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“You’ve been such a gracious fan tonight tell me what your thoughts are about this win tonight.”
“I think this is huge for DC. DC needed this. We’ve got some asshole in the fucking White House...(camera cuts away)”
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING LEGEND.
#WONTHEFIGHT
I think one thing leftists have a hard time comprehending is just how truly radicalizing it must be to spend every single day at work around House Republicans. This makes perfect sense not as a betrayal to the DSA but to lived experience of the dangerous crazy of the House GOP.
Rep.
@AOC
on her decision to contribute to the
@DCCC
for the first time, as first reported by the NYTimes:
"If Democrats do not retake the House in November, I do not have confidence that a Republican majority would certify the results of a presidential election."
2020 should unite all Democrats in getting rid of caucuses, redoing the primary calendar, and bringing ranked choice voting to primaries (because if we're going to vote by mail all these votes for candidates who have dropped out is also a form or disenfranchisement).
There are no better quotes in politics than the ones from the defeated primary rival’s consultant after the candidate that beat them eats it in the general. Even by that standard this is a wild quote.
It’s rarely the app (though sometimes it is the app) but it’s almost always the training on the app. Or the downloading of the app. Or the initial login and setup of the app. Particularly when volunteers are involved. cc
@sara_ela
Elon is the purest distillation of every single discussion of a content moderation issue on an internal Facebook only group where an infrastructure engineer who just heard of the problem explains his easy solution to the non-eng coworker who is the world leading authority on it.
It was easier to get three presidents in the same room than it was to get the cast of arrested development back in the same place to film the Netflix seasons four and five
Finland will now give all new parents the same amount of leave — 164 days, paid — regardless of gender. Single parents will also have the right to use the parental leave quotas of both parents.
@pamcake_sistor
@mathewi
My neighbor let us know if we see her toddler alone on the porch she’s not negligent her son just loves playing mailman right now.
@alexstamos
It is like the purest distillation of every single of a content moderation issues on an internal Facebook only group between an infrastructure engineer who just heard of the problem and thinks there’s an easy solution versus the non-eng coworker who is the leading authority on it
Asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for his take on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children.
In the span of 3 mins, he said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree with it, supports IVF and just needs to read the bill. (There is no bill.)
My dark horse prediction is Elon privately tells Trump he can be come back on Twitter and Trump truth socials it and is like “don’t want to get back on failing Twitter even when Elon begged me like a dog”
For some reason making the absolute worst person the most absolute powerful person is not working out particularly well in the absolute worst situation. Who would’ve thought.
“Believing” that the only Democrat who has ever beaten Donald Trump is now the only Democrat who can lose to Donald Trump is not a very compelling campaign vision and I uh can see why it did not convince Joe Biden.
Dean Phillips also told me that Biden is "perhaps the only Democrat who could lose to Trump."
That's just absurd, for the reasons outlined below. But when I pressed Phillips, he dug in. Very hard to see why he's going here. 5/5
The
#GlennDome
financing is based on ticket sales to the new arena.
Looking at the projections that appears to include Wizards playoff games.
Wizards? Playoffs? I was still at the Shipyard the last time they were relevant in that discussion and they were called the Bullets.
Nobody has explained to me exactly what the alternative is here. Ignore the Constitution? Someone was going to file a 14th Amendment case, the plain text of the amendment is too obviously relevant to not do so. So what exactly are people wishing here?
I’m calling BS on a narrative that’s become widespread: The idea that liberals hope the 14th amendment is the “magical cure-all” that finishes Trump once and for all.
This NYT piece leads with this claim. 1/
The thing I respect most about AOC is how she sees holding office as creating an obligation of public trust - an obligation to ACT and PUSH BACK and ACHIEVE THINGS rather than simply manage or observe. It’s a commitment that crosses ideological lines
Someone from
@piersmorgan
's staff asked if I would like to come onto Pier's show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to talk about the state of his attire. Since he invited feedback, I thought I'd do a thread comparing his style to menswear icon Kermit the Frog. 🧵
1) these are very good hires.
2) a digital person should be promoted to the Deputy Campaign Manager level and given equal budget and responsibility as the other DCMs. This camapign will be fought and won online and digital should have the appropriate seat at the adult table.
Biden Team digital is scaling.....fast. Really fast. Like we're going to double the team in a matter of weeks….and then keep on growing. It's....going to be insane and my palms are literally sweating rn thinking about it!!!!
I’m curious about the person who after being rescued from the water after the bridge collapse was like, “nah dog, im cool” and went home. Someone should interview that person.
@MelissaRyan
@Rob_Flaherty
Rob calling over to the national archives “look don’t like take resources away from trying to find those USSS texts but can you confirm my dark Brandon tweet has been archived for posterity.”
As a now Ward 3 resident who lives off Connecticut Ave, I have been holding off buying an e-bike because I don't feel it's particularly safe to bike to other stuff in Ward 3. I was waiting for these bike lanes!
I’m really very upset with
@DDOTDC
and
@MayorBowser
for deleting the bike safety project on Connecticut Ave. Since we often have to take both kids to activities I bought an e-bike. I feel reasonably safe going to soccer at Petworth Rec Center. I don’t going to most Ward 3 places.
I’m just saying when I run a field office I regularly get clipboards back from volunteers and people do some wild shit on the paper instead of checking one of the pre-printed boxes. Apps are harder than clipboards.
YOU CANNOT FLY PEOPLE FROM EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO ONE PLACE, GET THEM SICK, AND THEN FLY THEM BACK TO EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. CANCEL. THE. OLYMPICS.
1. Trump's "media company" is currently valued at $2 BILLION.
It has no product, no customers, and no revenue.
But it's much worse than that.
