This Is Fine

Would be interesting if these stories were framed the way corporate announcement of bonuses, or capital investment are. "After Big Tax Cut, Bank of America To Raise Fees On Customers" https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/955504854880813056

Tweeted by chrislhayes on January 22, 2018 at 11:04 PM

comrade hayes

12:32 AM

@GodEmperorDune lol

@GodEmperorDune Maybe he just wants Elon Musk to like him, since one of the biggest benefactors of this decision is Tesla

12:52 AM

Axios scoops draft White House infrastructure proposal. https://www.axios.com/draft-white-house-infrastructure-plan-1516644555-0d43f417-6ccd-43f7-9eae-3ccbe711314d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic A few thoughts in thread below:

Tweeted by yfreemark on January 22, 2018 at 6:49 PM

our tiny snow-shoveling committee cleaned the walks of 4 people today after a storm deposited 6" of the heavy wet stuff in Cheyenne (and one of the folks we helped even wanted to take a picture with us!). if you need help getting your walk clean after a storm please let us know!

Tweeted by SE_WY_DSA on January 23, 2018 at 12:42 AM

This is cool

🆒

Direct action and mutual aid are the most rewarding parts of these things

oh shit this infra proposal is laying the groundwork to monetize the interstate highway system

this is why we can't have nice things

toll roads are dumb

and slow down traffic

and restrict access for poor people

cool, cool

@GodEmperorDune tsk

today in "interesting thought processes from random people on twitter"

original tweet:

Billionaires made enough money last year to end extreme poverty 7 times over, Oxfam says https://bloom.bg/2rxDQfA

Tweeted by business on January 22, 2018 at 10:55 PM

responses be like:

@business Simple way to end extreme poverty. Spread capitalism.

Tweeted by Jdraphael on January 22, 2018 at 10:59 PM in reply to business

@business And yet the federal government spends nearly a trillion dollars a year and can’t seem to figure it out either. Taking more money from billionaires and having the feds spend it on anti poverty initiatives isn’t working. Time for a new plan.

Tweeted by jbirm941 on January 22, 2018 at 11:42 PM in reply to business

1:14 AM

I'm going to stop you right there

last one particularly missing the point in a delightful way

@quartata who is this ox and why are they fam? i don't know them

This is the anti mad-online police

@GodEmperorDune this may or may not have been the first thought that went through my head before I read it more carefully

You have the right to stop posting

1:15 AM

ok

Anything you post can and will be used against you in a court of online

are you anti "being mad online" or are you anti "mad about being online"

quick question

Ok I'm done

you didn't read me my full rights scrub

unless this is a police state and I don't get a public defender

Those are your full rights

1:16 AM

shit

at any rate those are the only two I wanted to post because they were the most egregious

but it's interesting to see the human mind at work don't you think

You know what the solution to all these capitalists hoarding obscene amounts of wealth?

More capitalism

fuck yeah

just give all the money to the people with money and that will cure poverty

because the people without money will die

Actually, the 1% earned 84% of the money last year

Why because CEOs work way harder than anyone else

Posting on LinkedIn all day about how hard you work is hard work

@Unionhawk Excuse me sir, executives

1:33 AM

lol

Your account is hacked by the Turkish cyber army AYYILDIZ TIM! Your DM correspondence has been captured and interesting information has been reached! Turks are everywhere!🇹🇷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5W-CXPOH-Y

Tweeted by prageru on January 22, 2018 at 7:23 PM

🇹🇷

RedRiderX

@Unionhawk oh my

2:12 AM

BREAKING: White House official: President Donald Trump signs bill funding government through Feb. 8, ending 69-hour shutdown.

Tweeted by AP on January 23, 2018 at 1:56 AM

NICE

calculated

3:00 AM

Most Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency

3:25 AM

@Unionhawk nice

@Unionhawk cc @MBraedley

Money really is at the heart of everything that is fucked up with our healthcare. Case in point: I’m scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning. It’s been on the books for weeks. I’ve gone through extensive pre-testing and have followed up with the hospital every step of the way

Tweeted by aminatou on January 22, 2018 at 6:16 PM

3:55 AM

Singer Neil Diamond announces retirement from touring due to recent Parkinson's diagnosis: "This ride has been ‘so good, so good, so good’ thanks to you." http://abcn.ws/2F4DUFJ

Tweeted by ABC on January 23, 2018 at 2:49 AM

Ok how have I never noticed "a news corporation production" on the bottom of the 20th century fox movie intro thing

God dammit

BREAKING: Puerto Rico to privatize its troubled state-owned power company following decades of mismanagement, corruption.

