Abulsme.com: April 2019

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-10 (UTC)

03:20:47 What a dick. But we knew that. https://t.co/RfpwGNXC76
13:55:26 Retweeted @BBCBreaking 13:08:57 This is the first ever photo of a black hole, unveiled today after a decade of work by scientists https://t.co/6mFoo6ktyc https://t.co/0nD8R5mVeQ
13:56:58 Retweeted @emulenews 13:34:05 #EHTBlackHole M87* Schwarzschild radius subtends 3.9вЂ“7.3 Ојas. The shadow (black region in the center of the image) has a diameter of 19вЂ“38 Ојas. More info in “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole” https://t.co/tOFYMXC5cC https://t.co/xcO7usRG2y
15:05:27 Listening to The President’s Inbox NATO Turns Seventy, With Ivo H. Daalder https://t.co/g2b2ckGJmA
17:12:41 Retweeted @NumbersMuncher 13:11:14 Scientists have just released the first known pictures of an actual black hole. The gravity is so strong that no treats can escape, and it sucks people in from long distances to give belly rubs. #EHTBlackHole https://t.co/GijUUVH6Pb
18:47:39 Retweeted @TamyEmmaPepin 16:27:59 Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press.Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) <symbol><symbol>☄️ https://t.co/wcPhB6E5qK
21:46:46 Retweeted @Alex_Parker 20:09:17 Just for fun, let’s compare the pixel scale of the Hubble Space Telescope’s WFC3 camera with the Event Horizon Telescope image released today. #enhance https://t.co/DUuhU1xs7y in reply to Alex_Parker
23:15:35 Now the fun begins. https://t.co/wgf0v0w07s

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-09 (UTC)

02:02:33 Retweeted @steve_vladeck 2019-04-08 21:27:48 “You’re fired from the senior government position to which I appointed you.””Why?”
“Because you’re apparently next in line to be Acting Secretary, but I already named someone else to that post. So I need to fire you so that it doesn’t look like I didn’t know what I was doing.” https://t.co/qHb5JENcXB
03:34:27 Retweeted @WotDpod 01:30:37 Today’s episode of featured Wiki of the Day is on the article Planet Nine.Listen to the new episode here: https://t.co/XgSAja40Zt
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04:56:10 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 2019-04-08 22:27:57 Oh does that make someone a flight risk? *makes a note* https://t.co/IeVNin519w
07:23:18 Retweeted @carolynporco 07:00:00 Another fascinating fact, brought to me by Twitter… https://t.co/0w86ENMJzQ
17:33:16 Retweeted @KBeds 13:21:40 Irony’s not lost on me that I’m sharing this on Twitter, but I’m just going to leave this right here anyway. So important for Dems to remember. https://t.co/p8V5vzDPgK
19:49:45 Given the situation and the fact that the cabinet was appointed by the President, two is still a lot. Any number over zero is a lot. https://t.co/17CfLi9LiJ
19:54:53 Retweeted @blkahn 17:10:18 “The fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for development of solar panels is quote, unquote socialist is bad faith, it’s incorrect” –@AOC once again cutting through the noise https://t.co/QmEovKSjqp
21:17:14 Retweeted @SherylNYT 19:48:14 NEW: Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns by Monday. He’s now a millionaire. вЂњI wrote a best-selling book,вЂќ he told me. вЂњIf you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.вЂќ
https://t.co/yI0NE1R9gW
21:23:26 Retweeted @TukwilaPD 15:43:04 Traffic camera footage captured the moment the power lines fell and a vehicle being struck by a pole. We are grateful that the occupants of the vehicle survived and suffered only minor injuries and that no one else was injured. https://t.co/dhXgcHYjdk
21:30:16 Retweeted @DrewLinzer 20:45:50 Something new and exciting today at https://t.co/Hf5fwNSovn. We’re starting to release the results of our @Civiqs polling by STATE + demographics + time.For example, here’s Trump job approval in every state among whites with and without a college degree. https://t.co/j8UMiQupUv https://t.co/gTNxBufOQX
23:32:03 Retweeted @girlsreallyrule 22:55:21 The Southern Strategy @RealCandaceO claimed was made-up was VERY real. This details how brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater created a way for Republicans to win the racist vote without sounding racist themselves.Warning: it’s explicit and offensive. https://t.co/RIenj0XxiI

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Penguins Taking Flight

This Week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan cover Mayor Pete, Avenatti, Assange, Brexit, accusations that Obama spied on Trump’s campaign, the Democrats not being aggressive enough on investigations, bad sleep habits, and a book Sam read. Oh, and Alex contributes a song.

