U Miami PhD candidate. The intersection of herpetology twitter and election twitter. he/him
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Aidan O’Brien retweeted
if you really thought Platner was a good candidate until this latest scandal and thought there was nothing else, then you're an even worse judge of character than you are as a handicapper. stick to premature race calls and retractions and leave the judgements to others.
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
This impacts middle-schoolers and elementary schoolers as well, but in any case, this response is emblematic of the gratuitous cruelty that characterizes the Republican Party's approach to economics.
Re: WH pausing federal grants and loans, I asked Rep. Rich McCormick if he'd support getting rid of school lunches for his constituents. He tells me high school kids who receive free/reduced lunches "are capable of going out and actually getting a job" instead of "sponging off the government."
NOTE: This freeze would also impact much younger students who are not of working age.
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
If you’re a Democrat in any blue state or blue city, number one on your list of politicians to primary out of office over the next 6 years are Democrats who block the expansion of housing. Unaffordable/unavailable housing can lead to very bad results on a host of issues
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
This would be like coming out of 2004 and being "Democrats need to come out against Same-Sex Marriage"
All the data says economy drove this. This is a take you only get if you are already a transphobic dickweed. You WANT this to be the case
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
We've heard the voices of LGBTQ Kentuckians and we stand with them. Today I was proud to sign an executive order banning dangerous conversion “therapy” on our kids. No child, regardless of their sexuality, should be subjected to harm.
ALT An image of Governor Beshear preparing to sign an executive order banning the practice of conversion therapy on minors in Kentucky.
Check out some of my ongoing work with Everglades herpetofauna at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge! Thanks to Joshua Prezant and Franco LaTona for documenting my research!
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Aidan O’Brien retweeted
Ask the country to have a debate. My God.
Forget the violation of your oath to the Constitution. Imagine being this depraved, this servile, this pathetic.
This is why Trump needs to be asked about 2020 tonight and in every interview.
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
Back from my yearly pilgrimage to visit the largest salamanders in the Americas. There is no other feeling like watching a massive hellbender crawl along the bottom of the stream as the current causes its loose skin to flutter. Like being transported to a different time.
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
If you want your children to attend private schools in KY, pay for it yourself | Opinion kentucky.com/opinion/letters…
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
This is such a beautiful example of how social security needs to be raised on the ultra wealthy. That’s a laughable amount
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
MONEYBALL (2024):
The pundits see Kamala Harris and they see a candidate with a -14 favorable rating, a horrible 2020 campaign, and similar odds against Donald Trump if she replaces Biden.
When I see Kamala Harris, I see...an imperfect understanding of what candidate quality is
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
We polled Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin twice with @DataProgress.
The first was when Biden dropped out, and Trump led Harris by 7 (and Biden by 6).
The second was last week. Harris now leads Trump by 1.
Read our @SplitTicket_ piece:
split-ticket.org/2024/08/07/…
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
Flawed model leads @USFWS to deny protection to the Gopher Tortoise.
Please RT -- We want to raise awareness on this issue so that FWS is compelled to reverse its decision.
Read about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024…
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
I’m proud of the Democratic Party.
Proud of what we stand for. Proud of who we select to be our leaders. Encapsulated by President Biden humbling himself before us all, stepping down to allow Vice President Harris to carry forth his vision.
Over $30m raised today. 💙💙💙
Aidan O’Brien retweeted
The party whose nominee used bogus claims of election fraud to incite an insurrection is now trying to lecture everyone about democracy, and this is one of the most pathetic arguments I have ever seen in my life.
At this unprecedented juncture in American history, we must be clear about what just happened. The Democrat Party forced the Democrat nominee off the ballot, just over 100 days before the election.
Having invalidated the votes of more than 14 million Americans who selected Joe Biden to be the Democrat nominee for president, the self-proclaimed ‘party of democracy’ has proven exactly the opposite.
The party’s prospects are no better now with Vice President Kamala Harris, who co-owns the disastrous policy failures of the Biden Administration. As second in command and a completely inept border czar, Harris has been a gleeful accomplice — not only in the destruction of American sovereignty, security, and prosperity, but also in the largest political coverup in U.S. history. She has known for as long as anyone of his incapacity to serve.
Regardless of the chaos in the current White House, our adversaries around the globe should be reminded that the U.S. Congress, the U.S. military, and the American people are fully prepared and committed to defend our interests both at home and abroad.
If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately. November 5 cannot arrive soon enough.