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co-Host of Time to Say Goodbye @ttsgpod. writing a book. CEO of the Ethical Hoops Society
Joined March 2009
Wrote about empathy, homeless people, a good new book and a man who recently died here in Berkeley. (Link threaded.).
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its really unfortunate how funny he is.
Trump on Ozempic: “A friend of mine who is a businessman… Most of you would've heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat shot drug. I said it’s not working.”. No freaking way. 😭
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Wear it before the game.
Tyrese Haliburton is COLD for this 💀. He wore a hoodie with Reggie Miller on it with the choke sign at his presser following the Pacers' Game 7 win vs. the Knicks. (via @AngelaMoryanTV)
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Has anyone done what nesmith did in the last three minutes. Game 6 Klay was incredible but it wasn’t compressed like that. Did we just see the hottest hand in NBA playoff history.
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People scanning the pope’s social media like he’s a school shooter to see if he’s woke or MAGA is why this site will never die despite the best efforts of its owner.
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I will be the only person who remembers you in a year bc I’ll never forget when Ann Coulter told you to your face she would never vote for an Indian and you went ‘it’s great in America that we can express our opinions and I respect where you’re coming from.’.
Tim Walz’s style reminds me of Tim Kaine. And if you don’t know who that is, don’t worry - it means you won’t remember who Tim Walz is a year from now either.
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There should be a us version of the World Cup but it’s basketball and it’s by state.
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She didn’t talk about identity at all. Like to an extent that was a little weird.
Why did Harris lose? My take: Democrats blew it by making three big mistakes—not taking immigration concerns seriously enough, rallying around prosecutions of Trump, and elevating identity politics
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I think there’s a non zero chance this actually is the right way to go. Show some spine. Explain why these policies were good. Be honest about where they went wrong. As I’ve said 500x there’s a lot of liberals in this country still.
Tim Walz: "We got ourselves into this mess because we did NOT embrace immigrants, wokeness, and DEI"
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We gotta put critical race theory back in the schools we can’t even count zeroes anymore
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Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are not the men for this moment in history. So obvious and gets more obvious by the day.
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preview of what happens if you get rid of skilled immigrants.
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Nice thing about having kids is you can look forward to explaining things to them in the future. For me, I can’t wait to explain this
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My entire feed is now Kamala pilled. I am not against it but probably very bad news for Kamala lmao.
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Same face they’ll be making in a few weeks here when the investment bank they’re all interning for sends them a ‘due to unforeseen changes in the market’ email.
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It’s like if Todd from Breaking Bad ran for senate and decided to just be himself.
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@jeremypgordon the WiFi is fast and the bathroom is clean and there’s no weird cupboard you don’t want to open. It’s the best.
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Sinema is so Gen X lmao. You kids don’t know - a whole generation believes that your personality is just a little museum of the mainstream things you reject. So indie rock!.
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Re: NYU every elite college is the same now. Competition so high that all the kids apply to 20 schools and just go to the one they get into. So every student body is just mostly just randomly distributed upper middle class kids. There’s no ‘school character’ anymore.
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I said this on the pod. While I’m glad Bernie is doing this I wish he would be using the opportunity to anoint a successor. He can’t be the center of this energy anymore and he should bring someone with him to stuff like this. People will line up behind whoever he chooses.
There's a populist revolt brewing in America against oligarchic rule. Follow along tonight and I promise @BernieSanders will show it to you, here in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Massachusetts now in play for the Republicans.
New — Steve Kerr is speaking at the Dem convention tonight.
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Devastating for Auburn fans. Only comparable thing I can think of is when Coach K brought 80+ former players to Cameron for his last game and lost to Carolina and then apologized to the crowd and said they would finish the season strong and then they lost again in the final 4.
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As a reminder, here is how Barack Obama talked about self immolation and Mohamed Bouazizi. He compared him to the founding fathers and Rosa Parks.
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KD is currently in a spaces called ‘KD is not top 5’ and the host is telling him he’s not as good as Luka and KD is arguing with him. Every time I think I’m out on him, he drags me back in. Posting legend!.
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Yes let’s not politicize Jackie Robison by pointing out he broke baseball’s color barrier. That’s way too much and anyone who says that should be censored.
Sports shows on TV should be about sports not politics.
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Masked federal agents taking people off the streets without explanation goes beyond a free speech crisis. We have had a lot of those. We are now seeing the bottom of the slippery slope we all theorized about for years.
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE. A video shared with GBH News shows a man in a hoodie approach her, then grab her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.”. @sweetadelinevt @GBHNews
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Tyrese Haliburton is the most unlikable star (non crimes category) in my lifetime. Just a front running, zero charisma dork. I hope the pacers never win another game.
