Tom Eastman
It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanTRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanI’m reminded of the time I got laid off by email right before moving out to L.A., right after getting approved for remote work, and right after signing a mortgage, with nothing more as an opportunity for closure than a self-organized happy hour and a calendar invitation to get my things.
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- You don't get to put "Should society intervene?" in the damn lede with being specific. What do you *mean*? Be specific. I fucking dare you.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanThe only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?
- Reposted by Tom EastmanI’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
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- never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna copy and paste your question into chatgpt then expect to be thanked as if I was helping
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanThe Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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- This has been obvious for years, the only exploitable natural resource America has left is grift.
- But honestly how many further times must they utterly discredit themselves before we give up on the idea of "credit" in the first place?
- Reposted by Tom EastmanOssoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
- Reposted by Tom EastmanMoving on to financial results, Vaibhav Taneja highlights strong results on both the energy side of the business and servicing the existing vehicle fleet. This is why folks should sell their older Teslas, that service revenue is really helping mitigate the collapse of the car business.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanThere it is. Always, always follow the money. When insurers say they can't cover you because of climate change impacts you can finally understand it is real and is causing harm today. Yes, this is a sub-tweet. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
- It's like if people used "let me Google that for you" but the answer was reductive, ill considered, and wrong.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanFour-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.
- Do I know anyone with the album "Baby, I'll Play" by The Thomas Oliver Band? My copy got lost, but I simply can't find it at *all* on the internet. No streaming, videos pulled from Youtube. Not even on his website.. Almost no evidence it ever existed at all. I'd love to find a copy again somehow.
- And these are the FIRST WAVE. These are the cream of the crop. Imagine how the barrel scrapings are gonna be in another year or two.
- They actually *are* sending their best.
- I think I simply would not have elected the decomposing fascist.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanOne of the best things I’ve read in a while:
- An adversary wouldn't attack Signal's encryption. They'd attack Signal's distribution. Signal is "open source", but you have no choice but to trust that the source you can read is the source that was compiled into the app given to you by the Google app store.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanI was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanPam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
- I've gone to great lengths to turn off autoplay on bluesky, but for some reason embedded quoted posts auto play snuff films in my feed.
- I live in the timezone where every morning I wake up after the murder, but before we know the name of who was murdered.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanDiscworld QOTD, from Night Watch "Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanDemocrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanReminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanWe must stop funding DHS.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanThe second most disturbing thing about today's ICE murder is that ICE rounded up and removed the witnesses. I just pray that woman in pink (and anyone else) texted her video to a friend first.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanAbsolutely impeccable timing for this. Exquisite. Pristine.
- I'm gonna make the prediction now. Death flights are going to start in the next few months. When we eventually find out I'll refer back to this post.
- Yeah. They're secret police and y'all democratically elected a repressive regime.
- Reposted by Tom EastmanIt’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- Reposted by Tom EastmanThis something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanI'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
- I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
- New Zealand news media actually is surprising even my cynical-ass self with it's sheer level of bootlicking craven spinelessness.
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- All time maximum till next summer
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- Do the parents allege that when he was assaulting citizens and abusing authority he was on the correct amount of cocaine, and it was only the hate that drove him to too much cocaine?
- What do you expect him to do? He hasn't been *BRIEFED* yet!
- Congratulations, really.
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- Reposted by Tom EastmanIn a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
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- I predict that this is not going to last two weeks. And I'm kind of shocked people are breathing a sigh of relief right now. Nothing has changed.
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- is that right?
- America will threaten to invade an ally, and Americans will still demand you apologize to them and consider *their* feelings while it's happening.
- Is there a term for an "adoptionless boom"?
- This is, in fact, the oldest of all types of guys.
- Twitter is not where battles are being fought.
- The corollary of this is that only America was capable of destroying America. And it did.
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