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Tweets
Largest ever free speech survey of college students ranks top campuses for expression https://t.co/KYAZmsgFYW via @TheFIREorg
If I were single I would just go around using "begs the question" correctly to pick up women.
Diversity & inclusion are meaningless if GOP college students are afraid to talk; too many students are afraid to question, debate, & speak. This is the antithesis of our ed system; we can do better. My latest @amconmag @TheFIREorg https://t.co/RXaJmUrmi8
“Some students are more free to speak than others.”@SamuelAbramsAEI Those who advocate for a more restrictive speech climate often think it will help the marginalized. But the data reveal no significant difference by race. The difference is about politics—not identity or class. https://t.co/2y4b9wRvn5
I somehow missed this amazing essay by @StrangelEdweird until now. “The One Thought Rule: Disagree with the orthodoxy and your ‘of color’ card gets revoked.” https://t.co/sRaoRNW5Aw
Very glad to see that people who disagree about lots of things can at least agree that this kind of public shaming and ruining lives is not the answer. https://t.co/8K99U8Shcx
So a @USAA rep left me a voicemail saying they are getting a timeline to try to understand why the tow took 2.5 hours on Sunday. But THIS is what they keep not understanding: They told me I was on my own to get myself out of there & they told me they called 911 when they didn't. https://t.co/yORqNTNzCa
I wrote in @NewYorker on studies by psychologists, conducted between 2018 and 2021, which suggest that trigger warnings do not help and may even harm mental health. https://t.co/QnCrtbDS40
If you are from a politically mixed family, if you are from a house divided, this story is for you: https://t.co/wle0m9B4dZ
One of the great, weird treats of modern life is being able to rapidly refresh myself on the details of pop culture lore I was steeped in as a kid — for example, the print comics backstory of Carnage and Cletus Kasady.
UCLA professor Gordon Klein, whose case @TheFIREorg first drew attention to in June 2020, has sued UCLA for suspending and smearing him following his refusal to apply race-based grading policies in the wake of George Floyd's murder: https://t.co/tfJFUUNiAZ
'Both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany banned jazz: neither Nazism nor Communism could tolerate a music that encouraged finding one’s individual voice within an ensemble setting.' Great essay on birth of 'cool' by @JoelDinerstein. Via @KerouacDotCom https://t.co/4J38uA6YcR
Will be joining WBUR's On Point this morning to discuss academic freedom and campus free speech
The College Educators Behind The Push To Speak Freely On Campus https://t.co/uNlrUwd624 via @OnPointRadio
"If there is a single value the university must hold sacred, I submit, it is curiosity."
By HxA's Inaugural President, John Tomasi.
CC: @JonHaidt
https://t.co/KDkZFDFOi5
I had a great time chatting with @glukianoff while @whignewtons is on a well-deserved vacation. Free speech, helicopter parents, “safetyism,” and more! Good times: https://t.co/BfQVuo9mK9
ICYMI: FIRE’s new defense fund is here to save college faculty jobs. And we just closed our first case. https://t.co/pOAqssr4Ek via @TheFIREorg
"True equity & inclusion must include viewpoint diversity, must respect real and meaningful political differences and outlooks, & must embrace a multitude of ideas even if they make some members of the community uncomfortable." https://t.co/RXaJmUrmi8 @HdxAcademy @AEI @goACTA
My conversation with @DavidAFrench on legislative efforts to suppress speech on campus on the last episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast. New episode will drop today.
David French on the Problem with Banning Conversations https://t.co/AT2y3FKg3C
@glukianoff Goddamn your typo. For a second I genuinely thought @vpostrel had written a cookbook and I got SO EXCITED
Some college admins got qualified immunity after running right over a student's free speech rights as she tried to recruit for a political advocacy group.
The loudest rebuke there came from...Clarence Thomas. https://t.co/ISPyfEN90y
@glukianoff @kmanguward @vpostrel https://t.co/keQGIk5tkd
Congrats to Jesse Shapiro on his well deserved MacArthur genius award. This is a very rare award for an economist. I’m sure Jesse will put it to great use.
https://t.co/DVUYt86p2l
"Writing a book" was admittedly a very time-consuming, effortful way to achieve my #1 life goal: Being reviewed by @slatestarcodex. But hey, at least it worked!
https://t.co/ukcERR8rI2
Indeed and OpenTable have teamed up for a month-long hiring initiative to help restaurants get staffed up again. https://t.co/R1tJjV0L21
Could not be more thrilled about this! Huge thank you to @MartaBelcher and the entire @FFDWeb team.
Read more about how this grant to @FreedomofPress is game-changing for @SecureDrop here: https://t.co/8djNqQvxgQ https://t.co/tB9TX2lGyu
Researchers @UF studying the use of a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment paired with cognitive training have found the therapy holds promise as an effective, drug-free approach for someday warding off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias https://t.co/8sPo9X5yR1
Essential reading if you care about free speech.
Freedom of speech is a very rare thing if you survey all of human history. Don't take it for granted. Fight for it every day. That especially means fighting hard for the rights of speakers with whom you strongly disagree. https://t.co/IvatgRI1Yc https://t.co/2iTL1J31Zp
@moniguzman I do get a bit spicy from time to time - it’s true.
Just revisited @glukianoff’s episode and was feeling fired up!
@DrJeffPerron @glukianoff Thank you, Jeff! Greg is a great guest.
RT @samk_harris: UCLA professor Gordon Klein, whose case @TheFIREorg first drew attention to in June 2020, has sued UCLA for suspending and…
RT @juliagalef: "Writing a book" was admittedly a very time-consuming, effortful way to achieve my #1 life goal: Being reviewed by @slatest…
RT @NewLiberalsPod: 25: Speaking Freely, with Greg Lukianoff
In order to understand the world around us, we must be able to speak with one…
RT @John_Campione: “To believe that students must be inculcated with specific political or ideological beliefs is to assume the infallibili…
RT @masonben84: @glukianoff @bonniekerrigan @TheFIREorg Letter to the editor in today's paper https://t.co/4BWhzR8i4z
RT @DavidAFrench: I had a great time chatting with @glukianoff while @whignewtons is on a well-deserved vacation. Free speech, helicopter p…
RT @FastCompany: Indeed and OpenTable have teamed up for a month-long hiring initiative to help restaurants get staffed up again. https://t…
The book is a masterpiece. 99.999% will learn many new and cook things! https://t.co/gnvxPYKFCE
RT @DonovanCleckley: I continue to adore this quote from @AliceDreger’s ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger’ in ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ by…
RT @AAUniversities: Researchers @UF studying the use of a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment paired with cognitive training have found…
RT @munkeymiddle: No matter your affiliation or worldview, this organization is doing some incredibly important work.
RT @glukianoff: Largest ever free speech survey of college students ranks top campuses for expression https://t.co/KYAZmsgFYW via @TheFIREo…
RT @AFA_Alliance: New episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast is available now! We interview Sean Stevens and Komi German of @theFIREorg on…
Ack! I am so sorry! As soon as I said that I cringed https://t.co/wt95qD3wTd
RT @AmnaUncensored: “True equity and inclusion must include viewpoint diversity, must respect real & meaningful political differences & out…
Claremont McKenna College ranked highest in the 2021 College Free Speech Rankings w/ @TheFIREorg and @RealClearEd. 89% of @CMCnews students believe school administrators would likely defend a speaker’s rights. https://t.co/mguxLcQy1W
@glukianoff @TheFIREorg I would prefer if my child goes to the University of Chicago over an Ivy League right now. And UC is not Liberty University, they just hold to the millennia-old tradition that universities should be centers for critical thinking, learning and growth.
@glukianoff @TheFIREorg Such an enormously important effort, differentiating between those colleges focused on social justice warrior training vs those that are bastions of free speech, debate and classical liberalism. https://t.co/cloHuKNaXO
@DrJeffPerron @NewLiberalsPod @glukianoff Just listened to this fantastic, deep, historically relevant discussion with Greg. I thought I was well versed on the topic, but he connected so many dots for me. Having a warm, calm speaking manner lowers my resistance and opens my mind. Highly recommend this gem.
@glukianoff @TheFIREorg A happy ending, which is sadly untypical
hello @GrittyNHL we are here at the farg if you’d like to discuss being a guest at our wedding https://t.co/PqNj8YFsTl
They were talking about social media in my 14-year-old's class and she said "oh Dad's on Twitter [eye roll not witnessed but reliably surmised]" and the teacher looked me up and read some of the tweets to the class and now I get to meet the new headmaster
We're rocketing towards the holidays, and it's stressful and difficult for many folks. So please remember to focus on what's important. There's no "right" or "perfect" way to celebrate Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day on November 7th. Just spend it with family.
You've been mayor for seven years. https://t.co/SvFJabb6T5
@JonahDispatch No seriously though if there is a letter or protest or vigil or anything can you please have someone post it so we can watch
@sarahemclaugh Your commitment to reaching out to the odd, off-putting, questionably dressed mascot of a beloved institution is admirable.
I mean, if you have to run over six cyclists, being a white teen boy in a truck in Texas is the way to do it
https://t.co/owJoYLpeDa
we love the jellicle cats, don't we folks. because jellicles can and jellicles do
@ENBrown But hate crimes laws protecting police are cool right https://t.co/XHJd7aOGnl
By the way, she asked me to bring the rabbit poop to tennis and I just couldn’t because I’m almost positive this group already thinks I’m an eccentric weirdo who makes too many jokes when I’m feeling awkward
@Popehat this is the first tweet the headmaster is going to read to you
As @jbarro is in England busily shaming appliances, tune in tomorrow to All The Presidents' Lawyers as I talk to our guest @DavidLat about the lawyers that Trump, like an illiterate orange Screwtape, corrupted https://t.co/jTCl6FRvZF
@Popehat HM: Mr. White, we invited you to this meeting…
PH: Invite?
WIFE: no. Just no.
PH: well i invite you to SNO…
WIFE: thank you this has been lovely we homeschool now.
@JaclynLeeTV @BensalemPolice @6abc Hi Jaclyn as a moderately dim white suburban parent I'm your target audience here but I find myself unsatisfied with the level of terror. Can you dial up the reefer madness narrative a bit?
@Popehat Don’t cry for me, Stormy Daniels
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My stable genius
I gave you crabs from
My mushroom penis
@CowBlizzard @Popehat Snitches sleep with Murderball.
@Popehat Sounds like someone needs a lesson about not snitching to the pigs.
Tired: A candidate you can have a beer with
Wired: A candidate you can talk with about whether it worked to have Samantha Barks as Eponine in a cast of film actors
@bernybelvedere Does the Federalist have a jooish crime tag
I would have thought Trump was more of a Starlight Express guy
My wife and I built a machine that converts fruit snacks into rage and destruction.
@chimeracoder Every time someone does a study or investigation of what it’s like to go into a police station the results are horrendous
https://t.co/j745z6MswN
@Popehat I wonder what would make it worse in the eyes of the court: if he hit a seventh kid or if he was driving a Prius.
@Popehat “Don’t do anything wrong and you won’t be tossed into the sewers of the American justice system ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
@Popehat Teacher: Mr. White, I understand your father is a famous lawyer. Has he tried any big cases?
14 y/o: No. He's mostly known for the "rule of goats".
Teacher: What's that?
*(later that day)
Ken: Hey, why is the school calling me?
Federalist Society also remains committed to its traditional stance against government interference in private business.
For the most part. https://t.co/ZN1oIEgvxf
@Popehat Paul Scofield was an absolute talent. A Man For All Seasons remains a vehicle of real glory for him.
My 8 yo daughter just told me that if anyone at school ever asks about her dad, she grabs her chromebook and Googles me to show them 😂
@FrankLuntz Lucifer: [offered opportunity to possess Emerald Robinson] https://t.co/UrOBcCyVby
@Popehat Is he going to ask how you don't have a blue check mark yet have 250k+ followers?
RT @DaveBrady72: The downward trend in the birth rate among 15-19 year olds over the last few decades…is something to behold.
RT @GloriaPazmino: "For a lot of you, the challenges of Rikers may be new. For me they're not," - @NYCMayor to the press corps who has exte…
@BritishPodcast There’s a socially and emotionally normal person.
@KwikJraw @treer0t That appears to be what normal people would call a joke.
This appears to be a street fight among trolls, assholes, and nutbats, and I decline to participate.
@DavidAFrench Anyway, churches are one of the places where the mission of the client and best prudential practices diverge the most.
RT @bader_diedrich: @MichaelPaulson 🎶 “MEMORY, ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT!” 🎵 https://t.co/zdyOoJW2hT
@JackFro03367504 @jbarro @DavidLat I’m going to put you down as a “maybe”
it would be good to have decent health care in this country.
https://t.co/XjLiyUqaT8
RT @ChristophSouza: @Popehat Don’t cry for me, Stormy Daniels
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My stable genius
I gav…
@JonahDispatch this is more than a microaggression at HLS students but maybe not a full macroaggression. This is a medaggression.
RT @UrbanAchievr: This also explains why conservative media--as an institution--is feeding the worst elements of the far right. They're all…
RT @bernybelvedere: Weird how substantive critiques of this caliber started pouring in after Domenech QTed us. It’s just the darndest thing…
RT @PyreDruid: @Popehat Donald, is there a proper blessing for the law?
May God bless and keep the law, far away from us.
