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ericcolumbus.bsky.social @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UPDATE: Tom Cotton responds. (And he’s right!)

Tom Cotton & ial
@SenTomCotton
X.com
No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I'll always put Arkansas first.
1:10 PM • 10/3/26 • 59K Views

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ericcolumbus.bsky.social @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

↪ Replying to @lollardfish.bsky.social

Yes. That @geedee215.bsky.social kicker was so good that I've remembered it ever since and deliberately linked that piece specifically!

We don't know what's going on here, and in the grand scheme of things, it's not all that serious. But it's another example of how context is what matters when we're metabolizing stuff like this. Sure, it's possible that he didn't realize that the nose, wig and beard — taken together with his performing a song about the joys of frugality — might converge into a kind of racist Voltron.

But that would be like frolicking through a fruit patch, tripping face-first into a dirt pit, and then emerging, dazed and face blackened, clutching a watermelon. Your story might in fact be legit, but so many things would have to go wrong in a particular order that you would kind of have to understand if no one believed you.

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ericcolumbus.bsky.social @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*

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ericcolumbus.bsky.social @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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