Lawrence Dudley

In 1940 the Nazis tried to rig the 1940 US election. (Sound familiar?) Why Americans helped is what interested me. Author New York Station & The Hungry Blade

[Lawrence Dudley @WriterLDudley]

The January 6th hearings make it clear we almost lost democracy. But attacks on free elections aren't new, we're witnessing a repeat of WWII when the Nazis tried to rig the 1940 election. Why Americans would help fascinated me & lead to #NewYorkStation. This is a context we need

[Lawrence Dudley @WriterLDudley]

@LeftyWinter This actually describes the New Deal. I suggest you check out FDR’s Second Bill of Rights.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 New York's ban on masked ICE Agents has officially gone into effect.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Today the corrupt GOP SCOTUS struck down a Hawaii state law that banned guns on private property unless the owner of the property consents. So in effect the GOP Court just ushered in communism where private property owners have lost the rights to control their own property!!

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

This is why I haven't left Twitter.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[slash1s @slash1sol]

IN 1985 ONE OF THE GREATEST PHYSICISTS WHO EVER LIVED SAT DOWN TO EXPLAIN HOW COMPUTERS ACTUALLY WORK AND TOLD A ROOM FULL OF ENGINEERS THE MACHINE IS COMPLETELY DUMB

76 minutes from Richard Feynman, still called the clearest explanation of what a computer really is ever given.

-> The idea that lands: a computer is just a very, very fast, very, very dumb file clerk. It doesn't think. It follows tiny simple rules, billions of times a second.

All the complexity you're in awe of comes from stacking simple things. There's no magic underneath. There never was.

Forty years later everyone calls the model "Intelligent". Feynman already told you what it really is: speed, not thought.

Being amazed by the machine was never the point -> understanding what it's actually doing is.

Most people are dazzled by what AI says. The ones who watched this know exactly what's happening underneath.

Bookmark & Watch it today. This one's a legend ↓

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Someone asked me, quite reasonably, why I've been so interested in the 250th celebrations, in Juneteenth, in the Arch, etc.

My answer's pretty simple. Orwell: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

https://t.co/NGUyh4cGXu

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump The Peacemaker.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

BREAKING. All hell breaks loose between Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni. 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

Trump told La7 tv that apparently “Meloni begged to have a picture with me at the G7, I felt sorry for her”.

Meloni’s scathing response: “I am shocked by Trump’s utterly fabricated words. I am sorry he doesn’t show the same determination against the enemies of the West. And bear in mind: me and Italy never beg”.

What a time to be alive.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Dear younger voters who went for Trump in ‘24, watch the speeches of Prez & Michelle Obama & Mamdani today then compare it to Trump speaking at the White House this afternoon. Ask yourself what kinda world you wanna live in & what real leadership looks like. Then get involved.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Unless you're an brain-wormed partisan, "Iran is an evil regime," "this preventive war was stupid and should never have been launched," and "this peace deal is a US humiliation" are three perfectly true things you should be able to believe at the same time.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Aussies are bringing game. 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The 14-million-dollar money laundering scheme explained.

[Lawrence Dudley @WriterLDudley]

The real leader of the free world.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

This would mean the Canadians have seen the MOU, but the Israelis haven't. Israel’s request to see the text was rejected by the U.S., per @talshalev1.

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…

Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kerry Kennedy on Tarp at Kennedy Center: This is typical of an administration that doesn't believe in transparency. It doesn't believe in transparency and decision making. It doesn't believe in transparency in the courts. It doesn't believe in transparency in when or why it goes to war or why it stops these wars. And it doesn't believe in transparency for something as small as this. Now, to me, it's very, very important that the Kennedy Center be retain its name. But it's also symbolic of a larger problem of transparency and corruption by this administration.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten.

He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building.

Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare.

If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar.

We’ve lost that plot entirely.

We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago.

Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing.

Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

[The Steady State @steadystate2025]

When people in Washington lower their voices and say, “Please don’t use my name. I’m afraid he’ll come after my family’s livelihood,” it means something has broken. People no longer trust the law to protect them.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”

— Carl Sagan