Twitter, October 2024

My Twitter list for October 2024 is not as long as the one for BlueSky, a sign that I'm making progress weaning myself from Elon's sewer.

The tweets are also almost totally focused on the election, and they begin (or end, since they're in reverse order, chronologically) with the VP debate. They also include Halloween, Hurricane Helene, and a handful of my usual topics.

Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account and is in reverse chronological order that I saw it, except some of the images, which I move up or down to get better visual balance.

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Trump says he can tell if an immigrant is “good or bad” based on how they look.
Kamala HQ

He's literally doing the meme:


@BlackKnight10k

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, land-use sprawl, too many cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
Brent Toderian

It’s remarkable how often someone is asked by the media why they support Trump and the person’s answer describes Trump in a way that bears no actual resemblance to Trump.
Better Urban Planning & Mobility @UrbanismAvenger

My neighbor is a Little Free Library and yes she is giving out books:


Jeff Melnick

It's baffling to me that every news story covering the tech-right seems to frame their support of Trump as a pure business calculus and not the obvious fact that a ton of them are deeply reactionary and sympathetic to authoritarianism as, like, a core value
Becca Lewis

Putin wants Trump to win. There's no serious debate about that. Does Putin want America to be weak or strong? There's no serious debate about that either. Why would you vote for the candidate Putin wants you to vote for?
Paul Graham

They're eating the dogs:


Mary D @IncognitoBanski

When they say "make America great again," who knew that they meant before we had the polio vaccine.
Dean Baker

"as no-fault divorce became the norm in state after state, domestic-violence rates dropped by some thirty per cent, suicides among women dropped by as much as sixteen per cent, and the number of women murdered by their partners dropped by ten per cent."
Rebecca Solnit

Mark Cuban: "Trump doesn't surround himself with strong, intelligent women."
Trump: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
GOP: Mark Cuban is mean!
Elie Mystal

MeidasTouch has identified 15 of the 16 “random black voters” in a Trump campaign ad, who supposedly just decided to support him, as longtime GOP operatives, candidates, and paid influencers. The ad was featured in an NBC news story.
Ron Filipkowski

Rich guys are having kids in their fifties and sixties with their second and third wives and then blaming vaccines — which save tons of lives! — for rising autism rates.
Matthew Yglesias

The Onion remains undefeated:


Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis

RFK Jr's ex-wife committed suicide after she found his diary where he wrote in very graphic detail about 37 different affairs. He also rated his sexual encounters with a numerical scale in the journal. He’s not a doctor or scientist. Sure, he should be in charge of women’s health.
Ron Filipkowski

LLMs "favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time and female-associated names 11% of the time." These findings should trouble not only job candidates but also college students, whose applications are increasingly being screened using AI.
Jess Calarco

This is truly wild. The Washington Post and New York Times both have the Biden gaffe as their top stories (the NYT has *two* stories about it on their home page) and not a single mention of Johnson saying they’ll repeal the ACA or a Trump official saying they’ll pull vaccines.
Liam Martin @LiamFromBoston

The Madison Square Garden rally was a cornucopia of crudeness, illustrating how Trump has erased the line between propriety and profanity. This year alone, he has cursed in public at least 1,787 times and is doing so 69% more often than in 2016.
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

It could not be more “on brand” for the Republican Party right now than to invite a racist comedian to their Nazi rally, claim that all the racism is “jokes,” then feign offense at you pointing out their racism and and calling their event a Nazi rally. If this is how the GOP is talking about other people when they’re *asking* for power, imagine what they’re gonna do if they get it
Elie Mystal

The biggest donor for the guy holding a Nazi rally tonight is an illegal immigrant from Africa.
emptywheel


CAKE MUSIC

I love how a ton of offensive stuff was said at Trump's MSG rally and Republicans are just apologizing for that one joke
Thor Benson

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:
-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.
-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.
-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.
-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.
If the President thought his attempt to overturn the election and forge elector documents were legitimate “official acts” why was he using an insecure, foreign routed burner phone for these calls?
Adam Cochran @adamscochran

If Trump makes taxes tips free, there is nothing to stop a honcho lawyer from getting paid $400k a year in tax free tips. Of course, no one pays lawyers in tips now, but that's because there is no incentive. If Trump tells them tips are tax free then they will structure payment schemes so that much of their income is "tips." That may violate the law, but one of Trump's big campaign promises is to gut IRS enforcement powers so that there will be no one to police these scams. You'll also see investment bankers earning millions of dollars of tax-free "overtime" pay.
Dean Baker

