Rob Weir

Dad, teacher, director of Kindred Collective. Married to @kategweir. Moderator @askhistorians as @jschooltiger. ex @mujschool. he/him.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

Been thinking for the past few days about how the journalistic obeisance to “objectivity” ultimately comes out of an extraordinarily white (hence privileged) place

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@MIZ_DBH 9-6 at best

[Rob Weir @robweir]

possibly unpopular opinion time, but: yes, spraying stuff on Stonehenge is annoying, but Stonehenge is very old and made of [checks notes] stone, and will probably survive.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@tylerontheair horses are delicious! So are ducks and frogs.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

https://t.co/CigBRfhQ4x

maybe I should start a consulting business about how AI is Bad, Actually.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

WOW:D

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@AlexEthridge it's not quite the same, but BeetBox has excellent shawarma and a hummus plate to die for.

[chris✌🏼 @sonohedman]

europeans landing in newark, new jersey for the world cup final

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@stinkyboyphil Thanks for the kind words, but the 40-odd of us who are not our Autobot are humans …

[Emily Wilkins @emrwilkins]

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[Carrington Harrison @cdotharrison]

Taylor Swift has been on the screen for 1 minute and 41 seconds during the playoffs. Man leave that woman alone 😂

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@JohnStatonSN That sounds right. It’s been a minute since we’ve been there.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@JohnStatonSN Lol. This wasn’t the pizza place in the Cotton Exchange, right, unless I have my geography all wrong?

[John Staton @JohnStatonSN]

Good news about a classic Wilmington restaurant potentially reopening. And you know the StarNews file photo is also a classic when @robweir has the credit.
https://t.co/zDGMEzNNW0

[Rob Weir @robweir]

I did not know there was an earthquake in Almaty, but I respect the hell out of “I want to sleep”

[Aigerim Toleukhanova @aygeryma]

Waking up in the middle of the night as things start falling from the shelves. It felt like magnitude 5-6. Outside is -15C. Some small pushes are still felt even now. But I remain in bed because I want to sleep 😴 #Almaty #earthquake

[Rob Weir @robweir]

Man if only there were some text we could consult about this … wait

https://t.co/0AZsv9FXcF

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

In the Trump immunity case, Judge Pan says Trump lawyer Dean Sauer has conceded that there's no "absolute Immunity" because Sauer's actually arguing prosecution after impeachment and conviction is permissible.

This concession, Judge Pan notes, invalidates one of the main arguments Sauer raised in favor of immunity before the hearing: that the doctrine of separation of powers means the judicial branch can never sit in judgment of the executive branch.

[🪽🐚𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆🐚🪽 @FedericoS15190]

For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:

At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring...

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

a union

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@ClarkMyWords @FriendOfThurlow @InezFeltscher There wasn’t a coordinated national party organization in the way we’d think of it today. Rather, local printers/publishers/leaders had a diffused sort of leadership that culminated in national conventions, but only once every four years.

[Rob Weir @robweir]

@ClarkMyWords @FriendOfThurlow @InezFeltscher It had been born out of what Lynn Marshall called “the strange stillbirth of the Whig party” (AHR Jan. 1967, v. 72 no.2) which is still a good framework for understanding the party. While local Republican leaders worked to build support for the antislavery platform 2/?