The more you read about what people thought about technological progress one hundred and twenty or thirty years ago, the more you come to question the standard line that technology always exceeds our expectations.
On the house floor today Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) stated "Let’s talk about the nazis…I would like to know what they did that was illegal." We won't stand for this MAGA extremism in Maine. Check out who we have running against her: https://t.co/d9J0zuPmKX #MAGACult #MEpolitics pic.twitter.com/omET9ldEPs
— Maine House Democratic Campaign Committee (@MaineHDCC) April 3, 2024
The @DLCC just announced that they raised $2.3 million for state legislative Democrats in the first quarter of 2024, a 45% increase over their previous 1st-quarter record, which is awesome! 1/https://t.co/RtMOTEadi1
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) April 4, 2024
Based on events and current trends, I guessing that between Biden/Harris, various downticket races, and campaigning for ballot initiatives, Democrats and alligned groups will spend between fifty and one hundred million dollars depicting Republicans as dangerous extremists on abortion, IVF, and birth control.Ds are crushing GOPs in fundraising numbers in almost every contested senate races. To be clear, they’re need it. They’re defending almost everywhere and in some very red states. But still a very important metric https://t.co/BqC6LlFliX
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 17, 2024
Top Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 16, 2024
(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control) pic.twitter.com/Edj8TC3JkS
What women want...
Special election candidate Josh Powell really has a way with women.
— Distill Social (@DistillSocial) April 5, 2024
The special election is April 16th! House District 25, Wayne, Westland, Canton, Dearborn Heights… tell Josh how you feel about his views on women at the ballot box! 👇@MichiganTea pic.twitter.com/d3IDfPLsM1
Three Dem super PACs are paying to take her on a tour of swing states this fall https://t.co/qFqoiSqSWt
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 5, 2024
"We'll talk about that during the election." ... I'm certain he can't wait.
🚨 Once again, Larry Hogan is refusing to say whether he would codify Roe v. Wade.
— Angela Alsobrooks (@AlsobrooksForMD) April 7, 2024
His silence is deafening.
We can't let Hogan anywhere near the Senate. I am running to protect reproductive rights for all Americans, and I'm not afraid to say it. Spread the word. pic.twitter.com/CDtCA8Y0Fd
Half of Republicans are trying to moonwalk back from this issue. The other half are doubling down.
I was hoping they’d go all-in on openly opposing this. pic.twitter.com/0fvA7cwQNW
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 4, 2024
AZ Republicans are seeking to put forth a second, competing ballot initiative on abortion in an attempt to confuse voters. https://t.co/BSInIAXdGT
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 16, 2024
While on the subject of issues that are difficult to back away from.
This is literally you https://t.co/SeHLLaWBsj pic.twitter.com/WShSKT3yHr
— Michael Kaplan 🇮🇱 (@OfficialKappy) April 16, 2024
Republicans, masters of message discipline.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she should be thrown out of Congress: I’m a member of Congress. I think they should throw out every single elected official, I'm not kidding. Every one of us should be thrown out pic.twitter.com/RclHEDgVYD
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) April 4, 2024
Someone just informed me that the acronym for Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act is HOO HAA and I now I can't stop giggling. Can't make this stuff up.
— Ilyse Hogue is @ilyseh everywhere (@ilyseh) April 16, 2024
New RNC Co-Chair Michael Whatley: “We are taking all of our operations and merging them with the president’s campaign. So, instead of having two political operations we have one.” pic.twitter.com/A6Tt5CYbpT
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 6, 2024
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie told Speaker Johnson this morning that he needs to resign as Speaker or he will join Marge Greene’s Motion to Vacate. https://t.co/RRoKDF3Znd
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 16, 2024
I get why people think it’s smart to nominate outsiders, but a big reason it’s empirically shown to be a bad idea is that you get unforced errors in the form of random “revelations” and campaign gaffes. https://t.co/6YjByn71Y1
— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) April 7, 2024
WV congressional candidate Derrick Evans says he’s the best MAGA candidate in the country because he’s the only elected legislator in the country who was convicted and served time for J6. pic.twitter.com/8duV61Q9Iw
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 6, 2024
Trump strategist Steve Bannon suggests Trump doesn’t need “suburban women” to vote for him because he only needs “men” pic.twitter.com/IUacg4do3O
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 4, 2024
I mean, I feel like there is an obvious follow up not asked here: why did this not trip up Democratic presidential candidates in 2000, 2008, 2012 and 2020 or Republican candidates in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2020?