Clarence Thomas has been on the Supreme Court for 33 years as of this week. During that time he's received at least 193 gifts worth an estimated $4 million from wealthy benefactors. He only reported 27 of the gifts on his financial disclosures. How is he still on the court?
Robert Reich

This is who the Supreme Court gave absolute power to:


The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow

As a lifelong [nonprofit] PR guy, I often wished I could get the guaranteed media coverage the "new foods at the sports stadiums" stories get, year after year. Don't even get me started on minor tweaks to uniforms...
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob

Broadcast news mostly ignored Kamala Harris’ proposal expanding Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors, with just 35 seconds of coverage over two weeks
Media Matters @mmfa

When you read between the lines, the Post's non-endorsement of Harris is a much stronger endorsement than if the paper had explicitly endorsed her as expected. It says, "We are anticipating fascism if Trump wins."
Andy Harless

When the Washington Post said, "Democracy dies in darkness," we thought the slogan was pro-democracy, but maybe it's pro-darkness.  At any rate we're in the "dies in" phase for legacy media.
Rebecca Solnit

What's great is that Trump says all his former cabinet members who refuse to support him, or now actively oppose him, are stupid and incompetent. Why would anyone elect a president who appoints so many stupid and incompetent people to top positions.
Dean Baker

So team Trump’s closing argument is “you need a spanking little girl,” Hitler “did good things,” and we are “the garbage can of the world”? Yeah, that tracks.
@JoJoFromJerz

We tell ourselves that if we have money we’d be brave. Jeff Bezos has $204 billion and he’s a coward.
Bill McKibben

during this election cycle, 150 billionaire families have spent $1.9 billion to support presidential/congressional candidates. $700 million (+58%) more than 2020:


ian bremmer

I'd say healthy masculinity is just healthy humanity, using your strength to stand up for the weak, opening doors for those who've been shut out, standing on principle, staying open to learning, being kind.
Rebecca Solnit

Hitler didn't start off by murdering 6 million Jews, he ended there. He started by suspending the constitution, made all the other parties illegal, made it illegal to "insult" the regime, and by rounding up all his political opponents. All things Donald Trump has said.
Rachel Bitecofer

NVIDIA now has a greater market value than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market. Combined. [h/t Torsten Slok]
Jason Zweig @jasonzweigwsj

The richest man in the world:
is one of the biggest political donors in the world.
and one of the biggest government contractors in the world.
while owning one of the biggest social media platforms in the word.
while warning about a cabal of elites ruining the world.
Sam Stein

Every single day Trump makes up stories about American towns that have been conquered — which is not a thing that has happened. It's delusional but the media completely ignores it.
Aaron Rupar

The cost to Lebanon of Israel’s attacks have already exceeded the country’s GDP:
Leah McElrath

Show me another defense contractor where the CEO could have casual chats with Vladimir Putin and face zero consequences.
Rick Wilson

Conservatives who take issue with Tim Walz's statements about his military service seem less concerned when one of their own faces similar scrutiny [the Republican Senate candidate in Montana]. Gee, we never saw that coming, amirite?
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob

Not to be that guy, but if a polling place isn't served by reliable transit or walkable, it's a form of voter suppression to require someone to have a car to vote.
Hayden @the_transit_guy

If you import 1 tonne of coal, you can burn it to generate ~2 MWh of electricity. If you import 1 tonne of solar panels, you can use them to generate ~1,000 MWh of electricity.
Jesse Peltan

Some Democratic anxiety is of course about winning/losing the election. But a lot of it comes from repeatedly learning that so many of our fellow Americans are rooting for the Hitler guy.
Sam Youngman

It's so cool how everything from prescription drugs to McDonald's to frozen waffles is contaminated now. It's almost like government regulations were the only thing keeping manufacturers from cutting costs and poisoning us.
@abby4thepeople

Carbon capture instead of stopping oil and gas
EVs instead of reducing car dependency
Ocean cleanups instead of stopping plastic production
Planting trees instead of ending deforestation
Ever notice how all the fashionable 'solutions' are all aimed at not changing anything?
Dr Charlie Gardner

What will happen if Trump orders Border Patrol to go into Seattle or New York and round up suspected illegal immigrants, against the wishes of the mayors of those cities? Or if he orders the National Guard to fire on protestors, again in defiance of mayors and governors. What happens?
David Roberts @drvolts

