COVID death rates are higher for Republicans

Almost Twice as Many Republicans Died From COVID Before the Midterms Than Democrats https://t.co/kyaUnGUqSG
— Lefty Len Climate Action Resister 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Len_Future) January 13, 2023

Excess death during COVID 19 pandemic by political party affiliation Clear difference emerged after introduction of vaccines. Probably due to FoxNews and anti-vaccine/anti-science attitude of Republican party establishment. pic.twitter.com/Yiu5jS5MBK
— Talal (@tzraik) November 27, 2022

Thanks for explaining why more conservatives died of covid.

And while this trend is changing, your disinformation contributed to their deaths. https://t.co/j8xwJ2UcWx
— TPBlue💔 (@TPBlue4) November 25, 2022

Yale study finds excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic were impacted by political affiliation and that the partisan gap in death rates increased significantly after vaccines were introduced.
— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) November 30, 2022

I can tell you this advice killed 100s of 1000s of Americans

Noem set a global record for COVID deaths Per Capita
Desantis says I'm great Florida hits 6th worse for COVID deaths

Republican states became 20/22 worst states for COVID deaths Per Capita AFTER THE VACCINE

🖕U musk pic.twitter.com/wEvpeKtcx9
— Z222🇺🇸MeMeMeMeee (@Z22239641134) November 30, 2022

The correlation between death rates and Republican voting is really high. It would take some work to tell how much these are both just effects of how old these counties are, and how much political views can explain COVID disparities. https://t.co/3H2MMMBnU8
— Brian Weatherson (@bweatherson) November 30, 2022

Republican beliefs are killing Republicans at higher rates than Democrats.

Check out the partisan mortality gap for COVID deaths.

Here the graph, with a link to a conservative news source that reports on this ‘mortality penalty’👇https://t.co/SLmGYNubiQ pic.twitter.com/C1nKnuAq7W
— Church of Eve🤍 (@ChurchofEve1) November 24, 2022

A woman drank beer from her prosthetic leg

A U.S. Marine Corps vet filled her prosthetic leg with beer and chugged it at the Laker game on Monday. https://t.co/oaqNaFVpad
— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) November 29, 2022

Let It Bleed released 11/28/69

Let It Bleed is one of the best Rolling Stones albums and “Gimme Shelter” is my favorite Rolling Stones song.

The cover is great too – cake on the front. chaos on the back.

The Rolling Stones released Let It Bleed, November 28, 1969. Some great songs. Favorites? pic.twitter.com/8Z8XHCQfmo
— Classic Rock In Pics (@crockpics) November 29, 2022

Let Them Eat Delia’s Cake, or Robert Brownjohn’s Let It Bleed

Covers: You Can’t Sit Down

“You Can’t Sit Down” has been recorded as an instrumental and with vocals. It wasn’t a hit for them but make sure to listen to Booker T & the M.G.’s

Covers: If I Can Dream

“If I Can Dream” is best known as a 1968 Elvis Presley record. It’s in a current television commercial.

Covers: Up on Cripple Creek

“Up on Cripple Creek” is one of The Band’s best-known songs.

“Up On Cripple Creek,” which was the fifth song on The Band’s eponymous second album, was released as a single by Capitol on this day in 1969. Here's the story behind the song👇https://t.co/xm9tIgxDhY
— uDiscover Music (@uDiscoverMusic) November 29, 2022

US traffic deaths

Traffic fatalities have been falling in rich nations around the world — but not in the U.S. This American exception became even starker during the pandemic, when travel declined but deaths still went up. https://t.co/gYieqLQLSF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 28, 2022

We document the appearance of a new race gap in traffic deaths that emerged after 2014. In fact, this was the first time that the rate of traffic deaths for Black Americans exceeded that of White Americans since at least the early 1970s. Our paper tries to unravel this mystery.👇 https://t.co/jTluzYirqn pic.twitter.com/3DqDqLKfAU
— Aaron Chalfin (@AaronChalfin) November 28, 2022

Just like with guns, ways to reduce traffic deaths are well established–we just need the political will. We need to convince people that safety is not the enemy of freedom. Safety from unnecessary, violent death IS freedom. pic.twitter.com/q6iflG1DX1
— Lian is on Mastodon at @lian@sfba.social (@LianChikako) November 27, 2022

A few Republicans are criticizing Trump for meeting with Fuentes

Better late than never

Most Republicans are still quiet.

