Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org

The only nation we can be proud of is the one WE BUILD IN THE FUTURE. We can ONLY DO THAT IF FASCISTS DON’T WIN.

🔊 Social media PSA:

We all have been guilty of this, myself included however,

Please, if you are going to make a comment about a posted article
please
please
try to read beyond the headline
read the article before you attack it.

Making assumptions makes a fool of us all...

#Social media

The Onion does it again…

#supremecourt #democracy

https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211

Focus on what you need to do, and what we all need to do - e.g. checking ballot registration, volunteering for campaigns, helping voter advocacy orgs, etc.

Anything else is wasting energy, when we know who the enemy is and has always been.

We have 127 days. Make it count.

(I REALLY need to turn in this book, but will be back w/ campaigns when I can.)

They want us to feel sad, useless, overwhelmed, and powerless, because they are afraid of a people that no longer holds their values, that sees through them. This is not a war they will win. This is a Swan Song of a dying breed. They are afraid of us, and they should be.

@GottaLaff Adulting is hard. It's easier to knock over the table, scream, and threaten.

Voting is our only way to save our union.

Voting is the last biggest test for each American alive in this moment - do we save our nation while it is most imperiled by millions of us casting our one vote? Or do end it by doing nothing.

Thank you for your strength and fortitude. And more importantly, for your unsinkable love and devotion to our country.

@Evan_L

So, we need a Democrat majority in the House & Senate to get anything done. Which cannot happen until after the November election. Once we have that, we should do it all, term limits, ethics rules, recusal rules, etc.

Which means ALL Democrats including Biden, should be running on this.

With one party we can talk about shitty elected officials and run for office and campaign to get more progressive candidates in office. In the other there are never trustworthy elections or checks and balances ever again. Stop fucking following Russian bot taking points. They are not the same.

3/ Speaking of missed follow-up q’s, when Trump said Putin once told him that his “dream” was to take back Ukraine, I yelled out loud.

It’s a huge revelation.

& also demanded immed follow-up questions.

Such as:

“WHEN did Putin tell you of his dream to take back Ukraine?

Where? When you were pres? Which meeting? Or did it come after?”

“Who else was there? Are there notes from meeting? Why not?”

“What did u say in response? Did you sugg that it was ok? Or did you say you opposed it?”

🇺🇸 I know Americans don't like it when non-citizens talk about their politics, however how you vote affects the world so I have this to say:

If you had conversations with loved ones who were in Europe during the rise of Hitler & WWII you would understand the oftentimes paralyzing fear that we feel while watching helplessly as the US battles the rising tide of fascism in the GOP.

Please do not abstain from voting, and don't waste your vote on a third party candidate.

Please #VoteBlue

This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.

Microservices are not inherently more organized than monoliths.

I’m continually amused that people think if you force network calls that organization will naturally appear.

If you're a #veteran you can't support a man who hates the #military. https://youtu.be/n59kyW1pl94?si=_mtySnwfUVuCEk7I

As I mentioned in another post, I think probably our biggest obstacle is that most Americans are entirely checked out, have no knowledge or interest in how our government is structured or how it runs. They literally don't know what is good for them, and they don't know that they don't know it. #USPolitics

"In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue—no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden—involving the meaning of regulatory law. As if it did not have enough on its plate, the majority turns itself into the country's administrative czar."

Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice