Scott Mullen

Saved from ignominy by flawless execution.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
https://t.co/TAbMM2SBsA

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

It's two weeks till the Ides of March, the day a dictator grasping at kingly power was taken down by people around him. Just out of interest, you know

[The Onion @TheOnion]

You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President
https://t.co/wsNJfpRHZk

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

I think things become clear when you understand that most social pathologies will get worse the more time people have to serve capitalists in order to pay rentiers who stand between themself and a dignified material existence.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

What's shocking to me is that despite the terrifying onslaught of climate news, and the knowledge that things will continue to get worse at a faster pace until something changes, mainstream elected liberals still treat policies to cap fossil fuel use as a mark of unseriousness

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

Calls like this are often derided as "do something" Twitter. But coming from someone like Newsom, I think this reflects a growing sense among Democratic pros that there is a leadership vacuum and no plan - short-term, long-term or otherwise - to deal with the threats we face.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Humanity Surprised It Still Hasn’t Figured Out Better Alternative To Letting Power-Hungry Assholes Decide Everything https://t.co/EaDuxmMnmr

[Deb Raji @rajiinio]

ICYMI: Twitter conducted one of the largest platform audits ever (randomized trial on 58 million users) to assess "political bias" of their algorithm. In 6 of 7 countries, "the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left."

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Remember that when President Zelensky on telephone asked then-President Trump for “more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes,” Trump replied, “I would like you to do us a favor though…”
(Trump White House transcript, July 25, 2019)

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

We’ve been watching this thing in slow motion for months now. The Administration declassified unprecedented amounts of intel to try to prevent Putin from taking this course of action. But this man has a deeply distorted view of the world. 1/9

[Scott Mullen @TheMullenEffect]

@atjareds @RichardDawkins I'll have to conduct further research on that one, but clearly someone along the way just didn't have good taste when it came to spelling.

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

What I want from my Sunday show host today is history, context, and multiple POVs in answer to this. I don't mean a question or two about it. A show.

The US spent $88 billion to train and equip Afghan defense forces and they melt on contact. How does that happen?

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

“I honestly don’t know why they wouldn’t file an offense report, it doesn’t make sense,” a DUI attorney told @KatieJ_Bernard https://t.co/782yqUmC6o

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Questions should be designed to elicit from the president responses that permit the public to inform itself. But many of those who rise at these events ask questions designed so that the president's responses will make news.

That difference is the source of a lot of frustration.

[Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky]

I get it now. Ted and Heidi Cruz wanted their children to be safe, to have basic sanitary services like heat and running water, to leave behind a third-world apocalyptic nightmare for a safer place. Like so many parents before them, they decided to cross the Mexican border.

[David Plouffe @davidplouffe]

Too many of the jurors are accomplices.

[Nancy Pelosi @TeamPelosi]

If the Q fits.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Regular people don’t care whether we pass something with 51 or 60 votes. It’s a pandemic and the largest economic contraction in 90 years. We must ignore those who call anything a Republican proposes a compromise, and anything a Democrat proposes partisan. We have to deliver.