Tavis Burns

VT native. Disgruntled Sports Nut. Soccer Scarf Vacationer. 🍊 alum. "Politics is the sport of Kings, but sport is the king of politics"

[Tavis Burns @TavisBurns]

The heat advisory warning would be better literally anywhere else. Who thought this was a good idea? @FOXBaltimore #anotherwayclimatechangeisscrewingus

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Elon fucking up Twitter is mainly important as a demonstration of how great inequality undermines the alleged utility of free markets. He’s so rich that he can destroy things and not care about losses. The “invisible hand” means nothing to him. Billionaires spit on your theory.

[Tavis Burns @TavisBurns]

Wanna see a dead body

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

People love to claim to we can’t change people’s behavior.

But did you know the idea of “designated drivers” is only normal in America thanks to the work of a group of Harvard scholars?

Here’s 5 reasons they succeeded.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Let me say this as calmly as possible: Financial risk isn’t the only form of risk.

Presumably every single person negotiating on behalf of the AMPTP is familiar with the term opportunity cost, and knows better than this nonsense response.

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

I'd ask you to consider the consequences of letting wannabe fascists wannabe fascist you.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

It’s going to take a lot more than voting to get their attention. Once again, I hope the black parents and coaches of highly recruited athletes in Florida will consider telling their kids to go almost anywhere other than in-state public schools.

[Tavis Burns @TavisBurns]

@norwood270 The sound you hear is an aging machine finally breaking

[Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley]

Yet another story that bolsters the argument for ethics reform while presumably trying to do the opposite

[Will Saletan @saletan]

Or — and, hear me out — if being charged with multiple felonies strengthens a candidate in your party’s primary, maybe there’s something deeply wrong with your party.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Haley launched her presidential bid with John Hagee, who in the past has suggested “Adolf Hitler was half-Jewish and was sent by God to drive Jews to Israel. Hagee suggested that it was Jews’ “disobedience” of God that “gave rise” to their persecution.”
https://t.co/CiNwRKyjnL

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

This is a talking point - “Discussing racism is only gonna make people more racist” - that conservatives and anti-“woke” centrist pundits love to weaponize. But it’s never supported by even a shred of evidence, and the empirical information that contradicts the claim is ignored.

[Jay @jaywillis]

I disagree with lots of this—the distinction between “partisan” and “ideological” is, imo, vanishingly thin—but the more basic problem is that when a new set of civil rights is disappearing each June, “hope some justices die at a convenient time” is not a plan. It is a wish.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

One reason liberals should fight and win the culture war is that decency and tolerance are, for most people, self-evident values that have the mantle of righteousness. It often doesn’t take a lot of convincing to rally ordinary people behind these fundamental moral principles.

[Ronald Klain @RonaldKlain]

"We reluctantly concede that building an economy where working people gain ground and we make critical public investments seems to be working..."

[Arielle Castillo @ariellec]

🤏 🎻

Convert to housing

[Tavis Burns @TavisBurns]

That’s…not a lot.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Annual Cost of SAG-AFTRA, DGA, WGA Contracts May Be $450M-$600M a Year, Moody’s Estimates https://t.co/rQR6Cpd7JI