Sam Adler-Bell
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writer // contributor @bookworld // cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman
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I wrote about Adam Phillips, British psychoanalysis, and the benefits of “giving up” for
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*me slumping over after brief, terrible sex* "that's what it would be like with the other guys"
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Gen z right wingers going to lose their minds when they find out about “rock and roll”
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I'm drinking my iced coffee with a paper straw while the U.S. military burns through 269,230 barrels of oil a day.
The climate movement must be anti imperialist. Tinkering at the edges of the war machine won't be enough.
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Say what you will about Elon’s management style, but before he took over all you guys posted was “ugh another day on this hell site” and now you’re all like “ah twitter the extraordinary place where I met all my best friends, started my career, had sex for the first time”
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Pro tip: if you take your girlfriend to see Dune 2 and she hasn’t seen Dune 1, you get to describe the plot of the first movie to her at dinner (including useful details from the books). And she can’t stop you bc actually you’re being considerate. Huge loophole.
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More than 50 amazon workers at MSP1 in Shakopee, MN walked off the job just after 12am this morning to protest the elimination of unpaid time off, unsafe conditions, & the appearance of retaliation against workers who speak out.
Here's Hafsa Hasan, one of the leaders:
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Breaking from routine with a mini sabbatical or 'adult gap year' can be rejuvenating
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“Thread of things that make me proud to be an American, just riffing here off the top of my head, but yeah first thing that comes to mind: the death penalty”
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i don't like cities that attract a lot of "outdoorsy" types. if the city is good enough, you shouldn't want to go hiking every weekend.
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not an unfair description of what is happening: a bunch of non-white Iowans put Bernie over the top and now Buttigieg and the DNC are questioning how much their votes should matter
NEWS: Buttigieg campaign had a call w/ IDP this morning + raised concerns about how the party was allocating SDEs from satellite caucuses. Campaign believes the party has not followed rules set out by the delegate selection plan, and Bernie got more SDEs.
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Bernie people getting pissed at AOC — an indispensable surrogate for Sanders — bc she defended Warren’s debate performance in response to a Jennifer Rubin tweet. This is how I die.
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Reminder: Ron and Casey *got married* at Disney World
BREAKING: During a campaign event in Iowa today, Ron DeSantis looked visibly furious after his wife Casey accidentally admitted that their daughter watches Disney's "Frozen" every single day.
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Fake stigma. Not a real stigma at all. People who like movies a lot go to them by themselves all the time.
the stigma against going to the movies alone is so wild to me… you can pick any theater, any film, any showtime, any seat. zero worry about whether the person you brought is enjoying the film. just pure heavenly bliss
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my mother would like to point out to NYC media, with all due respect, that it is not "ironic" that Corona, Queens had a severe coronavirus outbreak; it is merely coincidental
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re tweets of the decade, don’t sleep on this latecomer
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#IStandWithIlhan
As a Jew, I am sick of politicians using my identity as fodder to smear young leaders of color. I know antisemitism when I see it. I've seen a lot of it lately. None of it from
@IlhanMN
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"Don't ban guns; ban schools!" really is the perfect distillation of conservative moral and intellectual bankruptcy. It's beautiful.
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I personally think, and I’m sorry to be controversial, that it’s bad news the de facto GOP party leader and presumptive 2024 presidential nominee met with this guy.
White nationalist antisemite Nick Fuentes warns that if "the Jews" don't stop oppressing people like him, it will soon lead to violence: "When it comes to the Jews, every society where shit has gone down with these people, it always goes from zero to sixty."
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do it, ya fuckin freaks, you absolute ghouls
The White House is considering whether to lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines, sources say, which would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines.
@kaylatausche
reports.
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"Don’t be afraid of Covid," says president pumped full of experimental drugs no one else in America can get, much less afford, from his taxpayer-funded hospital suite.
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
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It’d be so sick if the left could hold a few protests with a couple hundred people, and then whatever our demands are would be treated by media as some authentic expression of the will of The People and liberal politicians would bend over backward to signal support for us.
