Steve Smith

Innie: Macrodata Refinement, finding scary numbers.
Outie: Making and drinking great cocktails, occasional drawing.

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

This is just straight up theft.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

COONS: Will you commit to making reports fully public so Americans know who is getting taxpayer dollars out of this settlement fund?

BLANCHE: There are privacy laws that may prevent some of the information from being fully public

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

@KlasfeldReports @MuellerSheWrote Wait, did they just fuck up a B$1.7 extortion scheme because of a filing error?

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

This is a great little analysis.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works.

First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression).

You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing.

Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences.

Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent.

IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics.

The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

My "Not a pedo racist t-shirt" is raising a lot of questions that are already answered by the shirt.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction?

TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

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[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

@WUTangKids Not lmao. Her persona is horrible but she's still a woman whose husband was murdered, and this is trauma.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karoline Leavitt to Fox before the WHCD event: There will be some shots fired tonight

[J-L Cauvin @JLCauvin]

Breaking News - Donald Trump issues statement that he is safe at the White House Correspondents Dinner
https://t.co/AhqioEbI91

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

I’m tired of just sitting on this info. 6 months ago CBS flew me out to DC for an in person debate over the Trump Administration, they paid for everything ranging from my travel expenses to a 4 person camera crew. The conversation was moderated by Maurice DuBois.

As you could imagine, this debate didn’t go well for my MAGA opponent, and I was very effective at demonstrating the failures and wrongdoings of Trump & his administration, including things the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know.

Coincidentally, it was filmed RIGHT before Bari Weiss took over. And in my opinion, it seems she canned the whole production to censor the truth.

I have reached out to my contact at CBS multiple times over the course of the last 6 months to see what happened to the production, and haven’t gotten a response.

@CBS, what’s going on???

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

@LindseyGrahamSC You know what, Ladybug? You're right. We *are* determined to stop Trump and his closest allies.

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

Health care decisions should be between you and your doctor, not your insurance company.

It’s time to penalize health insurance companies for wrongly denying claims so you can get the care you need.

[Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555]

The Strait of Hormuz Blockade, but we add OUR blockade.

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

"Russians Go Home!" TIL this was the rallying cry for Hungarians during the sadly crushed 1956 Revolution against USSR's grip on the country. Today's vote went much better: Viktor Orban is out.

[Jakub Krupa @JakubKrupa]

“Ruszkik haza!” on the Budapest metro.

What a moment.

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Just a reminder that the premise of the “madman theory” is that a rational person is just pretending to be a madman.

[Steve Smith @SteveSmithSQL]

Pray for peace tonight.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I hope this is correct not because I like seeing Trump waste our time and lie to us week after week but because I don't want any more Iranian civilians to die tonight in ramped-up murderous strikes from a thin-skinned malignant narcissist.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Artemis II mission route in 3D

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: https://t.co/1riZgVgbfO