Tweeted by AP on January 22, 2018 at 9:44 PM

@Unionhawk I…I don't know

I'm sure that'll solve all the corruption though

Gov. David Ige explains that part of the delay in notifying the public that the Jan. 13 missile alert was a false alarm was because he did not know his Twitter password.

Tweeted by starpolitics on January 22, 2018 at 10:30 PM

lmao

Man threatens to gun down CNN employees, citing “fake news” as his motive. Safe to say @realDonaldTrump’s rhetoric is responsible for this. http://www.cbs46.com/story/37323169/feds-man-threatened-to-kill-cnn-employees

Tweeted by dyllyp on January 23, 2018 at 4:00 AM

4:24 AM

Oh my god

HACKED BY ÝSKORPÝTX TURKISH HACKER THE ISLAM IS SUPERIOR - YOU WILL DRAW YOUR PUNISHMENT George W. Bush (1946 - ... )...2007 FUCKED USA

Tweeted by dril on July 2, 2013 at 6:06 AM

lol

genius

200 iq to be precise

4:53 AM

Ah he's tweeting again and it somehow feels less coherent than usual

5:04 AM

Melania drops out of Trump's trip to Davos days after reports of Trump affair with porn star: report http://hill.cm/NUcpbUB

Tweeted by thehill on January 23, 2018 at 5:01 AM

🤔

Also the article says Cohen denied the report but I thought he hadn't commented since his name was clearly attached to the shell company?

.@mayorjenny says Pearl Jam will be doing reunion concerts to raise at least $1 million for homelessness, an example of an "innovative partnership" to address the issue.

Tweeted by ericacbarnett on January 22, 2018 at 6:20 PM

… 🤔 … 🤷🏼‍♂️

5:34 AM

@TimStone I'm going to guess Tim still wishes dysentery upon her

Other tim

@Unionhawk how does he have one for everything?

12:27 PM

GOP senator threw "talking stick," broke Collins' glass elephant during shutdown talks: report http://hill.cm/ZeZ5nkr

Tweeted by thehill on January 23, 2018 at 12:26 PM

What's crazy is the bit where they're all like "Hahah mistakes happen when one of your colleagues violently throws a stick across the room"

Not that I'm not known to throw a table or two, but 😐

@GodEmperorDune like this is so incredibly specific too

@TimStone There is not even a picture of the now damaged glass elephant. Booo!

It's that very special time of year when the global elite gathers to push the rhetorical frontiers of neoliberal hokum into new realms previously thought unreachable. #Davos2018

Tweeted by LukewSavage on January 22, 2018 at 5:42 PM

This is all some groundbreaking neoliberal innovation what

1:29 PM

holy fuck how stupid can you be

Tweeted by HonoredSpirit on January 23, 2018 at 12:53 PM in reply to HonoredSpirit

O P S E C

Nzall

sadtrombone.wav

Tweeted by softerhardleft on January 23, 2018 at 12:01 AM

/Justice

womp womp

2:30 PM

Just a Supreme Court justice sitting in on a little gop senate caucus strategy session. https://twitter.com/senalexander/status/955632318307356673

Tweeted by mattyglesias on January 23, 2018 at 1:16 PM

That seems…not okay?

Amb. John Negroponte: If US had established a single payer health care system, many of the anxieties fueling current politics would not exist. "I'm saying this as a Republican."

Tweeted by ishaantharoor on January 23, 2018 at 12:24 PM

Some big news out of Florida this morning: Organizers appear to have gotten enough overall signatures to get a referendum to automatically restore voting rights to former felons on the ballot this year. They still need some signatures in 1 congressional district

Tweeted by srl on January 23, 2018 at 2:26 PM

> ALA: Let's say a library patron approaches you to complain about a homeless individual. So now you have two overlapping situations to handle. What do you do?

