Morgan

Swiss-American generalist #onhere since 2009. Tweets tend political, get more feminist every day, & are not my employer's.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Iowa, an economy with a $257 billion GDP, sees fewer trains in a week than this mountaintop station 6,700 feet above sea level in Switzerland does in a day.

[Veterans For Responsible Leadership @VetsForRL]

Sorry @PeteHegseth that we all can’t live the Christian values just like you by cheating on our second wife with a Fox News producer and then getting her pregnant. And then cheating on her with a woman who accused you of sexual assault at a Republican conference while you were hammered just two months after your child was born. You truly are a shining example of Christ’s light.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Zürich Metro (pop. 1.5 million) - 2,915 trains per day

Tampa Metro (pop. 3.42 million) - 2 trains per day

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Autopsy says it was a shot through the side window that went into Renee Good's head. Had the officer stopped firing once the car was clearly passed him she may have been saved.

https://t.co/f6znYmtftI

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“we may or may not invade you every four years depending on how worked up ~20,000 swing voters in Waukesha County, Wisconsin feel about trans kids playing volleyball” isn’t really a good sales pitch for maintaining international allies.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“The mom killing will continue until morale improves”

[Morgan @morgangray]

@JoyceCarolOates Wherever they go, I hope that every single one requests their ballot to vote back home as soon as they arrive because checking out is not an option @votefromabroad

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Morgan @morgangray]

@RepLaHood Never once got a reply to any of my constituent messages, and I’ve requested it. Recovered not ‘recoverd’ by the way. Since English is so important…

[Morgan @morgangray]

@RepLaHood Unauthorized. No congressional approval for this military action. Instead of tweeting at our brave Special Forces do your job and pass a war powers resolution to block unauthorized strikes. Why get elected to do nothing

[Morgan @morgangray]

Ya hear that ladies, we did it, finally earned their love

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

For perhaps the first time in humanity’s long history, in many parts of the world it is boys who are increasingly seen as a burden and girls who are a boon https://t.co/8Oqd5ibAKz

Illustration: Alva Skog

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety.

Five were kept for 168 days.

Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care. This crosses a moral line.

Regardless of your politics, people of integrity know that a decent country should always protect children.

https://t.co/rhBw2n6b3e

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare while buying all the homes

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

The anti-feminist grift going back to Phyllis Schlafly is to travel the country, run a well-funded nonprofit, and ignore their own children in order to focus on telling *other* women that they belong in the kitchen.

[ella devi @ellad3vi]

today i emphasize with donald trump because i too before have attached myself to an attractive man who absolutely fucking hates me

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

No executive. No college president. No csuite leader. No industry leader could ever talk like this. Ever. And still hold his job.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Ann Selzer was just somehow polling the 2028 Iowa electorate

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

“All men benefit from the actions of violent men. It keeps women in check. It allows men to perform the barest minimum and still feel good about themselves. The existence of violent men grants ‘good’ men awards for basic decency”.

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

I think the biggest indicator of the fact that this wasn't a "conflict" or a "war" or literally anything you can "both sides" is: no part of Israel looks like this