James Connor
@toJamesConnor
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Brand strategist, writer, and friend of the Oxford comma. Make data-driven decisions.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2009
Time to label this level of greed as a mental illness. 👀
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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What insane tariff policy could have possibly contributed to this? 👀
U.S. manufacturing activity has contracted for 9 straight months, per Reuters
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🚨Breaking: Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt issuing new wind leases and permits was ruled illegal by a federal judge.
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Americans paid more for everything to bail out farmers that wouldn’t have needed it if Trump didn’t implement his illegal tariffs in the first place. Hell of a job @realDonaldTrump.
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Netflix/WB Universal/UCP Sony Paramount/Skydance Disney/Fox Amazon Plus networks like AMC and mini-studios like A24 and Neon. There are still buyers. Still gonna make stuff. When I was starting out I was devastated cos Tri-Star and Orion were gone. Life and movies/TV go on.
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Tony: "My goal is to contribute to changing the narrative in college football and demonstrate that you can win at the highest level and you can do so while achieving excellence in education, leadership and service. "I'm passionate about winning and winning the right way." 🔶⚔️🔷
Virginia football will compete for the ACC Championship on Saturday. "The vision of the program is really starting to come to life." It was not a straight path to Charlotte. A look at UVA's journey - that started back in December 2021. https://t.co/kLHlabsrzg
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This is why Prop 50 mattered. We’re playing pickup basketball without a ref. If they’re throwing elbows, we are, too.
We won! Texas is officially—and legally—more red. The Supreme Court restored the congressional redistricting maps passed by Texas that add 5 more Republican seats. The new maps better align our representation in D.C. with the values of Texas.
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California has a housing crisis because we aren’t building enough housing. To drive down costs, we need to embrace new technologies like modular and 3D printing to make homebuilding cheaper, faster, and better. New technologies can make construction more productive.
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In a world where knowledge is power, this is a bad sign. 👀
NEW: Over 54% of Americans, approximately 130 million people, now read below a 6th grade level according to National Literacy Institute data.
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RICHARD GERE: “Do you really think these refugees and immigrants are different than us?”
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Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. That is
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
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“Permitting is hard.” “Regulation is hard.” “Zoning is hard.” Okay, we’re going to address those and build more housing in places where there’s already an existing footprint of buildings. 1 million homes. 4 years.
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Earned. 👀 Coach Tony Elliot guided Virginia through the hardest of times and earned his success.
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Nobody, especially those of us who drove a station wagon with wood panelling, ever wants to return to station wagons with wood panelling.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
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Time to reshare.
The Marshall Project asked incarcerated people what might have kept them out of prison. Their responses: Affordable housing, vocational programs, cheaper college classes, grief counseling, drug prevention programs, daycare vouchers and more.
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Very deserving. CHAD POWERS got funnier and stronger with each episode. My favorite new comedy of the year. Well done, @hulu.
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BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. That makes 214. We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
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Compete everywhere. Candidates in every district Three messages: - affordability - health care - anti-corruption 334 Days to the midterms
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Killing shipwrecked survivors is a war crime. There must be an investigation and accountability, including for Secretary Hegseth who lied.
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