Scheherazade_II

A montage of reality -- any logic or coherence is purely coincidental and should not be inferred.

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

Gaylord Perry talks about how in 1964, #SFGiants manager Alvin Dark said that there'd be a man on the Moon before he hits a home run. On July 20, 1969, just a half an hour after #Apollo11 landed on the Moon, Perry hit his first HR! #MLB #Baseball #History

[ana @pelicinema]

i have to post this every so often because i want as many people to see it as possible

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Republican donors won another Democratic primary

[David Dayen @ddayen]

House budget numbers in their government spending bill do not even hit the levels of 2010 in real terms. This is called giving up before the fight, says our friends at @revolvingdoorDC:
https://t.co/AgbRjpS7sL

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

A reminder that the megaheatwave engulfing much of the world is happening during a La Nina "cool cycle." God help us when the next El Nino hits

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

Because inspiration strikes at odd hours, creative people tend to be superstitious:

Dickens took a compass with him at all times so he could always sleep facing north.
Beethoven counted out precisely 60 coffee beans per cup to help fuel his composing
https://t.co/dExLO63kWw

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Wait the former President is still trying overturn the last election? Like, as of last week? Why isn’t this bigger news?

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

If Trump shot somebody on 5th Avenue, could Democrats prosecute him?

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

At some point, if the DOJ fails to prosecute Trump, it won't just be Trump's fault when he commits more crimes. When the Justice Department starts deferring to the optics of neutrality over actual JUSTICE, it'll be no surprise when criminals only get more emboldened.

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

“CEOs of roughly 300 healthcare companies collectively took home $4.5 billion last year. That is seven times what the CDC had to spend on managing infectious diseases in 2021” when Covid killed at least 771,000 Americans.

-- @rickberke editor of @statnews

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

"They shoot horses, don't they?"
https://t.co/8q9CdBSlWi

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

This is gross, but the policy of the bluest state in the Union is to force the homeless into the Mojave desert

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

China has 7% of the world's spare refining capacity, but is shutting it down for environmental reasons.
Russia "may have been forced to shut down as much as 1.4 million barrels per day of refining capacity" b/c of sanctions
https://t.co/nzZELiaOI9

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

"The world has plenty of refining capacity, but the spare capacity is moving into Russia and China"

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

EIA says US oil production will reach an all-time high next year (Dark Brandon rides again) but that refinery capacity has fallen so output of refined products (i.e. gasoline) will not — maybe someone should do something about this?

[Scheherazade_II @Scheherazade_II]

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail."
-- Mark Twain

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Better funded public schools have widespread benefits:
🧑‍🏫For every $19.85 spent per student in a public school, one crime was averted. https://t.co/wAqmaThswC
🧑‍🏫“Increased per pupil spending... helped reduce the inter-generational transmission of poverty.” https://t.co/Q0KNMie9lA

[Troy Hawke @TroyHawke]

👋GREETERS GUILD👋 ‘Welcome to Training Camp!’ @ManCity #troyhawke #greetersguild #justiceforjan

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Join me on an amusing journey that springs from this tweet

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

By 2035, Amtrak plans to restore passenger rail service between Nashville and Atlanta with a trip time of 6 hours and 34 minutes. When the train service begins in 2035, it will be 25 minutes slower than it was 95 years ago. The richest country in the world has to do better.

[Yvette Clark @yvettewrites]

I was today years old when I found out that the word nifty is short for magnificent.