It really is wild to have lived through four years of reporters staking out grocery store parking lots and never shutting the fuck up about the price of eggs go radio silent on gas prices going up like 40% in six weeks directly b/c Trump attacked Iran.
I have developed a level of sangfroid about the insanity of the era, but this "whole civilization will die tonight" comment is utter madness on a level that's still shocking.
New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. https://t.co/pdtcd3sINF
Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.
anyone who gets more than us in a pub quiz is a nerd who takes things too seriously an anyone that gets less is a thicko that shouldnt have bothered leaving the house. and thats simply the way it is
SCOOP: Last year we reported extensively on Elon Musk’s desire to break into the data pipes of government to bypass the federal bureaucracy. That approach had major consequences — one of which we reveal today: A DOGE bro allegedly made off with volumes upon volumes of highly sensitive Social Security data - the agency’s “crown jewels” - which he downloaded on a thumb drive and brought over to his new job. Me, @MerylKornfield@FedGirlWaPo report on this unprecedented breach:
https://t.co/UItlpgJILo
On Just War theory I'm going to trust the Pope rather than a former speech writer for George W. Bush, who launched illegal and immoral wars that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, and also presided over a torture regime.
I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. https://t.co/Lmv4qfXrJk