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@MatthewWielicki The irony always was that to register impact you stretched out how long ago a similar event had occurred. Of course the further back the further removed from industrialization

In 1963, a catastrophic flood hit Denver and it was understood for what it was... a brutal natural disaster driven by extreme weather. If that same event happened today, you can already picture the press conferences: politicians lining up to call it definitive proof of climate change and demanding more renewable energy as the solution. Same river. Same kind of storm. Completely different narrative.

@maddenifico This is why founders in their genius made it lifetime

This is why lifetime positions in the Supreme Court must be abolished. All it took to take America back to the days of Jim Crow was six woefully out of touch conservative Supreme Court justices to gut The Civil Rights Act. Women have lost autonomy over their bodies and Black people have lost their representation in congress.

@jemillerbalt Closed primary? Part of problem including md

Democracies don't cancel/postpone elections. This is a bright red flag.

@Acyn Think the southerners said same thing in 1954

Warnock on SCOTUS: First of all, no one elected this Court—to decide what kind of remedies we need in this moment. It’s really not up to the Supreme Court to say, “Well, we have reached the threshold where this issue around race and inclusion is no longer necessary.” That is not the job of the Court. And I’m struck, quite frankly, by the very easy and nonchalant way in which this extreme, activist Court knocks down precedent after precedent. The bar for doing that ought to be high, but we’re seeing with this Court—whether we’re talking about voting rights or a woman’s bodily autonomy, the right to decide with respect to her own body—they just strike down things they don’t like. They don’t have any respect, in the ways that we expect courts traditionally to, for precedent. And when precedents are torn down, you need a darn good reason to do it—and they are an activist court.

@Strandjunker Read history, real discrimination was the poll tax and literacy tests.

The systematic demolition of the Voting Rights Act is complete: 6 people in robes just spit on the graves of every civil rights hero who bled for the right to vote. This isn’t a ruling. It’s a betrayal of our history and a direct assault on our future. Wake the hell up, America!

@BreakingBrown @Lord_of_Uranium How many jewish,italian,croatian,…presidents have we had?

@Lord_of_Uranium If yall weren’t racist, none of this would be necessary. There’s a reason why we’ve only had one Black president & it’s not because he’s the only one that ever met the criteria.

Slavery in this country lasted 246 years. Jim Crow lasted around 100 years. Our attempt to remedy the impact of those crimes against humanity was met with white terrorism & savagery. The laws we finally got passed to address these harms were relentlessly challenged & lasted only 61 years before they were all finally stripped away. This country has decided that the idea of race can be used to multigenerationally oppress us, but any remedy must be race neutral, which means there can be no remedy. Never again will I vote for a presidential candidate who is unwilling to admit that America—a country that wouldn’t exist without chattel slavery—is a racist nation. That’s the beginning for me, before we even get to policies & legislation.

@EndWokeness See irony in oxford dictionary,this is it

"NO KINGS" crowd greets King Charles with a standing ovation

@RandyWKirk1 Same reason property tax unfair in that someone assesses what house is worth and price rises to where you cannot live there

Contrarian position on Billionaires tax. I'm not in favor of CA taking one more dollar in taxes, but I'm also not sure why this tax is seen as unfair. We have property taxes on both homes and cars. There used to be an inventory tax on goods held by businesses each year. So, why would stocks, jewelry, paintings, etc. be any different. The argument that these individuals would have to liquidate assets to pay the tax is no different at all than my needing to liquidate assets to pay property taxes. What am I missing?

@Pablolinguist7 @wadestotts Is it privelege to distinquish roman numeral two from eleven?

History PhD as well. Can confirm this is accurate. Also can confirm that this a tactic that has been used to oppress BIPOCs for over 400 years. World Wars and their counting is a subject of much debate and the Somali's in particular count differently due to historical inequality than white CIS males do. Check your privilege.

"History PhD here--the number of World Wars is actually a *very* controversial topic in academia. Some say there have been two (traditional view), while others say up to sixty-four. Scholars disagree, and that's okay! What's NOT ok are these RACIST attacks on Rep Omar!"

