Rob Hipskind

He/Him | Retweets are a social construct. Never cross a picket line.

[Bryan Bennett @bryanbennett85]

The real twist is that Nathan Fielder is going to have to rebuild Twitter and destroy it all over again in season 2 of The Rehearsal

[Fenit Nirappil @FenitN]

As flu, RSV and covid collide, a record 100,000 Americans missed work last month because of child-care problems, @abhabhattarai reports.

That’s bigger than the height of the pandemic! https://t.co/FPAh8ZJ4g1

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

If Musk's lawyer isn't overcome by apoplexy right now, they're either asleep or incompetent.

[Colin Flanagan @flanagancol]

Last night, Toledo City Council approved $800,000 to purchase the medical debt of Toledoans, creating roughly $160-240 million in debt relief.

This is what it looks like when your government works for you. Toledo is leading the way!

[Rob Hipskind @RSHipskind]

Dems in disarray

[Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ @JesseAPaul]

There are so many Democratic state senators now in Colorado after Tuesday that they are struggling to find enough seats for them in the large Capitol committee room where they are gathered to pick their caucus' leaders. #copolitics #coleg

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Proposition 5 in Vermont passes making it the first state to codify abortion rights in its constitution.

[Joseph Scrimshaw @JosephScrimshaw]

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital are devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."

And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

[Blue Virginia @bluevirginia]

Youngkin Names Former E.D. of “Christian fundamentalist lobbying organization” as New “Chief Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion Officer” (The "Family Foundation" is anti-LGBTQ, pro-"conversion therapy," anti-ERA, anti-abortion, etc.) https://t.co/t48jeCwnxj h/t @BPaves @Jaaavis

[Paul and Storm @paulandstorm]

[P] omfg

(h/t @mekkaokereke)

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules.

[AFSCME Council 31 @afscme31]

Today is National Cat Day and, believe it or not, cats have a long history of standing in solidarity with the labor movement.

THREAD:

[VTDigger @vtdigger]

Liam Madden, the Republican nominee in the race for Vermont’s U.S. House seat, during a radio interview described in detail a self-funded scheme to inflate his campaign donations during the primary cycle in order to qualify for candidate debates.
https://t.co/ZEANKFPTfu

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

When I was receiving death threats this summer and @VaCapitolPolice were providing me additional security I never even heard from @GovernorVA to check in on me or my safety so I am not surprised his supposed “Christian Heart” can’t apologize to Speaker Pelosi when he is asked.

[Katie Porter @katieporterca]

For every extra $1 you’re paying due to inflation, 54¢ is going right into the pockets of big corporations. Wall Street is price gouging families to earn sky-high profits, jeopardizing our entire economy in the process.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Starbucks VP of Partner Relations told staff: “I actually find it heartbreaking that our mission and values are being questioned in the space of labor relations… We have not lost our way — it’s just really hard right now.”

Starbucks has fired nearly 150 pro-union workers.

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

liz truss presiding over the deaths of the queen, the pound and the conservative party.... the sort of record thousands of would-be revolutionaries spent their entire lives hoping to achieve and got nowhere near, and she pulled it off in a mere 6 weeks. unsurpassable legacy