Hackery the legendary Pencil-slayer

Perfect! In 2016, when my married supervisor at work got me pregnant, I informed the employer and asked for help, yet the supervisor was nevertheless promoted whereas I was frozen out. I took to Twitter to protest what was happening. The employer retaliated against me for this AND also sued me for $1.5 million, 10 days after I had given birth, while I was nursing a newborn and recovering from a C-section, claiming that I had violated my "NDA" by disclosing that I was pregnant (that my pregnancy was "confidential" information owned by the employer). I have had to sue. I am grateful you will be covering this. P.S. The Trump Campaign is the employer. Thank you, Elon!

@michrules32 @joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse No immediate return on investment plus anti-tax, anti-public good Reaganism.

@joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse Wonder what happened in the 80’s to stop investment in them

i like that the worst thing this guy can imagine is americans collectively deciding to use the wealth they produce and the taxes they pay to give themselves something nice

@thomasfamily84 @joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse Especially for Texas summers! For years the problem in keeping them open here (Austin) has been finding enough life guards. They pay teenagers to get certified, but those low-paying jobs have been hard to fill when there's so much competition for warm bodies here. Budget, RIP.

@joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse I raised my kids in Austin during the late 80s and 90s. Public pools helped me retain my sanity. They were a community gathering space. Also, all of my kids learned how to swim with free lessons. Maybe I'm old, but I still think Public pools are a good thing.

@jacksonjay @joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse Kids can still walk there, but it's full of kids who can pay to get in, and those folk are the ones driving from the other side of town.

@jacksonjay @joshtpm @jbouie @KevinMKruse Depends where you are. In my hometown, the public pool on the poor side of town, the formerly redlined area and neighboring poor white neighborhoods, was turned into one of those splash-pool type entrance-fee needed attractions. RIP whole generations of cheap swim lessons.

@DruryPatricia @joshtpm Bad design leads to bad outcomes.

@DruryPatricia @joshtpm Things like that should never be stored together. Nurses and staff rushing from patient to patient are under pressure to grab and go, not triple check labels of, of all things, saline. And a doctor relying on staff to give her the syringe instead of filling it herself.

A fertility doctor accidentally injected acid into a woman inquirer.com/health/haverto…

@tdraicer @joshtpm @TPM You do know the use of "crypto" predates Bitcoin by hundreds of years, right? Or are you just saying it's always all out in the open for them.

@joshtpm @TPM Unless you are talking Bitcoin there is nothing crypto about their fascism. Or more accurately their German-inspired fascism.

Crypto-Fascists and Dead Bounce Ron’s Speed Bumps on the Way to Oblivion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/crypto-… via @TPM

@HouseOfBasarab @joshtpm @daveweigel @EricLevitz @dlondonwortel Because he's a mascot so they make a point of not looking too close at him as a politician. (And yes that's the brand he's been selling forever.)

@joshtpm @daveweigel @EricLevitz @dlondonwortel This does seem to be true, yet somehow Bernie seems to get a pass. Why is that? He has never lost his outsider status despite being a career pol.

From Freddie deBoer, that paragon of radical constancy and commitment. Wonder what @EricLevitz makes of this one... nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@JeniJen1N @joshtpm Meanwhile planning to sue various obscure mathematicians and textbook publishers, and non-obscure typesetters, for copyright impingement.

boom. after two days Team Elon seems to have gotten the x.com domain to redirect to twitter.com.

@joshtpm @TPM Come on, y'all in the comments here, 2015 not 2016. And started maybe with some folk in other countries who supplied his resources, staff, and reassurances going in. Not to mention the only viable plan to move forward to "real" candidate.

How Early Did Trump’s 2020 Election Overturn Conspiracy Start? talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/h… via @TPM

@jdwkarasu @joshtpm @TPM Up next: suing mathematicians and textbooks for the use of doublestruck capitals.

@joshtpm @TPM @joshtpm - google X + Meta + trademark. 😂

Abbott: We Need Rio Grande Buoys To Protect From Invasion talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/abbo… via @TPM

I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …

@joshtpm Next step: suing 45 year-old punk rock bands for brand infringement.

at the moment i can't get x.com to rsolve to twitter.com at all. but at least with my connection x.com resolves differently depending on whether you use http or https, which is pretty doofus level admining.

@ProfDBernstein @joshtpm Florida's new standards are designed to distract and nullify, not to give American children understanding of the America they are growing up in and the tools to become future participants in our culture and our democracy.

@ProfDBernstein @joshtpm These Florida standards are for teaching American history to children in America, children who are growing up in a culture formed and informed by this massive and ongoing part of our history.

Lots of discussion of Floridas new African-American history curriculum, especially that line about slavery helping slaves develop skills which they might be able to use for their own benefit. Is that like representative? How is the curriculum as a whole? Well, I’ve read …

@BenjySarlin When you consider that his campaign has been prone to stuff itself with shit-posters instead of, like, real campaign staff, the result is not so surprising.

Incredible, that weird homophobic/homoerotic video the DeSantis campaign shared was made in-house per NYT nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/…

@joshtpm @agordonreed Real hair and hide, except for the tail which was missing. We made a new one with yarn.

@joshtpm @agordonreed A Wonder Horse! We also had one of these ($15 at a garage sale, not previously owned by a Kennedy).

Nostalgia. My brothers had one of these.