Bennett Haselton
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Unbelievable. Outside the Portland ICE facility, a man and a woman were standing and talking to a pair of cops with shields when one of them draws his pepper spray and unloads it into her face. She was still crying out in pain several minutes later and had to be taken away to get
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If the question asks "Is this a top issue?", it seems the simplest explanation is that other problems have gotten worse, or at least more salient, and crowded it out. An apples-to-apples comparison would be to ask, "Is global warming real and human-causes and represents a
Polling shows YUGE declines in global warming interest, especially among young people. In 2019, 51% of young women said it was a top issue. Now thats down to just 15%. Is the fever breaking? My latest in @NRO
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Since this comes up a lot: As far as I can tell Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson never said she wanted to "abolish the police". In 2020 Katie Wilson did say she wanted to abolish the Seattle Police Department. However, that could mean several things: 1) You could decide the
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The countries that have solved this problem do it by having fewer guns, not more public executions.
A surviving mother hugging her child after the ferals shot numerous innocent Americans at a Christmas lighting ceremony. We need public executions and mandatory sentencing for any crime involving violence.
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Even assuming the numbers are true — can’t one house hold more than one person?
Since the year 2000, the U.S. has built nearly 30 million homes but admitted about 35 million immigrants - both legal and illegally. The American Dream would be available to you had we not imported to the world. Our housing crisis is not a supply issue, it’s a demand issue.
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She is obviously making a joke; not sure if @choeshow doesn’t realize this or just assumes his followers won’t 🤣
Basic expectations for being an adult in Seattle have plummeted. She’s proud of this at age 43.
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The funny thing is that even if this were true, it would be a good thing -- if undocumented immigrants were contributing enough that they were able to afford houses, that would be a good thing all around! (And the more people contribute to the economy, the more that fuels our
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
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Here, I think, is a healthy way to think of someone like Elon Musk, that doesn't come from hero worship or billionaire-hate: Recall that what first made him really rich was PayPal. There was nothing "brilliant" or "visionary" about that -- sending money to people on the Internet
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Yes, this is really bad. Not to go full whataboutism, but please bring the same energy for people who talk about expelling all the Arabs from Israel or ethnically cleansing the Arab population of Gaza, or who post stuff about 9/11 because Zohran Mamdani got elected.
At London’s prestigious university @ucl, an academic is teaching the blood libel AS FACT. For the ignorant, Jews do not use any gentile blood at Passover - this is a conspiracy theory which started in the UK around 800 years ago. I’m genuinely amazed that today it is being
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Regarding the claim that "A.I. will make it impossible to discern reality from fiction" -- We already have that problem with written text (anybody can generate something that sounds believable, and we don't know if it's "real" - now we can just do the same with video too). It's
AI is going to wipe out at least 25 million jobs in the next 5 to 10 years. Probably much more. It will destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what’s left of the education system. Kids will go
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I've seen a couple of posts saying "If you don't want your job to be taken by AI, learn a trade, like being a plumber." Are you sure about that? We've already seen humanoid robots doing things like mixing and serving drinks. Once the software is written to make a humanoid robot
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Seattle’s right-wing media (personified by @choeshow) has reached the “Muslims fuck goats” level of cope.
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"New York will never elect a Muslim mayor in my lifetime." -Dick Cheney
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Regarding the controversial photo of teachers wearing "Problem Solved" shirts with blood on the left side of the shirt, and whether it's a Charlie Kirk reference: There are several variations of this bloody "Problem Solved" shirt design on Amazon, and and they all have the blood
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Illinois just passed HB 1312 which prohibits ICE from making civil immigration arrests in Illinois courthouses: https://t.co/ejwYFRGMiS "1312", meanwhile, is code for "All Cops Are Bastards" (1=A, 3=C, etc.), a common slogan in anti-police protests. Is this just a complete
ilga.gov
Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
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Displaying the country of posters on X is solving the wrong problem. The problem is not that people in foreign countries can pretend to be Americans and get large followings, although that does happen. The problem is that X randomly promotes low-quality accounts, and hands out
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Ok so isn’t this stealing? (This was after police made protesters dismantle a supplies tent next to the ICE facility, presumably because it was blocking the sidewalk. Not sure how that means you can just run up and take stuff.)
I took home three gas masks, countless filters, a canopy tent, and a brand new leaf blower. Talk about an Antifa garage sale—it was a total fire sale! Everything was up for grabs, and everything had to go!
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Police did not clear the supplies tents because of this video. Nick your opinion of yourself is as inflated as the Portland Frog.
I have to believe this video put pressure on Portland police to take back their streets, never fold to ANTIFAs lawlessness and power grabs
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First arrest at Saturday’s protest outside the ICE facility in Portland. Looks like a fed was talking to someone and then pulled her across the blue “Do Not Cross” line and then feds swarmed her.
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