Michael Weisel

Lawyer/Educator #ncpol #ncga #darkmoney #nonprofit

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

Thank you @Delta for getting us through security and tagging our bags at the gate to get us through to our flight! Outstanding service…

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

YOU CAN SEARCH TELEVISION. NOT SHOW TITLES. THE ACTUAL WORDS PEOPLE SAID, ACROSS 4,430,000 BROADCASTS, GOING BACK TO 2009.

https://t.co/NWGe59pd7x

the Internet Archive has been quietly recording news channels for seventeen years and indexing every closed caption. so any sentence ever said on air is now a search box away, with the clip attached.

type a phrase. get the channel, the date, the timestamp, and the thirty seconds around it.

which means you can do things television never intended.

watch a phrase enter the language and count it.
pull up how four networks described the same hour differently.
find the exact broadcast that was on while something happened to you.

I tested it on the things anchors say on autopilot.
"folks" is in 1,087,798 clips. "unprecedented" is in 374,273. "no one saw this coming" is in 767.
"we reached out for comment", in those exact words, appears 485 times in seventeen years of television.

it isn't just American channels. BBC, DW, France 24, Al Jazeera and Russian state television are all in there, all searchable the same way.

free. no account. no paywall.

the strangest part is that this has existed the whole time and almost nobody uses it.

[Ann Jacobs @AnnJacobsMKE]

In order to understand how preposterous the proposed USPS rule on mailing absentee ballots is, you need to look at the fine print - let's dive in to one small aspect - scanning. A short 🧵

[Lawyer Issues @LawyerIssues]

Being a lawyer is hearing “I want my day in court” and knowing they do not understand how long that day takes to arrive.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you still call it Twitter to this very day!

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

[Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu]

Rob Christensen is out with the definitive obituary of Jim Hunt. As it should be.

https://t.co/kQ5MbEHlg8

#ncpol

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Chief Justice John Roberts said, “I’m worried that President Trump is stretching the rubber band of Democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before.”

Me: “Then why did you give him immunity from prosecution?”

[Pop Base @PopBase]

🚨 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce they are engaged:

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Merry - or happy - Christmas to all celebrating.

And to all those whose thoughts are fixed on an absent and missed love one ... I join my thoughts to yours in the fellowship of grief.

[Lady Lawya @Parkerlawyer]

I saw a promo for the new Gladiator movie and said to my husband, “That looks good. I wonder if I need to see the original first so I know what’s going on.” My husband jumped up and with his full outside voice said, “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN GLADIATOR?!?”

2.5 hrs later, credits rolling, I said, “That was so good. I bet it won a lot of awards.” My husband, “It was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won best picture, best actor, best costume, best visual effects, and best sound mixing. Ridley Scott was robbed of best director, but Steven Soderbergh won for Traffic, another all time great.”

Me, “I’ve never seen Traffic, what’s it about?” My husband, “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN TRAFFIC?!”

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

“Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.” - Joe Biden

[Colin McFarlane🙏🏽🇺🇦 @colinmcfarlane]

So sad to wake up to the news that music god & genius Quincy Jones has died😢His work on Off the Wall with Michael Jackson was the first album to blow my mind, then Thriller. His catalogue of work is crazy. Love this Mack the Knife clip of him with Sinatra. Rest in power sir🙏🏽☺️

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

A very important reminder from @will_doran!

[Will Doran @will_doran]

Important reminder for North Carolina voters who haven't yet put mail-in ballots in the mail: DONT!

NC no longer allows ballots to arrive after the election. You'll need to deliver it to your county elections office (or go vote in person) tomorrow #ncpol https://t.co/pHxKnYQlof

[Allison Riggs @AllisonJRiggs]

For the past 2 years, I’ve woken up every day thinking about 401 votes—in 2020, the race for Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court was decided by 401 votes out of 5.4 million votes. Each day, I think about how I can talk to 401 voters (or more) about the fight for our courts.

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

@thejackhopkins See you

[LeBron James @KingJames]

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Inheritance tax has got to be the most retarded of all taxes. You have to pay the government money for the privilege of inheriting something that's already yours, and has already been taxed before it even got to you. Why?

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

@GeorgeTakei https://t.co/tGs3fjGyT5

[Michael Weisel @mweisel]

MAGADU - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody https://t.co/tGs3fjGyT5 via @YouTube