Peter Steinberg

The secret service interfering with commercial air travel, esp. the most dangerous parts, is not what I woke up expecting to read. The fact that this is not huge news can only be because of so much other huge news crowding it out.

Same guys will call it “leverage”, as offensive as it is to actual levers.

I really cannot see the logic of @schumer.senate.gov caving on the cloture vote. The government is already shutting down, and the problem is clearly on the republican side. We need to match brinkspersonship with brinkspersonship. Vote no on cloture, please!

Adding to the sane voices asking the senate democrats to withhold their cloture vote. Amendments won’t make it, and a non-clean CR cedes power and, with it, whatever is left of the minority’s influence. The republicans provide a good example here and @schumer.senate.gov should listen to his voters.

Sadly this is not the first time South Park has amounted to prophecy www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR3...

The 12 monkeys sequel writes itself, no AI needed.

The real pizzagate. Chilling.

Few things make me feel better these days, but this did.

This is really something. Our guy running our government (i.e. into the ground) has some peculiar anger issues that don’t seem suitable for public life.

As their prices increase, and campaign promises look more like “suggestions,” I’m curious if there is any photographic proof that either T***p or M**k have ever purchased or prepared even a single egg themselves, any style, with or without toast.

Countdown to US government questioning legitimacy of pope to their catholic faith.

I just realized that T must be deaf. When we asked him to “bring down egg prices”, he heard those last words as “constitutional rule of law”. Makes sense now.

There’s a broader metaphor here but I just. can’t. quite. articulate it.

Excellent thread on the US DOE - it’s again a reminder that the goal isn’t to save our money, but to wreck our society.

And the moral here is that many scientific discoveries - especially paradigm shattering ones - are often accidents that happen while scientists are going about other business. The more you support their freedom, and the more perspectives you welcome in, the more benefit we get as a society.

I don't know the songs well at all but I was all in on the kendrick show - I presume there were less obvious diss targets than drake, too. And the USA imagery felt patriotic and subversive at the same time.

“I am. Somebody!” was powerful and authentic and, these days, necessary.

This Bond villain schtick is not entertaining, at all.

Been thinking about how the N**is contributed to 20th century technology and the first four that jump to my mind are: cars (VW), rockets (V2), big data (via IBM) and propaganda. It reminds me of something (& someone) and makes me wonder how we didn’t connect the dots sooner

Truly vile - the race to compliance is betraying vulnerable kids who need help.

I kind of miss the old FG who would ruthlessly put down anyone who gets more attention than him. Like #presidentmusk.

An eternalstory, but Dylan nailed it in 1983 (via @joshtpm.bsky.social): "They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge To which a scoundrel clings’ Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king” – Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ars-l...

Holy smokes. Is there a backup?

This self pwn is a beautiful thing.

Verifiable facts and a ghastly outcome.

Did he demand a rushed & failed “pause” on govt grants because he thought it has something to do with immi…grants?

it's almost like they don't know what they are doing, and are way over their heads.

I just subscribed - independent journalists are probably the only information sources who will survive the coming months intact.

This is all much worse than I expected.

Are we supposed to change the spelling of our northern neighbor from C-A-N-A-D-A to C-R-I-M-E-A? I guess if we drop the A, it’ll make more sense.

This is both shocking (the level of grift and the media acceptance of it at face value) and unsurprising (including the apparent lack of even implied outrage in the article).

I was a 14 year old as this was happening and it was disorienting - pop music in 1984 seemed to explode into a wild mix of rock, rap, hair metal, dance, electronica, etc., enabled by mysterious technology I found riveting. Interesting to realize it wasn't just me being 14 -- but a real sea change.

It’s quite a list to check off. Going after Hunter was always a political hit job to weaken his father - the pardon just restores some balance to the universe and closes the chapter, at some level.

Omg my teenager just gave me a present for my birthday (last week, but who’s counting?) - these two padded pouches which turned out to be “cases for your synthesizers, dad”. And which turned out to be exactly what I needed to get these guys (plinky, nts3 and crow) back to Brooklyn. ❤️🎹

One can only imagine why Hegseth’s mom had to apologize. It just makes the whole thing seamier.

Peter: However bad I’ve been, I’m sure at least my mom will defend me Mom: hold my beer

The east coast Thanksgiving blizzard gave way to a spectacular morning

Thankful for family friends and food - but less so for the freak east coast snowstorm that is endangering all of them ❄️☃️

Funny. A fairy tale existence rendered as a desperate one. Looks like it’s been floating about the intertubes for a few years but first time for me.

Somehow one doesn’t want a run to end like this, but a series of unfortunate events this morning seems to have knocked out the last scheduled days of colliding lead ions (and their nearby electromagnetic fields) at the Large Hadron Collider this year. Drat.

Narrator: for Rudy Giuliani, it was far from his final act. At this rate, he'll be nominated for WH OLC by Monday

And our new energy secretary nominee doesn't believe in the climate crisis. This is all epic level trolling.

QUACK! WOOF WOOF WOOF! HEIL! But seriously, we have to keep calling this what it is.

Onionfowars? Infonion? However recombined or reconstituted, it’s [chef’s kiss]

I was just getting used to 🧵🪡 but here we are