Evan

“The First Amendment had a good run. It was a radical notion and couldn't be expected to survive forever. Of course it would be taken down by flag-waving fake patriots.”
- @ryangrim.bsky.socia

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts Musk Doesn't Realize He's The Fall Guy: Ed Price

Elon Musk is supposed to be a genius and he doesn't realize he's the fall guy. #musk #elonmusk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=93r-...

Political Cartoon: JD Vance shouts "My president demands you look up to him.

HR 1161, this isn’t parody

Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again The president’s suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority.

HE IS NOT GOING TO LEAVE, FOLKS. Take him literally and seriously.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

@elliottrozwen.bsky.social *whistle sounds*

Deny Defend Depose

House Blocks Release of Matt Gaetz Ethics Report as Republicans Close Ranks In largely party-line votes, the House turned back two measures that would have forced the Ethics Committee to make public the results of its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and dr...

House Blocks Release of Ethics Report on Gaetz as Republicans Close Ranks

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...

Twitter is basically the used condom of social media.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

I agree but it does feel like 30-40% of my feed is just talking about how bad Twitter is or how how much better Bluesky is. Let's post that stuff over there and content here.

It’s been a whirlwind. If you told me a year ago that Gaetz would finally face some kind of repercussions for his well documented sex crimes with minors I wouldn’t have believed you. Same with MTG threatening to do the right thing on Twitter.

Tommy and Ben. They don't even need to switch, just post thoughts here too so I don't have to sort through Nazi in my feed?

Lots of headlines about how deportations will cause labor shortages and spike food prices.

Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...