RJD: The first step is to determine whether the non-homeless patron’s complaint is legitimate. At one library I talked to, the patrons call the police every time a homeless patron even enters the library. That is simply an elitist misunderstanding of the role of the library as the last truly democratic public space in our communities. On the other hand, if the non-homeless patron has a legitimate concern (e.g. sexual comments) then …

@TimStone nice

2:50 PM

DEVELOPING: At least 5 students have reportedly been shot at a Kentucky high school; shooter has been apprehended http://cbsn.ws/2DziAMf https://t.co/p9cKACx9bl

Tweeted by CBSNews on January 23, 2018 at 2:32 PM

4% of UK population drink 30% of the booze

nice

> Trump imposes 30% tariff on foreign solar panels

Well, I guess that's how you kill the solar industry while making it look like you're protecting American jobs.

congrats to benevolant technocrat Elon Musk for eliminating his competition

Solar manufacturing in the US is laughable. This is just going to raise prices and hurt the actual part of the industry that's growing in the US, solar installation.

3:06 PM

you see the free market will see this problem and Davos attendees will solve it

Every morning I wake up to President Trump and other Republicans telling me how bad and corrupt the men & women of the FBI are. That's crazy. It's wrong. And it makes me sick.

Tweeted by WalshFreedom on January 23, 2018 at 1:15 PM

it'll all work itself out

Joe Walsh,,, welcome to ~~the resistance~~ family court

@TimStone I mean, it isn't crazy or wrong but it's not, like, some leftist conspiracy what

I don't understand

im crying

Tweeted by braddybb on January 22, 2018 at 9:06 PM

3:08 PM

@Yuuki I've read he also imposed a 50% import tax on washing machines.

lmao

@PLJK1984 @UserErrorPICNIC @braddybb He knows now. Be good sports about it. He just thought I was legitimately someone who didn't know anything about bitcoin. Like how the designers of bitcoin legitimately don't understand the benefits of regulation or inflation.

Tweeted by PsychopompGecko on January 23, 2018 at 10:03 AM in reply to PLJK1984

hue

3:20 PM

Archaeologists say Mobile, AL reporter @BenHRaines may have found the wreckage of the last American slave ship, the Clotilda: http://s.al.com/4C57wQO

Tweeted by NPRDebElliott on January 23, 2018 at 1:47 PM

3:30 PM

Bevin says 1 fatality, many wounded in the school shooting :/

3:43 PM

@TimStone There has been a school shooting again?

second in 2 days yes

I mean, isn't there about one a day (shooting, not necessarily fatalities) anyway?

Shooting in general?

Or at a school

Because more generally there's way more than 1

gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?year=2017

Ah I think that's just mass shootings

Like, if you wanted to obtain a "1 per day" number you'd have to look at like, an individual city or something

It's real garbage lol

3:47 PM

According to this site 345 mass shootings, out of 61k total gun-related incidents

@Unionhawk Neither of them got to news outlets over here.

yeah

I believe yesterday's incident was 0 injuries at least

...

Oh wait, I found a small mention of the shooting of today on a tabloidy thing.

I wonder if there's like, a cultural reason for why I'm so desensitized to this shit lol

Makes u think

3:52 PM

Mass shootings in the US are not even news, the world is basically "oh, the idiots shot eachother again"

Hmm...

It's just idiot-on-idiot violence

#NewNormal

CW on the video in that article: extreme violence

Like, 0 to 150 in a school zone

god, run hide fight is a registered trademark too

@Unionhawk wat

Whiskey Alpha Tango

@fredley RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. is a I believe DHS production that's very common workplace training

It starts out as your standard, you know, highly corporate video

3:55 PM

@Unionhawk Oh, it's nice that it's a common enough occurrence to warrant a workplace training video.

puzzlepiece87

@quartata They do?

then some dude shotguns two people and moves to the elevator

@Yuuki filmed in Houston!

@Unionhawk I mean, where else can you bring a firearm into the workplace but Texas?

I mean, for definitions of can including, like, your plan is to commit first degree murder anyway so you don't really care, probably everywhere

But including only "that was never my plan I just got really angry and I had it on me at the time", probably texas

Decided to check this /r/uncensorednews post that was on /r/all. I regret everything.

4:01 PM

@Yuuki That sounds like a shithole sub

Oh yeah no that sounds the worst

@fredley It's basically like Voat by virtue of catching all the turds everyone else throws out.

Voat still exists?

I mean

For definitions of exists

meaning I'm too lazy to check to see if it shut down

pls?

