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I don’t have a soundcloud, but here’s a list of wonderful nonpartisan nonprofits that are saving democracy and could use your money:
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A genuinely fun thing about Elon-era Twitter is for once we’re all punching up in the same direction, he’s bringing us together like the aliens from Independence Day
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Nothing so far has made me admire Harris more than the next sentence of this article:
Lay off the “weird” talk lol. Maybe fire the people who were losing.
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I have taken
the codes
that were in
the football
and which
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saving
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Forgive me
they were classified
so sensitive
and so compartmented
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Gabby Giffords joyfully vibing along with the Gabby! chants is the actual sweetest thing ever
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find yourself someone who looks at you the way Lizzo looks at flute sheet music at the Library of Congress
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You just got made dictator of your own country. You get to universally enact one blatantly petty and unreasonable law, based entirely on your own personal preferences. What is it?
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@kapoano
@schlagteslinks
“Enough with this inspiring slogan that spontaneously arose from your supporters” is really something only a political consultant could come up with
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my new hobby is putting deranged Scott Adams tweets into actual dilbert strips
I can't give you details, but this is a good time to tell you I am not considering suicide.
#Hunted
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Me: why do all the people I went to high school with look like they're almost 40 in their facebook profiles
*does math*
Me: oh no
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awkward Jewish husbands who married up, we have our king
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It's natural to think about the toll of COVID in quantities – cases, hospitalizations, deaths. But it's staggering to pause and think about the *goodness* we've lost. So many people who put positivity into the world, like trees that emitted fresh oxygen, just gone.
JOHN PELLECCHIA, 71, of North Brunswick, New Jersey, died of COVID on May 25, 2020.
"Upon retiring, he continued to serve his community by helping those recently incarcerated earn their GEDs. John is missed by his wife of 47 years, daughter & son, & 3 grandchildren..."
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Here’s a life tip: If you’re at your job and you get a grenade launcher, and your job isn’t in the military, something has gone very wrong.
L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers
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so the trick here is that they're not *observing* whether she's good at "the hard part," they are *announcing* a plan to shift tone in coverage
The last 4 weeks feels like a consistent series of “okay, she did [thing], but now comes the hard part” stories; and at some point it starts to seem like just maybe she’s pretty good at “the hard part” stuff
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I would happily vote for a political party that made this its only issue
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I’ve never really understood the “Musk gets it because he uses it” argument. It’s like saying “that guy will be a great drug dealer, no one loves cocaine more than he does”
I know there are problems for a lot of people but narrowly focused, Musk spent a good chunk of his personal fortune to buy a product he uses every day and then he proceeds to demonstrate he doesn't understand it, can't ship new features, and takes away functionality people liked
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A friend just turned me on to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map and I feel like Bartlet with the Butterball Hotline
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It’s true, this is how ethics law works, you can accept any bribe as long as it would have otherwise gone to waste
the personal jet seat would have been UNOCCUPIED if Justice Alito hadn't taken it! it would have been so lonely! don't you see he HAD TO!!!
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Link, for those who’ve asked!
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If you’ve ever wanted to steal an unattended “in this house we believe” lawn sign, now is your moment
This "White Women for Kamala" Zoom call keeps crashing because it has ... 140,000 participants. 😮
Celebs on it include Pink and Connie Britton.
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Ohio Republicans:
And Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephen says in a statement: “I remain steadfastly committed to protecting life, and that commitment is unwavering. The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life. This is not the end of the conversation.”
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The older I get, the less impressed I am by people who are smart and clever, and the more impressed I am by people who are kind and reasonable.
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Uh, hi new followers! I made a pie today.
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🎶 that heart is beatin nine to five / what a way to haunt my dwelling / beatin nine to five / oh I hear the undead yelling 🎶
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@nycsouthpaw
"Vito from Rome here, long time listener first time caller, I gotta really disagree with what Canus Iratus just said and here's why"
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maybe I’m a civic prude, but I continue to find it shocking and kind of scandalous that large scale organized betting on political outcomes is legal
In real life, there is a very strong correlation between poll unskewing and partisanship. Whichever side is down will start unskewing.
On Election Twitter, there seems to be a sharp correlation is between "who is unskewing" and "who has bet money on the candidate that is losing"
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It’s not exactly right to say that Elon is another Elizabeth Holmes, but it’s also not exactly wrong
designing the autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact so your company can deny it was the cause of the impact is simply epic
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@umichvoter
Really good! Cogent message, some sharp policy insights, very presidential demeanor.
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I don’t have a soundcloud but here’s a list of wonderful nonprofit organizations that are saving democracy and could use your money:
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Petition to combine these all into a single event once this is all over
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It is literally easier to win an historic landslide election in the UK than it is to get bullet formatting right in MS Word
6... (they’ve only been in govt a few hours and the formatting has gone already) (Lisa Nandy gets full sec of state status)
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What's a popular song where you consider the live version to be the definitive/better version?
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It's a weird feature of modern culture that provably lying doesn't really seem to reduce some people's credibility with their core audiences
You can't deny
@elonmusk
's dedication to his craft of bullshitting customers about Tesla's self-driving timeline (Via
@Tweetermeyer
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We don’t. He oversaw three titanic institutional failures (Iraq, Katrina, financial crisis) that destroyed normal conservatism as a credible political force and paved the way for Trump to eat the Republican party’s brain like a horsehair worm.
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That’s for all my fellow nerds. Just find your zone, then Google “growing X in zone Y” or “what can I grow in zone Y” and you’re set! I love my country.
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There’s plenty to despair about in this country right now, but our government does so many things that just absolutely whip ass. Thank you public servants who run the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, you are truly the best of us.
