Tommy Ball

the voice of many personalities

[Martenzie Johnson @10zJohnson]

Giving this up to move to suburban Indiana is just so stupid

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

One of the downstream consequences of pretending that Trump was ever fit to be president is that the GOP is training its voters to want unserious performers and conspiracy theorists (as Trump was/is) to play a serious role in American politics and that should scare us all.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours (in Italy is 90%).

Strategic autonomy must be built in advance, in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment, or it isn’t built at all.

The countries still exposed to fossil fuel price shocks didn’t lack the warnings. They lacked the will.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion."

[FastAndBulbous @BulbSweetBulb]

@dccommonsense I'm sympathetic to this guy's take

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

When I was on the radio in the Clinton years the favorite term used by my right-wing callers (who spoke of "black helicopters and the like) was "jackbooted government thugs" (this was after Waco and Ruby Ridge). They used that phrase CONSTANTLY.

I wonder how they're feeling now?

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Don't you dare call us fascists just because we first tried to seize power by a violent putsch ... and then after that failed we instead used a spectacular crime as a pretext to consolidate power and suppress opposition."

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

a few days ago brian kilmeade said homeless people should be executed. jesse waters accused the left of trying to start a civil war. fox news spent years telling verifiable lies about dominion and the 2020 election.

canceling jimmy kimmel isn’t about an offensive line in a monologue. it’s about wielding state power to silence political opposition.

[Tommy Ball @twb213]

After a decade-plus in Chrome, I spent a workweek in the @diabrowser to see if an AI-powered sidekick could actually streamline my day-to-day as a project manager.

I share my first impressions of the Dia browser in my latest article for Viget.

https://t.co/luROjlK8jx

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

When everything is an “emergency,” we no longer have a constitutional republic. We have a completely different form of government than the one our Constitution prescribes. It’s no longer a government of limited and divided powers; it’s one of unlimited and concentrated powers.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying.

Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.

[Matt Lewis @mattklewis]

I’m loving the new expert consensus: Zelensky’s mistake wasn’t, you know, defending his country against an invasion—it was failing to properly stroke Trump’s ego. Because the whole ballgame isn’t waging war or diplomacy, it’s mastering the fine art of babysitting a narcissist

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I love this explanation by C.S. Lewis re: why understanding the past is so important (as a real life-enhancing element...not as a curiosity-satisfyer).
It's like another physical sense. Touch, taste, sight, hearing, time perspective, smell, etc.

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

this debate has EVERYTHING: dog eating, baby killing, transgender operations on illegal aliens in prisons

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Leave to one side all the Republicans who spoke to bury Trump. There was also a culturally conservative through-line to this convention: very pro-military and pro-family. They want GOP voters.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Thank God one of our two political parties is pro-American, pro-freedom, and pro-democracy.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"When the Know-Nothings get control...I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
-- Abraham LIncoln, August 24, 1855

[Tommy Ball @twb213]

Thank you, Joe. Your service to America deserves the respect from the entire country.

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

Ruth Bader Biden.

Read @MarkLeibovich:
https://t.co/CPHt1E75pA