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@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-08 (UTC)

01:13:53 @AdrianWells20 538 gives them a B+. In general my philosophy is look at them all, average them, and see what comes out. Of course, in these early days when there are very few polls out, there is less to average. :-) https://t.co/9HCBAfUvVK in reply to AdrianWells20
03:29:13 Retweeted @HaroldItz 2019-04-07 22:31:42 If this were a TWILIGHT ZONE episode, Kirstjen Nielsen would wake up in a small cage with Latin American children on the outside watching her.
03:51:05 Thread https://t.co/FLMpUErE6Q
03:51:52 Retweeted @ClaraJeffery 03:45:49 What an utter shitshow https://t.co/gR6KvrqYaM https://t.co/P2mOAJ96OO
04:04:49 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 01:44:28 Why I think people have been too quick to declare that the institutions won and the threat Trump poses to democratic norms has been neutered https://t.co/uOqms8zagY
06:27:31 Retweeted @jkarsh 05:51:59 Not to pick on this guy in particular, because you can throw a rock and hit tweets like this, but I am genuinely surprised at the borderline desperation some have for a white dude to run a campaign specifically targeted to white dudes. It’s amazing. https://t.co/TI73dZcuJT
06:36:18 Retweeted @upsidedwnworld 05:41:39 @jmt5050 @Bravewriting There are way more people who didn’t vote than there are Trump voters. We will get much further doing get out the vote work with them than by wasting time with people who are so fundamentally deficient that no one even respects them enough to expect basic human decency from. in reply to jmt5050
06:41:22 Retweeted @llegaspacheco 2019-03-30 00:14:43 вЂњThis is fineвЂќ https://t.co/N1rQFI8UPf
06:49:44 Retweeted @MrDane1982 05:07:27 Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, get yourself a small production team, create a YouTube station. Every Sunday do your own interview. Pick the journalist of your choice who you want to interview you on your own platform.
07:46:44 Retweeted @JamColley 04:46:52 I’ve accidentally set up push notifications for the BBC science magazine and it’s like being followed about by an inquisitive but annoying child https://t.co/xVgCR5ivdo
13:47:51 Retweeted @natsecHeather 12:30:10 Good Monday morning. You owe it to yourself to catch up on popular pro-democracy uprisings in Sudan and Algeria. No one has told tens of thousands risking their lives day after day that democracy is passe. https://t.co/tvS5jtz8u7
14:11:56 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 14:05:03 Breaking on @MSNBC: NBC’s @JuliaEAinsley is reporting that Trump has “for months now” urged his admin to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House.
18:29:35 Retweeted @GeoffRBennett 17:51:08 !!! DHS leadership vacuum: no confirmed secretary, no dep. secretary, no Secret Service chief, no head of FEMA, no head of ICE, no head of science & technology branch, no head of policy branch, no Inspector General & no CPB commissioner once McAleenan moves over- h/t @DafnaLinzer
18:33:28 Retweeted @AP 18:25:58 Actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the spiritual leader of a cult-like upstate New York group. https://t.co/FSmUSNzvwB
19:05:25 MeanwhileвЂ¦ https://t.co/I4K6oWWMqY
19:39:53 Retweeted @sarahjeong 19:37:38 fjdkaf;jdksffdklas;jkfdsla; https://t.co/SR5Q9jg4q0
20:16:13 Retweeted @lrozen 20:06:08 it is almost like the Trump admin wants the border crisis to get worse and have no one in place to handle it. https://t.co/aWf98wxwJr
20:27:07 Retweeted @ElizLanders 19:42:03 A source provides USSS director Alles’ internal memo to the Secret Service: вЂњNo doubt you have seen media reports regarding my вЂfiring.’ I assure you that this is not the case…вЂќ https://t.co/qle5Il5FGR
20:29:53 Retweeted @dandrezner 18:04:43 When I see senior administration officials saying, “There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation’s second-largest national security agency” I get very uncomfortable. https://t.co/SP7aAoX5ap
21:12:19 Retweeted @JamesGleick 21:11:16 Just one more Article of Impeachment. https://t.co/51ksdsCTLo
21:43:11 Retweeted @MrDane1982 20:49:37 I challenge Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Wayne Messam, Andrew Yang, Tim Ryan, Beto O’Rourke, Jay Inslee, John Delaney to stand with the Democratic Presidential WOMEN candidates on getting equal media time
21:54:52 Retweeted @juliaioffe 19:06:13 When I profiled Stephen Miller back in 2016, a person who used to work with him asked for anonymity because вЂњHe’s going to find out that I spoke with you and I’m going to end up in a camp somewhere.вЂќ https://t.co/sGrkbcY5cQ

