Facebook & Twitter Notes, April 10, 2019

My day is off to a good start.

The presidential Twitter account is an endless fusilade of messages aimed at stirring up conflict among all sides of the news du jour.
Create conflict.
℞ p.r.n.
He rides on controversy with the skills of a surfer or tight-wire acrobat.
Divide-and-conquer.
Works every time.

— John Ballard (@Hootsbudy) April 10, 2019

I don't know if those without Twitter accounts can access threads of origin and/or replies, but it's worth a try. The date/time stamps (html links) should open those other tweets. 

Too many corporate vultures feasting on those suffering from #addiction to #opiates during the #opioidcrisis How do these people sleep at night? Glad their stock tanked...
Indivior shares slump 44% after US indictment for illegal marketing https://t.co/0B098bJXlm

— peter grinspoon (@Peter_Grinspoon) April 10, 2019

The linked Bloomberg article includes an audio alternative to reading.  Check out the replies thread.
Question: Is Barr an AG or the president's consigliere?

The party of Alex Jones... "Attorney General William Barr has formed a team that will review FBI decisions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in 2016."https://t.co/LphjEoTTWI

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) April 10, 2019

I'm sure there are many hooks like this one in the water...

Times have changed since the days of Daniel Ellsberg.
Snowden in exile. Assange in limbo. Reality Winner in jail.
Leakers gotta be swift & sure with many friends in high places. 

Always good to know that everyday people now use the web and social media to stay abreast of scientific progress.
NY Times & others report today:

Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had seen the unseeable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.
“We’ve exposed a part of our universe we’ve never seen before,” said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and director of the effort to capture the image, during a Wednesday news conference in Washington, D.C.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

The following Twitter thead is related...

To put it very roughly: The kids of our last wave of immigrants stopped having lots of kids, so we need another batch of immigrants (or else grandma loses part of her pension).
--Noah Smith https://t.co/B9JEjf4nha

— John Ballard (@Hootsbudy) April 10, 2019