really? Then why bring it up? Those sailors, Captain Crozier (who has himself…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: And just in case you doubt me, case you doubt this was nothing more than a campaign stop, Modly continued: "The former Vic…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Yeah. It's not about politics, but lemme just get in a dig about Trump's chief political rival. Sure. Totally not about p…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Modly finished with: "I understand that you may be angry with me for the rest of your lives. I guarantee that you won't be…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Your duty is to each other -- well, okay, maybe not EVERYBODY on the ship. You duty isn't to the Captain who felt HIS duty…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Your duty is to the nation, right? So long as you don't embarrass that nation by dying publically, because then fuck you.…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, had it right all those years ago. Yours is not to reason why, yours is to but do and die. Into the…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Addendum: I cut this down into tweets from a longer post elsewhere, in doing so I managed to create some interesting typ…
  • Mon, 17:22: RT @Stonekettle: Addendum: This morning the Acting Secretary of the Navy called Captain Crozier stupid and naive. Here's Trump calling…
  • Mon, 17:23: RT @amymebberson: Dear public.. if your nose pokes out the top of the mask, you’re doing it very very wrong.
  • Mon, 17:23: RT @jonfavs: The nightmare isn't that Trump will cancel November's election (he can't). The nightmare is that he tells his supporters it's…
  • Mon, 17:23: RT @jonfavs: And the reason we won't be able to vote by mail is because of state governments and courts controlled by conservatives, like i…
  • Mon, 17:24: RT @4everNeverTrump: This pandemic has exposed Republicans to be even worse than we even believed they were. It's a death cult singularly…
  • Mon, 17:24: RT @jilevin: Starting Tomorrow, Starbucks Will Require Employees To Wear Face Coverings At Work https://t.co/1VilK65V9h
  • Mon, 17:25: RT @TeamUfYH: Not sure what decision making would lead to a seemingly legit site linking to an unauthorized copyright-violating way to ille…
  • Mon, 17:25: RT @TeamUfYH: I got laid off from my job. Please don’t mess with my remaining source of income. Link to legit ways of obtaining my work.
  • Mon, 17:25: RT @TheRickyDavila: 4 GOP Senators were caught red handed selling their stocks right before the markets crashed, which is called insider tr…
  • Mon, 17:25: RT @benwikler: Every headline announcing that Wisconsin's Supreme Court is forcing an in-person election tomorrow should make clear that th…
  • Mon, 17:31: RT @RedTRaccoon: Congratulations Wisconsin, you are the only state that can make North Carolina's elections look fair.
  • Mon, 17:31: RT @SCE: .@edisonintl pledges $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts & will support its employee contributions by matching their donations u…
  • Mon, 17:32: RT @TheTNHoller: REPORTER: “300 hospitals were surveyed, their biggest complaints were a severe shortage of testing supplies.” TRUMP: “Th…
  • Mon, 17:33: RT @ddale8: This is significant not only because the president is saying things that aren't true but because he's using this imaginary test…
  • Mon, 17:34: RT @fawfulfan: Georgia’s other senator bought stock in personal protective equipment while receiving classified coronavirus briefings: repo…
  • Mon, 17:34: RT @ShannaNBCLA: Rainfall record broken today! #LArain #cawx https://t.co/p3bwcRFL5R
  • Mon, 21:01: RT @brianschatz: THEY ALL KNEW AND THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU. https://t.co/Y2z4jXklTa
  • Mon, 21:15: RT @nytimes: —A senior White House official warned Trump in January that a pandemic could imperil the lives of millions —The British prime…
  • Mon, 21:15: RT @HuffPost: New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer rips the president's response to the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/SpTl6Zut0V
  • Mon, 21:16: RT @Newsweek: Dem reps. call on Esper to fire Navy Secretary over dismissal of captain who sounded coronavirus alarm on ship https://t.co/O…
  • Tue, 05:18: RT @benwikler: If you think that this is what should be happening today, you’re either uninformed about coronavirus, a nihilistic partisan,…
  • Tue, 05:19: RT @steak_umm: friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and…
  • Tue, 05:19: RT @steak_umm: outliers attempting to counter global consensus around this pandemic with amateur reporting or unverified sourcing are not c…
  • Tue, 05:19: RT @steak_umm: it can be difficult to know what to believe in a time when institutional trust is diminished and the gatekeepers of informat…
  • Tue, 05:20: RT @steak_umm: all we currently have are limited and evolving metrics that experts are deciphering and acting upon immediately to the best…
  • Tue, 05:20: RT @steak_umm: breaking news and storytelling will always be spun with interpretive bias from different media perspectives, but data is a s…
  • Tue, 05:20: RT @steak_umm: you can maintain independent, critical thinking toward institutions without dipping into fringe conspiracies that get jumpst…
  • Tue, 05:20: RT @steak_umm: we're a frozen meat brand posting ads inevitably made to misdirect people and generate sales, so this is peak irony, but hey…
  • Tue, 05:20: RT @steak_umm: if you thought this thread was useful, we posted another one recently touching on small, simple ways that the average person…
  • Tue, 05:22: RT @brianschatz: If you are spending your time arguing with other Democrats on twitter I respectfully urge you to instead spend some time m…
  • Tue, 05:27: RT @UNESCO: .@UNESCO experts call for collective responsibility to protect vulnerable persons in global battle against #COVID19. We must a…
  • Tue, 05:28: RT @rickhasen: Surreal that it has come to this. https://t.co/EJtIdtA15O
  • Tue, 05:28: RT @RWJF: Every time we are faced with a decision to make, ensure that the long-term solutions are viewed through a health equity lens. Thi…
  • Tue, 05:29: RT @ananavarro: I’ve stopped watching Trump’s press conferences. I prefer to organize sock-drawers and wait for second-hand accounts of his…
  • Tue, 05:29: RT @MollyJongFast: Ted can’t criticize the president for his botched response to the pandemic so he’s decided to criticize the media. https…
  • Tue, 05:30: RT @kylegriffin1: Trump now attacks ABC's Jonathan Karl, calling him "third rate" and adding, "You will never make it." Karl is the current…
  • Tue, 05:30: RT @kpnorcal: Our nurses and physicians on the front lines fighting COVID-19 are true “healthcare heroes”:
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