Steely Dan released “My Old School” in 1973. I saw them perform it in 1974 – no backup singers or horn section but still excellent.
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The media helps Trump
Cowards.
They don’t do nearly enough to counter his lies. They minimize his bigotry and incoherence,
He never would have been nominated in 2016 without the excessive media coverage. Trump is terrible but he knows how to get attention. Of course, the GOP is at fault for nominating him but the media has given him a big assist. Don't put liars on TV.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 8, 2024
CNN allowing Donald Trump to spew this hate filled misogynist garbage for an hour is unconscionable.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 8, 2024
It's hate speech.
It's gross attacks on the race, qualifications and intelligence of a woman. It's pure hate.
Compare the tame (fearful?) behavior of reporters in Trump “press conference” to reporters behavior in Biden White House press briefings.
— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) August 8, 2024
Trump has been given special treatment by media from day one and still gets it.
Trump should never be televised without live fact checking. There would be fewer viewers for a post lie-fest checking show. There’s no incentive for Trump and his cult to stop lying if networks keep broadcasting the lies.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 8, 2024
I keep saying it: Trump goes completely off his rocker and some in the media say: "Well, we can't have that headline, go find something that looks like policy and we'll run with that."https://t.co/K2ppWLEJWh https://t.co/5TmrNJRb5e pic.twitter.com/HD7miPns98
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 9, 2024
He doesn't use misogynistic language, he's a misogynist. This is like when media cowards say Trump's language is "racially charged" instead of saying he's a racist. The man's a bigot and the media should say so.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 10, 2024
The media, broadly speaking, is very generous to Trump.
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 9, 2024
Reality makes Trump look awful.
Many media members may be personally anti-Trump, but they distort to avoid making him look as bad as the facts do.
So they hold him to a lower standard, and edit what he says.
That’s not anti. https://t.co/55nnHRwSms
Trump hasn’t paid bills in Montana
“Montanans haven’t forgotten that he came here four times to campaign against Jon in 2018, and the only thing he left was unpaid bills to our cities and towns.”@American_Bridge co-chair @GovernorBullock on Trump’s visit to Montana ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nvmfPzFJWC
— Monica Venzke (@monicavenzke) August 9, 2024
Trump can't get the venues he wants in a lot of places because he STILL refuses to pay his bills from 2018 and maybe even before. 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/2aMHA3vv3u
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 7, 2024
Montana cities waiting on Trump to fork over $50K after stiffing them for costs of rallies https://t.co/1VxjS8ORnS
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 7, 2024
Still hasn’t paid his bills the last time he was in Montana on 2018.
— LisaDH (@LisaDH15) August 9, 2024
Sheeesh
He stiffed the police departments paid to assist the SS to protect him.
Not cool https://t.co/mAJRRG6pkp
Because he likely hasn’t paid his fuel bills.
— The Sassiest Minx in MN 🌊 (@SassiestMinx) August 9, 2024
My dad was in the aviation fuel biz for decades. If Trump owes money to the fueler (ex: AvFuel, Edwards) they won’t refuel his plane there.
Billings uses Edwards.
Bozeman uses World Fuel Services.
Btw: my Dad started Worldfuel https://t.co/x5tALK0PAd
People are wondering why Trump is not campaigning and they think it's because he stiffed venues in
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 11, 2024
Lebanon, OH
Mesa, AZ
Erie, PA
Green Bay, WI
Eau Claire, WI
Tucson, AZ
Burlington, VT
Spokane, WA
El Paso, TX (over $500,000)
Billings, MT
Albuquerque, NM had to send Trump’s…
I keep hearing of so many localities that Trump owes money to as a result of his rallies. They should all get together, file a class action suit and put a lien on all of his campaign funds and personal property.
— Henry M. Rosenberg (@DoctorHenryCT) August 11, 2024
An under-discussed factor in this election is the numerous venues and towns that will not let one of the candidates campaign there due to him having previously refused to pay them. https://t.co/2jrTdouZxX pic.twitter.com/iMulizC6dx
— Smom (@smomwetgobam) August 10, 2024
If anyone is paying attention, the Trump/Vance campaign is currently at a standstill. While no one has offered a definitive explanation, I would wager it’s connected to Donald Trump’s outstanding debts to several cities from past campaign rallies. These unpaid balances could have… pic.twitter.com/arDgkpzn6F
— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) August 12, 2024
Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally https://t.co/MFKrxlG6N6
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) August 13, 2024
British films selected by Martin Scorsese
It has been an absolute pleasure to help programme a series of hand selected “Hidden Gems of British Cinema” at the @bfi from the one and only Martin Scorsese.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) August 1, 2024
During the early days of the Covid lockdown, uncertain of when life would return to normal, I retreated into film. I… pic.twitter.com/0F2aOUgqtR
Over 400 people wanted to adopt a potty mouthed-parrot
After a potty-mouthed parrot named Pepper was surrendered to an animal shelter in Niagara Falls, N.Y., more than 400 people applied to adopt him.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2024
“Do you want me to kick your [expletive]?” the parrot named Pepper asked a volunteer at the shelter. https://t.co/2rYW5Jqrrt
The most famous potty-mouthed parrot belonged to Andrew Jackson:
Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt
After Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, the company opened up the patent because "it had more value as a free life-saving tool than something to profit from." Learn more: https://t.co/PLag64STS3 pic.twitter.com/xWDgk5nXii
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) July 6, 2024
Right-wing extremists want to repeal no fault divorce
Yes, they are coming for no fault divorce. The Center for Renewing America was founded by evangelical extremist Russ Vought, a top leader of Project 2025. 1/ pic.twitter.com/CrLkMSQncW
— JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) June 25, 2024
Dudes online with podcasts—and GOP politicians who want to appeal to those online dudes with podcasts—are waging a war on no-fault divorce. https://t.co/cUHH5cB9uN
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 7, 2024
As an attorney for survivors before we had no fault divorce in NY, we often had to persuade judges that behavior was cruel & abusive ENOUGH to divorce, often requiring black eyes or broken bones. We CANNOT go back & pretend to treat women as equal citizens. And that's their point https://t.co/APjTO5PTDq
— Diana Adams (they/them) (@DianaAdamsEsq) June 26, 2024
Tom Cotton and the like aren't hiding their agenda. They are coming after no fault divorce. pic.twitter.com/FjboxkB0uX
— AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 (@ask_aubry) June 28, 2024
Can't leave your terrible husband. Forced to carry to term. Bet you they will try and limit/segregate education and job opportunities in the next decade. A party of regression https://t.co/GCdAa24ab1
— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) June 26, 2024
Media cowardice about calling Trump a felon or criminal
He’s a convicted felon. That’s a fact. Say it.
