Why We Worry

May you live in interesting times

[Keith @nagy_minaj]

Biden is a @DougJBalloon stan

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@kylegriffin1 I love threads like these. There are always legions of Elon's ball washers in the replies, making it easy to #BlockTheBlue.

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@NateSilver538 He lost the popular vote in 2016. He lost the House big in 2018.
He lost re-election in 2020.
His candidates disappointed in 2022.
He's facing at least one indictment in 2023.

It's not hard to figure out why Democrats would prefer him to be the opposition.

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Masterful retrospective on the criminal Iraq War and the laundering of GW Bush's reputation since he left office.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Around this time, 20 years ago, George W. Bush went on TV to announce his illegal invasion of Iraq, based on multiple lies.

Maybe more than a million people died, directly or indirectly, and yet Bush has never been held to account.

I make the case:
https://t.co/3askkxpBNi

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The leading Republican candidate is expected to be indicted next week. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Noted virologist Nate Silver is going to be so upset: https://t.co/5OuZctRxH9

[digby @digby56.bsky.social @digby56]

I love how these MAGA people are freaked out by drag queens even as they worship a man who wears more make-up and hair spray than RuPaul.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Unlocking new levels of time-wasting.

(Also, not bad, ChatGPT. No bad.)

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Russia splashes our drone and then suddenly #Reddit is down. Coincidence? No way.

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"You look so young, you could be one of Michael Jackson's playmates."

WTF. This has to be one of the creepiest things an older man could ever say in the workplace. Dude's lucky that Juan Gonzalez didn't beat his ass.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This story -- from Norman Finkelstein's book "I'll Burn that Bridge When I Get to it!" -- on how and why he was banished by Amy Goodman from appearing on @DemocracyNow is both hilarious and revealing.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

@LHSummers Do you ever talk about moral hazard except when it's to block programs for the poor and working class?

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Socrates was a classic poster. He just walked up to people and asked them what they believed in, then he’d say it was stupid and yell at them. He argued with everybody until he was legally compelled to kill himself. Not one of us has that commitment

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@ddayen Makes sense for Barrett. She was the one who rejected those emergency requests to block the relief.

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@ggreenwald Any thoughts on your preferred news channel admitting they spread election fraud lies for profit?

[Wild Geerters @steinkobbe]

Elon is firing engineers for explaining to him why his tweets are getting less likes https://t.co/drSfR8CP0v

[Philip Bump @pbump]

Legit wild stuff.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

The rules package has a change Republicans boasted about that bill text will be made available to members at least 72 hours before it is voted on.

That rules package text was itself just unveiled a few minutes ago and Republicans now say we're going to vote on it in a few hours.

[Jamie Raskin @jamie_raskin]

We never had to deal with this much chaos when George Santos was Speaker.

[Маделейн . @normalmadeline]

the dental hygienist to you during a cleaning when you’re completely unable to speak

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@spaceship_nova @AlasdairC @mattyglesias So you’re saying they should build homes in someone else’s backyard…