Brent Broome

Content to appear clueless.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

We all know so very little (about ourselves, the world, the thoughts and motives of others) and it's so easy to slip into acting (and thinking and drawing conclusions) like that's not the case. https://t.co/Eb4uTKkwrH

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Corruption in plain sight.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

@JoshuaArieh The 5 no votes were over objections to the crypto-related parts of the bill. No dems voted for the original legislation that introduced this tax and none objected to the part of the bill repealing it.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

@HDD_santafe In that case, I join you in being perplexed.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

The most consistent theme of conservatism is being completely unable/unwilling to understand how a thing is bad until it happens to you.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

@SaveAmericaNew Those records are already marked deceased and excluded from active eligible voter rolls, so dead people cannot vote. Officials keep them to help catch identity fraud attempts. Removing them would make elections less safe, not more.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

@MikeMcDonald89 The reading comprehension crossbook offer was the best part because Bryn clearly missed that Doug was satirically rephrasing Bryn's tweet, not claiming to be the best all-time himself. Even after the reading comprehension dig, it still seemed to go right over Bryn's head.

[Brent Broome @brentbroome]

@mbradycf It's rage bait for cash game players. His whole argument (the utility of winning $125 may be less than the amount of utility you'd lose by having to pay $100) is just ICM for everyday life.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Capital One cheats customers and gets caught.

They agree to pay back $2.2 billion.

Then they donate $1 million to Trump.

Poof! Settlement canceled.

Cap One pockets $2.2 billion instead.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

“We aren’t the Netherlands!”

Neither was the Netherlands!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The three people most mentioned in the Epstein files are Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump.

One of them died in prison, one of them is in prison now, and one of them is president.

But sure, let’s depose Hillary Clinton.

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

it’s official - Anthropic just refused the Pentagon’s demands, dario’s statement is doesn’t fuck around:

- “these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” - dario

- he described the pentagons efforts to force him to enable claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killing weapons

- dario’s response: mass surveillance is not democratic and Claude isn’t good enough to enable autonomous weapons - we won’t cave

- dario will help governmenr transition to a NEW provider if they choose to blacklist anthropic.

fucking wild - fair play for sticking by their code of honor.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M of our tax money, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes, plus another 530 with minor traffic violations.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two civilian deaths.

Your tax dollars hard at work 🙄

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Fascism is here. Great reporting by PBS.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

@elonmusk Medically speaking, you cannot get internal bleeding from pretending to have been hit by a car.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Mitch McConnell just said the quiet part out loud on Greenland:

We already have everything we need.
Greenland already cooperates.
Our Arctic access already exists.

What Trump is proposing isn’t strategy, it’s burning allied trust for nothing.

“Incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies” is not strength. It’s self-sabotage.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Because of Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” the annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED.

No. The American people do not want Trump's domestic army.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

The average price of milk today ($4.05) is the same as what it was last January ($4.03). I have no idea where the White House has pulled this delusional "down 44%" number from.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Probably should have been a bigger deal with the President of the United States threatened Minnesota that "the day of retribution & reckoning is coming." Presidents are not supposed to exact retribution on their own citizens. We are in such dark and dystopian times.