Adam

@Khanoisseur

Majordomo. Non-hysterical analysis of news (+ bulldog pics). *Turn notifications on* (Podcast coming) | Stuff for:

United States
Joined September 2011

Tweets

You blocked @Khanoisseur

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @Khanoisseur

  1. Pinned Tweet
    17 Dec 2018

    🔥🔥 🔥 An update on my latest project: Reinventing the fire hydrant —giving it its first significant overhaul in 200 years, making it quicker, smarter and better equipped to fight wildfires and urban/suburban fires 🌳 🏡 🏢 (please share/support!)

    Show this thread
    Undo
  2. 39 minutes ago

    3. Geopolitics are also at play. US and China are competing for influence in South America, and the Comfort's mission came two months after a Chinese hospital ship, the Peace Ark, visited Venezuela as part of an 11-nation tour of providing medical assistance.

    Show this thread
    Undo
  3. 39 minutes ago

    2. US Navy medical personnel provided free treatment for nearly 5,000 patients and performed 116 surgeries for everything from cataracts to hernias to foot defects. The Comfort's mission – its sixth to Latin America — ended in Honduras after stops in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

    Show this thread
    Undo
  4. 39 minutes ago

    Patients donned helmets, goggles and life vests and were strapped into the back of Black Hawk helicopters for the short flight to the US Navy ship, Comfort, an oil tanker converted into a floating hospital that’s dispatched to treat US troops or assist during natural disasters.

    Show this thread
    Undo
  5. 50 minutes ago

    Terrific story of how with a government shutdown looming, the US Navy sent a hospital ship to Colombia to assist with treating Venezuelan migrants that are fleeing food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and a government crackdown on political dissent.

    Show this thread
    Undo
  6. 1 hour ago

    4. This is basically an approach I had suggested last year: Bolster border security and improve service levels for processing migrants and their families, but fund it out of the Pentagon’s budget, and use the troops to get it done.

    Show this thread
    Undo
  7. 2 hours ago

    3. Meanwhile, Trump is deploying troops to the border to provide medical care for a steady stream of migrant families that are pouring in from Central America and to build 160 miles of fencing (paid for from Department of Defense's discretionary funding).

    Show this thread
    Undo
  8. 2 hours ago

    2. Why is bolstering border security and funding measures to allow border agents to better handle influx of families, kids so controversial now that it’s shutting down the government, when just a few years ago Democrats were touting border security?

    Show this thread
    Undo
  9. 2 hours ago

    Border agents plea for more walls and barriers, giving examples of how such measures (700 miles of “walls” built in 2009) have helped them stem flow of illegal crossings and drugs, but the headline focuses on whether their pleas raise “ethical questions”

    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. 2 hours ago

    Every country we’ve ever accused of abusing workers’ rights is laughing at us right now.

    Undo
  11. Retweeted
    8 hours ago
    Replying to

    I'm an employment lawyer in Canada, and I can't wrap my head around this. How can you make someone work but not pay them?

    Undo
  12. 8 hours ago

    Which is a ridiculous proposition - if this happened in any other country we’d be dubbing it a worker/human rights violation.

    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    21 Dec 2015

    😳 Boldest thing attempted on live television

    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    31 Jan 2016
    Replying to

    😘 wat did we ever do to deserve bulldogs?

    Undo
  15. 10 hours ago
    Show this thread
    Undo
  16. 11 hours ago
    Show this thread
    Undo
  17. 11 hours ago

    The one with Lorenz the 🦆 and Helios the 🐕

    Show this thread
    Undo
  18. 11 hours ago

    Yayyyyy Marci !!!

    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Jazz is about the notes you *don’t* play ♥️🎶

    Undo
  20. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    I thought his second album suffered from the sophomore jinx.

    Undo
  21. 11 hours ago

    Way more conscientious than some humans during the gubmint shutdown…

    Show this thread
    Undo

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·