@tbw-atl.bsky.social
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A huge fuck you to every grown-up who told me as a child that accountability and integrity are critical to success in life. Turns out the secret to becoming the richest man alive was actually promising absurd bullshit and never delivering.
December 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
A huge fuck you to every grown-up who told me as a child that accountability and integrity are critical to success in life. Turns out the secret to becoming the richest man alive was actually promising absurd bullshit and never delivering.
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Nobody can ever accuse Jimmy Carter of not having a wicked sense of humor🤣😭💀
December 29, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Nobody can ever accuse Jimmy Carter of not having a wicked sense of humor🤣😭💀
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I don’t know who made this but great job
December 23, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I don’t know who made this but great job
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See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":
December 17, 2024 at 7:36 PM
See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":
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Every lawyer involved in this ridiculous lawsuit should be disbarred. This abuse of process and anti-1A litigation isn't going to stop until there are real consequences for filing them.
December 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Every lawyer involved in this ridiculous lawsuit should be disbarred. This abuse of process and anti-1A litigation isn't going to stop until there are real consequences for filing them.
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Many of these cases are unserious and frivolous. Indeed, they are as @pbump.com describes them: ridiculous. It is clear that they aren't necessarily designed to win but to harass and chill. Courts should reject them easily, but the lawyers must also be held to account for their abuse of process.
Wrote about Trump's lawsuit centered on the Iowa poll, why it's ridiculous and what it very obviously augurs. Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Column | ‘Your poll made Trump mad’ is not a valid basis for a lawsuit
The Des Moines Register’s final 2024 poll of Iowa was exceptionally wrong. That doesn’t mean Trump was wronged, as his new lawsuit claims.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Many of these cases are unserious and frivolous. Indeed, they are as @pbump.com describes them: ridiculous. It is clear that they aren't necessarily designed to win but to harass and chill. Courts should reject them easily, but the lawyers must also be held to account for their abuse of process.
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I’d add, anyone who’s done much writing has (often!) had the experience of feeling like they had a very clear idea in their mind, and realizing in the process of getting it on paper that they really didn’t, or that the idea transformed substantially in the process of having to pin it to a page.
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
December 12, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I’d add, anyone who’s done much writing has (often!) had the experience of feeling like they had a very clear idea in their mind, and realizing in the process of getting it on paper that they really didn’t, or that the idea transformed substantially in the process of having to pin it to a page.
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it is possible that I am in fact wildly out of touch with popular opinion on the left but i continue to believe that murder is bad
December 11, 2024 at 1:09 AM
it is possible that I am in fact wildly out of touch with popular opinion on the left but i continue to believe that murder is bad
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This is very very bad
Trump OMB Dir Russell Vought: “You can apply concept of destroying independence at every agency. I even saw it in aspects of OMB w regard to who gets to make decisions on statistics. There are little pockets of independence that …just we got to remove those” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The GOP’s top priority for 2025: Repeal the laws of arithmetic
Republicans are reinventing math to justify extending pricey Trump tax policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:24 PM
This is very very bad
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But how will they remember their heritage?
Assad statues are being toppled. People are dancing in the streets.
December 8, 2024 at 3:58 AM
But how will they remember their heritage?
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God i love @propublica.org so much
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:36 AM
God i love @propublica.org so much
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No YOU worked late on corporate transparency act stuff last night so the Eastern District of Texas could enter a nationwide injunction of the law after you logged out…
a man in a black jacket and khaki pants is standing in a dirt field
Alt: a man in a black jacket and khaki pants is walking forlornly in a dirt field
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:59 PM
No YOU worked late on corporate transparency act stuff last night so the Eastern District of Texas could enter a nationwide injunction of the law after you logged out…
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Pretty well sums it up.
November 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Pretty well sums it up.
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I just leave this here.....
November 27, 2024 at 12:18 PM
I just leave this here.....
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I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
November 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
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If y’all don’t mind, I am going to call my musings on this platform “posts.” I don’t think I can get on board with skeets.
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
If y’all don’t mind, I am going to call my musings on this platform “posts.” I don’t think I can get on board with skeets.
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Another stolen meme from “The Bad Place”
November 24, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Another stolen meme from “The Bad Place”
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The void says.... 'skeet' is okay but not great. It's the 'reskeet' that sounds gross
November 22, 2024 at 9:09 PM
The void says.... 'skeet' is okay but not great. It's the 'reskeet' that sounds gross
Bluesky is great, aside from the use of "skeet" as a replacement for "tweet," which is gross and needs to change.
November 22, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Bluesky is great, aside from the use of "skeet" as a replacement for "tweet," which is gross and needs to change.
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Release the MF report.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
Democratic Rep. Sean Casten tells NBC News he will still attempt to force the House to vote on making the Ethics Committee's Matt Gaetz report public.
"It remains important that the Gaetz report be made available to the American people." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
"It remains important that the Gaetz report be made available to the American people." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Could Matt Gaetz decide to keep his House seat? It's complicated
After former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration to be attorney general, questions still swirl about the ethics investigation into him and his political future.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Release the MF report.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
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Who wants to bet that Brazil follows through on criminal charges against Bolsonaro and co-conspirators, and doesn’t let things like “unfair to charge him for crimes he really did if you don’t charge others with crimes they didn’t do” or “shouldn’t he have another shot at power first” get in the way?
November 22, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Who wants to bet that Brazil follows through on criminal charges against Bolsonaro and co-conspirators, and doesn’t let things like “unfair to charge him for crimes he really did if you don’t charge others with crimes they didn’t do” or “shouldn’t he have another shot at power first” get in the way?
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Brazil has responded more seriously to a former president attempting an auto-coup to illegally retain power after losing reelection, and to online disinformation that helped fuel it. The example puts the US to shame.
Maybe something to do with dictatorship in living memory, and thinking never again.
Maybe something to do with dictatorship in living memory, and thinking never again.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro and several aides indicted on charges of attempting a coup in 2022, police say.
November 22, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Brazil has responded more seriously to a former president attempting an auto-coup to illegally retain power after losing reelection, and to online disinformation that helped fuel it. The example puts the US to shame.
Maybe something to do with dictatorship in living memory, and thinking never again.
Maybe something to do with dictatorship in living memory, and thinking never again.
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There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
November 22, 2024 at 2:50 AM
There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:04 AM