We're heading into the last full month of this election season from hell: September and October are the last two full Twitter round-ups before we get some results on or close to November 3 (we hope). And I find that I just can't face the work it takes to reorganize all of these paragraphs of text into categories and then set up the block quotes, partly because of the technical debacle that is the new Blogger engine.
So I'm just going to run them in reverse chronological order for at least this month. That way you can see what it looks like to me when I deal with these posts, and I hope it's not too overwhelming (as if anyone reads these Twitter round-up posts anyway. Hmm).
Despite not doing all of the cutting and pasting, I could still see the topics emerge as I worked my way through. We've got COVID and comments about Mafia Mulligan throughout. There's the Gish Gallop debate tweets, of course, which are all pretty close together. Mulligan's lack of tax payments and his general indebtedness. The attempted stealing of yet another Supreme Court seat, a situation created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Oh, and the West Coast is on fire — remember that?
Then further back in the month, we've got the revelations of Bob Woodward's book and the fact that he withheld them (remember that!), and Mulligan calling dead soldiers suckers and losers. The Kyle Rittenhouse shootings in Kenosha. And all that is overlaid with the usual white supremacy, sexism, and climate catastrophe.
Now that Mulligan has COVID, all of these other stories may get forgotten as well, so it's good to get them stored away in the September filing cabinet.
I welcome comments on whether you like this arrangement better or not.
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When white women say “we’re living through the Handmaid’s Tale” all I hear is “I haven’t read Parable of the Sower.”
Mary Annaïse Heglar
It’s sort of wild how many people miss the obvious, which is that Trump’s cruelty appeals disproportionately to *men* across socioeconomic lines.
Adam Serwer
If you think Trump talks like a working class person you have more sneering contempt for the working class than any coastal elite.
@agraybee
I love California environmentalism where everyone hopes someone will do something to stop climate change and then votes to perpetuate it.
@IDoTheThinking
Facebook 2005: Connect with your school friends!
Facebook 2020: WELCOME TO THE FORUM OF EVIL. BETWEEN ADS YOU CAN SEE THAT YOUR AUNTIE THINKS IMMIGRANTS PUT CANCER IN YOGHURT. YOUR OLD BULLY NOW WANTS TO SELL YOU SKINCARE. YOU ARE INVITED TO THE GROUP 'DUCKS ARE LGBT SPIES'
TechnicallyRon
Urbanists are going to have to confront the reality that it doesnt
matter how fast and frequent public transit is *by itself* if public
transit is about as expensive as driving especially with more than 1
person. Doesn't mean fares have to be free but they need to be cheap.
@IDoTheThinking
A bias of The Media that never gets talked about is the strong bias toward coherence. Make a reporter sit through a bizarre, rambling, nonsensical speech and they’ll be inclined to summarize it in some way that makes actual sense and grab the single sensical quote.
Bryn Stole
I’ve often heard it said that to whom much is given, much is required. But not the other part: to whom nothing is given we expect even more.
jelani cobb
Cosby and Weinstein eventually went to jail because the pressure kept up. It’s baffling to me that a reporter doesn’t ask *The President* about his sexual assault allegations every day.
Daniel Kibblesmith
Choose which family members you try to talk to wisely. For example, I’ve got a real verbally abusive “I love to debate/get a rise out of people” conservative in my family who’s told me he doesn’t think I should have the right to marry. Talking to him would be a waste! Instead I TOLD him I was cutting him out of my life and WHY. He doesn’t deserve my politeness to “keep the peace.” That only hurt ME to make HIM comfortable. Sorry, now his brain can no longer say “I’m a good person, cause Janine still likes me.” Fuck that.
Janine Brito
The climate pays for cheap flights.
Extinction Rebellion
The brain-trust of Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump came up with a debate strategy that basically centered on reminding women watching of abusive men they dated or married.
The Hoarse Whisperer
One way the conventions of "objective" political journalism are broken is that they draw a false equivalence between one candidate refusing to condemn his white nationalist fans and saying he won't accept the results of the election with the other guy calling him a "clown."
Adam Serwer
A small thing but telling in terms of Trump’s handle on the Covid-19 pandemic — he vowed to vaccinate 200,000 people a day, which sounds like a large number but equals 73 million per year at which pace you need almost five years to vaccinate everyone.
Matthew Yglesias
Chester @Chester_McFuku
After 4 years in power, Trump is just about ready to (1) release his taxes, (2) roll out his healthcare plan, (3) build the wall, and (4) bring back those jobs from China to Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. Just a few more weeks. Right around the corner.
Michael McFaul
Trump voters make me wonder if like 45% of the people in our country who went to see Back to the Future were secretly upset at how it turned out.
Steve Harrington’s Bat
Saying the debate was a disgrace because of both candidates is like
watching someone try to ballroom dance with a wild cheetah and saying
boy that couple can’t dance.
Adam McKay @GhostPanther
After last night you can see the country is facing less an election than a hostage negotiation. Will Trump come out peacefully or is he one of
those degenerates who kills his wife and kids on the way out? If he's
going to lose he wants to burn the country down with him.
Josh Marshall
The person who told Biden to keep looking at the camera and addressing
the viewers deserves a raise. Every time he started a sentence with
“Folks” it was like he was breaking the 4th wall on the world’s
shittiest reality tv program.
jelani cobb
Undecided Ohio voter on CNN panel, asked if Biden's "clown" remark bothered him: "He’s spent the last five years calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas... Is it great that Joe called him a clown, no. But when the shoe fits—when the clown shoe fits."
James Poniewozik
this debate:
Hannah Jewell
Biden's a mediocre live speaker. But he appears sincere, he seems genuinely to care about Americans, he wants the world to be better rather than worse, he loves his family and he would clearly murder Trump with a brick if it was allowed by the debate rules. What else do you need.
Will Stancil
I mean what can you say but that the president is wildly unfit and has gotten tens of thousands of people killed and the country is in the worst shape it's been in in decades.
Chris Hayes
This has been shockingly underreported: Cars have hit demonstrators 104 times since George Floyd protests began.
Kathy Sullivan
I feel like punk rockers consistently becoming reactionary over time is the best recurring lesson that being anti-mainstream and anti-authority is not the same as being genuinely politically subversive.
Becca Lewis (responding to news that Johnny Rotten is a Trump supporter)
The subtext of the New York Times report is the crucial
importance of “The Apprentice” to Trump’s finances and ultimately his
political career. No “Apprentice,” no cash flow to prop up many
loss-making businesses. No “Apprentice,” no myth of Trump as a financial
whiz to run on.
Paul Farhi @farhip
Since 2011, IRS audit rates for the wealthy have been reduced by a factor of 5:
The rich ARE defunding the police. Just the wrong ones.
Mark Paul
Anyone willing to accept a supreme court nomination under these circumstance has declared themselves a person of poor ethical character and unfit for any office that requires public trust.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Imagine rigging the system, cheating the system, even capturing the presidency to further your business interests, and still being too bad at business to make money.
