Michael Baney

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

@extractivisms @BenjaminFogel There’s one dude in Paraguay with a big account who is all about tax efficiencies for US citizens plus stuff like “I only fuck girls who are unvaccinated but I don’t like Africans, so the most impoverished towns of Latin America are ideal.” Just wild shit.

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

Hi, my name is
What?
My name is
Who?
My name is
Gina Hinojosa

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

An incredibly confusing but apparently true fact is that James Talarico’s chief of staff is named Gina Hinojosa.

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

@petersavodnik If you’re not a hunter-gatherer getting eaten alive by a wild animal or an illiterate peasant being run through with a lance for the crime of raking manure for the wrong chieftain, you inhibit a parallel reality alien to majority of people ever. But so what?

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

The Irish, too. I was watching some reality show about a year ago and it featured a cop with a giant tiocfaidh ár lá tattoo on his forearm. Sir, that's the slogan of people who blow up police stations.

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

Cubans

[yiran @kroketrendang4]

Is there an instance where the diaspora is LESS woke than the native population?

[jabberwocky12 @trobo11]

What are they gonna do, poll each other?

[Política y Economía La República @Politica_LR]

#LOÚLTIMO | ⚠️ 🚨 Rafael López Aliaga no será alcalde de Lima: JNE aclara que otorgará credenciales de primer regidor a reelectos

La secretaria general del organismo electoral, Jessica Clavijo, dijo que los exalcaldes que postularon como primeros regidores y ejercieron la alcaldía durante el periodo municipal anterior no podrán recibir credenciales para volver a ese cargo.

https://t.co/pcACJHBqmM

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

@bloggingsbyboz Aside from Fujimori in 2000, is there another example of a Latin American president attempting to resign and being rebuffed by Congress out of spite?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”

In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.

[Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro]

Millions of Paraguayans have lost their savings due to the collapse of a bank involved in corrupt deals orchestrated by right-wing President Santiago Peña. His daughter attends Columbia University in the US and wears a shirt saying "tax the poor".

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

@capybarafan03 @trevposts @Gregory_C_Allen When I was there the university was handing out thousands of t-shirts with “WONK” printed on them in huge letters. The shuttle to the metro also had it painted on the side. I worked for the university also and Marketing loved the “Wonk Campaign” despite everything else hating it.

[Henry Ziemer @HenryZiemer]

The United States is such a big country we even have our own Peru

[Mr. Make It Happen @SupportThaNawf]

We have to say “Mississippi” after each number

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

@michaelreid52 Florida did no such thing.

[Jovian Gautama 劉恆原 @jovvvian]

tech bros after this week

[Michael Baney @BaneyMike]

Jonathan D. Miller, the libertarian candidate for North Carolina State Senate who just recently live-tweeted an armed pursuit and standoff with police and who said he was going to kill himself (though didn’t go through with it), won 1.96% of the vote.

[the giant @chaser_bait]

when he signed the civil rights act, lbj famously told his press secretary bill moyers “we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine” and my brother pointed out bill moyers died last year.

[gaél, resolute 🌌 @erosindomita]

I woke up today thinking I might have to pull an allnighter to see if democrats had a chance at taking senate seats in michigan or maine

now they have 54 and I'm up at 3am desperately looking for updates on the dead heat race out of MISSISSIPPI

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

And now let’s turn to the crowd for their reaction