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Writer/teacher. Free speechy shitlib

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Lefty protesters, whether at #Colombiauniversity or elsewhere, reliably suffer from the same shortcomings. And not just letting a minority contingent of trash-spewing assholes define the entire movement. Protest is no longer the tool, it's the product My latest. Link in bio

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@ryangrim It's amazing to that more people aren't seeing through this. 12 people out of 13,000 were accused and...all major funding gone. To the biggest humanitarian agency in the Strip, during its worst ever humanitarian crisis.

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@ISASaxonists @jricole Even if they watch this - which they won't - Israel stans will never make the connection that, to Palestinians, this is no less "hostage taking" than what Hamas did on October 7th.

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@LailaAlarian That he was willing to publish this shows the complete impunity with which IDF soldiers are (and have always been) allowed to operate toward the territories

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@DalrympleWill I'm amazed at how successful Israel's supporters have been at directing attention solely on the kidnapped Israelis, and not on the thousands and thousands of Palestinians detained for years on spurious grounds

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@HeerJeet Really makes you wonder where Herbert got the idea...

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@sheologian This is the one-two punch of: 1 - the Bible doesn't say what you think it says, 2 - and even if it did, we have a secular government so who cares?

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@ryangrim Actually refreshing to see CNN honestly reporting on this. So much of the destruction is just meanness lamely repackaged as tactical necessity.

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@dwaldenwrites This is also a harbinger of the coming backlash against social justice ideology. The board’s complaints cited his writing and activism. They (probably, still) couldn’t/wouldn’t have just come right out and said “no gay speakers”

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@zei_squirrel On a side note, I want to how many people are googling a highly controversial and contested issue, finding its Wikipedia page, and going, "welp, that settles it!"

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@Econ_Marshall I do get weird vibes every time I read some hardcore DNC flack account. It's like listening to an awkwardly friendly customer service rep. Something's just off.

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@eyeslasho I’m trying to think of a non race-related way you could’ve pissed off more of your followers with a single tweet and I’m kinda coming up dry. Nice work, dude.

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@SarahTheHaider Yeah, I don't think people need folks to grovel, but open contempt is a weird reaction to a place that took you in

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@caitoz They denied this furiously until Israeli media confirmed that yes, in fact, they were funding it. Horrific.

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@Tyler_A_Harper I wonder if even the skeptics on this are reacting to the fact that their movement has descended into such parody that their real problem with the story wasn't that it was far-fetched, but that it was too on-the-nose.

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@katewillett @Tyler_A_Harper The moral blind spot being exposed by this war seems to get bigger every day.

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@HeerJeet If it weren't an effective strategy, there wouldn't be the insane, relentless push to criminalize it.

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@benryanwriter Would it really have been so hard for the report’s detractors to minimally camouflage the fact that they haven’t dared read it?

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@davidsirota When you live or travel abroad then return to the US, the culture of just nonstop grift comes into very stark focus and it's extremely exhausting.

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@mistergeezy That was supremely uncomfortable to watch.

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@realTuckFrumper This was completely, totally, 100% unforeseeable that a man of Donald Trump's character would use the political donations of ordinary people in this way. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.

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@DBashIdeas I don't think it was October 7th that yielded this, so much as the indiscriminate bombing of two million people who can't run away for six straight months..

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@sahilkapur He is...not wrong.

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@HeerJeet This looks an awful lot like straight-up human target practice.

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@zei_squirrel This doesn't come as a shock to me - I don't look to Hollywood as a beacon of human rights sensibility - but the complete misrepresentation of Glazer's words is what really rankles. Like, he was on TV when he said it. There's no need to misrepresent him.

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@blgtylr This is one of those feel-good stories that is actually not a feel-good story at all. Like kids fundraising to pay for their classmates’ lunches

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@Esqueer_ I really can’t think of a single example of book burners turning out to be on the right side of history. Like, not one

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@ClickingSeason He could have picked literally any other junk food in existence and this wouldn't have been a self-own.

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@caitoz I sense a lot of desperation to memory-hole this one. An airman on fire is a powerful, terrible image, and not one they want out there

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@caitoz So many Dem voters have simply absorbed the incessant bombing of the Muslim world into *regular order* that this isn't surprising. Most can only remember a few month stretch in the last 20-30 years when we WEREN'T doing that

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@theserfstv Generally a sign that one is on the wrong side of history. Can’t think of a single counter example, really

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@MaryLTrump In his defense, he's much more productive as a criminal than as a politician. How could it NOT be on his mind?

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@SabbySabs2 @AOC Her transformation into Washington Insider would seem be nearing its completion

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@ConceptualJames Cuban keeps hitting the sweet spot of equal parts wrong and completely uninteresting.

