writer/editor fascinated by many things—nature, science, environment. painter & naturalist. words @nytimes @sciam @theatlantic @techreview. douglasmain at gmail

Ithaca NY / Tucson AZ
Joined August 2009
Douglas Main retweeted
I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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Douglas Main retweeted
Well, the world’s largest private donor to the IDF now owns all of these brands so that’s good for human rights and freedom of expression
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount. Assets: • TNT • CBS • CNN • MTV • TCM • Showtime • Adult Swim • DC Studios • Paramount+ • Nickelodeon • HBO/HBO Max • Comedy Central • Cartoon Network Film Rights: • Star Trek • Gremlins • Beetlejuice • DC Comics • Tom & Jerry • Harry Potter • Citizen Kane • Transformers • A Quiet Place • Looney Tunes • The Conjuring • Mortal Kombat • Game of Thrones • Dora The Explorer • Mission Impossible • The Lord of the Rings • SpongeBob SquarePants • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • Dune 3 (distribution rights) • Minecraft (distribution rights) • MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.
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Douglas Main retweeted
Elon Musk in an actual email to Epstein: "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
Hilarious, it's actually Epstein who canceled on Musk's island visit. Musk claimed he "refused" the invite, but he was clearly trying to go. That was for New Year's Eve 2013. Musk is also on the calendar in for the New Year a year later.
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Sorry but this is imperialism. There is no other way to put it.
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Trump screaming sedition because democratic Veterans made a message that the military can disobey and unlawful orders. Conveying the Uniform Code of Military Justice is NOT sedition. January 6th was sedition and Trump pardoned them all.
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @ShotOn35mm
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Douglas Main retweeted
F*CK ICE. This is full on Gestapo “show me your papers” BS. Masked, armed federal agents confronting random brown people. How about a little “don’t tread on me!” from y’all?
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ICE agent driving around town in Nissan Altima sedan—with his AR-15 assault rifle in his lap. Jumps out of car casually waving it around at rush hour traffic with one hand—while struggling to take off coat with the other. Is this proper firearm procedure for law enforcement? The incident occurred near the busy intersection of West Lake Street and North Mill Road in Addison, Illinois. #DemsUnited
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You’re walking your dog on a crisp fall afternoon in Chicago. The leaves are gold, the air is calm… it’s one of those picture-perfect moments that makes you love this city. Then, out of nowhere, the peace shatters. Whistles. Men in masks. Smoke rolling down your block. You can’t see. You’re coughing. Your dog is howling. This isn’t a war zone. It’s Chicago… and ICE just tear-gassed your neighborhood. That was reality today in Lakeview, one of the wealthiest, quietest parts of the city. No “threat.” No warning. Just more proof that no neighborhood is safe from ICE’s violence.
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SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO — Windy City residents run off immigration agents to save a man mid-abduction at 63rd and Kostner Ave.
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Douglas Main retweeted
Abolish ICE
Unbelievable. Outside the Portland ICE facility, a man and a woman were standing and talking to a pair of cops with shields when one of them draws his pepper spray and unloads it into her face. She was still crying out in pain several minutes later and had to be taken away to get medical attention.
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Douglas Main retweeted
ICE arrested Chicago Alderman Jessie Fuentes inside a hospital emergency room—simply for asking them to show a warrant for a man they detained.
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Why do smart people who know better behave like this? Just gaming the system for follows?
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This is legit hilarious: according to the US Secretary of Agriculture herself, Trump's bailout of Argentina means that US taxpayers are now effectively subsidizing Argentinian soybean exports to China - the very market American farmers have been shut out of. All the funnier when you consider that one of the key objectives of the bailout is presumably to prevent Argentina - one of the US's only friendly governments left in South America - from moving closer to China. And instead it's effectively funding the exact opposite outcome. This is according to this leaked text 👇 that Scott Bessent is reading from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (src: dailymail.co.uk/news/article…), which says: "I'm getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate. We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us."
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The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
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A senior foreign diplomat posted at the UN texts me: "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"
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Putting wheels on this cross to bear is the best possible metaphor for American Evangelicalism
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