This may be my last Twitter round-up. I stopped checking it with regularity after November 10, shortly after X announced they would stop allowing users to block accounts, and on the day when they would begin mining of all tweets to train their AI. At the same time, there was a big exodus of users off the platform and onto BlueSky.
Almost all of the accounts I value have migrated to BlueSky or are not posting on Twitter anymore. I may miss a few things, but I think it's time to stop participating in Elon's Nazi machine, even in the limited way that I have been.
I've organized these tweets into chronological order, just for similarity with the November BlueSky posts. Because the dates have so many gaps, I've left them in to give a sense of when they're from. As usual, the images not related to the election or Trump administration breaking news may have been moved around for better visual balance.
And everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account.
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Nov 1
Philadelphia homicide rate drops to lowest point in over a decade
Action News on 6abc
New study finds: "reaching net-zero in the next few decades will not bring an immediate end to the global heating problem. Earth’s climate will change for many centuries to come." It is genuinely insane how casually we are treating this problem.
David Roberts @drvolts
People who did not live through these times will not believe that they happened.
Elie Mystal
Nov 2
No matter who wins or loses on Tuesday, I will never not stop being mad at Joe Biden and Merrick Garland for allowing Trump to face the electorate this week without having seen the inside of a courtroom for his crimes on, and ahead of, January 6th. Astonishing incompetence,
Mehdi Hasan
"I will be your protector":
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob
Nov 3
Riot fencing is being installed in DC ahead of the election. This isn’t normal and the press needs to be clear why. Trump incited a violent insurrection and continues to present an ongoing threat to our democracy. The security measures are entirely due to the danger he presents.
Matt McDermott @mattmfm
Trump advisor says the goal of Trump's Social Security policy is to “force” retired Americans “back into the workforce”
Kamala HQ
They support Trump because "he tells it like it is," yet they've spent 9 years telling us, "That's not what he meant." "It was a joke; lighten up." “You're taking it the wrong way." “He's just trolling the libs, and you have TDS." Stop sane-washing the insane.
Arthur Imparato
Nov 4
On the eve of America's 60th presidential election, the Republican presidential candidate - who is fending off accusations that he is a "fascist" and a new Hitler - suggested having UFC fighters fight against amorphous "migrants" in a special "league." I am not making this up.
Mehdi Hasan
This cartoon:
@JoJoFromJerz
Nov 5 (election day)
the right wing radicalization of high school- and college-aged men is truly one of the biggest crises in the us and it goes nearly completely unaddressed
jennie’s wife @jentayIor
I have said this before, but it's weird when you realize that what you thought was rock bottom was actually somewhere around rock middle
Jill Twiss
I cannot emphasize enough how disturbing it is that Fulton and Dekalb county voting precincts were targeted for bomb threats. These are the biggest, Blackest counties in Georgia. A quarter of the state's Black population between them.
Franklin Leonard
Nov 6
Appears 15–20 M fewer people voted than 4 yearrs ago, overwhelmingly fewer Ds. Inexcusable
Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD
They made a villain out of Fauci for trying to protect us, and they're going to make a hero out of RFK, Jr. for harming us.
Hemant Mehta
c. 1918. Many posters were created to promote wheat conservation and provide food for U.S. soldiers. Distributed by the U.S. Food Admin., this poster represents and speaks to US citizens, also serving as an example of “call-to-action” graphics:
People’s Graphic Design Archive
i really hope we can talk about white supremacy seriously now. it is such a deep, malignant, PRIMARY force, and we have got to stop acting like it’s a side effect instead of a cause.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright
At least there won’t be court challenges wasting my time during this holiday season.
Elie Mystal
As the saying goes, not all men, but always men.
@TrumpIsApandemc
Harris ran a good campaign that excited Democratic voters and lost because of a giant national swing to the right, because we've allowed the internet and right-wing media to cook the whole country in right-wing misery and discontent for years. Also, probably some misogyny.
Will Stancil
Perhaps I started my criminal investigations of Trump a bit too late. But I'm comfortable that my successor Aileen Cannon will keep them going. by Merrick Garland
New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
It is more important to look at why Trump was allowed to run, after committing sedition and a number of other crimes to which he confessed, than why he was able to win.
Sarah Kendzior
For anyone who wonders why republicans attack education so fiercely, tonight is your answer.
Matt Stehman
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did. As a nation, we collectively failed her — and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
John Pavlovitz
This is not the time for unicausal explanations or blame assignment. Trump won because of many reasons including propaganda, demonization, racism, militarization of politics and lack of justice regarding his coup attempt. Legality is central to democracy and it was blatantly ignored
@FinchelsteinF
The purple-crowned fairy wren. (Photo Marc Gardner):
Weird Animals
Every demographic that isn't Black drastically increased their support for Trump. When we say Black people have no permanent allies...we mean Black people have no permanent allies.