Anand Giridharadas
Teachers can legally only deduct up to $250 of their work-related expenses.
Dave Levitan
Donald Trump is the head of a multi-generational international crime family and should be treated as such.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Philantropy is nice. Paying taxes is better:
Economics in Bricks
Trump is packing NOAA with climate deniers like geography prof David Legates & some guy who worked as a data analyst for the Trump campaign, in addition to Cato's Ryan Maue. Due to federal workers' protections these guys cannot be easily fired even when (if) Trump leaves office.
@DoctorVive
This is a reminder that the IRS audits way more people who make under $30,000 per year than they do millionaires because the GOP repeatedly stripped their funding and the poor don't have the resources to fight the IRS, while the rich have lawyers to fight them at every turn.
Ryan Rosenblatt
If Trump loses, he and Javanka, DJTJr, and Eric face IRS audits, civil litigation, and state and perhaps federal criminal charges. Keep that in mind as they amp the crazy lies to keep that from happening
@ClaraJeffery
replace all pickup trucks with this:
Salaloquy
Federal taxes paid, first year in office
Ronald Reagan: $165,202
George H.W. Bush: $101,382
Bill Clinton: $62,670
George W. Bush: $250,221
Barack Obama: $1,792,414
Donald Trump: $750
Christopher Ingraham
In 2016, Trump paid $129,250 more to Stormy Daniels than to the USA government.
Jeet Heer
Old enough to remember when John Edwards’s $400 haircut was a huge scandal in American politics. Guessing Donald Trump writing $70,000 off his taxes for hairstyling won’t even register, let alone him not paying taxes most years in the last two decades!
Matt Fuller
To summarize the NYT story: Trump got a bunch of $ from his daddy. He lost it all, but then he got paid hundreds of millions to play a billionaire on TV. He tried to use that $ to become a real billionaire, but he lost it all again. Now he's starting over, but we're his daddy.
Jason Kander
I wish I could remember who said this, because it's an important insight: "Electric cars won't save the planet, they'll only save the car."
Cameron Graham
The heart of the issue: ‘buying a battery-powered SUV that weighs more than 2.5 tons to ferry the kids to school doesn’t do much to save the planet.’ Electric vehicles don’t move the needle if we continue to design cities for driving. #WalkCycleTransit
Jennifer Keesmaat
If you want to understand what's wrong with the U.S. right now, it isn't much more complicated than this: through a series of crimes, ignominious political operations, and unconscionable detours from tradition, the *minority* party in America—the GOP—has seized control of power.
Seth Abramson
No group’s “religious freedom” should = oppression, inhumanity and injustice for other people.
Be A King @BerniceKing
GOP: don’t attack Catholics
Democrats: ACA
Democrats: climate change legislation
Democrats: we are Catholics
Yascha Mounk: I cant believe Dems are attacking Catholics
GOP Protestants: by the way the pope is the antichrist
Seriously the people in this country who specifically hate Catholics as a sect are conservative evangelical Protestants.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Republicans in the Senate didn’t have the time to renew unemployment insurance but they have time jam through a court justice in 2 weeks.
Andy Slavitt
The conservative base is worked up into a hysterical frenzy about an imaginary global pedophile ring but is lining up to ensure that no one betrays even a hint of negative feeling toward the one institution that actually fits that description.
David Roberts
When you understand that under capitalism a forest has no value until it's cut down, you begin to understand the root of our ecological crises.
silent scyther
I don’t know a lot about Amy Coney Barrett. But I know she’s accepting nomination from a President actively trying to subvert a national election and threatening to hold on to power by force, an attack on the constitution unparalleled in American history. Do I need to know more?
Josh Marshall
Upon arrival in Iceland, you take a COVID test, quarantine for 5 days then take another test. There is an app to download, that discloses what information it wants and why (contact tracing). We got our first results in 16 hours. To let 201,000 people die is a choice.
roxane gay
This pretty much sums up social media in the United States of America:
Eugene Gu, MD
Also worth noting that a wide variety of polls, including from Trump's friends at Fox News, consistently show him 6-12 points behind, yet he denounces them all as "FAKE POLLS." There is no doubt he will say the vote is FAKE and Republican senators will say this is fine.
Dean Baker
We were making fun of tech bros for reinventing buses and vending machines, but they also reinvent phrenology and eugenics every other week.
Alex Rowan Cattell
"Originalism" is sophistry reverse-engineered to serve conservative group interests and is freely thrown overboard any time it drifts into conflict with those interests. This is also true of federalism, fiscal conservatism, "law and order," evangelical morality, and all the rest of it.
David Roberts
This is such a farce. The GOP blocked Merrick Garland for 237 DAYS before an election but is rushing to confirm Barrett 38 days before Nov 3. The entire process is illegitimate. It’s a coup in the making and should be treated as such. 866,000 people have already voted in 2020 elections. Millions will have voted by the time the Barrett hearings begin. There's absolutely no reason to confirm her before the election except for Trump to ensure she throws out enough votes to keep him in office.
Ari Berman
One day, a Democratic president will nominate a Muslim woman to the Supreme Court, and all those Republican tweets about how we shouldn't criticize someone's faith will be thrown back at them, but they'll all find a new excuse like "Well, this is a Christian nation," etc.
Hemant Mehta
The word for conservative feminism is misogyny
Justin Ravitz
Hot tip: feminism isn’t a girl power sorority dedicated to being nice to other laydeez. It’s a liberatory political movement. Women who are against other women’s freedom are enemies of feminism, and it’s not anti-feminist to say so out loud.
Jaclyn Friedman
My annual thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov who on this day, 37 years ago, probably saved our planet:
Joy Bhattacharjya
Literally everyone knew university teaching would end up being online. The only reason they told students to come in was to guarantee income from student accommodation rentals. Landlordism is literally holding 18 year olds hostage in prison sized rooms to secure rental income.
@KlezmerRouge
Running mate is Coke:
@JuddLumberjack
The thing about the “RBG should have stepped down” discourse is that “A woman should have done her duty and stepped aside” is their answer to everything. Hillary’s campaign. Warren’s campaign. RBG continuing to work. It is so facile and transparent.
Kate Harding
Undecided Voter Looking Forward To Learning More About Donald Trump During Campaign
The Onion
When you study every law passed after slavery ended, you realize that we were constantly punishing black people for not being slaves anymore
@elcavaqueen
I can tell you Antifa is not an actual organization because if it was, they would’ve asked me for money by now.
Hunter Covington
“You voted for this!” says the very wise Harvard professor to women jailed for getting an abortion. “And by ‘you,’ I mean ‘someone else.’ And by ‘voted,’ I mean most of you voted the opposite way but lived in New York instead of Wisconsin.”
