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Greg Greene
@ggreeneva
Malcontent strategist, wiseguy, Deep South expat. Past: @PPAct, @TheDemocrats, @NDI, @BlueState. Views my own. Elsewhere: ggreeneva @ 🐘, https://t.co/hXVHGbbtKT @ BlueSky
May 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Funny that he should say this; I was just thinking of how Elmo reminds me of a cross between a son of an apartheid emerald miner and a son of a b— [transmission lost] Image Or we could just say that he reminds one of Henry Ford. thejewishnews.com/2020/07/28/its…
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
French wants proof of a negative—that the ride w/ Neely would have ended with no one hurt. But we _know_ that Penny’s preemptive violence caused a man’s death.

It’s the same sort of moral calculus that justified ‘preemptive warfare’ in Iraq, and it remains just as bankrupt. “No, his WMD program wasn’t nearly as extensive as we thought, but it is fiction to believe his weapons were entirely gone” — right. Same logic: yes, Neely assaulted no one, but it’s fiction to believe that Neely was entirely harmless.

Well, so what? nationalreview.com/corner/iraq-wa…
Mar 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A judge of the Fifth Circuit, a bench filled with brigands who act as a law unto themselves, warning of the rule of law “descending into barbarism.”

Lord, I feel a song coming over me … It’s like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a stiff drink.
Mar 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Do some California Democrats treat the housing crisis principally as an opportunity to arbitrage power and financial support for themselves? No. Of course not. That couldn't be. This is the nonprofit that KDL — already deservedly on the spot for other reasons (more on that in a sec) — took cash from. Just a _really_ savory association for anyone who touches housing policy in Southern California to have.
Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There’s always a seat at the punditry table for writers who code as reasonable among themselves because they’re white, male, and non-combative with folks in their peer circle. Plenty of the rest of us have explained — at length and with citations — why the “abuse” heaped on these obdurately insensate folks is entirely deserved. In the end, though, all that matters is that there’s a club and you’re not in it.
Mar 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
‘Here in Arkansas, only *Latino* and *Latina* children — not Latinx — will work on our chicken scalding and defeathering lines.’

– Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ policy agenda, essentially washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/… At last, red-blooded American Christian leaders are taking the fight to woke ✌️anti child-labor laws✌️. axios.com/local/columbus…
Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I miss F-100s like my grandfather drove — the kind of truck where five cousins and I could ride in the bed, while the hood sat only a couple of inches higher than my folks’ Oldsmobile. (It was the 70s and early ’80s; let me tell you, in Mississippi at the time, kids in a pickup bed were way more common than, say, seatbelts.)
Mar 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“But not me. I’m not like those other liberals. I’m a _cool_ liberal.” (*drags a vape pen*) A post to Twitter published by slow borer Matt Yglesias on M “Hey, young liberal ladies: why so depressed?”
Feb 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
All these haughty debate-society kid motherf––ers whose emotional development froze at 17, and whose peak goal in all discourse is to insist that their right to Just Ask Questions™ must never be challenged. It is _tiresome_ to watch this Lemon Party of pundits do onanistic Lemon Party things, rather than engaging the factual premises of the matters they insist they must Ask Questions about: is gender-affirming care at crisis levels? What _evidence_ is there for the lab leak theory?
Feb 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What Dominion’s lawyers have lifted the curtain on: fraud on the order of the game-show fixing scandals — except masterminded by a whole-*ss ersatz “news” network. nytimes.com/2023/02/27/bus… (With an exceedingly deep level of rot on fresh display, at that.)
Feb 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Proud of the people I know — and all the rest, frankly — who’ve signed their names to this. 🫡 The letter goes into something I _think_ I learned of via Spy magazine, back in the day (thx @KBAndersen): the insistence of Times brass of keeping the word ‘gay’ out of the paper, and the blackballing of Times staff suspected of being queer. An excerpt of a letter to the standards editor of the NYT byA continuation of the letter. This paragraph reads: "N
Feb 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“Intellectual godfather of the anti-woke movement”: sorry, how can one be the “intellectual godfather” of a fundamentally anti-intellectual enterprise? Huh? It’s a bit like calling someone a “high priest of atheism,” or a “buzzsaw-wielding bonsai artist.” The terms, they contradict.
Feb 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I saw a graphic about ‘woke politics’ in a tweet by Ron DeSantis — and it seemed resonant with the word-salad-with-hate-dressing energy of reactionary posters of days gone by: Anyway, I won’t link the tweet, but you can find it if you’re into this sort of thing.*

(* read as “gazing upon right-wing agitprop for masochistic jollies”) An screenshot of an incredibly verbose post to Twitter publiThis is the verbose part of the tweet: an image crammed with
Feb 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s what weakens this column: most EV makers tell motorists to preserve their batteries by usually charging up to 80 or 85%, and recharging before dipping below 10%. For a car w/ 300 mi of range, that allows practical use—in ideal conditions—of 210 mi. nytimes.com/2022/08/27/opi… And of course, in wintry weather — which affects the ability of lithium batteries to discharge efficiently — an EV’s practical range shrinks even further. insideevs.com/news/626577/wi…
Jan 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Rejecting manufacturing jobs that could have revived southside Virginia communities to own the libs: godd*mn, Glenn Youngkin is an even bigger idiot than I recognized. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/… He rejected a *FORD MOTOR* plant over supposed China concerns — a plant that Ford would surely build anyway!

The Republican Party of Virginia should never live this down. And Dems across the state should never let voters forget it. A screenshot of an article ...Another passage from the sa...
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Billionaires versus democracy, alas, doesn’t end just because one election went well. And we should be clear that billionaires versus democracy is a tremendous part of what (*gestures around*) … all this is.
Nov 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Old enough to remember Justice Alito lamenting how the leak of a SCOTUS decision had exposed him to threats.

Hmm. Poor soul. A screenshot of the headline and subhead of an article publi nytimes.com/2022/10/25/us/…
Nov 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Advertisers like seeing their brand names and products nestled alongside the bleats of coup plotters, you see.
Nov 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
No. Elon is proving that the efficient allocation of capital breaks down when wealth becomes concentrated in too few hands — and that the myth of the genius billionaire is just that, a myth. “A revolt by entrepreneurial capital against the professional-managerial class” — oh, so a revolt by bosses against labor? Sheesh, get lost.
Nov 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rarely in the course of human events has wealth so great been set on fire so quickly for so little purpose. To speculate, though: maybe to some — people of a longtermist bent, people who regard their freedom from reproach as key to spreading a population of 10⁴⁵ humans across the Milky Way — “spreading the light of consciousness” requires ridding the discourse of this peanut gallery.
Nov 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Marc, I’ve read your work for 32 years — starting as a U-Va. student proud to live where one could have a crown jewel of U.S. journalism delivered to the steps of their dorm.

But it took me until now to wonder if you’re a complete a––hole. Seriously: Marc, you represent the values of the Washington Post to people who were young like I was, people who like you are part of this mid-Atlantic community — people who may have grown up seeing the Post delivered to their doorsteps.

Shame on you. For shame.