THEE Kari Zander

Anti-edgelord. OG KHive. Progressive Liberal.
Bad at Twitter, here for the eavesdropping. 💛⚖️

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

This is quite literally the most important thing we could do as a country.

[JtheFrog @JtheFrog0]

Bro what the fuck is the US even about???? This looks like an SNL skit

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Just checked media coverage of the damning revelations from the Motaz Azaiza interview:

CNN site: 0 mentions
NBC News: 0 mentions
Reuters: 0 mentions
AP: 0 mentions
NYT: 0 mentions
Washington Post: 0 mentions

All of these orgs have repeatedly promoted him in the past.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

I am so glad that Francesca Albanese exposed herself as an apologist for Putin and Russian imperialism.

She is absolutely a completely inappropriate person to have anything whatsoever to do with supporting the rights of Palestinians.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The speed is astonishing

A globular springtail appears to teleport

it launches itself using its spring-like furcula in a split second.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined.

Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels.

Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion.

Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.

In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere:

“How many combines are available in Europe?”

“Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.”

“I’ll take them all.”

Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers.

He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him:

“Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.”

Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.

“$14 million.”

“Okay. And what do you expect in return?”

“Nothing. Build it.”

Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients.

But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.

It is food: 642 million meals.

And that is only part of it:
* 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks;
* 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories;
* Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding.

“I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says.

He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson.

Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world.

I simply want to thank him and wish him well.

Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine.

He simply chose to help.

Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

I’m just going to sit here and clock all the outrage…

Sanders can appear at an event with Bannon. Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion. But Jeffries meets with Kushner and folks lose their minds?!

Guess he forgot to ask permission. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Finally some peace and quiet.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Anyone willing to trust Putin is either an idiot or complicit in his crimes. Possibly both.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

WHY IS IT NOT ALL OVER THE NEWS THAT THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCH WHO PAID FOR TRUMP JR'S WEDDING IS LINKED TO THE ABDUCTION OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN 🤬

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Luis Ochoa is 17.
He is a U.S. citizen.

He was driving with another U.S. citizen to enlist in the Marines when he was pulled over and ripped from his car by ICE.

Someone started recording.

This is the horrific video.

While the boys were being beaten, they repeatedly tell the agents they are CITIZENS — and are ignored.

One agent told said, "I don't give a damn. Your parents can't help you now."

Both teenagers were detained for hours before being released.

They were preparing to serve this country - yet their citizenship did not protect them from being beaten, pepper-sprayed, and detained by their own government.

This is what the Nazis did then, and ICE does now.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

finally?????!????

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

This says so much more than he can possibly know.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

Long rant @ddiamond but stay with me. Journalists counter my criticism all the time by saying "but we did write 1 or 2 articles on that!" That's great, but the issue is what achieves agenda-setting salience.

Biden's health was regular front page news for months. His footwear choices generated headlines. He tripped once on stage and it generated a week of commentary. If he flubbed the name of a foreign leader, it was covered in multiple outlets even if he corrected himself. @peterbakernyt @nytimes ran a high profile story implying he was hiding Parkinsons that turned out to be false. After he left office, @jaketapper went on a book tour to continue to criticize Biden's age and fitness. You will not convince me Trump receives this level of scrutiny, because he simply doesn't in any study of actual headlines I've seen (Media Matters did a great one.)

In fact, Trump has appeared to fall asleep about 19 times in public in his current term (most recently at a 9/11 memorial event which generated no major headlines outside liberal outlets). I counted them myself mostly using social media clips from accounts like @atrupar and asking AI to debunk the fake ones, which I was forced to do because the only journalist at a major outlet that I could find who tried to compile that kind of list is @khaleda who does not even work in the US! (By the way, Dan, I'm more than happy to send you that list via email.)

The media never pursued sustained follow-up on Trump's hand bruising, his gait, his multi-day Walter Reed visits, the obvious falsehoods in his health reports, or the true nature of Natalie Harp's role as his aide. When he is incoherent in remarks, WH press so regularly sanitize his speech it has its own name ("sanewashing"). Scrutiny of Trump's health is so sparse there was a multi-day period in which social media was full of rumors that he had died. There are viral social media accounts alleging serious health complications that at minimum suggest continuous fact-based reporting that is seriously lacking.

I could write the same rant about a number of other high profile issue: why is it not treated as sustained scandal news that Don Jr's wedding was paid by the Russians Why is it not treated as scandal that Jared Kushner has a role in govt at all? Hunter Biden's laptop and paintings were months-longs stories. Why aren't we seeing journalists post pictures of their receipts or gas station prices like we saw during inflation coverage under Biden? When do we get an update on @brikeilarcnn's milk guzzling family from 2021?

My opinion is that the media is stuck over-covering itself (press access or DC-specific stories like the Reflecting Pool) instead of hammering the issues that put Trump into office that actually don't require White House press access. I don't know whether this is disinterest, corporate pressure, or appeasing GOP sources, but often it feels that way.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

The 76 year old Ohio Democrat has been pepper sprayed for protesting the killing of George Floyd and arrested at a voting rights demonstration on Capitol Hill. She chaired the Congressional Black Caucus and helped secure Juneteenth as a federal holiday. But Rep Joyce Beatty is now best known as the unlikely leader of the opposition to Trump’s push to rebrand the Kennedy Center in his own honor.
https://t.co/OQciDXJuJ4

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It's played for laughs but the media's unwillingness to do ANY soul searching about how they've covered Trump since 2016, what that has done to the nation, and why he is treated differently than literally any other politician on earth is its own failure.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Europe could have avoided the refugee wave from Syria and the resurgence of the far-right that followed it if they had simply bombed the Assad regime in 2013. The numbers could not be clearer, opposing regime change in Syria was a catastrophe for Europe politically.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Every single quality of life gain we’ve gotten over the past 100 years has been at the hands of liberals/democrats

People think “both sides are the same” is some enlightened mindset but it’s actually the opposite; it’s historically inaccurate, it’s lazy, it’s weak. Get better material.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I suspect we're approaching a time where if you want to protect creative work, it has to be something that can't be digitized. AI has made is so that creative works speed run through the lifecycle from cool to cliche in a matter of months. This contributes to our cultural stagnation, making it hard for real creators to produce something with meaningful, lasting effects on other real creators. Everything becomes a meme, which is to say meaningless and trite.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

They say Africans had no writing until colonialism. Then they ignore Ge’ez, Tifinagh, Nsibidi, Ajami, Vai and Bamum.

Colonizers didn’t discover African literacy. They banned scripts, destroyed presses, and put their language in the classroom.
That’s why so many of us still don’t know our own systems exist.