Will Stancil
The surface of a mosquito egg is stunning! (Photo: Martin Oeggerli)
Nature Is Weird
In an ominous sign, major exchanges are launching water futures contracts, to allow financial trading on the future value of water, allowing hedging against climate risks
Ross Dawson
If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim and everything else was the same regarding her beliefs and associations, Republicans would call her a religious extremist and never let her step near the Supreme Court. They'd also accuse her of trying to impose Sharia.
Wajahat Ali
Fix the democracy problem at all costs - abolish the filibuster; appoint, I dunno, 3000 judges, make 17 new states (15 from California), whatever. Just fix the democracy problem and make politicians try to persuade a majority that they have the best ideas.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
kinda want to open a crossift gym that is really just a farm where people pay me to come turn compost and dig garden beds and lay drip line
Salaloquy
fun fact: if you were to design a system effective at resisting changes pursued by 61% of the population, it would look like the electoral college
Matt Pearce
SCOTUS: Amy Coney Barrett is to Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Clarence Thomas is to Thurgood Marshall
Will Bunch
Bruce Springsteen photographed performing live in 1971:
Rock History in Pictures
Silicon Valley is a new Rome, reshaping all life. Yet it's dominated by people of one race and one gender, by those who seem to have a particular weakness for understanding human society. And so we end up ruled by a cadre of messianic, limited men.
Anand Giridharadas
I just heard a former Facebook executive confess that Facebook may be responsible for what ends up as a civil war. From what I remember from the movie, that’s a lot of scope creep from their original mission.
Andy Slavitt
"Act, or die." –Walter Cronkite on Earth Day, 1970. Never let anyone tell you that they didn't know.
Alex Steffen
Republicans: Try to break into my house and you’ll be met with the end of a revolver.
Also republicans: Well, if Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend hadn’t shot at people breaking down the door it wouldn’t have been an issue.
@ParkListKris
Reading a lot of racist tweets about the Florida investigation into Bloomberg paying off former felons' fines and fees so they can vote. Can't help but think that in Vermont and Main, like the two whitest states in the country, imprisoned people can vote.
@KendraWrites
Wondering how I'm going to explain to my kids in 30 years why climate change wasn't even a topic in the first 2020 debate but "Race and Violence in our cities" was
Ben Rhodes
Half of this country is in a collective depression / anxiety attack about unchecked murders of black people, the death of democracy, a global pandemic that has killed roughly 1 million people...and the other half is really ticked off about property damage.
Jessica Hische
D.C. media is about to be like: A big day of scandals for both candidates.
- TRUMP refused to promise a peaceful transfer of power, threatening the end to American democracy
- BIDEN only answered 3 reporters' questions on the tarmac
Jason O. Gilbert
A hen with her chicks, 4th to 7th centuries, from the tomb of the Lombardic queen Theodelinda (d. 628) at Monza:
Dr Caitlin Green
If you say people can't vote until their debts are paid and then object to their debts being paid, you confirm that your true purpose was to prevent voting rather than to collect debt.
Matthew Segal
by 55%-39%, white men in new Quinnipiac national poll favor Trump over Biden
by 53%-43%, white men also say Trump is dishonest
John Harwood
Running a red light in NYC costs $50 but jumping a turnstile costs $100. NYC drivers make on average 2.5x more and jumping a turnstile has never killed anyone.
Philip @miatkowski
Law and order is not the same as justice. Justice is a concept of striving toward fairness and equality in society whereas law and order can and often does operate in opposition to that concept. People calling for law and order above calling for justice first and foremost is the problem.
Bree Newsome Bass
It's understandable why Trump is so desperate to win the election. If he loses, his wife will probably leave him, he'll be impoverished as his creditors come calling, and he'll spend the rest of his life fighting lawsuits and jail.
Dean Baker
Your nightly reminder that Martha McSally and Kelly Loeffler have never actually been elected to the U.S. Senate and literally do not represent the will of the people in deciding who should fill the vacancy left by Justice Ginsburg.
Charlotte Clymer
And see which section people want to live in. #WorldCarFreeDay2020:
Taras Grescoe
I hope liberals stop waiting for the day a republican politician will do the principled or right for the country thing. They won’t. They care about power and their agendas, not yours.
roxane gay
Ecologists, we need to decolonize our language. Stop referring to Native Americans and other indigenous peoples only in the past tense. Stop saying “pre-settlement” when we mean “pre-European colonization.” Stop using “discovery” frameworks that erase indigenous knowledge.
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill
So uhhhh... why does property damage justify murder, but murder doesn't justify property damage?
@Adrianabeate
If Trump moved on the virus as quickly as he’s moving on RBG’s vacant seat, we’d be in a very different place today.
George Hahn
The fascists are not being inconsistent. They were doing whatever was necessary to advance the white supremacist agenda during the Obama admin and they’re doing the same now. It’s liberals and moderates who keep operating in a fantasy of bipartisanship and constitutionality. This is fundamentally about a power struggle between those who want to ensure white conservative minority rule vs. a multiracial democracy in US. Those who don’t grasp that are not understanding the situation. That’s why they keep expressing shock at conservatives “flip-flopping.”
Bree Newsome Bass
The fact that one man from Kentucky who received 806,787 votes basically controls all the legislation and judicial appointments in the United States is an indictment of the current system.
Matt Murphy
I'm getting really tired of the line that Democrats "started it" with Bork. These arguments rarely note that: Bork was an extremist with a terrible history; that he would replace a swing justice; and that he STILL got a vote (in which multiple Republicans voted against him).
Jesse Wegman
We all have to admit: This....thing...we live in is not America. It is not even a real country, not with so many people hating their fellow citizens and living only to upset them. This is just a place, exceptional only in its hatred and incompetence. America is done.
Kurt Eichenwald
hot take: teaching missionaries it takes 8 no’s for someone to say yes is part of the reason so many people in the church don’t get what consent is
calli robinson
We don’t know yet, but we can be certain that by accepting the nomination, Trump’s chosen one is confessing that they are unfit for the office. ... Judges must be impartial and must have integrity. Nobody who possesses those traits could accept this nom.
Andrew L. Seidel
In the spirit of being utterly unproductive, let me just point out that every single bit of this dystopia (except perhaps the plague) was predictable with even cursory knowledge of Donald Trump. All of this was very obviously the risk of the 2016 election. But her emails.
David Roberts
Keep the kids, but park the cars. And vote for elected officials who understand the science and want to act on it.
@TBro_6and12 (responding on a thread about overpopulation being the problem)
If you take out the countries run by authoritarian men who don’t follow the science, the world is at a much lower level with COVID.
Dan Rather
The case for World Government:
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Peter R. Neumann
I’m not sure what’s funnier about this — the idea that the right didn’t care about the Supreme Court before Roe? Or the idea that Roe — a decision authored by a Nixon appointee and supported by 5 GOP appointees but only 2 Democratss — was Democrats “starting this.”
