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@davidmarcus Want to know how this happened? 👇

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@MrWinMarshall Meritocratic hubris. This is why elite liberals lose, but don’t understand why they lost. The progressive moral panic over race masks a much deeper divide by class. Their condescension and hypocrisy is stunning.

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@thehill @BarackObama I love politicians who choose to send their own kids to private school, as Barack and Terry did, yet then oppose school choice for others of lesser means. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others….”

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@TheChiefNerd @Gary_D_Cohn nailed it. The Dems think they have a “messaging” problem, when - in reality - they have a math problem. The unfortunate truth is that many “progressive” policies are inflationary, and inflation is ultimately a regressive tax on the poor.

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@nfergus @JMilei @wef Milei is simply incredible. The number of politicians who can simultaneously wield a chainsaw AND explain the Cantillon effect is n=1.

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@JTLonsdale The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is supposed to be used - as the name implies - for STRATEGIC sovereign concerns, NOT for political gain as was the case.

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@Tyler_A_Harper I hope the irony isn’t lost on people that she met her husband IRL on a ski trip to Aspen, perhaps the most 1/10th of 1% location you can get. Married on the Amalfi Coast, in Positano - an equivalently elite location in Italy. An AI dating concierge for thee, and Aspen and

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@eericmyers @GavinNewsom

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@ManhattanMingle @RIKKISCHLOTT @nbcsnl @BillAckman @ShaiDavidai And then there was this gem in the wake of Trump’s election. It should have been a recurring skit as there is so much material to cover on blue state paradoxes.

The Bubble - SNL

In The Bubble, life continues for progressive Americans as if the election never happened.Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwMStream Current Full Episodes...

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@GadSaad Ditto - I consider myself a “rational optimist” and love reasons to be sunny, but realistically see only political, social and economic clouds on the horizon. It is the 10th anniversary of @nfergus book, “The Great Degeneration,” and it is more relevant today than when written.

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@WalshFreedom @njhochman Here is the US without the electoral college. The House is representative. The Senate and electoral college make sure the smaller states aren’t subjected to the tyranny of the majority. For those living in California, under @GavinNewsom it is indeed tyranny. Feature not a bug.

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@TimRunsHisMouth Out here in California, we’re just hoping the government can keep the power on, the water running and finally get kids back in school. @PressSec How about covering the basics before attempting to virtue-signal?

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@KevinKileyCA The easiest job in the world is going to be creative ad director for ads run in opposition to @GavinNewsom - he is “big hat, no cattle” as they say in Texas. You can’t camouflage facts:

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@TheKevinDalton Lawlessness prevails and law-abiding citizens get fined and ticketed. 👇

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@LondonBreed My firm moved from FiDi because it was starting to look like a set from the Walking Dead. We’re now in the Presidio, which is federally administered and spotless. Our next move will be out of state, for what should be self-evident reasons.

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@Musa_alGharbi 💯🎯 The cartoon below is among my favorites because it highlights the issue of “how we got here.”

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@MeghanMcCain And people remain surprised at Trump’s resilience in the polls?!?! If Trump ascends to the White House again in November - he won’t have “won,” rather the left will have proactively lost with absurdism.

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@DeAngelisCorey @skepticaliblog To be fair, we were warned nearly 4 decades ago: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” - A Nation at Risk (1983)

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@OliLondonTV @sfmcguire79

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@elonmusk What about at the state level? Help those of us still stuck behind statist enemy lines fuel reform from within here in California…

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@GavinNewsom Gavin, you preside over a state with the highest functional poverty rate in the country - only the 1% can afford to live in California. My father lives well in Florida on a fixed income, but would be poverty-stricken in CA. America is NOT going to vote for CA-style dysfunction!

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@SoledadUrsua Welcome to CA, which defines anarcho-tyranny. I got a $121 ticket in S.F., while parked legally, for not having a front license plate. I was parked by tents blocking ADA sidewalk access and vagrants smoking fentanyl. They get free “harm reduction” goodies, I get the ticket.

