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@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-22 (UTC)

06:14:18 Retweeted @AnnaGHughes 2019-02-21 21:50:15 If you ever feel lonely just remember you have tiny arachnids living in your eyelashes https://t.co/goknAtGdU5
07:28:45 It just happens to be Warren saying this, but as I have said before, the filibuster’s days are numbered. The next time one party has the House, Senate, and Presidency, and a вЂњmajorвЂќ piece of legislation important to that party’s base is blocked by a filibuster, it will be gone. https://t.co/MFJYAU1Fpv
07:31:39 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-21 21:53:45 Kamala Harris on the hubbub over famous rainbow jacket. https://t.co/0N4FzFyiYc
11:59:49 Five days since I laughed at you and said “You just did just what I thought you were gonna doвЂќ https://t.co/k89hl66KFw
16:33:57 Oops https://t.co/TosNvEvZSA
18:01:22 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-15 20:51:44 How is this person qualified to be President? Why bother going on Univision if you refuse to answer questions about Latin America? https://t.co/8lpQZ9yXv7
18:04:50 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-21 19:18:17 .@KamalaHarris: вЂњYou must start the marriages immediately.вЂќ <symbol>️‍<symbol> https://t.co/lym9FQzJB4
18:11:41 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 03:48:07 Some thoughts on Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew and anti-Semitism. https://t.co/rwJdF6Sxup

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-21 (UTC)

02:29:59 Well good. https://t.co/Q90ptuxcK2
14:01:10 Retweeted @John_Hudson 11:33:22 If the Mueller report describes evidence of a crime it won’t recommend any kind of criminal charges because of DOJ regs blocking a sitting president from being indicted. вЂњWhether it’s a crime or not is beside the point” former DOJer tells @JaxAlemany https://t.co/0HR31eTHIe
20:10:11 Retweeted @natsecHeather 19:45:54 It’s 2019 and both your podcasters (whom I respect as professionals) and your comms folks think it’s fine to use “autistic” as a negative descriptor of a country of 1.38 billion? Signed, a fellow security wonk and autism parent. https://t.co/M1Adiqm4qD
20:10:13 Retweeted @natsecHeather 19:48:08 ps: Actually, yeah, my son is like China: high-achieving, proud to the point of touchiness, and prone to crushing your stereotypes. in reply to natsecHeather
20:15:20 Oops. https://t.co/84UI7aSn1t
20:57:40 Retweeted @hankdeanlight 15:26:37 Pre-teen reporter is riding her bike to cover news in #az border community.Local cop stops her, threatens to throw her in juvy.
She pulls out her camera and gets the cop in trouble.

Somebody give this badass girl an award.

https://t.co/vg25oQIvuY https://t.co/oGCvNNdDmz
21:03:41 Orange Street News for the win yet again! https://t.co/pnS3oxpDn8
21:04:30 Retweeted @Amy_Siskind 20:49:22 Further, of the 2020 candidates, thanks to Jonathan Alloy who further broke down bills enacted to include whether they are substantive (or say a bill to rename a post office). https://t.co/QpT86mXVsn in reply to Amy_Siskind
21:07:30 Retweeted @rgoodlaw 20:07:38 Not days. Not вЂњas early as next week,вЂќ per yesterday’s reports.Now it’s вЂњweeksвЂќ?
вЂњThe new attorney general, William P. Barr, is preparing for the special counsel to deliver a report in coming weeks…вЂќ

(h/t вЃ¦@lrozenвЃ©) https://t.co/2NH5zRgxO5
21:11:24 Retweeted @TimothyNoah1 20:48:34 Who among us hasn’t at one time or another publicly insulted on Twitter a judge who will try our criminal case and included a photograph with crosshairs given to us just days ago by one of our half-dozen volunteers only we can’t remember now which one? https://t.co/Ox7hyd94Om
21:24:33 Retweeted @MikhailaRFogel 19:10:51 The Mueller report is coming, as Rick Blaine said, “maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon,” and, whatever it says, here is how @Susan_Hennessey @qjurecic @benjaminwittes and I think it should be read… https://t.co/G0tJkI9zXE
21:25:03 Retweeted @BreakingNews 21:07:26 North Carolina Board of Election orders a new election in US House race after allegations of illegal activity in the handling of mail-in ballots. https://t.co/OQTvxfSXiU
21:27:00 Oops https://t.co/zjA1ll6iFp

