This has been building for years.
WATCH: To better understand Democratic frustrations surrounding how business is conducted in Tennessee's GOP supermajority House, watch this segment from our award-winning Revealed investigation - long before #TheTennesseeThree made national news. (Please like and share.) 1/2 pic.twitter.com/DOw3LVOznT
— Phil Williams (@NC5PhilWilliams) April 8, 2023
This one is sleazy in a particularly telling way.
Breaking News: A Shelby County commissioner says the Republican state government is now threatening to pull funding for Memphis schools and infrastructure projects if they vote to re-appoint Rep. Justin Pearson to his democratically-elected seat. https://t.co/YgH3musZR3
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 7, 2023
Tennessee Dem Justin Jones Reappointed To His House Seat By Vote Of 36–0 https://t.co/ePzmZgJXtw via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 10, 2023
To recap, Tennessee Republicans got a week of thrashing on the national stage, Democrats got money and attention they’ve only dreamed of for years, and Justin Jones didn’t miss a day of session since his expulsion. https://t.co/HnxYQLncbt
— Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) April 10, 2023
And keep an eye on this part of the story.
Fascinating thread with evidence that the TN Speaker should be expelled because he holds office in violation of the state constitution.#irony https://t.co/3YtaGpznrz
— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) April 10, 2023
More fun with Ron and Don
His autocratic bully nonsense plays well with the new FL populace. Not so much anywhere else. Even his supporters are losing patience with his blundering. pic.twitter.com/odrkyCaeHh
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 11, 2023
— Fred Grimm (@grimm_fred) April 9, 2023
Poor Pitiful Ron DeSantis Isn't Much Competition For Trump Now
— Jack Rayher (@JackRayher) April 9, 2023
Hey Florida Fascist, the Walt Disney Co. isn't a school librarian you can bully.#DemVoice1 https://t.co/0WP2bYJRMU
Ron DeZero pic.twitter.com/Fy3yweFTww
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 7, 2023
And humiliated him. Don't leave that out.
Desantis is now threatening revenge on Disney, saying the state will now look to develop property adjacent to Disney, add toll roads, new taxes, among other things. All this because they criticized one of his policies, and businesses in FL can’t do that. https://t.co/WV42nh3jeo
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 7, 2023
Most historians say droit du seigneur was a myth, but for this Mar-a-Lago visitor...
Generous. pic.twitter.com/J1IK0HH7XV
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 9, 2023
You know what's fun in a schadenfreude sorta way? Remembering all the wise pundits downplaying the impact of Dobbs.
Buried in the mifepristone opinion is a recognition of constitutional fetal personhood, i.e., that the constitution requires providing zygotes with equal protection.
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) April 7, 2023
The Supreme Court did not say that in Dobbs. The judge makes it up based on an amicus brief filed in Dobbs. pic.twitter.com/9xJPuVLcJ0
From my recent cover story: https://t.co/utkcyAD3XQ pic.twitter.com/m194agELhz
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) April 8, 2023
A pregnant Anya Cook went to a hospital experiencing a pre-viability rupture, but because of Florida’s abortion law, the hospital would not treat her. She ended up having a miscarriage in the bathroom of a hair salon, losing half the blood in her body.https://t.co/Au5lZspfXo
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 10, 2023
In a shocking development, John Yoo was able to justify Clarence Thomas's behavior.
Dear @nytimes what John Yoo thinks of Clarence Thomas’s probity or what moved @propublica to write about Harlan Crow’s gifts is beyond irrelevant. Did Yoo say anything about the propriety of accepting the pricey gifts? That might have been germane. Otherwise, scrap the interview pic.twitter.com/iOkWd4c2vg
— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) April 8, 2023
Dahlia Lithwick argues awfully persuasively: Clarence Thomas broke the law and it isn’t even close. https://t.co/zhgSsynalq
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) April 8, 2023
Much of the moral economy of elite American intelligentsia, both liberal and conservative, runs on a simple principle: "This rich guy invited me to one of his fancy shindigs, seemed nice and made me feel important, therefore he's good." https://t.co/Xcyg9AKMAH
— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) April 9, 2023
Isn’t it customary to disclose your financial ties to the tycoon when you’re publicly defending his Nazi memorabilia collection pic.twitter.com/ddBR05yBCu
— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) April 9, 2023
And while on the subject of Nazis.
Anne Frank died 78 years ago in a Nazi concentration camp.
— David Beard (@dabeard) April 10, 2023
A Florida school has banned an illustrated edition of her life story after a conservative advocacy group objected.https://t.co/WmKMkLfERu @AP
Watching these people convince themselves that Joe Biden is a wild-eyed leftist is still amusing more than two years in.
The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support. https://t.co/6xnIxEcxDj via…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) April 6, 2023
For those on the left still supporting Russia in the name of anti-imperialism.
Seriously disturbing stuff. Most states don’t need a justification not to disappear, especially not from the governments trying to liquidate them. https://t.co/CyUcRdAtHZ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 9, 2023
Checking in with Elon
Tesla employees reportedly passed around personal videos from owners’ cars - The Verge https://t.co/BYYKurDwu1
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 8, 2023
New from me in @techpolicypress: Autocrats Will Benefit Most from Twitter's New Approach to State-Affiliated Media https://t.co/LcKwEAvCWs
— E Rosalie (@Info_Rosalie) April 7, 2023
FACT: Elon Musk’s companies have received more federal government funding than NPR has in its entire existence.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 8, 2023
(PS) And to be very clear, Musk was warned over and over and over and over and over again that fines of this sort could end Twitter. His response was to fire employees in Germany who could’ve helped him avoid such fines, and fire content-moderation personnel in the United States.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 10, 2023
Similar situation at Tesla, where everyone assumes that the leader in electric vehicles must also be an environmental leader but behind the bullshit "impact reports" their record of systematically violating environmental laws is hands-down the worst in the US auto industry https://t.co/Oz0ZdDrDjM
— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 10, 2023
On a related note, getting people to stop driving vehicles that are way bigger than they need would probably do more than any recent proposal pushing EVs.
Two silly policies flood the roads with trucks:
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) April 10, 2023
“Cars and light trucks had two different standards. It became easier to meet the standard with trucks. So manufacturers thought of ways to basically build trucks that are really cars” said MIT economist Christopher Knittel. https://t.co/d5eGh3R2Pa
This week in AI hype.
The first "AI is coming for you job" mass panic I experienced first-hand was in 2014 and was based on the same premise -- that human doctors would soon be a thing of the past. It was triggered by the now-defunct IBM Watson. https://t.co/HsYAl3GjRT
— François Chollet (@fchollet) April 8, 2023
I vividly remember the ~2014 one. 80% unemployment rates were supposed to be around the corner. If machines can beat people at Jeopardy, who's ever going to need a human doctor anymore?
— François Chollet (@fchollet) April 8, 2023
I wrote a post debunking the whole "automation causes mass unemployment" thesis at the time.
"t it remains unclear who is responsible when artificial intelligence generates or spreads inaccurate information; we just don't know" how judges might rule when someone tries to sue the makers of an AI chatbot; we've not had anything like this before."https://t.co/db9KUr6URg
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) April 8, 2023
And finally a visit to the nerd corner.
In 1899, Frank Morley proved Morley’s theorem: when the angle at each vertex of any triangle is trisected, the points of intersection of adjacent trisectors form the vertices of an equilateral triangle. pic.twitter.com/uCJA1RITVv
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 8, 2023
Kids like me grew up on the fold-in. So many giggles. Goodbye, Mr. Jaffee.
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) April 10, 2023
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