mrthall.bsky.social
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It's Jim Crow 2.0 resonates with me but I have family that suffered under the first version.
80% of Americans support an arbitrary concept of "showing ID to vote." They almost all mean their driver's license. Dems HAVE to stop framing SAVE Act opposition as "it's Jim Crow 2.0." Just stop it. Actually make a resonate point: IT LITERALLY MAKES A DRIVER'S LICENSE INVALID VOTER ID.
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
It's Jim Crow 2.0 resonates with me but I have family that suffered under the first version.
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crime, like cinnamon rolls, is socially constructed. become ungovernable
February 4, 2026 at 12:15 AM
crime, like cinnamon rolls, is socially constructed. become ungovernable
Matter of fact, you pass UBI and you will never have to write another Cover Letter! Someone give me seven figures to consult this elected nerds.
Can we take a moment to really think about exactly what UBI would accomplish?
Universal Basic Income provides workers with leverage.
It would allow me to tell employers "sorry, this pay-rate is too low, I'm going to keep withholding my labor until your pay-rate improves."
#UBI
Universal Basic Income provides workers with leverage.
It would allow me to tell employers "sorry, this pay-rate is too low, I'm going to keep withholding my labor until your pay-rate improves."
#UBI
February 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Matter of fact, you pass UBI and you will never have to write another Cover Letter! Someone give me seven figures to consult this elected nerds.
I used to tell my students, who were almost always reflexively against UBI, that it'd take the bullets out of the gun. Imagine if employers had to make employment attractive? If they couldn't threaten you with hunger and homelessness? Or waste your time
Can we take a moment to really think about exactly what UBI would accomplish?
Universal Basic Income provides workers with leverage.
It would allow me to tell employers "sorry, this pay-rate is too low, I'm going to keep withholding my labor until your pay-rate improves."
#UBI
Universal Basic Income provides workers with leverage.
It would allow me to tell employers "sorry, this pay-rate is too low, I'm going to keep withholding my labor until your pay-rate improves."
#UBI
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I used to tell my students, who were almost always reflexively against UBI, that it'd take the bullets out of the gun. Imagine if employers had to make employment attractive? If they couldn't threaten you with hunger and homelessness? Or waste your time
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Mark Zuckerberg lost a trillion dollars because his big Vision of the Future was 'Second Life: No Legs + Wal*Mart', that we are still afflicted with his "ideas" is the most incisive criticism of capitalism anyone can make
January 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Mark Zuckerberg lost a trillion dollars because his big Vision of the Future was 'Second Life: No Legs + Wal*Mart', that we are still afflicted with his "ideas" is the most incisive criticism of capitalism anyone can make
Watching some dudes break down and cook an Iberico pig while in an altered state was a bad idea. I just want everything they making and I can't have it!
Also, someone make carnitas out of an Iberico shoulder and then give it to me, thanks.
Also, someone make carnitas out of an Iberico shoulder and then give it to me, thanks.
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Watching some dudes break down and cook an Iberico pig while in an altered state was a bad idea. I just want everything they making and I can't have it!
Also, someone make carnitas out of an Iberico shoulder and then give it to me, thanks.
Also, someone make carnitas out of an Iberico shoulder and then give it to me, thanks.
No wokeness was a bullshit weaponization of black language against calls for black equality that white people accepted because it came from other white people. To the point, they treat the slur like the actual thing.
It was just a ritual in white solidarity.
It was just a ritual in white solidarity.
wokeness was exactly the same as the new left, a groundswell of concern about structural inequalities that got completely devoured by marketing and became synonymous with extreme individualism and self promotion
One of the most contradictory and frustrating aspects of the first Woke Era was that people talked a lot about structural injustices but seemed way more concerned with policing personal behaviour
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
No wokeness was a bullshit weaponization of black language against calls for black equality that white people accepted because it came from other white people. To the point, they treat the slur like the actual thing.
It was just a ritual in white solidarity.
It was just a ritual in white solidarity.
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👇🎯 The simplest way to explain ~100% of Ezra Klein's (& the rest of the White Male Gen X/Elder Millennial pundits') views about anything related to the Democratic Party is to realize that he doesn't see Black voters & never has:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Black women who go to church are the backbone of the Democratic Party. The party cease to exist without the political organization of these women. But do tell me more Ezra Klein about how the white guy who looks like you is the avatar of liberal Christianity.
