So, apparently the #Republicans who run the #HouseOversightCommittee are claiming, in a generally partisan report, that #COVID came from a lab in and that the "real" #coverup within the Trump administration was that. While that would be interesting, and I'm certainly not opposed to looking into it, they don't seem to have any evidence, and Democrat members of the committee released a scathing counter statement.

This is an example of what we keep saying, that part of how #Fascism prevents counter-discourse is by creating an environment of #misinformation and conflicting reports where people don't know what to believe. Rather than coalescing around evidence to get actual conclusions, we see a partisan fight over a single theory.

I'm just going to fall back to what I've been saying this whole time: if we think it came from a lab, this needs to be investigated and found with facts. Otherwise, it doesn't necessarily matter where COVID came from, what matters is the need to respond to it.

🚨Pay Attention to what happened in Korea!

Yesterday, the president of South Korea attempted a coup, declaring martial law and ordering the military to arrest legislative leaders. His efforts were thwarted by a combination of immediate street protests, a parliament that acted quickly to overturn his orders and security forces that ultimately stood down and followed the Constitution. This act of democratic resilience suggests some important lessons for us as we enter #TFG presidency and confront his threats to purge and misuse the military.