@benpiggot

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Software Developer interested in a bunch of other things
Ishaan Tharoor on Twitter

“None of this garbage that's destroying this site needs to be happening. It's like the Brexit of Big Tech. We live in an age of gigantic unforced errors provoked by vain, foolhardy men with too much power.”

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RT @ddayen
If you think you might need a discharge petition for raising the debt limit, the best time to start that process, which takes about 4 months procedurally, is today.
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/09/house-rules-debt-discharge-petition/
House Rules Package Gives Democrats a Path to Averting a Debt Ceiling Crisis

Republicans preserved the discharge petition in the new rules package, allowing any bill with 218 votes to come to the floor — even one codifying Roe v. Wade.

The Intercept

Hamline University continues to dig a deeper hole. Its president's newest statement once again casts the university as combatting "harm" and complains about the “purported stand-off between academic freedom and equity." Hamline is the one who has been putting the two at odds!

Also of note: She claims it's a "privileged reaction" to cite academic freedom in criticism of their nonrenewal of an adjunct professor. As @adamsteinbaugh notes, her annual salary is...$500k.

Life comes at you fast.

Reminder that nearly all of the laws keeping the government open ended up needing Democratic votes even when Republicans were in charge. A lot of the McCarthy holdouts have lost omnibus fight after omnibus fight because they haven’t had anywhere close to 218 to block them.
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RT @steventdennis
The Paul Ryan/Nancy Pelosi governing coalition holds easily.

Pelosi shows once again her votes are crucial to keeping govt open.

#Omnibus
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/677861595779698689

Steven Dennis on Twitter

“The Paul Ryan/Nancy Pelosi governing coalition holds easily. Pelosi shows once again her votes are crucial to keeping govt open. #Omnibus”

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Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/04/witter-leak-emails-handles/
Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter's system for verifying account ownership.

The Washington Post
apparently his vital signs are stable now, but he is intubated and I think it a medically induced coma.

I'm seeing people comparing Hamlin to Eriksen, but unfortunately I think it is more concerning.

Eriksen was already awake and stable an hour after the incident. Hamlin is still in critical condition. Apparently he does have a pulse which must at least be somewhat of a good sign.

I can't really complain about that though a few players were a bit below what they are capable of.