ultracrepidarian

To the choleric fisting of every rogue
Thy ear is liable; thy food is such
As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

Very useful term.

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

TIL this amusing term. I found out it comes from a Greek tale about a cobbler who saw the artist Apelles had painted a sandal wrong. Apelles fixed the goof. The shoemaker started criticizing the leg. Apelles said, "Sutor, ne ultra crepidam" (Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe.)

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Your regular reminder that the employment rate for workers ages 25-54 that were born in America is the *highest it has ever been*

Immigrants aren't taking your jobs

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

The rabid “Send Them Back” chants Trump leads at his political rallies are sickening, unAmerican, downright disgraceful. He’s talking about people who are here legally. Raw racism. It’s Hitlerian. If you don’t vote for Harris, this is exactly what you’re enabling.

[digby @digby56.bsky.social @digby56]

Who cares? I mean, Dick fucking Cheney can endorse her because of the threat Trump poses but this prima donna has an issue. THWH.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

She'll try to build a bunch of housing, she'll support our allies, she'll continue Biden's industrial policy that's reshoring manufacturing for the first time ever, she'll be a responsible steward of the macroeconomy, she'll try to expand abortion rights, and so on

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

@Aella_Girl Ugh. Bye.

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

It's the Republican definition of "freedom," structuring the market to take as much money out of the pockets of ordinary workers and giving it to millionaires and billionaires.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Joe Biden saw us out of the pandemic and recession, beat inflation, changed our whole economic paradigm with industrial policy, helped bring down crime, and defended Ukraine against conquest.

In just one term, he was the best President of my lifetime.

https://t.co/N4D3utSXd5

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

This is the sort of thing that would be really bad news for Trump if the media could find out about it.

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

The US unemployment rate has been less than 4% for 22 months straight

That's the longest stretch below 4% since the late-1960s

The unemployment rate never got lower than 4% once in the 1970s, 80s or 90s

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

Former prof here. This guy knows 0 about academia. Almost no profs write a new book annually, let alone force students to buy theirs. Some profs will copy for class *excerpts* from their research. But the research of most faculty is far over the heads of most of their students.

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

@Noahpinion I still have them in the usual place on my web browser (which is where I'm Tweeting from atm).

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I sure didn’t. But Twitter reminded me & urged me to tweet about it, so here we are. #MyTwitterAnniversary

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

This is the same number or so of people dying each day from Covid. Going to make a video about that?

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

@CrisWBarnes @mattyglesias https://t.co/5zyMQyBAkQ

[Bridget Jack Jeffries, Ph.D. Cand. @BridgetJJ_]

The historian in me needs to remind you that Anne Frank, MLKJ, and Barbara Walters were all born the same year.

They all should have been with us this long.

RIP Barbara Walters.

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

This is @Annie_Wu_22 - John Fetterman's Social Media Producer and the genius who has been embarrassing Dr. Oz online this year.

She is incredible and deserves our praise.

[ultracrepidarian @cholericfisting]

This is completely batshit insane. Trump (malignant, narcissistic, compulsive liar) is an avatar of truthtelling! He alone has America's interests at heart! This cult member's brain has been totally eaten, as if by mad cow disease.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Actor Jon Voight isn’t happy about the midterms: “It’s a dark web. A dark world. But not for long. A new light will emerge. The one president who understood truths .. Trump will return to the presidency. Allow Trump to rebuild our soil and our land so we can rise to our glory.”