Still trying to get my head around Kavanaugh turning out to be one of the better Republican justices (of course, the bar is low and he is just starting out).
Clarence Thomas: "I am the most unethical justice in the history of the Supreme Court."
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 21, 2023
Sam Alito: "Hold my expensive bottle of wine!"
Nothing to see here, just a public servant who serves on the country’s most powerful federal court eating crab legs, Kobe steaks and drinking $1000 bottles of wine with a billionaire who had multiple cases before the Supreme Court https://t.co/F6Iony2YSN pic.twitter.com/dm0CgV1ppm
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) June 21, 2023
After the billionaire hedge fund manager flew Alito to Alaska for a fishing trip on his private jet, Alito failed to recuse himself in a subsequent case before the court where he voted in favor of the billionaire where he won a $2.4B judgment. https://t.co/VNnu4sz2Nl
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 21, 2023
preemptively responding to a story that @propublica is about to run.
— Leah Litman - @leahlitman.bsky.social (@LeahLitman) June 20, 2023
this is, as we say, art. and beyond parody.
I LOVE the notion that the seat on the private jet would have been empty so it doesn’t count. That’s how you know you’re dealing with a straight-shooter with good judgment. https://t.co/CDRVdHVGM9
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 20, 2023
SCOTUS should just start publishing their opinions behind the paywalled WSJ opinion page. Then they could afford their own luxury travel. https://t.co/FpwFJytDI4
— Dahlia Lithwick (@Dahlialithwick) June 21, 2023
From a longtime and very accomplished former WSJ reporter.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 21, 2023
(And, of course, WSJ's news operation and Fox-like editorial page are different operations.) https://t.co/Hwb5YNQsqg
Josh Marshall has a good essay on how all of these scandals (Alito, Gorsuch, Roberts, and Thomas -- have I missed any?) trace back to the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo.
As bad as the abortion issue was for Republicans in 2022, this poll (and others) suggest it may be even worse for them in 2024. Public opinion has become significantly more pro-abortion since last summer. https://t.co/Vhhjs8XA5qhttps://t.co/Vhhjs8XA5q
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 20, 2023
Oh yes, in fact I did. pic.twitter.com/VFyQZ7RxGX
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 21, 2023
RFK jr
and Russia
Russia and Vaccines
Vaccines and RFK jr.
I was mostly ignoring him, but that’s over now.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 19, 2023
He is citing this person on Twitter in Serbia for this. It’s a complete lie. What he is talking about was a proposal Ukraine sent Russia that Putin rejected as “totally unacceptable.” RFK Jr is a fraud, liar and a propagandist. pic.twitter.com/UX4iIO2kHu
RFK Jr.: Wifi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain.
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) June 19, 2023
Rogan: How does wifi open up your blood-brain barrier?
RFK Jr.: Now you've gone beyond my expertise. pic.twitter.com/uZLsq57z5Q
Pretty amazing. The owner of this site and his hype man David Sacks are now pushing line that Russia only ended its siege of Kyiv because they thought they had a deal with Kyiv. But Kyiv reneged because the US forced them to commit to more war. https://t.co/6zThYNBaro
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 19, 2023
RFK Jr. went on Jordan Peterson’s show and suggested chemicals in the water could be turning kids transgender. It’s the Alex Jones ‘water is making frogs’ gay nonsense from years ago but now from a wannabe presidential candidate and new hero of the right: https://t.co/a5k9C8x6SV
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 18, 2023
In 2013, RFK Jr. gave the keynote address at the Autism One conference, during which he reportedly likened childhood vaccinations to the Holocaust:
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) January 25, 2022
"To my mind this is like the Nazi death camps."https://t.co/dA1OL7YMWJ pic.twitter.com/gFmHYUVcJd
RFK Jr.’s own sister and nephew wrote this in 2019, saying he’s responsible for encouraging people not to get vaccinated and as a result, for the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and mumps in the US. https://t.co/Ro4TMSxxmW
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 18, 2023
Research has shown that Russian anti-vaxx amplification began in the US as early as 2014, and was arguably the first wide scale Russian social media op in the US. These early tests helped inform Russia’s consequential pro-Trump work in 2016. https://t.co/2SJpHuj0Pp
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 18, 2023
I wrote about the anti-vaccine movement in Canada and its ties to Bannon, Flynn, the PPC, Christian nationalism, and the global far-right movement — and why things could escalate after Monday’s election.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) September 19, 2021
https://t.co/5YTUxd1en1
We don’t know the results of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. But we know what David Sacks wants them to be. Right wingers like foreign strongmen. Worth noting that the Biden admin never said anything like he claims here. In fact their intel suggested modest gains. https://t.co/GMszmCqsmS
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 19, 2023
RFK Jr sure is spouting a lot of kremlin disinformation for a guy pretending to be a Democrat. https://t.co/akhMyinEC8
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) June 19, 2023
Useful thread and a reminder that the PayPal Mafia is the gift that keeps on giving.
1/ Since absolutely no one asked, that David Sacks about the 'failed counteroffensive' broken down paragraph by paragraph.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) June 20, 2023
Summary: Long tweets are an abomination and tech bro geopolitics is painful.
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Speaking of the PayPal Mafia.
Having said that, I wonder if 14 months of harassment counts as “repeated, targeted harassment”?
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 21, 2023
I’m gonna go with “yes.”
Shades of Claude Pepper...
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time a social media platform has designated the term “cis” as a slur. https://t.co/cGq56PESbo
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 21, 2023
"The Twitter buyout may be one of the very worst acquisitions in the history of Wall Street." —William D. Cohan at @PuckNews pic.twitter.com/8yP3dY2aPt
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 19, 2023
When I was an undergrad back in Arkansas, one of the main promoters of backwards masking panic gave a presentation. I imagine with a sympathetic audience he could have been rather slick, but this crowd wasn't letting him get away with any misstatement or unsupportable assumption. As the talk went on you could see the realization that he was out of his depth.
Thread:
— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) June 18, 2023
I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
And in tech news.
Amazing insider story: AWS looked hard and found no real practical use cases for blockchain where a database would have not worked.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 18, 2023
But since so much VC money wanted to spend it on blockchain: they built it b/c customers paid for it: https://t.co/49VQgMtDG6
Thanks @bjshively pic.twitter.com/zRcZgXt1S7
Britain Is Still Making Dumb Bets on Cryptohttps://t.co/IQNKOiceZc
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 20, 2023
Looks like excel *is* good for something:https://t.co/XR17pS8lkH
— Damon Jones (@nomadj1s) June 17, 2023
h/t: @kjhealy pic.twitter.com/7xkP7DOapJ
Generative AI is the source of digital effluence that is releasing massive quantities of textual shit, leaving a stain on everything it touches.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 18, 2023
As several others have observed, this moment in time delineates the Web not unlike nuclear testing did for low background steel. https://t.co/4GyBkfIlg0
A nuanced and well-researched piece on AI x-risk: https://t.co/NjOx2t2OTZ
— François Chollet (@fchollet) June 20, 2023
And as always, we end with miscellanea,
While the CEOs want to herd us back into our offices, the Founders want us to work from home, says @RMPWolfe. This brilliantly argued and beautifully written essay explains what the real American attitude towards work has always been. https://t.co/HXkCJ0B3bt @monthly
— Paul Glastris (@glastris) June 20, 2023
Opinion | I give millions of dollars to Republican candidates and help spread anti-Biden conspiracy theories on social media. But I said something in support of UBI once, so don’t call me right-wing.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) June 19, 2023
No touch! These are mine pic.twitter.com/j3uN66eUH1
— B&S (@_B___S) June 18, 2023
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