Tim Pierce
what's a man like me supposed to do
with all this extra savoir-faire?
- "Madam Secretary, I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old, and a three-year-old. I have a bullshit detector." this is a *bonkers* clip
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- Reposted by Tim PierceMy approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward: 1. It's plagiarism. 2. Plagiarism is poison. 3. It doesn't even make your writing good. 4. I will catch you if you do it. 5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
- Reposted by Tim Piercethe next time someone says we have to focus on the economy and not the ‘culture war’, tell them to go to fucking Omaha
- Reposted by Tim PierceI think that Republicans really need to start staking out culturally moderate positions
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Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care. - Reposted by Tim Pierceat least tomorrow is friday
- Reposted by Tim Pierce🚨 We’re hearing the crypto-friendly bill that would enable Trump’s corruption could get another Senate vote on Thursday. Democrats can block this bill, but that’s not going to happen unless they hear from a lot of us. Let’s get to work: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
- Reposted by Tim PierceSINNERS is now the biggest Hollywood original movie of any kind at the box office since 2017 when Pixar's COCO came out. To find a live-action movie that made at least $200M domestic, we have to go back much further. This is truly bananas. www.slashfilm.com/1857902/sinn...
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- Reposted by Tim PierceOf all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.
- Reposted by Tim PierceA swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame
- It probably should have been obvious, and I guess it was to some of us, but this seems like the inevitable end point of building an economy around flashy startups whose chief strategy is to sell themselves to a bigger company before they run out of cash.
- Look, I *like* David Hogg and the approach he's taking, but the objections that have been raised here seem on their face to be reasonable concerns about procedure and not retribution.
- I have almost no interest in this ongoing yawn story but I continue to find the media framing about it incredibly curious. "advocated for fishermen, given henna tattoos and won cheer titles" sounds like a high school junior's resume. What are we doing here?
- Reposted by Tim PierceThe worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
- I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Tim PierceImpossible to understate how much Trump II is an elite rebellion against the structures that gave them everything for basically no reason beyond entitlement and boredom, imho.
- Reposted by Tim PierceIn my opinion? Absolutely. Taney brought us the disastrous Dred Scott, but Roberts has delivered horrible rulings on a wide variety of issues — Citizens United, Heller, Shelby County, Brnovich, Dobbs, and of course Trump v US.
- Reposted by Tim Pierceoh wow I wonder if this is something he could have done when the Trump admin condemned 2000 infants a day to a lifelong HIV infection or when he defied a unanimous Supreme Court decision ah well nevertheless
- Reposted by Tim PierceTIL that Andreesen Horowitz, the main VC backer of Substack, hired Daniel Penny whose only notable achievement is that he killed a Blck man on a subway and then was acquitted for it. He’s now an investor. Sounds about white. Substack is going to fuck you over. It’s just a matter of when and how.
- “An airport spokesperson said the plane was painted white rather than the Avelo branding the airline’s planes are normally painted.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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- Reposted by Tim PierceThere was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
- Reposted by Tim PierceThis is true and it’s just that simple. I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.
- Well, that’s one way to get me to quit Facebook entirely.
- This is in direct contradiction to every professional ethics training I have ever had.
- I am also a self-love expert but no one ever offered me to immigrate to their country for *that*
- Reposted by Tim PierceIt ought to be a huge story when a President refuses to affirm his oath to uphold the Constitution. Trump's "I don't know" interview warranted substantial #FrontPage coverage NYT/WaPo/WSJ gave it minimal A1 coverage Local outlets did much better! Our analysis: open.substack.com/pub/mediaand... 1/n
- I have been wondering about the security implications of the Qatari plane bribe. How could the U.S. even effectively vet the plane for surveillance, tampering, or sabotage without essentially dismantling it?
- The grift is bad enough but I spoke to @semaforben.bsky.social @semafor.com about the safety and security implications of Qatar's plane gift to Trump. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
- Reposted by Tim PierceSeeing some of those videos of ICE guys in full soldier of fortune getups with rifles and balaclavas being filmed by 40 year old women in Yoga pants telling them to go fuck themselves and get the fuck out of their city really shows once again that libmoms are America’s most fearless defenders
- Reposted by Tim Piercethis is an extremely good point. as is so often the case the American right is recapitulating and realizing its own conspiracy theories only on its own behalf. They're literally importing people who are already overt Trump superfans in their country of origin.
- Reposted by Tim PierceOver the weekend, the Library of Congress posted this video message Dr. Carla Hayden, whom Donald Trump unjustifiably dismissed as Librarian of Congress, that makes clear how much the nation has lost. Props to whoever put it up. I hope everyone watches it.
- Reposted by Tim PierceTrump will be out of office one day, one way or another, so I'd like to remind everyone who's breaking laws on the assumption that Trump will always be there to protect them and pardon them that the reckoning will come for them all eventually. Sort of a Final Destination film, but with prison time.
- Reposted by Tim PierceFor everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.
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- Reposted by Tim PierceThe story the City of Worcester and the Worcester Police Department are telling about May 8 on Eureka Street has huge holes.
- Reposted by Tim PierceI’m so glad papers like the Berkshire Eagle still exist. this reporter covered every detail of these arrests, including quashing a rumor that the building’s maintainance guy called ICE on these men (he didn’t). support your local journalists!
- Reposted by Tim PierceThis thread illustrates the obvious, serious and almost certainly intentional problems created when our government allows federal agents to dress like anonymous kidnappers.
