Jim Rogers

I tweet about rugby, Boston sports teams, sports in general, and politics

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Let’s play this out.

Let’s say you skip the MMR shot for your kid. He catches measles at school.

A kindergartner down the hall is between chemo treatments for leukemia. Her doctors can’t vaccinate her, no matter how much they want to.

Measles floats in that classroom’s air for two hours after your son leaves, so she never has to be in the room with him to catch it.

Her immune system can’t fight off what a healthy kid’s body handles in a week.

Same danger for the six-month-old child down the street, because they’re too young for their first dose.

They’re only alive because everyone else in that building stayed vaccinated.

One infected kid in a full room can infect twenty others. No common infectious disease spreads faster.

Your decision about your own child just endangered other people’s children.

This poor child is dead in Texas because her parents are idiots who think they’re smart.

Full story below.

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

I feel like this first half performance is a bit of karma for #USMNT @FIFAWorldCup @USMNT

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

@sgcollin20 @TheFootballFeed He’s absolutely trying to hide the top of his head.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

Ted Cruz back when gas was $3.68 a gallon

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Trump's frequent trips to Walter Reed raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

Man, fuck this Joe Lieberman wannabe.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Stop this henpecking.

$13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair.

Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th. 🇺🇸

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

But sure, @ABC, @Disney, and @JimmyKimmelLive are the problem for the @FCC. Such bullshit.

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

FCC rules prohibit foreign investors from owning >25% of company that holds US broadcast licenses
However, foreign investors (mostly Gulf funds) expected to indirectly own nearly 50% of Paramount equity post-WB deal
And Paramount now asking FCC to approve "up to 100%" foreign ownership

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

This is the best breakdown of what the SAVE Act actually requires that I have seen. It is not a voter ID bill, it’s a poll tax.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If the SAVE America Act was a voter ID bill, it would provide voter ID to every eligible voter, without barriers, and in accordance with the 24th Amendment.

But it doesn't. It restricts eligible voters from voting.

The accepted forms of ID to vote under the SAVE America Act:

1. Enhanced REAL ID: Only available in 5 states. Costs up to $50 (poll tax) and requires a birth certificate which 40M Americans lack access to.

2. Valid passport: 146M Americans do not have and costs at least $130 (poll tax). Trump gutted the agencies issuing them.

3. U.S. military ID card presented with military record of service.

4. Government-issued photo ID showing place of birth: 300M Americans do not have one, and costs up to $50 (poll tax).

5. Non-Enhanced REAL ID driver’s license, state ID, or tribal ID shown in conjunction with a birth certificate (40M lack access to) that matches your last name (which 69M women do not have due to marriage) and other forms of documentation, and which require a cost to obtain (poll tax).

If Republicans want a voter ID law, then they should propose one, instead of pretending that a voter suppression bill is one.

[Sean Baligian @SeanPBali]

Hey @NHL stop this absurdity

It looks like the #2 team in the West will be playing the #3 team in the West in the FIRST round

In the East the two teams currently tied for 3rd will meet in the first round.

Just go to 1-8 already.

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

@under2point5g @SheaSerrano Last decade, huh?

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

I do not have any problems with a special meal, or the budget line currently under scrutiny (likely the one thing I’m not worried about with Whiskey Pete running DOD), but maybe we should just pay troops more?

[Patrick Fox @RealCynicalFox]

The average E-3 is making just under $3200/month in base pay. Hostile fire pay is another $225/month. Additional pay and allowances in a war zone might kick them up to $45-50k a year if they’re drawing family sep, etc. Which translates to between 70-75% of the individual US average personal income of $66,662/year, 56-62% of the average US household income of $80,620/year.

In exchange they are on call 24/7 for the duration of their deployment and (depending on military occupation) routinely working 60-80+ hours a week in highly dangerous conditions that put life, limb, and mental health in jeopardy.

Given what we expect of these men and women, I hardly think a special meal every week or so - many years ago it was every Friday when I was deployed- is an extravagance.

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

This guy is somehow worse than Joe Lieberman. Did not know that was possible for a Democratic senator.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

As a member of the Homeland Security Committee + Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Border Security:

I’m not sure how many fellow Democrats will vote to support our colleague @SenMullin as the next DHS Secretary, but I am AYE.

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars.

A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a sample collected by the rover.

Dig into the details: https://t.co/zZKCgKEROr

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

[Charlie Batch @CharlieBatch16]

How'd i catch a stray in this? Lol

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Stephen Miller is basically the shadow president at this point and Trump is just the doddering frontman for a Miller administration. https://t.co/dpWgQYRcD2

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

These referees are idiots. End the game.

[Northeastern University @Northeastern]

one. final. time. ❤️ 🖤

📍 Historic Matthews Arena

[Jim Rogers @jimerogers]

I’ll be flying first class this weekend, and will try to dress down as much as I can.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Ahead of the busiest Thanksgiving travel season, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the department has launched “a civility campaign,” urging flyers to dress "with some respect" and behave "a little better."

"Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport," he said. He also asked travelers to be courteous to the flight crew and to be mindful of other passengers. "Don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you," he added.