Kevin M. Kruse
I still can't believe that the trick to defeating journalism was to just be so openly evil that reporting on it accurately sounds partisan.
Johnny McNulty
There’s a saying in med school: “Eat when you can, drink when you can, and don’t mess with the pancreas.” The average life expectancy after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is 3 years. RBG lasted 11. May her fighting spiriting live on in little girls everywhere.
Dr. Emily Porter, M.D.
A society of deeply lonely people, who have been taught that life is about money & showing off, who don't ever get out into nature, who are controlled & humiliated at work, will have a depression crisis -for a very good reason. We're not living in ways that meet our deepest needs
Johann Hari
Really the most disgusting thing is that a serial assaulter of women, the worst misogynist president, would name the replacement of RBG. We just cannot let that stand. #diefighting
Neera Tanden
Over the last few years, there’s been a pretty chilling shift in how Trump trolls respond when you point out that he’s inciting violence against journalists. The near-universal response used to be: “He was obviously joking.” Now about half of it is, “the media deserves violence.”
Radley Balko
Ben Garrison's most horrifying comics are when he tries to portray his ideal society:
@DegenerateThing
In the long run so much comes down to the Republican/rural tilt of the Senate given current party coalitions. Maybe Democrats can win the occasional Supreme Court battle but they'll lose more often than they win and they'll never the *war* so long as that persists.
Nate Silver
Remember when the Very Serious People who definitely should still be quoted in the news and booked on shows for their takes were comparing coronavirus to car crashes? Well 200,000 coronavirus deaths is almost 6 times the number of annual deaths from car crashes. Both should be zero
Costa Samaras
The single most important lesson for Democrats to learn from this period is that what matters aren't "norms" but the strength of democratic accountability and democratic institutions. Those aren't the same thing. FDR violated a ton of norms but strengthened American democracy.
Chris Hayes
When media says “she was tireless” — I’m thinking, nah she was tired, but she was more tired of injustice!
Jennifer Godinez
Harvard’s Law School accepted 500 students in 1956. Only 9 women were allowed in. She was a foot shorter than everyone else in the room. But ten feet tall in history’s eyes:
Arlen Parsa
When I was in high school, Antonin Scalia made fun of me and somehow she heard about it and she told my Mock Trial teacher to tell me that I should "keep dissenting." In fairness... let me tell you guys something... law school is not nearly as intimidating when you've ALREADY been mocked by Antonin Scalia. Like, what was a *law school professor* gonna do to me? Give me a B? What is dead may never die, y'all.
Elie Mystal
Will the Democrats have the moral courage and fortitude to BLOCK any Trump nomination to the Supreme Court with everything that they have? Well they better find some. Cause that’s what we need them to do. ONE JOB.
Linda Sarsour
She literally worked until her DEATH trying to save democracy. What are you going to do?
@katalogued
The Republicans established their principle. If they don’t follow it now Democrats must promise to add two new justices to the court if they take the senate, for a total of 11. Republican corruption can only be met with the strongest means.
Josh Marshall
It me:
evelyn pollins @ampersander
A president elected while losing the popular vote will be pushing thru 3 Supreme Court justices thru a Senate where his party lost the aggregate popular vote of the 100 senate elections by an even wider margin.
Taniel
Here’s one for gifted kid Twitter. When I was like five or six my school district had me take the “gifted” test because my teacher thought I was smart and then they were like, sorry you’re not gifted. Lol. To a six year old.
Angie Schmitt
QAnon followers are like "everything is child trafficking, except actual child trafficking, which is fine":
Johan Miranda
Trump, reading from a teleprompter here in Wisconsin, is criticizing Biden for using teleprompters
Josh Lederman
A reminder that mansplaining isn't "a man explaining something to a woman," it is the assumption by a man that a woman needs the explanation based solely on the fact she is a woman.
Delaney King
If you are coerced to play a game that you don’t want to play, aren’t interested in playing and were never asked if you want to play should you follow all the rules that the owner of the game imposes?
@Sisyphus38
If Edina wants to make our neighborhood commercial nodes walkable & bikeable (and we do), how does parking work? (It doesn’t.) Well, we can build a parking structure, costing 10’s of $1000s, but by making the parking “free,” we are taxing the very people who walk & bike!
Lou Miranda
History that exalts a nation’s strengths without ever examining its shortcomings, that prefers feeling good rather than thinking hard, that seeks simplistic celebration over a full understanding — well, that’s not history; that’s propaganda.
Kevin M. Kruse
Who are you going to believe, a hundred ex-White House staffers or a dozen current ones that are trying to stay out of jail?
Schooley
If we passed a law that states only 17% of women from low socio-economic backgrounds could earn a BA degree, but 70% of affluent women could, it would cause an outrage. This is in fact our reality, yet there is no outrage about the growing economic inequalities in our country.
Simona Grace
“You have to wear a mask to enter this restaurant/cafe but you can remove it once you’re sitting” is one of the most absurd things people have normalized during this pandemic...
@saintfadumo
One thing I’d add to this Jessica Valenti piece is that Biden’s friendship with Helms, a lover of apartheid at home and abroad, happened when the Senate was almost entirely white men. Helms took pride in tormenting Senator Carol Mosley Braun, the only black woman.
Adam Serwer
Congress right now. #SaveTransit:
Transportation for America
This year's Amtrak funding shortfall is about two days of what the Afghanistan war costs.
Amtrak CEO says passenger railroad needs up to $4.9 billion in U.S. funding.
William Lindeke
Whenever a federal agency takes over 30 days to respond to a FOIA request, they've broken the law. Whenever a whistleblower discloses classified information to the public, they've broken the law. Guess which one gets punished.
Ken Klippenstein
Demanding state approved “patriotic history” is political correctness, not a repudiation of it.
Adam Serwer
Putting speed governors in cars (a technology which already exists and is easily deployed) could eliminate a huge proportion of traffic stops made by law enforcement and drastically reduce road fatalities.
Momifornia
Why is the media harder on Biden than they are on Trump who fucking lies so much?
@lynnv378
should be said that “deaths don’t look so bad if you remove blue states” is cousin to” trump won the popular vote if you remove california.” whole lot of right-wing discourse rests on the idea that if your state elects democrats you’re outside the legitimate political community.
@jbouie
remember when metaphors like "dumpster fire" could sum things up, those were the good old days.
Tom Tomorrow
As a white person reading this I immediately thought that we white people must embrace the dialectic of both accepting and understanding that WE ARE WHITE and also that WHITENESS IS NOT A REAL THING.
@BarbBanfieldRN
New analysis from @NSCsafety shows a 20% increase in traffic deaths over the first 6 months of 2020, the highest 6-month increase since 1995, amidst a 17% drop in driving.