Happy #nationalsonsday to Miscreant#1, who lurks on here someplace. https://t.co/W4zGU7hMm8
RT @uafbum: @nharvill @Popehat I have a meme for that! :) https://t.co/v19vvZePub
I’m just grateful the weed will make my kids too lazy to go to the rainbow parties or huff jenkem https://t.co/81YouhXCA3
RT @burtlikko: Doesn't take an ethics expert to figure out the problems here, especially when the decision is reversed later that day, the…
RT @ScottMStedman: Learning a ton of new details about the SDNY investigation into Rudy Giuliani based on just unsealed court docs. Thread…
RT @HardlyRealTom: Lmao @TheOnion y’all are cra- oh.
https://t.co/EvWt1WnIsl
RT @chimeracoder: So, I had to file a police report (long story - trust me, it's the LAST thing I wanted to do) and that required three sep…
RT @VolokhC: [Eugene Volokh] City-Organized Veterans Parade Can Exclude Confederate Flags https://t.co/Hs2Ajyj0zx
RT @mjs_DC: According to the well-sourced @DavidLat, the Federalist Society "slow-rolled" John Eastman's departure as chair of a major prac…
RT @Don_Zeko: Why are people so eager to believe that stoners want to give their weed away to random kids
RT @tobin: @Popehat I am the very model of the smartest presidential,
The sanest, wisest, compos mentist individual,
I took a test and pass…
Regarding that "there are more murders because police are policing less" idea.
https://t.co/GaHnlvPYGN
RT @washingtonpost: N.C. hospital system fires about 175 workers in one of the largest-ever mass terminations due to a vaccine mandate http…
@Pyperkub @arstechnica @tdechant The claim is a state one and California's anti-SLAPP law applies to it, with some complications, in federal court here.
@NotJoshBlackman @Darren_Young_A I wish I could get all the assholes to block me that easily.
@justsomenurse I perceive a discussion would be pointless.
RT @Snark_P_Bear: @Popehat [To the tune of Memory]
COVID!
It will be gone by April
I don't listen to doctors
They just tell me fake news...…
@ChristophSouza @speechboy71 Where is Donald Trump's penis supposed to go for its apology
RT @glukianoff: ICYMI: FIRE’s new defense fund is here to save college faculty jobs. And we just closed our first case. https://t.co/pOAqss…
RT @kylegriffin1: Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter's application to become a real estate appraiser, Republi…
@NotJoshBlackman @midwestpants i will have you know I have 35% fewer chins now
RT @j00bar: @Popehat 🎶I am the very model of a modern stable genius,
I've information fake news says my hands they are the teeniest,
I know…
@Darren_Young_A Would you like guaranteed protection from the risk of me ever doing this again?
RT @GoodishIntent: @Popehat I always think about Kalief Browder, who at 16 years old spent 3 years in Rikers for allegedly stealing a backp…
@ebruenig Fox News report on small children: https://t.co/rffmlQkJ2F
@granmaloriann Ona those dipshits showed up in the mentions “WELL WHAT BOUT THE j6 folks HUH” as if I hadn’t talked about their rights and conditions as well.
@yall_black @HardlyRealTom I’m pretty sure Tom was mordantly mocking the attitude and not endorsing it.
@midwestpants They wouldn’t invite me, I’m not anybody special.
@Warlockyone Oh gosh yes you’ve sure got me in a bind now with all the posts saying that the January 6 people should be held without bail or that they should be kept in deliberately illegal conditions, that’s quite a lot of hypocrisy you’ve caught me in
@punishedarchit1 @janecoaston What r u some kind of SOCIALIST
In America, these are the sorts of cockroaches that scuttle out when you suggest that people jailed upon being accused of crimes should be kept in anything approaching humane or legal conditions. https://t.co/4ulg6fyd9B
@NYK_NYM_Fan @JSilverPlatinum @NYCMayor You’re a cockroach.
@StewartIndex @jeffpagano @jimstewartson @MalcolmNance Oh you have a jpeg, never mind then
RT @FreeLawProject: Four years in the making, today we are announcing a new one-of-a-kind database containing the investment and conflict i…
Eastwood/Powell org Federalist Society remains deeply concerned about preserving freedom and preventing harm https://t.co/jHPUqr5qk3
@StewartIndex @jeffpagano @jimstewartson @MalcolmNance https://t.co/yFrbr1elzs
RT @elizabeth_joh: “One real risk, they say, is that four years after the failed Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump and his supporters emerge in 20…
RT @EricLiptonNYT: Trump Loses Case to Enforce Omarosa Manigault Newman’s N.D.A. Donald Trump had filed the case against Ms. Manigault Newm…
RT @ZoeTillman: Hello from Judge Carl Nichols' virtual courtroom, where a plea hearing is about to start for Jan. 6 def Jennifer Parks. A t…
Me: We’ve got lots to do today.
Brain: Oh boy do we.
Me: Yes. Wait, what do YOU mean?
Brain: We’re going to rewrite show tunes to be Trump-themed.
Me: We are absolutely fucking not going to do that.
Brain: Losers and cucks and libs better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey,
RT @shikhadalmia: Orban is attacking churches in Hungary. But CPAC has chosen Budapest for its 2022 confab, signaling the ominous direction…
RT @speechboy71: Um … https://t.co/TD5BrnyZ7C https://t.co/i8XOcDE7h3
RT @Ugarles: AIDE: Mr. President, this is Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma.
TRUMP (under his breath): where the wind comes sweeping dow…
@HardlyRealTom My knowledge of this area is very limited.
Next time you’re in the mood for some Shakespeare, listen to the Marlowe Society’s production of Henry IV Part I, available on Spotify, Audible, Amazon, etc., and listen to Paul Scofield just dominate the play as Hotspur. What a voice.
https://t.co/qBt6nk3d2Q
RT @DougJBalloon: Hospitals have reported that over 95% of COVID victims in their ICUs are unvaccinated. But Twitter user @heluv3879888 ha…
RT @Cdbrow1: @Popehat Clearly this violated the first amendment!!!
RT @DBMain2: @Popehat
“Twitter” doesn’t fit. https://t.co/baGA5SL50H
RT @JuneauCurmudge1: @Popehat
Tesla Sues For Defamation Over Social Media Posts https://t.co/t2vgQAgsPD
Seems like a lot of work just to get @mattgaetz interested in criminal justice reform https://t.co/8OOllldalL
RT @iamgabesanchez: These new Venmo ads featuring Matt Gaetz are kinda sus. https://t.co/A23Q1SSl0m
RT @FPWellman: Twitter won't remove candidate's call to "execute" election fraudsters https://t.co/Y1cLsrCtoL
@Britpoptarts @CowBlizzard @Popehat “He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a naughty Pope Hat.”
@Popehat No no no, it's soaking parties now. Goodness, it's like you don't have teenaged children. XD
@Popehat I am the very model of the smartest presidential,
The sanest, wisest, compos mentist individual,
I took a test and passed, the highest score that was available,
And if you don’t believe me, I’ll remember six items and name that animal.
@Popehat At least it isn't the goddamn razor blades*** from when I was a kid.
***That, of course, did not exist
@Popehat I believe
That Obama was born in Kenya
And I believe that he had someone murdered to cover up his forged birth certificate
I believe that "Massive combined vaccines are behind big increase in autism..."
I am a moron
And a moron just believes.
@Popehat *stares at reply button for a long time*
Damn you, Hat...
*sighs, hits reply*
🎶Sign NDAs and praise me, praise me,
all of your days me, I (don't) need you.
Give a dollar and pay me, pay me,
go ahead and pray to me, I (don't) need you.🎶
@Popehat …and that begs the question, why don’t we take this back to my place?
@Popehat No proximate cause. There was an intervening actor.
You did not write for a 14 yr old's audience. That reading was unforeseeable.
Also anybody could be that Popehat guy, ANYBODY.
@Popehat Ah yes, the "Justice for Ashley Babbit" crowd.
@Popehat Half of those posts are from suspended accounts.
Must be a deep state conspiracy
@Popehat [To the tune of Memory]
COVID!
It will be gone by April
I don't listen to doctors
They just tell me fake news...
It's the libs who all want to destroy my economy.
I blame China...
and the Dems.
@Popehat There has been one very high-profile case and therefore possibly other lower-profile ones of European judges refusing to extradite to the US on the grounds that the prisons are inhumane. Assuming the US doesn't make extradition requests for the lolz, this may also be a problem.
@Popehat Imma bill you for the pain of all that water I was drinking coming out of my nose
@Popehat The last time I was on the dating scene (early 2014, Los Angeles), probably 80% of the early/mid 30's women I was looking at had extremely strong opinions about the Oxford Comma in their OKCupid profiles.
So, if you said this as joke, it might be more real than you'd think.
@Popehat "One night at CPAC and the lib tears tumble...."
@Popehat You think THAT dude enjoys anything as physical as roller skating?
@Popehat But your statement presupposes a conclu... Ah haha hahaha. Well played.
@Popehat 🎶I am the very model of a modern stable genius,
I've information fake news says my hands they are the teeniest,
I know the Kims of Korea and I quote the Fox News oracles,
From person woman man camera TV, in order categorical.🎶
@Popehat "...I can smell Steve Bannon walking next to me."
@Popehat All these years and still getting sent to the principal’s office
@Popehat Though we'll never never meet again
Man woman camera TV
I will always (person!) hold these memories
Of nights on Carlson
Of days on Judge Jeanine
The way you haunt my dreams!
No No, I can't get that away from me.
I don't know if @popehat has played Hitman 1, but one of the targets is a bald private defense attorney named Ken who's a partner at a small firm: https://t.co/y9CnfNWHI1
@TheRickWilson Pardon me, are you Lindsey Graham, ma’am?
@Popehat “I could have crimed all night, 🎵
I could have crimed all night, 🎵
And sewn sedition too.” 🎵
@stebuu @Popehat No, and I humbly submit that you SHOULD like that answer. Imagine if cops/DAs were making charging determinations based on the fear that the victims would sue them for damages.
@Popehat The way you wear your "hair"
The way you orange your cheeks
The memory of all that
No, I can't get that away from me
The way covfefe pours
The way hamberders please
The tweets--typos galore
No, I can't ferget those memereez.
@Popehat Is it time to introduce yourself to the headmaster as Mr. Bofa, Esq?
@Cdbrow1 @Popehat I guarantee there is a legitimately serious take out there claiming exactly this. Probably from some semi-known Harvard Law grad.
@Popehat Great photo. You made the right choice to keep the shirt on. So much joy in that moment!
Faculty, there are enough people outside the academy trying to get you cancelled that you really don't need to join in yourselves
https://t.co/v5AzEELiCA
You know what I've seen over and over in NYC? Parent with baby in stroller facing big set of stairs from the train up to the platform. Some commuter-stranger silently turns around and takes the front of the stroller while parent takes the back. No fuss. Just good help. https://t.co/fNSHXp5LNU
It's remarkable to me that Henrietta and Rosy do not have the yellowed fur that a lot of older rats get. It must be my excellent banana bread keeping them looking so fly. (This is Henrietta, who is hard to photograph because she likes to dash about.) https://t.co/gQE3JAcTow
my kingdom for a world in which people understand the difference between *suggesting mercy for bad actors* and *defending the bad act* https://t.co/NNdSpPZsP9
theory that this sort of tweet exists mainly to give a certain type of white woman the opportunity to declare her solidarity with the sentiment, in a way that implicitly excludes her from the category of those-white-women-who-suck https://t.co/8YesgfyHAg
The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s no risk at all to the officers and no real opportunity to frame it as somehow leading to more crime. They just think they ought to be exempt from the rules. https://t.co/CPtNhyRHFF
And I have a @Metra story from just now. I was boarding at 53rd St and a man came up to ask me about the Electric Line and if it would get him to the CTA Brown line. People ALWAYS ask me directions, even abroad, lol. I don't know why. 1/n
@jess_miers You'd think someone so in favor of government censorship would moderate her tone.
Left Twitter attacks mainstream media journalists who publish things that challenge their priors in a way that reminds me of how Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin listeners used to attack me in blog comment sections in the late aughts. https://t.co/B8Z8fbegoV https://t.co/uTcHYqL8sC
@kittypurrzog They also do a great nail job, but they can get pretty aggressive about trying to free you from a wedding ring.
@watsonclint @kittypurrzog I can't answer that because HIPAA violation
@kittypurrzog I always let my rats take out my stitches. They do a fine job.
@amyalkon Holding off calling to get a referral because I know it will take me an hour 😭😭😭
@amyalkon What, what - an end times, Rosemary’s Baby vision
@kmele @EmmaSarley Hi Emma - I don't know you but I suspect the way people have treated you has been extremely unfair. add me to the list of ppl that think you should 100% talk to @kmele when you are ready to share your side of the story.
I'm aware that this is what local news does every year but -- if the product is called "Stoner Patch Dummies," that product is not "laced," that product was purchased at a dispensary for like $35 and is definitely not being handed to your kids. https://t.co/tSmw419QZ5
@jessesingal @CathyYoung63 I remember when German started at Vox, very lefty and shallow in his understanding of crim law issues. He's learned a great deal since then, and chosen to brave the slings and arrows of social justice to become a legal realist. He's come a long way.
If you missed yesterday’s @HumBehEvoSoc Roundtable on e evolution of personality (w/ Dario, @PsychoSchmitt, @_julia_stern & Alex Weiss), check it out here 👇
tl;dr the rocket has been a total failure. Principally because it doesn’t physically exist https://t.co/JFbcBNbx7y
@nicholaraihani I do admire the author’s unwavering commitment to bullshit
@amyalkon @giorgiobee I got this recently and am really excited to read it
💰📣 Thanks to generous funding by our sponsor @HumBehEvoSoc the Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at SPSP 2022 will cover precon registration costs for some students and early career researchers with financial hardships. Apply by Nov-15! https://t.co/P2ZGol1pdf
@RealEvilHRLady @amyalkon I got significant pushback when I made the point about emergency vehicles last year. Which is surprising to me. Even if in a particular case an ambulance wasn't blocked, they're showing complete disregard for that possibility.
@MatthewGalanty @kmele @EmmaSarley Also agree. You will get a fair shake from @kmele.