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Kamala tweet out Embiid slander right now as a way to send a strong moderate message on immigration.
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A reminder: Ben Shapiro grew up in Los Angeles during the heyday of the Lakers but is a Celtics fan.
Man, imagine how much he'd be worth if he could dribble or go to his left.
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They really are CTRL+Fing every federal document and hitting delete without even looking at it.
WSJ: “The Internal Revenue Service removed some mentions of “equity” and “inclusion” from its Internal Revenue Manual, the procedural handbook for IRS employees. Some of these cuts seemingly had little to do with DEI. One section that was still deleted as of Wednesday morning.
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Every detail of the RFK bear cub story makes me think that having generational wealth must be truly awesome.
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My only contribution here will be to say that if I had a massive gambling problem that I wanted to keep at bay, I would defer my entire salary for 10 years. I AM ONLY ASKING QUESTIONS HERE.
There’s a nonzero chance Shohei Ohtani has a Michael Jordan size gambling problem and Ippei is such a great friend that he’s taking the fall.
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another example of how oppression stories -- in this case fabricated oppression porn -- gets leveraged by upwardly mobile immigrants to mostly advance their careers. Cannot think of a better evocation of the stuff I wrote about in my last book.
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@_Zeets Uruguay winning that with five dudes just walking up and hitting the ball was absolutely a win for masculinity. The stare down and stutter step dance guy was woke!.
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As public support swings to student protesters getting brutalized and arrested (support goes up when public sees state suppression), the ‘outside agitators’ narrative will get deployed across the country as it was at Columbia. The story will be ‘it’s not these college kids…’.
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Don’t take these moments for granted Mavs fans. It’s rare in life where you get to have hate this pure and can share in it with everyone you love.
Dallas Mavs governor Patrick Dumont was booed by fans while walking to his seats at Monday night's game against the Kings.
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The reagan part aside, this type of ‘America should lead the world’ rhetoric is a dog that just won’t hunt. It’s why Trump’s foreign policy is popular. Nobody wants an interventionist beacon on the hill after Iraq. It’s time for Dems to figure this out.
Slotkin: As a cold war kid, I am thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980's. Trump would have lost us the cold war.
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I will never forget the ‘studies’ put out by academics and non profits that said that Asian swings to the right were because of ‘disinformation.’ When you looked at what they were taking about it was stuff like ‘admissions policies that discriminate against us are bad’.
The assumption that Black or Latino or Asian voters who voted for Trump don't have agency and must have been *fooled* by social media or podcasts is, at best, reductionist. Actually I can think of another r-word for it too.
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There should not be a single middle school in America where the kids can have phones with them. This is beyond obvious and the fact that it’s not widespread policy is absolute lunacy.
My kids go to a public middle school in NYC where they lock up their phones for the day. This is what the school observed:. “Overall, the program has been a massive success. We are happy to share that we continue to see the benefits of using Yondr, with increased student
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Wrote about Kamala, the candidate who wasn’t there. She hasn’t done an interview, answered a tough question,has no policy section on her website, and turned a vague vision for the country into a huge polling surge.
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The argument that very ambitious young ppl can go to a wide range of good colleges and still be fine is true. But why lie and pretend like the top tier of every industry, whether finance, tech, and especially creative fields, aren’t basically all Ivy League graduates?.
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need centrist ‘the only way to win is my way’ bros to stop whining pls. if you’re so good at winning go win and stop blaming ‘the left’.
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Three pack of Critical Race Theory is crazy 😂😂😂.
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My theory is he saw ‘escape from Alcatraz’ went ‘man they don’t make them like that anymore’ and then came up with two ideas at once.
Trump says he wants to tariff foreign films to push back on propaganda. Yet at the same time keeps delaying the TikTok shutdown. What’s the theory there? A profit opportunity for an American acquirer? Or does he intuitively think its existence benefits him politically.
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Wrote about the end of affirmative action and the very weird but expected fact that nobody’s really talking about the Asian plaintiffs or the extremely obvious discrimination they faced
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this is a funny post but I wonder what happens if the Saudis decide they want a 6 team basketball league and start firing out like 200m+ a year
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@jaycaspiankang This is a pretty pathetic thing to say. Wishing for kids, most whom do not in fact come from wealthy families, to lose internships/jobs they worked hard for because you don’t like the schools basketball team is depraved.
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Ippei’s getting pardoned for sure.
Happening now behind the scenes, President Donald Trump welcomes .Los Angeles @Dodgers Shohei Ohtani to the Oval Office…. POTUS: “It’s a great honor, you’re an amazing athlete and person…”
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There’s something about how these dweebs are using this word that’s so pathetic. Like this is how they choose to be subversive and cool. Oooooh you said a bad word…. Naughty!.
