Ron Gilbert

Generally-ill-behaved person. Dad, grandpa, theatre director/actor/designer, school bus driver. From Goleta, CA but staying over in Iowa (since '87).

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

I've marveled over the skill & talent of @Marketplace hosts @kairyssdal & @DavidBrancaccio. Both present 'basis points' & other arcane economic info so it's not only interesting, but somehow fun and often funny. So this morning, when David had Kai on for a report, I geeked out!

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

@cwheeeeeler @IowaPublicRadio Your hiccups - and you giggling about them - are the cutest thing I've heard on IPR in a while. 😎 I also know very little about the moon or stars, but am a fan of you reporting the phases of the moon. 🌛

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

This is pretty funny!

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

Haven't been on this platform much and nobody has missed me. Still, this is worth reading.

[Elie Honig @eliehonig]

Bill Barr's first extended interview airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. Expect it to be a self-aggrandizing, revisionist, bullshit-fest.

If this thing actually does air as planned, then I'm going to stick around and do a running rebuttal here in this thread. /1

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

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5/115 Females (1 Hispanic)

Yet some in the GOP are upset that Joe Biden has committed to name a Black woman, i.e. the first/only Black woman, to the court. 🤦‍♂️

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

Since everyone is into it now, let's use Wordle boxes to illustrate the demographics of the US Supreme Court since 1789:

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

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108/115 White Male Supreme Court Justices

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

ICE IN HIS VEINS @RobbieGould09!!!!!!!! 🙌

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

3 straight, feels great

#MINvsSF

[KCCI News @KCCINews]

Man dies in Des Moines hospital after staff can't find ICU room in Nebraska https://t.co/dLSBoAWawD

[Les LeMieux, Sr @leslsenior]

I’ll just leave this here…..

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

Sorry this is a little late, but I just got my photos of me attending the inauguration back from being developed.

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

This is just one of the tragedies that COVID-19 and @IAGovernor KOVID Kim Reynolds has wraught.

[Bleeding Heartland @LauraRBelin]

On @Lawrence this evening, @katieporteroc said her 94-year-old grandmother in #Iowa is receiving hospice care and will soon pass away from #COVID19. So many families are losing loved ones.

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

@MegGardiner1 https://t.co/GPNiDYSBn2

[Don Rickles @DonRickles]

David Letterman's dream is to watch me drop my pants and fire a rocket!

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

The president credits himself with vaccine development. Moderna timeline shows it began working on a vaccine while the president was still denying the virus was spreading in the US.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

For the next four years Trump is going to behave like an antipresident in exile, holding a shadow presidency that not only critiques the Biden Administration but undermines it and fosters radical violence.

We need to recognize this and plan accordingly.

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

Anybody else having a similar reaction?

L: The 2016 Trump Cabinet
R: The 2020 Biden/Harris Cabinet

[Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @mppmsnow]

As Trump refuses to concede, we take a look back at others who can show him how it's done.

Learn more: https://t.co/Y1UlCeFj5R

#11thHour

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

@MegGardiner1 I think you have been right all along. A woman falling for no reason is preposterous. But, clearly, for a man, it is predictable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ron Gilbert @ron_gilbert]

"Listen up, Jack-wagon." - Senator @BenSasse (R), Nebraska, Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Nomination Hearings, October 12, 2020