Wow. Awesome that this is on YouTube! https://t.co/1kruubkE9Z
PS Related: It's a goddamn tragedy that @peterboghossian had to part company - out of integrity - w/an edu system that won't bear free speech/inquiry and teaching students to think (instead of indoctrinating them in WHAT to think).
@giorgiobee I told her about yr previous book & how you note that dif people experience grief in dif ways, and that someone may love someone deeply but not mourn them for a long period of time -- and it shouldn't be assumed they didn't care bc of their shorter period. Helps many, I suspect.
The current use of "privilege" & white skin color &other intersectionality-driven ugliness to tell person they just have to shut up involve fetishizing of victimhood that's really sick - & harmful to any possibility of an exchange of ideas that's needed for a healthy society. (3
People w/less $ are not more entitled to speak + PS best not to assume about who is rolling in dough! (There are people barely scraping by who still have a fancy car. Also, wealth does not make one immune to suffering.)
This racist cult-think of the moment has to go. (2
The new sick shorthand that takes place of debate is telling someone they are white & therefore are rich and "privileged" & thus not entitled to voice an opinion. Your skin color, which you can't control, is least informative thing about the sort of person you are. (1
PS @giorgiobee, while walking, ran into therapist friend who sees trauma patients and told her she needs to get your new book. https://t.co/MOefCnguJU
Walking Venice, CA alleys nightly to memorize my TED talk & discovering we have awesome garbage! (In Venice, we all put out stuff that's usable but we don't need atop bins. Last nite, got 4 big white classy din plates. (White designer office chair would not fit in my backpack.) https://t.co/FR7AqZdsTI
@davidyontz @GrammarTable Thank you! I learned this from you and kind of mostly remember it when I’m writing, which is a miracle.
@evolutionarypsy I feel second hand hatred when I hear what you go through to cut thru red tape to get your patients the drugs they need.
For pages & pages of "science-help" from me, my latest book, "Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living w/Guts & Confidence," lays out the PROCESS of transforming to live w/confidence. https://t.co/38qqcPgRKI
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Solution for doggie separation anxiety (like if your dog barks and cries when you leave or go to bed) - from my science-based advice column. Excerpt: https://t.co/tct4MJqk2z https://t.co/dtM9NZRbEw
Apparently, 20 minute wait time was a stroke of luck. Now on hold 31 minutes. It's a healthcare related thing. Maybe they figure they just keep you waiting on the phone til you die, and you won't need healthcare. (I think the wait on hold at the coroner is probably shorter.)
Talking to operator after 20min wait on hold ("Your call's very important..." aka "doesn't mean shit!"). Phone disconnects. She's pulled up your info - including # - & heard your "case," but hey, not gonna call back!
Wanna find her, cover her w/honey, open truck packed w/ ants.
@RealEvilHRLady @JeremyBiltz Emergency vehicles can't get through the blockade.
@amyalkon Well that last time i took the plunge and called Revenue Canada i was on hold for over 2 hours.
@DavidFoyCalgary @amyalkon @GrammarTable It’s not listed as a conjunction in Merriam-Webster, which is as descriptivist as it gets.
@GrammarTable I will shout it from the rooftops: “Then” is not a conjunction; it’s an adverb! It can’t join clauses without a conjunction! The third one is acceptable only in dialogue.
@JeremyBiltz Blocking roads never brings anyone to your side. Just last night, my son brought up how awful it was when our local taxi drivers went on strike to fight against Uber. That was probably 7 years ago, and he's still annoyed at the taxi drivers for blocking the streets.
@sladesr Because it's impossible for them to imagine that beliefs don't come like a set of china all in one package.
Yes I’m sure famed feminist and 87-year-old body with a vagina Ruth Bader Ginsberg would have been totally down with “birthing persons” https://t.co/ieDnMPGNeN
some people are actually clever enough to get away with acting like a mustache-twirling antagonist online, but it is not, crucially, ever the ones who think they are https://t.co/V1tZfXmHEo
this is a normal way to talk about people who have ideas you don’t like https://t.co/l2U44O3VTr
@lippard @ErrataRob Not clear there's actually much clash b/w Wiley's/ Vladeck's views & mine. I focused on federal level & judicial review of scope of OSHA powers. I agree with W & V that how the regs are drafted will be crucial. Twitter's chirpy summary drains away all complication. @jadler1969
This person should highlight the actual text where German Lopez 'lied.' It's a pretty big accusation. https://t.co/UBQQCspDV1
@ASFleischman @jess_miers I'm not a fan of tattoos. I don't have tattoos. I don't really understand why people get tattoos.
But I'm a huge fan of Jess', and if that's her choice, it's good by me.
It's fascinating how the spelling of words can change over time:
In the 17th century, it was "connexion." Now it's connection.
In the 14th century, it was "dout." Now it's doubt.
In the 15th century, it was "shew." Now it's show.
In 2000, it was "ACLU." Now it's FIRE.
For the bazillionth time, there were a minimum of 20-30 people either in the room for or privy to that call.
Y'all got Woodward'd https://t.co/zDTbqjsENW
My son woke up crying last night. He said my twitter metrics were bad. Could you all please share and retweet this so he knows that actually children are a great way to get attention online?
alright, which one of you goddamn monsters retweeted me into the terrible cave full of social justice lawyers
That's either a very brave or a very reckless man! https://t.co/GXULRomCfd
For instance, an awful lot of people who voted to keep marijuana illegal federally and are fine with mandatory drug tests have a problem with the vaccine specifically.
That's more consistent with a culture war stance.
I too have noticed that many people opposed to vaccination have never cared about liberty in any other context https://t.co/qis1IgO0pq
I learned that at Paramount Studios, where I was working, if you're a low-level staff writer, you park in the parking structure across the street, writes @rcbl.
"This is where I learned the most important lesson of my life."
https://t.co/oXk9aJRtEp
“We are only on level five for a short time. The dusty DeLorean is everyone's car because eventually, we all park on level two.” Advice for life from @rcbl https://t.co/CfyNxCiHz8
RT @TheFIREorg: Presenting:
Top 5 colleges for free speech!
1) @CMCnews
2) @UChicago
3) @UofNH
4) @EmoryUniversity
5) @floridastate…
RT @TheFIREorg: Presenting ...
The 5 Worst Colleges for Free Speech:
150) @rpi
151) @BostonCollege
152) @LSU
153) @MarquetteU
154) @DePa…
@StrangelEdweird Sooooooo good, Angel. I want to be the first person to host a book party for you when you write your first bestseller.
@RitaPanahi The most bizarre thing is if it’s so essential to be wearing a mask outside, why do they not ask him to put one one instead of handcuffing him? Or once he’s handcuffed, why don’t they put one on him?
@MsMelChen @InezFeltscher Those people who got canceled are definitely all hanging out. 🤣
@mariachong How do you know that?
(I thought it had to be fake. 😆)
Oh my goodness, I have been trying for ages to put a name to this phenomenon -- deviation from the hymnbook leading to revocation of category membership, if not consignment to an ideological camp with which you fundamentally disagree.
"One Thought Rule" is perfect. https://t.co/rv4tgBfmvF
When "objectivity and rigor" are rejected as "rooted in racism, ableism, and classism,” you have completely lost the tune.
"Truth" cannot be sacrificed on the altar of ideology.
Via @ZaidJilani
https://t.co/hMOTJfJmFD
These tweets confirm James Lindsay is an irredeemable buffoon. There is no coming back from such manifestly discrediting idiocy. The people who haven’t realized what he is by now never will, as they are under a primo douchelord’s powerful sway. https://t.co/L4OnhPlevk
In this weekend's magazine, I wrote about a somewhat obscure TV show that's been off the air for more than a decade — but saw exactly where this country was headed. https://t.co/Xe9LTRH9vy
@chrislhayes Now we've got panicked articles about how teens aren't having *enough* sex or showing enough interest in sex.
if you find yourself earnestly wishing harm/ hardship on someone you’ve never met over a tweet, you *can* give public voice to that desire, but, and I say this with compassion, you can also log off https://t.co/gOMujRm8oD
@stevesilberman @JenLucPiquant That review is AMAZING. I read it earlier. Sent it to a lot of writer-foodie friends.
TFW the insurance company finally calls and you find yourself starting to cry about being left at the unstaffed toll plaza of a highway in a creepy industrial area for 2.5 hours, told by @USAA's "roadside assistance" vendor you're on your own for transport. Thanks again @profjmb.
We really ought to rename this show "Why @SonnyBunch Hates Music This Week." https://t.co/FOekhIOi08
"We talk about price tags. It is zero price tag on the debt. We are going to pay for everything we spend."
Sure, Joe.
https://t.co/6x5oxAVItO
Very interesting article by Randall Kennedy, extremely critical of the anti-CRT pushback but also (if you keep reading) of many aspects of modern "anti-racism."
https://t.co/Q74t1DGDnl
Yes, Only Murders in the Building whips incredibly hard, thank you to the many of you who recommended it
It would be preferable, I think, for a free speech and civil liberties organization to be a bit more aghast at the idea of scrubbing gender-specific language from famous quotations. https://t.co/qdkxDFzzJm
Fun Twitter game: Why did my mentions suddenly get much dumber?
I think I found the answer. https://t.co/od2hrkTxrx
Instead of viewing the world through a lens of friends and enemies, why not sound and unsound ideas, regardless of their source?
If your friends are wrong about something, they don't become less wrong because you love them.
@EsotericCD (A small child once pointed at me and shouted “Daniel tiger Daniel tiger!” so I obviously went home and watched four episodes)
@daveweigel Also I have a theory that musicals people like and musicals musical theater people like are two very different types of musicals.
Survey of 78% of incoming class of 2025 at Harvard via @thecrimson reveals, as usual, many fascinating details. The lack of political diversity remains striking, and has increased in past 5 years. https://t.co/R2QTAgFUO9 https://t.co/zYfiMqsQAc
By @mikeginsberg98, of possible interest to @FairMapsMD @LWVMD @FairDistrictsNC @FairDistrictsPA @1VA2021 @CommonCauseMD @davedaley3 @KTeaFahey @RedistrictNet @MDRedistricting #mdpolitics https://t.co/IZ48Frl5mL
RT @AdamSerwer: The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s n…
RT @germanrlopez: I did the reading — and the results are not good for “defund the police.” https://t.co/C5Emhjv15f
RT @jeremybowers: Most fun story of redistricting for me: Carveouts for legislators.
@daveweigel "Chicago" cost $45 million, made $305 million and was virtually endemic at my high school.
(Also, a fascinating phenomenon is that the fandom for Dear Evan Hansen was HUGE on Tumblr and other sites, which probably led to folks thinking a movie would make cash.)
Alec criticized @germanlopez here for "copaganda," but his explanation is misleading. America does spend more on prisons than most places, but "on a per-capita basis we employ 35% fewer police than the world average." https://t.co/Syhtljbu6E https://t.co/KDx15kjLfp
@daveweigel because Hugh Jackman is incredibly unspeakably talented and "Dear Evan Hansen" is not about what anyone thinks it's about?
he collects a very certain crowd https://t.co/Rvn9lrQsw6
@NGrossman81 look on the bright side, this is how I became a spokesperson
@AlyssaRosenberg @petersuderman And on the member’s only episode, I talked about how WALK HARD basically killed the musical biopic, as far as I’m concerned. https://t.co/R1Q6JY6Fmn
@GenePark @AlyssaRosenberg @petersuderman It killed the whole genre! There’s no reason to ever make another standard, straightforward musical biopic, ever.
@SonnyBunch @AlyssaRosenberg @petersuderman walk hard was a masterpiece. it did its job thoroughly.
Fascinating moment. Gen. Milley supported keeping a small U.S. presence in Afghanistan but also conceded that it probably would’ve never resulted in a durable Afghan government/army: “The end-state probably would’ve been the same” no matter when we left, Milley said
Congratulations to John McWhorter on his Genius Award! Oh wait, I mean Ibram X Kendi.
This week on ATMA, @AlyssaRosenberg, @petersuderman and I talked about fandom’s reaction to Disney's suits against the estates of some of Marvel’s greatest creators. And we reviewed THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE! https://t.co/DrJZvXMteP
@SonnyBunch @AlyssaRosenberg @petersuderman I’d like to hear more talk about fandom sometime. I think @AlyssaRosenberg is correct about it being a substitute for religion and politics. What really impressed me though, was Alyssa’s excellent taste in Star Wars novels.
Also "shut up and dribble" versus "now let's hear your opinions on vaccination hesitancy" https://t.co/nNW7g6FnSD
Can a tiny vanguard faction of activists force the most powerful professional guild in the world to do their will and revise their actual findings by yelling at them on social media? Yes. Yes they can. This is what we learned from this movement and why it's relevant.
The movement ceases to be “liberalism”, which has always seen progress as being predicated on the advance of science and reason, and becomes a “successor ideology”when it crosses over into systemic mystification and obscurantism capturing medicine itself https://t.co/zHqG677imz
@mattyglesias Matt is doing a very sensible thing in trying to meme "Latin" into usage as a non-insane alternative to LatinX; whenever he does that, I will gently remind him that the correct term is "LatinX"
How to make environmentalism sound as unappealing as possible. Tell people the world needs to be poorer.
https://t.co/JDPzYY5lFC
i haven’t read the book yet but on a very minor & comparatively frivolous note, does it mention how Melania spent an inordinate amount of time while in the White House doing online shopping? That was left on the cutting room floor of my & @lachlan’s book (didn’t fit anywhere)… https://t.co/z2bAJNCQVw
Me and @desmondmeade out here in these streets. @NifMuhammad congrats brother. Who would have thought. https://t.co/OKMzh73u79
New: @AkyolinEnglish explains "Why, As A Muslim, I Defend Liberty." https://t.co/mjEhp5ce7q @cobrown
Next, Terry McAuliffe announcing an endorsement from the leading female conservative in American, Jennifer Rubin. https://t.co/A2kPvxNSH0
@scottlincicome @ezraklein Famously unpopular drug, cocaine
SIMULATION WRITER 1: The bosses told us we need another wildfire with a strange origin, but it can’t be another gender reveal party. That one’s getting old.
