John's Journal

• January 25th, 2021, 12:00 pm

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• Sun, 17:24: It's pretty well seared into my memory. Watching news coverage of an attack on a nine-story Federal office building from the eighth floor of another nine-story Federal office building will have that effect. https://t.co/BnKGghengG
• Sun, 17:33: RT @descripticon: https://t.co/242f4T6DRe
• Sun, 20:51: Being a Wisconsin elections guy, I understand what point Paul's trying to make here, but at face value it's nonsense, especially in Madison. If there were no addresses at all, we wouldn't know what ward the voter lives in, or even if they lived in Madison at all. https://t.co/OLSfyjmmy3
• Sun, 20:59: This is bad news for people who give tours of the Capitol, because Hawaii's statue of Kamehameha I is a real crowd-pleaser. https://t.co/DSBaoyrJfB
• Sun, 22:14: An utterly predictable (and in fact widely predicted) outcome to the Biden Has A Rolex non-story. https://t.co/OUopK4oc7t
• Sun, 22:40: I believe @NesmithBruce will find this interesting. Maybe others? https://t.co/Wbcga5G8LM

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• January 24th, 2021, 12:00 pm

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• Sat, 12:26: It's OK, the Chik-fil-a cup on his nightstand shows he's deeply committed to Christian values. https://t.co/HkIoEkl1X7
• Sat, 16:25: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can Spins a web, any size, Using a revolutionary adhesive and mechanical web-shooters he invented in his bedroom While still in high school Because spiders can do that Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man! https://t.co/eTWGXOMFYn
• Sat, 18:51: RT @BrittCudaback: Wisconsin GOP: Listen to the CDC. CDC: Avoid large crowds, avoid poorly ventilated spaces, and wear a mask in public pl…
• Sat, 22:04: I think Sen. Stoebel's interpretation of the statute is wrong. The law requires SVDs be appointed for the purpose of absentee voting in qualified retirement homes and residential care facilities, but I don't think it requires municipalities to offer it. https://t.co/2Egd4qoHHk
• Sat, 22:17: Rufus T. Firefly, Postmaster. https://t.co/1aTd9dvCok
• Sat, 22:25: This is good Twitter https://t.co/fct1TyQb4x
• Sun, 00:26: I don't want to see any of these in the theater and I say that not even knowing what one of them is. But for @spooloflies's sake, I choo-choo-choose Black Widow. https://t.co/qhuxQuWJlP

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• January 23rd, 2021, 12:00 pm

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• Fri, 12:43: My first exposure to Hank Aaron was by way the PEANUTS storyline in which he and Snoopy were neck and neck for the home run record, back when I was in grade school. I didn't get the subtext until a lot later. Read that arc starting here: https://t.co/QbRG9BQdwv https://t.co/aqn5TPD1pZ
• Fri, 12:56: This is my favorite story involving Hank Aaron. From "WONK IF YOU LOVE CLINTON," Washington Post, November 8, 1992 https://t.co/gpKi9EsQ7I https://t.co/4oiu0HditL
• Fri, 13:07: RT @RMFifthCircuit: Guys, an actual filing in federal court is asking for the court to establish the Stewardship of Gondor in the absence o…
• Fri, 13:09: Same. And we're both white men, so you know they didn't reach out to anyone else. https://t.co/w0YgzB8FSo
• Fri, 17:06: Not sure what it says about me that my first reaction to this was to wonder if this was properly licensed. https://t.co/cXsShp7xbP
• Fri, 17:10: This is pretty good shade by the guy who took That Picture. Full interview here: https://t.co/k84iX3eD7M https://t.co/l6WVW3lCwQ
• Fri, 17:16: Oof, rough day for the ladies from St. Cloud https://t.co/ydHDWGcFzJ
• Fri, 17:22: Those temporary offices in the basement of the Dirksen Building are pretty grim. I hope he's left with a decent set of permanent offices when the semiannual shuffle is over. (Being #100 in seniority means he basically gets no choice in the matter.) https://t.co/VjlebxSKHu
• Fri, 17:58: Japanese culture enthusiasts! What's that thing the rabbit is reaching for? https://t.co/9fdNpefuDQ
• Fri, 19:21: RT @Kate_Kelly_Esq: Forget the bi pride flag— THIS flag is my sexuality https://t.co/d3M4cvsAlS