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@katewillett Glazer really got under their skin. Good for him.

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@atrupar "You're not supposed to talk about God anymore." Yeah, Greg. That was the takeaway.

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@NBCNews Well, since he's openly stated his intent to use the powers of government to criminally prosecute his opponents, I'd say they've got cause to be worried

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@wil_da_beast630 I live in SE Asia, and the somewhat pervasive idea that non-western countries are bigotry-free utopias suggests to me not only that folks need to travel more, but read more also..

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@_SecondThought May I never become so poisoned by hate and tribalism that I celebrate the starvation of children.

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@whstancil There's a big difference between "going too fast to stop" and "going too fast to stop without all your shit flying onto the floor and everyone in the car getting whiplashed" and most of that isn't about speed, but how close you are to the intersection when the light changes

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@caitoz It shouldn't be, but it's actually surprising to me how many can stay fixated on one atrocity while utterly ignoring 100s of subsequent ones

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@danushman Even a small threat of social sanction is good enough to keep most critics silent. That's starting to change, and it's becoming clear how few liberals were actually all-in with the full woke canon

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@shakoistsLog I'm very much in favor of criminal justice reform, but yeah, it's actually pretty simple: when you put a violent person in prison, it makes it a lot harder for them to victimize people who aren't in prison.

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@benryanwriter @ACLU @JamieWhistle @ADFLegal @America1stLegal @ACPeds @donoharm @EPPCdc @FAIRinMedicine @againstgrmrs @TherapyFirstOrg Why on earth is the *ACLU* is doing this? I know there's been a political wind shift there, but I genuinely don't understand how this can be considered consistent with their mission. Really, is there a rationalization?

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@AmbJohnBolton @MeidasTouch Caring about national security requires about an entire nation. Trump lacks the capacity to care about anyone beyond himself, so it follows that he would have little interest in broader projects.

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@goodpartyorg @Holden_Culotta @DashDobrofsky There's also no way the "terrorist" jibe was incidental, given the demographic that organized the uncommitted push.

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@TheOmniLiberal Yeah, we really needed to tell them that an invasion was bad for their country

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@anthonyzenkus Oh didn't you hear? They sanctioned 4 settlers so everything's totally cool now. Problem 100% solved.

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@AdamKinzinger Yeah, Tucker is a lot of things, but intimidating is not really one of them

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@mistergeezy Did he just pistol whip that dude and then pants him? Do they teach that at the police academy?

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@mattyglesias I think that’s a bit off. They are utterly immune to data showing that criminalizing isn’t a good way to reduce the abortion rate. They don’t budge. They’re not animated by the act itself but specifically by the fact that women are free to do it

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@caitoz I guess they think they don't need younger voters? Okay, guys. Cool strategy.

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@zei_squirrel The lie has utility. The truth would be very uncomfortable to confront, especially given its context (a Holocaust movie). Easy choice if you have no moral compass.

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@TheOmniLiberal He's got a pretty storied career behind him and has been on this scene for ages. I get that you didn't like the dig aimed at you, but the academics in that debate are on the same level

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@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss What principle is even being upheld here? Does anyone know what she was going to say? Did USC get an advance copy of her speech before nixing it? Or is this really just, “eh, she wears a hijab so she’ll probly bring up Palestine and make everything awkward?”

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@jessesingal Oh it's incredibly pervasive. And just completely unquestioned. I'm trying with all of my might to convince my school that teacher and therapist are...different jobs. And I'm getting painfully little traction.

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@sheologian My thought is that if we are *not* better than that, I no longer want to be part of "we"

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@caitoz Being *officially* against settlements is part of the game. It's the one bone they can pretend to throw to the Palestinians, and it's completely cost free because they can agitate against the settlements without actually doing anything about them.

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@atrupar I didn't have an overabundance of love for the guy before, but watching Scott debase himself for Trump has been a truly ugly spectacle

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@JamesSurowiecki Totally normal, totally healthy political movement, and one that is focused on issues of great import and relevance.

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@MaxBlumenthal Tell me again about how this is defeating Hamas.

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@ryangrim And yet, this will not dent one bit the reflexive belief by American authorities of everything the IDF says

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@GoodPoliticGuy He’s actually being pretty clear here. He isn’t just responding to a question about killing civilians, he was asked about killing children. That’s who the “all” in “kill them all” was. Kids.

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@zei_squirrel That man is a menace who openly wants to cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population.

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@theserfstv wokeness is wearing two necklaces when you only really need ONE

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@Halalcoholism Chick-Fil-A/fingersnap-gate is the kind of content I log on for. I will never stop having fun with this.

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@PinkRangerLB “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” is only half the quotation. The second half, “that mediocrity can pay to greatness” changes the meaning to something I think people would use less often

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@HeerJeet "The people they starved got too hungry and close, so they murdered them with tanks." There. I fixed it.