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@KevinKileyCA How sickeningly ironic: the Superintendent of “Equity” was a blatantly nepotistic hire. Reminder: California has among the worst ( #40 ) K12 systems of any state in the nation, according to US News & World Report.

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@davidlmcpherson Beautiful! Check-out this two story beauty in Carmel Highlands. Part of the house used in Basic Instinct.

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@GavinNewsom Fact check: Florida is #4 and California is #48 . Virtue signal all you want, there is no escaping the data and loss of congressional representation - for the first time ever!Why did @elonmusk leave for TX? Ask @LorenaSGonzalez

2024 State Business Tax Climate Index

In recognition of the fact that there are better and worse ways to raise revenue, our Index focuses on how state tax revenue is raised, not how much. The rankings, therefore, reflect how well states...

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@_CryMiaRiver 💯🎯 Put Jon Haidt’s upcoming release in your queue.

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@libsoftiktok Here is the correct term for it 👇

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@GavinNewsom 💯 disingenuous. Fact Check: GDP growth is not shared prosperity as you MUST know. What is it about blue states that drives CA to have the HIGHEST FUNCTIONAL POVERTY rate if any state in America? Also, CA ranks DEAD LAST in opportunity, at #50 , according to US News rankings.

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@amyforsandiego Sickening. Disaffected citizens in CA need to start using the term “anarcho-tyranny,” which PERFECTLY describes @GavinNewsom ‘s “freedom state.” I recently parked on a S.F. street, lined with tents, trash & fenty addicts, yet I got the citation for not having a front plate.

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@kevg1412 The world needs more people like @JohnArnoldFndtn -wealthy, smart & willing to leverage these two attributes for the greater benefit of society. Another remarkable story of entrepreneurship & extreme philanthropy is Chuck Feeney, Duty Free Shops founder 👉

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@oldbooksguy In addition to Orwell, Huxley and Rand, who else was correct? Juvenal, Neil Postman and Mike Judge.

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@CASpeakerRivas You, like @GavinNewsom and @AGRobBonta , were elected to serve the people of. CA, not virtue-signal on national politics. FIX all the myriad of problems in CA before casting stones at others. CA has thousands dying in the streets of fentanyl, rampant homelessness & #1 poverty.

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@sfchronicle @emily_hoeven Thank you Emily for speaking truth to power. What you wrote is patently obvious to anyone paying attention, but few - esp in the media - are willing to call out @GavinNewsom ‘s bad behavior. He is so clearly prioritizing his personal political career at the expense of

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@GadSaad I propose Gad Saad as the @elonmusk Endowed Chair of Evolutionary Psychology - an IP and $$ package that would be enticing to any university near the beach in SoCal. The resistance needs honey badgers and money…

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@8thsummit @wolfejosh 💯🎯 Here is @JonHaidt in 2018 @cwclub talking about the Coddling of the American Mind and “How Colleges are Failing Kids.” Prescient is the best word to describe the book and talk.

Jonathan Haidt: How Colleges are Failing Kids

While college campuses portray themselves as centers of academic achievement and innovative endeavors, Jonathan Haidt, best-selling author of The Righteous M...

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@DavidSacks Hopefully a lesson for Xi on likely global response if he eventually moves to “reunify” Taiwan as threatened.

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@CaitlinPacific @robkhenderson The Beholden State: highest marginal tax rates in the country yet also highest functional poverty at 18%, and a laggard K12 system at #40 . Where does all the money go?

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@EricRWeinstein Amazing example of a Revolt of the Public, and how quickly oppressed citizens can turn on and take-down the out-of-touch elite.

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@arthurbrooks The paradox of parenting - do a great job and they leave you.

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@pmarca “Follow the Science” the experts told us. @DrJBhattacharya has been 💯 vindicated. Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets

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@iowahawkblog Yes. The Green Team has effectively weaponized energy for the benefit of Putin.