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• January 22nd, 2021, 12:00 pm

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• Thu, 13:32: RT @HeerJeet: Sure, except for the time he incited a mob that killed a cop.
• Thu, 13:35: Amazing the Wisconsin legislature didn't make it into this blog post. (Also I like the Iowa flag mask.) https://t.co/785M6kIr4g
• Thu, 23:01: At risk of sounding like a "well, actually" guy ... once in a hundred and one years. https://t.co/0QARt9mawN
• Thu, 23:36: I have met some actual Girl Scouts with this attitude toward selling cookies. https://t.co/IE67JIvXMh
• Thu, 23:56: Important thread https://t.co/mRbORDenDS
• Fri, 00:03: He didn't think this through. It very easily could've been repurposed as an ice cream button. https://t.co/nvMUo3L4GT
• Fri, 00:06: Get the guy who wrote the Obama/Biden mysteries working on this https://t.co/uBaAcD8dq3

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• January 21st, 2021, 12:00 pm

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• Wed, 18:39: An enduring mystery is how someone with a collection of Brioni suits always looked so terrible wearing them. The easiest thing in the world for a man to do is look good in a tailored suit, but somehow he never managed to pull it off. https://t.co/ODhuMqsz1l
• Thu, 10:00: RT @jaketapper: After voting to disenfranchise the entire commonwealth of Pennsylvania based on lies and conspiracy theories, Cruz expresse…
• Thu, 10:01: RT @scottEmovienerd: exclusive images from my new book "Never Pick a Fight with a Teenage Girl" https://t.co/mVs96lzzwY
• Thu, 10:07: Started on day one after reading a positive review somewhere. I liked it right away but it wasn't until the seventh episode that it became my favorite show. https://t.co/3LkElOsOsn
• Thu, 10:08: I remember watching this. Eleven-year-old me thought it was pretty cool. https://t.co/apBxS2RwPZ
• Thu, 11:52: Thread. I miss this era of comics, when artists didn't feel like they had to draw every seam to make the costume look more "realistic." I mean, if I wanted realism, would I be reading about a benevolent billionaire who dresses up in costume to fight crime? https://t.co/y99EkmrJEy
• Thu, 11:59: RT @frankpallotta: Sen. Patrick Leahy is now Senate President Pro Tempore, the third in line for POTUS. Here's a picture of him getting at…

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• January 20th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Tue, 18:53: People named in this executive order whom I believe Donald Trump has never heard of or only knows the name of: Luis Walter Alvarez, Hannah Arendt, Roy Benavidez, Norman Borlaug, Joshua Chamberlain, Gordon Chung-Hoon, Benjamin O Davis Jr., Joseph H. De Castro, Desmond Doss (1/4) https://t.co/Rq39GFUouG
• Tue, 18:56: And you know who's not on here that surprises me? James K. Polk! He was a modern Republican's favorite kind of Democrat, one who enslaved people. And you'd think starting a war with Mexico would count for something with Trump too. https://t.co/Rq39GFUouG
• Tue, 19:08: Note to people who watched a lot of syndicated reruns after school and aren't into sports: no, that was Hall of Famer and Dodger all-time great Don *Drysdale* who was on the Brady Bunch. https://t.co/gb2PZFtpaM
• Tue, 20:50: Certainly it's hard to imagine anyone writing a series of books about them solving mysteries in their retirement. https://t.co/GLwNC1SM5N
• Tue, 21:04: "I'll give him another 20 minutes, but t̵h̵a̵t̵'̵s̵ ̵i̵t̵ I'm starting to suspect he never was planning to release a health care plan!" https://t.co/ZcxeAjfE4G
• Tue, 22:02: They are educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist Frances Willard (left) and civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Don't know who the guy is, some Colonial era rando probably. https://t.co/62MSEJIRwj
• Tue, 22:59: Jeopardy! One Day at a Time Hogan's Heroes Nightline H.R. Pufnstuf ER Apple's Way Teen Titans Go! Odd Couple, The Nanny and the Professor https://t.co/apQVMjBCJ3
• Wed, 00:06: I can always tell when it's after midnight because that's the only time @1055triplem plays Fiona Apple. (Not to mention "Giant" by ZZ Ward and "a boy called pluto" by Hailey Knox.)
• Wed, 11:47: Wisconsin Republicans, laser focused on the important issues as always. "Modernize the unemployment system? Nah man, we gotta do something about these wolves!" https://t.co/NeBTJeMDq8

