Towa
@thetowa.bsky.social
I usually need coffee and can be a bit grumpy, but actually a nice person. PNW.
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Speaking ill of Rob Reiner, now that should cost you your job
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Speaking ill of Rob Reiner, now that should cost you your job
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This was a hideously long week, but on Tuesday I took my kid to see a band and eat at a ramen place as an early Christmas present, and at dinner we were seated next to this table of like eight guys.
Thickest Chicago accents I've ever heard in real life. Loud as hell. Couldn't help but overhear.
Thickest Chicago accents I've ever heard in real life. Loud as hell. Couldn't help but overhear.
December 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This was a hideously long week, but on Tuesday I took my kid to see a band and eat at a ramen place as an early Christmas present, and at dinner we were seated next to this table of like eight guys.
Thickest Chicago accents I've ever heard in real life. Loud as hell. Couldn't help but overhear.
Thickest Chicago accents I've ever heard in real life. Loud as hell. Couldn't help but overhear.
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Sunday Taquitos #6: “Your papers, please.”
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sunday Taquitos #6: “Your papers, please.”
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.
Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
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Oh by the way also Trump lost one in the House today - 20 Republicans voted with the Dems to pass a bill to restore federal worker union rights Trump tried to remove with an exec order. Came to the House floor via a discharge petition.
Trump did a lot of losing today.
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Oh by the way also Trump lost one in the House today - 20 Republicans voted with the Dems to pass a bill to restore federal worker union rights Trump tried to remove with an exec order. Came to the House floor via a discharge petition.
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Just thinking about the 2024 economy for no reason.
April 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Just thinking about the 2024 economy for no reason.
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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December 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this.
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this.
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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The Sobering Center is a jail-and-hospital deferment program. If someone gets picked up for public intoxication, they can choose the Center instead of jail. No hoops, no moralizing, no paperwork marathon. Just a bed, some crackers. A place to sober up. That’s it. /2
soberingcenter.org/donate/
soberingcenter.org/donate/
Donate - The Sobering Center
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December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Sobering Center is a jail-and-hospital deferment program. If someone gets picked up for public intoxication, they can choose the Center instead of jail. No hoops, no moralizing, no paperwork marathon. Just a bed, some crackers. A place to sober up. That’s it. /2
soberingcenter.org/donate/
soberingcenter.org/donate/
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This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
“I was just so disappointed that with all of the serious issues facing our nation,... and it’s the president trying to save his own skin by holding a majority in Congress,” Walker added. “It’s so that he’s not impeached again. That’s all this is about.”
NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/indiana-republican-trump-redistricting-swatted-00654098
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November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“I was just so disappointed that with all of the serious issues facing our nation,... and it’s the president trying to save his own skin by holding a majority in Congress,” Walker added. “It’s so that he’s not impeached again. That’s all this is about.”
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NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.
t.co/PWrWcuna1k
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/indiana-republican-trump-redistricting-swatted-00654098
t.co
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.
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Trump’s “peace plan” in one cartoon that rings true.
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Trump’s “peace plan” in one cartoon that rings true.