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Typical Twitter argument pic.twitter.com/nPS23rvdqP — Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) August 26, 2019 Been a fun couple of weeks for “smart and educated are not synonymous.” — Adam Serwer?? (@AdamSerwer) August 27, 2019 One of the many good reasons I don’t have a twitter account is that I am (you will be shocked to learn) extremely prone …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: SnippetsPost + Comments (135)
by Betty Cracker| 112 Comments
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Our river is high — not quite at flood stage, but it’s higher than normal for this time of year and has over-topped a dam located upriver, which happens occasionally and isn’t a cause for alarm, they tell me. The dam acts as a filter, keeping pieces of the flooded swamp from floating past our …
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You watching the debate tonight? I will, if I have power. It’s off and on today due to thunderstorms. (I missed the second half of the last debate because of a thunderstorm!) Dave Weigel’s debate preview in The Post is here. My guess is Sanders will be extra shouty. But that’s like predicting thunderstorms in …
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How hot is it in Kansas? Apparently hot enough to bake cookies in your car! Please stay safe and cool(ish), everyone. pic.twitter.com/EKBcVMOm4c — Rep. Sharice Davids (@RepDavids) July 20, 2019 I understand that the heat wave has broken for some of you lucky Jackals in the upper midwest, but here north of Boston, we’re still …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Hot Hot HotPost + Comments (225)
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Eric Holthaus is retweeting a bunch of useful information: Pre-event analysis of #TropicalStormBarry projected rainfall in next 7 days compared to development in 1940 and 2019. Being repetitive here but clearly it's still an issue (e.g., Harvey, Florence). #BatonRouge #NewOrleans Expanding Bull's Eye Effect https://t.co/diGx2djXgb (1/2) pic.twitter.com/pFffiPzh3i — Stephen M. Strader (@StephenMStrader) July 11, 2019 …
Update On Barry And New Orleans – Open ThreadPost + Comments (11)
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After all that, the general public can’t see the tanks. The VIP area also includes some cornhole sets. https://t.co/K4IkoxrgAN — Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 4, 2019 There's a huge perimeter around the Lincoln Memorial, where Trump will actually be speaking, that's closed to all but VIPs and press. See a tiny hump of camo in …
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New: at a recent Twitter all-hands meeting, an employee asked: Twitter has eradicated ISIS. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacists? One answer that is discussed internally, we found: because it would mean banning some Republican politicians too https://t.co/x6JRvdvJJG pic.twitter.com/VRnht57WkN — Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) April 25, 2019 Whose heart is having palpitations? Open …
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Michelle Obama's publisher said that her book "Becoming" has sold almost 10 million copies and could be the most successful memoir in history, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. https://t.co/gw8LPN1876 — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 26, 2019 Betcha you don’t even have to ask how I can tell! But if I’m unusually disorganized or cryptic in the …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Oh Joy, It’s Pollen Season AlreadyPost + Comments (185)
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"Maybe it’s a sign from God." Midwest floods devastate Nebraska farmers. https://t.co/Ff9b8sopje — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 19, 2019 ‘Everything is destroyed’: Mozambique fears massive human toll from Cyclone Idai: https://t.co/rAQGjrJnQK — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) March 19, 2019 “Under models of climate change, a warmer atmosphere can hold more water, and thus the …
President Obama: On Helping the Midwest, and MozambiquePost + Comments (86)
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Poll: Congress gets highest approval rating from voters in over two years https://t.co/X03ihHeYil pic.twitter.com/H6qVoW5pPP — The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2019 Seriously. According to lore, it’s when the frozen ground softens enough for earthworms to emerge, thereby encouraging the return of the robins. Perhaps more importantly, the Spring Equinox arrives just before 6pm EDT… and …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Welcome the Worm Super MoonPost + Comments (247)
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Emergencies declared across Midwest amid ‘historic’ flooding, via @markberman https://t.co/D0JH3A2jlb — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) March 16, 2019 And if anyone has more concrete suggestions about helping, please leave a comment! Commentor Jay Noble, last night: Haven’t seen it mentioned here but Nebraska took a beating from Mother Nature this week. From Central NE to …
Open Thread: Pray for NebraskaPost + Comments (227)
Sadly, Nebraska’s better know Senator doesn’t look like he’s gonna be much use to them:
when one’s house *is* an island… pic.twitter.com/XnWIkt2E8u
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) March 16, 2019
Beautiful! This photo looks like what a single, honorable man looks like when he holds true to his principles about executive overreach and adheres to the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution.
You should remove it from your feed, @BenSasse. It doesn't become you.— Eric Owens (@ericowensdc) March 16, 2019
How can you guys manage to pay for flood insurance living on a flood plain? What insurance company would write you a policy?
Oh. Right. All us tax payers who live on high ground, we pay for it..
Remind me, who are the “socialists” again?
— Christopher Anderson (@cander509) March 16, 2019
Comrade Ben,
Imagine for a moment what $5.7 billion dollars could do for flood protection along the Missouri/Mississippi watersheds. I am sure some of your voting constituents will over the next few weeks.— MaterialMattersLLC (@MM2LLC) March 16, 2019
Senator Sasse, Wikipedia says you’re a Presbyterian, raised in the Lutheran church. There’s a well-known story from your Christian Bible expositing that your God uses catastrophic flooding to indicate His displeasure with His misbehaving believers. Perhaps you should contemplate that story, and the possibility that God is giving you an ‘out’ with your anti-environmental constituents sending you a message?
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See if you can tell which of our dogs thinks the snow is magical fun dust and which thinks the sky has collapsed into an icy deathscape. pic.twitter.com/Mj8Bu82eHB — Alex Gertner (@setmoreoff) December 9, 2018 Here in the Boston area, we’ve had unnervingly little snow so far this winter — but the weathermedia are cheerfully …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: [email protected]Post + Comments (232)
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Punxsutawney Phil has made a career of delivering empty promises. It’s time to give young, progressive groundhogs a chance.#GroundhogDay pic.twitter.com/ho8n2X84W1 — The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 2, 2019 Me, I prefer to trust the old proverb: If Candlemas is bright and clear, there’ll be two winters in the year; If Candlemas has snow and rain, …
Sunday Morning Open Thread: The Groundhog Is A LiePost + Comments (188)
by Betty Cracker| 242 Comments
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I won’t share the temperature range we experienced today for fear of being pelted with ice-encased snowballs by commenters living through polar vortex conditions. But by our standards, it’s chilly. Maybe that’s why this lazy fellow was reluctant to get out of bed this morning: We don’t put clothing on our dogs. Maybe in some …
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Chicago is going to be colder than Antarctica during the #PolarVortex. Here’s how to stay safe in the extreme cold pic.twitter.com/gE4VbUSBXG — NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 30, 2019 I half-way suspect some of the media enthusiasm for Kamala Harris this week is that reporters would *much* rather be in Oakland than Des Moines. I spent 15 …