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I’m not a campaign professional, but it doesn’t seem like weeks of “HE OFFSETS HER WEAKNESS ON THE BORDER” stories will actually offset her (perceived) weakness on the border?
New: Mark Kelly is on the rise in Harris’ veepstakes — and some Dems say he’d help Harris offset attacks on border, a weak point for the party
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@sarahnferris
@AnthonyAdragna
@adamcancryn
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Btw, if you’re curious what would’ve happened to the federal government between 2016-2020 without strong civil service protections, you’re currently watching it happen at Twitter
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I am the very model of a Russian Major General
I lead a tank convoy that's quickly growing quite ephemeral
The men in my command are meant to fill Ukraine with mortal dread
But I am more alarmed by those Bayraktars buzzing overhead
Writing prompt:
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
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@joshHuder
I’m a little confused — how do you “not interfere with” an MTV? All vote present? Everyone go on vacation?
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@binarybits
What are you looking for? Maybe it’s because I’m in the DC area, but I feel like you almost cannot escape this topic in policy circles.
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@ettingermentum
Credit where due!
Nothing so far has made me admire Harris more than the next sentence of this article:
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@jbouie
This was arguably not even her biggest shot *of that debate*. This one actually got results!
There were a lot of spicy moments at tonight's debate. But this one—in which Warren asked Bloomberg about his employees' NDAs—may have been the spiciest.
“Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure agreements?”
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I came up with a joke today but it only works when told verbally:
Two librarians are staring at a big, messy pile of books. One says, “what are we going to do?”
The other says, “don’t worry, we’re librarians. We know how to organize books.”
The first one says: “…do we?”
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@apmassaro3
I'm sort of thinking about the EU as a big boulder on the top of a hill. Very, very hard to get moving, but once it gets moving, gains speed quickly. Vice and virtue of highly consensus-based structure.
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There are lots of funny parts of this, but we shouldn’t forget the one where Twitter sued Elon Musk to force him to buy it
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@janecoaston
I’m a Jew but every time I see Christians talking openly about the “prosperity gospel” I’m like
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I guess It will be interesting to see what happens when you make an entire political party apparatus just a grift organization for one particular family
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if you introduced legislation to destroy Ticketmaster you could casually append the entire green new deal to it and it would pass the house and senate unanimously
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Ticketmaster a monopoly in a tweet the same day Taylor Swift tickets went on pre-sale
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CDC update: Fully vaccinated people are allowed to burrow into the ground and not emerge for another seventeen years
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Laxalt? More like lacks-all-the-votes-he’d-need-to-win-that-senate-seat, amirite
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Asked soon-to-be-6-year-old daughter if she has any goals for her sixth year – anything she wants to accomplish. Her answers:
1. Try a roller coaster
2. Make a grilled cheese entirely by myself
My only reaction was to be like “omg those are so good”
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Will Bowman be the first representative ever to be censured as a result of terrible UX?
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Some of the best Americans in the world aren’t here yet. Welcoming them is both a privilege and a moral duty.
Athing Mu, whose parents moved to the United States after fleeing civil war in Sudan, is the first American woman to win the Olympic 800m title since Madeline Manning at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
#Tokyo2020
#Athletics
Read:
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After two days of virtual kindergarten, my big takeaway is that we should really try never to have any more global pandemics.
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Recommendation:
@DrJenGunter
's fantastic new podcast busting body myths. The first episode on whether you actually must drink X cups of water a day (spoiler: no, if you have working kidney(s)) is excellent.
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Everybody has their own favorite stupid Excel trick, but the absolute granddaddy of them all is "multiply by -1 to remove hyperlinks"
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We did Korean food for Jewish Christmas and this easily ranks among my top ten life choices
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Top answers so far:
- Everything on Stop Making Sense
- I Want You To Want Me
- Let Me Clear My Throat
- Tyrone
- Crazy Game of Poker
- Literally anything by [Grateful Dead/Dave Matthews]
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🔥 SCOOP: DoJ will seek to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster
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maybe you're just like my mother
she’s never satisfied
why do we scream at each other
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@theferocity
I love how the headline describes the ice shelf as “previously stable.” Like, buddy, weren’t we all.
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Oh my god
Turn it upside down and it's an alien reading Torah. You're welcome.
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This continues to be my big personal worry about "reopening." It's not (just) that we're not logistically prepared, it's that we are only at the beginning of *understanding* how COVID affects us.
The disease is more insidious than many realize. It's not just the high **death** rate, but many would be sick for a long time, some with permanent health issues that we are only just beginning to learn about.
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@jbouie
This might displace “Angela Merkel makes the German army learn and play Sandstorm at her farewell” as my favorite national leader/popular music interaction
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MCA: welllllll I’m here in
Beastie Boys: COURT
MCA: and I’ll tell you the
Beastie Boys: REASON
MCA: ya boy gettin
Beastie Boys: INDICTED
MCA: on counts of
Beastie Boys: TREASON
When you’re getting indicted but your lawyer won’t stop beatboxing
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@angelquicksey
One underlooked aspect of this is that USDS-type orgs sometimes come in with the resources (staff! management attention! budget maybe!) that civil servants would've *loved* to have for all these years while the problems were festering.
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there’s no one on earth I’m more jealous of than the 2% of Pennsylvanians who haven’t heard that much about Donald Trump
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Someone somewhere is composing an email to HR asking if mercenary rebellion leave should be coded the same as regular PTO on timesheets
MOSCOW (AP) — Amid a mercenary rebellion, Moscow's mayor urges residents not to use cars and declares Monday a non-work day for most.
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It really is remarkable how willing these people are to say stuff like “but we were secretly promised the rules of democratic institutions wouldn’t apply to us” out loud in public like this
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