This is a strangely ominous message to receive:

maxinewaters (maxinewaters) has requested to follow your updates on Twitter!

It might have something to do with the fact that earlier today, I tweeted, “Watching Maxine Waters berate Tim Geithner with garbled questions and conspiracy theories makes me weep for the future of the Republic.”

UPDATE: Turns out this isn’t the real Maxine Waters.