Tim Sweeney

Native Oregonian & former, non-native Southerner back living on the west coast. timbers, ducks, blazers & health care policy.

[Patty Durand @PattyDurandGA]

So do I have this right? SK Battery invested billions in Jackson county, GA for an EV battery manufacturing facility due to Biden’s clean energy incentives. But voters there went for Trump in big numbers and Trump declared war on EVs and now 1,000 jobs are gone.

Is America great again yet @burtjonesforga @MikeCollinsGA @Rep_Clyde ?

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@suke1080 He’s the head coach, not a coordinator looking for a promotion…… if he wants to “finish the job” he can just remain the ole Miss head coach…

[Families USA @FamiliesUSA]

Read the full statement from Executive Director @aewright:
https://t.co/MQJN1FGlTb

[Emily A. The Spirit of Jezebel @emzorbit]

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd.

In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@AndrewNemec Srsly don’t get that ruling- her foot is clearly on the base when the ball leaves the pitchers hand…

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Eggs and coffee around 20 percent more expensive. Airplanes crashing. Mass layoffs. Tariffs. Data breaches. Shutting down energy projects. Letting food and medicine rot. Either they are really shitty at helping you, or you are not the one they want to help.

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@Avik And you won’t see democrats attacking the Capitol in January. You used to be a serious policy person.

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@TheDirtJohnson Sorry dude- you have to have 1994 Washington on there. 1994 was the springboard season that turned Oregon into the program it is now. Don’t need two from 2009…

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@Samme_OU812 @picklesbaseball @WCLBaseball Hey- we ended up getting a table with some friends. Thanks!!🙏

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@JoanAlker1 Welcome to Oregon!!

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

Captivating

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The power of street art - a thread 🧵

1. Patrick Commecy

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@kpduck Ball don’t lie!!

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@RexChapman It’s a clever play. Not earth shattering, fine. But if it’s predictable then they shoulda been fronting her. Smart play to take half-second off the clock when half-second is a big deal. Also Paige was nowhere close to actually getting the ball before it hit OB.

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@CoachCho @DannyMarang @nikehoopsummit Congrats Marshall! Well deserved!

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

$200 million apart two weeks into school closings and months into negotiations… what a colossal failure https://t.co/hL3f1qohZy

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I am 55 years old.
America is the only country I've ever known.
And I love my country.

When I was in school, I learned about the horrors of slavery. Sure, it was a limited education, but I totally got the gist of it.

We learned how people were taken from Africa, and how many DIED during the journey here, forced to labor in hot fields while being whipped, raped, deprived of education, and murdered.

In fact, when I was young, there was a mini-series on TV called Roots that depicted the brutality of slavery in horrifyingly explicit detail.

And then I did my OWN research, reading more books and watching more documentaries and movies.

But somehow, I was able to maintain my love of America. Despite all of the cruelty and brutality I had learned about, I was somehow able to figure out that the people alive in America today had NOTHING TO DO with slavery 200 years ago.

Somehow, I can still say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner, no problem.

But dishonest fascists like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ron DeSantis want to deprive American children of the knowledge of slavery, and African American studies because they say it's "propaganda leftist agenda" designed to teach kids to “hate America.”

That's a preposterous lie.

There are PLENTY of evils and horrors America is responsible for, and if you don't teach kids what happened in the past they may be DOOMED to repeat those horrors in the future.

Today's kids are being asked to treat as normal these "shooter drills" where the possibility of being shot with bullets that make them unrecognizable is a very real possibility, but we think they can't handle learning the truth about what happened 200 years ago?

If you ask me, those of us who learned the truth about America, and STILL love our country, are even more patriotic than those who are trying to whitewash it and hide the truth from kids.

Don't minimize it.
Don't rationalize it, with bullshit like "oh, it wasn't all bad because some people learned skills."

RESPECT THESE KIDS.
TELL THEM THE TRUTH.

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

I #VoteAsprilla for @MLS Player of the Matchday!

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@NateSilver538 Where does that put you, is that like mid stack compared to everyone making it through a couple days?! Keep expanding that stack!!

[Tim Sweeney @TDSween]

@johncanzanobft Dame and kids