Declan Hurley
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North Carolinian. Roman Catholic. UChicago '24. Notre Dame Law '27. Editor-in-chief emeritus, @ThinkerChicago .
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There is no American flag on the University of Chicago’s flagpole.
Why? Pro-Palestine protesters hoisted up the Palestinian flag. And instead of putting Old Glory back up or allowing patriotic students to do so, UChicago cut the cord for the flagpole.
Shame,
@UChicago
!
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@AlexBerenson
Twitter permanently suspended Emma Woodhouse for observing, in line with a Journal op-ed, that the FDA "conspicuously lowered its standards to approve Covid vaccines for toddlers."
@ContraTyranny
broke this story for the Thinker:
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@daveweigel
Why would anyone pick Xi? He is a ruthless autocrat who forces Uighurs into indoctrination camps, while depriving his country of any chance at long-term wealth. Any of the other three leaders are light years better!
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@ThinkerChicago
has kept UChicago true to its mission of being America's free-speech school. We have held admin to account for dangerous COVID policies which mock our reputation for intellectual inquiry. And we have built a great team.
Excited to be Thinker's editor-in-chief:
We are so excited to announce our new Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Declan Hurley. Declan is a founding member of the Thinker who previously served as the team’s Vice President of Editorial Operations. We are so grateful for Declan’s hard work and excited to see what he does next!
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“Some people are in the business of being offended, just as Campbell is in the business of making soup.” — Thomas Sowell, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago
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@joshdcaplan
Economics 101: Bezos would move to Florida if Washington passed an unconstitutional wealth tax, and maybe he would even move Amazon’s headquarters as a middle-finger.
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@CTULocal1
The Chicago Teachers Union is the face of evil. They are responsible for an educational shutdown which has caused incalculable damage.
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The Chicago Thinker hosted a social last night that brought together a few dozen free-thinking students across UChicago’s various divisions.
Showing conservatives and libertarians that they are not alone in their convictions is the best part of what we do.
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.
@UChicago
perpetuates mask cruelty for the heck of it:
"The mask requirement for classrooms and other instructional settings will remain through the end of Winter Quarter on March 19 to maintain continuity for students and instructors in classroom settings."
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@Barnes_Law
@NateSilver538
Michigan early vote returns show that GOPers are returning ballots at a greater rate than Democrats. Since pollsters have indicated a major Democratic advantage in early vote, this shows that Rust Belt states are being poorly polled.
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“Every time I read a Chicago Thinker article, it fills me with hope.” — Dr.
@DrJBhattacharya
The Thinker thanks you, Dr. Bhattacharya, for all your support.
Also, UChicago is so lucky to have the
@UChiFedSoc
—
@SamEllis82
brings the best guests that America has to offer!
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@UChicago
compelled healthy young adults to get COVID boosters. Now, it’s clear that they were medically useless.
The
@ThinkerChicago
was ahead of the curve with our January 11th editorial: “UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate—We Are Not Lab Rats.”
New study: COVID booster shots less than 20% effective just a few months after injection.
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@bornfugly
The Khmer Rouge’s rule killed 30% of the Cambodian population. What has caused this generational predicament?
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I made my account private for about a year, but today I am going public in response to the outpouring of support for my testimonial. Thank you all.
Please join me in imploring
@UChicago
to lift its mask mandate, which imposes inordinate costs on the deaf and hard-of-hearing:
Our VP
@DeclanMHurley
implores
@UChicago
to let him hear in class! End the cruelty and drop the mask mandate.
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UChicago is revising its inhumane mask policy after a long stream of advocacy by
@ThinkerChicago
. Crucially, we were bolstered by plenty of help from our friends on campus and across the country.
The next step for
@UChicago
should be ending the mask mandate completely.
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The University of Chicago is an incredibly special place. On the eve of final exams, a standing-room only crowd turned out to see a moderated dialogue between
@ThinkerChicago
conservatives and Platypus Society Marxists.
Free speech lives on!
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“[S]chools exist for the education of children. Schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, [or] a guaranteed market for teachers college degrees...” — Thomas Sowell
The nation’s largest teachers union released a "policy playbook" for the Biden administration:
• "Oppose all charter school expansion"
• "Bar federal funding to charter schools"
• Regulate all charter schools
• Abolish the D.C. school choice program for low-income students
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Gov. DeSantis said public health elites “were wrong about the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines.” Indeed, the shots haven’t held up against mutations.
Yet Jonathan Chait accused DeSantis of “courting anti-vaxxers.”
