Andrew dePasquale

Web development, guitar, politics, visual arts, and underperforming New York sports teams. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Post: @webakimbo.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Russia calling in bomb threats to polling places in liberal districts across the country should be bigger news right now. They’re interfering for Trump right in the open, right in front of our faces

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Closing argument in @TheAtlantic The rest is up to you.

https://t.co/lTwFuCPoAz

[oldeuropeanculture @serbiaireland]

Thread: Before refrigeration, Russians kept the milk fresh by dropping live brown frogs straight into their milk buckets. The frog’s presence kept milk from spoiling, but no one knew why.

Until Albert Lebedev, a scientist from Moscow State University decided to look into it...

[Andrew dePasquale @webakimbo]

Huge Trump ad at the top of the For You feed. Probably a coincidence tho since we know Musk doesn’t tolerate favoring or suppressing certain expressions of speech over others.

[Liz Claman @LizClaman]

BREAKING: @nvidia to replace @intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average $NVDA

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

Let’s go not Yankees

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

If the President thought his attempt to overturn the election and forge elector documents were legitimate “official acts” why was he using an insecure, foreign routed burner phone for these calls?

How many other sensitive calls did the former President have on this unencrypted line with coconspirators, that could now be used as blackmail against him, by any foreign nation which may have tapped that line?

(And before the reply bots get here, let me remind them: Trump’s own legal team did not dispute the authenticity of *anything* unsealed from the Smith filing)

[David Frum @davidfrum]

A President Harris won't try to use state power to retaliate against Americans who criticize her - and everybody knows it.

A second-term President Trump will try to use state power to retaliate against Americans who criticize him - and everybody knows that too.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

So basically Elon Musk is a traitor working with America's enemies, he's also the main funder and proponent of Donald Trump's campaign, and he controls a bunch of our communications and national security infrastructure. And is the richest guy on earth, to boot. Seems bad

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

BBC Verify has extensively reported on an AI-powered influence operation run by Moscow-based former Florida cop John Mark Dougan.

Now @washingtonpost says it's seen documents that show Dougan has been directly working with Russian military intelligence.

https://t.co/C2dxLIsts2

[Andrew dePasquale @webakimbo]

Can’t watch a Yankees-Dodgers WS. Yankees don’t need another ring, and I’m forever mad about Utley’s slide. #LGM

[Andrew dePasquale @webakimbo]

Rewatching Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke’s dance numbers are absurdly physical. Like the NFL combine, but constantly for an hour.

[All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris]

“It is the grossest, most cynical ploy in an election cycle that’s rotten with cynical ploys,” says @chrislhayes on the Elon Musk pro-Trump PAC’s microtargeting of Michigan voters.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Wow. "An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris’ liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is actually run by a dark money network supporting former President Donald Trump." - with Elon money
https://t.co/qCPK9s4SVM

[Glenn Kessler @GlennKessler__]

This is false. The truth, based on news reports at the time: The Trump Shuttle was in financial trouble because Trump made a bad deal and ended up with too many 727s. He had already put the airline up for sale and would soon lose control of it to the banks. He didn't offer his own plane but charged Mandela $130,000 to borrow one of his unused jets.

[Andrew dePasquale @webakimbo]

Obv pleased with this game but quietly wishing the Mets would be more consistent

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you're advocating for in the US?

JD Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US. (June 2024)

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

Except, of course, he did:

—Tried to break up AT&T-Time Warner merger to punish TW-owned CNN.

—Sought to deny Amazon a federal contract to punish WaPo owner Jeff Bezos.

—Repeatedly talked about yanking TV licenses of networks he didn’t like. More…

[Andrew dePasquale @webakimbo]

If the Dodgers take every pitch this game they’ll win by eight