윌리엄

Energy Economist/Traveler/Husband/All views are my own/I don’t take Twitter seriously/COTF

[윌리엄 @cottonomics]

@steelybel Yeah. Hard agree. The original art direction is evident here. It is supposed to be dark and full of shadows. It should not look like a Gulf of Mexico sunset

[aaron. @ayroned]

saying you in somebody head and then smoking a 29 point lead is the funniest thing a French person has ever done

[윌리엄 @cottonomics]

And to think we have a government that is actively trying to tear it all down because they hate the real America so so much

[BKBloodRaven @Stormborn_Bk]

And this is exactly how this World Cup should have been marketed

[BKBloodRaven @Stormborn_Bk]

And this is exactly how this World Cup should have been marketed

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Growing up in the South, I remember I’d read a book or watch TV and people would refer to “a forest” whereas we’d just call it “the woods.”

“A forest” refers to a singular, contained thing. “The woods” was everywhere, all encompassing. There is no definitive boundary to “the woods.”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m not saying Graham Platner should or shouldn’t be a candidate for a Senate seat, but I am saying that the media’s treatment of Platner as compared to its treatment of Ken Paxton is the same as the media’s treatment of Joe Biden as compared to its treatment of Donald Trump. The media bolsters the MAGA narrative that there’s never a decent Democrat nor an indecent MAGA Republican.

[윌리엄 @cottonomics]

@libsoftiktok Illegal no-bid federal contract. But it’s better for your grift to act dumb

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid over $4 a gallon for gas today, I thought to myself, “Thank god the reflecting pool is bigger than skyscrapers.”

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

started / going

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

They MADE us disclaim a Klan leader.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Late Kakistocracy" is that phase of democratic decline where the regime starts running out of ppl who will work for it, and so the folks who aren't qualified for their current positions are promoted to even larger positions for which they are even more unqualified

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

If someone has to take a cognitive exam four times within an 18-month period, they're not just looking for dementia...

they've already found it.

The fact that he's confusing it with an IQ test only shows that it's worsening.

[윌리엄 @cottonomics]

@tobyasky I mean, where does Kai even think he’s going?