https://twitter.com/beeeeeers/status/1358141547057848320?s=20
Data viz. Such fun!
Andrew Beers (@beeeeeers) Tweeted: Here’s a thread on this graph I made, which has been bouncing around Twitter a bit. Broadly, it shows the connections between “influential” Twitter accounts during the election. But it’s always more complicated than that with networks! Here’s some insights you might be missing. https://t.co/OSpxS2aR7c
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) Tweeted: Employment Division v. Smith is effectively dead. The five ultraconservative justices have established a new rule that if a law exempts ANY secular business or activity, it MUST exempt churches and religious exercise. This has huge ramifications for claims of “religious liberty.”
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1358113320025419776?s=20
Nice job, Republicans. You have made “churches” havens for America’s worst people. And you wonder why church attendance is declining.
This seems appropriate:
And the LORD said to me: The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
Jeremiah 14:14 (NRSV)
dinosaur (@dinoman_j) Tweeted: https://t.co/499enxLhpS https://twitter.com/dinoman_j/status/1358049815909785600?s=20
«The fact that country music is doing more to hold people accountable than the Republican Party illustrates how far off-course the GOP has gone.»
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1357909862663995393?s=20
Middle of a good thread. Would be nice if this was an existential crisis for Fox News.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) Tweeted: 7/ defending Trump was more important than the public company’s responsibility to its investors. No idea. But there’s a big story to tell. Maybe you think I’m exaggerating. Their situation isn’t that bad. Don’t bet on it. When you summarily cancel your channels highest rated …
It’s The Hill opinion page, but:
«President Biden has acted quickly and decisively with executive orders to protect the environment. It is hard to imagine that the candidate who ran as a moderate would have been so aggressive as president without the fervid and unrelenting advocacy of AOC and other progressives.»
Nice to read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/supreme-court-california-church-coronavirus.html
Pretty sure we’ll be back here in a human lifetime.
«“In the worst public health crisis in a century,” Justice Kagan wrote, “this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well.”»
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/05/gavin-newsom-recall-donors-466069
Senator Dianne Feinstein is 87 years old.
Truly, I need this.
