Lando Calzone 🌾

Landscape architecture, urban design, ecology, bad sports takes, good political takes.

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

People who drive around with windows up on a 70 degree day in February… what’s wrong with you?

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

I am concerned. 😾

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

“Harrison Butker, interestingly enough, is wide right” is hilarious commentary for a missed kick by Butker.

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

@galendruke Well this sucks. I’ve been listening nearly as long as the podcast has been around and it’s a staple in my rotation. It will be hard to fill the void with something of similar quality.

[Maximilian 🥰 @MaxMaaxMaaax]

Evergreen meme

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Exactly

[Sam @samhuppert]

Time to make Tall Nebraska

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

This one stings. I liked Polis a lot.

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited:

“Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval.

"In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good

“We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋

He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

Jesus. Christ. We’re so fucked.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his nominee for health secretary, AP sources say. https://t.co/dm4uIQV8gj

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

This is so absurdly hilarious.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. https://t.co/BeEshHqi0n

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

Trump still has the sauce. No one else could have made picks like these. Every selection is like drafting a kicker in the first round but the kicker has a Wikipedia section titled Allegations and is also not really a kicker

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

So, to recap, Trump has picked a known Russian collaborator to be spy chief, a pedophile to be AG, a morning show host to be SecDef, an anti-vaxxer to *potentially* head HHS, and Elon Musk to run a thing called DOGE. What the fuck is happening.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law.

I would know because I wrote the law.

Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement.

This is what illegal corruption looks like. https://t.co/JJjJ59DgB5

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

I’m sad now.

[Michael Kandel @K_A_N_D_E_L]

your 20s are all about trump being president and that sucks. your 30s are all about trump being president and that sucks

[Lando Calzone 🌾 @Lando_Calzone]

Seems like there’s not enough discussion about the Russian bomb threats. That’s definitely gonna just get swept under the rug, despite being actual state-sponsored terrorism.

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

WaPo's endorsement finally drops.

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

Fascism is antithetical to the human condition. It always burns itself out.

What matters is that we protect as many people as possible until it does.

And that we step up to fill the vacuum in true leadership and bold policy that Democratic leaders refuse to fill themselves.

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

AP lede for the history books: