I Just Exclaimed "Absolute Nightmare Creature" Looking At An Image Of A Sea Dweller My Mum Texted, So That's Officially Today's Theme

Bonjour, mes amis! Quick and mostly political one for ya today, gotta slam my coffee and get Orca out the door to the park cuz she’s giving me those “how dare you type on that laptop” eyes all puppies are known for.

andy™ @andylevy

[to the tune of eleanor rigby] jeremy renner bring back your app, we all need a new place we can go we're full of woe we will forgive you for making us check out that video in which you sang just let us hang all the twitter people where will we all go to

INTERWEBS!!!!

• Looks like Florida lawmakers didn’t actually read the fine print of the Disney district law they were trying to repeal: Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt (Miami Herald)

• What could possibly go wrong? Republicans Have Picked An Election Denier To Run Michigan’s Elections (BuzzFeed News) 
  

  Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit

  OK, I'm going to live-tweet the Twitter-Musk merger agreement, which just dropped. No judgment, just explaining. For new followers, I was a corporate lawyer at a Fancy Firm a long time ago, and have forgotten a lot! So hopefully that helps me be clear sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

• This man is shockingly awful and shockingly bad at his job / being a human: Madison Cawthorn Is Trying to Commit Every Possible Scandal (Intelligencer) Seriously, look at the URL for this piece, it’s so batshit I can’t paste it into this Missive lest it trip up the spam filters.

• Color me shocked, SHOCKED I say: McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6 (NYT)
  

  Read Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell @JoshuaPotash

  Elon Musk keeps tweeting that he loves free speech. So here's a thread with just a few of the countless examples showing he couldn't care about it less (🧵)

• And finally, part one million of my god, I am so glad I grew up in a time before social media: ‘Who is going to say no to free lips?’ Influencers reckon with price of cheap surgery (NBC News)

You’re swell! Get hydrated, get outside, toss your phone into the nearest body of water, and be kind to yourself, won’t you?

xoxo Amy