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how about a law that says you have to get a vaccine but the state isn’t making you do it, it’s just that everyone can sue you if you don’t, and if they win they get $10,000, if you win you get nothing
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wait till they find out that Fauci himself worked in the Trump Administration.
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students in Germany (from what I’m gathering maybe students in all of Germany??) were apparently asked to analyze a column of mine on a big exam and I am getting lots of messages saying either thanks for helping them get an A or ... ruining their lives
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Ugh, when you see these signs it means “we don’t pay enough for people to want to work here.”
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No one read his blog. His newsmax interview was a dud. Reporters didn’t even know his FB page was still up. And yet he is somehow still controlling an entire political party.
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THE TWITTER FILES:
A half dozen screenshots of content moderation policy executives earnestly debating content moderation policy
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there is an obvious difference between an anti-masker refusing to wear a mask during a pandemic and a pro-masker insisting on wearing a mask after a pandemic. one is harmful and the other isn’t, and I’m surprised the discourse about “mask lovers” doesn’t really appreciate this
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no googling: do you remember the name Gordon Sondland?
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People with student debt should really have applied for a PPP loan is what I’m learning
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difference between Trump and Cruz is Trump would have stayed in Cancun and done a rally there
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Finland sounds like the greatest country in the world
Finland's Prime Minister is 36 years old, went out clubbing till 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text telling her she needed to quarantine.
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weird that all those rich guys upset at Harvard students aren’t saying anything about the world’s richest man’s open antisemitism
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the CNBC interview is just a disaster. He has trouble saying a single thing without creating a Biden ad — flirting with cutting social security, unable to explain his position on tiktok, lapsing into gibberish. He’s becoming the inept aged caricature they painted of Biden
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just never in my lifetime have I heard a president propose so many real ideas to help people
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everyone’s either going to Portugal or just been to Portugal, if they aren’t currently in Portugal
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Elon Musk: an appreciation.
He makes products that customers love and are good for the world.
He is taking on some of the worst industries.
He’s not a monopolist, he didn’t inherit his wealth or get it through connections.
My
@NYTOpinion
column
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press release vs reporting. what happened here? They are not at all making it gender neutral. Did they make a quick change or did all the reports get it very wrong?
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might delete later but I’m calling it:
Trump is gonna lose. Probably by a lot.
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macron shouldn’t be eating zelensky’s ear
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just renewed my car’s extended warranty with a nice man who called me over the phone. Turns out he had been trying to reach me for months and fortunately I answered on the final attempt! boy sometimes the universe just saves you at the last second, I truly am blessed.
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my IG has been crushed by German students who have me
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we live in dumb times but the dr suess thing is dumber than usual.
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Dude publishes his own real-time assassination coordinates
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at the end the message is basically “maybe Q was really the friends we made along the way.”
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How does “liberal cities’ inability to maintain basic law and order” explain why more than half the cars stolen in Chicago in 2023 are made by two carmakers with 11% market share? 57% of cars stolen in Cleveland: these two carmakers. 60% in Minn. 41% in Baltimore.
Imagine having to explain this idiocy - cars are responsible for liberal cities’ inability to maintain basic law and order - to a South Korean auto company board
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don’t listen to political analysis from anyone who says “democrat party”
If you haven’t figured it out already, it is now abundantly clear that
@realDonaldTrump
is going to crush
@POTUS
.
If the Democrat party wants to have a chance of putting up a candidate who can compete with Trump, it needs to quickly get behind a strong, credible contender for…
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masking when CDC guidelines say you don’t have to is not “ignoring science.” At most “science” says you might not have to mask — it doesn’t say wearing a mask is bad (in fact it says you should sometimes)
OTOH Not wearing a mask when sciece say you should is ignoring the science
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My main problem with ebikes, really the only problem with ebikes and bicycles is all the cars out there gunning for you. Gimme protected bike lanes and I’d trade so many car trips for bike trips.
This is true of so many car alternatives: they’d be awesome if protected from cars
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but why do members of congress need disaster relief, they aren’t levees
This should go without saying, but PPP loans aren't the same as college debt. We faced a natural disaster (pandemic) compounded by government shut-down orders that blocked people from working. PPP is better viewed as a form of disaster relief.
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congress will investigate a private company’s editorial decisions to make sure that private companies’ editorial decisions aren’t being influenced by politics
Comer: We’re going to have every single people at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible
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Fox News come on this is bad even for you
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only just read this piece by Justine Musk, who was married to Elon from 2000 to 2008.
