Tom Tomlinson

just figuring this out, so... follow me?

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@StarshinaZapasa Я в ужасе уже 10 лет. Я ненавижу его с 80-х. Но все же делаю, что могу, на местном уровне.

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@NormOrnstein and who's going to do that

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@Daractenus Elon's gained weight

[👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 @WonderKing82]

Thats everyone coming down on Democrats look stupid and ill prepared.

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

The shutdown is a complete victory for Democrats and it's strange that people think otherwise.

Dems have Republicans in a chokehold (no thanks to Chuck Schumer).

Here's a breakdown of everything Dems got from this :

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[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Anyone who isn't a vile disinformation pimp like Elon Musk knows this about the left: with only the rarest counter-examples, it categorically has despised political violence since the 1960s.

Bluesky isn't celebrating the Kirk shooter, it's condemning him.

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@curiosityonx something else

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Horrible news of a tragic bus accident wich resulted in many Ukrainian victims, including children. They were returning from an academic exchange with a French lycée in Brittany. On the way to Paris, the bus lost control and veered off the road.

As of now, four adults have died, three of whom were Ukrainian citizens. Two more people are in critical condition, and French doctors are fighting for their lives. The rest of the children sustained light to moderate injuries, and all are receiving the necessary medical assistance.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry immediately sent a team of our diplomats and consuls, led by our Ambassador to France. They are on-site, providing necessary assistance to our people and staying in contact with the victims’ families, as well as French officials and services on the ground.

Foreign Affairs Minsiter Sybiha and Internal Affairs Minister Klymenko are providing regular updates on the state of the victims and all circumstances of the incident.

I am grateful to the French authorities for the massive mobilization of rescue services, more than 50 emergency teams were deployed to rush our children to hospitals and are continuing to help our people. This is a true demonstration of French solidarity with us. I know that the Office of President Emmanuel Macron remains engaged and continues to monitor the situation closely. The emergency response center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and local authorities have also been mobilized.

My condolences to all the victim’s’ families. We all pray that lives will be saved and that the injured children will recover quickly.

[Badly Drawn Boy @badly_drawn_boy]

Mark E Smith got in my car thinking I was a taxi in 1997, I was playing a cassette version of Pet Sounds. Mark asked what it was and could he have it ? I said he could keep it if we could do a collaboration. We recorded a song ‘Calendar’ a few weeks later. Thanks Brian Wilson !

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

President Biden is a man of deep faith and extraordinary resilience. Chasten and I are keeping him, and the entire Biden family, in our prayers for strength and healing.

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

17 ноября. Против Путина. Против войны.
Выходите.

https://t.co/GxTzjCZDuK

[Angela Alsobrooks @AlsobrooksForMD]

I'm honored to have the Washington Post’s endorsement—it’s a big boost with polls showing Hogan and I tied.

But Hogan’s super PACs just dropped more attack ads, and McConnell’s billionaire backers are spending $25M to flip this seat. Can you chip in $10 to help us push back?

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

UPDATE: Robert Kagan confirms to NPR that he has resigned from WaPost editorial board after disclosure it would not make an announcement.

Kagan has been a persistent conservative critic of Trump, tying him to an autocratic tradition.

Uniformly outraged response from staff.

[Jill Lawrence @JillDLawrence]

Get ready. We know a lot about JD Vance, most of it tremendously worrisome. Given Trump's declining capacities, Vance could be president all too soon—at 40, with a very short 2 years in public office and a very long history of weird/bad ideas. Me @latimes https://t.co/rd0J9P21DS

[DarkSeahawk 🪷 @LinneaEngstrom3]

America’s paper of record refuses to sound the alarm about the threat Trump poses to democracy. If Trump wins, blame the New York Times https://t.co/NC8Klm1NcO

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I am currently en route to Brussels for a special European Council meeting at the leadership level, where I will present our Victory Plan – a tool to compel Russia towards peace. European leaders will hear how we need to strengthen our positions to end this war justly.

I am thankful to Charles Michel, President of the European Council, for Ukraine’s invitation. Meetings in the European Parliament are also planned – with President Roberta Metsola and the heads of political groups.

I will also meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and we are preparing for the “Ukraine-NATO” Council meeting at the defense ministers’ level.

Our priority remains securing more protection for Ukraine ahead of the winter.

[Rayner Jae Liu @raynerjaeliu]

There's so much new information coming out about COVID that I can barely keep track.

But I've found some threads this week that feel important to share—namely, the rise of heart attacks in people in their 30s and 40s.

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@Bornabrit1 @RickDav41117830 actually GWB's goal was to depose & kill Saddam as part of a family revenge fantasy

didn't go well

[Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson]

@nintendomad888 people actually wear this?