what a year this last half hour has been
Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸
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Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
- I imagine all the closures and cancellations give people a sense of ominousness. But it's really an amazing act of social solidarity: We're sacrificing so we can give nurses, doctors and hospitals a fighting chance. Start from there and hopefully we can figure out the rest.
- in some happier dimension, this would be an Onion headlineMitt Romney goes into self-quarantine after exposure to Rand Paul trib.al/xsUtoJg
- free speech means it’s okay when the boss leaks employees’ emails to reporters but it’s bad when employees do it to the bossNEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:
- Okay imagine all this, except you’re on Mars and there’s a limited amount of oxygen.
- they call us millennials because we’ve been alive for a thousand years
- We’re in one of the worst economic disasters in American history amid a global pandemic, people are revolting against the police, the U.S. president is trying to bring social media companies to heel and has just threatened to shoot looters. What else can we pile on top of this
- 1. My train to the inauguration; 2. My train to the Women's March — or it was supposed to be, but it was too full for me to get on.
- Everything I read today is worse than the stuff I’ve already read. I don’t know how anybody is getting any work done right now.
- Twitter is rotting my brain from the inside yet it feels like the only thing fast enough to track the massive changes happening in the culture on an hourly basis.
- The coronavirus story will also become a health-insurance story in America. This guy went to China, caught the flu, came back, did the responsible thing and reported himself for possible coronavirus — but tested negative and now might have to pay $1,400+.
- I have never in my life seen a police officer beat a pallbearer, which is something you can clearly see happen in this video.Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to X. Learn more
- friends leaking from the group chat to the New York Times is the highest, finest form of betrayal and frankly I don’t know why people don’t do it more often
- Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing. act.nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/g…
