Twitter is cool because you can log off to go pick someone up from the airport and have dinner, and when you come back your entire timeline is nothing but people worshipping an anthropomorphic poptart that was paraded around then ritualistically sacrificed at an altar
We were at a 1030am showing of Oppenheimer and after he said "Now I am become Death" for the first time someone very audibly cracked a beer open
Cinema is SO back
An invasion is coming. This spring, trillions of cicadas will emerge from the ground around us, announcing their arrival with a cacophony of sound & piles of molted skin. Brood X – which arrives every 17 years – should appear sometime in May
#nature
#wildlife
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Illinois’ Pritzker is the first governor I’ve seen to respond, on CNN now: "I reject the notion that the federal government can send troops into the state of Illinois"
This viral tweet complaining about the Little Mermaid casting being racist has a profile pic stolen from an Instagram model. The “half black best friend” pic is taken from god knows where, but shows up in a bunch of Pinterest BFF roundups
AOC on Instagram urging Republicans to vote for impeachment: "Stop pretending this shit is complicated, because it's not. You are either with the people, or with the mob"
I found out the hard way a few years that the common understanding of "bbl" is no longer "be back later" when I went on vacation and changed my Slack status to "on vacation - bbl"
It has occurred to me that millennials invented all the early online abbreviation words like lol and Lmao
But for whatever reason g2g has not survived. That was a staple once
New WaPo: "He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly”
cannot stress enough, if you didn't spend the last 13 months in New York City, I don't give a flying fuck what you think about people wearing masks here
Avoid the vague "officer-involved" for shootings and other cases involving police. Be specific about what happened. If police use the term, ask: How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, spell that out.
New WaPo: "Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint”
Here’s the full segment that just aired of Barack Obama, George W Bush, and Bill Clinton talking about the peaceful transition of power. Not exactly subtle.
NEW: The head of CrossFit told staff on a Zoom call "we are not in mourning for Georg Floyd."
He also shared conspiracy theories about the killing. And conspiracy theories about COVID. And trashed epidemiology. And and and
NEW: Why did Trump never join Parler?
Turns out the Trump Organization negotiated on his behalf *while he was in office* to make it his exclusive posting platform in exchange for an ownership stake in the company
NYT: "Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate"
Statement from President Trump on the alleged radical militant plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan leads with
"Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job. She locked down her state for everyone..."
Just to reiterate, the feds say they stopped a domestic terrorism plot against a sitting governor, and the president's instinct is to attack her at the start and end of his statement
Detailed walkthrough of what we know about the radical militants accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor. What they posted on social, how they organized, etc.
This is what homegrown American terrorism looks like.
Big Poppa’s owner noticed the pup staring down at kids playing in the courtyard.
"He kept making noises to get their attention, but we're six stories up and they can't hear him," she said. "I was like, Oh my god, he's really sad."
If you look closely, you can read the plaque dedicated to troops who quartered in the Capitol building during the Civil War
(📷: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Anthony Rizzo (a MSD graduate) met with a Parkland student in the hospital who had been shot three times, and when the kid said he also liked Kris Bryant, Rizzo facetime'd Bryant on the spot, per
@NBCSChicago
Clayton County, Georgia Elections Director just now: "I am happy to announce that we're down to 3,500 absentee ballots to count"
"We are going to stay here until every single absentee ballot is counted"
Daily Beast reports Biden campaign didn't tell Heather Heyer's mother that he'd be invoking his daughter's murder in his campaign launch video.
"Most people do that sort of thing. They capitalize on whatever situation is handy"
New from AP: Deborah Birx did a multigenerational gathering at a vacation home the day after Thanksgiving, the day she and the CDC told people to limit get-togethers to your immediate household