@ContraTyranny
interviewed Chait and pushed back on his narrative:
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Please write me in for Faculty and Governance Liaison. Here’s why:
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I joined ABC7 today to discuss why the encampment, which UChicago thankfully removed early this morning, was not protected free speech.
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@Breaking911
Some polls show Gov. Sisolak losing by high single digits. When masks polled well, politicians laser-focused on electoral advantage adopted them; now they’re running for the hills. It has always been political.
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And the CDC had to use a lot of words to say that the
@ThinkerChicago
—which has opposed coerced masking, social isolation, and mandatory COVID inoculation—was right.
CDC sure has to use a lot of words to say “DeSantis was right”
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Thread: King Charles III ascended to the throne yesterday upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Because of his namesake, he should make the Carolinas his first foreign stop as king. (1/)
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@POTUS
Mr. President, Texas has allowed 18 year olds to buy long guns for 60 years. It is only in the past 25 years that we’ve seen regular mass shootings.
Do you acknowledge the role of deinstitutionalization and the dissolution of the nuclear family in precipitating mass shootings?
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.
@ThinkerChicago
reports on issues and influences the debate on campus, nationally, and globally.
@ChicagoMaroon
has different priorities. They ran another error-laden hit piece on the Thinker (they produced several in past) in addition to a verbal assault on
@RFultonBrown
.
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UChicago “announced that the school has reinstated its mask mandate carveout for students and professors actively speaking, perhaps thanks to Thinker Vice President and deaf UChicago student Declan Hurley.” — M. Robson via
@ThinkerChicago
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.
@audrey_unver
, editor of the Chicago Thinker, made a TV appearance so fantastic that our website is down. Kindly sign our petition, linked below, while we reboot:
Join the Chicago Thinker: UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate—We Are Not Lab Rats!
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I’m happy that UChicago cleared the encampment on the Quad. In recognition of this victory, we closed our petition (which got 2,537 signatures).
Now, UChicago must re-raise the U.S. flag on the Quad. Anything else would mark continued administrative capitulation to the UCUP mob.
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@DeAngelisCorey
Dr. Sowell: “[S]chools exist for the education of children. Schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, a guaranteed market for teachers college degrees, ..." (1/2)
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The illegal pro-Palestine encampment at
@UChicago
has been up for six days.
The university removed the American flag from our main flagpole on Thursday and hasn’t put Old Glory back up.
Our campus’s voices of sanity have a simple request:
Encampment down, flag up!
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On CBS 2:
“This encampment was illegal, disruptive, obstructive and incredibly dangerous. We had people from off campus operating on our Quad for days on end, and I’m so happy to see our quad liberated.”
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@mikemullin4VA
@ethanclynne
@GovernorVA
Speaking as a 20-year-old who got a *lot* of heat for posting about politics as a young teenager, if you’re going to put partisan and incendiary content out there, expect backlash.
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Chicago Thinker editor
@pjzhao
reports on a recent study by
@caseybmulligan
and
@StephenMoore
, who found that Biden's energy policies have forced U.S. oil and natural gas output to flatline even with higher energy prices worldwide:
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@isaac_schorr
Prince Harry has apparently been resentful for a lifetime and took the first opportunity possible to inflict harm against his family.
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San Diego Unified should be ashamed of itself.
Masks, which obscure wearers’ lips and muffle their speech, make it difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing kids to hear their teachers.
And masks are correlated with a huge upsurge in speech disorders among children.
Mask mandates are back for
@SDSchools
students.
For students who feel uncomfortable wearing a mask, SDUSD President Sharon Whitehurst-Payne suggests not returning to school at all.
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I’m convinced that test-optional policies have yielded classes of freshmen less qualified for serious college-level work, even at the University of Chicago.
THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG
2020: NYU begins test optional admissions
2022: after just 2 years, students who are too stupid for organic chemistry petition to fire their legendary professor for being "too hard." And the school agreed - they fired him!
We're f***ed...
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Spoken with clarity that only a UChicago prof could proffer:
The political logic of these immigrant buses is not to show the hypocrisy of
#SanctuaryCities
. That's a bonus. The real goal is to raise the national profile of a wide-open border & thus the costs to
#Biden
and
#Democrats
of their inaction. And the buses are doing exactly that.
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Twitter removed Emma Woodhouse for quoting
@WSJ
(“The FDA conspicuously lowered its standards to approve Covid vaccines for toddlers”), as
@ContraTyranny
reports in this article.
Will
@elonmusk
restore Emma?
