Fritz Swanson

Wars can only be declared by Congress.

Taxes can only be levied by Congress.

Spending can only be appropriated by Congress.

Laws can only be passed by Congress.

Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Getting hired by paramount is gonna be a hell of a public statement. You’re saying, “I’m an unhireable predator.”

Last I heard from my member of Congress @beyer.house.gov he was going to push for a war powers resolution and I'd like for him to add some impeachment articles to the queue and get that going immediately

Fat Dracula Cat Thread!

@slotkin.senate.gov Shut it all down.

No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.

The algo delivers the content you want to see.

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

It is by this process that algorithmic editing murders children. It’s a direct line. It is the Paperclip Problem. We are living in it, and dying from it.

This is algorithm logic. The algorithm makes editorial decisions by sorting all possible claims on a topic and presenting them to audiences to see which sells more shoes. And so we surface claims that no human editor could have imagined would find an audience. Which legitimizes the claim.

He'll join Santa Ono at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford.

One of the best parts of the SOTU. Classic.

So oversight Dems are saying that FBI teams were late to both the Charlie Kirk killing AND the Brown mass shooting because Kash was using the plane?

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

The proper trilogy to watch in the wake of Robert Carradine’s death would be REVENGE OF THE NERDS, FALLING DOWN, THE SOCIAL NETWORK. If you want to follow the trajectory of the character of “the nerd” that he established. Lewis Skolnick to William Foster to Mark Zuckerberg.

Shout out to Larry Scott, Curtis Armstrong and Brian Tochi as well. And Donald Gibb, as Ogre. Sometimes obituaries are very Proustian for me.

This is not a sustained analysis of that film, which I haven’t seen in more than 30 years. But when I saw Robert had died I felt an immediate sadness. His performance meant a lot to me, and definitely revealed questions that have driven me for my whole life.

The misogyny of the film was profound, and reflective of its time. But also, it introduced me to queer culture, and to multi-ethnic solidarity. It was deeply flawed. But to a white straight kid in the 1980s it revealed alternative shades of masculine identity to me.

For all of its ambiguity now, REVENGE OF THE NERDS meant a lot to me as a kid. And I think it meant a lot in its cultural moment. And Robert Carradine’s performance in the lead should be remembered as iconic. I’m sad he’s gone.

Trump has engineered an administration that will deliver custom awfulness for every voter. Whatever your line, he promises to find someone who will cross it.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

When I take a sick day, I do not hold zoom classes. Even if I am well enough. Because boss makes a dollar when I make a dime.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Journalists working for daily newspapers peaked around the year 2000. The chart shows journalists of this class went from 55,000 in 2000 down to almost 30,000 in 2015. The chart shows this tracks perfectly with ad revenue for those newspapers. As ad dollars decline, employed journalists follow.

An important chart from this article. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Yes. We have to live publicly and humbly. But not intrusively. It’s hard. We have to be who we believe we need to be.

The most important things we publish in the @manchestermirror.bsky.social are obituaries, and community events, and public notices about recent board meetings. We ground people in the life as lived at ground level. It’s almost impossible to have abstract and tendentious views in that context.

Newspapers were cultural estuaries that protected the shore of the culture against mass delusions. They rooted people in the mundane details of their particular community. Like sea grass. Without all of those rooted newspapers, the culture was exposed to the hurricane of demagogues.

The proximate cause of our crisis. Google/Facebook destroyed the print ad business, the newspaper business collapsed, people lost touch with their community, and lost the solidarity that came with it. All politics became nationalized. That’s why my wife and I founded @manchestermirror.bsky.social

I live this experience. And I struggle with it. There is a need to argue this point in good faith. But there is also a “turn the other cheek” dimension. I wish I knew the best way to strike the balance. I’m empathetic to what you are saying.