The violence problem is from right-wing exremists but they won’t say it. Cowards. In general, the media has been intimidated by Republicans.
Bad coverage of the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband
Hmmm… https://t.co/WvXMQzXGpw pic.twitter.com/4a0mUz9hM4
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 29, 2022
On the left, NYTimes coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 29, 2022
On the right, NYTimes coverage of a rightwing domestic terrorist attack on the Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/eWHy4H9vGq
Please read this thread.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 29, 2022
National politics framing by the most prominent national publications will look extremely bad in retrospect, and does now.
From a few days ago: https://t.co/rsEg2iI9RW https://t.co/SydAe58flC
Absolutely incredible that @nytimes didn’t put above the fold an attempted assassination of the Speaker of the House—amid escalating political violence! The @nytimes repeatedly is failing to meet the moment here. pic.twitter.com/W9c4bQl9w3
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 29, 2022
Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022
Tweet on Candyman 30 years later
'Candyman' 30 Years Later: Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen on Those Bees and the Horror Film's Racial Impact | Entertainment Tonight https://t.co/1VZcYAdYwq
— Tony Todd (@TonyTodd54) October 28, 2022
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter unleashed an avalanche of bigotry
Right-wing extremists spewed racism and anti-semitism
Antisemitic campaign tries to capitalize on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.https://t.co/Ch78G2xgiz pic.twitter.com/IwhGVvpKY5
— Oren Segal (@orensegal) October 29, 2022
🚨 There was a *1,300% INCREASE* in the use of the N-word on Twitter in the hours after the Musk takeover happened, a Bloomberg analysis found.
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) October 29, 2022
The word peaked at 170 mentions every five minutes on the afternoon of Oct. 28. https://t.co/BnNAAqaf73
"An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday"https://t.co/qjQm9mESZE
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) October 28, 2022
The ADL Center on Extremism has identified a coordinated effort to spread #antisemitic content on @Twitter, explicitly drawing inspiration from @elonmusk's takeover of the company. In the past 24 hours, over 1200 tweets and retweets have spread antisemitic memes. pic.twitter.com/4mUj5wxQnH
— ADL (@ADL) October 28, 2022
The terrible Independent State Legislature theory
NEW: In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an election case out of Pennsylvania and reconsider the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.https://t.co/yJVp4Z87mz
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) May 30, 2024
The Supreme Court could undermine elections by endorsing it. Nothing is too extreme for this bunch.
The League of Women Voters and a coalition of LWV chapters representing 50 states and D.C. have come out against the so-called "independent state legislature theory." @LWV #ISLTamici @BrennanCenter
— Tom "T.M." Wolf (@tomTMwolf) October 28, 2022
Brief: https://t.co/HDrIk5gCW8
Key Quote: pic.twitter.com/Vk8NkLUecp
CLC has filed a friend-of-the court brief in #MoorevHarper that outlines how dangerous the independent state legislature theory is to our #democracy and encourages #SCOTUS to preserve the role of state courts and independent redistricting commissions.https://t.co/49kAISAS0y
— Campaign Legal Center (@CampaignLegal) October 25, 2022
It is interesting how many conservative legal eminences are begging the Supreme Court not to do the crazy thing it is threatening to do to our elections. https://t.co/kbsCfXh9Oj
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 25, 2022
Retired conservative federal Judge J. Michael Luttig joins with voting rights groups as a co-counsel in a Supreme Court case in order to persuade the justices to reject an obscure legal theory that has been promoted by Trump supporters https://t.co/GnELL4e4d6
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 19, 2022
The plaintiffs in the pending SCOTUS case on the so-called "independent state legislature theory" just filed a strong takedown of the theory, featuring a key addition to their legal team–noted conservative jurist @judgeluttig
— Tom "T.M." Wolf (@tomTMwolf) October 19, 2022
Context, highlights, & analysis🧵👇@BrennanCenter pic.twitter.com/T2UucnMOgC
You need to listen to this @AliVelshi interview with @judgeluttig about the extreme version of an “independent state legislature” theory that SCOTUS is considering this term in Moore v Harper. This is the best analysis out there of this dangerous idea. https://t.co/K829qknuyo
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 17, 2022
The extreme right-wing Supreme Court will probably end affirmative action
As part of their plan to take the country back to the 1950s, I expect the extremist Supreme Court (R) to overturn affirmative action.
The Court is poised to “transform Brown from an indictment against racial apartheid into a tool that supports racial exclusion.” We’re all learning that the gap between the unimaginable and the inevitable is narrowing fast and may soon vanish altogether.https://t.co/mTV9WJCII9
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 28, 2022
Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case https://t.co/t25n72PLYL
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2022
This week the Supreme Court hears a challenge to affirmative action—and will likely overrule more than four decades of precedents on college admissions. https://t.co/cyjL45F6ub
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 29, 2022
The most diverse group of Supreme Court justices in history will gather Monday to confront the issue that has vexed and deeply divided past courts: affirmative action. https://t.co/x60mrKaQmh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2022
It’s official: Supreme Court is nixing affirmative action next term. Arguments set for October https://t.co/5XOqaBK80Z
— Sophia Tesfaye (@SophiaTesfaye) August 12, 2022
Supreme Court will hear two major cases concerning race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina on October 31 https://t.co/jPjHbWmHHi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2022
Next term, the Supreme Court will hear a case about affirmative action. Justice Thomas' wife sits on the board of the group that is backing the lawsuit.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 2, 2022
This is why it's important we have a code of ethics for our judicial system: so conflicts of interest like this do not arise.