Smart Growth America
Conservative Evangelical Asks God To Give Her Strength To Incorporate Forced Hysterectomies Into Belief System:
The Onion
Daily, I shake my head over our persistent, collective disbelief that the USA could ever develop concentration camps, when we've had plantations, reservations, redlining, and the largest prison industrial complex in the world. Containing people is kinda... what the USA does.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
"The cargo bike is contagious. I live next to a Childhood Center. A year ago, a mother showed up with a Babboe to pick up her 2 children. General amazement. At the start of the school year, 5 additional parents rode a cargo bike."
Brandon Lust
Just a reminder that while we each scrambled for weeks to buy hand sanitizer and toilet paper, the White House already knew COVID-19 was an airborne virus.
David Jolly
There are now more than six dead Americans for every deleted Hillary email.
George Takei
If income had been distributed as evenly over the past five decades as it was in 1970, the median full-time worker in the U.S. would now take home $92,000 a year (instead of $50,000), according to a new RAND study.
Eric Levitz
Again and again I hear folks say we need to "reduce" our emissions. But the truth is that we need to stop emitting CO2 and other greenhouse gases almost entirely. Or else the planet will continue to heat up without end.
@DoctorVive
One of the reasons we're in this mess is that we don't have anywhere near the same level of reverence for—or even awareness of—the eradication of smallpox as we do the moon landing, even though smallpox eradication had a far more meaningful impact on human life.
Steven Johnson
"Due process for statues but not for people" is increasingly the Republican Party platform.
Mark Joseph Stern
A cartoon dog:
Faces in Things
Honestly we should just jail all the oil barons, all of them, EVERY SINGLE ONE know the damage they are causing to this planet but simply don’t care, take away their power before we all burn
@noahboahcanoah
Freedom of religion = *I* can’t, I’m Christian.
NOT
*You* can’t, I’m Christian.
@Kate_Kelly_Esq
Just a reminder that Americans spend about $2 trillion per year on cars/roads/highways so if you’re worried about the cost of reliable, affordable public transit ... You’ve already got it covered. Twice.
@mateosfo
real talk: think about your favorite Black women. write down compliments for them that are NOT about (1) what they endured; (2) what value they brought to the world; or (3) what work they should do. can you do it?
Wagatwe Wanjuki
Mainstream economic theory has really only one function: to celebrate capitalism. The main debate within mainstream economics is, which flavor of capitalism is best? The free, unregulated market flavor, or the one with government regulation?
Dr. Asatar Bair
“Stop saying that we are all in the same boat. We’re all in the same storm. But we’re not all in the same boat." –Extinction Rebellion
Greta Thunberg
Watching Rear Window, which takes place over what was considered in 1954 to be a few unbearably hot summer days. Here’s an establishing shot of a thermometer:
Kyle Daly
It's just my own little corner of climate activism, but given what's happening on the West Coast if you still think we should engage in months or years of process to make it possible for people to choose bikes and transit over cars then you are not much better than a denialist.
Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke
Quietly contemplating the fact that a woman who accuses the president of rape says she has DNA evidence to corroborate the allegation, and the president, who denies it, has enlisted DOJ to help him avoid providing the DNA evidence that, if he weren’t lying, would exonerate him.
Brian Beutler
Re: Gates Foundation:
MisterJayEm
Don't know who needs to hear this (I do!) but there's no meaningful difference between denying climate change and "acknowledging" climate change while continuing to issue permits to ExxonMobil and Shell as the state burns.
Aidan Smith ⧖
September 12 is a solemn date for Republicans. It marks the anniversary of the day in 2001 when they began exploiting what happened on September 11 for their own personal and political gain.
Frank Conniff
These aren't selling well:
Jill Wine-Banks
"If you believe your food comes from a landbase and your water comes from a river, then you’ll defend those to the death. If you believe your food comes from the store and your water from the tap, you’ll defend to the death the system that brings those to you." –Derrick Jensen
Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism
Without a lot of under-appreciated and underpaid people producing and preparing food, building things, making things, maintaining infrastructure, generating and transmitting electric power, your whole world collapses. It's not just "stuff" that magically appears. Never forget it. What took hundreds of years of struggle to build up can disappear in an instant when enough bad ideas establish a foothold and people begin to believe nonsense divorced from the way the world actually works. Make it better by building it up, not by tearing it down. You live in the safest, most prosperous civilization in human history. You did little, if anything, to build it. Show a little gratitude for it. It's imperfect. Welcome to Earth.
Jason Segedy
A lot of folks acting as if 2020 has just been a string of bewildering bad luck, rather than what it truly is: a concentration of widely and reliably predicted and interconnected disasters that advanced nations of the world could have mitigated or prevented but chose not to.
Kane Wishart
There's a fantasy that once climate apocalypse begin to directly affect comfortable deniers they'll realize the truth and be ashamed, but the fact that during devastating fires people went out hunting for fictional antifa arsonists shows what will actually happen instead
Gautham Thomas
A child born today could live to see 2100, so why do we keep talking about it as if it – and its associated climate change impacts – is some far-off time way into the future?
Caitlin Cunningham
I wish people knew how damn near impossible “legal immigration” is. I’ve gotten my high school diploma, BA + JD in the US legally. Still had a work visa denied because “my proposed endeavor of being a public defender only benefits the poor + indigent and is not of interest to the nation”
Olayemi, Esq. @msolurin
We are in the throes of an apocalyptic climate disaster, a generational pandemic, and a burgeoning fascistic death cult and people who should know better are wringing their hands over what to call these things or are otherwise busy figuring out how to best profit off them.
Jared Yates Sexton
Fire news from the west is unbearable. Still pounding the same C02 drum here: STOP driving so much, MOVE to where you can walk or bike to everything, LIMIT your pleasure and work-trips by air, EAT low on the food chain, and FFS live your life as if something/someone else matters.
Mary Morse Marti
This isn’t because “2020 sucks”, it’s because of climate change and the fossil fuel industry, who knew for decades the damage they would cause, but decided to destroy life on earth because it made them rich. This isn’t a “2020 is a bad year” thing, this will continue to worsen:
Jamie Margolin
can you imagine what life would be like if white men stopped to recognize that the world they see is not the world that exists?
@TinaTweetsStuff
it's an extremely bad habit of white americans to judge the racism of white americans by talking to and thinking of no one but other white americans.
@not_carlisle
Don’t like the world on fire? Stop being complicit in it! Make it so it burns in spite of you, not because of you! Resist the easy, thoughtless habits of obedient self-destruction. Just resist. Become friction.
@happifydesign
There's a strange thing that seems endemic among elected officials these days: more and more they act as if they are mere passive observers or social commentators and not people with the actual ability to effect change.
Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke
Maybe this is what they meant when they argued that fossil gas is a "bridge fuel":
Ross Macfarlane
Can’t believe I’m a climate refugee what the fuck.