SIMULATION WRITER 2: Hold my beer. https://t.co/3BhUvkM75G
About 1/3 of my philosophical works in progress are culture war related, compared (iirc) to how about half when I last checked. Gradually weaning myself off the poison.
Over the weekend, I talked to some 20-somethings who were super excited to do a DUNE/THE FRENCH DISPATCH double-feature later this month, and I was like, yeah, the future is in good hands.
AncestryDNA says I have recent Swedish ancestry. I thus demand shares in IKEA stock.
1/ These professors extrapolate from the fact that they (supposedly) teach critical race theory in a way that encourages dialogue and debate to conclude that the concern over how it is being taught nationwide is a "manufactured controversy." https://t.co/4qQdDa1XAj
Weird how substantive critiques of this caliber started pouring in after Domenech QTed us. It’s just the darndest thing. https://t.co/ECdKQyMOPZ
@cjciaramella We hate anonymous sources, don't we folks
@ezraklein @scottlincicome Apparently the free market doesn't apply to drugs, because I remember being told that drug dealers would put cocaine in joints, which... no.
@scottlincicome Those edibles cost like $30 a piece who would do this
@iamprinceuthman Us Weekly is a celebrity and entertainment magazine.
Lawns are silly. Pouring countless gallons of freshwater (most of it potable), fertilizer and pesticides on a crop not fit for human consumption is a net negative and we should voluntarily decide to do something else. The most appropriate response to this would be . . .
recently mentioned I was jewish on a date and the guy went “oh I had no idea, you’re really pretty!” a true innovator in the field of not getting laid
Every year, Oxfam releases a report meant to shock the public about the extent of income and wealth inequality.
But the report is profoundly misleading.
https://t.co/8tY9zMQg5f
As a responsible parent, I confiscate and test all of my kid's THC-laced candy the *second* she gets home from trick-or-treating. https://t.co/plmB1iY7Bx
@mattyglesias @carney Start here, scroll down.
https://t.co/6mnNQCsrX8
"So this doctor comes up to me, big tough guy, Air Force, tears in his eyes and he says, 'Sir, I never cry, sir. But it's the best colon I've ever seen.'" https://t.co/pasID4QR3j
This is amazing. I mean it's just a thing that happens. If a restaurant has a profit margin of $9K a month and you raise its taxes by $10K a month, do you think the owner will say "damn, we gotta lose money every month"? or do you think they'll raise prices? https://t.co/r3IdbPg3ch
So, "Emma from the dog park" just released a statement saying pretty much what everyone who has seen more than one of these cases play out suspected.
Thoughts? https://t.co/BGFMLbqbdD
RT @TheEconomist: Adjusting for population, the daily death rate is now about eight times higher in America than in the rest of the rich wo…
@DimitrisPapail @aminkarbasi @thegautamkamath @AlexGDimakis For baklava (so long as it’s not festooned with ridiculous flowers) I’d do a lot. Alas, I lost the “best pistachios” competition to my Iranian post-doc recently.
Well, they don't *always* raise prices. Sometimes they lower wages. https://t.co/8ZxLoNclEE
Before NYC jumps on the "don't prosecute shoplifters" bandwagon (as will likely happen with new prosecutors), let's take a mental picture of the state of shoplifting today. Because when we start getting what Chicago and S.F. has, let's not scratch our heads and go, I wonder why?
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And why does a biography of Murray leave a rather important word out of a quote used to show that she wanted to transition to male? https://t.co/jDwi4g1ar8
Why did the LA Times run a feature on the late civil rights/feminist pioneer #PauliMurray that forced on her an identity she didn't embrace & a pronoun she didn't use? New from me at @ArcDigi
https://t.co/1IRTdNyJjh
@thomaschattwill About as long as it takes to swing a venik. https://t.co/PH5qFBM7hc
@thomaschattwill Seriously! Lasagna is ... totally fine. It's not like he went with "Deep fried pizza wrapped in bacon." Wtf do people eat?
While @DavidLat make a good point, he's too kind to Rudy, whose entire career has been based on derangement of one sort or another.
Trump didn't break Rudy. Rudy was always broken. https://t.co/S0rXCkh096
@thomaschattwill By eating the kind that doesn't have noodles, cheese, and meat?
If you need me, I’ll be (redacted). https://t.co/pXIuZLsdmp
@thomaschattwill For anyone unfamiliar with Dwayne, his @EconTalker interview is phenomenal.
https://t.co/GZUpB4WARS
@thomaschattwill The lasagna test is the new marshmallow test
It is, I should add, an excellent piece. https://t.co/VsSyVQJzQu
Why is every young person in America watching "The Sopranos"? The show’s new audience is seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.
https://t.co/8csht69WdP
@TanaGaneva Agreed, so many other dishes could have taken the rap!
How long do you reckon Covid can live airborne in a sauna/steam room?
RT @willystaley: In this weekend's magazine, I wrote about a somewhat obscure TV show that's been off the air for more than a decade — but…
This is just incredibly good news. Hard to think of someone more deserving https://t.co/nS3obJVj5o
@dwaynebetts @desmondmeade @NifMuhammad MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS and so damn well-deserved!
RT @robbysoave: Immediately firing Emma Sarley was a big mistake for two reasons, 1) Video footage is unclear and often misleading, 2) Fred…
@thomaschattwill Of course. You just can't eat the lasagna every day. On weekends I recommend the carbonara.
🎉 Congratulations to #2018NAFellow @dwaynebetts on being named to the 2021 Class of @macfound Fellows! Learn more about Dwayne and his work here: https://t.co/QWCNIEtWdU
@thomaschattwill I thought Covid wasn't actually "airborne"?
IE: can only be suspended in the air by water droplets?
Unless it can hang out in the steam maybe? Definitely a good question.
The president of El Salvador, who earlier this month declared bitcoin an official currency, changed his Twitter bio to “the coolest dictator in the entire world.” @nayibbukele
https://t.co/2jkafaeJGC
Our October issue, which features an exclusive excerpt of John le Carré’s Silverview, is on sale now at @BNBuzz. Visit your local store to grab a copy! https://t.co/srV854ksNy
@thomaschattwill It’s possible to eat anything and stay slim. It tends to be about amounts. Over the longer term. 🌻
@thomaschattwill At a guess, a few minutes. Small, fragile viruses don't often get on well above 65 Celsius so. https://t.co/28vt1AcXC6
@thomaschattwill How do you say you live in France without saying you live in France
Randall Kennedy, who is nobody’s idea of a pro-woke free speech squish, is out with a scorching take on the anti-CRT Right.
https://t.co/O3WGIFhARb https://t.co/1ye97jaOJN
At 50k followers I will give a complete ranking of all the genders. https://t.co/FVpxUGu6kk
Is it anti-conservative discrimination? Empirical study of the question is still quite sparse, but the available evidence suggests no. Results from two audit studies below. https://t.co/yVHN3jowS9
Ravens playing in the snow. Play is common in intelligent species – and ravens are extremely intelligent birds. https://t.co/L7RSXt4vCb https://t.co/KnlJzfBGyh
This is the kind of work I wish got more plaudits, so I am going to give it as many plaudits as I can. https://t.co/E0tqSR1Y4Q
Florida Man, meet California Woman https://t.co/IftwBLcyNJ
@evelyndouek YouTube banned all kinds of things before they were even acquired. Facebook had a reputation in the industry in its early-ish days for being the *most* willing to take things down, presumably because it had a community goal rather than an information dissemination goal.
If lawmakers want to bankrupt the country, raise our taxes, and waste our money, they ought to at least be upfront about it.
@brad_polumbo
https://t.co/IGC3bvlOm6
This could have serious consequences.
@brad_polumbo has the story: https://t.co/jL6PSruTrd
“Scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security,” the New York Times reports.
@brad_polumbo investigates: https://t.co/Ig8igAuaqo
When you find yourself in an abusive relationship…
Via @brad_polumbo https://t.co/QWe1LY05rp
“Paying with new taxes instead of new debt doesn't make something have a "zero-dollar" cost. You're still confiscating and redistributing $3.5T+.” - @brad_polumbo
https://t.co/QVR4KSSUym
Sorry Bernie Sanders, but Amazon just provided us with yet another glaring example that competition can lead to wage increases without government meddling.
@brad_polumbo reports: https://t.co/6qycogusLz
This is what it looks like when security theater totally backfires.
@brad_polumbo
https://t.co/Ig8igAcz1O
"In the past, companies have passed on these costs to consumers,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. “We feel that that’s unfair and absurd."
@brad_polumbo reports:
https://t.co/CUwhyn8BEX
President Biden bizarrely claimed that his $3.5 trillion spending agenda has a price tag of “zero.”
@brad_polumbo breaks it down: https://t.co/QVR4KSBj9M
A new study finds that lockdown orders didn’t reduce overall mortality, and may have even increased it.
@brad_polumbo reports: https://t.co/fjzOPXAriU
Orban is attacking churches in Hungary. But CPAC has chosen Budapest for its 2022 confab, signaling the ominous direction in which it wants to take the GOP. Excellent piece by @h_david_baer https://t.co/oZF4bnCIPI
Well if that is the case, then why did Trump hire her? https://t.co/zqWHMP7p9R
Yeah that Arkansas offensive line is terrifying https://t.co/ycHbyxQCum
@chrislhayes I am increasingly convinced that the biggest stories in America should be determined by whether lots of people are doing x or y, or whether lots of people are impacted by x or y government policy. This belief has obvious flaws, and yet here I stnad.
@chrislhayes but also -- that's a lot of vaccinated people! Which is good!
@DavidAFrench @jessesingal Also, have we already forgotten the horrifying fate of Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend's boyfriend? 😱 (or is it friend's cousin's boyfriend?)
When Trump was a young man of 60 he was in favor of abortion, amnesty, wealth taxes, gun control, universal healthcare, carbon taxes and opposed the tea party revolution and the formerly militant ideological purists were all like “but that was in 2012! He was young and naive!” https://t.co/nr3s3Y01hM
Please add your guesses about the rest of the playlist; I am agog. #showtunes4squirrelly https://t.co/zNlaOLH9eV
Arc Digital is funded via Substack.
Who funds the Federalist? https://t.co/EsHRqQekyB
Rainy Midnight Late, 1890s by Childe Hassam https://t.co/6fPPmI9qp7
@brianros1 @JMilesColeman Why? If you take 2020 POTUS as a baseline measure of the state's politics, 4.5 seats for Dems seems reasonable. Ds would have to start winning like 70% in the state for 6-2 to be proportional.
Them: We must create a culture of respect for African Americans, Native Americans, Latinx...
Me: Surveys show that virtually no Latinos want to be called "Latinx"
Them: As I was saying, Latinx, ....
McAuliffe inadvertently making the case for school choice/vouchers. https://t.co/TLl575lit5
The Washington Post's fact-checker thinks that a cost isn't a cost if you raise revenue to pay for it. https://t.co/k7LOmVn7b4
@CathyYoung63 Radio Thousand Hills.
An untranslatable Russian pun: Радио тысячи Холмогоровых.
@CathyYoung63 I read the article earlier. It does seem like mommy and daddy showed up at the scene and somehow got it so he could go home after carelessly running over half a dozen kids on bikes. Seems like a Beto story.
i give out weed candy to kids on halloween. i get it specially made to look like regular candy which costs me thousands of dollars every year but i think it’s fun. i won’t stop.
creationism is funny in any culture https://t.co/oSFAdiQ4b0 https://t.co/xysxDmoT4f
basically it will be cancellation from the right and the left. the old order is done. put a fork in it. neither side is going to disarm unilaterally, it's over https://t.co/YViof8sT5t
@kcjohnson9 @ACLU The ACLU being against due process for the accused is really something. Even more than retreating from aggressive 1A advocacy as they did a lot to reinforce these rights
Either they have changed or their social media person doesn’t understand the mission of the ACLU
@CathyYoung63 Yeah I caught earlier, some qualms (Kendi as ‘dissident thinker’ just doesn’t seem accurate at this point), but I think he’s trying to find a workable middle ground and open the dialogue
A year ago. https://t.co/3sFe7rKrkx https://t.co/Hk2vl2I8fg
This is helicopter parenting, parents in search of safe spaces and participation trophies
You could have just not given a coach a contract with a $53 million buyout (looking at you, Texas A&M football) but no, it was too tempting
@adamnvillani @BobbyBigWheel @daveweigel Side note: Busby Berkley is referenced in Sontag's "Fascinating Fascism" https://t.co/ovyKWDuaRK
@BobbyBigWheel @daveweigel This is why I still advocate for a "42nd Street" movie. The plot is incredibly simple and everyone taps their face off.
Perspective: history will not remember or care about your Twitter slapfights. https://t.co/w8D4HGnf1J
Use the power of the government to seize the assets of a private organization, huh?
Is this the new Republican Party? An elephant with a hammer and sickle painted on the side of it? https://t.co/HKXgTL9IkT
Vax mandates do not in any sense (1st or 2nd order) lead to "more COVID spread." They lead to less Covid spread, because they get more people vaccinated, and vaccinated people are less likely to be infected and less likely to transmit the virus than unvaccinated ppl are. https://t.co/MtxA4QIUh9
The founder of Russian cyber security firm Group-IB Ilya Sachkov has been charged with treason after being arrested last night. https://t.co/ssiI8O8Equ
forgot that this was exactly one year ago today. not that there's any danger of my name appearing on a review of a similar book anytime soon; that would just be self-destructive. hehe, unless... https://t.co/DsPhaQfMrw
@CathyYoung63 some good stuff in here but the use of "extravagance"/"exaggeration" on the one hand versus "fabrication" on the other in the first paragraph is a little bit confusing - seems to me someone could just as easily switch those labels around
@leonidragozin Remembering @mashagessen's line that Russia isn't totalitarian but Russians are acting as though it were, and wondering whether that line is now being crossed.