@wadestotts Think she read roman numeral two as eleven

@Savageboston Jets

Final Jeopardy 🤔

@r0ck3t23 AI is putting the thin layer working overtime out of work

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.” Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules. We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch. Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.” The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere. That is not a funding problem. That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.” That sentence should keep you up tonight. We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not. It is the opposite. Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.” They did not run out of stone. They were not conquered. They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone. That is the real threat to everything we have built. Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse. A quiet forgetting. Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people. The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves. And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud. We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us. Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline. One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken. You do not lose the future in a war. You lose it in your sleep.

@jemillerbalt Jfk knew hehad to have his blood relative in charge of doj. Think it has been this way for a long time

Looks like DOJ has been gutted with thousands of open positions and sharp declines in some types of cases So much for 'tough on crime'

@JamesTate121 James ,recall franklin said you have a republic. Everything about constitution is to hobble majority. Do not like it,then amend constitution as was done to directly elect senators

Carville Drops Hard Truths About the Rigged Math Behind Republican Power Democrats have won 7 of the last 9 presidential popular votes. But Republicans control the Senate because 18% of the country elects 52 senators. This is not democracy. This is a system designed to keep the minority in power and it is working exactly as they intended. Carville pointed out that just 18 percent of the American population elects 52 United States senators, a staggering illustration of how rural, low-population states hold outsized power in the upper chamber regardless of where most Americans actually live and what they actually believe. He paired that with another figure that rarely gets the attention it deserves. In the last nine presidential elections, Democrats have won the popular vote seven times. Seven out of nine. The party that Republicans routinely dismiss as a fringe minority has been the clear preference of the American electorate for the better part of four decades. The Senate math is not an accident and it is not neutral. It is a feature of a system that was designed in an era when small states demanded protection, and it now functions as a structural firewall against majority rule. The result is a chamber where a senator from Wyoming carries roughly 70 times the electoral weight of a senator from California. Carville's point is not just academic. It explains how policies that polling shows most Americans oppose continue to advance, and why the party winning fewer votes keeps accumulating more power.

@JoelMCurzon Two thousand years since he was on earth there are a billion adherents. Prima facie evidence

How much do we actually *know* about Jesus? Essentially nothing. The evidence isn’t good enough for anyone to justifiably claim to *know* anything affirmative about him. It’s all conjecture and inference, with varying degrees of probability, none of which are that high.

@RestrictedDaily Radioactivity from chernoybl

You’ve definitely heard this before. Final Jeopardy, category: Environment. The only question is… do you actually know it right now?

@AlTheBoss03 Koufax

Close your eyes. Think back. Who’s the one pitcher you saw live that made you say ‘nobody’s hitting this guy today’?

@FreeGrass69 @BillKristol Certainly are grossly unaware of parliamentarian politics as practiced in europe with splintered parties. Do not think majority rule china

@BillKristol Democrats will have to get rid of the filibuster and make some real changes to America. Every other country in the world rules by simple majority.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

@BillKristol Ends have never justified the means

@Rainmaker1973 Where did co2 come from in pliocene? We seem to still be here

Earth’s atmosphere has crossed a historic threshold unseen for more than 3 million years. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels have now surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm): a concentration last experienced during the Pliocene epoch, long before modern humans existed. This milestone was recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the world’s longest continuously operating CO₂ monitoring station. In early March, daily averages peaked at 430.60 ppm: a figure climate scientists have tracked with growing concern for decades. But what does crossing this threshold actually mean? Prior to the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO₂ levels remained stable around 280 ppm. Today, they stand more than 50% higher, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels, large-scale deforestation, and other industrial activities. This is far more than just a number: it’s a clear warning signal for the planet. Approximately 25% of the CO₂ we emit is absorbed by the oceans. As it dissolves, it forms carbonic acid, driving ocean acidification. This process is already weakening shell-forming marine organisms such as corals, plankton, and mollusks — the foundational species of ocean food webs. Researchers note that the current rate of ocean acidification is likely the fastest seen in at least 300 million years. Many climate models had projected that CO₂ concentrations would only approach this level under aggressive global mitigation efforts. Instead, we’ve reached it while emissions continue to rise. If current trends persist, atmospheric CO₂ could exceed 500 ppm by the end of the century, ushering in climate conditions not seen on Earth for tens of millions of years. ["Record-breaking CO2 Levels Recorded for Earth’s Polar Regions." PML]