Riker

4:04 PM

it exists apparently

looks basically like reddit afaict

I mean, "uncensored news" sounds like a good thing but then you realize that most major news outlets only censor things like hate speech.

Yeah I was going to say, Chris Cilizza is generally vile imo but he still exists

4:20 PM

No More Deaths member arrested on harboring charges after the group released video of border patrol intentionally destroying gallons of water

4:35 PM

THE CONCH

Tweeted by DavidWright_CNN on January 23, 2018 at 1:58 PM

@TimStone wat

> oh magic conch shell, will there ever be a vote to stabilize ACA
> maybe someday

@fredley That's the talking stick she used during the negotiations that a GOP senator threw and chipped her glass elephant

4 mins ago, by fredley

@TimStone wat

Important Kickstarter News

U.S. Embassy in Haiti shuts down after anti-Trump protests erupt: http://hill.cm/LeWQOBJ

Tweeted by thehill on January 23, 2018 at 4:43 PM

4:44 PM

@TimStone I forgot to post that earlier and since it is games I am xposting it don't arrest me

ALREADY DONE AND YOU CAN DO NOTHING

EXCEPT LIKE, BAN ME

Fyre Festival attendees are worried they're getting scammed again https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjykx4/fyre-festival-attendees-are-worried-theyre-getting-scammed-again?utm_campaign=sharebutton via @vicenews

Tweeted by TomNamako on January 23, 2018 at 4:34 PM

Hue

Saturation

@TimStone is this dril’s game?

@GodEmperorDune him and dasharez0ne yeah

@Unionhawk oh I thought they were the same person

4:47 PM

Not afaik

5:10 PM

not sure what's happened to ben garrison but welcome comrade

Tweeted by liftrss on January 23, 2018 at 4:18 PM

ben garrison join DSA

Conway: Trump taking "America first" message to Swiss meeting of global elites http://hill.cm/UHLVWkT

Tweeted by thehill on January 23, 2018 at 5:19 PM

5:30 PM

@puzzlepiece87 Yes. Solar panels are very good for rural areas.

also separately I'm pretty sure the libertarians like a source of power that is decentralized

except that the sun is centralized so it doesn't make sense

what if the government turns off the sun

:thinking:

By unfortunate necessity, I must do a thread on the Reagan years. Millennials: If your life sucks, blame your parents for voting Reagan

Tweeted by eshaLegal on January 23, 2018 at 6:58 AM

getting RIP @twobugs up in here

except reagan didn't tweet

almost preferable

is this how stockholm syndrome starts

oh, yeah, that is really the worst part about this administration is that he never logs off

that's true

"hey remember the GOP party beat us with sticks instead of cat o' nine tails"

those were the days

you know I didn't like president W Bush but at least he didn't tweet

he might have gotten us involved in a neverending war in the middle east, but at least he didn't say the quiet part loud

is a joke I would make if his favorability wasn't net positive now and rising

5:37 PM

@Unionhawk I wonder if this and his need to label literally everything is a sign of dementia.

so that's now just the reality

@Unionhawk AND THAT'S WHY WE RUNNIN FOR A THIRD TIME

Certainly explains a lot about Ben Garrison.

@quartata Bush/Bush 2020

(Jeb/W)

(no I don't know if that's allowed don't @ me)

@quartata No, libertarians don't like solar because of misinformation about government subsidies.

5:38 PM

@Unionhawk two bushes is worth two in the bush

the math checks out

@Unionhawk I mean it's probably true it'd be easier to do contingency planning if he didn't source his opinions from Fox & Friends, the Fox News of Fox News

Incidentally though, we were looking to acquire a thatcher and or reagan dartboard so that image from that tweet might be a winner

@quartata Is the bush with two bushes in it Barbara Bush?

@TimStone I never understood the "& Friends" part incidentally

5:40 PM

No, she had six kids.

it makes it sound like a children's show for one

which is apt

holy shit I think I solved the code

it all makes sense now

"lolololol our president is a toddler who watches kids shows ecks dee"?

is that the code

yes

to be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand it

the thing I don’t get about Chelsea Manning is: why would someone who spent nearly a year in solitary confinement ever want to go to an escape room?