@HalpernAlex
Cartoons for the Long Now. I’ve recently worked with three brilliant cartoonists from the New Yorker Cartoon Collection who’ve brought ideas from my book The Good Ancestor to visual life. Here's the first of three from Kendra Allenby:
Roman Krznaric
Something happening in New York City is that the Mayor can't get police officers to wear masks during a pandemic and the Governor wants them to start handing out $50 tickets to maskless subway & bus passengers.
Ben Max
When New Yorkers’ pain can be mobilized for vengeance [on September 11], it matters. When there’s no one to kill in its name, it doesn’t. We learned that definitively this year.
Spencer Ackerman
People who compare our unity after 9/11 to our division today are correct. America was shockingly unified after 9/11. That unity was turned by our leaders into war, surveillance, deportations, concentration camps, and torture.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
a kid in my english class today said he was tired of talking about “everything going on” and that’s when i realized it’s not personal for so many people and they can just unplug when they want lol. the context was whether or not we should discuss social issues in class and that was his response btw
isra hirsi
All black people should be celebrated for being alive and semi well. From the fry cook to the CEO. This world is made for us to fail. Anything positive is black excellence
Otis Perry @Premium_Dell
Today I got this with my grocery receipt I assume accidentally and I stand in horrified awe at the poetry of Tender Time Per Customer:
Lydia Kiesling
I'm feeling a little bad for Trump apologists this morning. Reading some replies, and the rationalizations, the whatabouts, the willful insistence that reality isn't real are plumbing new depths of pathetic. You don't have to do this, you know. You can make a different choice.
Nicholas Grossman
The attitude of "Yeah, he committed obvious crimes and hurt a lot of people and caused god knows how many deaths and is obviously lying, but what does any of it matter and who's going to do anything about it?" is the bedrock of an authoritarian society.
Jared Yates Sexton
This photo is from Salem today. It was taken at noon. With absolutely NO FILTER. #OregonFires:
Ref. Odie Brown
"Even if share of new zero-emissions car sales grows 10x from today, California still needs to reduce driving 25% to achieve emissions reductions for 2030." Translation: Politicians who focus on EVs are gaslighting. Climate action means 25% less driving.
@mateosfo
Congress must never again assume presidents will be fundamentally decent.
The Nation
It is not an exaggeration to say that if the whistleblower complaint is accurate, Chad Wolf and Robert O’Brien are traitors to the national security of the United States.
Norman Ornstein
More than half of all climate harm has been done in the past 30 years. We've done more harm to the climate system knowingly than we ever did before scientists' warnings. The next 30 years will decide the fate of 100 generations:
Eric Holthaus
So here we are. Standing on 5th avenue with 190,000 corpses and Trump holding a smoking gun in plain sight. Let's see what happens.
Charles Murphy
If you are an adult asking me where I see myself in 10 years you do not comprehend what is going on in the world and I'm just going to assume you don't give a shit about reality
Sophia Geiger
"I didn't want to create a panic," says the guy who has spent the last four years trying to convince white people that Black people desperately want to kill them in their suburbs.
Josh Moon
SUVs were the second largest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade, eclipsing all shipping, aviation, heavy industry and even trucks.
Hiroko Tabuchi
U.S. passenger vehicle purchase mix:
77.2% light trucks
22.8% cars
We don't buy cars here. We buy big cars built on truck bodies, and we buy trucks and drive them like cars. It's different elsewhere.
Nat Bullard
All these people who could do something to change things, sitting on info 'til they can write a fucking book, letting thousands die and the economy collapse and PRAYING when they could act. ::smh:: Clearly they weren't praying for courage or morals!
N. K. Jemisin
Welcome to the Golden State:
GOLDEN STATE
Alex Steffen
I've always said this. What drove Trump and the subhuman trash who votes for him up the wall was that someone with a name like Barack Obama would dare to do anything other than clean up their shit. It's all about the name. It's all about what kind of people are "real Americans."
Slava Malamud (responding to another tweet about Trump repeatedly mispronouncing Kamala Harris's first name "like it's an incantation or something")
My favorite fun fact that few people know, if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth since 1968, as it did from 1938 to 1968, it would be $24 an hour today
Dean Baker
Building a politics around the idea that a college degree is a precondition for dignified work and social esteem has a corrosive effect on democratic life.
Nicholas Gruen
Stranded and overvalued assets are going to be a major economic problem. Our economy runs on the assumption that asset values are known and stable, but climate change has other ideas. It is reducing asset values with every flood, heatwave, and hurricane.
Andrew Dessler
Graphic I made years ago on Facebook — the numbers are old, but same ideas apply: a modest house on a smaller lot generates more tax revenue than a big house on a sprawling lot:
Sean Hayford Oleary
policies can't be race-neutral if the system is racist.
Alice Janigro
When Mr. Rogers said “look for the helpers,” honestly how many of you thought of cops with guns, me neither
Alie Ward
Hi, friends in the media. Can you stop saying “breaking norms” when you mean “breaking the law”? There’s a difference. It matters.
Christy Setzer
Electric vehicles won't save our lungs. "With heavier and heavier vehicles, the combined total of particle pollution from road surface, brake and tyre wear is now greater than the particle emissions from vehicle exhaust but there are no policies to control this."
Bryn Lindblad
Today I learned: An indenture contract was a legal document cut in half with an irregular, “indented” (tooth-edged) cut. The bearers of each portion could verify the other’s portion by matching the cut edge.
Carolyn Porter
While capital can respond to government decisions every second, withdrawing its approval with catastrophic consequences if it doesn't like them, citizens are stuck with a voting system that allows us to make just one, incredibly crude decision every 5 years.
George Monbiot
It's Luke! @SSJSpeedRacer
A gender reveal party where you reveal all of the harmful things you learned about gender roles and norms and vow not to pass them onto the next generation.
Akilah Green
The Rockefeller family has 174 heirs (as of 2016). Average wealth = $63 million per heir. To get rich, they were born, did not have to do, contribute anything. We need real inheritance taxes.
Richard D. Wolff
Imagine being the child whose gender was revealed to be a devastating wildfire
Micah Bateman
For every news article about how a family decided to have a cookout and now 74 people connected to attendees have coronavirus, there should be 100 about how a company reopened and forced workers to choose illness or loss of income, causing incalculable spread.
Rachel Stark @syntactics
Reminder that none of the problems any historian has criticized in The 1619 Project come anywhere near to the kind of errors routinely asserted about the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the early modern period, the history of science, or the history of empire in the same media.
Ted McCormick
I really wish this was permitted on every corner lot in Seattle. Imagine these in your neighborhood. A small shop, 4-plex, built in 1 year:
@pushtheneedle
New idea for Labor Day: White collar workers must work service industry jobs for one day. Service industry workers get the day off.
Tristan Jimerson @_greasetrap_
true story: when I first started seeing references to "gender reveal parties" back whenever, I thought they were celebrations of someone transitioning. Got that one 100% wrong. this is like the middle-aged version of that thing you misunderstood when you were five years old. I like my version better than the real thing.
