Well @Twitter, I'm deleting your app for at least the month of January. And what better way to show me that this is the right call that I wake up this AM and see absolutely nothing about the mass casualty event in New Orleans. You've gotten a lot worse in so many ways. Yuck.
Elon Musk spending $277M to buy the Presidency and Congress is the equivalent of someone making the US median income (~$59k) spending $37.
Citizens United made it way too easy for oligarchs to overthrow our government.
This isn’t Right vs Left, it’s the .01% vs the rest of us.
A Golden Oak house is on the market for only about $16 million. It has a Frozen room where Kristoff stares at you while you sleep and a Nemo room that will put your kids in therapy.
Who wants to go in on it together?
The best, most reasonable post-mortem I've seen on this stupid app so far and it's randomly by the guy who made the music mix ups I loved listening to in college...
Nobody cares what I think, but I'm recovering enough from the election horror and anxiety to take a look at the numbers from this election, and here are a few attempts at data-driven takes, which I'm writing down mostly just as self-help. 🧵1/?
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
May piss off some folks with this one.
Black women take your capes off. We are gonna sit quietly and let folks fight their own battles and we are gonna focus on our own for the next 4 years.