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[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@rumireports Here’s a tip - post on BLUESKY - X is a right-wing cesspool that many of the kind of people you want to reach have left.

[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@USVeteranMitch @CollinRugg You are obviously NOT a New Yorker. We live in a crowded city and may not smile at you on the street, but when you REALLY need help there is no other place that I would rather be.

[Donk Media ♻️™ @donkoclock]

Usha & JD Vance getting Olympic BOO Birds at the opening ceremony.

Drop a 💙 for Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy!!

[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@JamesTate121 Cryptocurrency? Scam alert!

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[Gary Savage @gssavage]

ロンドンのBuckingham Palace

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[Gary Savage @gssavage]

ロンドンのビートルズAbbey Road crossing

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[Asher @The_1Asher]

@atrupar It's almost like gutting the government and installing unqualified hacks like DUI hire Pete Hegseth has consequences

[Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett]

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

[Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 @jakeadelstein]

Trump Devastation Syndrome
#TDS
Destruction of democracy, erosion of public trust, normalization of corruption, grift, authoritarianism, chaos
Symptoms: boldfaced lies, attack on the rule of law, economic & global decline, gaslighting, no accountability
deliberate cruelty

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Among my worries:
1. Collapse in U.S. vaccine infrastructure, 4-6X rise in measles pertussis, polio in wastewater
2. Downsizing of American virology research, declines in pandemic preparedness
3. Erosion in U.S. biosecurity, increased vulnerability to external/foreign threats

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

Simply brilliant!

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

“A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

Narrated by Anthony Davis. Many thanks to Nate White for these words, taken from his Twitter post on October 18, 2020.

[NYC Sanitation @NYCSanitation]

In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York.

RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.

[Gary Savage @gssavage]

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[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@alanthefisher It WAS NOT the Boomers. By the time I got out of college in 1972 it was all in place. Starving mass transit, middle class flight from the cities, building the car suburbs, suburban shopping malls killing towns and small cities, all of it!

[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@SaysSimonson 1973 - I (very politely) asked my brother’s new mother-in-law not to smoke at a family dinner as she was sitting next to me - she hated me for the rest of her life. Tells you how smokers thought they owned the world.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Terraforming our cities for the automobile makes them uninhabitable for humans. Cities built for cars are loud, polluted, hostile, ugly and have hugely elevated crash injury risk for any humans attempting to traverse them; especially people on foot or bikes.

[Gary Savage @gssavage]

@nycgov There will be an exodus of New York City homeowners - who pay taxes - when they begin to see what developers will now do to their communities because of this wholesale destruction of a century of zoning resolutions.