@AlexBerenson
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This is the beautiful institution that defenders of academic freedom like
@RFultonBrown
and we at the
@ThinkerChicago
aim to protect.
@UChicago
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.
@ThinkerChicago
exclusive:
Professor
@RFultonBrown
“will oppose UChicago’s testing mandate with a weekly prayer circle on the grass in front of Ryerson. These meetups will begin at noon on Fridays, with the first occurring on September 30.”
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I loved seeing you and introducing you to the University of Chicago, Mr. Vice President!
@Mike_Pence
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@neocentrist
Excellent question that makes me proud to be a student here.
@ContraTyranny
@MooreJlm122013
@jkflo2020
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Founders would be disgusted at Congress for passing a 4,155-page bill on four day’s notice.
#OmnibusBill
Senators reached “a deal on amendments that clears the way to pass a $1.65 trillion spending bill just ahead of the Christmas holiday.”
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.
@ThinkerChicago
–
@uchicagogop
dinner after the UChicago Institute of Politics’ conservative student mixer.
Great to meet
@stephenfhayes
at the mixer!
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This is UChicago’s Main Quad this morning. Protesters put up additional barriers/fencing last night.
This is the eighth day of the encampment. Thankfully, there is now a petition for UChicago to clear the occupation. Sign it here:
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If anyone finds ableism appealing, it is Dr. Landon.
She has fervently backed compulsory masking. Yet a recent study found that 80% of deaf and hard-of-hearing people “reported difficulty with understanding others who wore face masks.”
Can someone help me understand what’s so great about ableism? I don’t understand the appeal.
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@NovkovJulie
@SCOTUSblog
@NinaTotenberg
Why should Gorsuch imprison himself because of his colleague’s irrationality?
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Cool to meet
@CurtisSliwa
, founder of the Guardian Angels and 2021 candidate for mayor, tonight!
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@nickroberts317
@DrewSav
As a fellow member of Gen Z, I politely recommend getting some life experience before running for public office.
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Quick selfie with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump!
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A vile anti-Israel protest has besieged the Main Quad at the University of Chicago and impeded pedestrian foot traffic.
Among the signs: “Fuck Zionism for Real” and “Is(not)real Is an Apartheid State.”
Students tell me that demonstrators’ chants have disrupted nearby classes.
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@GabeGuidarini
Secretary of State of Arizona or a conspiracy theorist willing to say whatever it took to win?
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UChicago President Paul Alivisatos announced, in May, a “diverse” “Public Safety Advisory Council.”
@ThinkerChicago
“If you see a snake, just kill it. Don’t appoint a committee on snakes.” — H. Ross Perot
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Thank you,
@RFultonBrown
, for passing along Emily Landon's latest remarks to
@ThinkerChicago
:
As Landon Insists Pandemic Here to Stay, It’s Time for Her to Go
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@lrishConservNat
America would be in a much, much better place had Barry Goldwater won in 1964.
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“There can never be friendship between the British democracy and the Nazi Power, that power which spurns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward course by a barbarous paganism, which . . . uses, as we have seen, with pitiless brutality the threat of murderous force.”—Churchill
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“Don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
Mitch accurately frames the stakes. Why is UChicago negotiating with those illegally occupying our Quad?
Even worse, the Maroon just broke that UChicago pulled back police protection from the Quad “as a part of preconditions for negotiations.”
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Almost 3,400 people have signed the
@ThinkerChicago
petition opposing UChicago’s booster mandate and demanding details regarding its promulgation, in part thanks to TV appearances by editor
@audrey_unver
.
Help us reach our goal of 5,000 signatures:
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@RealDSchmidt
@ThinkerChicago
Daniel, we did not dismiss you because of your ideas or tweets. We let you go because you continually treated your friends, classmates, and teammates poorly. I hope that this summer can be one for prayer and introspection.
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Terrorists have occupied UChicago’s Institute of Politics.
UChicago erred by not arresting and expelling the people behind the encampment. Doing so might have deterred future lawbreaking.
@ishapiro
,
@josh_hammer
BREAKING: PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS OCCUPY INSTITUTE OF POLITICS BUILDING
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The
@ChicagoMaroon
, not content with their targeted, years-long harassment campaign against the Thinker, is purging their minuscule right-of-center contingent.
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The excellent
@MZHemingway
gave the
@ThinkerChicago
a shoutout at tonight’s ISI event.
