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Ryan Grim Profile picture
@ryangrim
Sep 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Obama taking a full month to nominate Garland was such an Obama move all around
My argument at the time was he should appoint himself and give them a chance to vote him out of the White House and on to the court.
No law against it. I wasn’t really being serious, though the idea had some merit. If they refused to hold hearings it might piss off enough partisan Obama supporters that they’d have bothered to vote
Would have been a hilarious Rose Garden ceremony, he could talk about how humbled he was, how he never expected this

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Jul 5
I could not possibly be filled with more rage after seeing Texas Republicans blame the National Weather Service forecast for the unspeakable tragedy that hit the girls camp.

You were warned this would happen if you fired everyone!
You actively chose to fire as many scientists working for the federal government as possible and have even taken weather balloons out of the sky. These were people who dedicated their lives to this stuff and you fired them so you could do tax cuts.

You do not now get to complain that weather forecasts are off.

Please go find these girls and rehire these scientists.
It can’t be known at this time what the specific effect of the cuts was. What can be known is that nobody who supported all the firings gets to complain about the performance of an agency they torched. And stop letting people build in known danger zones.
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Jan 25
This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange they will develop a tech industry that makes the U.S. dominant for a century.

They did the first part, then built monopolies to try to keep out competition rather than continue to innovate at a top level, and then got out-competed by Chinese companies in both AI and social media. They are the losers we always thought they were — and now so are we.
Now they’re gonna spend $500B gobbling up energy in Texas to build a product China is making for $5B and giving away basically free. Lemme know how that goes.

Meanwhile the Texas grid breaks when it gets cold.
U.S. tech oligarchs and the actual president of the United States spending time and energy doing crypto nonsense while China releases an AI that kicks our ass is such a perfect metaphor while also being literally what’s happening
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Dec 26, 2024
IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was “combat propaganda.”

The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists because you don’t like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately
So the @nytimes can drop the he said/she said pretense here since both sides acknowledge they were indeed working as journalists Image
@nytimes For the prosecutors, here’s the confession
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Dec 2, 2024
🚨Major investigation just dropped at @DropSiteNews in partnership with a consortium of independent European news outlets. A major player in global journalism is primarily bankrolled by the U.S. State Department, we can reveal. Story to follow in next post: Image
Read it here

As @rafat notes, there are still some outlets doing strong print journalism dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budget…
More here
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Aug 29, 2024
🚨 Today at @DropSiteNews--in collaboration w/TI Brasil--we're publishing text messages sent by the US-backed attorney general, a rise star celebrated in Time magazine by Samantha Power, that show her using the powers of her office to undermine the party of Rafael Correa /1 Image
For instance, in one message sent to Ronny Aleaga, who says he had an "intimate relationship" with Salazar despite being political adversaries, she says she is delaying the prosecution of a right-wing official so as not to help the left in the elections dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left…
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The full story, with @jlosc9, is here dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left…
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Aug 7, 2024
Fun 🧵on the power of reporting:

Back in the summer of 2018, Minnesota AG Lori Swanson was surging toward the nomination for governor, polling well ahead of Tim Walz and another candidate.

@rmc031 was spending the summer there and picked up on a scandal the MN press had failed to uncover
The short version is Swanson for years had been deploying her govt staff for campaign and personal stuff. It was a really hard story to nail down and to write in a way that got across what a true scandal it was. She pulled it off, the MN press picked up on it, Swanson flailed and flamed out
Walz surged into the lead, won the nomination, became governor, and the rest you saw today theintercept.com/2018/08/06/lor…
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