I've seen a lot of stupid changing room policies at UK Universities but, even so, this new one from Exeter University stands out as a classic of the genre - so basically, all the changing rooms are unisex then? And females must keep quiet about it. https://t.co/Ay7FZJhrwq https://t.co/1brHVXn66E
Those mines aren't going to sweep themselves. https://t.co/kvph9wipgX
the flaw with this take is that all sides agree that our border policies are sub-optimal but disagree on the reasons why https://t.co/BQ197gVklj
Is it too much to hope that we can we turn the ship of woke cancellations around? https://t.co/W7nWkLEJ5A
RT @ScottGreenfield: Reformers And Realities https://t.co/cq6YRhc7TG
RT @christianjbdev: How to make environmentalism sound as unappealing as possible. Tell people the world needs to be poorer.
https://t.co…
RT @ZaidJilani: Alec criticized @germanlopez here for "copaganda," but his explanation is misleading. America does spend more on prisons th…
RT @Docstockk: I've seen a lot of stupid changing room policies at UK Universities but, even so, this new one from Exeter University stands…
RT @wesyang: Smug monocultures invariably become stupid over time
RT @razibkhan: creationism is funny in any culture https://t.co/xysxDmoT4f
RT @Cotsumet: こっそり部屋から抜け出さないようドアの前で監視されております。 https://t.co/AwhKZ883ZX
RT @IonaItalia: That's either a very brave or a very reckless man!
RT @leonidragozin: The founder of Russian cyber security firm Group-IB Ilya Sachkov has been charged with treason after being arrested last…
@ot_ford Exactly. But with the word, it's even clearer.
RT @bernybelvedere: These tweets confirm James Lindsay is an irredeemable buffoon. There is no coming back from such manifestly discreditin…
*putting on my troll cap*
I'm guessing that "Nevertheless, she persisted" does not apply in this case? https://t.co/2Qy9VAJTps
RT @razibkhan: basically it will be cancellation from the right and the left. the old order is done. put a fork in it. neither side is goin…
RT @jessesingal: This person should highlight the actual text where German Lopez 'lied.' It's a pretty big accusation.
RT @keikoinboston: Perspective: history will not remember or care about your Twitter slapfights.
RT @RealPotatoFan: @NewLiberalsPod @CathyYoung63 No no no, the USSR was socialism with nationalist characteristics and the Republicans are…
RT @wil_da_beast630: So, "Emma from the dog park" just released a statement saying pretty much what everyone who has seen more than one of…
RT @NewLiberalsPod: Use the power of the government to seize the assets of a private organization, huh?
Is this the new Republican Party?…
RT @JamesSurowiecki: Vax mandates do not in any sense (1st or 2nd order) lead to "more COVID spread." They lead to less Covid spread, becau…
@TennantRob Sounds a bit worse than careless -- wasn't he trying to scare them?
@bookmistress It sounds like he was deliberately trying to scare them, though?
Bit of outrage bait here. He hasn't been immediately arrested. That doesn't mean he's going to be free of all legal consequences. https://t.co/UZYUSuQdX9
I saw this, now you will too https://t.co/Wv7WBejsIX
RT @OmarSShakir: Prosecutors charged them w “weakening revolutionary spirit” under PLO’s Revolutionary Penal Code. @hrw has documented Hama…
RT @John_Hudson: Fascinating moment. Gen. Milley supported keeping a small U.S. presence in Afghanistan but also conceded that it probably…
RT @Baerenreiter: Mozart completed his Clarinet Quintet on this day in 1789, written for clarinetist Anton Stadler, who gave the first perf…
I don't agree with all of it, but it is certainly worth reading.
RT @PeterMoskos: Before NYC jumps on the "don't prosecute shoplifters" bandwagon (as will likely happen with new prosecutors), let's take a…
RT @katrosenfield: this is a normal way to talk about people who have ideas you don’t like https://t.co/l2U44O3VTr
RT @katrosenfield: some people are actually clever enough to get away with acting like a mustache-twirling antagonist online, but it is not…
RT @kittypurrzog: Yes I’m sure famed feminist and 87-year-old body with a vagina Ruth Bader Ginsberg would have been totally down with “bir…
RT @kittypurrzog: I’ve been getting a vague sense lately that people are coming to their senses about this stuff. Fuuuuuck.
RT @caro: SIMULATION WRITER 1: The bosses told us we need another wildfire with a strange origin, but it can’t be another gender reveal par…
RT @dudelerbug: the flaw with this take is that all sides agree that our border policies are sub-optimal but disagree on the reasons why
@CjgbVictoria @sullydish @CHSommers The Chevalier d'Eon was pretty cool.
https://t.co/Okr5C8L86s
(But also almost certainly not trans, just a man who at one point found it convenient to pose as a woman to get out of a dicey situation re: spying and kinda got stuck in the role)
RT @katrosenfield: my kingdom for a world in which people understand the difference between *suggesting mercy for bad actors* and *defendin…
RT @NewLiberalsPod: It's fascinating how the spelling of words can change over time:
In the 17th century, it was "connexion." Now it's con…
@sullydish As I note, what's especially offensive about this is that it basically negates Murray's feminism. It's like she would have been fine with the exclusion of women from top law schools if she could have just become a man and gotten in.
RT @dilanesper: This is even more egregious than the Ruth Ginsburg quote.
The right of a gender nonconforming woman to still call herself…
RT @ibaiki: how is this all so dumb and also still going on @bindelj @CathyYoung63 https://t.co/fCZrtGdyfV
RT @katrosenfield: theory that this sort of tweet exists mainly to give a certain type of white woman the opportunity to declare her solida…
"It's not about YOU. Why are you taking it personally?" https://t.co/qvtbedGfX7
RT @SteveStuWill: Ravens playing in the snow. Play is common in intelligent species – and ravens are extremely intelligent birds. https://t…
@LMcdreck @AkyolinEnglish @CatoPodcast @cobrown https://t.co/KAIIBiieqv
@LMcdreck @AkyolinEnglish @CatoPodcast @cobrown Who exactly appointed you the Chief Monitor of Righteous Funding? Go away.
@LMcdreck @CatoPodcast @AkyolinEnglish @cobrown https://t.co/gZJG7hSFrM
RT @robbysoave: It would be preferable, I think, for a free speech and civil liberties organization to be a bit more aghast at the idea of…
RT @CatoPodcast: New: @AkyolinEnglish explains "Why, As A Muslim, I Defend Liberty." https://t.co/mjEhp5ce7q @cobrown
RT @Slatzism: Grammarly is apparently warning people against using the word “homosexual” as it might not be inclusive 🤡🌎 https://t.co/By936…
RT @four4thefire: For the bazillionth time, there were a minimum of 20-30 people either in the room for or privy to that call.
Y'all got…
RT @DngrslySkepical: @observer907 @TennantRob @CathyYoung63 Yes, it is. But he undermines his own point by using a dishonest graphic. It be…
RT @jadler1969: @DavidLat on a new, virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome https://t.co/DDc4FXYcM9
RT @olgatuleninova: Rainy Midnight Late, 1890s by Childe Hassam https://t.co/6fPPmI9qp7
RT @otteritarian: Those mines aren't going to sweep themselves. https://t.co/kvph9wipgX
@healthybear35 True, though I'm assuming this person is really talking more about the lack of interest in classics?
@kingharis @jessesingal @Gedankenschwert Dang. Ableism is my blind spot
@jessesingal @Gedankenschwert Very tone-deaf, in short
RT @jessesingal: I'm worrid German may have
-not read the room
-failed to educate himself
-declined to Do Better
or maybe even some com…
Ahem. If anyone is here from France... is there any way I can see this?
https://t.co/iM6mgEQJwg
(not available in your country, it tells me)
RT @FreeBlckThought: Is it too much to hope that we can we turn the ship of woke cancellations around?
@Sebastian_Hols @mariachong @JeffreyASachs @olivertraldi Note also that in 2002, Randal Kennedy, a black Harvard law prof, wrote a well-received book arguing that "the n-word" should be MORE acceptable to say (when not used as a slur) & that dismantling taboos around it would be healthy.
RT @zoocafe_HARRY: TikTokでも可愛い動画をお届けしてます🎶
ライブも沢山やってます！是非見に来てね！！💕 https://t.co/a8J75QNMfn
RT @tonyprinciotti: On Beethoven's name:
His family roots were Dutch; note the preposition "van" instead of "von". Both mean either "of" o…
@shutter_j @taylorgrayson @bibliochica1 @adambarken I think it very much depends. Certainly, there are times when a text can convey something the author doesn't intend.
RT @bibliochica1: @adambarken @shutter_j @CathyYoung63 But too, the poorly understood rise of postmodernism and standpoint epistemology del…
RT @shishiqiushi: Hard to see how China doesn't face a massive growth shock given this directive effectively stopping large scale housing c…
RT @NormalComposers: Gustav Mahler at a party with his friends. https://t.co/xnZF6aRYyY
@Clarksterh Sure but the same was said about TV etc. 30 years ago
RT @StillTr05207382: @CathyYoung63 When we go on vacation we seek out places without internet service, and reading comes back into fashion.
@TennantRob @CathyYoung63 The fact that that is even a thing is bad enough, but the fact that he did this on purpose multiple times and then 6 people were hit as a result is really just ridiculous. He's obviously not mature enough to be driving, at the very least.
@NewLiberalsPod @CathyYoung63 No no no, the USSR was socialism with nationalist characteristics and the Republicans are nationalists with socialist characteristics; completely different.
This is even more egregious than the Ruth Ginsburg quote.
The right of a gender nonconforming woman to still call herself a woman is a fundamental tenet of feminism that feminists fought hard for. Posthumously denying a civil rights pioneer her womanhood is simply anti-feminist. https://t.co/ngsuKfYBYH
how is this all so dumb and also still going on @bindelj @CathyYoung63 https://t.co/fCZrtGdyfV
@CathyYoung63 She just wanted you to know that she was indeed a vagina owner
@CathyYoung63 Remember when it was called "New York's Picture Newspaper?"
@mariachong @CathyYoung63 @JeffreyASachs @olivertraldi Mention is the formal term for talking about it instead of using it as a slur. In 2019 it was absolutely not the case that mentioning it while talking about it would have been considered a fireable offense.
@CathyYoung63 My gods, you don’t even need the word; context will do. “I would gladly do [this genuinely-impossible thing], but instead maybe you could do [this totally reasonable thing].” She’s not expressing her wish to change; she’s framing the unreasonableness of Harvard’s refusal.
Mozart completed his Clarinet Quintet on this day in 1789, written for clarinetist Anton Stadler, who gave the first performance in December of that year
https://t.co/B0uBsbJzXv https://t.co/Lyqa96mjOK
@CathyYoung63 When we go on vacation we seek out places without internet service, and reading comes back into fashion.
TikTokでも可愛い動画をお届けしてます🎶
ライブも沢山やってます！是非見に来てね！！💕 https://t.co/a8J75QNMfn
Grammarly is apparently warning people against using the word “homosexual” as it might not be inclusive 🤡🌎 https://t.co/By936dOywd
We have a tendency in media to highlight or focus on the people who aren't doing the thing when most people are doing the thing. Sometimes the extremes tell a fascinating story, or illustrate something about our culture, but sometimes, they don't.
I hate to armchair general this stuff, but to me, a more interesting question to ask than “should we have left a small stay-behind force?” is “should we have surged more troops into the country to have executed a more orderly withdrawal under fire?”
Let's not forget this tweet! https://t.co/N5KPx8ipw9
Four months ago, @matthewjdowd: "White heterosexual male Christians represent just over 25 percent of the country [and] represent 80 percent of all the power levers in the country, politics, the economy."
Today: Dowd announces candidacy for Lt. Gov. of Texas: https://t.co/B4NBsnkrpr
The White House chief of staff and press secretary seem to agree with Max Boot this morning: https://t.co/whazBAfvGC
The heckling is now beyond parody. One activist just yelled 'free Julian Assange!'
There must be a name for holding a country hostage & denying citizens their much needed infrastructure to push your political agenda 🤔 https://t.co/NZquHINfA1
RT @EVKontorovich: THREAD on ECJ ruling against EU trade deals with Morocco applying to W.Sahara (1/3): The EU is reaping what it sowed wit…
RT @AGHamilton29: It's rather incredible what gets normalized and accepted in certain segments. This is a correspondent for The Nation open…
@brianros1 But is he also opposing elected school boards? There's definitely an argument for deferring to expertise in K-12 education. But it seems as if some of the new-ish school boards in NOVA aren't actually bastions of promoting learning through knowledge, & TM has no problem w/those.
RT @MrsStevensonSS: A fabulous Civics warmup: compare/contrast Fed/AntiFed votes on ratification of the Constitution in 1790 with @Eli_Sher…
Decision, BTW, continues pattern of Trump district court nominees (as opposed to appellate nominees, who have been quite pro-student) siding with univs in these lawsuits. Judge in this case was Pamela Barker.