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-07 (UTC)

01:11:11 Retweeted @CatHallam1 2019-04-06 18:09:03 Today, I simply wanted to renew my passport online. After numerous attempts and changing my clothes several times, this example illustrates why I regularly present on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning bias, equality, diversity and inclusion. #passport https://t.co/sEsmdTcR1L
01:46:45 Retweeted @audreyingtown 01:00:42 Because when you’ve been formally charged with extortion, the smartest thing to do is keep publicly threatening the target of your extortion <symbol><symbol>‍♀️ https://t.co/irA3WrTenE
14:30:47 Retweeted @AryaResists 05:16:50 I am seeing well meaning people say that @ewarren shouldn’t be President *because* she is so effective at policy making in the Senate.So when a woman is skilled at what she does, she shouldn’t be given a chance to see if she can do an even more difficult job?
14:40:32 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 11:15:26 I see that a lot of people are claiming Trump was “only” referring to MS-13 members with the “animals” remark that’s now making the rounds again.Come on. Do you really not know how Trump’s dehumanization game works at this point?
Here’s a refresher:

https://t.co/A3FwNoyPSR
14:46:47 Retweeted @Marmel 06:49:17 Not a single female POTUS candidate on any of the “big three” #SundayMorning shows..
NOT ONE.
ABC: Andrew Yang
NBC: Pete Buttigieg (again)
CBS: Tim Ryan, for Chrissake.
I guess Warren, Harris, Klobuchar, Gillenbrand weren’t available?
“You forgot Tulsi”
No I didn’t. https://t.co/HVDrj0ZsFk
14:47:07 Retweeted @VABVOX 13:23:15 Gillibrand speaks fluent Manadarin but can’t make the cut for any of the Sunday morning shows.
Every one has a male candidate.
Again.
#Campaign2020 https://t.co/PzmWE7aysU
14:49:24 Retweeted @ggreeneva 13:51:49 Pop quiz:
What do the Democratic candidates/potential entrants appearing on this week’s Sunday shows have in common? https://t.co/Sa9siGaYCk
18:49:12 Retweeted @komonews 18:48:15 The Washington state Democratic Party has announced it will use the state’s 2020 presidential primary to allocate delegates to candidates instead of the precinct caucuses it has used in previous years.https://t.co/bWBTyHtPAT
19:07:30 Curmudgeon’s Corner: It’s a Monkey, OK? https://t.co/tPmo806MGc https://t.co/QTTzUuavyH
20:13:06 Retweeted @dakami 09:55:44 Well, shit. https://t.co/c0g1gycolV
20:20:26 Listening to The Thrilling Adventure Hour Treasury TREASURY CH5 “This Cockamamie Future” https://t.co/sPHuhq5DwX
21:31:05 Retweeted @riotwomennn 03:21:19 Rumor: there’s a fight to the death going on between Bernie Sanders and VP Joe Biden’s teamsMeanwhile … https://t.co/8R8MDTSXvj
21:45:05 @ForecasterEnten @EmersonPolling The consistency of Biden doing better than other Dems against Trump in state GE polls has been striking. Presumably mostly name recognition & very early, butвЂ¦ The only state where that hasn’t been the case on my @ElectionGraphs averages is New Hampshire. https://t.co/Jw8gvcO37O https://t.co/MCm9BLKsZd in reply to ForecasterEnten
21:51:20 @EmersonPolling Any chance of Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, or North Carolina next week? :-) in reply to EmersonPolling
22:17:41 @AdrianWells20 @EmersonPolling Massachusetts actually makes sense from a primary polling perspective since it is a Super Tuesday state. But over at @ElectionGraphs I’m looking at General Election polling and by the metric I use those are the five states that need GE polling the most at the moment. in reply to AdrianWells20
23:15:45 @AdrianWells20 @EmersonPolling @ElectionGraphs Almost all state level polling right now is concentrating on the primaries. They just throw some general election questions in for good measure. That will probably be the case until around Super Tuesday. But the GE matchups are still interesting. in reply to AdrianWells20
23:30:40 @AdrianWells20 @EmersonPolling @ElectionGraphs @RalstonReports Yup. Only the one GE poll in Nevada so far. It will be interesting to watch as more come out, as it will be with all the close states. https://t.co/a2WwXRrXBV https://t.co/6UFDRrVRhL in reply to AdrianWells20