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@davidsirota I keep looking for evidence that they aren't the worst generation ever and I keep coming up bone dry

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@dwaldenwrites For sure. And we should expect to see a lot more of this; rank bigots capitalizing on (sometimes valid) concerns about politicized instruction in schools to dial back the clock on broader social acceptance.

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@DalrympleWill If nothing else, an effect of sanctions would be to make American voters less ignorant of this issue. And since settler land grabs provide vital context for the present mess, it would make post Oct 7 discourse less slanted

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@BreeNewsome I don't think Minnesota's really in play, but Michigan is, and that alone could sink the Biden campaign. I suspect this is why they trotted out Kamala to angle for the half-assed ceasefire

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@LailaAlarian Absolutely. History is not going to be kind to the enablers and cheerleaders of this horror show. They'll deserve every condemnation.

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@EWErickson Sure, but there's a profound difference between how Christianity is applied in government by say, Mike Johnson vs by Nancy Pelosi. Christian nationalism may not be a perfect term, but pretending we don't mostly know what it describes is silly.

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@HeerJeet This isn't a self-sustaining food system that just isn't being helped. This would be like barring food deliveries to a prison.

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@davidfrum Oof. That sound you hear is the wheels on the bus bumping right over Tucker.

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@SwipeWright Increasingly, it just seems like he's backed himself into a corner on this and so has to have a parallel conversation wherein DEI has a different definition to the one everyone else uses

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@caitoz The overwhelming majority of Americans have simply never had to be confronted with the violence that's carried out in their names and with their tax dollars. It's a video game to them.

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@jessesingal If police and court officers are still public servants, then Peterson's point is silly...

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@aziz0nomics It's funny, but there's also a consistency to it. In both cases, the message is fundamentally anti-elite. Just spiced differently depending on the audience.

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@theserfstv Turning kids gay to get them to vote Dem is...a hilarious idea. Actually hilarious.

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@anthonyzenkus They're really concerned about civilians in Gaza though. I know this because they say they are and so it's obviously true.

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@gluckstadt @davidsirota That's a very good example that I notice frequently. Another is ATM fees. "Gimme $3." "Why?" "Because fuck you."

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@JonathanTurley “Theory” is a funny way to say “intentional and obviously motivated misreading of the original text”

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@polishXcellence This is a good example of somebody who needs to take a walk by a tranquil body of water. Are there problems? Yeah, but maybe log off and get some air

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@AmandaMarcotte I enjoyed your piece on this the other day. I hadn’t considered that this is a man who hasn’t had to keep to a schedule or do a single unwanted thing his whole adult life. Court must be unbearable for him. I love it!

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@eyeslasho I do not know why he keeps talking about this subject. He does not appear to be either informed or especially insightful

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@Halalcoholism Yeah, I'm pretty well traveled, and JFK = Hitler is not a take I've ever encountered.

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@cenkuygur The hostility toward upstart challengers among professional Dems is a big part of what's keeping the party feckless and stale. I don't know why more Dems don't buck their leadership on this.

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@RichardHanania Mask wearing is extremely common in east Asia, and was long before Covid. For a variety of reasons - lingering fear of infection, behavioral conformity, pollution, a preference for privacy/social withdrawal - the region has been slow to quit the habit post-pandemic.

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@brianbeutler "languishes in the House" makes it sound like it just had too many mai tais and fell asleep by the pool

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@LailaAlarian Really though, who DOESN'T dabble in a bit of light religious desecration in their down time?

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@NateSilver538 This is a wildly restrictive list. A handful of those, sure. They’re overused. But plenty of good writing includes plenty of those words and constructions

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@LailaAlarian As long as I live, I will never understand how more parents aren't swayed by this. Kids are kids. Doesn't matter where they live or what you think the adults in their lives have done to wrong you. This absolutely wrecks me.

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@DavidKlion How are blank ballots tabulated? Is this how to functionally vote ‘uncommitted’ in NY?

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@AliceFromQueens "That's MUCH larger than the difference in people's preference for chocolate over feces-flavored ice cream." Still Lol'ing. Gotta say tho, I'm bummed. Kind of wanted this one to be real.

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@PatrickRuffini Elite Democratic opinion is operating in an entirely different universe to the one in which most voters live.

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@jessesingal Your right to sexy animal cosplay ends at my ankle.

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@nrduford That was my thought exactly! Like, that's...color

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@kittypurrzog And...there's my new laptop background

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@DalrympleWill @WajahatAli Said was my first assignment at university, and his critiques of the Bernard Lewis school of Middle East observation and commentary are still prescient. This massacre in Gaza would never be permitted if it weren't happening to *other* people.

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