https://twitter.com/VirgilKalimir/status/1346763903909429249?s=20
Joe Manchin gets to play for SERIOUS stakes now. WV is going to be swimming in money.
Virgil “no more posting 2021” Kalimir (@VirgilKalimir) Tweeted: @dblue916 @Kwatts7304 @Redistrict I mean maybe, but manchin basically has veto power on anything the democrats do
After we’re done partying, can we PLEASE reapportion the House? For practical reasons, even. Gerrymandering gives rise to political extremists in safe seats. Reapportionment will make that harder, I think/hope.
The clock is ticking.
(Also, the Republican party is not collapsing. They’ll be back soon.)
«Democrats haven’t really gained ground in North Carolina in 12 years. And their inability to make gains there is a great illustration of why demographics are not destiny in American politics.»
Grrreeeaat.
«“The divide in the party is whether it’s appropriate to pull the pin on an electoral college grenade, hoping that there are enough responsible people standing around who can shove it back in before they detonate American democracy.”»
Oh, boom. Such boom. (Future you: Google Jason Kander. (Future Jason: do it. What’s the worst that could happen?))
Colleen (@Coll3enG) Tweeted:
men will literally run for president instead of going to therapy https://twitter.com/Coll3enG/status/1345584760576483329?s=20
Jason Kander (@JasonKander) Tweeted: I very nearly did this exact thing.
https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/1346302303951876096?s=20
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206280031552454656.html
Truly, a watershed president. And not in a good way.
https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1345524258177478656?s=20
«Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.»
https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1345374451345534977?s=20
«Employees say that under Mr. Thompson, an accountant by training and a former chief financial officer, every part of the business was examined for cost savings and common security practices were eschewed because of their expense. His approach helped almost triple SolarWinds’ annual profit margins to more than $453 million in 2019 from $152 million in 2010.»
«Ian Thornton-Trump, a former cybersecurity adviser at SolarWinds, said he warned management that year [2017] that unless it took a more proactive approach to its internal security, a cybersecurity episode would be “catastrophic.” After his basic recommendations were ignored, Mr. Thornton-Trump left the company.»
Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) Tweeted: «“SolarWinds moved much of its engineering to satellite offices in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Belarus, were engineers had broad access to the Orion network management software that Russia’s agents compromised.”
Seriously, I can’t.»
On the celebration of firefighting instead of fire prevention (via @martinfowler):
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1340524584886444035?s=20
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1340531173143896065?s=20
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) Tweeted:
<CTO> I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to get my folks to even WANT to stop firefighting all the time.
<me> what kinds of things get them praise and recognition, or the admiration of their peers?
<CTO> :badpokerface:
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) Tweeted: It is a rare leadership team that has the discipline to celebrate the team that brought avg deploy lead time down from 5h to 15min — thereby preventing 80% of outages and cutting recovery time in half — instead of the person who was getting paged all night with a scary bug.
https://twitter.com/LynzforCongress/status/1345088924952240128?s=20
Last tweet of a thread on Josh Hawley, currently a Republican senator. I think the American Experiment could seriously turn out to be a failure if we don’t pay attention.
Lindsey Simmons (@LynzforCongress) Tweeted: He will be an effective autocrat in the way Trump never could. Beating him requires spending the next four years community building across America—working as hard as we can to share the message that 2024 isn’t about left versus right—it’s about a democracy or a dictatorship.
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