Buried in a study about child aggression is an interesting finding (that's confirmed by other research, incidentally): Narcissism is more likely to result from lack of parental warmth than from parental permissiveness.
Alfie Kohn

The only reason you’d “need the kind of generals that Hitler had” is if you’re planning to do the kind of things Hitler did.
Santiago Mayer

It should not require experiencing an injustice to care about it.
Be A King @BerniceKing

It's aggravating this is never mentioned in the campaign, but you can draw a direct line from Trump's steel tariffs to skyrocketing construction costs post-2018. It's not a theory it's what fucking happened.
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

In 2022, Norway increased their wealth tax to 1.1%. In response, some high profile billionaires moved out of the country. According to a viral claim, this resulted in a net loss of revenue. Is this true? No. Over the next two years, wealth tax revenue soared to all time highs.
James Medlock @jdcmedlock

Yeah, you run into this with the various states here. While I think it is true that Minnesota's high income tax drives some people out of the state, they sure as hell raise a lot more revenue per capita than Wisconsin and its lower taxes.
Sir Humphrey @bdquinn

NEVER FORGET: Not one Republican officeholder who objected to Biden’s victory has objected to their own wins on the same day, on the same ballots, using the same election systems.
Robert Stern

Florida is able to count all its votes by Election Night because state law allows it to count mail-in votes as they arrive. Because of Republicans, state law in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin prohibits mail-in ballots from being counted before Election Day.


James Surowiecki

Remember when Trump promised to release video of the Arlington fracas where his goons accosted a staffer and she was so scared of MAGA harassment she withdrew her complaint? Or release his medical records, or his tax returns?
Lindsay Beyerstein

You'd never get a Trump voter to believe it, but in Obama's 2nd term, the economy created 30,000 more jobs a month than it did during Trump's pre-pandemic presidency.
James Surowiecki

any city not fully invested in rapidly transforming streets to prioritize transit, bike lanes and pedestrians – is a city investing in injuries, deaths, and destruction.
Mike Eliason @holz_bau

3 reasons why Electoral College should be abolished:
1. It’s fundamentally undemocratic and excludes 85% of Americans from counting
2. It incentivizes election rigging and partisan manipulation
3. It’s antiquated, racist and dates back to slavery
Ari Berman

I've long wondered why "defund the police" became politically toxic but "defund the schools" is a routine campaign promise for Trump and his ilk and it usually just slides right by Dem strategists
Gillian Branstetter

i love when americans talk about long wait times in canadian health care like it's some kind of gotcha. i've also lived in the states and the wait times are exactly as bad but then they also bankrupt you
katie @focusfronting

Republicans barricading the door on the “Day of Love”:


@KellDA

it's weird how consistently throughout history people have mistaken "being bad at basic morals" for "being superior to literally every other human being in existence"
Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist

When you go to vote just remember that they are more obsessed with regulating what women do with their own bodies than regulating lunch meat factories.
Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter

Thomas Gordon: Parents who constantly criticize what their kids do or say "foster in these children a deep feeling that they are unacceptable as persons.” That doesn’t change just because the parents say soothingly, “Oh, we love YOU, honey; we just hate almost everything you DO.”
Alfie Kohn

New: JD Vance requested first-class flights, private cars and speaking fees as high as $40,000 from Midwestern public universities during his 2017 book tour — with University of Wisconsin Madison breaking off negotiations for a campus visit in part over the fee.
Adam Wren

Just a reminder that while Republicans publicly distance themselves from abortion in these last critical weeks before the election, they're quietly filing lawsuits against mifepristone that would impact the whole country – not just anti-abortion states
Jessica Valenti

Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly: “He was always telling me that we need to use the FBI and IRS to go after people–it was constant and obsessive and is just what he’s claiming is being done to him now.” There will no John Kellys in a 2nd Trump Admin.
Barb McQuade

I'm genuinely horrified by people who think that Dubai is cool
Anita Zsurzsan @iamjourjean

"Once migration is cast as a problem, it always redounds to the benefit of the far Right, which need not deliver ​solutions as long as it diverts social malaise away from structures and toward scapegoats." Alberto Toscano, In These Times magazine
Kathryn Joyce

Part of me thought that when Biden stepped aside for Kamala, the race wouldn't end up being such a nailbiter because the contrast in candidate quality would be clear and undeniable. Well, the contrast in quality is clear and undeniable, but it turns out something like 45% of voters still want diarrhea forever. And it's hard to persuade someone they shouldn't want diarrhea forever if that's their thing. So here we are.
Aaron Rupar