Tweets on returning to office work
After more than two years of fighting against return-to-office mandates, workers are fed up with their bosses’ inflexible policies and are taking their battle to court. https://t.co/qBnnkPUvfY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 6, 2024
Many workers dreaded going back to the office. Now that the long-anticipated return is here, how's it going?
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 29, 2022
Free coffee doesn't do the trick, and the dogs at home are not happy, but readers told us what has helped them with the transition. https://t.co/z6jvOO47TN
Commercial property woes grow with only 9% of Manhattan office workers back in the office full time https://t.co/yEO6KLUVss
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) October 4, 2022
Even transitioning to just three mandatory days in the office is proving difficult for some companies. https://t.co/Z8yMECcXjE
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) September 28, 2022
WSJ Editor-In-Chief Matt Murray emails staffers with an updated return-to-office policy: "It's now time to take the next steps toward normalcy," he writes.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 15, 2022
Staffers are expected, starting Nov. 1st, to be in the office at least 3x a week; senior editors and managers full time. pic.twitter.com/CB3Ornyp1y
Bosses want workers back by Labor Day. They’re not going in without a fight.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 5, 2022
Employees still have plenty of leverage and they’re not afraid to use it to keep working remotely. https://t.co/tJn9FUGoqW
Weekly peak office attendance is still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels https://t.co/6EDjy51PKs
— Axios (@axios) March 18, 2024
Amazon is requiring its workers to return to the office full time, a switch from the company's three-day-a-week policy. https://t.co/m32rLwIrDo
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2024
New York Times article on the 50th anniversary of Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book
Great album
“Superstition” is one of my favorite songs ever.
Half a century ago, Stevie Wonder reinvented the sound of pop with his album “Talking Book.” On the anniversary of its release, 27 musicians reflect on the album, song by song. https://t.co/sK4EfMOMWJ pic.twitter.com/RjNT699DOE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 27, 2022
Biden should raise the debt ceiling
If he doesn’t, Republicans in Congress will use it as a bargaining chip to destroy good programs.
Biden's rejection of eliminating the debt ceiling was a dangerous gaffe, and now he has to correct it before it's too late https://t.co/M2HjcAnd3r
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 25, 2022
To summarize:
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) October 21, 2022
1. If the GOP wins the House it can use the debt ceiling to force Dems to choose between an economic crash and massive program cuts
2. The GOP already did this in 2011, so we know they will
3. Democrats can unilaterally stop them, but are afraid of attack ads pic.twitter.com/YneSCmstBG
If the GOP wins control of Congress on 11/8, you'd have to be an idiot not to raise the debt ceiling and take the issue off the table for 2023/24. It's the right move politically and economically.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 21, 2022
Unfortunately, though, we're talking about Congress, so there are lots of idiots. https://t.co/3frBrM207p
The debt ceiling has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. It doesn't control how much Congress takes in or how much it spends.
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 21, 2022
Rather, it says: Once we hit this limit, we'll stop paying our bills, including our debts.
It's a fiscal time bomb. Keeping it is irresponsible. https://t.co/3W7uK24iYC
Finally: A group of House Democrats is pressuring Dem leaders to disable GOP debt limit extortion during the lame duck. As one Dem tells me, it's insane to expect that a Speaker Kevin McCarthy will buck Trump and the MAGA caucus on this. Disarm them, Dems.https://t.co/EKPplPC2bj
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 21, 2022
SCOOP: The Biden administration is in early, quiet discussions with key Senate offices about raising the debt ceiling in the lame-duck session of Congress. https://t.co/fWz2qNdKCu
— Axios (@axios) October 25, 2022
I think this is correct. If Republicans trigger a global depression by breaching the debt ceiling, voters are likely to blame the incumbent Democratic president and elect a Republican supermajority.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 25, 2022
The American system of separation of powers is very, very bad. https://t.co/lniKq4eygj
Greedy oil companies
High profits, giving money to shareholders instead of reducing prices
Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families. https://t.co/Q84NNK9sck
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 28, 2022
Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022
Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion
Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion
Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
Shell just posted its second-highest quarterly profit ever.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 28, 2022
$9.5 BILLION.
Like other oil companies, it’s exploiting the moment to make billions off the backs of working families.
I have the bill to hold Big Oil accountable and lower gas prices immediately. We should pass it.
Shell will buy back $4 billion worth of shares and increase its dividend by 15% after posting another gigantic quarterly profit thanks to strong oil and gas prices https://t.co/WnrDRHGFGf
— CNN (@CNN) October 27, 2022
Imagine if more of these gains went to relief at the pump, instead of corporate stock buybacks. https://t.co/L8jhtQuva9
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) October 27, 2022
Valero boosted profits by 500% in just one year by price gouging families at the pump. The House passed my bill to hold Big Oil companies accountable for ripping off consumers in May. The Senate needs to act.https://t.co/xssOATcHE7
— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) October 27, 2022
ExxonMobil’s profit set a record for the second straight quarter as oil and gas prices remained high. No. 2 US oil company Chevron also posted much-better-than-expected results. https://t.co/aCDbhVdPHD
— CNN International (@cnni) October 28, 2022
Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022
Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion
Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion
Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
Sad! 