Along the lines of RBG, who said, "When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." 1/
I'm sure no one cares, but I can't accept @elonmusk and this awful Twitter any longer. I'll be copying my follows so I can look for them on threads before I delete my account. I'm sad. I really enjoyed Twitter.
@Pogue I've been hearing about Threads. So I downloaded the app today. Looking for people to follow. I thought surely Pogue would be there! But I came up empty. Any plans to join?
So basically on oil twitter today:
—A parody account tweets that Biden said depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is on the table
—Newswire accounts repost without checking
—Every big account uses it to dunk on Biden
—The source is made up, Biden didn't talk about SPR today
Electric vehicles of all types are displacing 1.5 million barrels per day of oil usage. That’s nearly 3% of total road fuel demand.
Discover more in BloombergNEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2023. https://t.co/pdmCkX5Avs
ALABAMA UPDATE: After a failed attempt to halt another fed court ruling that Alabama is discriminating against Black voters in its redistricting maps, AL Secretary of State Wes Allen has sent an emergency application to the Supreme Court asking it to press pause on the case. 1/5
Cipillone: “In the history of our Nation, the House... has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the President without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step."