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The decoupling of critic and audience scores for standup specials is a thing to behold

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When Elon Musk seemed like he wanted to buy Twitter many were panicked, as if him owning it would bring us a step closer to fascism, but now Twitter is trying to force Musk to buy them, and I haven't run across anyone getting upset at Twitter.

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Late stage communism is so absurdly comical at times. This entire communist country has fewer amenities than one capitalist cruise ship!

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3 months

Late stage capitalism is so absurdly comical at times. This new cruise ship has: - 23 restaurants - 22 bars / clubs - 7 full sized pools + 9 hot tubs - Full waterpark - Rock climbing wall - Ice skating rink - Surf simulator - Golf course - Basketball court - Rooms for…

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I'd like @twitter to restore the @nypost account and to refrain from censoring the published articles of newspapers and magazines in the future. Journalism isn't perfect, but the truth is best reached via robust criticism of what is published, not suppression and deplatforming.

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2 years

What?

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Donald Trump's ability to inspire others to destroy their reputations on his behalf is perhaps the most inexplicable thing about his presidency. Even in defeat, people show him self-discrediting loyalty he'd never show them. Why?

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Something I first realized in 1991 and thought about while watching post-9/11 invasions and drone strikes, but that I take for granted too often: it is an unearned blessing to live and sleep far from any war zone. May those of us so blessed be good to refugees.

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7 years

You were alive when Trump said Obama was a foreign usurper who faked his birth certificate & local Repubs circulated racist monkey cartoons

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7 years

. @brithume : We're in the most poisonous atmosphere towards a President in my life time. I have not seen anything like this #Tucker @FoxNews

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6 years

I think Howard Stern actually broke this news when he asked Donald Trump, “Can I call your daughter Ivanka a piece of ass,” and *Trump said yes.*

Piers Morgan

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6 years

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has declared he is NOT a feminist. He tells me: ‘No, I wouldn't say I'm a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I'm for women, I'm for men, I’m for everyone.' Full interview, Sunday, ITV, 10pm.

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A child who believed West Germany and South Korea were better societies than East Germany and North Korea, and that those juxtapositions illustrated the superiority of regulated capitalism over communism, would be correct. (A child's understanding of history is often more correct…

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This is a child’s understanding of history

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Question for *ceasefire now* advocates: if both parties agreed to a ceasefire, then Hamas violated the ceasefire, what would be the right thing to happen next?

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Standard capitalization. No quotation marks around words or phrases that don't require them. Mature tone. This has all the tell-tale signs of a ghost-written Tweet. I'm waiting till 5:30 to see what the president thinks.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!

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4 years

Basically, the center-right is terrified of the far-left and the center-left is terrified of the far right, and that is causing both to be less willing to criticize the fringe that is closest to them, which many earnestly see as obviously the lesser threat.

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This is the wrong advice. The right advice is NEVER talk to the FBI without a lawyer EVEN If you're telling the truth and have nothing to hide.

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6 years

Tonight's serious dinnertime talk with the kids: "If you ever find yourself in a conversation with a federal law enforcement officer, tell the truth."

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George Will: "The usual trope about Fox is that it’s been bad for journalism but good for conservatism. That’s exactly wrong. They’ve got some first-class journalists but it’s been calamitous for conservatism. When Sean Hannity is the face of conservatism you’re in deep trouble.”

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Imagine being locked down in a Capitol Hill office with a 75 year old cancer survivor who asks you to don a mask because she fears Covid, and you, a grown adult, refuse.

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Today I am thinking about what conservative media would publish and broadcast for the next week if Barack Obama had blown off a major WWI commemoration because of rain. I am especially thinking of @IngrahamAngle .

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2 years

If you tell me you fear the other party is imminently going to permanently end democracy in America, and you're also not willing to compromise on your least electorally popular ideas to cater to the median voter, I have a hard time believing you really think those are the stakes.

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If an Asian American parent discovers their 17 year old is being discriminated against by college admissions officers who reduce them to crude racial stereotypes, is your position really that they should just shut up and be grateful they were even allowed in America?

Soledad O'Brien

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Congrats on screwing over other people of color, ma'am! (Particularly those whose efforts in civil rights paved the way for your family to come to America!)

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Ultimately unknowable, but I wonder what percentage of the *Bin Laden was right* people think J.K. Rowling is a monster.