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• January 19th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Mon, 18:45: i just looked at the Wikipedia articles for the main cast and with the exception of Pleshette's, this sitcom is not mentioned in any of them. https://t.co/jLXaznqgJR
• Tue, 00:05: 1. Indifferent 2. To 3. All https://t.co/sx4yMIZMRD
• Tue, 01:47: I was the first-ever person to see this item from the collection online. It's an unidentified electrical instrument! Details: https://t.co/H9YCGGeIlJ Get your own never-seen object: https://t.co/nJhASL4ngC https://t.co/9HVaMcVRtU https://t.co/kRPemXPjbf
• Tue, 01:52: If Dr. King were still alive, he'd be 92 and thrilled to see you and the rest of the human garbage that makes up The Trump family on the way out of the White House. https://t.co/WXHYMcbFar

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• January 18th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sun, 18:27: Remarkable that civilization in one form or another lasted thousands of years before podcasting was even invented. https://t.co/dgiD8M9AUa
• Sun, 18:38: I guess the point is that you're not young if you're in your 20s and LOL https://t.co/5TvQGZp5wq
• Sun, 23:06: RT @mightygodking: for everybody making fun of this: the reason for this is because "You Get What You Give" was Beau Biden's fight song whe…
• Mon, 01:48: Republican office holders will be just as much handcuffed on the deficit by Trump as they were by Reagan and the Bushes, i.e. not even a little bit. https://t.co/V7PsQShTyw

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• January 17th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sat, 12:08: "The minutes ticked by as the sergeants at arms sought approval from congressional leadership." OK, here's what I want to know: did these guys need approval from congressional leadership? If so, wow, dumb system, but if not, why did they hesitate to take the initiative?
• Sat, 21:32: Looks like the outgoing President decided to steal some picture frames on his way out. There really is no limit to his corruption and venality. (Left: Jan. 19, 2017 via @Pablo3names / AP; right, Jan. 15, 2021 via @benstracy) https://t.co/TFdOPt79Le
• Sat, 22:31: RT @jmatonak: TIL Jack Kirby did an "artist's conception of the NFL" for the NFL hail to the king https://t.co/ixOCdsQvmE
• Sat, 23:37: Recommend four favorite movies that have titles consisting of just one word! No, you cannot have titles with "a," "an" or "the." Literally just one word. https://t.co/jsxJc8r5QH https://t.co/qvqVfnsS7C
• Sat, 23:43: https://t.co/GhbxuH3r9X https://t.co/kQs06gHehU
• Sat, 23:58: Wow, weird that they didn't use a picture of someone else https://t.co/Af2aHvRQ8C
• Sun, 02:20: https://t.co/n2fmTm21v3 https://t.co/dFuw8B1BwZ

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• January 16th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Fri, 17:20: If push came to shove and there was no other option at all, then yes, other than Ivanka. https://t.co/6cKLGnL6V7
• Fri, 17:23: Thoughts and prayers https://t.co/JcURznx9rs
• Fri, 19:04: I was recently reminded that one time a woman wrote a memoir of her time in Buffy fandom and she was so proud of how wretchedly she and her friends behaved in a hotel lobby that she named the book after it. https://t.co/Dk8k8NduiE
• Fri, 20:08: "White Christianity in the U.S. is not the underdog, but part of the empire that the oppressed cry out to God against." https://t.co/bBTHvWdu8t
• Sat, 03:18: These days the tomb beneath the Crypt is empty, as this article says, but in my day it was occupied by the Lincoln Catafalque, the ceremonial platform atop which caskets rest during state funerals. A fun off-the-beaten-path addition to my Capitol tours. https://t.co/QcsVaFQO2D
• Sat, 05:58: It will never not be a crushing disappointment to click through to @TheAVClub -- self-described as "pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed" -- and finding video rather than, you know, writing. Doubly so when Kathryn Hahn is involved. https://t.co/Iwn8QuGDfX
• Sat, 10:01: "Hey kid, here's five bucks, go tell that person over there I'm a Doctor Who fan." https://t.co/j6mGiUg9XH

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