Could someone who works in journalism explain to me why the @washingtonpost needed to add quotes around the phrase convicted criminal when Trump is, in fact, a convicted criminal. pic.twitter.com/LH3aN99nXl
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) June 17, 2024
"Biden Campaign Ad Paints Trump as a Felon"
— Jennifer Schulze (@NewsJennifer) June 17, 2024
It is amazing the lengths legacy media goes to soft- peddle basic facts about Trump. He IS a convicted felon & this new Biden ad clearly says that. The @nytimes headline and story about the ad should say it plainly, too. COME ON. pic.twitter.com/OAOiJZhuae
Looks like @nytpolitics tweaked the paper's headline on the new Biden ad hitting Trump's felon status, after criticism that the paper treated this status as a he-said-she-said matter.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 17, 2024
before/after
(h/t @TPM_dk) pic.twitter.com/BqqnEJvqrS
They didn’t brand him a felon – he IS a felon.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 17, 2024
Right-wing extremists are coming at IVF
We knew they wouldn’t stop with abortion.
Are we going to let an extremist minority decide how we live? https://t.co/R6j2fMkxgJ
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) June 12, 2024
The Senate will vote tomorrow on the Right to IVF Act. Here’s why creating a national right to IVF treatment and making it more affordable is so important. A thread:
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) June 12, 2024
Republicans are coming for IVF next … pic.twitter.com/MuJEEVJ41b
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 10, 2024
BREAKING: The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, has voted at their annual meeting to oppose IVF. The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF. https://t.co/zDqj7aMsun
— Megan Messerly (@meganmesserly) June 12, 2024
The Republican Party has decided rapists have more of a right to become a parent than the families desperately trying to have a child through IVF. pic.twitter.com/jDibrokG3H
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 24, 2024
Democrats aren't seeking to tie the IVF conversation to Dobbs. It *is* tied to Dobbs. Dobbs is mentioned 15 times in the Alabama opinion and concurrences! It specifically discusses Dobbs and conceptions of pre-viability fetuses/embryos as "persons." https://t.co/B9Ze3RHVPm pic.twitter.com/bT99lVBbmd
— Joel Wertheimer (@Wertwhile) March 1, 2024
New: Senate conservatives are likely to block a request to unanimously pass Sen. Duckworth's bill tomorrow, which would protect IVF at the federal level
— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) February 27, 2024
Some Senate Rs saying Dobbs made IVF a states-rights issue
W/ @DaniellaMicaela https://t.co/hHDGASUKkr
Shitheel, you voted against the bill to protect IVF and then ran out to tweet this horseshit the next day. Even by our American standards of grifting, empty political hacks, this is wondrous. https://t.co/QexoSA213K
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 14, 2024
Party Bus, the rodeo bull
His father is Short Bus!
INSANE: A Bull named "Party bus" vaulted into the crowd at a rodeo in Oregon. But he didn't stop there.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 10, 2024
As he looked for a to escape, he turned toward a fan wearing a red shirt in the Cowboy Chuckwagon concession area… and flipped them over twice – all while "God Bless the… pic.twitter.com/Hyqp1iG55D
Update: The bull that created havoc at a rodeo last week won’t be euthanized. TMZ reports it’s been returned to its home ranch. Brian Witt, Pres. of Sisters Rodeo, shared the bull, known as “Party Bus,” will undergo addl training at the ranch to avert any future incidents. pic.twitter.com/OzkAcDlFAo
— theJasmineBRAND (@thejasminebrand) June 11, 2024
Solidarity with Party Bus the rodeo bull who made a break for it in Oregon Yesterday. pic.twitter.com/VMgmVidDRG
— Krime (@krime_1) June 11, 2024
Party Bus — named after his father, Short Bus — made national headlines last weekend at his first rodeo when he jumped the fence of a crowded arena in central Oregon and careened through the concessions area, injuring three people. #LiveOnKVALhttps://t.co/Sl1ZzxKUck
— KVAL News (@KVALnews) June 12, 2024
Sad! 