Eric Christenson

Embedded Programmer, Electronics Specialist, Scientist. No idea how long this site will be here. Don't read too much into who I follow.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

One of the most staggering things about the death penalty in the United States is that the Supreme Court has ruled it’s perfectly constitutional to execute actually innocent people. Why? Because “finality” of the underlying conviction—even if wrong—is most important.

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

@Katerationopia Dang! Trump wasn't arrested and left in jail this time? lol

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

They have always been coming for birth control. They’re just saying it out loud now. Read this and be very concerned. It’s a frightening time.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

As someone who's been in politics a long time "attended donor summit" is not how this Thomas thing should be characterized.

"Endorsed Koch political objectives, illegally acted as fundraising draw for one of the largest partisan political operations in US" is more accurate.

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

@Ebeth_Doc My take on lesbian or not, as a cishet, is that I met a guy I probably would have gotten involved with...but the gal who is now my wife was also in my life, and I was loyal and she pointed out why I might not have wanted to do that.

For me, there was some magic there.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

In case you didn’t see in replies, this money traces back (and disappears) inside a dark money organization called the Hopewell Fund, run by Arabella Advisors. They apparently create “fake” advocacy groups using big piles of cash from anonymous donors. https://t.co/cxJwI9saBe

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

From countertop makers in California to coal miners in Central Appalachia, silica is a vicious, ugly killer—and workers as young as their 20s and 30s are paying the price of exposure https://t.co/cAByklTOII

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

A guy like this *deserves* to be worth $35 million. Just got boosted with the new Covid vax Friday.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

What? This one is back? If only. I don’t have even a tiny fraction of these numbers, just more QAnon faux outrage nonsense. And it’s interesting how the X bot troll farm likes to repeat this one along with pharma shill accusations when I make low-cost vaccines that bypass pharma

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

@meghanncuniff @naima and you should look into the parallels with the reporting on Vic Mignogna in 2019....via Anime Network News and @ (something like) anime Lynzee. The nutcases felt exactly alike.

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

@Azriel_Green Shades of one of my english teachers: "J R R Tolkien is not 'litrature'!", was fun to watch a kid try to convince her otherwise. Yah, there's some really bad stuff out there, like 50 shades of gray -- had to put that down for lack of psychic realism a dozen pages in!

[Eric Christenson @E_Chrstnsn]

@PeterHotez betting this is the first time we've had good enough science to figure this out!

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

#SCOTUS *needs* Congress to act—at least to pass its $151 million appropriations request for FY2024.

If Senators are truly committed to ethics reform, why not insist that most (or even some) of that request be conditioned on the justices’ adoption of an ethics code?