Scott Watts
@iceybloop.bsky.social
Saw “One Battle After Another” with Isaac last night and the politics are not subtle. And that’s a good thing.
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Saw “One Battle After Another” with Isaac last night and the politics are not subtle. And that’s a good thing.
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Unfathomable incompetence and evil all the way down. This is why due process is necessary! Also a soul.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Unfathomable incompetence and evil all the way down. This is why due process is necessary! Also a soul.
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A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death, says Nicholas Kristof.
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death, says Nicholas Kristof.
Pretty telling that when you rightly bring up that making Canada the 51st state is a good way to no longer have Republicans win Presidential elections (a good, IMO), the retort from MAGA involves pogroms.
These just aren’t remotely good people.
These just aren’t remotely good people.
January 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Pretty telling that when you rightly bring up that making Canada the 51st state is a good way to no longer have Republicans win Presidential elections (a good, IMO), the retort from MAGA involves pogroms.
These just aren’t remotely good people.
These just aren’t remotely good people.
I finally deactivated my X accounts. This is where I am now. Feels good.
January 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I finally deactivated my X accounts. This is where I am now. Feels good.
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Trump wants to memory-hole the Jan. 6 siege. Rewriting history to sanitize it, and compelling that its truths be forgotten, is the handiwork of authoritarians. And it shouldn’t come at the expense of the truth — or our memories. My column today:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Don’t Let Trump Whitewash the Truth About Jan. 6
The nation needs to remember the facts of the violent insurrection four years ago despite the president-elect’s attempts to rewrite history.
www.bloomberg.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Trump wants to memory-hole the Jan. 6 siege. Rewriting history to sanitize it, and compelling that its truths be forgotten, is the handiwork of authoritarians. And it shouldn’t come at the expense of the truth — or our memories. My column today:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Be on Santa's nice list by simply conveying what you mean mathematically clearly so we can stop having these PEMDAS arguments.
#math #ITeachMath #EduSky
#math #ITeachMath #EduSky
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Be on Santa's nice list by simply conveying what you mean mathematically clearly so we can stop having these PEMDAS arguments.
#math #ITeachMath #EduSky
#math #ITeachMath #EduSky
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Went up this a.m.: Senate Dems' final report from their 20 month Supreme Court ethics inquiry, which followed @propublica.org reporting on Harlan Crow & Justice Thomas. Mostly a compilation of already known stuff but via subpoena they found 2 more undisclosed things Crow gave Thomas.
nyti.ms/4iPBwGw
nyti.ms/4iPBwGw
Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say (Gift Article)
The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
nyti.ms
December 21, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Went up this a.m.: Senate Dems' final report from their 20 month Supreme Court ethics inquiry, which followed @propublica.org reporting on Harlan Crow & Justice Thomas. Mostly a compilation of already known stuff but via subpoena they found 2 more undisclosed things Crow gave Thomas.
nyti.ms/4iPBwGw
nyti.ms/4iPBwGw
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Media organizations are bending the knee to Trump. That shit is going to backfire, and it's going to backfire spectacularly.
A prediction from me in @niemanlab.org:
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
A prediction from me in @niemanlab.org:
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
Media’s acquiescence to Trump will fail
"There’s no evidence that moving to a both-sidesy middle will bring in new readers, and plenty of evidence it won’t."
www.niemanlab.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Media organizations are bending the knee to Trump. That shit is going to backfire, and it's going to backfire spectacularly.
A prediction from me in @niemanlab.org:
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
A prediction from me in @niemanlab.org:
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
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What I thought would kill me, by age:
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
December 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
What I thought would kill me, by age:
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
“You know, he’s probably a rapist, and he’s definitely a white collar criminal who stole state secrets, but eggs are too high!”
I hope your egg prices triple.
I hope your egg prices triple.
November 27, 2024 at 12:25 AM
“You know, he’s probably a rapist, and he’s definitely a white collar criminal who stole state secrets, but eggs are too high!”
I hope your egg prices triple.
I hope your egg prices triple.
Is “Wicked” merely the latest attempt in American culture to rehabilitate villainous characters, following in the footsteps of “Maleficent” and the 2024 Presidential election?
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Is “Wicked” merely the latest attempt in American culture to rehabilitate villainous characters, following in the footsteps of “Maleficent” and the 2024 Presidential election?
Great, now I have Missy Elliott’s “Work It” stuck in my head because I told Melissa how I used to teach perpendicular lines on a coordinate plane.
🎼“I put my thing down flip it and reverse it. And then I work it.”🎵
🎼“I put my thing down flip it and reverse it. And then I work it.”🎵
November 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Great, now I have Missy Elliott’s “Work It” stuck in my head because I told Melissa how I used to teach perpendicular lines on a coordinate plane.
🎼“I put my thing down flip it and reverse it. And then I work it.”🎵
🎼“I put my thing down flip it and reverse it. And then I work it.”🎵
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After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM
After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
So, do the bathroom stalls in the US Capitol building just not have stall doors? Why is Nancy Mace so fixated here?
November 21, 2024 at 12:36 AM
So, do the bathroom stalls in the US Capitol building just not have stall doors? Why is Nancy Mace so fixated here?
Say what you will about wearing my very 90s looking wired headphones around, but I realize that with them, I don’t have senior moments where I think Iris just ran off with my phone when it’s still in my pocket. The phone is tethered to my body at the head - easy!
November 21, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Say what you will about wearing my very 90s looking wired headphones around, but I realize that with them, I don’t have senior moments where I think Iris just ran off with my phone when it’s still in my pocket. The phone is tethered to my body at the head - easy!
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X: Blocked people can read your tweets
Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting
Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting
November 18, 2024 at 8:12 AM
X: Blocked people can read your tweets
Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting
Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting
Like X, but with fewer sociopaths!
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Like X, but with fewer sociopaths!
Exchanges like this are perhaps the only reason I haven’t just nixed my X account altogether.
November 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Exchanges like this are perhaps the only reason I haven’t just nixed my X account altogether.
@resolvereviews.bsky.social I just got the QC Ultras on your advice. Needed something very isolating that is still good for me, and my daughter to use sometimes.
(Not sure why their ads always look like the wearer is perhaps having an orgasm though. I have yet to have this experience with them.)
(Not sure why their ads always look like the wearer is perhaps having an orgasm though. I have yet to have this experience with them.)
November 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM
@resolvereviews.bsky.social I just got the QC Ultras on your advice. Needed something very isolating that is still good for me, and my daughter to use sometimes.
(Not sure why their ads always look like the wearer is perhaps having an orgasm though. I have yet to have this experience with them.)
(Not sure why their ads always look like the wearer is perhaps having an orgasm though. I have yet to have this experience with them.)
MAHA? Irony is truly dead.
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
MAHA? Irony is truly dead.
@ImaneKhelif I understand @libsoftiktok may have been in Portugal when she posted some of her libel about you. Sue accordingly.
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
@ImaneKhelif I understand @libsoftiktok may have been in Portugal when she posted some of her libel about you. Sue accordingly.
@MarkBurnettTV has a moral obligation to release Trump’s n-word tape, if it still exists.
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
@MarkBurnettTV has a moral obligation to release Trump’s n-word tape, if it still exists.