meredith jonathan

What is this quintessence of bread?

[andrew 2.0 @mrnastynodrama]

Man he is the world’s biggest loser. He had to build an AI and train it to compliment him.

[Zack Morrison @ZackMorrison18]

You guys suck. The Binge TV streaming model has ruined audience’s appreciation of the beauty of long 24 episode seasons, full of weird one-shot episodes where the writers room spins out incredibly creative stuff. Not every episode worth telling needs to be series A Story.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The House GOP government funding bill makes it harder to file your taxes, enables auto dealers to cheat consumers, raises credit card late fees, and facilitates money laundering and tax evasion. Wheeee! https://t.co/7aN9WKg1Mo

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Congrats to Joe Biden & Democrats — your relentless support for Israel killing 34,000 people has resulted in a historic anti-war movement (led by the young people who are supposedly your base) & the arrest of protestors and journalists which you warn will happen under Trump

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

It's so crazy that this happened in real life

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The police shot the girl they were supposedly trying to rescue after she was kidnapped and then police lied about it and hid the video for two years. It's important to understand that the highest levels of the policing bureaucracy knew about this and attempted to cover it up.

[Southern Dan @StolenDans]

this is huge

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

im okay if people dont drink or dont have sex, its all good, but I do ask people have at least ONE manageable vice, doesnt matter which
betting on horses just a bit too much
an on/off relationship with a cult
sending money to a dominatrix in sweden
it rounds you out as a person

[I Smoked Doomsdale @BlackKnight10k]

Every time someone asks "America used to do this good and amazing thing, how did it turn to shit?" The answer is generally Ronald Reagan.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

What *really* killed streetcars? They stopped running efficiently because they were swamped by private automobiles. This stunning colorized footage from 1930s Los Angeles shows it well... 🚋🧵

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

> When, occasionally, genuinely significant things happen to Musk, Isaacson largely ignores them. In May 2002, Elon’s first wife Justine gave birth to their first child, a son. They named him Nevada, because he’d been conceived at Burning Man. When Nevada was ten weeks old, he suddenly stopped breathing in his sleep. Paramedics managed to resuscitate him, but his brain had been starved of oxygen. Three days later, his parents decided to turn off his life support and let him die. You could write an entire novel about this one incident. This brash, thoughtless millionaire, with all his abstract ambitions, suddenly encountering the frailty of human life. And that was only the beginning. Elon had invited his father to visit from South Africa and meet his grandson; Errol only found out that the grandson was dead once he landed. Elon, in deep anguish, decided he wanted his violent, abusive father to stick around. He bought a house in Malibu for Errol and his new family. But things swiftly got weird. Errol’s second wife, nineteen years his junior, started to develop some sort of untoward relationship with her stepson. (Errol commented: “She saw Elon now as the provider in her life and not me.”) Meanwhile, Errol was beginning to develop some sort of untoward relationship with his own fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, Jana. (They currently have two children together.) This seedy drama, guilt and money and sex, all swirling around the death of a child. It’s a Harold Pinter play. It’s a Greek tragedy. Walter Isaacson dispenses with the whole thing in less than three pages. He ends the chapter with his grand conclusion, his final word on this intense human experience. It’s this: “Personal networks are more complex than digital ones.” The next chapter is about building rockets. So is the next one. So is the one after that.

https://t.co/B1O460S9U1

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

You really have no idea what the car industry destroyed in the United States. But I hope these photos offer proof that anything that can be built can be destroyed, and re-built, and we can always decide to destroy the car industry, and re-build the world we want.

[Jake Cole @ThatJakePC]

The thing about stupid people of the past is I think by and large they knew they didn’t know anything. A medieval farmer would prob readily admit he had no idea where the sun went at night. But now the dumbest ppl think they are *geniuses*

[the Valen papers @StarcoVision]

Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, not making a circus for not being nominated and instead celebrating the work of his partner, Lily Gladstone and pointing out how historic her nomination is and also DOING RESEARCH

[Monica💚🍉Free Congo, Palestine & Sudan @BlakPantherBabe]

Y’all would have told MLK to stop making a big fuss about segregation or he’s going to help get trump elected

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

Just found out we can’t get the couches we wanted for our Hamptons house because they are made in India. I’ll spare you the details but we have to bomb Yemen now.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

The Rand Corporation! It's important to understand that Biden is pursuing a hawkish and reckless foreign policy that is well to the right of mainstream opinion in the military industrial complex.