Thune says Trump’s meeting with Fuentes was “a bad idea on every level,” adds whoever is advising Trump should have been fired
— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) November 28, 2022

asked by Jake Tapper about Trump having dinner with a Nazi, Rep. James Comer quickly brings up Ilhan Omar pic.twitter.com/4kqrvEJCqo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 28, 2022

CNN's Don Lemon wouldn't stop until he got Trump's former Deputy Asst. Sec. of State to admit that Trump should not have had dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. pic.twitter.com/c2rJq0cT5i
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 28, 2022

Sen Susan Collins to @sahilkapur and me:

“I condemn white supremacy and anti-semitism. The president should never have had a meal or even a meeting with Nick Fuentes.”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) November 28, 2022

News: @Mike_Pence tells me former president trump should apologize for dinner with anti-semites
— Leland Vittert (@LelandVittert) November 28, 2022

More on wealthy political donors (mostly to Republicans)

New from the @thedailybeast's @SollenbergerRC: Tax returns reveal a "dark money" nonprofit tied to billionaire GOP donor Richard Uihlein that posts voter rolls & amplifies disproven fraud claims raised over $20.5 million in the year after the 2020 election https://t.co/x20Djjlvnd
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) November 28, 2022

DonorsTrust—one of the biggest conservative dark money organizations in the nation— took in more than $1 billion last year.

The identities of the donors? They're kept a secret.https://t.co/xrJhkqnbYE
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 21, 2022

Barnes lost by 27K votes; was outspent by outside groups by $27 million.
$29 million of that spending came from one group, funded by three billionaires that Johnson personally created a massive tax break for.
No reporting of this race is complete without these basic facts. https://t.co/vftt0roDjj
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) November 10, 2022

Republican billionaires held an advantage in giving to 2022 election campaigns.

Data compiled by @OpenSecretsDC found seven of the top 10 donors to federal elections are Republicans who have given around a quarter of a billion dollars to GOP causes.https://t.co/jhSUW0ZSNo pic.twitter.com/Ll6OBqJQmk
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 7, 2022

George Soros with $7B apparently controls the global elites against regular salt of the earth folks like Elon with $200B, Kochs with $120B, Adelsons with $30B, and Murdochs with $20B
— Deva Hazarika (@devahaz) November 6, 2022

Bigelow is also the top donor to the Republican Governors Association this year, on top of spending in Nevada and other states pic.twitter.com/Qn5j79zhRN
— Ben Wieder (@benbwieder) November 6, 2022

You can find a similar story in Wisconsin, or Oregon, where one or two irked billionaires decides they don't like the people in power and put their thumb on the scales. It's the Citizens United vision of democracy, the best that money can buy. https://t.co/anb0wuqV4n
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) November 6, 2022

Ronald S. Lauder, a billionaire cosmetics heir, is among the richest men in New York. He has also become the most prolific state political donor in memory this fall, pumping at least $11 million into efforts to elect Lee Zeldin, a Republican, as governor. https://t.co/yV1SDZhKJl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 6, 2022

Health insurance coverage compared to political views by state

Yes, red states have fewer people covered. Some have even turned down Medicaid expansion even though the fderal government would pay for most of it,

This picture is a pretty good litmus test for politics pic.twitter.com/jm9PCq5f9t
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 26, 2022

Florida seniors have the worst medical debt in the US. Back when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it allowed states to expand Medicaid. Florida is one of 11 states that have not allowed that even as the federal government would pay 90% of the costs https://t.co/59Ljstj2NX
— Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) November 29, 2022