The mainstream media is covering the odds and NOT the stakes. Yet again.
Molly Jong-Fast

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

Y'all understand if Trump wins, both Alito and Thomas retire within 6 months and he replaces them with two 40-something justices who ensure a right-wing majority until 2050, give or take. So, if you're 30 or over, that's your SCOTUS for the rest of your life.
scary lawyerguy

A man replied to me telling me that most women want to stay home to raise kids. I thanked him for telling me what most women want. In the comments, there are dozens of other men who assured me that they also know what most women want. This is not parody.
Jess Piper @piper4missouri

Fossil capital could lose up to $1 trillion in profits if assets are stranded as a result of an energy transition.
Andrew Ahern @AndrewsonEarth

this $1 trillion in stranded assets is actually a bargain — less than 1% of global GDP
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive

The annual number of murders in Aurora, Colorado has not risen over the last five years. The number of gang-related assaults has fallen this year. This plan to invoke a wartime law for military rule in the United States rests on fabricated propaganda.
Michael Clemens

The fact that we're on track to meet the global goal of tripling renewables, largely thanks to solar, is not news/ But the absolutely massive role distributed generation plays relative to utility scale solar is:


Justin Guay @Guay_JG

hackers taking down the internet archive instead of student loan websites or credit card debt or medical debt or anything even remotely useful shows how much of that community is absolutely useless
in the mood for adulation @fagittarius_jd

Uber's goal wasn't to provide good jobs, flexibility, or convenient transportation; it was to use immense private capital to control our transportation system—all underpinned by labor exploitation and prolific lawbreaking.
Daniel Hanley

Trump is now calling humanitarian *parole,* a many-decades-old immigration policy, “probation,” and lying that it means those who came in under the policy were prisoners. An immigrant being paroled doesn’t mean they’re a criminal; it’s not the same as being out of jail on parole.
Daniel Dale

Donald doesn't have a "fascination with genes." He has a fascist’s obsession with eugenics and white supremacy.
Mary L Trump

Finally a story about grocery prices that gets it right, shows that grocery is more affordable today than it was before pandemic – once you factor in rising wages (as you should).
Arin Dube

During disasters, your community will be better off and recover faster if more of its businesses are locally owned.
Stacy Mitchell

‘Prodigy’ comes from Latin ‘prodigium,' meaning "omen" or "monster." It now refers to a highly talented child, but in the 15th century, a prodigy could be any strange or weird thing that might be an omen of things to come.
Merriam-Webster

"The US should decarbonize." "But what about China?" "China is expected to account for almost 60% of all renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030 ..." From theguardian.com. It's funny that, during the *exact stretch of years* that US conservatives were saying "what about China?" as a response to US decarbonization policy ... China was doubling down on clean energy and subsequently ate our f'ing lunch and now dominates the global industry.
David Roberts @drvolts

Evergreen nowadays:


CalvinEllis23 @MojoPharoah

"[It] is a 'crime' in most of America for the poor to wager in the streets over dice. Wagering over international currencies, entire cities’ worth of mortgages, the global supply of wheat needed to avoid mass starvation, or ownership of public corporations is accepted behavior."
@KittenBalerion

You show up to work, ready to work, and your boss randomly and regularly locks you out *SO HE DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY YOU* while telling customers they have to pay more because there aren't enough workers.
Zephyr Teachout

"The Kavanaugh investigation stopped" is a Watergate level story
"The Putin gets COVID testing machines meant for hospitals" is an Iran-Contra level story
"The 7 calls with Putin while in possession of classified materials" is a Rosenberg level story
The news is failing us
Devin Jackson 4 Senate @DPurdyJackson

You'll never, ever, ever catch Trump saying anything positive about the United States, and you'll never, ever, ever catch Trump criticizing Russia.
Alex Cole @acnewsitics

I'm an old man.
Graduated HS in 1965.
Fought in Vietnam.
Fought against the war.
Protested for The Environment™.
I never  thought I'd live to see the day when a genuine Bond villain was running the US space program and a Nazi with multiple convictions was running for President.
Jeff McFadden @JeffAndDonkeys

When it comes to a Green New Deal people ask: “How will you pay for it?” As though we're not paying for it now in loss of life and billions of dollars in destruction. The Green New Deal isn't radical. Transforming our energy system saves lives, saves money and saves the planet.
Bernie Sanders

I've been telling you this – Trump thought our nation was "great" during the Gilded Age, the Robber Baron years – that's what he wants to bring back. Massive wage slavery, factory towns, filthy water and air, no regulations on food or business. His policies only help the ultra rich.
Jennifer Mercieca

