eskomobar

Engineer. Virginian. Tío Ultraderechista. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

[Congressman John Rose @RepJohnRose]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Susan Collins is our path forward.

We have 50 votes.

End the filibuster. Secure our elections.

Leader Thune not on board? Get a new leader.

https://t.co/4Kvh6kVMA2

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

"60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck!"

"You've been in government for 35 years, and in the majority with a trifecta several times. What does that say about you?"

"..."

[Karoline Leavitt @karolineleavitt]

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[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

Yes also it's just fraud.

[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

The FBI just fired multiple employees over the Richmond Catholic memo.

Stanley Meador was the Special Agent in Charge of the Richmond FBI office when that memo was produced.

Today, Meador serves as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security.

If the memo was serious enough to get analysts fired, it’s fair to ask why the people at the bottom lost their jobs while the person running the office now oversees Virginia’s entire public safety system.

Out of the hundreds of qualified people that Abigail Spanberger could have picked, she picked this guy. Thats a story in and of itself.

[eskomobar @eskomobar]

@AssocAnderson This is Stanley Meador

[eskomobar @eskomobar]

@claireforny Go back to Texas, huevona https://t.co/DYt7r55BvS

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

‘Housing belongs to the penultimate gentrifier.’

Valdez of course is a Texas transplant who moved to a gentrifying neighborhood in Queens where people like her pushed out less affluent residents.

Now that she is there she wants to protect herself from the very same market forces.

‘DSA socialism’ is a very specific class politics that seeks to provide undeserved privileges and sinecures to a relatively affluent group of people.

This brand of ‘Leftism’ launders political demands that would be unsympathetic if they were presented more transparently.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

‘Housing belongs to the penultimate gentrifier.’

Valdez of course is a Texas transplant who moved to a gentrifying neighborhood in Queens where people like her pushed out less affluent residents.

Now that she is there she wants to protect herself from the very same market forces.

‘DSA socialism’ is a very specific class politics that seeks to provide undeserved privileges and sinecures to a relatively affluent group of people.

This brand of ‘Leftism’ launders political demands that would be unsympathetic if they were presented more transparently.

[eskomobar @eskomobar]

@PhilWMagness You should write a book and include names so that they're exposed for what they did. Otherwise nothing changes.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's something many people don't know about me -

Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum.

Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public.

Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article.

Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation."

Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.

[MozartCultures @MozartCultures]

Great Rome

[Eric W. @EWess92]

Huge news out of the Fifth Circuit! Highly respected Judge Kurt Engelhardt intends to take senior status. That opens a Louisiana-based seat for President Trump to appoint to the Fifth Circuit. Judge Engelhardt is an excellent jurist, and I hope he maintains an active docket

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Imagine almost having your head sawed off by an Islamic migrant, and the press, so desperate not to offend Muslims, describes your attempted murder as just a "stabbing" and puts serious injuries in scare quotes.

[Chris @chriswithans]

My dream is for Georgia to count all the Atlanta area ballots first and show Jon Ossoff with a gigantic, unexpected lead. And then slowly count the rest of the state over a few days and see Mike Collins or Derek Dooley pass him and eventually win. See how Democrats react to that. I suspect they will not take it well. And then we can shrug and say, "We're just counting every vote."

[TJ Roberts @realTJRoberts]

"Nothing you do with your verdict, no matter what it is, nothing will take more from Karmelo and his family than he took from the Metcalfs.”

Powerful words from a prosecutor in the Karmelo Anthony sentencing hearing.

[Eric W. @EWess92]

An Albanian man immigrated to the US at 7, and has constant run-ins with the law since including gun crimes. @DHSgov ordered him deported, and after some administrative back-and-forth the Board of Immigration Appeals agreed. Judge Bush agrees too. Removal affirmed.

[Census State Data Centers @censusSDC]

via @commercegov Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products | Order Number: DAO 216-26...
"Any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the Department’s policies." https://t.co/aZhvs5nV7L #differentialprivacy

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Everyone please say "Based as fuck"

The Trump admin has banned arbitrarily screwing up government collected data for the purposes of appeasing neurotic nutjobs.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: The House has passed a $70 billion Republican bill to fund ICE, Border Patrol, and other immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of President Trump’s term. The measure passed by a razor-thin 214-212 vote after previously clearing the Senate and now heads to President Trump for his signature.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: The House just voted 214-212 to pass the Senate's reconciliation bill to fund ICE and CBP with $70 billion over the next three years. The bill will now head to President Trump's desk for signature. Every Republican present voted yes, every Democrat present voted no. Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) voted no.