Darren Hoffman

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@tszzl "feeling"

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@estherzelda0514 the left is a laugh and the right is the last face a serial killer's victim sees

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@estherzelda0514 both "smiles" there are ridiculous

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“The reflecting pool is open and everyone is having a wonderful time.”

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The algae infested reflecting pool is a metaphor

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@RadioFreeTom if it was anything substantial she'd be gesturing with both hands.

[⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @Cryptadamist]

@JCOviedo6 two weeks

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@Noahpinion that's not really a good reason to dislike the movie. yeah, the movie is totally just "inspired" by the book (practically a short story)

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@ChiefTeef8 @zachmontana210 2 wrongs...

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@Noahpinion he's like a broken clock, but instead of a stopped one it's one that keeps spinning around randomly.

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@ChiefTeef8 I have no idea what this is, and I'm not convinced I need to waste my time finding out.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

You know why this take really sucks? Because I founded and run The Bulwark! But I’ll forgive your sexist take if you apologize because I believe apologies are good and I accept them if they’re sincere. ❤️

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@ModeledBehavior yeah, I don't maybe Kamala was right after all, I still didn't personally like waltz but this is silly

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@bdquinn this is the retcon'd finale one, right? I am def not a fan of JJ.

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@RichardHanania what was yang always talln bout? ascender theory or some nonsense?

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@RichardHanania this like yang and that toad guy

[Darren Hoffman @hoffman_da80344]

@Noahpinion glib for sure, not so clearly false though

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

“LITTLE D'S” BRAIN IS DECLINING RAPIDLY IN REAL TIME. TODAY HE WAS CONFUSED BY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "SEE" AND "SEA." VERY SAD! HIS HANDLERS ARE TERRIFIED AND DESPERATELY TRYING TO HIDE IT FROM THE PUBLIC. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE THE TRUTH. THAT IS WHY I HEREBY CHALLENGE GRANDPA TO A LIVE COGNITIVE TEST ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. FOX NEWS CAN HOST. SEAN “SLUMPY RATINGS” HANNITY WOULD BE PERFECT. I’LL EVEN LET HIM GIVE “LITTLE D” THREE LIFELINES! PRIME TIME. NO TELEPROMPTERS. NO NOTES. "PERSON, MAN, CAMERA, TV, SQUIRREL, ELEPHANT, GIRAFFE," LET’S SEE WHO PASSES!!! — Governor GCN

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

@Andercot Honestly yes, of course they would have. It would have taken a long time, but technological modernity is what civilizes people.