Tweeted by roun_sa_ville on January 23, 2018 at 5:32 PM

AARRRGHHH https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/nyregion/subway-elevators-disabled-terrorism.html

Tweeted by ryanlcooper on January 23, 2018 at 5:36 PM

So hold on

The threat you're concerned about is

a terrorist has a bomb on the subway but instead of blowing up the subway comes up the elevator to blow you up, specifically?

really makes you think

like why specifically the subway

it would be more likely that they'd walk because of the (minimal) subway security

5:54 PM

oh neat it's even more fun, it's an ableist take too

nice

oh because they don't want an elevator period?

I think this is the best joke though:

@ryanlcooper Residents hired an independent security analyst who determined objections are definitely not racist.

Tweeted by wolvus on January 23, 2018 at 5:40 PM in reply to ryanlcooper

You can't carry a bomb or whatever up the stairs or escalators that's just the rules

Everybody knows that

terrorists be like "nah going up the stairs is too much effort I'm going to go blow up another building" ???

Why the fuck does the NY subway not have elevators though

In 2018

It was mostly all built before the ADA, which exempted the existing infrastructure, and it's costly (as evidenced by the price of those elevators) to retrofit

6:07 PM

Ohhhh now I get it

I thought these were the people living at that 15 Broad Street not wanting an elevator there

Ok Mr. Relatively Sensible Explanation

I was a little confused

@Unionhawk Yeah, it's still not great but it's admittedly Not Easy

that makes even less sense in this case

I mean tbf they have a hard time even keeping the subway operational, so

6:09 PM

first off who the fuck are these people to say the subway shouldn't have an elevator

@quartata They live adjacent to the proposed location

@TimStone so they already live right next to the freaking subway station then

@quartata Just dig a hole.

Like I said, it's the rules that you can't carry a bomb up stairs

Yeah, the police scan vehicles coming into that part of Manhattan so their supposed hypothetical is someone bringing in a truck-sized bomb via the subway which is still amazingly stupid

6:11 PM

@TimStone if a bomb that size exploded in the subway they'd probably be in trouble anyways

I can't think of what their ulterior motive is though

aside from like the obvious

maybe trying too hard to think of something logical here

Don't worry it's a Definitely Not Racist Definitely Not Ableist motive

I think they're half actually concerned about terrorism (which is stupid), half not wanting The Poors congregating outside the elevators, and just give zero shits about disabled people because they're entitled jerks

Yeah if you're concerned about terrorism like, why do you live in the middle of manhattan

Because they're rich raises pinky

@TimStone oh yes nothing better than snobs living in prime real estate directly next to a subway station

so rich

6:14 PM

tbf that's probably a selling point in NYC

Regardless!

hahahahahaha it totally is though

lol

It's the whole latent ableism/racism thing versus "Hahah I kicked you because you're disabled"

Their disregard is still damaging in that way

Right yeah it's not a conscious effort to do the thing but it does the thing regardless of effort

Yeah, and people like to get hung up on that to pretend like it's not "as bad", or something, when it's a major component of systematic oppression

Yes

And it's not something that a lot of us think of, to be fair

A brewery in town is totally inaccessible (because the structure was built in like the 1800s), and we were going to do a thing there until we remembered that yeah there's only stairs that's not an option

(I want to say they're Working On It but)

user15026

6:22 PM

People dont care about a11y until they can't access the thing

user15026

Because who cares about the crippled people needing to get placs

@Ash yepppppppppp

user15026

sorry, is my bitterness showing

yeah, it's fair

i challenge these people to stay in a wheelchair for one day and see how they feel about the ADA after that

6:23 PM

is the weakening ADA bill still alive

user15026

hahaha yeah, I mean there's a lot more to a11y than just wheelchair access, but hot damn people, come on

@Unionhawk The "lol don't worry until someone complains" thing?

@TimStone I believe it also weakened power to hold businesses liable for it too

yeah

@Ash i find that mobility things are easiest to "walk a mile in their shoes" in, pardon the metaphor

@Unionhawk I forget exactly what form that took. I know Sessions withdrew several guidances that were ADA-related but I'm not sure on the status of this

6:27 PM

@TimStone AARP will raise hell if it goes through

Tim Faust (health policy expert, dsa member, and single payer advocate) now insists that all venues be totally accessable in addition to a livestream and transcription after the fact and such on his speaking tour to chapters which is cool

@Unionhawk please pass on our thanks at the meeting of the tims, @TimStone

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Aye, I figured

> a 1 bedroom apartment at 15 broad is currently on the market for over $2 million

Holy shit

what