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27 Feb, 7 tweets, 8 min read
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab That's nice. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is failing to capture simple webpages. Consider this one, for example.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364973…

It's a simple thread unroll from Thread Reader App. Now take a look at what happened when I saved it.

web.archive.org/web/*/https://…

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@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab Supposedly, this page has been saved twice, but when one goes to either of these supposed snapshots of the page, what one sees is this ...
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab "Hrm.
The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

This page is available on the web!
Help make the Wayback Machine more complete!"

Nothing has been saved at all.
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab This issue has been reported by other people for a few years, now. I'm not going to ask you for an apology or any handholding. I'm just asking you to please do better, going forward, because this represents a breakdown of the most basic function of your site.
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab If the Internet Archive went away, that would be a huge problem and a huge loss for a lot of people, but you can't expect people to go on using broken software, indefinitely. They won't do it.
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab Who would?
@internetarchive @TVNewsArchive @tracey_pooh @gitlab threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365530…

Archived copy:

archive.is/24ZKH

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@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW Other cities don't get to set their own laws, completely independent of the workings of the legislatures of the states.
@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW What you seen to be saying, Mr. Fowler, is that Washington should get a political privilege larger cities don't - having two senators - so it will go on enjoying another privilege those cities don't (the level of autonomy enjoyed by a state).
@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW What we're saying is that politically speaking, the city of Washington doesn't get to eat its cake and have it, too. If it wants to be represented in Congress, like the other cities, it has to be subject to the rule of a state legislature, like the other cities.
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27 Feb
@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW No, he was given a specious argument, not a reason. This is the reality of politics: any given segment of an electorate won't get everything it wants. It has to compromise with the rest of the electorate.
@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW What you're saying is that if the city of Washington becomes part of a pre-existing state, it will lose some of its autonomy.

Yes, it will. So what? The city of Chicago loses some of its autonomy by being part of Illinois. Should we get two senators, too?
@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW While we're at it, having made Chicago into its own state, we might notice that north side politics doesn't look much like south side politics and so, applying what seems to be your proposed principle, we'd have to split Chicago into more than one state.
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@claire9219 @twCyborg @BW Except there's a good reason for enhancing the political power of large, sparsely populated regions like Wyoming. If this was not done, the more populous states would be able to use the less populous ones as colonies, to be used and abused.
@claire9219 @twCyborg @BW This is not a grim hypothetical situation, either. Something very similar has already been seen to happen at the state level, when there is proportional representation.
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@TexasFirefight3 @Lauren32486 @la_rockestrella @USMarshalsHQ Calm down, Tex. The US Marshals are not going to come riding in to help you overthrow President Biden. If you have enough of a death wish to go on that foolish crusade, you're on your own.
@TexasFirefight3 @Lauren32486 @la_rockestrella @USMarshalsHQ Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in March, because at the time, that was when presidents were sworn into office. January 20 didn't become the date for that until 1933.
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@PersianChickk @john_sipher Please, just stop.



The US Marshalls were doing a "this day in history" tweet, because the history that happened on this day was history that their office played a role in. They got President Lincoln into Washington, safely.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Any claim that tweet is support for any sort of insurrection is anachronistic for reasons that the office cites.



March 4 was the old inauguration day. Lincoln was sworn in on schedule. The schedule just changed in 1933, 72 years after Lincoln's election.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Let's confirm that. Here's the amendment

constitution.congress.gov/constitution/a…

and on this page

archives.gov/founding-docs/…

we can find the date it was passed: 23 January 1933. So, almost 72 years after Lincoln's inauguration. Just a few weeks short.
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@JohnDellaporta @stoolpresidente @barstoolsports This is even better, and please pass it along ... I archived it.



archive.is/fMyLP

Not sure why the replies don't show up in the Webpage Archive, but there it is, his tweet.
@JohnDellaporta @stoolpresidente @barstoolsports I hope people will know to add these to the evidence they pass along.

Also, if Portnoy decides to get his tweets blocked from the Internet Archive, he will run into the fact that destroyed evidence is legally presumed detrimental to the party destroying it.
@JohnDellaporta @stoolpresidente @barstoolsports Here's an archived copy of a tweet I just posted in reply to his



and another copy in a different archive.

archive.is/QqbXJ

The beauty of this is that Dave's tweet shows up in the archive of my tweet.
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