Tom Emswiler

Working to make New England evenings a little bit sunnier. Politics, healthcare, DC sports, golf, lacrosse, jazz guitar, JMU, VCU/MCV.

[Tom Emswiler @tomems8]

We have bills too! S.2015 & H.3051…

https://t.co/cAbdMtNlMn

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

Maine voted to join the Atlantic Time Zone (more daylight) in 2017 if New Hampshire and Massachusetts joined in while a Connecticut lawmaker introduced a bill to join the Atlantic Time Zone if Massachusetts and Rhode Island did the same.

Well, Massachusetts, what's up?

[Dave Epstein @growingwisdom]

Today marks the point in our orbit that we are farthest from the Sun. #perihelion We are also now gaining light on both ends of the day. Day length increasing by a minute or more moving forward. #WINTER #daylight

[Eric Fisher @ericfisher]

Have you started to notice a subtle change? Sunsets are now 12 minutes later than they were in early December.

This week also featured our latest sunrises of the year. After tomorrow they start to slide earlier again as we start to gain light back on both ends of the day. #wbz

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

Worth reading Roald Dahl’s account of the death of his daughter Olivia, age 7

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Key findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':

• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for more than a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which were never disclosed.

[ESPN @espn]

DUBS IN BOCA 🌴

JMU takes down Western Kentucky for its FIRST-EVER BOWL VICTORY 🔥

[Eric Fisher @ericfisher]

Who's ready to start earning some daylight back? The process starts (slowly) this weekend as we hit the winter solstice. #wbz

[Dave Epstein @growingwisdom]

I highly doubt daylight saving time is ever going away. Can you imagine people accepting no more 8pm hour sunsets? The sun would set in Boston before 7pm by August 4th and it would get light in am about 3:30ish in May/June. #notfarmers #Willneverhappen. #daylightsavingtime

[Damon Lane @KOCOdamonlane]

What would our summers look like if we remained on standard time?

If we eliminate the "advancing the clocks 1 hour" in March, then this is what June will look like with sunrise and sunsets.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

[Eric Fisher @ericfisher]

Sunsets now slowly starting to get later again in Boston. Sunrises continue to get later until early January

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

This man did not place a single bet before 2020. By 2024 he gambled away 1 million dollars and left his family destitute

Along the way DraftKings assigned VIP hosts who spoke to him *daily* and facilitated his access to more gambling products while knowing his family status

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

Here is a gift link to my profile of Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director: https://t.co/ileLoPbuhZ

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

If only someone had asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

I missed out on buying a house in 2008 and 2020 and I’ll be damned if I miss the next Republican Recession. I’m saving all my coins, I’m ready this time!

[Tom Emswiler @tomems8]

We have bills in MA… see pinned tweet. New bill coming January-ish…

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

This is a reminder that Maine voted to join the Atlantic Time Zone (more daylight) if New Hampshire and Massachusetts does the same while a Connecticut lawmaker introduced a bill to join the Atlantic Time Zone if Massachusetts and Rhode Island did the same.

So, Massachusetts...

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Before Election Day, right-wing social media was awash with claims about non-citizens voting.

Once it was clear President-Elect Trump would win, those claims dried up.

https://t.co/yQBszoNvlB

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

I think we are more likely to see a replay of Russia in the 1990s, with oligarchs looting government property with abandon, than Germany in the 1930s. Trump's cronies will be too busy stealing to implement most of his program.

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

fbi checks are in place for a reason

introduced post wwii to ensure there are no ties to entities that threaten national securtiy

[Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo]

“Outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post”

NYT is off to a great start.