@ElecCollPolls tweets from 2019-04-07 (UTC)

21:16:14 Poll Added: Emerson in MA from 2019-04-04 to 2019-04-07 – Warren 63.1% to Trump 36.9% https://t.co/tsTlE3Napw
21:18:03 Poll Added: Emerson in MA from 2019-04-04 to 2019-04-07 – Biden 68.8% to Trump 31.2% https://t.co/1qW8o2m0AW
21:20:28 Poll Added: Emerson in MA from 2019-04-04 to 2019-04-07 – Sanders 63.8% to Trump 36.2% https://t.co/OuBk9euM9u

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-06 (UTC)

01:14:32 Nice! https://t.co/plDNljc6rH
02:23:06 Retweeted @mattyglesias 2019-04-05 19:52:04 I feel like they may as well have just said вЂњfuck you, our appointees have a majority on the Supreme Court so we’re gonna break the law.вЂќ https://t.co/77NghUZXxG
02:26:39 Retweeted @authorlmendez 2019-04-05 17:40:14 Very cool stuff, @ElectionGraphs are the only other ones I know doing something like this. https://t.co/5duKqMVtAO
02:28:57 Retweeted @ShimonPro 02:15:29 The grand jury originally convened for Mueller was back at work today in DC. They met for just over an hour. https://t.co/ucypABaPy5
02:45:04 Retweeted @joshtpm 02:06:05 Okay, I’ve seen this clip RT’d a lot this afternoon. People seem to think it’s Trump saying this yet again today. But this is actually Trump saying this the first time in May 2018. Obviously doesn’t make it less horrible. But there’s some confusion about when this happened. https://t.co/YQA14NipOR
02:54:08 Retweeted @LedPast 02:00:18 578 DAYS TO GO:
2008 Dem: Clinton led by 12.6 points.
2008 GOP: Giuliani led by 12.7 points.
2012 GOP: Romney led by 6.5 points.
2016 Dem: Clinton led by 55.5 points.
2016 GOP: Bush led by 1.2 points.
https://t.co/OLynKLRaJh
03:41:38 Retweeted @Foone 03:37:58 TIMELINE OF EVENTS:December 6th, 2018: @zarawesome tweets a joke about minecraft wasn’t made by anyone, “it came from space”
March 27th, 2019: Most mentions of N*tch are removed from Minecraft.
April 3rd, 2019: Minecraft adds a splash message: “It came from space!” https://t.co/AgdwoOcSbR
19:53:47 Retweeted @JasonLeopold 19:51:25 Stunned by all of the media outlets (especially WaPo and CNN but also NYT and ) who failed to cover this new development especially after these outfits eviscerated us in print and personally attacked me in print following the publication of our story in January abt Trump/Cohen. https://t.co/2WlfZ0POwx
20:17:20 Listening to The New Yorker Radio Hour The Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg on Coming Out: вЂњI Realized I Couldn’t Go On Like That ForeverвЂќ https://t.co/grZfCqwsK5
20:50:29 Listening to Radio Atlantic Sex, Gender, and the Democratic Party https://t.co/yhvkrCObO2

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-05 (UTC)

