The list of women who have been denied abortions since the 'Heartbeat Bill' took effect includes:
— Ohio House Dems (@OhioHouseDems) October 19, 2022
•Cancer patients who couldn't be treated if pregnant
•Minors who were raped
•Women carrying fetuses that wouldn't survive past birth
All thanks to the cruelty of the @OhioHRA
Mike Pence is reminding a lot of folks - Republicans want a national abortion ban. https://t.co/HZKVqtD087
— Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) October 19, 2022
This is the future Republicans want https://t.co/fWSI87LTIf
— William D. Adler (@williamadler78) October 19, 2022
Neo-facsism, the anti-vaxx movement and what the hell happened to Canada?
This should be in this thread, because lolsob. https://t.co/g80lRClFHG
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) September 19, 2021
In just the past few months, the anti-vaccine movement has been associated with street brawls, bomb plots, death threats, attacks on vaccination centers, storming government buildings, and spraying cancer patients with bear spray, to name a few. pic.twitter.com/8OBLBjrCXD
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) September 19, 2021
When incentives are based on metrics...
This is one of the consequences of artists making songs that are 2 minutes long to game Spotify metrics.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 18, 2022
Adele has 42.7M monthly listeners while Yeat has 9.3M but his songs are streamed more because you can play 5 of his songs in the same time you’d only play 3 of Adele’s. https://t.co/GJZg7Z2nNK
It took long enough, but Democrats and liberal pundits are finally starting to treat threats to Social Security and Medicare as lines of attack worth pursuing.
Mike Lee just supported private accounts for Social Security and Medicare. Utahns, take heed.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2022
At a Biden event and they’re actually passing out Rick Scott’s “Plan to Rescue America” 😂
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) October 15, 2022
Makes sense. It’s the best argument for voting against Republicans because they actually put killing Social Security and Medicare in their platform.
Thx for the marketing materials, Rick. pic.twitter.com/aXpkcbSGO3
Column: GOP promises to gut your Social Security, Medicare if they take power https://t.co/bfzoqN3J2X
— Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) October 19, 2022
And other political stories.
I think I’ll compile a collection tomorrow. https://t.co/WSlItDH0jV pic.twitter.com/PmcvgkQxmw
— Charles Ghoul-ba 🎃 (@charles_gaba) October 15, 2022
In fairness to Herschel Walker, I sometimes pull out my Star Fleet badge to get past security at Star Trek conferences.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 15, 2022
Good lord, New York Times. Herschel Walker putting a straight razor to his wife's throat isn't his "private life." It's a crime. https://t.co/hXwN01JETy
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) October 17, 2022
2/ This is part of some weird hang up of Democrats, the hidden feeling that at every corner someone’s playing 9 dimensional chess with them. It’s weird and debilitating.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 19, 2022
"This foolishness with covid."
Michael Flynn: “If I had stayed in that job as NSA, there would’ve been no Mueller investigation. I would’ve stopped it. We would’ve never had all this foolishness with covid. There’s so many plots they had ready to go to take down (Trump) and have this New World Order step in.” pic.twitter.com/maqRieacbu
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2022
Not exactly apples-to-apples -- lots of recent changes in early voting in GA -- but it's fair to say we appear to be looking at a high turnout election in the state.
Record midterm turnout on Day 1 of early voting in Georgia: About 124,000 in-person votes cast, smashing the previous high of 71,000 on the first day of early voting in 2018. https://t.co/nnobjHw2G8 pic.twitter.com/X4UWjOJeQn
— Mark Niesse (@markniesse) October 18, 2022
Things not to say to Bob Woodward...
Audio of Trump handing Woodward the Kim Jong Un letters:
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 18, 2022
Trump: Don’t say I gave them to you pic.twitter.com/uPwQJwAlZN
If you list Ukraine as a failure for Biden, it's fair to ask which side you're on,
Hey there, Ted! Since your intern took the time to crank this out, I figured I'd share some points with you.
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) October 12, 2022
These are things you know but, what the heck.
/1 pic.twitter.com/cJhrW00MQa
Kevin McCarthy’s declaration there would be no “blank check” to aid Ukraine against Russia’s invasion has been heard on the right wing.
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) October 19, 2022
Steve Bannon today: “McCarthy’s right — not one penny more for the Ukraine.”
More info: https://t.co/usRlAdIfXr pic.twitter.com/x1vSOznecy
Musk and Ukraine (and China)
Read
— Sharon S Brown (@MySharonaBrown) October 17, 2022
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ - POLITICO https://t.co/cJ59qDaWyi
Persuasive and important @mattyglesias argument that the biggest problem with @elonmusk buying Twitter is that he is vulnerable to Chinese pressure. https://t.co/Eb8rfGxLIn
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 17, 2022
That should probably read "partially funding."
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) admonishes Ukrainian officials for vocally rejecting Elon Musk — who's been funding satellites to help Ukraine's military — for proposing that Ukraine make significant territorial concessions to Russia:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 17, 2022
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Good lord!" pic.twitter.com/w9PiMfESYS
I'm with Smith on this one.
This is a great thread by Krugman on why models matter in economics, and why Bernanke and Diamond-Dybvig made important, novel, and useful contributions. https://t.co/thiempngkl
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 17, 2022
A tale of bots
These accounts are part of an astroturf network consisting of (at least) 9660 accounts created between 2010 and 2018 (mostly in 2012/2013). All of their biographies consist of 10 words that begin with the letter "A" drawn from the same set of 20 words. pic.twitter.com/0ctPZLsVsx
— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) October 16, 2022
More interestingly, 31 of the accounts from the astroturf network have been transformed into fake Los Angeles residents who support @RickCarusoLA in the upcoming mayoral election. (Whoever gave these accounts their makeovers probably should've change their profile photos.) pic.twitter.com/CgDRYQg5Y2
— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) October 16, 2022
Just saw this and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a perfect description pic.twitter.com/IVDMD7bAbL
— Madelaine Moore (@Madelainefmoore) October 18, 2022
I would insert a clip of "the greatest love of all," but I really hate that song.
"Since taking office, Senator Mike Lee has earned a reputation as a principled conservative. He believes elected officials are responsible for keeping the federal government within its constitutionally limited role," writes Sen. Mike Lee.https://t.co/Uzpsg50QK5
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) October 16, 2022
Misc
This Japanese poster is around 100 years old. It reads: "The germs of the fearsome influenza! If you don’t wear a mask, you don’t value your life!"
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) October 12, 2022
Japan's success with COVID can be traced back to the 1918 pandemic, while the West ignored key lessons & paid the price years later pic.twitter.com/u9NCFkn8Xa
AI: “good prompt”
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) October 19, 2022
Statistics: push poll
Lawyering: leading the witness
Each of these represents information from outside a system intended to nudge that system toward a particular direction.
One must not attribute the resulting behavior to the brilliance of the system itself. https://t.co/jUas4sys6R
It’s fair to say that @meta was pulling our leg.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) October 14, 2022
They really don’t have a leg to stand on to defend their profoundly unethical behavior. https://t.co/yYlXShmYVn pic.twitter.com/vGoXam9baN
The latter, I’d say https://t.co/VaX2zt2siz
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) October 19, 2022
Social learning in bees https://t.co/ICpVr2jSji
— Dean Eckles (@deaneckles) October 19, 2022
This is the Twitter knowledge I seek. https://t.co/AnR032Dued
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 16, 2022
A British newspaper has started a live stream on YouTube of Liz Truss’s photo next to a lettuce to see which one lasts longer. I do love this country’s sense of humo(u)r. pic.twitter.com/nVpbozX3OP
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) October 14, 2022
The lettuce won.
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