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If Bernie enters the convention with a plurality of delegates and leaves without the nomination, it will destroy the Party, alienate a generation of Democrats, and hand another four years to Trump.
Elizabeth Warrens on
@MSNBC
on why she isn’t supportive of going with the candidate who gets the most delegates on first ballot: ”We need to pick a nominee who can beat Donald Trump and that means we gotta have someone who is talking to all parts of the party. It’s important.”
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There's a "Jews for Palestine" banner right behind her. If you love Israel and feel it has an unfettered prerogative to kill whomever it wants, you can say so. That's the status quo. You have the power! Enjoy it! This victimhood stance is pathetic and absurd.
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Fascinating centrist consensus forming that if we’re not nice enough to the cops, they’ll let our babies be killed. (And this is a defense of the cops.)
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Here's something: thanks to my squishy "be nice to Warren" takes, I've experienced a lot of the storied online Bernie Bro attacks.
And you know what? Not that bad. Pretty normal stuff. Small faction. I mute and move on. Maybe not a national headline that should last 4+ years.
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"I was offering $18-22/hr, i got no applications. I increased it to 23 and I got none. I increased it to 25, and they’re starting to trickle in right now." Problem solved, bitch!
The construction industry was already short on workers before the events of last year, and now companies are trying to keep up as new home construction and improvement are surging.
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These people are not getting the message “everyone hates white straight males” from left wing media. They’re not watching left wing media!! It’s absurd.
They’re getting that message from right wing media *interpreting* left wing media for them.
Here a self-aware person provides a window into the exact scenario I warned about. He (I presume) does not wish to gather by race, but also does not wish to be left vulnerable for failing to do so if that is the only option that protects his dignity and his rights.
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Has anybody considered having more hot people on the left? Like for branding purposes
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when your answer to the charge of genocide, is "well we wouldn't have to if we could merely ethnically cleanse"
Hi
@KamalaHarris
👋
Yesterday you said: “I have studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks in Rafah to go.”
Which maps have you studied? Here's a map showing that Rafah borders with Egypt 🇪🇬, which can remove its blockade of Gaza and admit refugees 👇
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i'm not great at history. can someone tell me if fascists ever killed any white people
"people will see you as white before anything else"
white queers: "tell that to the fascists who want me dead"
Me: they literally won't know they want you dead because they see you as white first...
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journalistic malpractice to cut this video off right there
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I promise you Marxists have not taken full advantage of this situation
Long overdue. Antifa has been engaging in organized and deliberate violence for years. Marxists have taken full advantage of this situation, and they have to be brought to justice. Their behavior this past week has been inexcusable.
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absolutely shocking if you don't know any Jews
U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much:
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It is your right, as an American, to invent your own accent. Bob Dylan and many other great Americans have done this, and you can too.
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Some people disagree, but sending a human being to a holding tank where they might contract a deadly virus and die for the crime of transporting a harmless, barely illegal drug and stealing $2.75 makes you essentially a monster.
Some people may disagree - but transporting ziplock bags of marijuana & a digital scale in your backpack does not make you an essential traveler in the eyes of the Transit police. Hopping a turnstile while doing so didn’t help either. Nice grab by our District 1 team!
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“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
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if you're Tucker, precisely what you want from this segment — which, in its entirety, features Smalls using the platform quite deftly to advocate for labor — is for leftists to take the bait, resent Smalls, or else join (Tucker, more so than Smalls) in vilifying an ally.
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What’s a Great Book that you read because it was assigned to you that you actually loved?
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People ask what, concretely, has AOC accomplished and my answer is the terror in Chuck Schumer’s heart
As a long-standing and strong supporter of grad students’ right to organize on campus:
I stand with the UAW graduate workers of
@GWCUAW
who are striking to fight for a fair labor contract.
This union deserves recognition and a fair contract. TODAY.
