does elon not realise he needs tweets to be more visible not less https://t.co/Rovv5njQ8V — Ed Zitron (@edzitron) June 30, 2023 If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet …
Dear Lord, hear my plea
There’s a famous and profound conjecture in mathematics that I won’t describe to you (maybe I’ll say a few words in the comments) that people often complain is almost unfalsifiable. It’s an inequality that is supposed to be true, given certain fudge factor adjustments, but one has so much latitude with these fudge factors that …
Mitt-igating Circumstances
Harold Meyerson over at Kaplan Daily actually asks the correct post-Santorum question: Can Mitt swing back to the center, and in what reality is that even possible? Since the Tea Party takeover of the GOP in 2009 and 2010, Republican voters have often either nominated candidates so far to the right that they lost winnable …
Predatory Overlords, From Octopus to Vampire Squid
Not much to add, but I think this deserves wider distribution. Alexander Keyssar, in the Washington Post, reminds us of what our political ancestors achieved through hard work and sacrifice a century ago, in “The real grand bargain, coming undone“: Despite all the recent talk of “grand bargains,” little attention has been paid to the …
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How the GOP Governs (Badly)*…or A Few Bumps in the (Rail)Road for our New Randian Overlords…
This caught my eye on one fine New England Monday morning (snark, for those of you not enjoying our rain/wind/grim a.m.). (h/t Midwest Energy News). Money quote on the rash of GOP cancellations/dissings of transportation projects: The $810 million from Wisconsin, $400 million from Ohio, and $3 billion from New Jersey will come back to …
Riverdancing with Hugh
Earlier today, the birth of a minor quip in the “Cruise South America with Hugh Hewitt” thread: Ahmmm, I’m a ghey, and I wouldn’t do anything with the words “Cruise” and “Hugh Hewitt” in it. Of course, with all those social conservatives in one place, it’ll probably sound like Riverdance in the bathrooms. We now …
War for Ukraine Day 803: Russia Bombards Continues Its Bombardment of Ukraine Despite the Holy Day
(Image by NEIVANMADE) "He saved others, but He can't save himself!" (Mt. 27:42) Thousands of Ukrainian heroes, including about 900 defenders of Azovstal, are in Ruzzian captivity right now. Let's demand the immediate release of those who sacrificed everything for freedom and democracy.#NEIVANMADE pic.twitter.com/ogDvdQl242 — #NEIVANMADE (@neivanmade) May 3, 2024 As I begin tonight’s update …