BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Btw, part of her misconduct was vouching—she got in front of the grand jury and explicitly told them to trust her because she would NEVER ask them to charge somebody if she didn't personally believe it was the right call. Her resignation letter explictly says this was a bald-faced lie. 100
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What part? The one where you JUST TOLD ME she wasn't the one who brought the word "love" into it? I didn't! The article didn't! Go look! 100
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Her literal first post I was replying to began "women may be falling in love with their chatbots too..." as she passed along an article that didn't Say anything like that (or flattery). How else do you read that? 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is Munenori Kawasaki erasure and I will not stand for it. 041
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026That is everybody. Everybody in the world. It is simple arithmetic. If the vaccine increases rates and deaths among ANYBODY, you'd expect to see rates and deaths go up after the introduction and adoption of such a vaccine. Do you? 121
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"Remain elevated"? Again, the same thing with vaccine skeptics. They get cornered on one metric, they fall back to another. "Remain elevated" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there all of a sudden! Have deaths "remained as elevated" before or after? More or less deaths! Here's a chart! 140
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Now who won't recognize what's right in front of them? Here they are both together. COVID cases, COVID deaths. What happened? It's all there. It's all knowable. You can make a prediction and find out. Here's the finding out: 130
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026But, here is deaths. Again, triflingly easy to look up. So, what happened? Do I need to annotate this one too? 120
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Buy that's what you've been saying--spread, right? Isn't that what your 180 day thing is based on--that's a measure of spread, not deaths right? You can't jump horses mid-stream. So, here it is annotated for you. What happened to COVID spread? 110
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Not for nothing, and totally besides the point, but lets not miss "stopping Transgender for Everyone" being an explicit policy goal. Just for all those people who told themselves over and over again that that was not what they were voting for or in favor of. Fucking suckers. 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I'm digging Alien: Earth, but in particular, like everyone else, I have become enamored with its breakout star. I am 100% Team This Bad Bitch. Weird that the crazy eyeball tentacle thing is, by far, the smartest and most sympathetic character on the show. 110
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A reminder that Trump's first response to the Access Hollywood "grab them by the pussy" story was ALSO "that doesn't even sound like something I'd say; that's not even my style" and if it weren't for the audio that is exactly the deny deny line—the one they're using now—they'd have gone with. 110
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025There are no books better than Stud Terkel's oral histories—for money he's the best nonfiction author of the 20th century. Every one of them just chock full of gems. (Hope Dies Last, 2003) 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Just an unprecedented run of darn good movies with absolutely no through line. Like a sentence that just flips a coin to determine every next word, I love it. 100
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The extent to which the right blinkered themselves into taking a basic (even gentle!) societal drift toward empathy and inclusivity and reimagined it as some completely made-up militant assault personally targeting and victimizing them is really something. Literally none of it ever happened. 100
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025By definition, you cannot deport a citizen. You need to use some other word, that one is incorrect. (That's not a subjective opinion or political stance, btw (whereas overriding your newsroom's dictonary to favor the Trump administration's factually wrong usage kind of is?)). 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trump's car commercial is your periodic reminder that the economic class that makes up the core of his base is not working class blue collar voters, as the media often portrays it. It is upper-middle class voters (specifically, non college educated whites slightly above middle class). 200
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Republican fringes have been obsessed with this particular conspiracy theory for at least 50 years, most recently in the FIRST Trump term. I remember hearing some version ("Jews replaced the gold with tungsten and sold it to China" or somesuch) in the Alex Jones/Ron Paul days twenty years ago. 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I can't explain it or offer any detail, but this is my baby sister Hadley: 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Just in case it wasn't clear, the anti-trans edicts from the administration aren't about "fairness" or "clinical accuracy" or whatever lies their voters tell themselves. It is explicitly that transness is bad and trans folks ought to be hounded out of society as liars and bad people. 200
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Yeah, the guy who spends all his late nights mad at people online and trying to body social media platforms into kissing his ring really had heartfelt concerns about national security. Glad that's all cleared up then! Just the dumbest country. 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Aaaaand on cue. "Major political victory" CNN says. This is roughly how the next four years are going to go every time he backs out or gets bored of problems largely of his own making. 100
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 24/12/2024It's weird! Like, it's one thing when it's like, Brazil or Russia or whatever, a specific nation or broad ethnic group, but for it to just be like this random geographic area is weird! 000
BA Porter @baporter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I am 100% not kidding. The vibes are immaculate (and players around the league love coming to Toronto for it). L Go Dominican and maybe we'll win-again. 020