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I love that the savvy, cynical, unsentimental left position is that Ted Cruz actually wanted to work with AOC to reform Wall Street
Glenn Greenwald using baby voice to mock
@AOC
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snakes in the replies but Warren endorsed Markey and Bernie didn’t
You ran a strong campaign that inspired many,
@JoeKennedy
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Right now there's a conversation in Warren's camp about next steps. What Bernie needs right now is a full-throated endorsement from Warren & subsequent embrace by her dejected supporters. The thing least likely to produce those outcomes is meanness, vitriol, & recrimination.
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one thing I don't think moderate elites like b*** understand is that if you're a writer on the left, you've spent your entire career figuring out ways to say what you actually mean that major mainstream outlets will be willing to print. that negotiation is constant. it still is.
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Just clarifying that I’m worried about fascism in the cool leftist way not the cringey resistance lib way. 😎✊
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Before high taxes lmao. I fucking love conservatives.
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one of my pet theories about the lefty contrarian type (Taibbi, red scare, etc) is that they're incapable of not focusing on stuff that annoys them. and the more something annoys them, the more important, representative, & worthy of critique it becomes in their mind.
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unions hate it when politicians bring attention to their strikes on big platforms, few know this
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Wait it’s actually so insane and hilarious that we’re doing “participation trophy” discourse about a woman who has lived an exclusively and absurdly punishing, ascetic lifestyle in order to win actual trophies at the highest conceivable level for her entire life on earth.
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Liberals will never forgive socialists for taking liberalism’s guarantees seriously
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Wow Bernie camp really goes nuclear against Warren, encouraging volunteers to say “I like Elizabeth Warren. In fact, she’s my second choice!” Devastating stuff.
Scoop: Bernie stealthily goes negative on Warren w/ a volunteer script to tell Warren-leaning voters that she only appeals to the "affluent"/"highly-educated" &
"She's bringing no new bases into the Dem Party" (I re-typed script below to protect sourcing)
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i'm sorry the idea that Biden should preemptively compromise over his cabinet with the same Senate Rs who are right now asserting that the Dems fraudulently stole the election is INSANE.
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Notable that the concept of “anti-Palestinian racism” has never entered the American political lexicon. Amid all the concern about Israeli brutality inciting antisemitism, no one stops to wonder about the ideology that makes Palestinian suffering so acceptable.
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This is how you criticize someone for being correct, for standing on the side of justice despite the overwhelming pressure of consensus. When the left was powerless, most Democrats moved to the center, faithfully implementing neoliberalism.
@BernieSanders
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Toughest Warren on Bernie I've heard: "This crisis demands more than a Senator who has good ideas, but whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things he fails to get done, and consistently opposes things he nevertheless fails to stop."
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Lightly sourced and denied by Sanders. The liberal media desperately wants these candidates and their campaigns to fight over bullshit.
Before you dig in your heels, ask yourself why that might be.
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Nancy Pelosi really is a terrible leader and a scourge on progressive politics.
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The government can do (and force companies to do) everything we demand of them. Everything you've been told about the limits to living in a good and just world is a lie designed to protect financial interests.
This should be the takeaway from the next few weeks.
Breaking: Detroit officials are announcing right now that they are restoring water to thousands of residents and imposing a moratorium on water shutoffs as the coronavirus spreads in the U.S.
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Amy Klobuchar Ate a Salad With a Comb—So We Tried It. The Absurdity of This Whole Episode Prompted Some Reflection About What it Is We're Meant to Be Doing as a News Site, and We All Quit. Now We're Building a Maoist Cell in the Hudson Valley and Learning Basic Artillery Skills.
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For a podcast with such a provocative title, it's striking how deeply the hosts of
@KnowYrEnemyPod
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@meanunclejack
My dog really liked being around me and my HS friends when we were smoking. A real pack mentality sets in in those conditions, and I think he needed to be part of it.