Court denies TRO in acc'd med student TIX retaliation lawsuit against @cwru. Argues that facts remain disputed; & that the initiation of a TIX inv'n, as opposed to a finding of guilt, doesn't constitute irreparable harm.
https://t.co/gPWqfnZROB https://t.co/TmjQLYHv2Z
My tiny sliver of Scarborough continues to be attached to CE, SoPortland. Neither this state senate district (now the 29th) nor the rest-of-Scarborough district (30) is any longer competitive, though both were in 2010 & the 30th was as recently as 2018.
https://t.co/04pmjb7q0T
RT @gabrielmalor: Biden didn't say advice was split. Biden's exact words when asked if he was advised to keep 2,500 troops in country were…
Court extends, for a month, TRO against @USIedu in state-court acc'd student lawsuit. Student had filed complaint alleging that university failed to follow its own procedures (by introducing unverified rumors about him) in reaching its guilty finding. https://t.co/PyugszkXf3
RT @blakeflayton: If you have to say “I have fought racism all my life” every time you’re accused of racism, you clearly have not.
RT @ScottGreenfield: When an employee of a company asserts that he will refuse to perform the duties of his job, he's not fired for his spe…
RT @larabazelon: @ACLU is an organization that's supposed to take unpopular positions by standing up for people's right to say the actual w…
That @ACLU tweet on the proposed TIX regs, BTW, is still live on twitter:
https://t.co/futHP4tlLd
.@mpowellnyt on the ACLU RBG tweet. The org's twitter feed also attacked DeVos' proposed TIX regs as promoting "an unfair process, inappropriately favoring the accused."
Maybe @ACLU should rework its social media operation?
https://t.co/Lxxj8MxMb4
RT @LakerGMC: One has a 100 pct record of voting with Biden, the other was just on the wrong side of a ~420-9 vote
RT @daveweigel: ACLU’s Anthony Romero tells Goldberg that it was a mistake for them to change a Ginsburg quote by replacing “women” with “[…
@kcjohnson9 @ACLU The ACLU’s problem is not operational; it is leftist political commitment.
@kcjohnson9 @cwru Sounds like it was a pretty weak case for a TRO with no interim restrictions on him. Is there something we are missing?
@PamelaFoohey Curious your thoughts on this one. Same exact setup, instead I keep signing my emails “Prof. Edelman” and the person on the other side keeps replying to me as “Mx. Edelman” presumably with the goal of promoting the gender neutral “Mx.” rather than the also gender neutral “Prof.”
“To use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the U.S. and Europe…” What does that even mean? It makes no sense. https://t.co/0relFwAtiJ
Everyone should be so lucky to have someone as brilliant & hard-working as @evelyndouek in their research area
Every time I sit down to write I am *SO GRATEFUL* for the incredible job she's done documenting and analyzing the @OversightBoard's cases
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My ‘neat’ paper on illicit secondary markets for bourbon (with @tomshohfi) was accepted today at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization!! 🎉🥃🎉
PDF: https://t.co/UKk1CgrMRv
Tagging some bourbon fans who might be interested - @jmhorp @C_Garthwaite @kteltser
You catch a gator in slides, that gator works for you now https://t.co/9GVlUQkRBU
In my crystal ball, I see frivolous lawsuits filed by some of these people in YouTube's future. https://t.co/EefnhlBzyy
@jess_miers I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you get better soon!
Doing research for an upcoming post, and found this Heritage Foundation report that blames the Parkland shooting - where the shooter used phrases like "white power" and etched swastikas onto his ammunition - on
*drumroll*
Critical Race Theory. https://t.co/aVd8yKLtXx https://t.co/LqeVMYIQmH
Between CSI and Law and Order we are going back to a television sweet spot of “my freshman year of high school” https://t.co/0iZhJP0gpa
it does explain how she got the urine and it's less interesting than I expected https://t.co/uvUL9MeHim
Would you like to invest in my firm, it's called Amontillado, please come with me into the catacombs where we will discuss this further https://t.co/Os3OlgJ4pW
When I saw that tweet I made this exact sound https://t.co/ywHmfVmYdj
@EsotericCD Also can someone explain to me why he wears pants to sleep but not to go about his day
Tying federal grants to reform used to be Tim Scott's idea. Now he calls it "defunding the police." @jonathanchait writes https://t.co/scJzs8e7EE
90% of NBA players are vaccinated, and 99% of WNBA players are vaccinated.
An era in which running backs, wide receivers and linebackers all kind of looked the same. https://t.co/KQfBpndM8g
@ggreenwald @tomgara @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I need to finish a speech during which I will attempt to make a reference to famous tennis umpire line calls while knowing very little about tennis, but Glenn (and others), thanks for engaging.
@mtracey @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath Like, broad swaths of American conservatives are not tradcons. Tradcons are not the "conservative mind."
@mtracey @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath But a tendency is not the "liberal mind," and it's not necessarily the tendency of giant swaths of the American population any more than some people on the Right going to school board meetings and screaming is.
@jondipietronh @mtracey @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath Families breaking up over politics are probably doing so because of a lot of different factors (and how those factors work in context.)
@ggreenwald @tomgara @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath But again, there's the word "elites." However you define that to mean (and our definitions may vary), the very conceit of the term is that there aren't very many of them.
@philoshua @ggreenwald @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I mean then I'd be thinking about how we define "elites," but since my newsletter this week is on that very subject, I'd probably not have engaged as much.
@cmad3961 @ggreenwald @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath If there is any way to define this platform, it is the Most platform. People on here are and will do and say the Most.
@RickU @ggreenwald @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath That is very true! Also an indication that Twitter is probably bad for the formation of public policy, which is... an Argument.
@ggreenwald @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath Again and again we've learned that what "cultural elites" think (and I'm writing about that concept) doesn't mirror public opinion on a more general basis (i.e., not on Twitter, or in bigger numbers). Why would it here?
@mtracey @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I try to not find anything inconceivable, but what I'm saying is that Twitter is not a perfect window onto a broad spectrum of human opinion, and what liberals or conservatives think writ large about any number of issues is probably more complex than any one tweet.
@ggreenwald @mtracey @HipXander @chesterBirdbath Glenn, you said the "liberal mind" writ large, and I think you cited a gross piece from Salon (which was very bad!) and then perhaps Charlie's piece, which was about anger on a more general level.
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I am open to being wrong, I often am. But I think you're way off on using this tweet as a wider indication of the sentiments of millions of people, most of whom are not on here, or participating in the discourse such as it happens on here.
@mtracey @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath Yes, I am suggesting that perhaps a viral tweet about being angry is not representative of a wider faction of millions of Americans' attitudes regarding COVID, most of whom are not on Twitter. Virality is not necessarily indicative of accuracy.
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I mean, heck, so am I. So are a lot of people on here, in many ways because of the nature of On Here. Most Americans don't tweet, and most Americans who tweet tweet rarely.
@ReifTerrance @ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I used to do this thing called the Mom test, where I'd think, "would my mom, who believes Catherine Zeta Jones is the most famous person alive, know who this is or why this thing matters, and how would I explain it" and it always worked
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath You said he was evidence of the "liberal mind" writ large, but it sounds like if he's representative of anything (and I'd argue that he isn't, because I don't think people should have to represent wider entities most of the time), he's representative of a very specific faction.
@LittleMsOpinion @ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath That's not a justification. That's a ... horrifying realization that many people are very, very mean, or can be.
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath I host a podcast for the New York Times. That's great! I'm thrilled I can do this. The Times is very influential! But the vast majority of people in America have absolutely no idea who I am (which is fine!) and my influence with them is minimal.
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath We're both pretty online. You and I appear to have both been on Twitter since 2008. That is a very long time. But I'm aware that what is influential to *me* is not what is perhaps influential to the many millions of Americans (the vast majority) who are not on here.
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath That leads to my second question: influential to whom?
@ggreenwald @HipXander @chesterBirdbath What is your metric?
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath But moreover, that’s my point: being angry or vengeful isn’t the “liberal” or “conservative” mind, conservatives are no less (or no more) angry or vengeful, it doesn’t really serve anyone’s purposes to pretend that anyone of us is innocent here
@LittleMsOpinion @ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath A conservative radio host who died of COVID used to read the obituaries of folks who died of AIDS while playing “Another One Bites the Dust.” Obscene and contemptible human cruelty is a human failing, not a partisan one.
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath I don’t think people screaming on airplanes or fighting in grocery stores or berating folks at school board meetings are all necessarily “liberal” (or conservative, for that matter). Being mad is a bipartisan value.
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath That piece gets into anger writ large (it’s a good piece!) as does this one, which it links to. https://t.co/Fjx2lICGdy
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath Perhaps we are defining *influential* in very different ways, then.
“Is there a random bike festival that’s closed off the entire mall on Friday? Why are there cops blocking off this street? Your road closures reporter is on the case!” https://t.co/dPt2cWiEbK
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath (I’d also argue that Twitter is a very poor place to get an idea of what a majority of discourse looks like in general, but I’m on here too, so)
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath But that’s just it, isn’t it? This isn’t “liberal discourse,” this is one guy’s tweet. He doesn’t hold a position of great political power.
If you're in Grand Rapids this weekend, I'll be speaking at this event, my talk is currently features two incredibly obscure college football references but you'll need to attend to find out more https://t.co/TtGdUkD2gT
Also it can be helpful to know if something is an explosion or if Nationals Park is testing fireworks at 11AM on a Thursday because of an upcoming concert, a thing that happened that I did not enjoy
I agree with this 100%, especially since extremely niche local journalism usually requires me doing the things I do anyway (going outside on long meandering walks and noticing things) https://t.co/Ux23bdLBDA
@ouisequitur there is a scene from this show that I want to quote all the time but absolutely should never, ever quote
This is an extremely specific tweet, but it also a tweet that might prevent your car from getting towed.
If you are parked near Nationals Park and forgot that tonight is the Congressional Baseball Game, move your car.
RT @cjciaramella: The Georgia Inspector General confirmed an @ajc investigation and found that an office in the state department of revenue…
Agreement is not an inherent virtue, disagreement is not an inherent vice https://t.co/wmsVIEtLdY
@Timodc @allahpundit More broadly, however, I think about how much of our political thinking is more a function of how we think our opinions are good (or the opinions of people we're trying to get to vote for us are good) and thus people who agree are now also good
@Timodc @allahpundit It's weird how people who allegedly stopped caring about sports just seemed to have started again
RT @JonathanRHeaps: @janecoaston Counting *while miserable*
Fitness: it’s just counting under duress
The worst thing about fitness is constantly needing to work on the things you hate working on with the understanding that improvement is slow and incremental.
The second worst thing is counting. Fitness involves so much counting.
RT @nytopinion: On today's episode of The Argument, @JaneCoaston and guests @CherieDeVille and Jamie Rosseland debate what sites like @Only…
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath If we want people to be better on social media we have to permit people to exist as fully-fledged human beings on social media, not as victors or victims or examples of an entire political cohort with which they may not agree.
@ggreenwald @chesterBirdbath There are identifiable political factions but I would not screencap one person's tweet and say that this one tweet was an example of the "conservative mind" or something, because that would be inane.
@chesterBirdbath @ggreenwald One person is not the mind of virtually any cohort of people, and definitely not a poet living in Columbus.
@JATayler @clintonyates it's weird how he became so many people's favorite player so suddenly
@relatively_easy @jbouie My dad thought he was hysterically funny which is how I knew it wouldn't work
@frankbumb It's got real "we'll be done with Russia by October" vibes
@jbouie that clown reference needed to be way more specific, like you needed to reference Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera
@heatherkaywood I think about this a lot and I think this gets at what some on the Right interpret about conversations on race: that it's about hating the thing and the people, not being disappointed and wanting improvement (to be clear, some people do, but that's definitely not me)
Some people underestimate this crew, they do so at truly horrifying risks, whale slap https://t.co/BC9d6Rb6Px
RT @warybear: @Kat_Terrell @janecoaston it's not the kids' capacity to absorb uncomfortable info that concerns them
Christ was mocked and insulted while hanging on the cross and suffocating to death for hours and he did so for a mankind that he knew would continue to sin, but keep that on the DL https://t.co/nHxP131lGd
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva @comgeek25 This is starting to sound like a "you" issue, rather than a "white people writ large," issue, I bid you a concerned adieu
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva I am 100% not doing anything because Jared Taylor, a white supremacist, said to, c'mon, that's inane, also don't insult people in my mentions, be a human
(It's like rolling up on Easter Sunday like it's just a beautiful morning that didn't have to do with, you know, a state-sanctioned murder or death or betrayal or sin)
@comgeek25 @HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva Oh, no, he's saying that learning about Ruby Bridges will turn white people against black people again
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva @comgeek25 White people aren't.... ghosts, my friend, you don't need to tip toe past them
@HomieCypher @comgeek25 @ChrisKattan4eva So white kids need to be shielded and protected from stuff that actually happened? And does happen? Or else they'll turn to white nationalism? Buddy this is an argument against teaching virtually any form of history
RT @Kat_Terrell: @janecoaston My school showed us the Ruby Bridges movie in third grade and it had an impact on me forever. I wish people l…
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva @compoundsplural Like, what was the speech for, what was the thing being responded to
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva @compoundsplural Why did he need to have a dream
@KevinMKruse This reminds me that something I want to research more is how Israel does Holocaust education (which I've learned wasn't mandatory until the 70s?)
(This gets into an entire other lane of conversation but a thing I think about often is how much mainstream Christianity focuses on the most comforting aspects of an inherently discomforting theology)
Romans 6:23 is discomforting, better dial back those Bible studies
Now I'm wondering how she handles the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, Good Friday's a real downer, might make someone feel some discomfort
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva I went to Catholic school in OHIO in the early 1990s and no one was like "whoa you can't handle learning about why your grandma couldn't go to the same schools as other kids"
@HomieCypher @ChrisKattan4eva I learned about the Civil Rights Movement in first grade, when I read a book about Martin Luther King and wondered "why was a Martin Luther King necessary," this isn't hard
@ChrisKattan4eva @HomieCypher a book written by Ruby Bridges for children! she was a child when this happened!
