Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon)

Learning experiences: @KUOIFM, #DooDooRadio, @hampjazz, @LindenLab, @RealNetworks, @Wikimedia Foundation, @Microsoft, @InternetArchive, and @UIdaho .

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

The #ElectoramaNews for January has been published, featuring an explanation of #RCV ("ranked-choice voting") in #Alaska , and the battle that's been raging between @Alaskans4BE and @repealnowak (and their respective allies/predecessors) for years:
https://t.co/gSFmauTXxj

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@nvidia - you lost my business this evening

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@DreamHost is really trying hard to lose my business. Circa 2005, they were awesome. Now, not so much.

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@KQED - it would seem that HD channel 9-1 is showing Antiques Roadshow, while 9-2 is dark. Is that intentional? I normally expect PBS @NewsHour on 9-1 at this time.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

👀 You have got to be kidding me.

https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

I'm about to find out if I'm ever going to rent a car from @Budget Rent-a-Car ever again. We'll see how they respond to email, since it is almost impossible to reach a customer-service rep on the phone.

[Charles Stewart III @cstewartiii]

The paper by @pettigrew_stats (Stephen Pettigrew) and Dylan Radley about errors with RCV ballots has been published in Political Behavior. Here's the abstract and the link.
https://t.co/g4ZqZGYn8F

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

Here's some material that the @ADL can use in defending Musk:
https://t.co/IoGT9Zu2K7

[ADL @ADL]

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

Folks may be interested in the list I'm trying to get help building:
https://t.co/SmfW85SMYt

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

Anyone know any Facebook alternatives that aren't discussed here:
https://t.co/M9KgLvfulR

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@jwagsters @timjcarden @Anarcho_Suburbo I think the law degree helps his comedy, and his comedy helps his law degree. Being comfortable speaking in front of a camera (or a jury) is incredibly useful:
https://t.co/PZpUNfSQw6

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@RamonKaba @jwagsters @timjcarden @Anarcho_Suburbo According to the English Wikipedia article about him, he has a law degree:
https://t.co/GGU55LYTsE
While he may not have practiced law with that degree (as a lawyer, that is), he's got the training to do the job. A law degree is not "nothing".

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power. (After all, if you’re hellbent on staying in power but aren’t likely to win the next election, you can’t have your political opponents running around free.)

To keep fascism out of our lives, vote for democracy!

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Trump just referred to the January 6 rioters as “we”

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

Admit it. Trump has dementia. The coverup is the tell. A THREAD.

[j.d. durkin @jd_durkin]

Nikki Haley in January — “The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election.”

https://t.co/5yKL21EZgJ

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

Still makes me smile.

[Rob Lanphier (@[email protected] on Mastodon) @robla]

@StatsLime What paper is this from?