... and this ...Elderly woman’s death blamed on attack in N.C. that cut power to 45,000 https://t.co/9BWBaSLRNM
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) September 1, 2023
Saudi Arabia putting its finger on the scale to help pic.twitter.com/JtZKTAehnJ
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 6, 2023
PAY ATTENTION: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is reducing oil production, potentially leading to higher gas prices for Americans in 2024.
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) September 3, 2023
This isn't the first time he's taken such a step, as seen before the 2022 midterms.
I guess that the Saudi Crown Prince and the… pic.twitter.com/nArEohWh9t
and this...
Amazing situation in WI.
— Will Saletan (wsaletan on Threads) (@saletan) September 5, 2023
1) Republicans in the legislature are plotting to oust a judge who threatens their gerrymander.
2) They're scheming to put her in limbo so she can't act AND the Dem governor can't appoint her replacement.@SykesCharlie explains. https://t.co/ZJnB4hnRqm
"What they are proposing...is to have this vote to really wipe out the vote of nearly one million Wisconsinites... Republicans have decided they don't want a liberal majority on the court so they are simply going to nullify the election" - @SykesCharlie w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/mTjJDciCJ3
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) September 6, 2023
Now on with the schadenfreude.
If you're a news junkie, you've probably already heard about this:
Musk’s Epic, Antic Labor Day Weekend Against The Jews
But no account could match watching it unfold in real time.
Worth noting here that there is clear, overwhelming and consistent case law that calling someone an antisemite (same with racist, Nazi, white supremacist) is 1st amendment protected free speech. Musk will need to think of a workaround to blame thd Jews in court. https://t.co/AYJRs1SiyZ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 5, 2023
Folks. We have a winner. Posted a week after Elon took over. https://t.co/RpdcCvLpVU
— Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places (@SethCotlar) September 5, 2023
Makes no sense that I have one app for banking and another one for blaming the Jews. That's why I use X as my Everything App.
— Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter (@scottjshapiro) September 6, 2023
Of course, Musk's not just prejudiced against Jewish people.
!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 31, 2023
Oh I see now we are at the dehumanization of the enemy stage. This is a crucial propaganda and emotional training tactic. Aim: to make people feel better about committing or tolerating political violence aimed at the "anti-human" enemy. Read #Strongmen to see how that works out. https://t.co/6VYZeBMEtL
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) September 6, 2023
Elon Musk claims he purchased Twitter because it made his daughter trans
— Dexertonox (@Dexertonox) September 6, 2023
“She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil,” Musk said pic.twitter.com/pfdBSEIEpT
Elsewhere in the empire.
It looks like a Pontiac Aztek fucked a Delorean.
— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) September 3, 2023
That isn’t a compliment. https://t.co/kl4QLwj2tl
Welp. pic.twitter.com/8PtTaRQKWj
— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) August 31, 2023
And politics. Did anyone have Kavanaugh as leper with the most fingers in the GOP SCOTUS ethics pool?
NEW: The right-wing justice sold a home to a religious freedom group that has filed numerous briefs in cases before the court. @commondreams.
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 5, 2023
https://t.co/NzMppooaQ6
And then that SC Justice corrects his filings.
— Jesse Eisinger (@eisingerj) September 1, 2023
And then somehow @jamestaranto spins it to try to show how dishonest *we* are? Based on something we didn’t write but he thinks we thought??
I bow down.
I'd use stronger language, but, yeah.
Interesting piece from @MarkJacob16 arguing that when one party is abandoning democracy, calling the resulting disputes "partisan politics" doesn't come close to communicating what's actually happening:https://t.co/RjDAbYyJ4e
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 6, 2023
All sorts of interesting dynamics in this campaign.
Donald Trump is going to spend 2024 trying to keep himself out of jail, so where does that leave the rest of the GOP ticket…shit out of luck. Trump is gonna suck GOP donors dry to fund his legal defense and it’s gonna have a down ballot effect. @thebeatwithari @DrJasonJohnson pic.twitter.com/HuuYDHXvR7
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) September 1, 2023
MAGA vs. Reality pic.twitter.com/ZdVEIyy8OV
— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) September 6, 2023
There was no "deceptive edit." Trump absolutely suggested injecting disinfectant might help stop Covid: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?" https://t.co/U4waMpDDUD
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 3, 2023
Nothing racist to see here.
Charlie Kirk guest on indictments: “People who think this is not going to make him more relatable with non-whites don’t know non-whites. Like, the real non-white population.” pic.twitter.com/Hkh90u2uco
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 6, 2023
Roger Stone claims that Biden will start a nuclear war with Russia to cancel the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/igWlHhAVZg
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee warns that if Trump's legal problems prevent him from winning in 2024, "it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets." https://t.co/ktwb4fyANo pic.twitter.com/0msd1gvD8i
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 6, 2023
I suspect DeSantis is smart enough to know the only smart thing he can do with respect to the general is avoid the topic of abortion, but if he wants to stay next in line, he has to keep ratcheting up.