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4 years

This is a flagrant lie. Here is Biden in late July: "Anyone who burns or pillages...should be arrested. They are a problem for society and they make a mockery of what the march is all about. They should be tried, arrested and put in jail." My earlier Tweet noted his June remarks.

Donald Trump Jr.

@DonaldJTrumpJr

4 years

Amazing that after 90 days of silence (and not one mention at the DNC) on the looting and rioting in the #BidenRiots , Biden finally says something after CNN says it’s hurting him in the polls. Weak! These kind of pathetic actions are why he is the Loch Ness monster of the swamp!

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I just realized we need an The Office reboot in which Michael Scott got elected Congressman from Scranton and is running for President.

Ben Pu 🔺

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5 years

. @BetoORourke challenges staff to a push-up competition in SUX Airport. Our flight is delayed so he says “we gotta make use of this time.”

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Let's call this what it is: Donald Trump picks fights with black people to stir support among racists.

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6 years

Jordan Peterson’s interview on Channel 4 exemplifies a new trend in public discourse: twisting words to make people look like extremist monsters.

Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Actually Saying?

A British broadcaster doggedly tried to put words into the academic’s mouth.

www.theatlantic.com

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When many hear "free market" they think merely *rich people want to keep their money* and not *decentralized coordinating mechanism that factors in more preference information than humans ever could.* This failure to teach the knowledge problem to enough people is a crisis.

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When Occam's Razor suggests someone humiliated himself through a combo of technological error, pandemic circumstances, bad judgment, & bad luck, it seems like we should react w/ empathy, politeness, & forgiveness, as we would want to be treated, rather than punitive mockery

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4 years

Notice a few characteristics of this moment: 1) it is very hard to write a rule against what these police officers did 2) prior to video it would've been very hard to persuade anyone that they did anything wrong 3) but show people what happened and many are rightly infuriated

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

4 years

Peaceful protest in East Meadow, NY (Long Island): An officer abruptly stops so the protestor walking behind him bumps into the cop. Then the man is violently arrested. Bystanders: “they kneeled on his neck & had about 6 officers holding him down.”

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This would have resulted in censoring the Pentagon Papers

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By popular demand, a hippo eating a watermelon

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I am not generally a fan of broadcast news. Among the several exceptions is @jaketapper , an unusually talented and fair-minded journalist.

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6 years

My job would be a lot easier if, rather than critiquing people I disagree w/ based on their words and actual views, I employed guilt-by-association headlines and wildly uncharitable, speculative assertions about what secretly drives them psychologically

The "Intellectual Dark Web," explained: what Jordan Peterson has in common with the alt-right

A controversial New York Times article describes several popular white intellectuals as marginalized "renegades."

www.vox.com

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2 years

If I tried my hardest to defend Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, I could not mount an intellectually honest defense, because it so frequently broadcasts content that is indefensible. And whatever you think of the New York Times doesn't make that any less true.

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6 months

How many blood types exist? Zero. Many life forms have no blood. Does *Scientific American* think that makes sense? What is going on here?

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Having covered Yale in 2015, when the social justice-coded position was that a polite email about Halloween costumes ruined the safe space students needed to learn, it's staggering to see the scenes like this from left-activists (not sure if they are students or not), and no…

Sahar Tartak🇮🇱🇺🇸

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Yale protestors accost Jewish student w/a boombox, dancing to rap lyrics: F* Israel, Israel a b*tch B* we out here mobbin' on some Palestine sh*t Free Palestine B*, Israel gon' die B* N*gga it's they land why you out here tryna rob it Bulls* prophets, Y'all just want the profit

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5 years

This is a jaw-dropping, must read story.

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2 years

Our public schools need to do a better job teaching about Communism

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4 years

Facebook and Twitter are becoming places where people are exposed to video after video of the most extreme folks on the other side behaving badly. This makes folks on both sides more personally radicalized, more fear driven, and less inclined to rein in their own fringes.

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Joe Rogan is honest, earnest, epistemically modest, intensely curious, and adept at standing in for the listener insofar as he’s unafraid to ask questions rather than feigning smarts when he doesn’t understand something. That is why his podcast is hugely popular.

