Archives

Pretending COVID isn’t a problem and getting mad at people who take it seriously doesn’t make the virus go away.
Mitigation measures are unpleasant—life was better without a pandemic—but mass quarantines and remote schooling are worse.
Wishful thinking is a terrible strategy. https://t.co/NxuNOAvfGE

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 13, 2021

I wish Gov. Abbott would declare a war on COVID instead of his fellow Texans. https://t.co/RmsQBBBvcQ

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 13, 2021

Every option in Afghanistan was bad.
I’m more critical of withdrawing than most, and think too many Americans see war as all or nothing, where it’s clear victory or totally pointless.
But we should recognize the choice was, at best, between bad & worse, not between great & awful.

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 13, 2021

A child under 5 has died of COVID in Florida. Please wear a mask, especially if you’re not vaccinated. It’s a lot less inconvenient that going to a funeral. https://t.co/nIOax4iFEv

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 13, 2021

which button do i have to press for you to drop the ICE contract? https://t.co/4RvIi3yo98

— tillie crimew 🏴🔥🖤 (@cybertillie) August 11, 2021

“i’m not a racist, but …”

let me stop you right there. the sentence 100% of the time only goes downhill from there.

— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) August 11, 2021

“homeschoolers demand other people’s kids have a normal school experience” might be the thing that finally breaks my brain https://t.co/7Eau7z7iAA

— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 13, 2021

Republicans?

Here's looking at YOU. https://t.co/Bpxae976Bo

— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) August 13, 2021

While ostensibly about AirTags helping recover a stolen bike, this is a story of how, even for a privileged white male, NYPD doesn’t want to do its job, lacks the know-how to do its job, and has to be cajoled into acting when someone does the entire job for them. https://t.co/MxFBnMxbQb

— anildash (@anildash) August 12, 2021

Stable government is good for business. Culture wars while the power grid fails repeatedly and chases off new employees is bad for business.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP's Focus on Culture War Spurs Corporate Backlash - Bloomberg https://t.co/8fT8OewBaU

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 13, 2021

The level of #CognitiveDissonance that must be achieved in order to continue a practice that allows you and others to stare death in the face, and in cases lose the staring contest, is pathological. https://t.co/OgYgBqVAkG

— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) August 13, 2021

Black father kills a man who tried to rape his daughter & media posts his solo mug shot.

White father murders his own infant children & media posts his smiling picture with family.

Make no mistake, this is how media normalizes white supremacy & extremism. We must reject it. pic.twitter.com/1vDDA8av5E

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 12, 2021

This. In my own experience, bringing up the threats of sexual violence I’ve received is grounds for ridicule by the same group of people who make those threats in the first place. https://t.co/B123fMOKro

— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) August 13, 2021

Happy Re-Inauguration Day everybody! 😂 https://t.co/buTCdJir6L

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) August 13, 2021

This is an outright lie. The Trump administration accelerated the withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban launched an offensive against Afghan troops and police -- and the Taliban never broke with Al Qaeda. This one is on you too, Mike. https://t.co/Ky64JMAuMY

— Jeff Schogol (@JeffSchogol) August 12, 2021

No one LIKES masks, lockdowns & experimental vaccines. Most of us do it so ppl won’t die; others don’t give AF.
But only ONE PARTY made not giving a fuck part of their official policy

So please stop saying the pandemic’s been “politicized.” It hasn’t

It’s been “Republicanized”

— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) August 12, 2021

I Do Not Like This.

If I go out of my way to type in a protocol you do what I say and use that protocol. The browser is a tool, and tools do what they are told. https://t.co/8F7paPyQjE

— Michael Graziano (@voretaq7) August 12, 2021

Really odd how soon they forget Trump started the withdrawal and actually had promised it would be completed sooner than Biden did it in the end.

Oh, and I thought leaving Afghanistan was what America First conservatives wanted? No more endless wars, something something? https://t.co/7bm3rdOl8T

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 12, 2021