mrthall.bsky.social
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I actually do remember this because back when I watched Real Time (I was young and didn't know better) she was bitching about it and pretending, I assumed, not to see the issue or how she was being racist.
Hard not to see this in hindsight as the prototype: factual error, claim criticism-as-harassment, instant “freethinker who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo" status. A very durable model.
The kids probably don't remember when Bari Weiss tweeted "Immigrants: They get the job done" after Mirai Nagasu (not an immigrant) landed a triple axel in the Olympics
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I actually do remember this because back when I watched Real Time (I was young and didn't know better) she was bitching about it and pretending, I assumed, not to see the issue or how she was being racist.
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I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives.
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
July 4, 2023 at 3:59 AM
I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives.
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE.
If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.
Let me explain. 🧵/x
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this is a great point. self righteous prigs are very rarely presented as heroic in hollywood films. but that really was william garrison, as near as I can tell. kind of Sumner too.
the key to this kind of asshole though is 'stick in the mud' asshole. we have asshole antiheroes in fiction but theyre usually rule-breakers
This brought on by reading about pre civil war abolitionists. These people were unambiguously right in the most pressing moral struggle of their time. You’d also probably fucking kill yourself if ever stranded on a desert island with half of them.
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
this is a great point. self righteous prigs are very rarely presented as heroic in hollywood films. but that really was william garrison, as near as I can tell. kind of Sumner too.
... I feel like I'm missing the joke or something
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t by Eiffel 65, Aqua, Vengaboys, or Rednex
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
... I feel like I'm missing the joke or something
We should lower the voting age to 16 because no matter how you feel about the youth, none of them have voted multiple times for a pedophilic rapist. So, really, how much worse could they do?
December 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We should lower the voting age to 16 because no matter how you feel about the youth, none of them have voted multiple times for a pedophilic rapist. So, really, how much worse could they do?
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This my favorite TT ever.
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This my favorite TT ever.
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I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...
Yglesias and Fear of a Black Intellectual
Liberal centrist inadvertently demonstrates the truth of critical race theory
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...
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this is some legit great journalism youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
YouTube video by MegaLag
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is some legit great journalism youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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I love stories like this, not bc I have any particular attachment to the specific new product, but rather bc it is a new tech that makes me say "oh neat!" or even "oh, interesting!" instead of "*sigh*"
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
www.canarymedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I love stories like this, not bc I have any particular attachment to the specific new product, but rather bc it is a new tech that makes me say "oh neat!" or even "oh, interesting!" instead of "*sigh*"
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People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
Jasmine Crockett’s Senate bid is infuriating some colleagues.
“She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," said a senior House Dem.
Another House Dem told @axios.com: “Just look to see how many House members endorse her candidacy.” www.axios.com/2025/12/12/j...
“She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," said a senior House Dem.
Another House Dem told @axios.com: “Just look to see how many House members endorse her candidacy.” www.axios.com/2025/12/12/j...
"It's a bad decision": Jasmine Crockett enrages fellow House Democrats with Senate bid
"She might win a primary, but she ain't winning a general in Texas," one senior House Democrat said.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
This is #TheDoubleTax.
There is only one movie I hate more than RoS but it is the only movie that has ever made me exclaim in a theater, "That's bullshit!".
God, what an awful movie.
God, what an awful movie.
Rise of Skywalker, the entire theater knew it would suck ass the second it started, it reminded me of watching the Mets or Raiders collapse, everybody was actively pissed off, saying stuff like "oh god" or laughing at how shit it was. A real bonding moment
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
December 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
There is only one movie I hate more than RoS but it is the only movie that has ever made me exclaim in a theater, "That's bullshit!".
God, what an awful movie.
God, what an awful movie.
Making it mandatory to win a boss battle I'll ultimately lose in a cut scene.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Making it mandatory to win a boss battle I'll ultimately lose in a cut scene.
i guess i'm weird because i see this as an attempt to be accomedating. if you don't drink period, i never ask you again and plan accordingly, including activities where alcohol isn't involved. if you just abstaining for the night then i'll keep that in mind.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
i guess i'm weird because i see this as an attempt to be accomedating. if you don't drink period, i never ask you again and plan accordingly, including activities where alcohol isn't involved. if you just abstaining for the night then i'll keep that in mind.
Did he also blow Bubba?
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Did he also blow Bubba?
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Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness is a prayer.
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness is a prayer.
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in just a year, the trump admin has pushed us into a recession, destroyed the air travel system, made multiple cities unsafe, murdered 600k ppl globally, and wrecked the white house.
great idea giving this asshole a second chance here.
great idea giving this asshole a second chance here.
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
in just a year, the trump admin has pushed us into a recession, destroyed the air travel system, made multiple cities unsafe, murdered 600k ppl globally, and wrecked the white house.
great idea giving this asshole a second chance here.
great idea giving this asshole a second chance here.
white people are never going to let go of that word
new deal 2: the wokening
Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
white people are never going to let go of that word
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Farewell sweet Prince
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Farewell sweet Prince
don't trust a democrat that calls his own party the democrat party.
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
don't trust a democrat that calls his own party the democrat party.
There's a joke about Kentucky windage, divine beings and the rule of three but I'm not going to make it
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There's a joke about Kentucky windage, divine beings and the rule of three but I'm not going to make it
You do not always choose your mediums but when you accept them glorious things can happen.
Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
Cheney - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural ph...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You do not always choose your mediums but when you accept them glorious things can happen.
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Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.