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5 years

Fascinating analysis here of the @joerogan show with these gems of writing:

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2 years

This may be the prettiest offensive sequence I've ever seen in any sport. Perfection.

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2 years

One touch football. Masterpiece.

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@roddreher But Trump is a billionaire former president, aka the ruling class

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6 years

Imagine how the right would've reacted if Barack Obama spent a year of his presidency Tweeting that Eric Holder should put John McCain or Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney or one of their top aids in jail.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others

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3 years

Has there ever been a time when *Side against the people who are banning books* was wrong?

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7 years

In which Antifa beats, stabs, and bear sprays a half Japanese man who is not a fascist.

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5 years

I still don’t understand how a person is better off with a USC degree than, say, a Cal State degree + $500,000 cash.

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Let us judge them not by the content of their character but by their immutable characteristics (once we figure out the relative intersectional valence of race, gender, and sexuality).

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A certain kind of anger at NYT coverage boils down to the belief that *the right is worse than the left, so it is bad to report anything that reflects badly on the left because the consequence might be fewer people supporting the left or more people supporting the right.*

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I, for one, believe that dismantling the United States would be an immoral act and a horrific tragedy for the world, rendering a majority of its inhabitants catastrophically worse off and doing far more harm than good.

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“The goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States. For the freedom and future of all life on this planet depends on that.” University of Minnesota professor Melanie Yazzie admits the Woke quiet part out loud.

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3 years

This is wonderful.

CBS News

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3 years

WALK OF HONOR: Staff and students line the hallways of an Oklahoma public school to celebrate their cafeteria manager after she passed her U.S. citizenship test.

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Just 5 years ago I would've expected the online debate about the Chappelle special to include many comedians out there who are opinionated about their craft. Has anyone else noticed how many of those voices are missing, now that the costs of conversation have increased?

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I continue to believe the press should stop using the names and photos of mass casualty shooters to avoid the “shoot up your school, gain infamy” incentive that seems to be a factor in some of these incidents.

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Prayers don't work says area man whose strategy is venting angrily on Twitter

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@chrislhayes I’m not sure “privilege” is the word for being made into a national villain at age 17 by a mob that calls your face punchable and doxxes your family... and then, when much of what was reported turns out to be false, getting to explain your side.

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If you succeed in problematizing and cancelling all of America's shared civic holidays and rituals what do you think is going to happen next? (Hint: it's not going to be *more* intergroup solidarity and *improved* prospects for social justice.)

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4 years

[finishes chapter one of book on French revolution but no farther] Guys I've got an idea

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The protesters have brought out a guillotine to the streets #Portland #PortlandProtest

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Female police officers use lethal force at a significantly lower rate than male police officers, even after adjusting for other factors like job type

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Another point: if we don’t want cops to resort immediately to tasers and guns, we need to stop letting women be cops. Those are literally their only options. They can’t physically take down a suspect otherwise. So which is it, woke crowd? Get rid of the women or let them shoot?

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I, for one, think it is bad––that is, intentionally intimidating, prejudiced, risky, and for those reasons immoral––to assemble mobs outside Jewish owned businesses and falsely accuse their owners of crimes against humanity.

Jordan Van Glish

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Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a Jewish & Israeli owned falafel restaurant “Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”

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So long as Hamas is explicitly pledging more and more October 7s until Israel is literally destroyed, what possibility is there for a ceasefire? How can one party in a conflict declare a ceasefire when the other side shouts its intention to continue trying to kill them all?

MEMRI

@MEMRIReports

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Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians

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I wonder what the consequences will be in future years of so many partisan Republicans rendering themselves unable to credibly complain about unethical leadership, mendacity, or erratic, vulgar comportment without being credibly accused of hypocrisy. Why are they so shortsighted?

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1) Nonprofit spends millions on luxury housing. 2) Journalists report on their spending. 3) Activists at the nonprofit characterize criticism of their spending as abuse, target journalists with a private investigator. 4) Facebook censors the journalism.

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Lots of email this week from racially diverse parents, most of them Democrats, who share concerns like these but are afraid to attach their name to them for fear of social and career repercussions:

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Lots of prominent politicians and commentators who publicly support Donald Trump know in their hearts that his character is execrable but won't say so aloud. Mitt Romney upsets this cohort because his actions are an implicit rebuke to the course they've chosen.