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-20 (UTC)

20:29:54 @BYUfan @imbou Oops. It will almost certainly be Wednesday evening in Seattle based on feedback so far. But Ivan will be up in Everett doing the Boeing tour and visiting my place Wednesday daytime. Maybe we can squeeze something in if you can’t make Wednesday… in reply to BYUfan
20:39:53 @BYUfan @imbou In that case we look forward to seeing you. I imagine we’ll announce specifics and put something online about it before the end of February. in reply to BYUfan
20:51:49 Thread https://t.co/OatnmoaUoN
23:17:39 Retweeted @BreakingNews 23:05:40 US Coast Guard lieutenant working in the nation’s capital lived a secret life as a “domestic terrorist” who aspired to mass murder and compiled a target list of prominent politicians and journalists, federal prosecutors allege in court papers. https://t.co/27YhbIoQ88

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-19 (UTC)

10:37:44 Retweeted @joshscampbell 03:30:33 Fact-check: As special assistant to both, this is false. <symbol><symbol>‍♂️ https://t.co/AEtijKYHDP
18:15:11 Retweeted @NPR 16:31:37 Just In: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released an interim report based on multiple whistleblowers who say the Trump administration is rushing to transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law.
22:42:34 Retweeted @RantingOwl 18:04:23 Someone on Facebook just said that they only realized today that “PorkenвЂќ wasn’t a type of bean. Their whole life they thought they were eating “Porken beans.”I am…speechless.

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-18 (UTC)

15:51:00 Retweeted @TPM 15:42:52 5 most eye-opening insights from McCabe’s CBS interview https://t.co/d9KA59ZfE1 https://t.co/S0dmBO7hVM

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-17 (UTC)

00:55:04 Retweeted @SlenderSherbet 2019-02-16 11:48:05 Derek, nature’s great hunter, who stalks his prey and attacks with efficiency and precision. https://t.co/6nSP0Ema1J
01:45:43 Retweeted @dodo 01:00:00 When a whale swam up to this woman and wouldn’t leave her alone, she was freaked out вЂ” until she realized he was saving her life <symbol> (via @caters_news) https://t.co/tXdllBdiY1
01:53:50 Retweeted @joshtpm 01:10:14 You know, I just can’t if this is the first sentence of your book. https://t.co/fyQCnIMnA9
06:15:28 Retweeted @DKElections 2019-02-16 22:57:29 A Dem-led coalition took charge in the Alaska state House this week, denying the GOP its lone legislative chamber pickup of 2018. Full details on the amazinig saga here: https://t.co/EuyOZMQtxs
06:24:02 Great thread. https://t.co/EDflg5v4xk
06:38:02 Retweeted @KyleAMadson 04:07:57 Need you to dead serious walk into an Apple store with this and tell them it’s been running a little slow and you need their help resolving the issue. https://t.co/EUAFZEoxjv
17:14:25 Retweeted @dandrezner 14:15:45 вЂњTrade wars are good, and easy to win.вЂќ https://t.co/uxHwAho9M9
17:25:16 Retweeted @CharlieCookDC 17:23:26 Worth remembering. https://t.co/L0hzpjvreK
20:13:41 Retweeted @GlennF 17:55:43 The ongoing horror of economic devastation in Seattle due to livable minimum wage https://t.co/u3vuNeG8zl
20:25:55 Yup yup yup -> Why Joe Biden shouldn’t run for president (opinion) – CNN https://t.co/R7X5v0jJiO
22:37:34 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toe to Too https://t.co/XF1XkBiZ7i https://t.co/URGGku9h62
22:53:54 Retweeted @danpfeiffer 15:18:12 The fact that the President is either delusional or a particularly dumb and pathological liar is frankly not taken seriously enough https://t.co/CCiJjQroFF
22:59:30 Retweeted @FiveThirtyEight 22:45:04 PSA: We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics. We hope you’ll use it to check our work and to create stories and visualizations of your own. https://t.co/mitQaVzx2J

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toe to Too

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner… lightning rounds! Sam and Ivan talk about a total of 17 different topics this time around. These include… the snow in Seattle, Roger Stone, the Green New Deal, Paul Manafort, a correction to something Sam said last week, food delivery, translating Trump into other languages, the National Emergency, an upcoming Seattle Curmudgeon’s Corner meetup, and of course eight other things too. Enjoy!