Maybe we shouldn't allow 53 ft trailers in the core of our cities:


Stephen @PedalByte

The next time a climate "person" of any ilk is invited on cable news to do a live interview during an acute crisis, I would love it if they asked the anchor "hey, why don't you talk about this more often?" I double dog dare you
Mary Annaïse Heglar

On this date in October 9, 1635, Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for spreading "newe & dangerous opinions." Williams had argued that Natives were the legitimate owners of the land, & that colonists should acquire property by purchasing it from Native peoples.
@OTDRhodeIsland

Climate skeptic: "Humans can't change the climate"
Recently from probably the same crowd: "Humans are controlling the weather/hurricanes"
My head hurts....
Dr. Marshall Shepherd @DrShepherd2013

For those buying the 'manipulated weather' garbage on here ... 'A hurricane releases heat energy that is the equivalent of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes — more than all the energy used at a given time by humanity.' –National Hurricane Center chief Chris Landsea
Brad Crawford @BCrawford247

“i don’t want to be alarmist—” no i do want to be alarmist. this is ALARMING. you should be ALARMED. we are in the midst of a climate crisis, a pandemic, multiple genocides, economic turmoil…and you’re expecting me to remain calm? because you don’t want to be upset? oh honey
@utah_thedude

Data centers use 26% of Virginia’s total power consumption, Apollo’s Torsten Slok notes:


David Gura

Uhhhhhhh. Why has Trump kept having private 1:1 calls with Putin as a private citizen? “According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021”
Ian Sams

A historic natural disaster happening four weeks before Election Day shows exactly why 30-day voter registration deadlines and restrictions on early and mail voting are voter suppression
Stephen Wolf @PoliticsWolf

TRUMP: (ducks second debate)
TRUMP: (ducks 60 Minutes)
MEDIA: Why Is Kamala Hiding?
Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler

Some reply guy called me a “DEI PhD”, which is pretty funny considering how hard I had to work to get a PhD in geography, as opposed to 100 years ago, where a white guy could write a dissertation on the “economic geographies of Guersney County, Ohio” and get a doctorate.
@DeondreSmiles

For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world
Bill McKibben


PatriotsLady777 @Patsgirl777

You are literally the richest person in America, and you choose to be a weird cheerleader for a treasonous bastard.
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob

Pretty wild how 40+% of US emissions are attributable to cars yet basically every state DOT is still spending billions every year to add/widen highways. There’s seemingly no amount of climate catastrophe that will shake this country out of its insane (car) path dependency
Travis R. Eby @travis_robert

democracy was never made to withstand this combination of money and disinformation.
ian bremmer

A point that is very hard for elite types to understand is that economic outcomes are determined by policy not a "free market." That absurd myth is held as widely among people on the left as on the right.
Dean Baker

So “leave it to the states” should really be changed to “leave it to the individuals,” and those individuals should have the freedom to decide, in concert with whomever they decide to include in that decision, what happens to their own bodies.
Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH

the first person to invent a browser plug-in that blocks you from having to see any AI "art" is gonna be a millionaire
@katefeetie

Israel has destroyed 814 Mosques and 3 Churches in Gaza over the past year.
@Lowkey0nline

Republicans make up stories about things the Biden administration handles competently, like disaster relief, because they can't govern and can't imagine that anyone else can
John Harwood

If your bath is overflowing, you don't start investing in fancy new mops. You turn off the tap:


Dr Charlie Gardner

Hillary Clinton was probably the most left-wing Democrat on immigration in history and lost to an anti-immigration candidate while leftists voted for Jill Stein and then leftists are like “gee why is no one willing to run on a left-wing immigration platform anymore?”
Swann Marcus

I love how J.D. Vance always links his mother's addiction with the border. She stole drugs from the hospital, J.D. They came from the drug factory in a box that said Purdue Pharmaceuticals on the side.
TheRealThelmaJohnson

"Biden is old" was a multi-week news cycle while "Trump committed dozens of crimes and is a traitor to the US" isn't even going to get a single day of oxygen from the press.
@50megatonFbomb

We don’t talk enough about the illegal immigrants who got here in the 1600s and almost immediately started human trafficking
Lisa Snowden

78-Year-Old Man Running for President Won’t Release Medical Records
The New Republic

You know Biden-Harris are doing a good job on hurricane relief because Fox needs to make shit up to say they are doing a bad job. If there were actual failures, Fox would be highlighting those, not inventing failures that don't exist.
Dean Baker