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This is perfect. People are skeptical of capitalism because they blame this plane crash on it but don’t credit it for enabling the invention of human flight and the development of a global system of affordable air travel that’s safer than both driving and government run rail.

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"hey siri, why are people skeptical of capitalism"

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The most popular musical is WHAT?

City Journal

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What would Jefferson say if he were to take a tour of America’s most prestigious universities in 2017?

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If you can't accurately explain *why* bygone Marxist experiments all ended in oppression and mass death, don't be surprised that huge majorities oppose allowing you to run another radical experiment in something that, by your own admission, has never been done successfully.

The Socialist Party

@OfficialSPGB

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@ellencarmichael If you want to be offensive to socialists and falsely link us with deaths caused by ruthless murderous leaders who had absolutely nothing to do with socialism, then don’t be surprised if some people take issue with you regarding this vile lie.

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If you don't see that it is reckless and immoral to set a fire on the ground floor of a 16-story building containing 114 residences, or that this sort of thing is going to get someone killed if it isn't stopped, I don't understand your world view at all.

March on Portland mayor's residence declared riot as burning debris thrown into building

Organizers focused the event on a demand for Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's immediate resignation.

www.oregonlive.com

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Utter nonsense. Injustices that the overwhelmingly majority of Americans alive today had no hand whatever in perpetrating in no way excuse the mercenary and hypocritical failure by the NBA to speak out against an ethnic minority group being put in concentration camps today.

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If you favor mandatory "cultural competence training" in public institutions, understand that sooner or later, a political coalition other than yours will get to decide the content of that mandatory training.

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He's right. By politicizing themselves universities are creating the conditions for their own demise. The public is happy to fund research and teaching. It is not happy to fund whatever a highly unrepresentative faction decides is social justice.

Tyler Austin Harper

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This is what we're witnessing – the dismantling of public higher ed in conservative states – and we've created the conditions for what's going on at UNC. How did anyone think we could get away with being nakedly ideological for years without any chickens coming home to roost? 1/

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In theory the hospital story was one where skilled experts on the spread of disinformation could have shined. Did any?

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4 years

Annoyingly, Nikole Hannah-Jones blocked me on Twitter today before posting more mischaracterizations of our recent disagreements about 1619 vs 1776. I'd hoped and intended to leave things at my last thread. Now I'll post videos corroborating my position.

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I wish conservatives cared about this when Edward Snowden revealed it, instead of calling him a traitor. Where is their NSA reform bill?

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Too many people have lost touch with the horrors that inspire it and that it has successfully prevented from recurring.

Evan McMullin 🇺🇸

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Republican leaders must rise to the defense of NATO. It's been vital to world peace for nearly 70 years. It still is.

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I interviewed Ndona Muboyayi. She worries that the public school system is teaching her Black children in ways that disempower them while prejudicially stereotyping whites. Here is the piece: I can share a few more things she told me, too.

‘The Narrative Is, “You Can’t Get Ahead”’

In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism.

www.theatlantic.com

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This protest made thousands of people worse off and no one plausibly better off because there is no logical reason why shutting down a Southern California freeway would lead to a cease fire, though it could easily lead to a death if an ambulance was stuck in traffic.

The Associated Press

@AP

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Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza shut down the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. All lanes were blocked as protesters lined up, sitting down along the southbound side of the freeway. 75 people were arrested, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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We have appropriately strong taboos against glorifying Hitler and Nazis. Why isn't there a stronger taboo on the left against glorifying the known mass murderer Mao, such that a politician of all things would openly wear clothing with his image?

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No one should ever be fired for calling for due process.

Josh Kraushaar

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“Brooklyn Center city manager fired after call for due process for police officer”

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They said "Russian warship, go fuck yourself." I strenuously object to censoring their heroic last words, perhaps intended to rouse others to similar deeds. They are news that's fit to print.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Ukrainian border guards who died defending Snake Island when Russia attacked will all be posthumously titled "Hero of Ukraine." In an audio clip, they used an expletive and refused to surrender the Black Sea island when ordered to by a Russian warship.

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Upon reflection traits that the United States should avoid in future presidents are cruelty, mendacity, inattention to detail, need for attention, and open praise for atrocities perpetrated by foreign dictators as "strength."

