Alejandro Alvarez

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    Apr 30

    DC, Va. and Md. friends, I've packed even more data into my dash with a total rebuild. FEATURES: 📈Daily raw and per-capita numbers on new cases and deaths for 150+ localities 🩺Demographics, testing and hospital status 📚Months-long archive

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  2. Nov 24

    If I were Hawaiian and I saw the rest of this map, I'm not sure "caution warranted" quite cuts it.

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    Nov 23

    Incredible news: a poem by one of the most famous Uyghur writers, who was disappeared 2-3 years ago, has emerged from behind the walls of the gulag. Fellow inmates memorized it and passed it along. powerful essay by ?

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  4. Nov 23

    I tried getting tested at a firehouse twice last week. Both times the line stretched all the way around the block and back past the tent less than an hour since it opened. DC VA and MD all set daily records for tests over the weekend.

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    Here is a current look at the line for at Judiciary Square in Washington DC. The site opened at 8:30. I arrived at 8:10am and was ultimately tested at about 10:25am. So the wait currently is about two hours long.
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  5. Retweeted
    Nov 22

    No fear. Security forces shot and deployed stun grenades. People did not move. Security forces had to return to their buses. Indeed, today there were many cases when police left - because people refused to run away. Nevertheless, at least 232 people have been detained

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  6. Nov 22

    Pretty decent explainer 👇 article and thread if you (like me) are waking up to images of the Guatemalan Congress building in flames:

    "I think this is just the beginning." Thousands of protesters took to the streets of today and some set a fire in congress, after a controversial budget bill brought a series of long-simmering crises to a boiling point. Here's my article:
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  7. Retweeted
    Nov 21

    The intro to this opinion shutting down the Trump campaign in its federal suit in Pennsylvania (the one where Giuliani didn’t know what strict scrutiny was) should be read aloud tonight at every dinner table in America tonight.

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  8. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    Breaking: police now said because some people displayed “HK independence” flags and signs and chanted HK independence slogans at CUHK, the national security branch of the police force will begin to do further investigation.

    Dozens of graduating seniors at the Chinese University of marched through the campus earlier today. They carried black balloons, wore different kinds of masks and some also put on the goggles that were commonly seen during last year’s anti-extradition bill protest.
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  9. Retweeted
    Nov 17

    Last year today was the peak of the whole . Tens of thousands of citizens tried to get near from all directions to rescue the besieged protesters. We saw many in suits, even some housewives, walking to the forefront without any equipment.

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  10. Nov 18

    Hong Kong had umbrellas and yellow hardhats. Thailand has ducks. Lots and lots of ducks.

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  11. Nov 17

    Watching this unfold on the livestreams earlier was wild. Blankets (or mats?) prove to be somewhat effective at staving off water cannons and dismantling chunks of concrete barricade lined with barbed wire.

    Protesters outside the new Thai Parliament building have worked out that you can pull down razor wire by throwing blankets over and pulling it down... The police clearly don't love that idea and are responding with water cannons and tear gas
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  12. Nov 17

    This will always be remembered as the year giant inflatable rubber duck boats became frontline protest gear.

    Rubber ducks being passed to the front line by protesters to use as shields against the water cannons and tear gas.
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    Nov 16

    Two weeks after Eta hit , Hurricane is nearing landfall near the same location. Along with life-threatening conditions near the coast, flooding will occur throughout Central America. Let's all find a way to support the people in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.

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  14. Retweeted
    Nov 15

    Mask-less women arrived near the White House this a.m. to tear down signs put up during earlier protests. The signs condemn racism, honor those killed by police and say things like “Black Lives Matter.” Other folks, in masks, are trying to protect the wall.

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    Nov 15

    Happening right now in .A new epicentre of the protest is the neighbourhood,where Raman Bandarenka was beaten and detained.Crowds are gathering here today. In other cities, residents came to people's memorials as well. Police responded with stun grenades and batons

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  16. Retweeted
    Nov 14

    Listen up, folks. There's much good news. The end of this pandemic may be near. But a very harsh winter is upon us. Like other viruses, this one seems sharply seasonal. People need to rethink everything and *hunker down*, now. It's so close. Don't risk it.

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  17. Nov 14

    Rally ends with an organizer insisting they’ll still win the election and conveying to Trump (“we all know the president is listening”) that they’ve got his back: “We’re all in.” – at Supreme Court of the United States

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  18. Nov 14

    Standoff. Trump supporters and a smaller group of protesters yelling at each other over D.C. police in riot gear, who’ve formed a line across Maryland Ave. neighboring the court while the rally goes on. – at Supreme Court of the United States

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  19. Nov 14

    Proud Boys at the court. One of them has a sign that reads “Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong.” Hard to find a good vantage point but police in riot gear have formed a buffer between the Trump crowd and some counterprotesters.

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  20. Nov 14

    At the Supreme Court. Almost impossible to get a cell signal. They had Alex Jones come up and speak some time ago.

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  21. Nov 14

    Trump supporters march through Washington.

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