Ariel Gonzalez

Is Twitter down again?

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

A good book to read right now is The Third Reich in Power by Richard J Evans. Things happen slowly and they happen in a specific direction. It’s useful to see it from the perspective of those who didn’t know what was coming next. It’s inspirational to see all the ways people threw up roadblocks.

Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.

Welcome to the new Gilded Age. The Oligarchy wants you to die working for them and somehow, they got the masses to once again blame those less powerful than themselves. It really makes me wonder who they routed for in Star Wars. It is so hard not to be pessimistic watching this dark age solidify.

The irony of it all is that the least wise of humanity are the ones making the decisions on how to erase uniquely human forms of expression.

www.indiewire.com/gallery/best... The 34 Best Film and TV Performances of 2024

This seems like a problem...especially given the new crop public health officials we're about to get who all seem dedicated to voodoo health care... www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...

The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.

It me

When Chomsky gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong, as with Khmer Rouge, Assad, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Striking: In numerous cases, Republicans or GOP-aligned industries are now admitting that mass deportations and rolling back Biden's climate agenda could prove disastrous in their parts of the country. In my new piece, I've compiled many examples of this: newrepublic.com/article/1890...

Republicans mythbusting Trump's BS: "Trump-MAGA “American carnage” mythology holds that reversing the elite-engineered energy transition and purging the nation of millions of undesirable migrants are key... In reality, the green transition and immigration are potential keys to revitalization."

When she’s right she’s right

It's good that news of Russian killer drones hunting, killing, maiming citizens in Kherson is getting more coverage Follow @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social who has been reporting on #DroneAttacks and #HumanSafari in Kherson - here's her story from July: Russian Drones are Hunting Civilians in Kherson

Remember 8 years ago when it was a huge deal that Trump wouldn’t divest from his businesses? Seems quaint now

Virtually every question today at the WH Press briefing was about the Hunter pardon, as if that is the thing the American people care about most right now. The DC press is so disconnected from the American public and serves them poorly more often than not.

Jon Stewart is a straight-up idiot who has nothing to contribute. He's Joe Rogan for people who like David Brooks columns.

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

Any Congressperson stupid enough to believe in December 2024 that engagement on Twitter represents a meaningful amount of actual, non-bot, people (let alone American voters) should not lead a bake sale, let alone Democratic Party strategy.

“CSI: Mississippi” flopped because there’s no dental records and everyone has the same DNA.

According to the New York Times, Mexican cartels are recruiting chemistry students in the U.S. Why does this sound familiar?

Bahamas rejects Trump proposal to take deported migrants. Good for them. Now imagine if Florida's folly, Governor Gogo Galoshes, was Sec of Defense for a minute. The textbook Freudian homphobe/bigot is obsessed with 'flattening the Bahamas.' www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I forgot, how many Republicans asked Trump for pardons?

Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

HOLY SHIT—In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield have unilaterally declared it will **no longer pay for anesthesia care** if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. Dark times ahead.

Breaking New! Biden Issues a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ of His Son Hunter Biden! Retweet if you are OK with this!

Jeff Tiedrich for the win:

I’m old enough to remember when firing an FBI director for overseeing investigations into you was a major national scandal, grounds for impeachment, and a possible basis to investigate obstruction of justice. Now it’s presidential business as usual with no legal recourse.

If anybody you know has a problem with Biden pardoning his son, please tell him that Trump pardoned his son-in-law’s father, an ex-felon whom he has appointed U.S. ambassador to France.

Good advice to everyone on BlueSky

Written in the 1960s ( and 1950s) but could absolutely be applied to today

Good morning, Bluesky! I am so happy you are here!

I woke up today being crystal clear that my mom never felt compelled to send me an email like the one Mrs. Hegseth sent her son.

Switching to Bluesky from the other place is the social media version of keeping your old friends, making a bunch of new ones, and dumping your toxic relationships. It’s a fresh start and it’s invigorating!

Twitter continues to lose millions of users each month. At the same time, Bluesky is growing so fast — currently over 21 million users — that it's racing to get more servers. 🦋

Every day is a good day to wake up to the fact that Donald Trump got away with January 6 scot-free It is the single greatest failure of the American criminal justice system in the history of the United States

In a bid to gain influence, corporations are buying the Trump cryptocurrency token and trying to get spots on Joe Rogan, while their lobbyists are instructing them to scrub their websites and corporate policies of language that favors Democrats and instead tout GOP issues www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

We’ll see if Noir Alley moves here. Right now, this is me. The real me, not a bot. On my exodus from X somebody asked if the move was for “political” reasons. I guess sanity and decency are now political choices.

HIS OWN EFFIN MOTHER: Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother called him ‘an abuser of women’. Email from mother, published in the New York Times, said he mistreated women and displayed a lack of character www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

X is dead. Bluesky is the new Twitter.