Area Man Who Moved To Idaho Discovers He Now Lives In Idaho
Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly
@RTodKelly
Longform journalist, regular contributor for marieclaire.com.au @TheDailyBeast, executive producer of @7DeadlySinsShow at PDX's Mission Theatre.
Portland, OR
Joined July 2011
- 1/ This morning my wife got a voicemail from the US Marshalls office asking her to call back on an urgent matter. She googled the phone number showing on her phone to verify it was from the US Marshall's Oregon brach.
- Everything about the Trump Arlington story is bananas, but maybe the *most* bananas part was the actual plan itself: to secretly film a fake established memorial event & then claim Harris refused to attend. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-…
- Replying to @RTodKelly9/ All of which is to say, be careful out there! A lot of grifters are really good at this stuff. /end
- Learning Nate Silver works for Peter Thiel is one of those things that would have shocked me in 2016 and made me wonder why I hadn't already been assuming it in 2024.
- Replying to @RTodKelly5/ And then, of course, the jig was entirely up. We got off the phone, called the actual US Marshalls to ask where to report it (FBI, fwiw), and that was that. BUT!!! It's pretty amazing how sophisticated everything leading up to those red flags were. For example,
- This is one of the most brilliant tongue in cheek self-parodies I've ever seen on Twitter. Solid 11 out of 10. Much respect.
- "Hi, I'm a dude that's spent the past 30 years railing against Title IX, mocking the WNBA, sneering at female soccer stars, and making lesbian jokes about any female athlete. And folks, I'm worried about what the trans movement will do to the purity & sanctity of women's sports."
- Replying to @RTodKelly6/ They knew a lot about my wife - address, age, place of birth - that they dropped into the early conversation as ways to verify she was who she claimed. We hit 'return call' and it showed - and still shows - on our phone as having dialed the US Marshalls.
- Replying to @RTodKelly8/ PDX federal courthouse. So all of the window dressing was pretty damn sophisticated and impressive. But the actual ask was, probably necessarily, still pretty bats**t - and obvious topmost ppl if you haven't already gotten in a panic about going to jail for a week.
- Replying to @RTodKelly7/ There was a receptionist who put us on hold. The 'officer' put us on hold twice to get approval for proceedings from the court house, and googling showed that the name of the judge and judge's admin person are, in fact, a real judge and admin person at the
- Replying to @RTodKelly3/ He gave us the address for the Marshalls office in PDX. Then he said that she would also need to either post a bond or do 10 days of prison for not showing up. And then, as you can imagine, a whoooole lot of flags went up on our end.
- Replying to @RTodKelly2/ My wife called back with me on speaker, and the officer said my wife had missed a jury summons and now had a contempt of court warrant, but that all she needed to do was come to the Marshall's office and reschedule for another court date. Which was weird, but not *that* weird.
