I Tweet At You

Feels like I’m drifting more and more to the left as I age. I tweet about politics and the Mets and other things.

[I Tweet At You @ITweetAtYouNow]

Words only have the power we give them so I’d probably fucking get over it. https://t.co/oxtqlAE7JF

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

sorry, but cursing in public is not speaking truth to power. if De Niro wanted to do something useful, he could have urged people to vote, defended the judiciary and media, explained how trade and allies are of value, or pointed out how immigrants have helped make America great.

[FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight]

The moderate middle is a myth. https://t.co/IeNXUXvBWu

[FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight]

Less than half (46%) of millennials believe it is necessary to believe in God to be moral.

They’re also much less likely than Baby Boomers to say it’s important for children to be brought up in a religion so they can learn good values (57% vs. 75%).

https://t.co/a3GuOgqNQk

[Renato Mariotti @renato_mariotti]

If you're interested about whether Trump had the legal authority to order yesterday's attack, check out this thread by @jacklgoldsmith. It's worth a read.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Tonight, you will see spineless cowards who never served a goddamn day in uniform wave a flag and cheer on the possibility of sending young people to die in a war against Iran that they would never serve in, started by another coward who watched others sent to die in his place.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

It is not unsophisticated or irrational to be concerned that an unstable buffoon who had never heard of the Quds Force 3 years ago is quarterbacking the strategy from his golf club.

[I Tweet At You @ITweetAtYouNow]

@daveweigel @mattyglesias My suburban thanksgiving was full of people over 50 loudly proclaiming that Bloomberg is the answer.

[Sarah McCammon @sarahmccammon]

A man I interviewed today criticized my employer for, he said, not presenting all points of view. I noted that I’d just sought out his point of view by interviewing him. I then asked which of my reports he felt were unfair. He then informed me that he doesn’t listen to @NPR. 🤷‍♀️

[Lis Power @LisPower1]

Chaser:

Steve Doocy, Fox & Friends, 9/24:

"If the president said, I'll give you the money, but you've got to investigate Joe Biden, that'd be off the rails wrong."

[Phil Mattingly @Phil_Mattingly]

"He had to announce the investigations. He didn't actually have to do them, as I understood it."

That second sentence, which just kind of came out of nowhere, is rather damning.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

A QUID PRO QUO IS BRIBERY

IT IS LITERALLY A LATIN PHRASE THAT DESCRIBES HOW BRIBERY WORKS

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Sondland’s testimony is so damning to the president because he is telling the truth.

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

As is his tendency when someone reports a crime

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

"Turkey has taken tremendous deaths.... They've lost thousands and thousands of people from that safe zone," Trump said. FALSE. I am not aware of a single terrorist attack in Turkey carried out from northern Syria. This is Erdogan disinformation.

[Jon Virtes @JonVirtes]

@MEPFuller @daveweigel https://t.co/JX7H0q76G9

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

I hope every Capitol Hill reporter is tracking down the staffers of the GOP rep’s claiming that their staffers were tweeting while they stormed the SCIF. Each of those staffers should be asked individually if they sent those tweets and if so, how they got info from inside a SCIF.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Wrong.

I ran for Congress to stop the Iraq War. I’ve spent my entire career leading the fight to keep America out Middle East entanglements.

But the hell you unleashed - by double crossing an ally and restocking ISIS - will cost thousands of U.S. lives in the long run.

[Molly McKew @MollyMcKew]

A real President would reverse course; a real Vice President would ask--beg--him to; a real SecState would be building options; and a real SecDef would be showing what can be done immediately with assets on ground.

By screaming conspiracy & feigning helplessness, it's on them.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

No, the New York Times did not talk to six “swing voters” about impeachment. The article quotes a handful of devout GOP voters who the NYT has repeatedly interviewed multiple times. A thread....

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Somehow the media manages to have incredibly low standards for Trump's job performance and impossibly high standards for his criminality.