Stephen Watts

Weapon of Joy. Isa 43:19; Ps 46:8-10

[Stephen Watts @swatts_96]

@pmmbasketball @dlee4three More like a perfect Boris Diaw

[Jesse Walker @notjessewalker]

A lot of people say "working class" and mean "manly," with "manly" defined mostly by whichever cultural ideals of manliness they feel unable to perform themselves.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

Every day I realize that the most important event in American political history was the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. It is the ur-text, the Rosetta Stone.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M after jury found President Trump sexually abused and defamed her.

[Stephen Watts @swatts_96]

@CrispinSartwell @mattyglesias if they believed in socialism or socialist campaigns, they would understand that moderate campaigns aren't strategic at all -- because they ultimately lead us to the same place where working class folks aren't taken care of

[Stephen Watts @swatts_96]

@janecoaston also to be fair, lumping in such large periods of time doesn't make that much sense to me. 2013-2019 feels nothing to me like 2020-2026

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Democrats have released the first proposal from their "Project 2029" and is it

Medicare for All?
A living wage of at least $25?
A federal housing guarantee?
Abolishing ICE??

Nope, it's digital ID for the internet! Hoorayy!! (Cue the supportive Neera Tanden tweet in 3, 2, 1...)

[Stephen Watts @swatts_96]

@prem_thakker @shannonrwatts

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

I think Elon Musk explicitly coming out against democracy should probably tell us something about the nature of extreme wealth.

[Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman]

Friendly reminder that Dana targeted pro-Palestine Michiganders and was eventually forced to drop the chargers. You cannot call yourself a fighter while simultaneously carrying out the same Trumpian repression.

[Stephen Watts @swatts_96]

@HPbasketball A lot of that I would say is the added physicality in the playoffs. The regular season to me does feel like one stylistic blah where every team is competing to see (1) how often they can get into transition and (2) how many 3s they can get up

[Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS]

I'm sure there are regular-season models that say all this stuff, but the disconnect for me is once you get to the playoffs and the game simplifies to the point where it's almost "can you get a bucket and guard your man?" Jaylen does that stuff better than the analytics darlings.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

@mom2zna They’re still in office so what they’re doing now is not really a mystery is it

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

1000s of people who engaged in civil disobedience and protests to end the Gaza genocide have been imprisoned, expelled, fired, deported, had their lives ruined meanwhile all the backers of genocide under Biden have cushy jobs at CAP, Harvard, CNN, Vox, etc https://t.co/rczmVcrtjj

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

X has suddenly banned an account documenting Trump's corrupt stock trades seemingly without explanation.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

“He bought the app to save freedom of speech”

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Oh ya for sure dude imagine a system like that