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very helpful of the rioters to carry flags and wear hats identifying who sent them
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new eps of Succession are infrastructure, let’s get going
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it’s pretty wild that Donald Trump just went away
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I wrote about the problem with electric cars that nobody talks about: They're cars.
It's great that we're getting cleaner cars. Yay us!
But the issue with American transport isn't gas-fueled cars, it's car-dependent lives.
Let's think beyond the car.
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I’m not sure why every Republican official isn’t being asked: “do you believe Donald Trump will be reinstated to the presidency before 2025, and if so how?”
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Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Tesla rigorously adheres to this principle? This guy was fired after distributing leaflets in the company's parking lot. If Tesla can ban speech from its parking lot why can't Twitter ban speech from its site?
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
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Silicon Valley spent billions building convenient, sustainable travel.
The answer has been right there all along. It’s a bus.
All we have to do is pay for good bus service. Millions of people’s lives would be instantly improved.
Me
@nytopinion
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Here’s Ben Domenech making the case for vaccine mandates in The Federalist. “This is one of the few areas where government necessarily exercises power.”
Don’t usually agree with The Federalist but credit where it’s due, they were early and 100% correct
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Oh man Pete Wells on Eleven Madison Park is good
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When is the FBI going to raid the homes of Jeffrey Epstein’s elitist pedophile friends?
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why isn’t it obvious that working without pay is inherently inhumane even if you had to do it
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you’re in a very bad place as a society when you can have an entire culture war based on one mistaken report about a toy potato
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the American cult of productivity is so insane. taking leave when you have a baby is considered some huge dereliction. come on, people, work isn’t everything, it’s not even most things.
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newsom wants to give every registered vehicle owner in cal $800 in free gas. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes $11 billion in a California tax rebate to offset high gas prices, including $400 debit cards per vehicle.
He must negotiate a final deal with the Legislature
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@CaseyNewton
they’re all twitter shareholders and they’re getting (maybe!) a windfall from the world’s richest man who’s been taunting them for weeks, it’s gotta feel like catharsis
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Ok maybe you get a set of steak knives. Don’t wanna be cruel
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ok one question I have that I’m just gonna go ahead and ask: why is “virtue-signaling” bad?
Just from the literal meaning it seems … good?
Is there a parent out there who doesn’t virtue signal?
kind of a weird culture we have when acting good is thought to be bad
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sir I was told this would be based on TWITTER FILES not a characterization by an unnamed former employee
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wait so … By the midterms Biden will have signed a stimulus, infrastructure bill, gun bill, semiconductor bill, now possibly a climate and tax bill and maybe even do a prisoner swap. Not as bad as you might have heard!
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both of Trump’s impeachment trials will result in acquittals based on the most comically strained reading of words as obvious as “do us a favor” and “find me the votes.”
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I drove so many electric cars this year. A lot of them as good as or better than Teslas.
Elon Musk’s redpilling is happening at the worst time for Tesla.
China production, potential recession and lots of great competition.
Read my
@nytopinion
column
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this is such a desperate move. honestly hard to remember the last time a tech company did something this baldly antagonistic to users and just so … pathetic.
he must be losing a lot of money. but this whole thing is making him so so small.
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it’s true. ran out of column ideas
Farhad Manjoo
@fmanjoo
leaving the New York Times, per an internal note from opinion editor.
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This detail comes way too late in the story!!!
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So many people responding to this with the legend that Musk inherited money from his father's emerald mine. There is zero evidence of this.
The story comes from a Business Insider interview with Musk's father, Errol, from whom Elon is estranged and has called "evil."
Elon Musk: an appreciation.
He makes products that customers love and are good for the world.
He is taking on some of the worst industries.
He’s not a monopolist, he didn’t inherit his wealth or get it through connections.
My
@NYTOpinion
column
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We need protected bike lanes everywhere, now.
We need intersections that are designed for people who walk and bike, everywhere, now.
We must think beyond cars in how we design our roads.
Here’s my
@nytopinion
on America’s deadly roads.
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one thing on this: self-driving vaporware has been so damaging to transit!
every time people propose better transit now, there’s always some techie who says why bother, self-driving Uber Teslas will soon solve everything.
It’s always 5 years away. we could just buy buses now
Silicon Valley spent billions building convenient, sustainable travel.
The answer has been right there all along. It’s a bus.
All we have to do is pay for good bus service. Millions of people’s lives would be instantly improved.
Me
@nytopinion
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I wrote about animal welfare and the right to rescue animals from inhumane factory farms.
And about how vegans are right. (I’m not a vegan.)
But on the incomprehensible cruelty of industrial farming? They’re so, so right.