@jonfavs You’re probably not a total retard so you know that prior to Afroyim v Rusk (1967), Congress had broad power to strip citizenship. You may want to brush up on your Con Law before this issue is revisited and you can do a watercolor amicus brief or whatever chicken scratches you.
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The Democrat centrists who think politicians should do nothing except moderate bc that’s the best way to draw in the center right… have lost Bill Kristol.
A Defense of Al Green. "Am I alone in feeling it was good to see some fervent conviction and righteous indignation? Am I the only person happy to see, among Democrats waving little paddles with lame messages, someone literally standing up to Trump?".
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People saying this restaurant has bad food clearly don’t know the rule of Asian restaurants: the worse the politics the better the food. Lmao a Vietnamese restaurant w Harris Walz sign is getting skipped.
"This is a great gentleman. I love his name: Hung Cao. I love that name. And that name alone can get you elected.". — Donald Trump, as he visits a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia with Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao
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There really isn’t a more perfect way to describe a lot of the tech world than this couple who had three kids and decided to launch a ‘movement’ (a website) around pro Natalism, do a press tour, and claim they’re saving the world. It’s three kids lol:
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lol come on. At some point you have to have some self respect.
Kamala Harris to Liz Cheney: 'I also want to thank your father, Vice President Dick Cheney, for his support and what he has done to serve our country.'.
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Trump in full ‘8 beers deep at the end of the fantasy draft’ mode.
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Please hit me with the ‘I’m not reading all that’ meme and yes I paid for twitter bc I wanted to post longer clips of my documentary but here’s what I think was happening w Raygun. Her work is about access, authenticity and ‘rep’ in breaking with a focus on class. She situates.
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The super progressive Asian American media thing has about 3 years left until these kids arrive tbh.
I had the honor to meet Alex Shieh @alexkshieh when I visited Brown University yesterday. Alex, a sharp-minded freshman, single-handedly launched a bold DOGE operation targeting Brown University’s bureaucracy. He emailed over 4,000 staff members, asking each to detail their job
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‘Congrats madame vice president, you have won over the irony poisoned soft left that reads NYRB classics and sit in 6 different NBA group chats where they mostly complain about NBA podcasters’.
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The left punching going to right now is just weird. Can someone explain to me how Kamala could have ‘moderated’ more? She didn’t say a positive word about immigrants the entire campaign. Her big ‘immigrants are ppl too’ moment was about Springfield….
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They should replace the skills challenge w a thing where all the retired players w podcasts who say wild shit have to back it up.
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Best indicator that it’s joever for the establishment libs and their merry band of triangulators is just how much of their talk is reactive. If the republicans decide the agenda is x, the triangulators scream at their own side for not bending enough on x. No vision of their own.
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Does seem like some of us in the media are wildly miscalculating the leverage labor has in this moment. Lotta ‘well they need to be reasonable’ that don’t reflect the victories that are being won right now.
(!) UAW President Shawn Fain announces GM has agreed to bring electric battery plants into master contract. "We've been told for months that this was impossible. We've been told the EV future must be a race to the bottom, and now we've called their bluff.".
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I am a low information hockey watcher and now I understand how cool it must be to be a low information voter. You just go ‘damn that McDavid dude’ and go ‘shit they’re skating fast’ and then you pull the lever.
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How do all these journalists know this super rich dude who takes them out on yachts and hosts debates at his estate? I’ve been in this business for a while now… are there some perks of this job I’m unaware of? Assumed the ceiling was like ‘occasionally get to speak at colleges’.
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This is lame. Amazing game and an interview w Luka and it’s just Draymond trying to grind his axes w Rudy and then glaring at some fans.
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WE ARE BACK TO PEAK DEMOCRAT POSTING POWER. THE SPIRIT OF RUTHKANDA IS BACK.
Smiling as I watch Black men on my feed promising to stan @taylorswift13 if she endorses @KamalaHarris. Culture loosening up, in a good way. Let’s go make a much better future.
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Oppenheimer one also made me laugh. It’s all on hedidntsaythis on IG
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Harrison Butker feels like one of those things where progressives should learn to ignore people who say wild stuff instead of turning them into celebrities who get to now talk about how they’re being canceled. He’s a kicker!.
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Man it’s nice when someone shows a little bit of courage.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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AOC trajectory right on schedule. She does not get enough credit for how she’s been able to navigate all the opposition from the right and within her own party.
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😂😂😂 this man made the most annoying people on the left go apoplectic and yell about right wing propaganda and now he’s getting canceled by the right for not being racist. Put him in the hall of fame for posts.
Oliver Anthony: “We are the melting pot of the world and that’s what makes us strong, our diversity”. Such a let down. Did he sell out already to the rich men north of Richmond?
