On future conflict: "the dividing line will be between patriotism & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other" -Grant, 1875
@theliamnissan [Calling Liam Neeson]
Man with Northern Irish accent growls: Yes?
Me: There's this Twitter guy who--
LN: I know.
Me: He's got all these followers and people think--
LN: I said, *I know*, ya daft spoon.
Me: B-but...
LN: Fuck away off. [line goes dead]
Me: ...
Me: I guess he knows
Trump: “you can grab them by the pussy”
MAGA: that’s our boy! Just normal locker room talk!
Ossoff: “Trump travels with Natalie…”
MAGA: shut the fuck up you communist leftist asshole!! How dare you insinuate he’s sleeping with her! You’re a misogynist sexist POS!!
🙄🤔😂
@JamesSurowiecki Remember, this is just Kat’s typical schtick:
“I write with such precision and clarity that I have to endlessly explain myself afterwards, so I don’t end up staked on the internet version of a fire ant mound.”
@TheFP Bari Weiss: Love the article. Just put this one phrase in there.
LL: What phrase?
BW: "the more pervasive antisemitism on the left."
LL: B-but, is that even true? *starts to Google*
BW: *hand covers his keyboard* Who do you think you are, Anderson Cooper? Just put it in there.
@JamesSurowiecki Remember, this is just Kat’s typical schtick:
“I write with such precision and clarity that I have to endlessly explain myself afterwards, so I don’t end up staked on the internet version of a fire ant mound.”
@evanwch I know, asking for civil rights, justice, immigrants not being black-vanned away from their families, cops not shooting brown people in their homes. We need to put a stop to this real edgy shit.
Maryam Tahmasebi, her husband, and her son were permanent US residents with no criminal record. But they've been locked in the "unendurable nightmare" of ICE detention for over four months. Here, Maryam tells their story.
https://t.co/EzHAbHJIwk
A reminder that multiple academic studies - as well as international comparisons - show 100s of 1000s of Americans died from COVID who didn’t need to die had Trump taken it seriously from the beginning and been a minimally more competent president.
All the noise now about Fauci and lab leaks is a distraction from that one simple undeniable fact.
And Democrats who moved on from the pandemic, and holding Trump accountable for all those early deaths in 2020, left a vacuum which RFK and Rand Paul and the rightwing grift machine happily filled with character assassinations, conspiracy theories, and pro-Trump deflection.
@katrosenfield@TheFP The new HHS grant guidelines are clear: abstinence, newly rebranded as Sexual Risk Avoidance, is a must-have element for grant applicants, despite strong evidence that abstinence-only education is highly associated with increased rates of teen pregnancy and STI transmission.
@3reels2wind@katrosenfield She just keeps trying to hammer any narrative peg through the square hole of Anti-Woke ideology. I kind of admire how committed she is to the bit but her arm must be getting tired.
EX PARDON ATTORNEY CALLS BLANCHE A LIAR: “2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy A.G., he fired me. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend and it cost me my job. He sent 🇺🇸 Marshals to my home to prevent me from speaking with Congress.”