• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/health/covid-white-house-testing.html)
  RT @Atul_Gawande: The White House is screening guests and staff using Abbott’s BinaxNOW antigen test card, which was only authorized for people w symptoms. Of note, it’s 2000X less sensitive than PCR, per data Abbott submitted to FDA–a poor test for a one-time screening.
• Twitter
  RT @roundtrip: “Aerosol transmission is the main way this virus spreads: the only question if it’s 70%, 80%, or 90%. Ballistic droplets are a negligible way to spread the virus. They only spread if someone coughs or sneezes on you. They drop to the ground, whereas aerosols linger.”
• Twitter
  White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateBen: What the newspapers aren’t screaming about is Arctic sea ice disappearing for the first time by 2028 triggering a sudden destabilisation of the planet’s climate and a rapid acceleration of global warming resulting in catastrophically hostile new conditions for most life on Earth.
• Twitter
  RT @everywhereist: We just wanted reproductive rights and equal pay
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/style/modern-love-coronavirus-thank-you-for-ruining-me.html)
  RT @s_m_i: "To die from this plague is a tragedy. To witness a loved one do so is a merciless, unrelenting kind of sadness — prolonged and filled with false hope. It is a faraway, forced mourning, her body a vector of contagion."
• Twitter
  RT @flakealso: i’ll never forget my programming teacher who was like a senior dev at IBM and decided he was done writing missile guidance software

  when he was telling us this he said "i just woke up one morning and it struck me that i was a murderer. so i quit."

• Twitter
  RT @AsherLangton: A death occurred after a bullet exited the barrel of a gun in moderate proximity to individuals in the employ of a law enforcement agency.
• Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) papers – Retraction Watch
  RT @RetractionWatch: The list of retracted COVID-19 papers is up to 35.
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/private-security-minnesota-election/2020/10/09/89766964-0987-11eb-991c-be6ead8c4018_story.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main
  RT @washingtonpost: A private security company is recruiting former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day as part of an effort "to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites," its chairman said
• Inside the Trump White House After His COVID-19 Diagnosis
  RT @karaswisher: Dier. Epic opening to latest @Olivianuzzi piece:
• Twitter
  RT @karaswisher: Dier. Epic opening to latest @Olivianuzzi piece:
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html)
  RT @susannecraig: New Tax Story: After the 2016 election Donald Trump found a new revenue stream: people who wanted something from the president. He has built a lucrative system of favor-seeking at his properties. Amazing story here by some of the best reporters at The NYT
• This scientist made a Google Doc to educate the public about airborne coronavirus transmission | MIT Technology Review
  This scientist made a Google Doc to educate the public about airborne coronavirus transmission

  Evidence that the coronavirus spreads through the air has been mounting for months—but official guidance has barely shifted. Jose-Luis Jimenez has had enough.

• Louise Glück's Poetry of a Million Beginnings – The Atlantic
• QAnon Supporters Aren’t Quite Who You Think They Are | WIRED
• On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science – Scientific American
• FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission – Google Docs
• Twitter
  RT @ValaAfshar: The beauty of popping a water balloon over a rinsing plate
• Google and Facebook Have a News Labeling Problem – Columbia Journalism Review
• The Delirious Cult of Recreational Benadryl Users
• Toothless dinosaur with just two fingers discovered – BBC News
• White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says – CNNPolitics
• Twitter
  RT @roobeekeane: monk: just a normal letter ‘K’ please

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• Twitter
  RT @bowiesongs: The whole last graph, really. John Crowley, "Little, Big"
• Twitter
  RT @bowiesongs: The whole last graph, really. John Crowley, "Little, Big"
• Twitter
  RT @AriBerman: This is big: federal court blocks Greg Abbott’s order limiting mail ballot drop boxes to 1 per county & cutting drop boxes in Harris County from 12 to 1
• Twitter
  RT @MissJupiter1957: Reminded of this tweet for some reason…
• Twitter
  RT @KFILE: Watch White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern refuse to answer on MSNBC when asked six times when the president’s last negative test was.

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