Follow along if interested.
Three hour plus lines in Los Angeles. People are still in line in LA County.
"If we ever determine as a country that voting is critical to our democracy, I bet we'll get right on this." Brian Williams
Hannity touts the effectiveness of wearing a mask: “If I wear a mask and it opens up baseball, concerts, NFL football, I’d rather wear the mask and go to the game and protect grandma and grandpa.”
Astonishing in the middle of a pandemic to have to fight a President and his party to keep hospitals open, for money to pay for testing to end lockdowns, to keep the Postal Service open, and to keep state and local governments running. You know, all the things keeping us alive.
We all have an obligation to do our part to contain the spread of this global pandemic and get to the business of recovery as soon as possible.
Until then, your compliance is required, and we will exercise the full force of our MPD, FEMS, DC Health and ABRA...
To watch “Hamilton” with my Philadelphia native wife is to also allot an extra fifteen minutes for her rant about the show’s Philadelphia erasure from the American Revolution story.
Also Donoghue had easily the sickest bureaucratic burn of the attempted coup.
“How about you go back to your office, and we’ll call you when there’s an oil spill.”
The timing of the Clark raid probably coincides with the fact that all of his bosses at DOJ were about to testify before Congress that Clark probably committed crimes and was an idiot.
Look charging for verification isn't a great idea but its going to be nothing like the insane problems created by rolling out half-baked Twitter OnlyFans adult videos while laying off half your staff including I'm sure most of you content moderation folks
As they say, if you come for the king you better be prepared for said king to go to the biggest tech company that also is your main financial backer and take all your staff and end up giving him all the resources he needs to actually create AGI without you. Very famous saying.
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
It’s “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from Eurotrip. Legitimate banger of a song. Matt Damon cameo. Song woven throughout the movie as a ringtone and techno remix. Undefeated fake song.
In which
@katieharbath
tells our favorite politician on Facebook tale while I was on vacation. cc:
@lauraolin
@teddygoff
who maybe never got the full story.
Thank god we protected the ability of Maryland drivers to speed recklessly up and down Connecticut Ave! Might as well formalize their de facto DC traffic law immunity while we’re at it.
BREAKING -
@DDOTDC
Chief Sharon Kershbaum says a bike lane is now NOT being considered for a more than 3 mile stretch of busy CT Ave in NW DC. This has been a controversial project for years - a bike lane was recommended. But the new DDOT Chief is changing course
#bikedc
Isn’t this...not really drone delivery?
“The drones will drop off prescriptions to a location near the community and a truck finish the delivery, UPS said.”
Carry yourself with the confidence of whatever combination of McKinsey consultant and Domino exec sold everyone on entering the Italian market in 2015.
Today the
@amprog
Tech Policy team is releasing a report that
@esmpsn
and I have worked on for over a year, "How To Regulate Tech: A Technology Policy Framework for Online Services." It's our ideas on what should be next in technology regulation.
Incredible artful stuff here. No Labels biggest haters could spend 12 hours locked in a room trying to come up with a parody of the single worst no labels take and it wouldn’t hold a candle this actual content they’re putting out.
Despite an early attempt at bipartisanship, the January 6 Committee’s work has become a partisan exercise about which the public is skeptical.
To see more content like this and learn more:
#January6th
#January6thCommittee
If three days of earned media for Biden overwhelmed Bloomberg's millions in ad spending, it really makes you realize how much Trump's earned media was (is) worth (plus his millions of dollars worth of Facebook ads).
If you want to learn more about the national baby formula shortage, the company at the heart of it, Abbott Laboratories, has a monopoly on WIC sales in 34 states
This setup really underscores my desire to setup deep fake AI generated video of Supreme Court oral arguments synced to the audio and just keep posting the deep fakes until the court lets cameras in.
Sotomayor: What is plausible the president creating a fraudulent slate of electoral candidates? Is that plausible that would be within his right to do?
Sauer: Absolutely
Look American idiocy is gonna kill way more of us than necessary but American ingenuity is going kill us in more interesting way than anywhere else in the world.
If you’ve never worked in the Capitol, it’s the most incredible and sacred place. And to see those special place violated over and over again is just so hard to watch.
@Recode
Gary Briggs, Bloomberg's digital director:
"If I have one more person who decides they want to come in for a couple hours and give us advice, I think I’m going to lose my mind."
"I used to appreciate the advice — but now there’s just work to be done.”
I am at the DOJ Attorney General’s summit on Section 230 at the FBI HQ and a metaphor for the trust government has is that federal agents can bring their firearms in the auditorium but those same agents can’t bring in water or coffee.
The public is going to learn what every rideshare and delivery driver has known for years, there weren’t really accessible public restrooms in America and it’ll be even worse now.
Elon saying I wanted to punch Kanye for the posts so he was inciting me to violence that’s why I chose to suspend him (since I am Twitter in every way) is so perfect in every way that I’m honesty so impressed.
Here is the full explanation from Musk about suspending Kanye West from Twitter for posting a swastika.
As I tweeted earlier, swastikas are abhorrent. But posting them on the internet is not against any US law, though it may be against a site's terms of service.
FTX is a real time disaster so big and unfolding on Twitter its distracting the main character in the other big real time disaster unfolding on Twitter.
What a shame. I don't think her opponents realize how much they're going to wish they had someone as professional as Sarah Bloom Raskin around in the future.
@jimprosser
@alexstamos
“You run a propaganda platform” from the guy who just bought Twitter is almost as good as his “i suspended ye because his tweets were inciting me to violence"
A retiring Blue Dog is worried the January 6th committee will be too focused on the former President who tried to overthrow the peaceful transfer of power and Liz Cheney is correctly objecting to that?