OkieBespokie

Blue dot in a red ocean on a pale blue dot. They/them

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

The Founders on Twitter

Washington:

-never tweets himself
-account curated by staff
-usually Hamilton using the account
-doesn't follow anyone
-only tweets official statements

[Cam Harless @camharless]

Word on the street is that Trump may be arrested today. This will be the first president that this has ever happened to.

I thought, "what if all of the presidents were comic book villains?"

This, here is my newest list of presidents you never asked for.

1. George Washington

[OkieBespokie @WokeOkie]

@Sonar_Bat @JortsTheCat @ObsBlk Why did I read this to the tune of Tubthumping?

[Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez @jljcolorado]

1/ Must read from Dr. Raina MacIntyre:

Key quotes:

"As for denial of the risk in children, the majority of vaccine-preventable diseases that we vaccinate children against are mild in most children. Only a small percentage suffer serious complications"

https://t.co/xV0iRcOAka

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

“Don’t politicize this attack.”

BULLSH*T.

U.S. leaders face death threats BECAUSE of our toxic politics. Poll workers. Community leaders. Congresspeople. Governors. Supreme Court justices. Their families.

ENOUGH. Vote out ANYONE who promotes political violence.

[Brandon D. Scott @CNBrandonScott]

It’s pretty clear @GovStitt desire to be a good governor and decent human being was an aspirational goal, but he’s never gonna get there.

[OkieBespokie @WokeOkie]

@ThereIsNoBlue @NeolithicSheep @UrsulaV I swear to cow, this tweet should not apply to so many posts.

[OkieBespokie @WokeOkie]

@dataandpolitics If you can stomach the thought of reading, there is a book called It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine. I found it quite relatable.

[Mark @markofbrooklyn]

If you want to see @RadioFreeTom's Death of Expertise in action,look no further than Michael Tracey ridiculing @Cirincione—who has devoted his life to eliminating nuclear weapons and written 7 books

By contrast Tracey has "read pretty extensively about the Cuban Missile Crisis"

[Jennifer Palmer @jpalmerOKC]

Ginnie Graham: Oklahoma has 33,000 teachers choosing not to teach; we need them back https://t.co/UQJSBtDOlx via @tulsaworld

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

UPDATE: In a hastily scheduled press call with sympathetic media outlets yeasterday, DeSantis' aides attacked Popular Information's reporting.

But their attacks — and their defense of the phony brochure they distributed to migrants — are ridiculous.

🧵

https://t.co/I6qMolVh4E

[Ben Felder @benfelder_okc]

“We’re just trying to keep some people alive at this point,” a second official said, describing the struggle to protect potential witnesses.

Just catching up on this chilling story from @HannahAllam https://t.co/XBRFPgdbrE

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

I volunteer as a translator with asylees coming through the Texas border and I wanted to make a thread on who these migrants are, what help is actually needed and why what DeSantis and Abbott are doing is so needlessly cruel.

Everyone is talking about it, but so few understand

[OkieBespokie @WokeOkie]

@OscarandOreo1 @CathySpence3 @neeratanden @DeanObeidallah

[OkieBespokie @WokeOkie]

@SteveJenks63 @colton_canton @MollyJongFast @JeremyRedfernFL Now that you’ve provided an article with examples showing how to do it the right way by having already set up transport/hosts for the people arriving? I guess we mock DeSantis et al for being evil AND incompetent?

[Wyrmwood @WyrmwoodGaming]

We are giving away a PARTY TRAY - a rolling tray big enough for the whole adventuring team. 💃

(Rules posted below 👇)
#WyrmwoodWednesday #dnd5e #dnd #giveaway #dice #ttrpg

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Every time I click through one of those garbage legalese novellas you're expected to say "I Agree" to before doing something totally normal and inconsequential, I'm reminded of the legendary Lenny Bruce bit "Eat, Sleep and Crap."

https://t.co/j9TRvh3bGD 1/

[Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado]

Our story on Renewal Bio, the Israeli startup launching into the fraught arena of manufacturing synthetic models of human embryos.

Using artificial embryos as "bioprinters"

-grow them 50 days?
-harvest gonads for fertility?

🧵

https://t.co/q6kGQmzvpF

[Jay @OneFineJay]

I know the toxic instagram account mom_life comics is getting a lot of spread due to well-deserved negative reactions to it but I'd like to offer, as a mental palate cleanser, the absolutely adorable Catana Comics.

https://t.co/8KYDPbB6wO