My
@NYTOpinion
column
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enough time has passed to say tiger king was terrible and it’s a measure of how terrified we were that we turned to it in that moment
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Huge long term study shows no association between kids screen time and anxiety or depression, and more screen time associated with stronger peer relationships.
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Agree! If you don’t count public universities, public research (which created the internet, gps, touchscreens, crispr, mrna vaccines like the covid vax), public infrastructure, public healthcare (seniors, veterans, your free covid vax), public schooling … socialism totally sucks
Socialists never build institutions, they only hijack and take them over. They appropriate the political, cultural or economic capital created by others and spend it down to nothing.
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I continue to find it surprising how completely trump has dropped out of the conversation. Tim Scott didn’t even gesture toward him. Biden WH doesn’t mention him even to gloat or dunk. He comes up on Fox but not a lot. Tucker has forgotten him. He was inescapable, and now nowhere
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so … take a wild guess who my Secret Santa was
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don’t really care about the royal family that much but this is a guy who’s really considered his life and tried to change it, it’s pretty great to see
WOW!! 😲.....Harry is definitely a REAL one! I actually cant believe he said it 👏🏾❤️
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This
@theinformation
scoop is crazy: a top google ai engineer quit recently because Google was training its AI on OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The models are copying each other! Makes an even bigger mush of authorship
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right-wing media is now full-on “jews are financing efforts to erase whites” and the billionaires who went after college kids are totally silent
Antisemites in right-wing media are mask off like I've never seen before. Consensus that this is the path forward is hardening.
Charlie Kirk today: “Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans”
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one thing critiques of “woke capital” never really contend with is why companies are “woke.” the reason is obvious — they’ve decided it’s good for business, because $$ — and there’s no good counter argument to that. what do you want disney to do? Forget about making money?
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feel like every time a Republican lawmaker is interviewed the first question should be, who do you think won the 2020 presidential election?
Fox News anchor John Roberts: 'Trump says the Big Lie was the result of the 2020 election. Liz Cheney says, no, the Big Lie was suggesting the 2020 election was stolen. Between the two of them, who is right?"
Rep. Kevin Brady: "I'll leave that dispute to them."
Roberts laughs.
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I'd like to hear someone explain why Benghazi deserved an investigation and Jan 6 doesn't
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beware, heard on Facebook that the new iPhone has a microchip in it and can track people. Please do you own research before making a rash decision
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committing tons of money and fast-track approval for the Covid vaccine is trump’s biggest true accomplishment in office. But it’s also one his audience hates and he has no incentive to raise. What a party where the only real good thing you had a hand in is seen as a failure
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Carlson says it’s “bizarre, what is going on here?!” about warnock beating walker. not bizarre if you’ve seen walker campaigning!
Tucker: Rafael Warnock has hauled in more dollars online than seven Republican senatorial candidates combined
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this sounds complicated but if you just think about it it really is quite simple.
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reflexive unwarranted Nate Silver hate is a good example of social media brain rot
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This is a very “if I did it” by OJ Simpson-type statement
Trump weighs in with a lengthy statement about General Milley: “Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of ‘coup,’ and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley”
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Parking, parking everywhere!
LA has 200 square miles of parking.
The Bay Area has twice as much parking as people — and cars.
We’ve got to stop building so much parking. Let’s build housing for people instead of cars. Please!
My
@NYTOpinion
column
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The only reason people think I’m anti semitic is because of the powerful Jewish group that controls all the advertisers sure is a take
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How many people have to lose their shirts before we realize that crypto isn’t a solution to any of our problems?
Here’s my
@nytopinion
column on the constantly crashing, broken-casino grift of web3. In which I chat with
@molly0xFFF
of
@web3isgreat
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do you think in-person industry conferences are gonna come back?
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it’s poetic that Trump’s biggest success, pushing for the development and prepurchasing hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine, is something his most loyal supporters think is the work of some nefarious cabal
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Be Smart: Elon’s ridiculous workplace rules are designed to get people to quit without explicit layoffs.
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every time I check in to the house managers’ case I’m like, man this case is just open and shut, there are so many receipts, he spent months lying about the election, how can anyone not see this?
And they’ll acquit him and it’ll just make it clearer that nothing matters
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and here was the best thing written about the coming war
it was a perfect encapsulation of the debate and incredibly prescient
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this whole thing — a logjam for funding the response to a virus that has killed a million Americans, solving the logjam in a way that will absolutely come back to bite us — this whole thing is evidence of a completely broken unfixable stupid government, what are we doing
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