Tom Tomorrow
There’s two ways to the top of a capitalist heap. Disguise gouging as “Innovation” or disguise gouging as “Opportunity.”
Tom Basgen
Trumpism literally gave white supremacists a flag they could fly instead of the Confederate, a hat to wear instead of a hood, and a cause to rally around and enjoy plausible deniability.
Jared Yates Sexton
“Raised crosswalks redefine the ‘ownership’ of space; they signal to drivers and pedestrians alike that the walkers have priority: that cars are driving across a sidewalk, rather than pedestrians are walking across a road.”
Waldo Jaquith
A problem in public education:
Acceptable language: equity, inclusion, diversity, respect, collaboration
Taboo language: white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, violence, power
We're imagining a utopic reality but we're discouraged from discussing the barriers to this reality
DrawntoIntellect
Instead of blowing up things for a gender reveal party, the parents to be should hand out wallets. If there’s a dollar inside, it’s a boy, if there’s 72 cents, it’s a girl
@indyfromspace
Remember when the Trump campaign made such a big deal out of boat parades & then in their biggest boat parade a bunch of boats sunk because the Trumpies are such selfish assholes that they can't even coordinate enough to keep a LAKE calm enough for a boat parade? If I pitched that entire storyline as part of a novel, any decent editor would laugh me out of the room.
David Roberts
The popular blief of the trickle down effect of the GOP never works. That’s why the Democrats are always building the economy back up after a Republican administration, every single time.
Girl Dwt
"No highway engineer would build a bypass that doubled or tripled travel times for cars, but they regularly do this for people on foot":
Ken McLeod
Trumpism literally gave white supremacists a flag they could fly instead of the Confederate, a hat to wear instead of a hood, and a cause to rally around and enjoy plausible deniability.
Jared Yates Sexton
When conservatives get upset about the 1619 project, remember the thing they fear the most is open knowledge of how horrible slavery was, and how racist America still is. Their erasure project will not stand. Racism is the backbone of American conservatism.
ProfB @AntheaButler
"cancel culture" is the same thing as "fake news" — a term the media credulously used long enough to allow it to be weaponized against them. Stop writing about these as real things. They are not. They're just political weapons. Take them out of the stylebook. Use truer words
Hamilton Nolan
As politics grew more polarized over the past quarter-century, the Republican Party, pushed by wealthy donors like the Koch brothers, grew more anti-union and more opposed to regulations on business, writes Steve Greenhouse
New York Times Opinion
Even the existence of the highway access bedroom community is anti woman. Let’s say you have a hetero family with young kids. Do both parents feel comfortable jumping on a highway and leaving the kids miles away every day? If not who scales back their ambitions?
Angie Schmitt
A bench designed to be repaired (and not hostile to a little change to lie down too!):
@happifydesign
Since his RNC speech nine days ago decrying leftist "cancel culture, speech codes, and crushing conformity," Trump has called for the firings of Fox's Jennifer Griffin, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and CNN's Chris Cuomo, and urged his supporters to harass the owner of The Atlantic.
Matthew Gertz
There is no punctuation that can touch the em-dash. It’s is the switchblade of punctuation marks.
Daniel Torday
not sure anything has quite gotten to me the way the drive to make rittenhouse a right-wing hero of self-defense has. it is, to me, the single most ominous development of the year.
@jbouie
Active shooter drills in schools have become a $2.7 billion industry, and new research shows they have almost no value in keeping kids safe and are responsible for an increase in mental health problems for kids, especially younger ones
David Freedlander
These Dutch “bicycle buses” are transporting 50+ kids getting the kind of exercise that leads to better learning, who DON’T need to be driven and dropped off by parents adding lots of local car traffic:
Brent Toderian
Critical Race theory isn’t a threat to “western civilization.” It’s a threat to white supremacy. Trump thinks those two are the same thing.
Khaled Beydoun
The NYPD's official misconduct, in other words, is the financial equivalent of cops going around and destroying $23,000 worth of municipal property ever hour, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. And that's not counting all the personal property of New Yorkers that they destroy, and all the physical harm that they do to New Yorkers, that their victims are never compensated for.
Angus Johnston @studentactivism
Here’s what I want to say about parenting: it’s hard to predict what will or won’t work, but leaning towards autonomy and agency will almost never be the wrong choice.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
This will forever and always be my favorite wholesome meme:
Brooke @beesquared0912
"When the billionaires and their think tanks talk about freedom, they're not talking about freedom for us, they're talking about freedom for them, and freedom for them is very often captivity for everybody else." –GeorgeMonbiot Double Down News
I’d rather have a post office than a space force.
The Zach Moss Show
It's so wild how Black people who pass as white try to just fit in and be unremarkable. White people pass for Black and try to become the President of Civil Rights. Whiteness is amazing.
@rodimusprime
I’d get rid of the electric car incentive and have a $3k e-bike incentive - $1k to the buyer and $2k to the buyer’s town to go towards cycling infrastructure.
steve crandall @tingilinde
Thinking about the time that I said that I was distantly related to Marie Curie and a guy explained “It’s pronounced Mariah Carey”
Eileen Mary O’Connell @i_Lean
The entire residential population of the United States could live within the borders of Connecticut at Park Slope density. Density, especially around transit, is the single most powerful solution to harmonize growth with rural land and environmental preservation
Alex Armlovich
I can't take a photo that does this dahlia justice. It's the size of a small cabbage:
Serafina
Trump pardons soldiers who commit war crimes, but ridicules soldiers who give their lives.
Jeff Patterson @JeffreySPatter1
“A single parking lane that stores a few dozen idle cars for hours or even days can move thousands of people in buses, on bikes and walking.” —Janette Sadik-Khan
Carlton Reid
In some ways the obsession with "shy Trump voters" shows how cloistered elites are because there are many places in America where you would face no social stigma whatsoever for showing outward support for Trump (often the opposite, in fact).
Nate Silver
I wish I lived in a country where John Kelly, James Mattis and John Bolton had at least half the balls of Sally Yates, Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, Reality Winner, Christine Blasey Ford, or Stormy Daniels.
Andrea Junker @Strandjunker
Reminder: streets are PUBLIC space. 20-35% of city’s area. Everywhere. Rich, poor, large cities or small towns. Belong to all. Can have different uses according to time of day, day of week, week of year, or permanently. End of ‘24/7 for cars’.
G_Penalosa
Black people do not have constitutional protections, including 2A rights. Rittenhouse was able to shoot and kill people and then walk past police still holding his rifle, but a Black person merely being in possession of a gun or knife is considered justification for them being summarily executed.
Bree Newsome Bass
Donald Trump and wealthy elites on the Right have always spouted shallow, surface-level, insincere praise for soldiers while cutting their benefits, throwing them into meaningless wars for profit, and viewing them as disposable guards of their power and fortunes.
