The Clam Before The Storm

Just a bivalve mollusc at the end of the world. Whole day I'm irritated only get few pearl.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

@NomeDaBarbarian The party was a disaster but the guest list was superb.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

And now we find out if the candidate who is competent, arrogant, above criticism, and promises detached continuity can beat the cruel carnival barker who showers his followers with praise and promises a revolution and pumps them full of hate. I sure hope she can. I am afraid.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

This. This is why we were running away with the election for a moment there, not just relief that Biden was out, but a brief sense of possible change, possible pride in a different path we could take, and it was absolutely crushed when change got anywhere near the table.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

It was Gaza that did it. She was so convinced she was the hero of the narrative, she'd won already, and the only interruption in the victory parade was the people protesting the genocide. She shut them out, shut them up, put them in their place. Big flex. The ol' Hillary suplex.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

The crypto billionaires are trying to loot the Treasury with a "sovereign wealth fund" or other massive public money grabs. If they divert taxes to BTC in an ongoing way they'll be like the defense-industrial complex but purely extractive and unproductive. A feckless aristocracy.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

Losing in 2016 got Democrats a rigged primary and horrific Biden in 2020. Losing in 2020 got Republicans a more evil Trump with less dissent in 2024. Neither party learns from winning or losing.

I'll vote for the lesser evil because I can help a few victims that way. That's all.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

These press briefings with the Literal Joker™️ and wholehearted commitment to the mass murder of Palestinians at all costs leave zero room for any hope of the Democratic Party changing US foreign policy on arming Israel.

Would losing an election because of those policies trigger a shift? Many are asking this question.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

I'm going offline for a while. I can't see this any more. It'll happen whether I watch or not.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

So Elon is the guy you want in charge of Trump's new "Department of Government Efficiency?" Is this worth giving up FEMA, once Trump shuts it down? North Carolina, Georgia, Florida voters—do you want this? Or help when we have to work together to survive?

https://t.co/99Bbx7dRtw

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Today in people whose jobs both Trump and Project 2025 say should be canceled to get rid of "left wing bureaucrats"

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The collective shoulder shrug in the media as Trump has business deals going on *while running for President* and with some super shady people for a venture in an already notoriously sketchy industry (crypto) is a real sight to behold. 🙄

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

Unless you make $360,000 or more, Trump’s tax plan will raise your taxes.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

It's possible this election will be decided by how well the "Biden-Harris administration" explains over the next likely disastrous month that Trump swiped money from the FEMA budget, delayed aid to NC out of spite and proposed to cut its budget by 2/3. He has a record! It's bad!

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

It’s worth saying that the forecasts from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center are an absolutely vital, life-saving national resource.

It would be a tragedy if Trump’s Project 2025 plan to disembowel NOAA and commercialize all its forecasting operations it came to fruition.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

This, from the Free Press editorial on the Coates/CBS controversy, is a stunning inverse of reality. Imagine living through the past year and thinking our side is the one with power.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Seems vital to mention in the post that it’s an ADL report, whose director compared the Palestinian keffiyeh to a swastika.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Very important: today (Oct 7) is last day to register to vote if you live in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, LA, MS, OH, TN, TX. Register or check registration here https://t.co/0X3SPIn6O2

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

FYI: basically no one is paying attention at this point in a Presidential election cycle, but federal investigators are quietly narrowing in on a massive case of political graft by Republican pols in the NC state legislature.

Watch this space.
https://t.co/UNOZAbMToq #ncpol

[onion person @CantEverDie]

“On 6 October 2023, there was quiet”

[Bobby Kogan @BBKogan]

In Trump’s final budget request to Congress, he called for federal disaster relief funding to be cut by nearly two-thirds.

[The Clam Before The Storm @the_stormclam]

Nobody has the right to an apartheid state—"self-determination" is a sickening excuse for oppression. Nobody has the right to purge their land of other races or religions or to treat them like prisoners and animals. And collective punishment is always and objectively evil.