18:01:54 Retweeted @JenAshleyWright 02:00:37 Jesus dude, she just wanted you to let her download skype. https://t.co/rCq9IoNapQ
18:37:46 Retweeted @drvox 18:34:33 The notion that only one’s conscious intentions matter, morally speaking, is precisely what has allowed guys to ignore, compartmentalize, and justify this kind of shit for so long. https://t.co/kwxMW0F1Ke
19:58:29 Retweeted @kkondik 19:47:25 helpful graphic from Pew about contested presidential conventions — FDR was the last president who was not nominated on the first ballot (1932), Stevenson was last major party nominee (1952) https://t.co/Grt5mSBOA5 https://t.co/7c4fbHCz9g
20:10:47 Retweeted @ErynnBrook 2019-04-04 17:49:20 I’m waiting on kitty ultrasound results and trying to distract myself a little bit so I’d like to tell you a story about something that happened last night, in the hopes that I can process my feelings around it.I met a girl on the train last night.
20:46:15 @DJJudd @dbernstein Isn’t that the, uh, old meaning? As in the original meaning? Where the phrase came from? https://t.co/dHkfXwVRRk in reply to DJJudd
23:24:40 Retweeted @amandalitman 23:21:45 <symbol> https://t.co/gYbKCClJiM https://t.co/KjAJefcqbh
23:27:39 Retweeted @maurachanz 23:15:03 I love seeing parents let their kid express themselves. Yes for the colored hair, the mismatched fashion, etc. They’re not hurting nobody!

@abulsme tweets from 2019-04-04 (UTC)

00:23:57 Retweeted @matthewamiller 2019-04-03 23:39:17 Just noting: a number of Mueller’s team members are leaving or have left the Justice Department. There’s nothing DOJ can do to stop them from talking to Congress.
02:05:02 WTF https://t.co/GCva7D1qTB
02:31:41 Wut? https://t.co/sjZbI7K8X5
02:36:26 Retweeted @KristinFisher 01:20:00 FYI…@AOC is assembling IKEA furniture right now on her IG live https://t.co/hvOjpCmq7w
03:49:12 Retweeted @washingtonpost 03:34:45 The limited information the attorney general has shared about the Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team https://t.co/mrG8JQKNwx
03:52:08 Retweeted @xeni 2019-04-03 20:00:11 When you hear a man apologize for violating women’s boundaries by saying вЂњnorms have changed,вЂќ what he means is he used to be able to get away with this shit
03:53:51 Retweeted @mattyglesias 01:55:30 The weirdest thing about Trump Era journalism is that even though the administration’s habit of constantly lying is widely reported, each *new* statement is treated as presumptively true until debunked.
04:16:26 Retweeted @seattletimes 03:36:01 Updated story: Ethiopian jet followed Boeing safety directions but was defeated by tail forces.The procedure Boeing offered to keep planes safe after Lion Air may have doomed the Ethiopian jet.
A chilling simulator test demonstrates the possibility. https://t.co/OyIsJZ00ri https://t.co/WlcBB8Vf1Q
14:58:37 вЂњUseful idiotsвЂќ https://t.co/BbBPqP7K0W
15:07:59 Interesting. https://t.co/WoH9Ima2DS
17:53:27 Retweeted @2020Delegates 14:17:55 UPDATED DELEGATE GRAPHIC! Here is a color coded chart of when delegates will be allocated in 2020. 42% of pledged delegates will be allocated by Super Tuesday. 71% of pledged delegates will be allocated by March. #ElectionTwitter #Election2020 #FITN #InvisiblePrimary https://t.co/WntQxjmIv9
19:42:10 Listening to The Argument Should Biden Run? https://t.co/15VRiAkwBQ
19:47:58 Retweeted @juliacarriew 14:49:42 I don’t think it’s actually that surprising when you remember that hookup culture panic was about *women* having too much sex while decline of sex panic is about *men* having too little. https://t.co/zIXB6QixEz
19:50:46 Retweeted @daveweigel 19:19:22 No offense to Andrew Yang, but it’s going to be a little hard on the egos of some of the longshot members of Congress running for president when he makes the debates and they don’t.
21:03:20 Fun fun fun. https://t.co/Yyq1VWXHUs
21:28:51 Retweeted @NateSilver538 21:22:54 So, we published an interactive today that basically looks at every probabilistic forecast that FiveThirtyEight has ever made (dating back to 2008).Here’s what we found: When we say 70 percent, it *really does* mean 70 percent. https://t.co/FB89fcLAzF
22:09:50 Retweeted @jbenton 19:07:00 My Quest to Find @voxdotcom‘s New Apple News+ Vertical: A UX Parable in в€ћ Parts(1/в€ћ)

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