Mike Thomas (he/him)

An empty bucket never leaks

I wonder what the lede was buried under

Ward Sutton - Wikipedia

Kelly is a *fictitious parody of* a conservative cartoonist:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Su...

You can tell this reporter is a real professional, because she is still able to hold her mic in front of her while she has both hands behind her back

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

lol “when”

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Ordinary people really don’t know the local Chevy dealership has its flag at half staff for a Nazi. It’s an insane state of affairs.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Here’s the Ivorian reggae Pink Floyd cover—with bagpipes—you didn’t know you needed 🇨🇮

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Welp

One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.

The “Good day sir” is the icing on the cake

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers

Does he think that some people don’t know that he’s POTUS?

Arguably if NYT wanted to get ahead they could have written that story, about Nazis trying to start a race controversy with hacked data. But as it turns out, they wanted to be the Nazis.

Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history.

How did he do it?

NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.

Socialism works

He did clarify this position on this phrase that he did not himself say! He gave a super nuanced answer where he expressed empathy both for people who feel threatened by this phrase and also for the wide semantic range of the word "Intifada" in Arabic, and why it might feel empowering to others.

Hey @ericswalwell.bsky.social, this is extremely disappointing. Zohran (and his progressive Jewish supporters like me!) are for equality and freedom for all. It's racist and wrong to accuse him of antisemitism for defending Palestinian liberation.

Frankly, it's kinda antisemitic of you!

this is so much better than the last time we were all new yorkers

brilliant

Ah, thanks, I get it now. (And to be fair, that’s exactly what Google told me—just didn’t get the connection until now)

What does PDX mean in this context? Google has utterly failed me

anyone who works for ICE is a bad person

imagine clocking in at the child traumatization factory every morning and thinking that’s an acceptable thing to do as a human being

just unconscionable