@GullahRehabbed
White supremacy cannot be defeated unless we’re all in it together (obviously, a majority of white people are not gonna help). But… this election *really shows* that a lot of other “people of color” do not want to defeat white supremacy, they want to join it.
Elie Mystal
The reality is that Biden won in 2020 because of Trump’s handling of COVID. We just all forgot how disastrous 2020 was like. Trump was otherwise always strong with rural Americans and men. We just all collectively decided to memory hole COVID; let’s recognize and move forward.
Eric Feigl-Ding
Democrats: First black president. First female vice president.
Republicans: First convicted felon president.
Alex Cole @acnewsitics
Nov 7
I can’t believe I have to say this in 2024 but mass deportations irreparably harm the people being hunted down, detained, and deported and their families. Focusing on how you’re gonna pay more for your groceries because there will be less farmworkers is frankly offensive af.
Aura Bogado
Milwaukee, Wisonsin's one "urban core" county, delivered a 178,247 net vote margin to Harris — bigger than Obama's net Milwaukee votes in '08 or '12. Almost identical Dem votes as 2020 (316.3k vs 317.5k) — but 3,527 more Trump votes this time. 1.3% swing, vs 8% nationally. MKE showed up.
Ben Wikler
SDOT has concern-trolled me for years over bollards ("someone might run into one!") but watch them adopt these curbside EV chargers without a second thought:
Qagggy!
Eliminate the Electoral College, right now. The GOP just won the popular vote. There’s no partisan reason to keep it anymore. Do the whole country a favor and get rid of that democracy-distorting relic
Robert E Kelly
Advocating to extend rights, resources, and freedom to large groups of people remains unpopular.
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated
I am just going to say, jumping out of the gate from this election result with “here’s why all the things I thought we needed to do before the election would have won us this election that shocked everybody” is prima facie stupid. Give it a little time to think a new thought.
The Fact of Other Minds Stan Acct @csilverandgold
Nov 9
The next decade is going to be a whole series of unpleasant realizations about how little climate chaos and ecological collapse care about our expectations in life. What's coming is the reaction of those who've denied the possibility of change, realizing their lives are now defined by unprecedented change.
Alex Steffen
The super-rich do not have a God-given right to destroy the planet for the sake of flying to a football match in luxury. #BanPrivateJets:
Stay Grounded Network
have you noticed that maga has gotten everything they wanted and they’re still mad af? almost like they’re just angry hateful people all the time
@iamAtheistGirl
Nov 10
We will all be alive to watch as mass incarceration morphs into the detention and deportation mass industrial complex. The private prison business is going to thrive by detaining immigrants. Immigrants without documents and immigrants with green cards. Don’t be mistaken.
Maria Hinojosa
Everyone is going to suffer under what’s coming, except the oligarchs. Some groups will suffer more, some less. But everyone will suffer, no matter how they voted.
leahmcelrath
Democrats after losing by 2 points: Our brand is in ashes. We need a complete overhaul.
Republicans after losing by 4.5 points: Let's run the same guy again.
Bill Scher
Properly shading each state based on 2024 election results, the U.S. is a far more purple place than it at first appears:
@cremieuxrecueil
It’s kinda funny that Kamala Harris did coalition management by sort of awkwardly trying to straddle the middle of two competing views in the Democratic Party and Donald Trump did it by saying the exact opposite things one day to the next
Armand Domalewski
Donald Trump announces his 10-point plan to rebuild America's school system: Among his promises is teach patriotism, bring back 'school prayer, and fire teachers who disagree. This is how our freedom ends.
CALL TO ACTIVISM
Nov 18
I’m sure plenty of women would rather not be in a bathroom with Nancy Mace but they don’t go crying to the parliamentarian about it.
Tim Miller @Timodc
The Department of Efficiency needs two heads lmao
@vijayvinyl
Nov 20
Girls don’t enter trades like boys do because the working conditions almost guarantee a lifetime of sexual harassment and sexism, not because they’re too weak to learn carpentry.
holly @girlziplocked
Nov 23
A political movement that would appoint Seb Gorka to be head of anything more substantive than street sweeper will never be capable of serious achievements.
Damon Linker
Death rate from air pollution per 100,000 people, change from 1990:
> India up 70%
> China down 68%
Come on India, you can do this:
>Faster renewables
>Cut dirty coal
>Scrubbers on smokestacks
>Stricter emissions standards
>Electrify everything
>Enforce environmental regs
Assaad Razzouk
Nov 29
What stage of capitalism is this?
David Sirota
A bus and bike lane in the USA takes longer to build than the restoration of Notre Dame.
Hayden @the_transit_guy
There is a deep structural unfairness in that Trump will get to do most of what he wants to do and Obama got to do like none of his agenda despite much bigger wins. America should do something about that.
The Fact of Other Minds Stan Acct @csilverandgold
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