Father, husband, urban cyclist, fitness enthusiast, ANTIFAscist, Star Trek nerd. Baseball is my religion.

Occupied Nonatum Land
Joined March 2009
This is my last tweet before I lock the account. I've been reluctant for various reasons, but what you see in this picture is the final straw. Fuck Elon Musk and any other NAZI scum trying to ruin my country. You can find me on BlueSky. @hlayfield.bsky.social
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As a Gen-Xer who suffered underemployment after graduating for about 5 years in the 90s, this checks out.
College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But it isn't quite right. In truth, recent college grads today are *more* likely to hold a job that requires a degree -- and *less* likely to have a low-wage service job -- than they were in the mid-1990s vox.com/politics/485055/muti…
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This! The conflict of interest is massive.
Replying to @Kasparov63
Musk's "efficiency" project is a bigger question. Is Congress going to allow one of the largest govt contractors to head a new department? Will it sit outside or above public agencies? As we learned in Russia, privatization is often little more than creating unaccountable power.
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She is a freaking Russia spy!
NEW -- Former Rep. TULSI GABBARD (D-Hawaii) is in the mix to be named director of national intelligence, according to a source familiar. This is a Senate confirmed position. GABBARD served in the House as a Democrat from 2013-2021.
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Every statement like this from Trump means the exit polls are unfavorable for him.
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Texas, Florida, and Missouri are planning a corrupt voting process.
BREAKING: DOJ election monitors have been banned from entering polling stations in Texas, Florida, and Missouri.
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Don't threaten us with a good time.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says Kamala Harris will Shut down X and bring back Twitter if she wins the Election
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While Musk did say this, as shown in the video posted as a reply to this post, Harris has not made this claim. The claim that she did so is based on a misleading clip from a 2019 interview where she speaks on Donald Trump’s Twitter account. poynter.org/fact-checking/…
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No what if, that's definitely the code. And don't forget crime is code for black.
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Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social retweeted
It's always the right time to think about killing fellow Americans.
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This sign brought to you by the same folks who scream about CRT. They want to whitewash and sanitize everything, rather than reckon with our harsh national history.
This is the mass grave where hundreds of victims of the Ocoee Riot of 1920 are buried. Notice the sign does not say what happened to these people. Notice too that there are no grave markers. Just this open field. It happened because black people tried to VOTE.
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Wait, is Johnson endorsing Kamala Harris?
Speaker Johnson: We revere the rule of law.. the other team doesn’t..
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Progressives who won't vote for Harris because of Israel need to see this. There is no scenario in which a Trump win doesn't make things worse in Gaza.
Replying to @atrupar
"They're on the side of the terrorists!" -- Rudy Giuliani is now on stage fear-mongering about Palestinians
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This guy practically used the "war is peace" line from Orwell. We cannot allow these fascists to take our country.
Replying to @atrupar
JD VANCE: You're talking about an anonymously sourced story TAPPER: Nothing anonymously sourced JD VANCE: One guy who is a disgruntled employee TAPPER: I told you 10 people!
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Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social retweeted
This is a scary spot where the bike path turns into an apron for the big driveway of the warehouse it passes in front of (if you didn't know better, you'd think the trail just ended). It's a tough design challenge, but there's got to be a way to make it safer.
PD FIRE EMS Dunkin Donuts 276 Beecham Street Tractor Trailer vs Bicyclist #ChelseaMA
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Los Angeles needs a new paper of record. I miss the Taylor days.
LA Times Staff issues a defiant Open Letter: "Our newspaper’s owner publicly blamed the members of the Editorial Board for his decision not to endorse, saying incorrectly that “they chose to remain silent.” They did not. They planned an endorsement — one that was rejected."
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Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social retweeted
2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MICHIGAN 51,463 Votes for Stein 10,704 Trump’s lead over Clinton PENNSYLVANIA 49,941 Votes for Stein 44,292 Trump’s lead over Clinton WISCONSIN 31,072 Votes for Stein 22,748 Trump’s lead over Clinton Never forget what voting “third-party” gets you.
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Now we know what Elon Muskovite meant when he said he'd go to prison if Trump loses.
New on WSJ: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. At one point, Putin asked him to avoid activating his Starlink internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request
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Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social retweeted
Donald Trump said “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” As a 24-year veteran of our military, that makes me sick as hell — and it should make you sick.
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