Companies are still donating to Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election

If we lump the folks who are keeping their word in with Lockheed Martin and Koch and the rest of the companies that are showing the GOP objectors with cash, why should they continue their pledges?https://t.co/yOUfjiVZ6q
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 7, 2022

Even as companies have pledged millions to fight racism, the impact of their financial support to the Sedition Caucus cannot be underestimated. These donations lend credibility to elected officials who continue to promote the Big Lie. https://t.co/vPCnf57q6L
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 6, 2022

UPDATE: After 1/6 @Dell said it was "very concerned about… behavior to disrupt the democratic process" and would stop donating to the 147 GOP objectors

On 11/30, @Dell donated 30K each to @NRCC and @NRSC. The money will support ALL objectors who are running for reelection.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 3, 2022

Remember EST?

I thought it was a scam. I knew someone who had completed the program so several of us went to her final event which was like a graduation. It was a real hard sell – they tried to persuade you that it started working when you gave them money. I was never intending to participate; I was just curious to see what it was. The tweet by Tom Nichols reminded me of it.

There was a fine parody in the film Semi-Tough.

A reminder that our spiritual crisis began in the early 70s and that this guy was a big deal back in those days:https://t.co/5r1t2vKbSY
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 4, 2022

National Whipped Cream Day – 1/5

How did I miss this?

Bottle caps were first manufactured in Baltimore

The crown cork bottle cap was first manufactured here in 1892. I first found about this from this Instagram post.

When I grew up in Manhattan, we played skelly, a game with bottle caps with melted crayons in them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-80qbZyn4U&feature=youtu.be

The Copycat Building – see the Instagram posts above and below about a current tenant

I spent some time at the CopyCat over the past few months. The iconic Baltimore building might look the same from the outside, but inside things are changing. The last vestige of the city's warehouse arts scene is on a knife's edge. https://t.co/pVlTg2Ycw7
— Giacomo Bologna (@GBolognaCL) July 29, 2022

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Voter fraud by Trump voters and other Republican lies about it

This is another example of how conspiracism leads to underhanded and even criminal behavior. If you are convinced that all real power is wielded covertly and the other side is always cheating, you feel entitled, even obligated to cheat yourself. https://t.co/aT2p90Q7zf
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) October 28, 2024

Voter fraud is rare and easy to detect, but in the past two years there’s been an outbreak of voting irregularities in Pennsylvania involving Republicans. What explains this recent phenomenon? https://t.co/lbQ7VYg6ui
— Al Schmidt (@Commish_Schmidt) May 8, 2022

Why is it every time you see evidence of actual voter fraud, it was by Trump supporters?
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 9, 2022

Yet another case of Republican voter fraud. It may be time to require Republicans to only vote in person. Sadly, they just can’t be trusted with mail in voting.

Chris Christie https://t.co/j7TrnAwOMg
— SM (@sensiblemiddle) May 1, 2022

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1478793373368602625?s=11

It is intensely appropriate that the one cluster of voter fraud that allegedly occurred in 2020 was at The Villages, the physical embodiment of MAGA. https://t.co/uNMcuQM4O5
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 5, 2022

Alleged ‘dead’ 2020 Georgia voters found alive and well!
“It’s a Christmas miracle!” proclaims my friend ⁦@AlanIAbramowitz⁩. https://t.co/CJoxw9rOjY
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) December 27, 2021

.@MaddowBlog: We've reached the point at which Republicans are arguing that new voting restrictions are justified because their own party's voters have tried to cheat. https://t.co/tuSLN88CyQ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 16, 2022

So it turns out there was some election fraud. But Trump's not going to like where it was coming from. https://t.co/AvZbNCI8t5
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 13, 2022

A third resident of The Villages has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election https://t.co/XllaTljgyI
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 24, 2022

Wife of former Iowa House Republican convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud for taking Democrats' absentee ballots and using them to vote for Republican candidates, including Donald Trump https://t.co/JBiDoVuvhI
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) November 22, 2023

The conservative Heritage Foundation has tracked 15 cases of voter fraud in Colorado in a decade of mail-in balloting. The two most prominent cases were a former GOP chair and a man suspected of killing his wife who admitted casting her ballot for Trump. #copolitics https://t.co/tGq4EsSzXH pic.twitter.com/2GDX3Gwrfu
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) August 12, 2024

Right-wing influencers like @mayemusk proclaim that illegal voting is safe and easy. Gullible Republicans believe them, commit crimes, and get caught and sentenced to prison. https://t.co/Va09ZhOQJL pic.twitter.com/XjxzmzIq3Z
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 6, 2024

Another day, another Republican found guilty of voter fraud, voting multiple times in multiple elections. This time it's attorney James Saunders, 56, of Ohio. Saunders is a Trump donor who donated $3000 to the dotard. He gets three years & a $10,000 fine.pic.twitter.com/JOoRp99lGz
— BigBlueWaveUSA® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 (@BigBlueWaveUSA) October 16, 2024

Put titles in quotes or this could happen

Sending this to my students to explain why you put titles in quotes… https://t.co/hfLXKtBDQH
— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) January 5, 2022

great tweet in the comments: to Manley:

Bite me on the dick
Make me scream, then ask for more
Just stomp on my nuts until
I'm writhing on the floor
— Shantotto Baby (@MidnightKoi) January 5, 2022

New York Ninja

The story of how New York Ninja was made is better than the film. In 1984, John Liu directed and starred in New York Ninja but the film was never finished. The reels ultimately wound up with Vinegar Syndrome, an independent label that does a great job of reissuing old films on discs. The reels didn’t have audio, there were no credits or cast list. They tried to contact iu but he wasn’t interested in doing anything with it.