Can you sigh so hard you break something https://t.co/xtea6r43Yd
If this person were keeping her kids home from school because math made them feel discomfort they'd be roasted into next year by an entire media consort
@cwarzel Please do this, everyone who writes on it professionally knows too much about it to explain it to me
RT @robbysoave: @Bencjacobs @janecoaston https://t.co/E1a0HrEC1d
@Bencjacobs This would actually be incredibly funny to me, you could put the coat of arms on the wall and everything
@sladesr wow weird how you made them all do this, it was all you, nothing else
Edgar Allen Poe wrote some incredibly angry bangers and may have been murdered in an election fraud scheme, we stan a Baltimore legend
Top 15 funniest thing I have ever read about Miami Hurricanes football https://t.co/ebSj1FW6rc https://t.co/SHdi6Nu0ig
I would guess it would be Miami, since attempting to get rid of Diaz before 2022 while also paying someone else's buyout (Cristobal at Oregon?) would cost a lot of money https://t.co/ebSj1FW6rc https://t.co/oy8z2i657A
@rpaulsenphoto @KevinMKruse What this means tends to be heavily influenced by how the question is asked -- but according to the polling I've seen (and linked below), this is true.
Here's Marist polling on the subject: https://t.co/yaUGvyUE8D
And from AP: https://t.co/AwicpAhF1A
And for the love of all that is good do not sign a contract that ROLLS OVER, Georgia Tech
(MSU did this also with Mark Dantonio, this is very funny to me)
If you are a high-level college basketball program, here is my word of advice:
do not ink a contract extension the millisecond the coach performs well
do not do that
Mike Hopkins at Washington has a $12.1 million buyout because his contract was signed the day before the team's first NCAA tourney game in 8 years.
Since that game, Washington has gone 20-38.
https://t.co/MsxoPA8DRr
But what I keep finding is that there are a bunch of basketball coaches who have one amazing season and then get locked into incredibly lucrative long-term deals and from a financial perspective I simultaneously get it and don't
So there are a bunch of coaches (Jay Wright, for example) for whom I can't find a publicly available buyout number, but there are a number for whom their buyout is their salary (Huggins) https://t.co/gSAuto73V2
Nate Oats at Alabama makes $3.2 million a year but has a $14 million buyout
I had 30 tabs in one Chrome window this morning and 22 of them were horrifying college sports contracts, Steve Pikiell at Rutgers has a $16 million buyout, $16 million for a guy whose biggest win is over a top-10 Maryland https://t.co/Xh0pc3WAPm
@rkylesmith It's going to be very awkward for them but it's obviously "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, it grooves too hard for me to be mad
@lauerschu @RadioFreeTom @InezFeltscher @JVLast Thanks!
@MDaware @AdamSerwer @RottenInDenmark Also who decided a "slim body" was pleasurable, which is a fascinating word choice in and of itself
@lauerschu @RadioFreeTom @InezFeltscher I'm from Cincinnati, as far as I knew the most famous families either owned restaurants or car dealerships and national writers had very little sway, but then again, a lot of folks live on the coasts, so
@RadioFreeTom @InezFeltscher And the writer probably gets mad at him, because he makes more money and owns a boat (in this hypothetical.) My argument is not that one person has *real* power and the other doesn't. My argument is that both do.
@cdbarker I should have used a different decade because the 1950s was a murderers row of musicals
@InezFeltscher (My ultimate argument is that I am an elite, but so is the guy who owns six Toyota dealerships and has political power on the local and state level https://t.co/oqzcBltTHu)
@InezFeltscher I'm writing my newsletter on this very subject!
Also I just looked up the Tony winning musical from 1959 and it was a murder mystery musical set in a wax museum, my own personal hell
I would argue that it is mostly performance, but it matters what is being performed, in the same way that it is interesting what musicals are successful in 2021 versus what musicals were successful in 1959 https://t.co/Q1GUiGZucn
Gotta seize their assets, for America https://t.co/9Ker5P3Iqi
@clintonyates i was distracted by a low lunge and squat based movement being performed in slides.
Of course not, but that's not the point. The point is that doing bad things to people you don't like is good. https://t.co/ti4poWSoZm https://t.co/lMkQCuMFaT
@jbouie Somehow doing it in slides seems worse? Like I back squat in socks but I would never do it in slides
Any achievement is significantly more impressive done in slides. I once saw a man backsquat 375 in slides. It was astounding.
RT @fordm: Why would you seize the assets and then tax them?
What an icon. 636 and she made it look easy. https://t.co/vd8HGJiB1I
I will allow this use of “Capitol Hill” — a real place where actual humans live — just this once. https://t.co/VVUCvJEQFK https://t.co/cMHyG3nUGb
Why yes they did! https://t.co/o3U0Xx21N2 https://t.co/oqMto9PvTk
Now I'm just wandering around terrible college coaching contracts and woo boy Willie Taggert is filing so many W2s right now
@celebrityhottub @cwarzel i go for a podcast walk every day, i am 34, you can't hurt me
@JacketDan @StatsBoyAndi I looked up the Hewitt contract and I will never recover
Hey speaking of buyouts, back in 2005 Georgia Tech put an automatic rollover clause into its former men's basketball coach's contract, meaning that no matter what he always had six years left on his contract at any one time. https://t.co/NiL3F6D6vq https://t.co/FNg2qcMalm
@HJBosch21 I was alone at our house for that game, lying on the couch, barely awake, and then I heard those magic words.
@TonyBiasotti @scottlincicome Also "Stoner Patch Kids" seems pretty clear
Has anyone ever been radicalized by Texas A&M, or am I the first https://t.co/LtNygtnnC4
As far as I can tell, Jimbo Fisher could do literally nothing, absolutely nothing, and he's still getting his money
https://t.co/jlsjEWcgPg
THE CONTRACT IS GUARANTEED AND IF HE LEAVES FOR ANOTHER SCHOOL HE OWES TEXAS A&M NOTHING, I NEED TO LIE DOWN
RT @billybinion: Some college admins got qualified immunity after running right over a student's free speech rights as she tried to recruit…
RT @billybinion: Here's a story for you: A Florida Man was jailed over an "I Eat Ass" bumper sticker. The cops just got qualified immunity.…
@AsteadWesley @DragonflyJonez @nytimes Yeah come on in
RT @annehelen: I have a conflict of interest that has kept me from reporting on this church, which has done incredible lasting damage in Mo…
@38Godfrey @BravesAndBirds see you can't write things down like "you are being terminated without cause," never write anything down
Is Jimbo Fisher's agent the single greatest agent in the history of the concept of agency https://t.co/OaCiMIGCjT
RT @Bry_Mac: @janecoaston If you're saying some of these contracts aren't perfectly conceived on the part of these schools, I refuse to ent…
95 MILLION DOLLARS, 95 MILLION DOLLARS IN AMERICAN CURRENCY https://t.co/n4HS8A9z7h
If you report violations, you can fire a coach for cause, which means you don't have to pay out their contract (i.e. buyout), a contract you probably negotiated, because you're an idiot.
@LotionDolphin My theory is that the bar is so low for Nebraska basketball that they figure they’d never need to pay this
This is in reference to Tennessee firing its football coach for cause by self-reporting recruiting violations they would definitely not report had Jeremy Pruitt not been an awful football coach. https://t.co/FMj92r2VBC https://t.co/sj0I9ETyGP
Buyout numbers in men's college basketball are wild. Fred Hoiberg's buyout at Nebraska is 22 million dollars. 22 million American dollars would have to be spent to make Fred Hoiberg go away.
Thank you all for your thoughts yesterday, this will be in this week's newsletter, along with the fact that John Calipari's buyout at Kentucky is fifty-four million dollars
@MattBrownEP @tarkus1980 and no Catholic committed moral affronts during the Second World War, and definitely not ... the Pope
@MattBrownEP @tarkus1980 i mean also BYU has been involved in two amazing on-field brawls, so there's excitement everywhere you look
@MattBrownEP @tarkus1980 for our purposes let's pretend history began in 1890
@MattBrownEP @tarkus1980 if you look at the popes of the 14th and 15th century the Protestant Reformation seems like a pretty solid idea
@MattBrownEP @tarkus1980 could you gently ignore the popes who had sons who became pope, also the popes who maybe had people killed
@mattfranck @MattBrownEP Catholics believe gambling is neither bad nor good, which is fantastic news for 50% of church fundraisers
I haven't seen a religious conflict that could go so poorly since Maastricht was besieged in 1579
@MattBrownEP I'll finish up Doctrines and Covenants on the plane, my jokes will be well informed
Reminds me of a top-tier Tom Cotton argument: https://t.co/bkhSby54o5
@ErikN_NJEdition @naninizhoni @iamwhoisme Right. This is very true.
@ErikN_NJEdition @naninizhoni and it would be very weird to pretend otherwise, which was the point of the thread!
@ErikN_NJEdition @naninizhoni Yes, that person is absolutely an elite!
@ThunderclapNewm @daveweigel I do not need to hear from anti-Hugh Jackman radicals, I am a Jackmanite
@morrtis_ @BobbyBigWheel @daveweigel If you like "Cats," you like "Cats," if you don't, Taylor Swift in "Cats" isn't going to convince you.
@morrtis_ @BobbyBigWheel @daveweigel Also the film seemed to be aimed at a broader audience than "Cats" fans, hence all the celebrities involved. Which is a mistake!
@ajenable @daveweigel He's doing the Music Man revival with Sutton Foster and it's the first show since Fela! that has me genuinely contemplating spending whatever billions of dollars tickets will cost.
@NotThatTherese @daveweigel Hugh Jackman is one of the most bafflingly talented people alive, it's staggering
@BobbyBigWheel @daveweigel this is why i totally get the urge to make movies into musicals, because it is INCREDIBLY hard to go the other way (doable! but hard!)
@daveweigel "Boy from Oz" is ridiculous (it's about an Australian songwriter most Americans had probably never heard of) and he SOLD IT https://t.co/sU2FQnGBLJ
RT @AdamSerwer: Pointless and expensive, but harsh and therefore good fodder for Abbott’s tv ads and primary
@alissamarie @daveweigel Honestly learning "Into the Woods" make $128 million is causing me to rethink my theory
@alissamarie @daveweigel I also think that it leaned into becoming a sing-along thing? Like, I know folks who saw it once at home and then started watching it all the time.
@roofusfirefly @daveweigel My favorite movie musical is Singing in the Rain, and I have never seen a good stage production of it.
@pedestrian_wolf @daveweigel Right, like, unless the movie is going to indulge the slash community fandoms don't want to hear it
@daveweigel I thought it was about gay kids until mere months ago.
@daveweigel This leads me to theorize that the "Wicked" movie is not going to make as much money as the makers may think.
It's a musical about a grifter who creates a problem and sells a town the solution to the problem he invented.
Finally, everyone's ready to talk about the musical that explains everything. https://t.co/iGFSNTDa6o
RT @WesleyLowery: Congress doesn’t have the power to “defund the police,” which more reporters should have pushed back on when Tim Scott cl…
And this. There are nearly half a million kids in foster care in America at any one time. This little girl's name was Julissia. https://t.co/lEr847Di7M
Speaking of which, sharing this piece again. I was glad to see @AGHamilton29 mention it in his newsletter -- it's staggering reporting. https://t.co/CLGBcSedzd
You can either curse the media darkness or light a media candle.
(Also, this goes to my thoughts on how we are terrible at nuance, and thus people become slogans, meaning that certain people get lifted up for their apparent adherence to a specific worldview with zero context)
(I think about this a lot with the work I've done on extremism, but that's a whole separate conversation.)
RT @joshchafetz: so, this is a hell of an investigation https://t.co/09JQvdM1SC
@EsotericCD I can tell! Having a small child look at me with rhapsodic joy because I looked like an animated baby tiger to them was pretty great.
RT @jaycaspiankang: It truly is amazing to see how some people can take what annoys them on Twitter and build an entire scale model of the…
Achilles Last Stand is my favorite Zeppelin song because it’s the one where John Bonham gets to cook
When she hits the breakdown at 4:45 https://t.co/JFGkzkgO6P
PS I think the museum should troll him right back, by creating an NFT of the work of conceptual art it bought & selling it for 10x what it paid the artist.
as a rule i will only agree to be photographed if you agree to photograph my dogs and include their names in the photo credits i’m a monster and i don’t care https://t.co/bSXEmviMWu
Me before Moose: People who take their dogs everywhere are psychologically damaged.
Me after Moose: Please sign my petition to allow dogs at the ice rink.
When I got Covid in 2020 and spent weeks in the hospital, it was harrowing. But it was nothing compared to what my family is dealing with now—also as a result of Covid.
This is a Covid horror story in which no one actually gets Covid, and it could still happen to anyone 🧵
The thing I admire the most about @matthewjdowd is that he has the courage of his convictions. https://t.co/yrqPyeJZv6
BREAKING: A public relations spokesperson for Governor DeSantis knows nothing about China, and — fittingly for a DeSantis staffer — has chosen her hill to die on. https://t.co/4gVsiLyvLZ
@petersuderman I beg to differ -- this is Lane's best lede: "And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: “Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.”" https://t.co/WG9kNVob5g
@kittypurrzog Actually…. From what I read in @HeatherEHeying & @BretWeinstein’s “Hunter Gathers Guide to the 21st Century,” your wife was right. 🤷🏻♀️
News from the Department of "How Did We Ever Live Without This?": @TheUnspeakPod now has a YouTube channel! First up: my conversation with @jamiekilstein about podcasting and whether we're screwing ourselves with all this nuance nonsense. https://t.co/neKo8Nr8QV
Each of these *looks* like an English word, and yet when you put them together... https://t.co/D1hO5DkPIO
@sladesr "I forced an AI to read a million incel nat-con Twitter feeds and then....."