— Josh Putnam (@FHQ) April 7, 2024
And that's just this century.https://t.co/JANBgxZ6Ig
Another example of what can happened when a middle aged billionaire happens on a topic he'd never given much thought to until a few weeks earlier. And because of his wealth and power has no one to stop him from saying stupid things in public. https://t.co/5c5cwv4f8z
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 5, 2024
New: Former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said on Thursday that Midland oil magnate Tim Dunn, one of the state’s most powerful and influential GOP megadonors, once told him that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the lower chamber. https://t.co/dghB4iMb8E
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 4, 2024
This follows similar comments from House Foreign Relations Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Tex) to @juliaioffe, which Turner was asked about. https://t.co/RiuSZBrF7O
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 7, 2024
KARL ROVE: January 6 “was a stain on our history. And every one of those sons of bitches who did that, we oughta find them, try them & send them to jail. .. If [the Biden campaign] were smart, they’d take #J6 and go hard at it.”@TheBeatWithAri @KarlRovepic.twitter.com/jGZLOb5RY3
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) April 4, 2024
This remains an age of strange bedfellows.
Always enjoy having some ayotollah/maga strictly about zionism and not at all about Jews discourse in my twitter. pic.twitter.com/xSPY2pWqyb
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 8, 2024
My longstanding theory has always been that disinformation works best at a distance, where the narrative can't be contradicted by first hand experience.
This chart, from @greg_ip in the WSJ, echoes the surveys of people who say their own finances are fine but the broader economy is bad. Here, it appears all the swing states are in good economic shape but the nation as a whole is somehow a mess: pic.twitter.com/vSvYsyTdbP
— Chris Rugaber (@ChrisRugaber) April 4, 2024
Which movie did you guys get?
— Progress NOW (@INeed11kVotes) April 5, 2024
😏😉 pic.twitter.com/1SGjrBHBSi
Truly one of the dumbest people on this platform. pic.twitter.com/t4UTUxhxmh
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) April 4, 2024
It is unsurprising that there would be a correlation between cognitive ability and neuron count -- that's a bit like observing a correlation between company valuation and office square footage. You can't infer from that "all you need to create a highly valuable company is to rent…
— François Chollet (@fchollet) April 7, 2024
Some of the most intelligent species out there, capable of sophisticated problem-solving (like ravens) don't have very high neuron counts. Octopuses actually have a very low neuron count -- about the same as rabbits.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) April 7, 2024
And what you've all been waiting for... miscellanea.
Wirecutter | The Best Eclipse Glasses
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 8, 2024
You can look at the sun with those freebies from the public library, but to make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime event, we recommend this $129 fully polarized Japanese model
In this Alexandria pub, they are sticking with Ptolemy.
— Mika Walker Kane (@MWalkerKane) April 8, 2024
Kind of enjoying East Coast earthquake Twitter.
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) April 5, 2024
— yasmin (@ycsm1n) April 15, 2024
In 1959, the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 space probe imaged the far side of the moon. It had never been seen before. pic.twitter.com/xiCQkc6aQu
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 4, 2024
If you're familiar with geese, this plays out pretty much like you'd expect.
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) April 17, 2024
Gorilla vs. Goose https://t.co/AzaABajstw via @YouTube
Let's talk about some of the Tayloring and choices in this photo, and how you can avoid making the same mistakes. https://t.co/OMMjlAb87K pic.twitter.com/IkF6qLkZsJ
— Steve McCormick (@Quasilocal) April 5, 2024
Musk said "Let's get the bad news over with first"
So the manager sends him a link.
Musk is quiet for a long time. Then he takes a deep breath and asks, "What's the good news?"
The manager sends him another link...
... and says "You could have invested in DJT."
For those who insist on having jokes explained. From Reuters (who have absolutely owned this story) and from CNBC.