Afterward, we caught up with Mollie,
@Heminator
, and Thinker alumna
@evitaduffy_1
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Hard-hitting report from
@jgkolettis
: "A would-be robber shot a University of Chicago undergraduate Wednesday night, the school announced nearly 15 hours later. CPD data show that Wednesday's shooting is one of nearly 2,300 in Chicago so far this year."
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At Westminster Hall, I had a rendezvous with Edmund Burke, the great Anglo-Irish conservative statesman.
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@jameshohmann
I follow world events closely and really couldn't name one. Maybe Benjamin Netanyahu, but he hasn't officially retaken the prime ministership.
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@NateSilver538
With all due respect, Rasmussen was the only pollster that accurately called the 2016 national popular vote -- Clinton +2.
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In the 1932 German presidential election, Catholics voted overwhelmingly for Paul von Hindenburg.
I have never seen such a clear-cut correlation between faith and party preference as that evinced by these maps. Everyplace that is Catholic voted against Hitler, strongly.
@Atg8_
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@judyshel
Dr. Shelton, I am a UChicago Econ. student and I put out an editorial in your defense back in Nov. 2021. I’ve never received so much hate for a piece. You challenge the paradigm and it brings out the worst in people who don’t like challenging their assumptions.
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Imagine the shockwaves
@BillAckman
would send if he redirected his philanthropy from Harvard to UChicago, an excellent school that already satisfies many of his personal goals.
Great piece by Ben Ogilvie (
@GogglesMammoth
)!
CC:
@caseybmulligan
,
@ishapiro
Dear Bill Ackman: Forget Harvard. Your Money Belongs at UChicago Instead
By Ben Ogilvie (
@GogglesMammoth
)
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@benshapiro
Rep.
@AOC
also sits on a leather chair all day, except that she uses the time to tweet instead of engaging in productive conversation and compromise.
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My latest for the
@CollegeFix
:
Upstart conservative student paper at University of Alabama will tackle ‘rise of DEI,’ founder says via
@collegefix
Follow
@CapstoneFPAL
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At the University of Chicago, pro-Palestinian students have staged a sit-in at Pret because of the firm’s plan to open locations in Israel.
@UChicago
should immediate condemn these disruptors of the public peace and have UCPD arrest them.
CC:
@josh_hammer
,
@ishapiro
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@Vermeullarmine
As a current UChicago student, I am consistently impressed by President Zimmer but am concerned that someone not as committed to free expression will be his successor. We shall see.
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Two UChicago professors served as Trump advisers and saw his administration lay the groundwork for Operation Warp Speed years before COVID took root. But when our professors wrote an article about their experiences, NYT acquired the story and sat on it for months only to kill it.
Exclusive from Key Trump Economists: The NYT-Suppressed Story of Operation Warp Speed
By Professors
@caseybmulligan
and
@TomasPhilipson
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He is risen, indeed. Happy Easter from the Chicago Thinker.
Under the crushing weight of our sins, Jesus Christ died on the cross at Calvary. But on the third day, the Lord God in Heaven deemed Christ’s sacrifice perfect and resurrected him from the dead.
Through Him, with Him, and in Him, we too can obtain eternal life.
#HeIsRisen
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Smoking is making a comeback among the youth of UChicago.
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@elibt
@JoshShapiroPA
We’re neither. We’re a constitutional republic with some representative elements.
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@ThinkerChicago
Only people who view ideas as dangerous hate free speech. Don’t be like them.
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@JonathanTurley
Isn’t it inherently problematic to charge the person who has unilateral declassification authority with mishandling classified documents?
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@willchamberlain
Marc Elias lost credibility in my view when he predicted that Bill Nelson would win in Florida. Nelson went on to lose by 10,000 votes.
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@Cernovich
Thank you,
@elonmusk
.
The solution to the Big-Tech dilemma is not more government involvement, but instead a government that steps back and allows people like Elon Musk to do their good work.
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Headed to
@ISI
conference on behalf of
@ThinkerChicago
. The day dress code is “business casual”; hopefully my autumnal drip proves satisfactory.
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UChicago pro-Israel protesters reserved space on the Quad, only to be disrupted by pro-Palestine protesters who had no permit. A dean-on-call “arrived wearing . . . the colors of the Palestinian flag” and engaged in “uneven enforcement of supposedly content-neutral restrictions”:
BREAKING: Open Letter Condemns UChicago Dean-on-Call’s ‘Clear Bias’ During Disruptive Pro-Palestine Protest
By
@pjzhao
CC:
@guypbenson
,
@shiraeis
,
@ishapiro
,
@josh_hammer
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