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Recorded 2019-02-16
Length this week – 2:40:00

(0:00:20-0:28:09) But First
- Trump translations
- Agenda
- Curmudgeon’s Corner Seattle meetup
- Correction about Tucson
- Seattle snow
- Food delivery
(0:29:53-1:10:31) Lightning Round I
- Ivan: Glenn Greenwald
- Sam: Book: The Zimmerman Telegram (1985)
- Ivan: Movie: Geostorm (2017)
- Sam: Green New Deal
(1:12:32-2:04:20) Lightning Round II
- Ivan: Paper Bank Statements
- Sam: Doing a “Clinton Email”
- Ivan: Manafort
- Sam: Stone
(2:05:29-2:39:42) Lightning Round III
- Ivan: National Emergency
- Sam: Bill Weld 2020
- Ivan: McCabe and the 25th
- Sam: Democratic debate rules

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@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-16 (UTC)

00:28:18 @JHWeissmann @spooknine Why can’t the toddlers themselves pay for their daycare as a percentage of their future lifetime income? in reply to JHWeissmann
00:50:14 Retweeted @justinamash 2019-02-15 22:30:51
07:51:32 Retweeted @Dantej21 2019-02-15 23:23:04
08:23:56 Retweeted @threadreaderapp 06:59:58 in reply to SashaAngst
18:02:05 Now I want an omelette. https://t.co/SsdNsKZuRl
18:46:16 Booo!!! https://t.co/tMKuGllBX4

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-15 (UTC)

02:15:49 Retweeted @WotDpod 01:55:49
04:53:17 Retweeted @KerrBearLib 2019-02-14 14:43:34
05:42:10 Retweeted @NateSilver538 00:53:47 in reply to NateSilver538
05:43:45 Uh… https://t.co/BSKzX6LYpR
07:39:35 Retweeted @Noahpinion 2019-02-12 17:13:58 in reply to Noahpinion
13:56:38 Retweeted @Julian5News 12:13:08
14:00:16 Interesting. He will get crushed. But interesting. https://t.co/QYKalcms6A
16:00:17 Can he stop rambling and just sign whatever he is going to sign and then we can get on with things?
17:28:05 Retweeted @TheStalwart 17:26:49
19:16:50 Retweeted @emptywheel 17:19:58
19:37:26 Retweeted @CBSNews 19:29:53
23:05:45 Hmm… https://t.co/9BJuPbqV2T
23:06:39 Retweeted @PostRoz 23:02:02
23:16:04 Retweeted @awprokop 23:01:33 in reply to awprokop
23:19:58 Oops https://t.co/9NrUIcTjw3
23:23:19 Retweeted @gtconway3d 16:18:16

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-14 (UTC)

03:24:08 Retweeted @WotDpod 02:25:26
03:28:56 Retweeted @HeerJeet 03:21:20
03:29:29 Retweeted @elclimo 01:08:54
03:38:53 Retweeted @LouisPeitzman 2019-02-13 17:29:52
03:44:18 Retweeted @justinjm1 01:15:41
03:56:05 Retweeted @woodruffbets 02:32:52
04:22:04 Retweeted @PostRoz 00:33:15
04:25:27 Retweeted @ebruenig 2019-02-13 16:11:40
04:25:52 Retweeted @MonicaHesse 2019-02-13 22:51:37
04:32:06 Retweeted @jtlevy 2019-02-13 15:30:19
04:57:29 Retweeted @thomaswright08 00:22:26
04:59:48 Retweeted @ashleyfeinberg 2019-02-13 23:52:02
05:25:15 Retweeted @RepSwalwell 2019-02-13 18:40:26
15:27:39 Retweeted @kenvogel 15:10:10

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