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Re-upping this. Democratic voters deserve better and it should be painfully obvious now there’s no other path.
Primary everyone. Not sure you have another choice.
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Ok after rewatching this, I’m very quickly swapping sides onto the ‘it was a foul’ truther side.
As great a game as that Iowa UConn game was, this was a tough way to end it….
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There is no wider gap in all of list making than where former players put Kobe and where everyone else puts Kobe.
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I don’t think Eric Adams understands that we live in a free country. The quotes have been wild - he really seems to believe that people don’t have freedom of association or speech and that it’s his job to forcefully choose who college kids listen to.
On NY1 this morning, the mayor is again refusing to say precisely how many protestors he believed to be "outside agitators." Is it half the protestors? It is a quarter? @patkiernan asks. "Pat, I don't think that matters," @nycmayor says.
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Spent the last 9 months on the story of Elizabeth Hoover, a Berkeley professor who claimed to be Native American but was then outed as white by one of her closest friends. Hoover says it was an innocent mistake from a family story. Was it?.
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People need to just be clear about what they mean: They think Dems need to abandon the trans rights movement and do some press conferences about trans athletes. If you feel that way just say it. Be the change you want to see in the world and stop hiding behind buzzwords.
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Kevin Harlan shouting out the production staff with 5 minutes left in the game is somehow way more disrespectful than Reggie and SVG calling the Celtics a bunch of quitting cowards for a half hour straight.
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WNBA needs to decide if they want to be a non profit activist organization or if they want to be a league. The frustrating part about all this is that while the players have a lot of valid points to make, this makes it seem like they want total impunity.
The WNBA Players Association released a statement regarding USA Today reporter Christine Brennan. "You have abused your privileges and do not deserve the credentials issued to you."
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would be funny to ask the press secretary: 'without using DEI words, can you explain why Jackie Robinson is a hero?'.
The @DeptofDefense sent ESPN an updated statement from Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot on the removal of the story on its website about Jackie Robinson's military service. (The story remains deleted.)
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It’s a little weird to have this superstar who has been part of our lives for two decades and basically everything he does off the court you think is not real or at least roll your eyes.
Dawg LeBron pretending to be hurt since the Lakers lost in the 1st round 😭😭
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Needless to say I will be watching this race like a hawk. Always wondered what an anti communist MAGA Chinese candidate would look like and she has delivered. Also she keeps running in different states and calls herself ‘Tiger mom candidate.’.
Vote for Lily Tang Willians. She has lived under communism and she understands what it does to the nations it worms its way into.
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Left bros who just started publicly saying the word ‘retard’ in the last year… please get a life and some hobbies or go do a crime or something. Cannot get over how ‘ooooh I’m edgy now bc it’s safe’ you sound. Everyone sees right through it! Have some kids! Watch hoops!.
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Sometimes it was cool like Fiona Apple going on stage at the MTV music awards and going ‘this world is bullshit’ but sometimes it created the most annoying ppl on earth who lecture you about how you can’t define their religious beliefs but if they HAD to pick they’d say agnostic.
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If you think due process and freedom of speech should be used selectively and only when it benefits your political allies, you hate America. Pretty simple.
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Abundance probably would’ve gone over better with ‘the left’ if it was just the two authors promoting it. Some needed ideas in there. Once it got a posse of dudes who can’t say an idea without punching left in smug and counterproductive ways, it got mired in this stupidity.
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I do hope that people start realizing that the whole ‘addicted to twitter operatives who come up totally out of touch and alienating ideas’ thing goes both ways. Lotta normies don’t like wild right wing shit, either! That’s why they’re normies!.
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Basically every ‘will Trump say x’ parlay hit tonight. Books down bad.
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Lord knows I’ve been wrong before but candidate AOC seems inevitable to me. Zoom way out and see where America is in its historical trajectory and we are at the moment when we either have authoritarianism or temporary wild swings between right and left. The center is done.
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He’s starting to tweet more and more like Trump.
Unfortunately because of my knee injury I sustained at the end of the season I won’t be able to attend the Met Gala in NY tonight as so many people have been asking and congratulating me on! Hate to miss an historical event! My beautiful powerful Queen will be there holding the.
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Outside of Jokic, Wemby, Giannis and maaaaaybe Shai, I can’t think of a single NBA player they couldn’t have gotten for Luka. Booker, Tatum, Ant… all those dudes would be traded in a heartbeat for Luka… and you got one pick and AD??.
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Good lord leave the kid who wrote the cormac McCarthy piece alone. At least he was trying something w the prose I swear this site ensures we will be reading the most boring polite unambitious sentences for the rest of our lives.
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