Michael (End the filibuster) Matthew

Another old white man celebrating Kamala Harris. He, him.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The media basically ended Biden's presidency b/c a dozen troops dies while the military evacuated 125,000 people in Afghanistan after its government collapsed thanks to the shitty deal Trump cut with the Taliban but somehow they don't have that same smoke for this clusterfuck

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I watched the Louis Theroux documentary on the Manosphere (it’s really good - do watch it). I saw it with my 18-year-old daughter. Five things I learned from viewing it with her:

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

We have reached the "Steven Miller dime-store Churchillianisms" part of the speech. Can set your watch by it

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

In the 1970s-80s measles was the single leading killer of children, 2-3 million died annually. Through EPI @WHO we brought it down to 450,000 kids who died annually by 2000. Through @gavi it came down to <100,000. Now the ignorant careless chuckleheads want to erase all our gains

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is what 5 megabytes of data looked like in 1955, stored on roughly 62,000 punch cards.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

Very funny watching the right attempt to defibrillate norms of civility they spent a decade killing. Every election for the foreseeable future will be a contest between men calling each others’ wives and children fat swine and sodomite imbeciles. You can’t undo it, it’s too late.

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

Someone needs to do an intervention with Trump; he is obviously out of his gourd.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just absurd. A huge chunk of the workers who built the Empire State Building were Irish immigrants or the sons of immigrants, and Mohawk "skywalkers" from Quebec played a key role in erecting the building (and many other skyscrapers). They weren't "illegal," but that's because the US had been effectively open to immigrants until 1924.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Remember when @jonathanchait and @mattyglesias were writing about the dangers of censorship on a regular basis, in Chait's case often focusing on very trivial stories involving student newspapers. They've been very silent on this topic recently.

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Really something how 90+ years of attacks on the New Deal state has coagulated into a right that regards any attempts at state-building - the kind of stuff that created the atomic bomb, NASA, etc. - as a communist plot

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Had my first healthcare worker refuse to mask

My chart says I’m immune compromised & require staff to mask. The facility had a policy that if asked, staff will wear

I was told “no I need to breathe to do my job”.

I stood firm & said I’m high risk and masks are required 🧵

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Trump has been President 48 hours and our local stores are completely out of eggs.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This may well be the last mass protest effort that won’t be subject to Trump invoking the insurrection act or using military force.

The order will come. The open question is what the rest of the system will do when it does.

[The Spaceshipper 🚀 @TheSpaceshipper]

"It’s not literally connected, it’s still an idea that existed in the galaxy at a certain time of like ‘We can do better. We can do great things.’"

I'd love to see a film set after Episode IX about how the galaxy can finally do Great Things, after Palpatine's appalling reign and its aftermath. Like a Marshall Plan From Space.

Obviously, there would be villains, but it would be a new era.

[. @GregTSargent]

Here's the thing. Even Dems who think they have to back the Laken Riley detention mandate can at least demand the exemption of Dreamers /minors. This argument isn't *that* hard to make. It's a principled stand that puts *Republicans* in a tough spot!

https://t.co/eZ7UTH5D0r

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Jesus had strong thoughts about those who prayed publicly merely to be seen, while harboring hypocrisy and hate in their hearts.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

We've been talking about Greenland for a week and no self-imagined journalist has asked Trump's people whether it'll be on reconciliation.

[Shannon @gardengirl125]

Can a Republican please explain to me why you voted for this? Seriously, I want to know.

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

There's a burn, then there's an AOC burn