My aunt died suddenly this week. She was sharp and beautiful and southern as they come. Nadine and her husband lived a private, quiet, Florida life. Caught alligators and snakes and loved Jesus. She never seemed afraid of anything and knit cocoons for my babies. I’ll miss her.
@petersuderman I laughed and I don't even know why.
@reason I'm with @petersuderman in the #authoritarian flex to ban crappy loudspeakers. Of course, defining the rubric for it will be it's own glorious bloodbath.
RT @Fiona_Harrigan: I love where I work https://t.co/HMeWQ9CKRr
Someday I will write an extended appreciation of Lane, film criticism's greatest champion of human life, common decency, and puns.
@Heminator Pointed. Great. Funny. Not as evocative.
No one does amused exasperation better than Anthony Lane.
Incidentally, that was the same year that Lane wrote what remains the single greatest lede paragraph to a movie review ever:
https://t.co/unxcw85qUO
This reminds me of one of my favorite Anthony Lane reviews, of the Sex and the City movie, which was full of wit and insight, none of which mattered, because the whole thing was a setup for the pun, “The Lying, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe.”
https://t.co/6e38K13qDI
I don't actually have context or setup for this joke but I will try to think of some by the time I write my review.
@hpmacd a surprising number of templates suggest it
RT @scottlincicome: Well, they don't *always* raise prices. Sometimes they lower wages. https://t.co/8ZxLoNclEE
@Erkenbald @SonnyBunch @AlyssaRosenberg If we're judging by knowledge/consumption of the smaller byways and tributaries of pre-Disney Star Warsdom, @AlyssaRosenberg is a much, much bigger SW fan than I am.
RT @janecoaston: I'm aware that this is what local news does every year but -- if the product is called "Stoner Patch Dummies," that produc…
@Threeg74 You can use blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries if you prefer. Don’t bother with a pricey bourbon.
@Threeg74 Blackberry bourbon lemonade.
1 cup sugar
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup bourbon
4-5 cups water
1/2 cup blackberries
Muddle the berries and the sugar in a bowl. Let them sit for at least an hour, then add lemon, bourbon, water. Whisk to integrate. Strain out solids.
This week's pod has a long discussion about IP, creator rights, and the legal future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Spoiler alert: Eventually, a ton of money is going to change hands, and then things will more or less continue. https://t.co/EDpd8hcHz2
RT @reason: "We talk about price tags. It is zero price tag on the debt. We are going to pay for everything we spend."
Sure, Joe.
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@CuriousTask to be fair, a lot of Martinis are served with no vermouth or close to no vermouth. Not my preference. But it's pretty common.
RT @nickgillespie: New @reason Roundtable w me, @kmanguward @petersuderman and @MattWelch. A real keeper. https://t.co/mjrGgGK2KP
@petersuderman True, but the higher the starting ABV, the lower the final temperature, the more ice needs to melt to get it there.
Even a pure gin "martini" will stir down to about 28%.
@petersuderman Maybe try it out at the next Reason Roundtable? 😏
From last week’s #ATMA:
“I enjoyed the simplicity of the story… It’s natural… there’s something sort of easy going and human about this film that is a little bit unusual in Hollywood these days.” @petersuderman and @AlyssaRosenberg got CRY MACHO right. Sorry, @SonnyBunch.
@confilmbuff @petersuderman @AlyssaRosenberg @SonnyBunch While I sometimes agree with @SonnyBunch , if @petersuderman and @AlyssaRosenberg agree I would tend to think he's wrong here...though I have to see it!
@petersuderman @SonnyBunch With Star Trek in particular I think the sense of fan ownership is at least a little earned as a fan campaign saved the original series from early cancellation and fan-driven conventions were somewhat responsible for Phase II/The Motion Picture.
@petersuderman I don't think anyone likes their 1st martini, but to get 37% ABV, it'd have to be 6 or 7:1 w/ no dilution.
Chilled, it's closer to 25%. Those who like lower ABV can stir in a room-temp glass instead of a tin.
Thoughts and prayers to the comedians trying to do live sets in-between innings at the stadium during an intense Mets game https://t.co/yEHDhfA887
@mmasnick @jess_miers would 230 give the tattoo-ee protection as merely the conveying medium, placing any liability for tattooed material strictly on the tattoo artist? 😉
@jess_miers @mmasnick now I'm wondering if you get a tattoo, does that make you a publisher or a platform for this content? 😉
/me grins, ducks, and runs
Buried lede: Millions of people using Facebook memes to advertise their religiosity, instead of, you know, going to church and stuff. https://t.co/WM9XBfoO5a
Giancarlo Stanton's killing spree has crossed international borders.
I bet Adler wore her gang colours. https://t.co/6BWC7ppA49
RT @CBSSunday: A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the M…
@micahsch @alexfeerst @daphnehk @evelyndouek This... is a great story. FWIW, the trust & safety game that I am *still* working on creating has this exact scenario in it...
@brianlfrye It's worked for me. No one has stolen my invention yet.
RT @Mr_Berman: This story — on what Ozy actually does versus what it says it does, and who falls for the former versus the latter — is eye-…
RT @willsommer: Starting to think OZY Media isn't on the level! https://t.co/JICRiuii64
RT @jess_miers: I get teased a lot for the 230 tattoo and that's alright. I'm passionate about and proud of the work I've done in this spac…
RT @NKingofDC: Kudos to the @WSJ for its examination of Facebook’s internal studies on the harmful effects if’s technology on American soci…
RT @olivierlacan: The fascists are inside the house. Just as they are in Germany. https://t.co/3tvO9sRcHF
RT @kimmaicutler: Going to get totally normal, responsible federal legislators out of this re-districting process, aren’t we?
@thepartycow I knew that already. You can also just click the down arrow in the upper right. Same thing.
@PeterBale @jeffjarvis I've pitched Ford on multiple projects and never got anywhere at all. Should have know that if I just lied about everything maybe it would have gone better.
RT @PatHedger18: Also, I’m compelled to point out that a gaggle of people “debating” Section 230 online is brought to you by… Section 230.
@gumnos @jess_miers @mmasnick "I demand you wear my tattoo!"
Omg this is so exciting for the few, the proud, the people who nerd on NC Dental https://t.co/nWS310SYQ7
I bought that Mass State Trooper story. Lesson learned, and will take this advice from @juliettekayyem to heart. https://t.co/Mo6SI5PBgh
@darth darth look at all these people who DIDN’T needlessly die
i bet the warden from elvis presley's "jailhouse rock" got in a lot of trouble.
@xieish @michelleinbklyn Because she was foregrounding the structural subordination of the female sex, as feminists had been doing for decades before her. The gender-neutral version obscures her meaning.
Sen. Fischer basically saying that the problem in AFG pullout was the elected President not obeying military orders.
Huh. It's almost like you could write an entire book about how affluence and peace and high living standards actually create the bored middle classes that end up trying to tear down liberal democracy https://t.co/mGsDnHF1vy
We absolutely l need more men like @AnthonyACLU & orgs like @ACLU to speak for women and interpret what they *REALLY* mean when they say something.
Maybe these wise men can start voting on behalf of their wives and daughters too, just to make sure the wammens don’t get confused. https://t.co/hDnWQduuhn
Good column by @michelleinbklyn tho https://t.co/8IPBae2Typ
This is the same woman who told me not to go to the doctor when I broke my foot because who the hell breaks a bone from a six-inch fall?? I walked around on it for 2 weeks. Should have sued.
Reaching a whole new level of intimacy with my wife tonight: She’s taking stitches out of my face
Imagine this boy on ice. Could be a musical. https://t.co/PABnoHsaxr
If you think that getting paid to research dumb internet bullshit sounds too good to be true, in a just world, you would be correct. But in this world, it's real. Join us! https://t.co/46XxDFyhjD
@kittypurrzog I invested a lot in training & obedience classes so my dog would be a well-behaved, polite companion when I have him out & about, but I admit outright that it’s a psychological hangup & I probably need therapy. Keeping him super well-trained is just a way to somewhat mitigate.
@xmasape @bariweiss Bari’s podcast (and @jessesingal and @kittypurrzog’s come to think of it) are the most reasoned, empathetic and principled podcasts I listen to in a week. Don’t always agree with them, always entertained by them, never question the integrity of their intent
@kittypurrzog If you get a phone call about me from an unemployment officer, will you tell them I applied for this job?
The rate doesn't really matter for my point so long as it is above zero. And it's obviously above zero for a lot of companies. Sure, there's room for nuance, but Psaki is the one who rejects it when she says this concern is "unfair and absurd." It's neither. https://t.co/ijzDAQqyau
Controversial opinion: People who hate public servants should not be in charge of them. https://t.co/qBojR6e0rz
"[I]t's hard to imagine the old ACLU—or really any self-respecting non-Soviet institution—scrubbing the quotations of old heroes so that they are less offensive to the militantly woke." https://t.co/zqYcgQLVLu via @reason
nurses used to chain smoke overtop of you while sewing you up with a rusty fishhook & no gloves, let’s allow that too https://t.co/uSYC0fBmA0
just gonna be up here on my flagpole screaming the same thing over & over & over again: the antivax movement is now a function of free, readily available, highly effective vaccines presenting an existential business threat to people who profit off selling tribalism & quack cures https://t.co/VVSOt3aSbn
Breakthrough infections for vaccinated people are often mild its true
But a small number, especially vulnerable folks, can get sick
Boosters reduce breakthrough infections and likely slow spread
And that is a good thing
So when its your turn -- get the 3rd shot
@RadioFreeTom @juliettekayyem YOU DONT ADMIT THAT ON TWITTER
@RadioFreeTom he is seemingly knowingly confusing mil advice given last two weeks of august and at earlier points.
@RadioFreeTom @alice_radley @BillKristol https://t.co/wGPAPZXYI2
@natfinnonE @RadioFreeTom @TheRickWilson Mobs aren’t always easy to start, but once u got one movin….
Latest prog talking point: we have to kill the Biden agenda in order to save the Biden agenda.
Sounds vaguely familiar.
I know I shouldn't enjoy these moments as much as I do, but I'm old and cranky and they make me laugh https://t.co/C92pGJMLhc
@JoeReynolds2020 @JWilsonTCSC @SykesCharlie @BulwarkOnline We have to keep a counter on the f-bombs when we get rolling
One reason I became a Republican back in the 70s was that I thought they were the pro-military, pro-defense, national security party. Today they're more anti-military and more dangerous to national security than any wild-eyed leftists I went to college with back in those days. https://t.co/jUL3IkHx6v
And… exhale. New big pandemic piece coming out tomorrow am. (I know it’s faintly ridiculous to promote these as if I’m dropping a new album but, idk, they’re a lot of work and I hope people will read them.)
I'm sorry but it's so fucking funny that they're trying to turn "political diversity" into an actual thing. https://t.co/AHBJd5M6di
@RadioFreeTom 1,000 percent this! I often think about the State Department lifers I worked with —nearly all Democrats, obviously— and how serious they were about foreign policy, about military threats and about representing the flag, not a party.
This is bad news for Noem. As we all know, Republicans love anonymously sourced stories and won’t support a philanderer. https://t.co/IApWJiUjp0
"I was talking to Richard Branson in his wine dungeon and he convinced me: Raising the top tax rate is going ti crush job-creators."
This is gaslighting from @Axios -- the claim that Biden is "from a generation" where party loyalty is "automatic." He was in the Senate when Ted Kennedy *challenged* Carter in a primary!
Come on, man!
https://t.co/LBeWKG8w31
The real one has @TateosaurusRex on it https://t.co/WYlRbiQfXx https://t.co/H6gWsLOR9b
@JRubinBlogger @RadioFreeTom Wow. Together we really turn out the misogynist Trumpy trolls! Haven't blocked this many folks in ages!
This was the point I was making early on: That Milley was saying he can't approve orders, but he wanted to know about them. A fine but important distinction. https://t.co/ajYiI3FVaz
This makes Obama's "I'll have more flexibility after the election" seem like savage diplomacy, but at this point, there could be photos of Trump giving Putin a foot massage and Trump supporters would explain why it was a brilliant move. https://t.co/gmiOQ64Fei
@joshtpm But the reason Bagram wasn’t useful is because we would have had to defend it, but if we had to defend it (temporarily) would it have been useful?
@RadioFreeTom This chapter resonated w/me (not that the others haven't!). Some works that your discussion reminded me of: the chapters on Scots-Irish immigrants in David Hackett Fisher's *Albion's Seed*; Patrick Leigh Fermor's writings on travels in the Mani (S Peleponnese)
@RadioFreeTom These days Madame Defarge does her knitting while watching Fox News and its international equivalents
NEW: Federal investigators have sought records of communications between Rudy Giuliani and 12 other individuals as well as any communications about former ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and other topics as part of their search warrants, court filings show.
My favorite part about Democrats going after Joe Manchin is that they don't realize that even if they got him to resign over his energy company, he'd be replaced with a Republican.
If Democrats think it's tough to get anything passed now, get rid of Manchin and see how it goes.
@danangell11 They can never admit the con. Too deep in.
@RadioFreeTom Was this what Jeopardy was like when you were on? https://t.co/AcVgb5yXJw
@RadioFreeTom Sorry Tom, it’s @BillKristol’s world, you just live in it. https://t.co/Q9x4pBczvF
“I should have spoken up more“.
someone should ask her and all of the other memoirists whether they will support the Democratic nominee against Trump if he gets the nomination in 2024. https://t.co/l9BVP08Ciu
@RadioFreeTom As an engineer I grow used to being right a lot. What I find annoying is that next week the same someone is challenging me again. Don’t they ever learn?