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6 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Like Naomi, I am furious reading about how degraded the level of care to which Tokitae's new "owners" have descended.

Does this look like a face that deserves to be fed rotten fish?
Palace Entertainment, a company which had zero previous experience in the care of marine mammals, purchased the Seaquarium in 2014. It has been clear from the start they were in over their heads when it came to caring for a killer whale in the tiniest tank in North America.
Here's some video footage from 2015. Listen to the spiel. See, the oceans are scary places, so they need to keep her safe in her tank in Miami!
Fact: No matter how precarious conditions might get, she would not have to eat rotten fish if she were in a seapen in the scary ocean.
It has now been 51 years that Toki -- who is the last surviving SRKW in captivity -- has been imprisoned in this hunk of crappy, crumbling concrete, performing tricks for visitors. Alone, with only dolphins for company. Time to listen to the Lummi people and return her home.

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1 Oct
Actually, Glenn, every journalist worth his salt assesses the credibility of his interviewees. The fact that you refuse to do so in this case really is more of a reflection of what a crappy poseur of a journalist you have become. A thread. 1/
First of all, the person to whom you are tethering your credibility, @DarrenJBeattie, is not a journalist in any real sense of the word. He is a far-right provocateur/propagandist who posed for years as a kind of alt-right pseudo-intellectual academic. /2
Beattie's best-known appearance prior to his current career was in a bizarre Ben Garrison cartoon, sitting on his giant brain while Jonah Goldberg wipes his shoes.

Many of us agree that Beattie sits on his brain, but not in the way Garrison depicts. /3
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3 Sep
Well, I am home safe now, but the end of my trip to New York this week ended, um, adventurously.

I had never been stuck on a tarmac during a tropical storm, concerned that the winds might tip our jet over, before.
We were scheduled to fly out of JFK to Seattle at about 6 pm, but a crew member reported sick, so we had to wait two hours for her replacement to arrive. By the time we boarded it was 8 pm and the remnants of Hurricane Ida were hitting the city.
Most of you have seen the results.
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12 Aug
I am heartbroken to learn tonight of the death of my friend Mike Finnigan.
If you have listened to Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland,” you’re familiar with Mike’s work. His interplay on the Hammond with Hendrix on “Rainy Day, Dream Away/Still Raining, Still Dreaming” is … legendary.

In recent years, he’s been a key part of Bonnie Raitt’s incredible band.

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30 Jul
I am very sad tonight. It seems that K21 Cappuccino—the Southern Resident orca whose image serves as my avatar—has passed away, in a badly emaciated state, this afternoon.
Here’s the grim story. When whales reach this stage, they pass away within hours.

facebook.com/578069120/post…
Here’s a screenshot.
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25 Jun
Good to see that our fearless free-speech warriors are now siding with the people who are trying ban teachers from teaching kids about racism and its history.
BTW, guys, it's pretty hard to debate people who believe you are part of a massive Marxist conspiracy and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever dissuade them. If @ggreenwald and @mtracey want to give it a shot, they can be our guests.
The attack on CRT, particularly the legislation to banish any vestige of the idea from our schools, is the most serious threat to free speech we face right now. This, Glenn, is genuine censorship imposed by the state. And you don't care.

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14 May
Yesterday's House Oversight hearing on the insurrection was significant in the way it demonstrated that the Republican Party is fully in the grip of the antidemocratic/ authoritarian/counterfactual insanity of Trumpism after Jan. 6. A video thread of the clown parade. 1/
The most obvious gaslighter was Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia: "Let’s be honest with the American people: It was not an insurrection, and we cannot call it that and be truthful." Followed by two definitions of "insurrection" that match the events of Jan. 6 perfectly. /2
Clyde later said: 'You know, but the only insurrection I’ve witnessed in my lifetime was the one conducted by the FBI with participants from the DOJ and other agencies under the banner “Russia Russia Russia.”' Which, regardless how you felt, was nothing like an insurrection./3
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