January 14, 2026 at 6:28 AM
👇🎯 The simplest way to explain ~100% of Ezra Klein's (& the rest of the White Male Gen X/Elder Millennial pundits') views about anything related to the Democratic Party is to realize that he doesn't see Black voters & never has:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
Support for American institutions decline when they no longer serve or appear to serve white supremacist ideologies. Republicans are a problem because they are the white identity party.
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Support for American institutions decline when they no longer serve or appear to serve white supremacist ideologies. Republicans are a problem because they are the white identity party.
I actually do remember this because back when I watched Real Time (I was young and didn't know better) she was bitching about it and pretending, I assumed, not to see the issue or how she was being racist.
Hard not to see this in hindsight as the prototype: factual error, claim criticism-as-harassment, instant “freethinker who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo" status. A very durable model.
The kids probably don't remember when Bari Weiss tweeted "Immigrants: They get the job done" after Mirai Nagasu (not an immigrant) landed a triple axel in the Olympics
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I actually do remember this because back when I watched Real Time (I was young and didn't know better) she was bitching about it and pretending, I assumed, not to see the issue or how she was being racist.
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I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives.
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
July 4, 2023 at 3:59 AM
I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives.
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
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this is a great point. self righteous prigs are very rarely presented as heroic in hollywood films. but that really was william garrison, as near as I can tell. kind of Sumner too.
the key to this kind of asshole though is 'stick in the mud' asshole. we have asshole antiheroes in fiction but theyre usually rule-breakers
This brought on by reading about pre civil war abolitionists. These people were unambiguously right in the most pressing moral struggle of their time. You’d also probably fucking kill yourself if ever stranded on a desert island with half of them.
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
this is a great point. self righteous prigs are very rarely presented as heroic in hollywood films. but that really was william garrison, as near as I can tell. kind of Sumner too.
... I feel like I'm missing the joke or something
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t by Eiffel 65, Aqua, Vengaboys, or Rednex
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
... I feel like I'm missing the joke or something
We should lower the voting age to 16 because no matter how you feel about the youth, none of them have voted multiple times for a pedophilic rapist. So, really, how much worse could they do?
December 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We should lower the voting age to 16 because no matter how you feel about the youth, none of them have voted multiple times for a pedophilic rapist. So, really, how much worse could they do?
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This my favorite TT ever.
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This my favorite TT ever.
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I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...
Yglesias and Fear of a Black Intellectual
Liberal centrist inadvertently demonstrates the truth of critical race theory
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...
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this is some legit great journalism youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
YouTube video by MegaLag
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is some legit great journalism youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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I love stories like this, not bc I have any particular attachment to the specific new product, but rather bc it is a new tech that makes me say "oh neat!" or even "oh, interesting!" instead of "*sigh*"
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
www.canarymedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I love stories like this, not bc I have any particular attachment to the specific new product, but rather bc it is a new tech that makes me say "oh neat!" or even "oh, interesting!" instead of "*sigh*"
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People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
Jasmine Crockett’s Senate bid is infuriating some colleagues.
“She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," said a senior House Dem.
Another House Dem told @axios.com: “Just look to see how many House members endorse her candidacy.” www.axios.com/2025/12/12/j...
“She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," said a senior House Dem.
Another House Dem told @axios.com: “Just look to see how many House members endorse her candidacy.” www.axios.com/2025/12/12/j...
"It's a bad decision": Jasmine Crockett enrages fellow House Democrats with Senate bid
"She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," one senior House Democrat said.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
There is only one movie I hate more than RoS but it is the only movie that has ever made me exclaim in a theater, "That's bullshit!".
God, what an awful movie.
God, what an awful movie.
Rise of Skywalker, the entire theater knew it would suck ass the second it started, it reminded me of watching the Mets or Raiders collapse, everybody was actively pissed off, saying stuff like "oh god" or laughing at how shit it was. A real bonding moment
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
December 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
There is only one movie I hate more than RoS but it is the only movie that has ever made me exclaim in a theater, "That's bullshit!".
God, what an awful movie.
God, what an awful movie.
Making it mandatory to win a boss battle I'll ultimately lose in a cut scene.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Making it mandatory to win a boss battle I'll ultimately lose in a cut scene.
i guess i'm weird because i see this as an attempt to be accomedating. if you don't drink period, i never ask you again and plan accordingly, including activities where alcohol isn't involved. if you just abstaining for the night then i'll keep that in mind.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
i guess i'm weird because i see this as an attempt to be accomedating. if you don't drink period, i never ask you again and plan accordingly, including activities where alcohol isn't involved. if you just abstaining for the night then i'll keep that in mind.