Vinegar Syndrome edited the film into a coherent story and got actors to record the new script. It sounds like the dubbed movies from the old days. The film was released in theaters and on Blu-ray in 2021. The disc package is excellent.

The film is an entertaining revenge story and it’s great to see New York. Here’s a screenshot of the Ninja roller skating! I grew up in Manhattan and we did lots of roller skating.

Tweets about coal

The U.S. is ditching coal, and the Supreme Court ruling won't change that. @StevenMufson explains why: https://t.co/hsJZCrEKPA
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) July 1, 2022

Terrific report by @caraNYT detailing how former coal miners in Kentucky are transitioning to new jobs installing solar panels:https://t.co/RgVOGYYFB7

Reminder: The mine workers union says BBB would incentivize creating renewable jobs in coal country. Manchin is blocking it: https://t.co/MTJaUIgRT5
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 2, 2022

Many coal country residents still don’t believe that investments in green technology would provide them with long-term jobs. Unfortunately for President Biden, this skepticism has threatened to undermine his efforts on climate change. https://t.co/fTZtmb8A18 pic.twitter.com/SICLzEkSYE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 12, 2021

"It does feel wrong when your electric bill is more than your mortgage," West Virginia resident Felisha Chase told CNN https://t.co/yGIxqpNZM0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 19, 2021

https://twitter.com/ella_nilsen/status/1450435225578786817?s=11

For decades now, the coal/WV thing has been more about the cultural ideal of coal miners than actual coal miners. https://t.co/hWx2zgtjCJ
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) October 19, 2021

There are just 11,418 coal-mining jobs in West Virginia. The state is already a chemical and manufacturing hub, one primed to benefit from green technology investment.

This is entirely about Manchin's wallet and the $500k a year he gets from Enersystems, which burns waste coal. https://t.co/L3JXFYzizR
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 16, 2021

Worth saying that coal accounts for a small fraction of nonfarm employment in West Virginia. https://t.co/NtuPmagMwV
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 16, 2021

Future historians — if there are any future historians, that is, if civilization doesn't collapse — will be astonished that we let the planet burn for the sake of an industry that employs less than 3 percent of workers even in West Virginia pic.twitter.com/Rg5Fk0tQpe
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 16, 2021

After four years of former President Trump trying and failing to revive coal country, there is now an acknowledgment within the industry that more pain is coming — and new ideas are needed to blunt the damage. https://t.co/Dez6Ch0MBc
— CNN (@CNN) April 21, 2021

More early coal plant closures in Colorado. The number of western coal plants with plans to operate beyond 2030 is dwindling: https://t.co/NhtG9D9dUd
— Sammy Roth (@Sammy_Roth) February 25, 2021

Trump's failure to rewrite Obama's standards for coal-fired power plants is an implicit admission of a simple truth: Nobody is going to be building new coal-fired power plants in America. https://t.co/uXFX4NmxpR
— Dan Farber (@dfarber) January 20, 2021

President Trump pushed to weaken regulations on industry, but more coal power plants closed during his first term than in the last four years of Barack Obama’s presidency.https://t.co/Fl479f8gzG
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) October 28, 2020

Revised tweet: EPA went to extraordinary lengths to try to boost the coal industry. Wheeler himself is a former coal lobbyist. But the effort failed. Coal burning in US has tanked. As a result, Americans are breathing cleaner air today than any point in EPA's 50 yr history. https://t.co/6JPfcdF5l3
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 22, 2020

Covid is rampant in Florida

DeSantis won’t do what is needed to stop the growth of Covid.

Fewer tests would hide thishttps://t.co/SJV4kP0B9m
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 3, 2022

This is sick. Florida’s Surgeon General is asked about rising Covid cases and his response is raising his eyebrows and smiling. He needs to resign. pic.twitter.com/YH9u7V7YwZ
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 4, 2022

DeSantis has declared victory over COVID-19 on:
4/20/20
4/28/20
5/4/20
5/20/20
9/25/20

3/2/21
3/8/21
6/4/21
10/14/21
10/28/21
11/27/21

Among other dates.

Today, Florida broke its record in new cases which was set yesterday. @removeron
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) December 25, 2021

In this edition of "The Absolute Worst," @JoyAnnReid brings you "the saga of #Florida Governor Ron DeSantis whose state is exploding with #Covid." #TheReidOut #reiders pic.twitter.com/JGJP8dey7d
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) January 4, 2022

There are no state run COVID testing sites in Florida.

The lines you’re seeing are from overburdened testing sites run by counties, municipalities, and private organizations.
— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) January 3, 2022

COVID cases in Florida up 1051%, more than any other state. Hey Ron DeSantis, how are those bans on vaccine and mask mandates working out for you? pic.twitter.com/bxI3ahCLAL
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) December 28, 2021

Ron Desantis today is adopting Trump’s “we gotta slow the testing down” policy, claiming that people are sitting in line for hours for tests because they are hysterical and “will just go out and get tested all the time” for no reason. pic.twitter.com/CKKUaflJSl
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 4, 2022

Garland must do something about the insurrection inciters

Let’s see action as the Who would say.

growing fear across an entire spectrum of pro-democracy activists and ordinary Americans that Garland does not appreciate the solemn obligation to prosecute ALL aspects of the coup. He needs to lay out the set of facts he is investigating
https://t.co/EBDAQaI7oE
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 4, 2022

We need action, not updates. It’s been a year since the insurrection and there’s no sign DOJ will hold the people who incited it accountable.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 3, 2022