Taylor Horrocks

William & Mary

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@Walmart hi, for the past two weeks every time I try to select InHome, I get this error. This happens regardless of device. But if I select regular delivery, I’m able to check out. I chatted with a customer service rep today but they were unhelpful.

[András @andrastimot]

A first pass at which notable human characters in the Harry Potter universe can be made black without causing a bunch of problems

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@owalalife PLEASE make a version of the toddler straw cups with a lid!!!! I need a way to take this cup in the car/on planes/etc. without it leaking all over the place!

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@kroger PLEASE don’t stop delivering groceries to Tampa 😭😭😭 raise prices 3x before leaving for good 😭

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@NickOfNewYork Well also - servers are paid a relatively high hourly wage in California, and customers are aware of this.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

If you were planning to learn Python to become a software engineer, you should stop that woke shit right away.

Instead. Learn to sow polyester. We are bringing back sock manufacturing jobs from Hanoi, Vietnam for you to do.

Short term pain.

Long term gain.

👊🏽🇺🇸🔥

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

Today’s Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy was shameful. President Zelenskyy represents a nation whose citizens have sacrificed their lives and shed blood for the freedoms they cherish. He deserves respect, not humiliation.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Adam Sandler's Song: 50 Years
#SNL50

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@CA_EDD Unfortunately, no one answers your phone service.

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@CA_EDD Your automated system confirms that my paper form for SDI was received on December 16th. It has now been almost two months with no updates, and I cannot get through to speak with a real human.

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@NickOfNewYork @jackkramer love your podcast and listen every day! Today when discussing US healthcare costs, you didn’t mention a huge factor: how unhealthy Americans are. Other developed countries spend less money on healthcare bc they have less obesity/other issues.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Well, here we are again. Bit of a familiar pattern by now. We now know for certain that Israel didn’t drop 2000lb bombs on a refugee camp.

Doesn’t matter:

1. Something happens in Gaza.

2. Hamas-supporting bot farms and super-spreaders flood social media with appalling photos/videos (real or not? Who knows? Usually a wild exaggeration of the truth) attached to a fake narrative.

3. Ordinary people take up fake narrative. Horrible photos/videos go viral.

4. International media runs the fake narrative without proper journalistic checks. Celebrities and politicians comment on the fake narrative before they’re in full possession of the facts.

5. IDF issue a rebuttal, but it’s too late as the fake narrative has already taken hold.

6. Protests on Western streets to put pressure on policy makers.

Hamas are absolute masters at this. Palestinians do, of course, have the unusually huge advantage of decades of KGB information operations aimed at the Western political left, from Arafat/PLO days. They’re pushing at an open door.

This is a good model of the pathway a disinformation strategy needs to counter.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Hamas has informed mediators that it rejects the latest hostage deal after Israel made significant concessions and offered the release of 800 prisoners for 40 hostages.

The rejection is a direct consequence of todays’ UN vote. Hamas has no reason to negotiate or compromise when countries are pressuring Israel to accept a ceasefire.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In released hostage Aviva Siegel's first full interview on Israeli TV since her release, she recounted more details of sexual assault of young female hostages, who were forced to dress in tiny clothes, watched as they showered, and beaten with sticks by armed Hamas militants.

She also tells of her heartbreaking separation from her husband, Keith Siegel, who is still held hostage by Hamas.

Siegel recalled hiding food and when another hostage told her that a piece of bread she had hidden would soon be covered in mold, Siegel replied, “don’t worry, I’ll eat it with the mold.”

Siegel recounted how the terrorists would dress up the younger female hostages in tiny clothes, making them into “dolls — marionettes,” at whom the armed guards “just sat and stared.”

One woman was given such tight-fitting clothes that she couldn’t bend her knee.

Siegel said that when “three particularly young girls” took up the guards’ offer of a shower, the condition was that they would bathe together, with an open door and the terrorists watching.

Siegel said that in another instance, a young female hostage was ordered at gunpoint to accompany a guard, who then pulled her by the hair, tossing her to the floor, as he and three other terrorists beat her with a stick.

“They hit her entire body, and she didn’t say a word,” Siegel said. “When she returned and I asked ‘how did you not scream?’ she said, ‘I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction [of knowing] that they hurt me.'”

Siegel said the guards were not shy about how much they enjoyed tormenting the hostages, frequently pointing guns at them and threatening to shoot before bursting into laughter.

One time, when Keith spoke despite a guard demanding silence, a terrorist threatened him with a gun and dangled handcuffs in his face, “kind of in jest, but irritated,” Siegel said. “After that, Keith entered a dayslong depression. He barely communicated; we would cry covertly.”

After 50 days, Hamas terrorists covered the Siegel couple’s eyes and took them to a new location, where they separated Keith from Aviva, who, unbeknownst to her, was slated to be released the following day.

We need to do everything we can to bring Keith, and all the other hostages, home NOW!

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@tboypod hey, love your show! Today you broadcast that 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza were dead without including a disclaimer that this data comes straight from Hamas and is therefore vastly overstated.

[Taylor Horrocks @taylorbrooks02]

@ELCABishopEaton What a garbage statement