RL McCormick

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

I have to remind people that as a pre-seed investor / first-check writer I have more in common with a:

✏️Therapist
🏅Sports Coach
🍔Chef

than I do with a Series A/B/C investor...

I evaluate potential 🔥not metrics 📈

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Retweet if you think trying to violently overthrow our democracy should result in some consequences.

[kirstenpowers.substack.com @KirstenPowers]

A THREAD ON GRACE
1/I see a lot of Republicans calling for "grace." I'm writing a book on this topic right now and here is one of the most important things to know: ACCOUNTABILITY is grace. Grace is not letting people do what ever they want and looking the other way.

[RL McCormick @sestrel]

@SarahKSilverman This is exactly how I feel. I went to bed at 8:30 yesterday....and I am a night person. Cannot seem to get enough sleep. Will go and get bloodwork, especially for thyroid - but I really do blame 2020.

[RL McCormick @sestrel]

This is really embarrassing. Also ridiculous and obviously corrupt. Not to mention a real head-scratcher from someone who claims to be "conservative" - federalism anyone? As a Texan, I am absolutely cringing.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing four battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — whose election results handed the White House to president-elect Joe Biden. https://t.co/c7I2Mc4WHT

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

Here's why you should hire union hair and makeup professionals:

[Ciara O'Rourke @ciaraorourke]

This is just to say

I have checked
the claims about ballots
that are on
the internet

and which
you were probably
thinking
are true

Forgive me
they are false
so misleading
and so wrong

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Anybody who's like "we'll that was a pretty good showing for Trump!" should consider how Hillary Clinton was treated as the World's Biggest Loser after an election with the same Electoral College margin as this one*.

* But where she won the popular vote instead of losing it by 5

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

oh @clairecmc just has no fucks left.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get this straight. A Black man is shot in the back 7 times, while getting in car with his kids. A White youth carrying an AR-15 walks away, after killing people. Same police force, same town, same week. And what is Trump’s response? Send in troops to crush the protesters.

[Matthew T. Hall @bymatthewthall]

Ain’t no protest like a San Diego protest.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

The husband of a Democrat has an impromptu meeting on a plane with an attorney general and Republicans go apoplectic.

A Republican president fires the Attorney General, the FBI Director, the U.S. Attorney and five Inspectors General investigating him and Republicans do nothing.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

If you want to see more people of color in VC, "look to the people at the top," says Lo Toney https://t.co/UdAvWrRFaO by @cookie

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

.@statesman: In 2019 a Williamson County sheriff’s deputy tried to stop Javier Ambler for failing to dim his headlights. 28 minutes later he lay dying on the street after deputies held him down and used Tasers on him 4 times while a "Live PD" crew filmed. https://t.co/hKbzVceLTP

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Drawing on footage captured by dozens of cameras, as well as police radio communications and other records, The Post has reconstructed the events outside Lafayette Square, including the roles of the agencies involved and the tactics and weaponry they used.
https://t.co/4SJB9jUdtA

[Slate @Slate]

The misuse of “less lethal” weapons in the Floyd protests is “absolutely indefensible.” https://t.co/pP17ZPIHAB

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Tens of thousands of Americans dead from a pandemic he could have prevented.
Tens of millions of Americans unemployed thanks to a crisis he created
American cities filled with violent protests
Yet no one in Trump's White House has resigned. Here's why:
https://t.co/06GFXlVbmI

[Mike Hixenbaugh is mikehixenbaugh.com on BlueSky @Mike_Hixenbaugh]

God I love Houston. An urban trail riding club, Nonstop Riders, has just rolled up to the downtown protest. Here’s Marcus Johnson of Houston’s Fifth award, fist raised in the air. “We’re here representing for all our black brothers and sisters.”