St. Louis Architect of green mixed-use and urban buildings, general nerd, husband, dad, roller derby fan, serial procrastinator. He/Him or They/Them.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
6 Apr 2023
For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇
![Left: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October 2022. He is seated with his fellow SCOTUS justices {not pictured]. Right: Harlan Crow in October 2015. He is photographed seated in what appears to be a room in his home.](https://venexa.site/media/FtBoPzhWYAQsxA4.jpg)
ALT Left: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October 2022. He is seated with his fellow SCOTUS justices {not pictured]. Right: Harlan Crow in October 2015. He is photographed seated in what appears to be a room in his home.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
28 Jan 2023
For the record: cops aren’t supposed to kill guilty people either.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
15 Dec 2022
COMPETITION TIME! To be in with a chance of winning this HUGE ‘Eteoderoceras’ Ammonite from Charmouth, all you have to do is RETWEET this tweet and make sure you’re FOLLOWING me… winner announced this Saturday around 7pm. Good luck 🤞
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Michael Byrd retweeted
30 Nov 2022
The Attorney General, at least, should understand that while social media is powerful, free speech is not an absolute right. For example, it is a crime to use speech to incite others to commit a crime law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/…
or to make a terrorist threat revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSecti….
29 Nov 2022
The Left doesn’t actually believe in the First Amendment.
To them it’s not about the free exchange of ideas — it’s about controlling the narrative. Anyone or anything that threatens that must be cast out. This is scary stuff for every American.
Keep fighting back.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
10 Nov 2022
At this point, I'm only still hanging around to watch it all fall apart. It's mildly entertaining, in a horrifying way, but it's not a show I would pay money to see.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
10 Nov 2022
Voters across the country agree: Ranked Choice Voting can help fix our broken politics. With RCV, you force candidates to win a majority.
That sounds simple, but it's HUGE.
9 Nov 2022
“Candidate quality” matters is the takeaway for the GOP from this election.
So what do you do about it?
Ranked Choice Voting in primaries is one answer.
Multi-candidate primaries aren’t going away. Winning 30-40% in a GOP primary is not sufficient to be competitive.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
4 Nov 2022
With all the talk about migrating to mastodon, I'm starting to picture myself as a tribal elder who realizes he has already made his last migration as he watches everyone pack up their furs and babies and earthenware pots and start traveling south ahead of the advancing glacier.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
26 Oct 2022
The Extremist Schmitt lives in Glendale, which has 4th highest income in MO. We know he's part of Trump's Treason Weasels, but why in the world would The Extremist sue to overturn the '20 election & outlaw all abortions, & use our tax $ for right-wing stunts?
Fixed that for you.
26 Oct 2022
The Heiress Valentine lives in a gated community — free from violent crime. We know she’s part of @tishaura’s squad but why in the world would The Heiress deny police the funding they desperately need to protect communities who need it most. Sad and out of touch!
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Michael Byrd retweeted
21 Oct 2022
For rural America, it’s not enough to subsidize them, and get mail, internet, and healthcare to places the market would leave behind, but apparently you also must pretend that’s not happening lest you hurt their feelings.
And this, supposedly, is the attitude that respects them.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
17 Oct 2022
'Alexia: please visualise the priorities of US transport planners.'
Yes, that is actually a bike path!
Yes, those are actually 8 lanes for car drivers!
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Michael Byrd retweeted
11 Oct 2022
“Half of U.S. adults (50%, up from 35% in 2019) feel that Supreme Court justices ‘are just like any other politicians’ and ‘we cannot trust them to decide court cases in a way that is in the best interest of our country.’” annenbergpublicpolicycenter.…
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Michael Byrd retweeted
10 Oct 2022
For someone who loves to tweet about inflation, Ann Wagner's voted against nearly every congressional attempt to lower costs for working families.
The Ann Wagner Approach ➡️ Never solve a problem you can use to score political points.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
7 Oct 2022
This church transformation is seriously rad. atlasobscura.com/articles/ho…
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Michael Byrd retweeted
30 Sep 2022
don’t question my legitimacy washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Michael Byrd retweeted
3 Sep 2022
The struggle of our time is not left versus right, Democrat versus Republican.
It’s a struggle for democracy versus authoritarianism.
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Michael Byrd retweeted
25 Aug 2022
Because of this brutal ad, #StopOz is trending #7 in America. Dr. Oz doesn’t want anyone to see it. Keep retweeting it to make it the top trend in the United States.
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