Sam Body

STL | Mizzou | LA

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To take this much joy and pleasure in the state killing of a defenseless, fellow American citizen is pretty sociopathic

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

*Bombs Venezuela*

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"

(via @vulture)

[The Nation @thenation]

Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
https://t.co/Qv5TsM8AXy

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

If you vote yes or no on a bill because of someone’s “performance” rather than on the basis of the text of the bill, the Constitution, and the people you represent, then you shouldn’t be in Congress.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

This is absolutely fucking insane.

These are not targeted immigration enforcement operations. They are not focused on people with criminal records or recent arrivals.

Masked, armed federal agents are roaming the neighborhoods and workplaces of southern California and sweeping up whoever they can grab. They're asking Americans for their papers. Mistakenly arresting American citizens. Detaining legal residents. And now they're going to do all that with the help of the U.S. military? Against Americans in our own country?

People here in LA are scared - people who should have no legal reason to be scared. The biggest problem right now isn't the few city blocks in downtown LA where they should keep arresting the anarchist assholes who don't actually give a fuck about immigrants but show up at every protest to confront cops and burn shit down.

Our biggest problem is that the same federal government that's been sending people to a foreign gulag without due process is now using the U.S. military to help round up people who merely look like they might not be here legally. And almost everything they say about any of this turns out to be a lie.

Sure seems like that's the most important story right now - at least here in LA.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks

[shane @shanesclassy]

god himself was in that studio

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Publicly demanding a cover up of a Republican-led ethics investigation into the Attorney General nominee doesn’t suggest much confidence that it will exonerate Gaetz

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

At the moment, we don't know how much prices will go up as a result of tariffs. There are a lot of conditionals. But if the goal is raise the cost of imports so that people are encouraged to buy American-made goods, I want to tell you a story. 🧵

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

for those unaware elon musk holds a ton of dogecoin (DOGE) and this is a president-elect using his executive power to create a new government department whose name is intended to boost the price of DOGE, thereby enriching the man running it (musk)

[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

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

Mortgage Applications to buy a house just collapsed to an index level of 147.📉

That's the lowest level of buyer demand in 28 YEARS.

Lower than anything we saw in the 2008 Crash.

Down 41% from last year.

(Source: Mortgage Bankers Association)

[Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show @ultCLEsports]

Here's the scary side of the Damar Hamlin story nobody but @Gbush91 wants to talk about.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

National conservatism is repackaged authoritarianism and has little to do with constitutional or fiscal conservatism. The ideology fundamentally rejects individualism and property rights and thus has more in common with socialism than with libertarianism or classical liberalism.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’m still trying to figure out how the Governor of a state can contract with a coyote (who has since disappeared) in another state to lure people under false pretenses into a private plane to fly them to a third state, all while using taxpayer funds allocated for another purpose.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

FLASHBACK (FEBRUARY 2019): "Whistleblowers Raise Grave Concerns with Trump Administration’s Efforts to Transfer Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia"

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Dept of Public Safety tells @andersoncooper the shooter crashed his car near the school, got out with a gun and wearing body armor, was engaged by law enforcement, but made his way into the school anyway and went classroom to classroom shooting.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Don’t. Steal. Dogs.