Jared Yates Sexton
every headline needs to explain that he's doing this [closing down the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes] to eliminate dissenting voices from the military. 'no good reason' lol he's consolidating military loyalty for a potential coup
Saladin Ahmed
Imagine if the "small states/rural americans need extra voting power because they have distinct interests the majority would otherwise ignore" argument was applied to literally any other minority group
@peaktransit
Since January 2015, on-duty police officers have shot and killed about 250 women. Great deep-dive into the Washington Post Fatal Force data:
@WesleyLowery
ideally the worst person in the world and the President of the United States would be different people, but here we are
Aaron Rupar
For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a bunch of flag-waving "patriots" can follow a cowardly draft dodger who believes our fallen soldiers are "suckers and losers."
@mmpadellan
The idea that fascist propaganda is in any way obstructed by reality is just sillier than I can say. Telling people scapegoated by fascists to just behave better is astoundingly out of touch and friendly to fascism.
Puff the Magic Hater @MsKellyMHayes
My best hope is a nation where the left fights the center left-center right for power, and the far right is cut out. It's not likely, but it's the best I got.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
While Democrats seem poised to scoop up a wider ideological segment of the country (“the big tent”), Republicans look more likely to be shut out of the White House and the majority in both houses — saddled with the same extremists who have made the GOP unpalatable to most Americans.
Jennifer Rubin
Bill @WilliamDunnJR1
Just as birtherism was a way for Republicans to express a belief that Black people can't be president, the Pelosi salon "scandal" is just a back door way to express a belief that women shouldn't be in leadership positions. There is no need to take it seriously, pundits. Certainly, that elaborate hairdo Trump gets done to hide his bald spot is a labor-intensive grooming procedure, but that's not a scandal because no one contests the right of men to be political leaders. Scandalizing women for grooming is also a double-edged sword, because if women appear in public looking sloppy, that is also a scandal. It's deliberately set up so you lose no matter what you do.
Amanda Marcotte
The initial Covid response looks more and more like a marshmallow test for each nation, and we failed.
Chris Hayes
There’s 25 parts per million more CO2 in the air now than there was a decade ago: That’s more change in 10 years than over all the millennia from the invention of agriculture to the start of the Industrial Revolution.
Bill McKibben
Imagine if we closed roads to cars and traffic congestion actually REDUCED as a result. Sounds counter-intuitive, yet it’s EXACTLY what research revealed in cities around the world, described as ‘traffic evaporation’ in a seminal UK study of 100 locations.
Brent Toderian
We’re witnessing the accelerating collapse of American democracy and it’s being covered like it’s the 2012 Obama/Romney horse race.
James Ball
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
The Onion
Done right, vaccines end pandemics. Done wrong, pandemics end vaccines.
Andy Slavitt
3 months ago, Annie Waldman and I started trying to figure out why so many COVID patients were dying at home in NOLA. In many cases, we found that patients had first GONE to the hospital, which then sent them home to die with hospice. Every one was Black.
Josh Kaplan
Journalists and media need to decide what side are they on and just own it. Is it about clicks and money? Or providing solid information. Feeding into fear and refusing to engage with the information that exists about strategies and alternatives is a biased choice not objectivity.
@TheWayWithAnoa
Should Biden win and the GOP retain control of the Senate, expect the worst gridlock in DC history, a Supreme Court where openings are not filled (and a de facto 7 seat court that's 5-2 conservative-liberal justices), and few legislative accomplishments. We must win the Senate.
David Rothkopf
Trump the arsonist. Please retweet and share:
Judd Apatow
Trump is the salesman keeping you busy gawking at the classic cars in the showroom while his cronies strip your ride in the parking lot down to the frame and snatch the loose change out of the cup holders.
Jared Yates Sexton
“...headlines have screamed about families fleeing for the suburbs, supposedly to protect their families. Except the profound irony is that buying a car is the single act that most increases the chance of your children dying.”
Brent Toderian
What everyone wants to belong to is a community but they keep winding up in audiences instead and I think this is the cause of a tremendous amount of suffering right now.
@girlziplocked
The fact that book is on the best seller list in 2020 is..... worrying:
@trillharris
Why aren't we talking more about the payroll tax deferral being structured so taxes suddenly double after the election? Seems like a pretty gross ploy, no?
Schooley
Covid has killed more police officers this year than all other causes combined, and will likely surpass 9/11 as the largest incident cause of death for law enforcement.
Elizabeth Findell
If we had an electoral system in which all the people's votes mattered & the majority of people picked the president, there would be no question that Trump would lose. It's crazy how normalized the deeply undemocratic features of our political system have become
Ari Berman
The bipartisan talking point right now is to express support for police while condemning “non-peaceful protesters on both sides” and of course that talking point completely ignores that police are the primary source of the violence and unrest.
Bree Newsome Bass
Invocations of “law and order” reveal that we cling to an old frame that has devastated black and brown communities. Denounce the violence and looting, if you want, but don’t do it in the name of law and order. Perhaps a more fundamental value like justice should motivate us.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The decision to to force businesses to pay rent during the shutdown led mass bankruptcies: a business that closed for months while accruing a rent buildup cannot recover - even a year of normal takings will leave it with no profits, every penny diverted to the landlord.
Cory Doctorow
I legitimately believe 99% of Americans think the Civil Rights Movement was MLK saying "Hey, gang: What if we did less racism?" and white people going "Oh gee wow huh I'd never thought of that but since you asked nice let's give it a try."
Curtis Cook
On one hand we have a couple of burned buildings and looted stores, on the other we have an armed, organized political movement driven by racist conspiracy theories planning to launch a race war. BUT BOTH SIDES AMMARITE???
Bree Newsome Bass
102 of 175 arrested in Kenosha were not from Kenosha. the murderer drove from Illinois. an Idahoan organized the caravan of antagonists who drove from Clackamas through Portland. Trump warns violent crime will be driven from cities to suburbs, but the opposite has been true.
Jesse Lehrich
"More cops have died this year from COVID than those on patrol." —Joe Biden, with one hell of a stat
Charlotte Clymer
In 2015, Kenosha cop Pablo Torres shot and killed a man armed with a bucket. It was his first day back after another shooting 10 days earlier. He had a 200-page disciplinary file, with 9 excessive force complaints. The Kenosha police union paid tribute to him with this billboard.
Radley Balko
Saying Biden's America will be worse than our current America, is like an abusive spouse telling you that you can't do any better.
@Infantry0300
Trump is the first law and order candidate to praise a double murderer.
Rex Chapman
"Our Constitution does not secure the peaceful transition of power, but rather presupposes it" (quoting a New York Times op-ed).
Alfie Kohn
Can you imagine if a President bizarrely claimed a highly contagious virus would “just disappear” like 30 times over 6 months and then the virus DIDN’T just disappear? Nobody in their right mind would vote to re-elect that level of incompetence.
Jim Gaffigan
Abolishing the electoral college is a climate action.
@DoctorVive
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