Ezra Fischer
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I don’t believe being an NFL fan means selling your soul, or even being a hypocrite. But we should probably at least not ignore that it’s adjacent.
My first for The Deep Shot:
www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...
My first for The Deep Shot:
www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...
Everyone Is Someone's Baby
That guy is a beast. That guy is a monster. As he scores his first touchdown of the day, lowering his head and smashing his body like a weapon through other men, a few million
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don’t believe being an NFL fan means selling your soul, or even being a hypocrite. But we should probably at least not ignore that it’s adjacent.
My first for The Deep Shot:
www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...
My first for The Deep Shot:
www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...
Excellent thread. I'll add, since I'm not a public figure and can speak less guardedly, that a willingness to spurn collegiality surely has something to do with being Black and a woman, two characteristics that mean a lot of collegiality other people get isn't available to you anyway.
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Excellent thread. I'll add, since I'm not a public figure and can speak less guardedly, that a willingness to spurn collegiality surely has something to do with being Black and a woman, two characteristics that mean a lot of collegiality other people get isn't available to you anyway.
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
Cool cool cool cool cool cool. Using AI to write code to replace the COBOL stuff that's been in use for 50 years seems guaranteed to crash the social security system. I'm not a coder, but I have a lot of experience with old convoluted systems and the ways in which they break...
SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cool cool cool cool cool cool. Using AI to write code to replace the COBOL stuff that's been in use for 50 years seems guaranteed to crash the social security system. I'm not a coder, but I have a lot of experience with old convoluted systems and the ways in which they break...
This. JQA was in congress _after_ he was president and was one of the few people who could stand up and speak out against slavery without fear of violence because he was too old to duel and too accomplished to silence otherwise.
kind of incredible to me that no one wants to be a john quincy adams
The American tradition of former presidents just melting away into the set dressing once their done is a hindrance right now
March 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This. JQA was in congress _after_ he was president and was one of the few people who could stand up and speak out against slavery without fear of violence because he was too old to duel and too accomplished to silence otherwise.
I'm watching the Senate. Why? What is wrong with me?
HEY REPUBLICAN SENATORS, I MIGHT BELIEVE A WORD YOU SAID ABOUT HOW BAD SHUTDOWNS ARE IF YOU AND YOUR PARTY HADN'T BEEN THE ONES PUSHING US INTO THEM IRRESPONSIBLY OVER AND OVER FOR YEARS.
HEY REPUBLICAN SENATORS, I MIGHT BELIEVE A WORD YOU SAID ABOUT HOW BAD SHUTDOWNS ARE IF YOU AND YOUR PARTY HADN'T BEEN THE ONES PUSHING US INTO THEM IRRESPONSIBLY OVER AND OVER FOR YEARS.
March 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'm watching the Senate. Why? What is wrong with me?
HEY REPUBLICAN SENATORS, I MIGHT BELIEVE A WORD YOU SAID ABOUT HOW BAD SHUTDOWNS ARE IF YOU AND YOUR PARTY HADN'T BEEN THE ONES PUSHING US INTO THEM IRRESPONSIBLY OVER AND OVER FOR YEARS.
HEY REPUBLICAN SENATORS, I MIGHT BELIEVE A WORD YOU SAID ABOUT HOW BAD SHUTDOWNS ARE IF YOU AND YOUR PARTY HADN'T BEEN THE ONES PUSHING US INTO THEM IRRESPONSIBLY OVER AND OVER FOR YEARS.
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I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
March 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Just spent about fifteen minutes trying to find a movie (not a video) called Beenus Tackalovis for my four year old. He described several scenes from it that match The Great Muppet Caper exactly but was absolutely sure it was NOT The Great Muppet Caper.
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just spent about fifteen minutes trying to find a movie (not a video) called Beenus Tackalovis for my four year old. He described several scenes from it that match The Great Muppet Caper exactly but was absolutely sure it was NOT The Great Muppet Caper.
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Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency
The physical instantiation of how my generation feels about having to print something.
February 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The physical instantiation of how my generation feels about having to print something.
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I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
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It's not that courts won't save us, it's that they *can't.* What Trump and Musk are doing are somewhat beyond what a branch of government with no enforcement power can stop.
The court orders are important, but they will never be enough.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The court orders are important, but they will never be enough.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup
While the lawsuits being filed against the Trump-Musk administration are righteous, they will not “save” us from this nightmare.
www.thenation.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's not that courts won't save us, it's that they *can't.* What Trump and Musk are doing are somewhat beyond what a branch of government with no enforcement power can stop.
The court orders are important, but they will never be enough.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The court orders are important, but they will never be enough.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
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Before it's too late a reminder that none of what's happening is being done by "Trump." It's being done by Republicans.
It's Republicans who blocked Trump from an impeachment conviction. It's Republicans who nominated Trump to be president. It's Republicans who declared him to have total immunity.
It's Republicans who blocked Trump from an impeachment conviction. It's Republicans who nominated Trump to be president. It's Republicans who declared him to have total immunity.
January 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Before it's too late a reminder that none of what's happening is being done by "Trump." It's being done by Republicans.
It's Republicans who blocked Trump from an impeachment conviction. It's Republicans who nominated Trump to be president. It's Republicans who declared him to have total immunity.
It's Republicans who blocked Trump from an impeachment conviction. It's Republicans who nominated Trump to be president. It's Republicans who declared him to have total immunity.
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The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling. From @thedailytism.bsky.social:
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling
We’ve all done it. Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be ...
thedailytism.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling. From @thedailytism.bsky.social:
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
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I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.
www.thenation.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Wild
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Wild
If I remember right, it was solar hot water, which continues to be a slam dunk today!!
In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House.
Ronald Reagan had them removed.
We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.
Ronald Reagan had them removed.
We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 PM
If I remember right, it was solar hot water, which continues to be a slam dunk today!!
@edsbs.bsky.social just listened to you and Bomani talk about the Johnson fam. Wrote my college thesis about this unsolved celebrity murder probably committed by several members of the family.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2...
Hall–Mills murder case - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 21, 2024 at 1:50 AM
@edsbs.bsky.social just listened to you and Bomani talk about the Johnson fam. Wrote my college thesis about this unsolved celebrity murder probably committed by several members of the family.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2...
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i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.
Opinion | What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party. (Gift Article)
Now is not the time for surrender.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM
i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.
Speed, but it's just a baby in the back seat that cries if you go below 20 mph.
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Speed, but it's just a baby in the back seat that cries if you go below 20 mph.
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1. OH AND, while I'm pontificating on the subject of social media: As much as I love being on Bluesky - and I do! - I want to remind everyone that one of the best things you can do if you want a constant presence online is to have your own site, and update at least semi-regularly. It really is key.
November 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM
1. OH AND, while I'm pontificating on the subject of social media: As much as I love being on Bluesky - and I do! - I want to remind everyone that one of the best things you can do if you want a constant presence online is to have your own site, and update at least semi-regularly. It really is key.