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referring to Israel as a "colonial" project is not new (as others have noted, many early zionists understood it that way explicitly). what's new is that contemporary liberal zionists have internalized the idea that colonialism is brutal, awful, unjustifiable.
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Sinema is an ideological disaster but a pedagogical gift, training everyone to distinguish lifestyle social justice liberalism from actual egalitarian politics
just learned that Kyrsten Sinema has a PhD in "justice studies"
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Pretty sure Cornel West momentarily said “Plutarch” when he meant “Tupac” on CNN, probably the only person in the world who regularly makes that mistake
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Every single comment is people saying how great they look and congrats to the tailor. Vibe shift (good)
Caucasian couple proudly rocking Nigerian native attire
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Circumcision is obviously barbaric. After mine, I couldn’t walk for a year!
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Movements that win spend their energy seeking converts not sniffing out traitors. That’s all I’ll say.
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Stupid question but are America’s mayors not currently screaming at the top of their lungs for federal aid? Like “blood on your hands, people starving, freezing in the streets...” type stuff?
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can you imagine if conservatives were trying to defund public schools?!
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Cleanest hit I’ve seen on here in some time
@ggreenwald
@ShantMM
Literally all I do is criticize corporate media, you only criticize *liberal* corporate media. I do not go on corporate media, you have a permanent seat on the most watched corporate media show on the most watched corporate media outlet—which you mysteriously never criticize
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This thing is a good litmus. Do you finish the quote or are you a tendentious liar? Batya: liar.
I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."
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Is
@BrownUniversity
threatening to facilitate the deportation of international students engaged in non-violent civil disobedience on its campus??
This appears to be video of Brown University students being told they would face administrative and legal consequences for remaining in the building past 5pm.
It ends as international students are told they “may experience those…consequences differently if it leads to...”
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Whatever happened at that hospital, Israel and the US have been lying about it
Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket.
@nytimes
Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.
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the trend of pro-social language providing cover for anti-social impulses is depressing as hell
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Has anyone ever figured out why it’s only beautiful women and ugly men that become writers?
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I frankly don't believe Third Way's great fear is that Bernie will lose to Trump; it's that he will win.
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The person who runs this Taylor Swift stan account went to prison for refusing to join the IDF. What are *you* doing with your one wild and precious life huh???
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Why. Why why why. Kavanaugh's drinking was treated as circumstantial evidence that he might've done the assault, but Biden's history of non-consensually invading women's space is not?
The reality: Ford was a more credible accuser, Kavanaugh a less credible denier, and the press reacted accordingly.
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My sister & her wife were married 7 yrs ago, the day after Obergefell. They have two boys now. I often try to inhabit the thoughts of ppl with convictions unlike my own, but I admit I feel only blank, seething rage when I think of anyone who would deny our family these blessings.
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I’ve enjoyed many of these but pretty much every one exemplifies the “dumb guy’s idea of a smart movie”
‘OPPENHEIMER’ is now 2 weeks away.
What’s your favorite Christopher Nolan movie?
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it's good, imo, that the predominant intellectual posture on twitter is both hyper-bellicosity and extreme sensitivity, everyone a knife-wielding hemophiliac
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The head of the ADL is calling young Jewish protestors demanding a cease-fire in Gaza the "photo inverse of white supremacists."
We long have said that these are hate groups, the photo inverse of white supremacists. More here:
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the hot ones guy... what's going on there? he's like a blackhole for charisma. does he not know you're allowed to pretend like you're not reading the questions for the first time? is he the heir to a hot sauce fortune or something?
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it's a moral panic engineered by conservative politicians and think tanks! quite explicitly and obviously!
Around the country, parents are showing up to school board meetings to protest what they call Critical Race Theory. It's worth seeking out local newspaper articles and reading quotes from those parents to see how they understand what they're objecting to.
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Knowles is not fringe. He cohosted Ted Cruz’s podcast. This notion — that the GOP can’t lose a fair election in a swing state — is completely mainstream for conservative pundits.
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