Elliot Kirschner

If anyone's still here, I'm here now: @elliotkirschner.bsky.social

For her. For all our daughters and sons. For America. 🇺🇸

@tforan I hope so? Just grasping for straws of sanity here Tom :)

Which outcome would cause pollsters more pain after the election? Again underestimating Trump voters or underestimating Harris voters? I think the former and it may subtly affect what we’re seeing.

Hi this racist bigot is Tony Hinchcliffe who said Puerto Rico was a garbage island at the Trump Rally. He’s signed by @unitedtalent and it would be great if we could get him dropped. Please retweet.

@TVietor08 People should take their supscriptions to the Post and subscribe to another paper whose reporters can be supported. It is vital that there is a narrative that Bezos currying favor with a fascist was roundly rejected.

I understand the anger at Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post for its endorsement decision, but cancelling your subscription means less revenue to pay all the Post's reporters. Do what you gotta do but Bezos won't feel it in his pocket while some great journalists might.

If your response to Gen John Kelly, gold star father & Trump’s WH chief of staff, confirming that Trump praised Hitler & called members of our military “suckers and losers” is to defend Trump, you need to look in the mirror and realize your dishonor will live forever.

Mark Cuban: "You know, in my career I've learned a lot about business, including how tariffs work ... this is the same guy who also thought Mexico would pay for the wall."

If Andromeda were brighter, this is what you’d see in the sky.

I love this story

Jimmy Carter votes by mail just weeks after 100th birthday ow.ly/5FbR105M4xp

Dear Press, Trump Is Not Okay open.substack.com/pub/elliotkirs…

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, we want to honor and celebrate the inspiring journey of biochemist @JudithSimcox in our newest film, A Risk Worth Taking. Watch her tell her story: bit.ly/simcox

@JudithSimcox Thank you for sharing your story.

I love this video, thanks for allowing me to share my journey! Also, happy Indigenous peoples day everyone!

Sore Loser With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties, most polls show his race against V.P. Kamala Harris is too close to call. The first time he ran for president in 2016, he was coming off the last season of Celebrity Apprentice. I had a front row seat as a finalist on that final season and marveled at his audacity with his checkered past to seek the highest office in the land. Then, in the blink of an eye, he went from novice to formidable challenger to victorious over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As President he was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration. The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home. It was ten days after his narrow lost to Joe Biden. He was calling to get my take on the controversies surrounding the election, which appeared to have been decided by a handful of votes in several states. I asked him what he would do if the vote count remained against him. As I reported on Fox News that same morning, Friday the 13th, he told me he was a reasonable man and would do the right thing if that time came. It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election. With a motley supporting cast of increasingly fringe characters, he careened from one bizarre theory to the next, offering no meaningful proof, that he had been robbed by the Democrats. None exists. If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you. He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen. In furtherance of that Big Lie, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited and unleashed the violent attack on the center of democracy, the U.S. Capitol for which he was Impeached. As his followers trashed that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence essentially to overturn the will of the American people. Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back. Maybe you are inclined to vote for the former president anyway, because he says he will cut your taxes or build the border wall or pull out of NATO or put tariffs on China. However, you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar. Better to admit he lost last time but that you don’t care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet. Just don’t pretend that he got robbed in 2020. That is a lie. Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate

Everyone who used to work with your car mechanic says he's incompetent. The car journals all rate him 1 out of 10. On top of that, he's showing extreme signs of mental decline and confuses Pintos with Porsches. But sure, get him to fix your brakes.

An incredibly detailed image of Mars

Trump will talk to Putin but not 60 Minutes

Three days ago Marco Rubio wrote a tweet implying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was rigging the jobs numbers to help the Harris campaign. Now, he's asking his constituents to trust federal authorities. If you can't see why these two things are connected, and how dangerous this is, especially coming from people who know better, then I don't know what to tell you.