@robbourret
 Chicago, IL
Joined August 2013
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I've seen enough: Janet Protasiewicz defeats Daniel Kelly for Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result flips ideological control of the court from conservative to liberal, a huge victory for the pro-choice side.
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This is genuinely an unbelievable thing to tweet when you’re in serious legal and business jeopardy. It is a masterpiece. The Mona Lisa.
SBF
@SBF_FTX10 Nov 2022
Replying to @SBF_FTX
21) NOT ADVICE, OF ANY KIND, IN ANY WAY I WAS NOT VERY CAREFUL WITH MY WORDS HERE, AND DO NOT MEAN ANY OF THEM IN A TECHNICAL OR LEGAL SENSE; I MAY WELL HAVE NOT DESCRIBED THINGS RIGHT though I'm trying to be transparent. I'M NOT A GOOD DEV AND PROBABLY MISDESCRIBED SOMETHING.
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What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the issue with FTX was the normalization of trading fake assets that anyone can invent out of thin air with no regulation and that have no underlying value. Nope, can’t be it.
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One potential takeaway from tonight is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem. If republicans are going to turn in a historically poor midterm performance now in this moment, a lot of talking heads need to re-evaluate their priors on this stuff.
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there are tears in my eyes LMFAOOOOOOOOOO – at New Orleans, LA
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surely THIS is the salad that will undo months of fast food and alcohol
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Calvin Harris tracks will be like Match My Vibe ft. Cèline Dion, Lil Baby & Harry Potter
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it's fucking hilarious to me that a seemingly innocuous iOS update - allowing users to do a single-click opt in or out of data collection/tracking/analysis by apps - single-handedly torpedoed $10 billion and counting in Facebook's ad revenue
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In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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i see we're back to the usual cycle. 1. refuse to engage the "culture war" or even offer the slightest pushback to GOP smears. 2. "address pocketbook issues" but don't actually pass legislation to that effect 3. lose and inevitably, 4. blame the left after the fact
Oliver Willis@owillis13 Apr 2022
recipe for disaster: "New York Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a member of House Democratic leadership said the best thing Democrats could do is ignore the attack and focus on addressing the pocketbook issues that polls show Americans care about the most" vice.com/en/article/k7wjq3/d…

Democrats Are Doing Basically Nothing to Counter the GOP’s ‘Pedophile’ Attacks

Democrats are rolling their eyes at GOP attacks that they’re, as Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, the “party of pedophiles.” Should they do more?

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They been ready 😂 xitter.cf/reactivecontent/status…
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it'll never happen but i'd love a president to say "i think the court deals with too many issues of general public concern to be stacked with a bunch of law nerds"
Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp10 Feb 2022
Biden about his SCOTUS short list: “they were the honor students, they come from the best universities, they have experience—some on the bench, some in the practice of law” he’s done a deep dive on 4 ppl “I’m not looking to make an ideological choice”
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⛷@Foh_Ski27 Nov 2021
😂😂😂😂😂
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“Tea just kind of tastes like the ground” -@ascourtes committing a faux pas in London
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like i have said before, this is completely incoherent. “i believe partisan voting legislation will destroy our democracy which is why I want Congress to do nothing as states pass partisan voting legislation to destroy our democracy”
Manu Raju
@mkraju6 Jun 2021
Manchin: “I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.” wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op…

Joe Manchin: Why I'm voting against the For the People Act

The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics. Least of all, protecting this right, which is a

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Despite supply chain issues and health risks, food banks have given out roughly 50% more food during the pandemic. Inside the operations of the one in Chicago: nytimes.com/2021/03/31/upsho… 1/

How Food Banks Succeeded and What They Need Now (Published 2021)

Fatigue among donors and workers is a concern. 

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Astead
@AsteadWH5 Mar 2021
Anderson Paak, Bruno Mars, and Pfizer pharmaceuticals saving my summer
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How come @BetoORourke and @AOC work to raise money for struggling Texans, many of whom didn't vote for Beto and think AOC is a she-witch, doesn't count as a UNITY story? How come the media isn't spinning it that way? How come "unity" can only mean "giving the GOP what it wants"?
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