Jay Porter 1973-2021

Okie, Yalie, husband to @revodavid, proud uncle, CEO @RevereTeam, cancer survivor and epicure.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@bhaviklathia By “our” he clearly meant “men.” There shouldn’t be any surprise or confusion on this point any more. They don’t believe women (or LGBTQ) have real worth, rights or agency. Many of us who escaped far-right evangelicalism have been screaming this for decades.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

I just don’t even have any words for this.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@DavidOAtkins @LemieuxLGM Well I mean his old buddy Mark Penn HAS to be up there too.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@sapochat I’m so, so done.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

I’m sorry but this is idiotic. Monoclonal antibody treatments aren’t manna from Heaven — pharma companies make them. And charge 600x+ the cost of a vaccine for them. And they don’t prevent you from infecting others. We can treat Covid but there’s no cure for stupid.

[Allen West @AllenWest]

5/ I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@nerdseyeview @rayhatfield I spent approximately 4 hours this week relentlessly unsubscribing from things and I seem to have regained control of my inbox. Good feeling.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@manbearkitten @c_c_pappas I had to leave too and couldn’t go back. Every time I talk to my family about what’s going on there it just completely depresses me. The news this week was a little better — will be a good race at least.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@editingemily I don’t really have words for how viscerally it got me. I’m still kind of in shock.

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@StatsInTheWild (Coughs in Okie) Red River Raid

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@rayhatfield @jkbjournalist It’s the strangest thing but if I have 2 of 3 — suit, any tan at all, aviators — I get this a LOT. When we lived in Chicago there was even a little commotion in a restaurant. I don’t get it but I guess… ¡Dale!

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

This is hilarious but some of these t-shirts caused me physical pain

[Angela Mayfield @pinkrocktopus]

It’s Hot Goth Fall, which means I’m regularly trolling my husband with fake Joy Division shirts, and playing the Frente! cover of Bizarre Love Triangle

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@jpokc @chris_stinch @joy4ok I think all three of us Porter sisters probably need this prominently tattooed, as a public service. I would l like to think I’ve mellowed out but…

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

We are not a parliamentary democracy why is this SO hard (or inconvenient) to understand?! Also: if you don’t want to be Jill Stein, don’t be Jill Stein!

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson onstage together at City Winery in DC.

"We don't want to be Jill Steins," Williamson says. "But in any other country, any other advanced democracy, they have multiple political parties."

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@WFKARS @KateHarding Same!!!

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@joshtpm It’s like McConnell is handing Biden the golden gloves to beat Sinema and Manchin into agreeing to end the filibuster! (Boxing metaphor not actual suggestion of violence.) The GOP has managed to make an incredibly eloquent case about why it makes governance impossible…

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@StatsInTheWild @yesh222 This is lazy capitalism. Several years ago Starbucks rebuilt its prepared food program from the ground up so that virtually everything can go to Second Harvest or similar programs at the end of the day. Also people dealing w food insecurity need something better than a dz donuts

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@JamesGleick I don’t think we’ve had as many incredibly smart, deeply stupid people around one table since McNamara’s war council… and if we let this batch run unchecked they could end up outdoing the damage of their predecessors. The emperor has neither clothes nor a functioning DNS…

[Jay Porter 1973-2021 @nonfamousjay]

@FernetBroncho Sounds about white