Michael Gier 🐀

Putting country before party since 1969. SJW: My opinions are shared by many people, many of whom don’t feel confident in saying them. YW

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

And I’m out. The Nazis can have this flaming bucket of shit.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

JUST ONCE, I want to be part of a staff meeting where the agenda reads ‘Things We Are Removing From Teacher Plates.’

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Ah. There it is. He’s down with the criming as long as it’s his side.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

@tberkley I set up a Mastodon account several years ago, but I still don’t grok how it even works. I’m kinda keeping my fingers crossed that 1) Elon gets tired of igniting $$billions, 2) he sells Twitter for a song to some startup/nonprofit, 3) they resurrect it without the nazis.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Let's make it free to become a nurse.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

@tberkley @prairielaura If I have a last tweet, I sure hope that was it.

#RIPTwitter

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

@tberkley @prairielaura I am.
I’ll miss Twitter, but as a dyed-in-the-wool economic equality warrior and as an anti-billionaire zealot, I gotta say it has felt *so* *schaudenfreudifically* *awesome* to watch Elon destroy Twitter.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

* #Republican says absolutely bonkerpants thing.
* Other Repubs act like it’s perfectly normal.
* Media says, “Huh, that was kinda…”
* Another Repub says another bonkerpants thing.
* All of us: {forgets about the previous bonkerpancity because, that’s a lot of bonkerpantsedness

[Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger]

Don't need a book tour, town halls, interviews or profiles of Mike Pence. He backs psychos, grifters, and liars, and even after his own life was threatened, he stayed quiet. He is a spineless coward pretending his faith guides him when it is his ambition.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

Did Elon unwittingly give us a new way to spot Maga nutjobs on Twitter? Looks like all the low-level RWNJ’s ponied up for the blue check.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Mitch McConnell—who is in an interracial marriage—just voted no on codifying interracial marriage.

If this is what MAGA GOP thinks about their own spouses, imagine what they think of Black & brown people unrelated to them.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

Schools/districts that think just adding a bunch more cops will make schools “safer” have a very limited view of what the term means.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Legislators responded to the 2018 Parkland school shooting by hiring police officers in every elementary, middle and high school in Florida. It didn’t make students safer. Instead, it led to this: https://t.co/ew9NxbWfBe

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

That looked like a “flagrant, but I guess it’s OK,“ foul. #KUBBall

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

GOP = fascism.

Please read, and please send a comment to Mr. Red-Meat-For-The-MAGA-Base Jay Ashcroft.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

It’s easy to feel smug about the crypto collapse, but honestly who could’ve predicted that an asset with no intrinsic value of any kind would eventually become worthless?

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

@LCLoudmouth @WesKCMO Yamaha RX-V475 receiver, BTW.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

@LCLoudmouth @WesKCMO I bought an AV receiver from a guy on Craigslist who had dozens of them for $100. No remote, but bought one on Amazon for $15. Bought a 5.1 speaker system from https://t.co/ABkYNIUAf1 for $120. Plus $40 in speaker wire. Get the banana plugs to make connections easier.

[Michael Gier 🐀 @mgier]

Brilliant thread on why Boomers went MAGA and why it’s ending. But we still have a lot of work to do to fix what Fox News did to us.

[Mark Greene @RemakingManhood]

The MAGA movement, based on aging white boomer victimhood is a bell curve. That bell curve has peaked for the simple reason that boomers, of which I am one, are dying off. -Boomers were wholly unprepared for the blunt manipulations of Fox News, in bundled cable of the 90s