Bill Thorne

Happy to set you up with someone who can walk you through why your assertions are just, plain, wrong. And then you can report the facts instead of fear mongering. (Appreciate the one sentence nod to John Zhang, followed by a legal scholar who agrees with your narrative and is obviously smarter and more informed, according to, well, you.)

(1/10 🧵) If you live in NY, you may see a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Sometimes, there is a new problem you need to solve for. And then, sometimes, there is a problem that has existed for years and no one seems to care. Dropping off and getting picked up at Washington’s Union Station is a decades long debacle. Fix it! #DCgov #Amtrak #NortheastCorridor #DDOT

Sentiments of Venezuelans I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. If you have never lived in Venezuela If you did not grow up there If you did not watch your country collapse in real time If you did not stand in food lines If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built If you did not have to leave your home with nothing Then shut the fuck up. You do not have an opinion. Your opinion does not matter. And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there. I’m Venezuelan. I lived there most of my life until my early twenties. I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes. This is not politics to me. This is trauma. Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked. There was trade. There was money coming in. There was investment from the US. There were jobs. There was food. There was medicine. My family had five businesses. We had our home We had investments. We had a future. Then the government started nationalizing everything. Private companies were taken. Foreign investors were pushed out. Imports were blocked. Price controls destroyed production. Corruption exploded. And everything died. Not slowly. Violently. People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online. They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope. People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology. They are trying to survive. They are trying to find food. Trying to find medication. Trying to keep their families alive. So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that” No. It’s not complicated. You’re just ignorant. China is not rebuilding Venezuela. Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela. Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela. They are stealing. They are extracting. They are draining what’s left. If the US comes in and reinvests If refineries get rebuilt If infrastructure gets restored If imports open back up If food, water, and medicine become accessible again If people can work and earn with dignity Then yes. Let them take all the oil they want. Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed. This is something to celebrate. Not because it’s perfect. But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope. Hope that families can eat. Hope that people don’t have to flee their country. Hope that Venezuela can function again. If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation Then again Shut the fuck up. This isn’t theory. This isn’t politics. This is lived experience. By Stephen Subero

@nicksortor Bullshit.

🚨 This is TONIGHT in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard “Youths” have TAKEN OVER the streets. National Guard are practically POWERLESS, as they’re not armed with crowd control munitions and can’t make arrests THAT MUST CHANGE! TAKE BACK DC!

@financedystop Are you really a real estate agent? Who the hell would hire you? Especially after posting this video making Charleston sound like a dystopian nightmare. The best sale you could make is your home as you head to the Catskills.

"Whats the worst part of living in Charleston?"

I am near wits end. On June 24 I ordered furniture from IKEA. And paid for Taskrabbit. The bed and two nightstands were supposed to be put together today. The only thing I got from @Taskrabbit after six weeks was an email saying they could not find a Tasker and that I could respond to a link to reschedule. When I clicked on the link, I got an ERROR 404 notification. I had an email exchange with the help desk @taskrabbit_help . They said they would find someone. And yet, the only call I got was from someone who said they could not do it. No straight answers, and I am left with a project I cannot complete myself. So incredibly disappointing. And I still don’t know what to do.

@NavyYardNats A couple of weeks ago, the Savannah Bananas were able to do something the Nats haven’t been able to do in years — fill the stadium with an enthusiastic and engaged crowd. For the love of God Mark, please, please sell this team.

@EmoPhilips @jk_rowling Common sense.

strangling assassins with a phone cord

@ABC Looking forward to Meryl Streep playing Ghandi in the remake of the 1982 movie, “Ghandi.”

"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo will play Jesus in the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar." abcnews.link/xFmhGtr

@GayPatriot Song? What song?

I can’t understand the words to this song. Even with closed captioning.

@MattWalshBlog Songs?

Half time show is trash. Nobody can even understand what he’s saying. And the vast majority of football fans haven’t even heard of most of these songs.

The first Huddle episode of 2025 is here! John Furner sits down with National Retail Federation President Matt Shay for the inside scoop on the NRF and what to expect at this year’s “Big Show.”

So Florida’s Emergency Management Director says that they are preparing for the largest evacuation in the state since 2017. Yet I cannot change my spouse’s flight tomorrow without incurring a change fee of over $250 because @AmericanAir #americanairlines #aa isn’t allowing anyone to change without a fee until the 8th. Why? There is a hurricane, and it’s heading to Florida.

This is not Islamophobia, this is truth.

There are many parallels to Western societies in these still images from a video of the mass knife-stabbing attack in Mannheim, Germany by a bearded man who shut down a right-wing event critical of Islam. Responding German police pinned down one of the rally attendees by mistake during the frenzied knife attack. The bearded man then proceeded to stab the officer repeatedly in the neck and head after he had already stabbed other people. Female officers stood behind in horror while another finally shot the knifeman. Just in the last eight months, there have been multiple deadly attacks in Europe and the UK by Muslims who invoke their religion. The cases are underreported by activist groups and media. Almost all of the killers have a migrant background.

Let’s make sure to remember and honor the fallen on Monday. Many of us, myself included, enjoy the long weekend with our families without giving sufficient consideration to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can leave free. We owe them everything. Let’s never forget.

The New Year is here, but we wanted to celebrate all we achieved in 2023 - thanks to you! With your support, we served 1.9 million medically tailored meals, supported almost 5,500 neighbors in need, grew our volunteer team to 4,000 members, and so much more.

@clownworld Work.

🥣 We served 1.9 million meals to 5,492 clients across 6,172 square miles in 2023. 🩺 We added over 230 new clients to our service each month. 📊 We do this all while ensuring that 79% of expenses go to the programs that serve our clients day-to-day.