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Evidently we're going to have a debate about vaccine mandates and abortion at the same time--that is, both culture war tribes are simultaneously going to take both positions on the rights to medical privacy and "my body my choice" autonomy

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The nation’s people did not realize it at the time, but Tom Brady’s defeat was the beginning of the end of the darkness.

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It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

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@conor64

4 years

If every white homeowner who bought White Fragility instead started lobbying their municipal government to abolish all prohibitions on building new multi-family housing units, antiracism would be much better served.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

2 years

When you make a list of who is hit hardest by abortion bans and gays make the list but women don't.

ACLU

@ACLU

2 years

Abortion bans disproportionately harm: ▪️ Black, Indigenous & other people of color ▪️ the LGBTQ community ▪️ immigrants ▪️ young people ▪️ those working to make ends meet ▪️ people with disabilities Protecting abortion access is an urgent matter of racial and economic justice.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

5 years

I’m confused. Is it bad or good to disparagingly pass judgment on large groups of strangers based on negative group stereotypes?

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

6 years

If the libel laws ever change in the way Trump purports to want Barack Obama will wind up owning Trump Tower.

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1

6 years

Trump on 'Fire and Fury': "The libel laws are very weak in this country. If they were strong, it would be very helpful. You wouldn't have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head." (via CBS)

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

The slow pace of vaccinations is the biggest failure of American institutions in my lifetime. Bigger than the Iraq War, bigger than 9/11. The deaths pile up daily and I see nothing close to adequate urgency among federal, state, or local leaders.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

2 years

The zeitgeist has gone from *abolish the police* to *vigilante justice will be our undoing* rather quickly.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

6 years

Is there any conceivable Republican president who, given this Congress, wouldn't have succeeded in 1) appointing judges; 2) signing a tax cut bill? What's different w/ Trump is his unusual mendacity, cruelty, indiscipline, and posture toward the alt-right.

Brit Hume

@brithume

6 years

The fact that POTUS has achieved quite a bit has now begun to be noticed even in elements of the MSM.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

8 years

Sean Hannity is your colleague, your former boss works for Trump, and is--oh, never mind, you don't really care

Fox News

@FoxNews

8 years

. @oreillyfactor : "Any journalist colluding with a political campaign should resign immediately, or be forced to resign. Period."

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

7 years

This CNN reporter doesn't get that the Trump White House just conned CNN into reading a list of terrorist attacks as today's news.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

If you repeat a lie often and loud enough... Donald Trump still won't pay you for legal services rendered.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

8 years

CNN reports that a man in a donor suite had to be restrained from assaulting Ted Cruz after he entered it after his speech.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

If you're chasing and assaulting journalists you're acting like fascists not fighting fascism.

Andy Ngo reportedly tackled, punched by Portland rioters during latest night of unrest

Conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who writes frequently about Antifa, was reportedly chased and attacked by black-clad rioters overnight during the latest unrest in Portland, Oregon, according to...

www.foxnews.com

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

5 months

The article characterizes the students as "radicalized," but I think it's important to probe the possibility that this behavior flows not from earnest commitment to any cause, but rather, from social justice activism being used as a pretext to misbehave, bully and intimidate

Matt Welch

@MattWelch

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Yikes.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

Do we want 27-year-olds to lose jobs over Tweets they sent when they were 17?

Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets (Published 2021)

The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago.

www.nytimes.com

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

This would reduce the supply of rental units, spike future rents, decimate new construction, and destroy the ability of people to secure mortgages. What a staggeringly shortsighted housing policy.

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

3 years

Prevent mass evictions and homelessness. Cancel rent AND mortgages for the duration of the pandemic.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

6 years

If you find the prospect of a centrist opinion writer and editor visiting a liberal democracy to be “frankly terrifying,” I do not trust you to cogently differentiate between that which you disagree with and that which is actually dangerous.

Jeet Heer

@HeerJeet

6 years

The prospect of Bari Weiss in Australia is, frankly, terrifying. She loves reactionary hot takes & Australian media is as reactionary as it gets in anglophone world.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

8 years

When Donald Trump loses he lies about the system being rigged to save himself embarrassment. For example:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

12 years

The Emmys are all politics, that's why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won--even though it should have many times over.

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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

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I find learning languages very difficult and I never fail to be impressed by people who pick up English as a second language. And don't even get me started on Nabakov writing literature in it.

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