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May or may not be notable.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

I simply cannot believe I live in a timeline where journalists helped force the last president out of his reelection campaign for being too old, so the country put an unstable 79 year old who falls asleep constantly in office and none of the same journalists care at all.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on MS NOW. The Trump administration bypassed all legal oversight to hand a $6.9M no-bid contract to his personal pool guy to paint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

Washington is intentionally looting taxpayers to enrich their cronies.

Pure corruption!

[David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold]

NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show.

The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract.

https://t.co/r17oy8J5eX

[areseven @areseven]

@GOPoversight @RepJamesComer They did not do it "secretly". They announced it on their website almost a month ago: https://t.co/N9s731PTpm

[Laurie Kilmartin @anylaurie16]

Local elections are where you can vote progressive. Third party in a national is a vote for the Republican candidate, we did this in 2000 and 2016.

[areseven @areseven]

@perpetua PTI, but what is the photo you used on the Bubblegum Drum and Bass playlist?

[areseven @areseven]

If you want to change language, change YOUR language, not how you expect other people to talk. "You need to be the change I want to see in the world" is a pretty shitty way of going about change.

[areseven @areseven]

I wonder when people will realize what a self-centered asshole move it is to ask that others use different pronouns for you.

[areseven @areseven]

@WalshFreedom Why does the US have so many more of those people?

[areseven @areseven]

This entire thread demonstrates the need to villainize any non-conforming take that so many have depressingly grabbed onto.

[Kevin Drum @kdrum]

It's pretty amazing the amount of abuse @jessesingal and @jonathanchait take from progressives on Twitter just because they're slightly less progressive.

[areseven @areseven]

The criticism of this article comes down to “you will pry our high-profile target from our cold dead hands”. Not a single one seems to have read the article, and certainly haven’t given it a second of consideration.

[areseven @areseven]

Ouch. But this is probably a little more accurate than the WaPo story.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Kamala Harris Asks Communications Assistant If She Can Take Them Out For Coffee And Pick Their Brain Sometime https://t.co/rPGC8MeYjX

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

Right wingers couldn't accept that their stupid fucking ideas were unpopular and convinced themselves they were being shadowbanned. One such nincompoop bought the whole fucking show and fired anybody who could have done it.

Still deeply unpopular, now grasping at straws.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

People are voting for Jim Jordan for speaker. A congressman who’s never authored a bill in his 14+ years in Congress. A man who overlooked the molestation of hundreds of boys in his care. A leading figure in the 2021 insurrection against the American government. Yikes GOP. Yikes.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It’s interesting that the pop culture produced when I was young was objectively better than anything older or newer — bad luck for everyone else.

[areseven @areseven]

@normative Couldn't agree with that more.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Some neuroscientist needs to explain how and why things that are at worst annoying somehow manage to convert a certain kind of middle-aged ex-leftist into a frothing authoritarian reactionary.

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

The problem plaguing the debate over open discourse is just how nutty the mainstream right has become. No one's getting throttled for calling to repeal the estate tax or Endangered Species Act. It's shit like this. This is the NY Young Republicans Club.

https://t.co/r1MIC5GZi2

[areseven @areseven]

*sigh* There are good, logical approaches to pronouns (gender-neutral singular, anyone? No one.), but no one is interested in approaching them, because then you can't draw a clean line and accuse others of hatred.