jon wexler
@wex1200
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These views are my own.
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Joined June 2008
the general tenor of press coverage of the economy over the last couple of years has been dumb and wrong
The US has one of the best recoveries in the world. Inflation is now lower than g7 peers. The hot labor market has put a real dent in inequality. And Biden had a historically great midterm. And yet for two years, pundits have been totally consumed by alleged policy mistakes.
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A CO woman asked me to write homophobic & anti-Semitic jokes to express her hostility to gay-marriage & Jews in general to promote her non-existent web-design business. Do I have to?
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Six mass shootings in America since yesterday. And if wasn’t woke ideology, library books, or drag shows that caused them. It’s guns. It’s always the guns.
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Here are some things the Founding Fathers definitely did NOT support: - any state-supported religion - foreign influence in US politics - 9 unelected oligarchs legislating - demagogues with cult followings - unregulated use of military weapons
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BREAKING: Google has removed the vast majority of Twitter links from their search results… Elon’s decision to block the Google “bot” from crawling their site is reportedly to blame. Twitter will now be invisible on the world’s largest search engine 🫥
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Yes, the Republican National Committee did indeed post a Fourth of July tweet with the WRONG flag. In case you’re wondering, this is the flag of Liberia, a country in West Africa. You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
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“So an elected, and Democratic-controlled, Congress can write and pass a progressive law, but an unelected and very conservative Supreme Court can just rewrite it… These are not neutral judges. These are politicians in robes.” My take on our rogue Court:
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Now that Republican appointees are a supermajority on the Supreme Court, it has set out to essentially rewrite American laws.
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“It is time for everybody in our legislature including the ones who would like to walk around with an ar15 lapel pin, it is time for every one of them to face the voters and if they're not going to do something, then voters are going to have to vote them out”
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(deep sigh) All six wildfires in the Pacific Cascade Region this weekend were caused by fireworks.
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Through my cancer diagnosis, I’ve seen the costs of the American healthcare system firsthand - and I’m lucky enough to have insurance. No American should have to forgo the treatment they need to fight cancer because of the cost.
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But don't worry -- at no time will the children be exposed to a book about a family with two moms.
A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend. 14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol. In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas. https://t.co/Dp1zvJggXV
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We found it: the dumbest tweet of the past 24 hours.
No one I know used Twitter before Musk acquired it. Now, everyone I know uses Twitter. Everyday I have a conversation along the lines of "did you see that tweet about..." Don't be surprised if Twitter is the largest media company in the world by the end of the decade.
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A bigger SCOTUS scandal than private planes and billionaires.
A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.
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