Ron DeSantis: "I think the danger from Congress is if we lose the election, they’re going to try to nationalize abortion up until the moment of birth. And in some liberal states, you have post-birth abortions and think that is wrong." @justinbaragonapic.twitter.com/RikytlSSzV
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 6, 2023
I'm not seeing enough people talking about this horrific move by Republican officials in Alabama to restrict women's freedom of movement. You've got to be kidding me.https://t.co/suYauIYw1m
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 6, 2023
😩 This is Mike Rogers, the guy the GOP has hand picked to run as the Republican senate candidate to take Debbie Stabenow’s seat.
— Distill Social (@DistillSocial) August 31, 2023
He doesn’t know what Prop 3 is, he lives in Florida and wasn’t able to vote in Michigan.
He is staunchly anti choice. Watch this 👇 pic.twitter.com/ekcN5PVEiw
Really, running against Rick Scott? Because after all, you are a Florida resident! https://t.co/Kf4AkxhreD
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 6, 2023
RFK jr
Alternate theory: He got covered like crazy and then there was nothing to sustain it anymore https://t.co/u5Njtv3Ti4 https://t.co/gR1Z9UzAVa
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 6, 2023
Well, looks like Eric Clapton's journey is now complete.... https://t.co/AhyqkYra0P
— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) August 31, 2023
Once again, Naomi Klein would like to remind you she's not that Naomi.
I’m *extremely* concerned that Brownstone author Dr Naomi Wolf is back on Twitter
— Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social (@GYamey) June 4, 2022
She is out there peddling grotesque anti-vaccine nonsense, eg she now argues that Covid vaccines have caused a child “genocide,” which she calls “a baby die-off”
Why is she back on Twitter? Ugh. pic.twitter.com/XnmqvNBDv8
Some say it was caused by a bad poll fourteen months before the election. Some say it was Nate Silver throwing a tantrum because people were calmly discussing Biden's age. I've been watching the political press covering Democrats long enough to know it's just...
Panic Season
BREAKING: In the last 24 hours, Joe Biden aged a day.
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) September 5, 2023
I repeat, Joe Biden, the president of the US, is one day older than he was yesterday.
We go now to our panel to discuss. "Dems say Biden didn't age yesterday, but is that true?"
And stay tuned for two hours in an Ohio diner.
Plus ONCE AGAIN, Whitmer, Harris and Warnock HAVE ALREADY GIVEN BIDEN THEIR FULL-THROATED SUPPORT.
— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) September 6, 2023
The only way *any* of them would run in 2024 is if the worst-case scenario befalls President Biden.
Yeah, I mean, hes old. It's an issue with voters marginally connected to politics. He's also the choice of the overwhelming number of D voters, likely has the best shot and a wide-open nomination battle out of the blue wld be catastrophic. And he's done a good job. Is what it is.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 6, 2023
Crypto
> "The company also says it sometimes needs to burn tire-derived fuel – made of shredded vehicle tires – to make the combustion of waste-coal more efficient."
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) September 2, 2023
Can't make this stuff up. It's literally a tire fire to trade imaginary magic beans.https://t.co/uYIsdhg1ID
Here's a report on how ERCOT paid a single bitcoin operation $31.7 million in August to decrease it energy use to help stabilize the grid. Wonder how much tonight is going to cost...https://t.co/KjR6MFRtex
— Mose Buchele (@MoseBuchele) September 7, 2023
UFOs
On Joe Rogan's podcast, George Knapp goes ancient astronaut theorist, speculates that aliens are ancient gods, created humanity as an "agricultural product," and will extinguish us when their "experiment" concludes. Seems inefficient. Wouldn't they just lab-grow their man-meat? https://t.co/S80WK4nfTu
— Jason Colavito (@JasonColavito) September 1, 2023
Excellent debunking by an expert with more relevant experience than Loeb. (Read the thread here.)
Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20
— Steve Desch (@Deschscoveries) September 1, 2023
AI
In a DM with @zenstyle, he stated something that has been on the mind of me and my team for many months:
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 1, 2023
we need an fMRI machine for neural networks.
Here's the source.
This is why OpenAI/Anthropic employees' views on AGI & x-risk should get no deference (if anything we should give them negative weight). It's not that they've become believers by building AI & seeing things we haven't. Rather, only believers are hired. The causality is backwards. https://t.co/A1iT6G5DFq
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) September 6, 2023
Misc.
Being trapped at Burning Man seems almost as bad as being trapped in a conversation with someone who went to Burning Man
— Sam Morril (@sammorril) September 3, 2023
By the end of this decade, I will own three unicorns, two of them with wings. https://t.co/V4MllhyhPp
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 4, 2023
This guy is about to be a billionaire if he isn’t already pic.twitter.com/HaS5Yo7Y47
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) September 5, 2023
House owner: I'd like to break both of my legs, please. Architect: Say no more. pic.twitter.com/fXrZQSAEX2
— Daniel Holland🎗🏴 ॐ (@DannyDutch) September 3, 2023
This is frankly a really valuable article and I'm glad to see the critique made, though it mostly focused on the post-1000 McEvedy and Jones estimates.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) September 5, 2023
Lemmie tell you, neither the data nor their estimates get *better* pre-1000. 1/ https://t.co/e7AwkgNQ0p
A useful video for twitter replies.
Playing the Nazi Card in the Third Reich https://t.co/lFSYNRBLc1 via @YouTube
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) September 4, 2023
Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, alive or dead, not captured in the frame of this picture. pic.twitter.com/izqehmGTyI
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) August 31, 2023
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