Erin

Change agent for a gigantic bank. Mommy. Guitar player. Really good at two of those three at any point in time.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@awscloud This is tone deaf. It wasn’t funny. It was upsetting. It reduced my trust in your systems, testing, and ability to roll back critical errors. I didn’t laugh. Why are you?

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@AWSSupport No follow up email sent to users to let us know not to panic after we got threshold emails. I was sick this morning and lost hours of productivity. Terrible, truly terrible, customer service. As soon as I see my account go back to 0, I’m moving to Azure.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The National Guard shooter's story is not simple. He was admitted to the U.S. by the Biden administration through a hurried, temporary parole program that had a documented history of helping Afghan immigrants on the terrorism watch list. Yet, he was granted asylum here by the Trump administration. He wasn’t just an “Afghan national,” but someone who worked with the CIA and whose brother was a military leader in an elite CIA squad. According to Kristi Noem, he was radicalized in the U.S. after immigrating, which would both absolve the Biden administration of negligence and bolster the argument that allowing these migrants in is risky, even when they clear the vetting process.

It's true that this is the fourth publicly reported Afghan national to be arrested for an act or potential act of terrorism since just last October. And it's true this shooter is one of just 190,000 Afghan refugees who resettled here after the fall of Kabul in 2021.

One high-profile shooter in 190,000 people isn’t exactly an endemic issue. For comparison, that’s roughly the same odds of being born with 11 fingers or toes, or of being struck by lightning (if you spend a lot of time outside). There are zero instances of mass shootings in the U.S. committed by Afghan-born people in the last 10 years, and just six Afghan-born perpetrators of attacks on U.S. soil in the last 50 years — 2.5% of all foreign-born attackers.

What's nuts to me is that some aspects of this story are heart-breakingly typical. The shooter was a 20-something male. He had military experience. He was prone to long periods of isolation and was struggling financially. Community members expressed concern about him prior to the act of violence. All of this is common for mass shooters in America.

We have broken immigration programs we can fix, but painting this as a vetting issue, an Afghan immigrant issue, a Biden or Trump issue; it's all just way too basic. We still don't even know his motive or how he got his gun. Until we recognize that violent events like this aren't singularly attached to your pet issue, we're never going to get anywhere.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.

Details: https://t.co/K0skxF5hGo

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

To be clear: It's not "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after comments about Charlie Kirk," it's "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump FCC chair"

The distinction matters here.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@foreverimbetter And micromanagers propping up commercial real estate have eroded and destroyed the remote-work revolution that would’ve allowed these small towns to thrive.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@IsraeliMinx @JewsAreTheGOAT There was no water on the plane? They serve only coke?

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@stickermule Im not sure why this was needed? I buy stickers and tshirts from you. This doesn’t feel like a bipartisan “let people disagree and support who they want and stop violence” message. This sounds like sticker mule as a company is taking a pro-Trump political stance?

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@baddestmamajama To 2000. Are you freaking kidding me. I’m struggling over here staying below 1200….

[Erin @erinEncoded]

Yes! Hyperbolic intensifiers are all over the place! “Literally” functions the same as any other hyperbole and I will die on that hill, with @MerriamWebster

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@SmartypantsDO @dropout I could not be more thrilled that @PFTompkins has joined the @dropout family. A match made in improv heaven.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@hankgreen https://t.co/ap93CAOjoC

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@hankgreen A string of hysterical TikTok’s of women putting shoeboxes on their heads, covering themselves with sheets, and using the bene gesserit voice to command their spouses to make them little snacks.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@F3ARL3SSTV I’ve been at Fall Out Boy concerts where girls act like this. It screams “need attention now” and is so distracting. If you’re this emotionally unstable, maybe an overstimulating concert isn’t the place for you.

[D Letourneau 🇨🇦 @zeosnip]

A funny Japanese car with multiple personalities has been abducted by an evil billionaire.

#FreeLiamNissan

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@drmistercody Gave me a chance to block MrBeast, so that result was replicated.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@Coll3enG Community theater! It’s all nights and weekends. Lots of opportunities in front and behind the curtain. And fun people.

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@VIsOnCorneliaSt Is your boyfriend my Instacart shopper?

[Erin @erinEncoded]

@cmclymer @UCLA I'm sorry..did you group Delaware into the SOUTH?