People keep saying "post-pandemic" when they really mean "post-public health."
Carolyn Marshall @_carolynm_

Donald Trump hired more than 100 migrants in 2023 to work at Mar-a-Lago, despite casting himself as an immigration hard-liner.
Arizona Political @AZVotes

Liz Cheney can bring herself to support Kamala Harris despite disagreeing with her on 90% of things, while many online leftists can't bring themselves to support Kamala Harris despite agreeing with her on 90% of things.
The Biden Accomplishments Guy @What46HasDone

Using the *PRELIMINARY* USGS streamgage located in the Ashville, NC area, this was a roughly 14,000 year flood. Every year, this flood has a 0.007158% chance of happening. The estimated discharge was 248,862 gallons per second at peakflow.
Reilly Dibble @Simcoe12_Wx

“Kids these days can’t ___ like we used to do” is rarely a serious argument
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated

Notice how Jimmy Carter never gets condemned for mixing politics with his Christianity. That’s because he focused on living it out rather than making grand declarations about it or using it as a legislative weapon against others. Jimmy Carter just focused on loving others well.
Rev. Benjamin Cremer

Final version of my paper on the greenhouse gas footprint of liquid natural gas exports from the US is now published. Conclusion? LNG has a larger climate impact than any other fossil fuel, including coal.
Robert Howarth @howarth_cornell

Trump’s “Freedom Cities” are weird, but let's go deeper. Peter Thiel and other pro-Trump tech billionaires are OBSESSED with building new corporate-run territories – “network states.” They want to change how the entire planet is governed.
gil duran

If spending a little bit of time in Hebron can make Ta-Nehisi Coates see apartheid Israel for what it is, imagine what covering the genocide in Gaza would do. That is why Israel bars journalists.
Laila Al-Arian

Vance last night [at the VP debate]: "We should be making more solar panels here in the United States of America." Meanwhile:


Michael Thomas @curious_founder

listen up, stupids:
John McCain lost his election and fucked off back to Congress.
Mitt Romney lost his election and fucked off back to Congress.
Hillary Clinton lost her election and fucked off and went home.
Al Gore challenged the results in ONE STATE, and when he lost, he fucked off and went home.
Donald Trump lost his election and freaked the fuck out and sent a mob of armed morons to the Capitol to disrupt the certification, and he also headed up a ginormous criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud in Georgia, all so he could cling to power — because he's a big fucking baby who can't deal with being the huge fucking loser that he is. and that's why your guy is in deep fucking shit right now
Jeff Tiedrich

It’s darkly funny to me that cities have budget processes with so much engagement, more than I have ever seen for higher levels of government with exponentially bigger budgets. We quibble over pennies for potholes but spend the dollars on missiles without a word.
Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul

Can you imagine telling a man that his bodily autonomy should be left up to states?
Jess Piper @piper4missouri

I realize this is out of bounds for news journalists, but I’m dying for someone to ask Vance how he thinks his feelings about his mother’s neglect in the past affect his attitudes towards women now.
Leah McElrath

The GOP position is to do greenfield development on federal land LOL
Ed Mendoza @orangutanagram


@eats_master

I end [the debate] tonight reflecting on how central untruth has become to the American right.  The lying we heard tonight was staggering.  Lying is an illiberal act, deeply contemptuous of democracy.  Legacy media's struggle to challenge the lying/untruth has let us all down, profoundly.
Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC

Louisiana has reclassified the abortion pill as a Schedule 4 dangerous drug, making possession of a single pill punishable by 5 years in prison.
Ron Filipkowski

The corollary: If we continue to *not* build enough homes, we’ll give fuel to people like Vance who want to kneecap immigration.
Rik Adamski

maybe im just a partisan hack but i think sending a murderous horde to the us capital was a bigger threat to democracy than not being allowed to suggest horse paste to treat covid on facebook
Andrew Lawrence

The clear and indisputable difference between Trump and Vance:


Alan Mills @alan_uplc

The irony of blaming immigrants for rising housing prices when they are hands down the most exploited workers in the construction industry and any attempt to improve their conditions results in the developers who get rich off of them threatening to stop building housing
hodel in the streets, chava in the sheets @mrotzie

Liars will always sound better than truth tellers to people uninterested in the truth.
Jarrett Walker @humantransit

Ok, just a reminder that almost everything JD Vance says is exactly the same thing that Trump says. He's just calmer, but he's still also fascist.
amityf