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@Elex_Michaelson The Hollywood & political elites totally detached from the plight of the working class. Trump is wealthy but boorish & decidedly un-elite in his behavior, which is why working class voters prefer him. The Dem’s moral panic over race masks a deeper divide by class & education.

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@AleResnik RE: 9% income tax - no, the marginal rate is 50% higher than that! And SB951 just raised the marginal rate AGAIN via SDI going from .9 to 1.1% and uncapping the former $153,164 max. CA’s new marginal rate is 14.63%!

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@mattwridley @DanielJHannan So awesome! A win-win for disaffected HK entrepreneurs and a newly Brexited UK looking for reinvigoration on the world stage.

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@CAgovernor @ilike_mike @GavinNewsom @CASpeakerRivas @AsmJesseGabriel Pushing payroll into the next fiscal year is a “gimmick” that would land you in jail in the private sector. Please stop gaslighting taxpayers. Newsom, legislators opt for gimmicks and wishful thinking to close California’s budget deficit @DanCALmatters 👇

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@ZavalaA Pure influence peddling, but biz as usual in @GavinNewsom ‘s Sacramento. How is this any different than @LorenaSGonzalez pushing AB5 to punish the gig companies yet then granting waivers to favored industries, like the RIA? CA is a corrupt state controlled by special interests.

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@latimes It’s getting worse: SB951 will raise the marginal rate AGAIN to 14.4% in 2024 to pay for more “progressive” pandering. How much is enough @GavinNewsom ? Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised by this tax hike in 2024 By @KathPender

Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised by this tax hike in 2024

A payroll tax hike that has gone largely unnoticed will hit high-earning employees in...

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@GavinNewsom Fact check: FALSE. The number of visitors is still down from peak and so is spending on a real basis (after backing-out inflation). Do the Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Death need to put up billboards again to remind people that SF leads in Fentanyl tourism?

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@maxyoung The Presidio is a dream and example of what S.F. could be if managed well. Further perfection can be found in the Letterman Complex, which George Lucas owns via 99 year ground lease. It is meticulously maintained as a private enclave within the Presidio Park.

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@timurkuran @JonHaidt @NAChristakis Identity politics is also, pragmatically, a losing electoral strategy per @FukuyamaFrancis

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@ShellenbergerMD Don’t be fooled by @GavinNewsom hedging his political bets in the short-term since, “a spokesperson for the governor clarified that Newsom still wants to see the facility shut down long term.” His policy will be based on whichever way the political winds are blowing.

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@bariweiss It is completely incoherent & incomprehensible to me that the supposedly most progressive city & state in the world are considering reparations, yet simultaneously enslaving the current generation of minorities. SF’s K12 system has an 18% proficiency for English & 9% for math.

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@KevinKileyCA Thank you Kevin! Your efforts are greatly appreciated 🙏

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@CAgovernor @CaltransHQ “Launch Media Campaign” Translation: Commence Gaslighting the public.

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@DanielRoher @christogrozev @navalny @Dasha_Navalnaya @pevchikh @ACF_int @leonidvolkov Congrats - so powerful. Thank you for making the trek to @doc_lands last May and then @cwclub in Jan. I loved Navalny and the fact @bellingcat @christogrozev demonstrated that authoritarian murderers have no way to camouflage facts in the modern era. 👏👏👏

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@Jason I can’t believe they let him get away with double parking!

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@StealthQE4 They’re not wrong. My dad’s independent living facility in Naples, FL just raised rent/board 23.6% over just the past 2 years due to “significant wage increases and substantial increases in the cost of food, fuel, supplies and utilities.” Inflation is a regressive tax.

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@JenSiebelNewsom You’re joking? CA has the #1 functional poverty rate of ALL states. Your family is “choosing” to send your children to the toniest private school in one of the wealthiest counties in the country (but Dems oppose school choice!). CA is objectively failing its poorest citizens.

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@ShellenbergerMD To highlight how how upside down CA policy is, the death penalty remains legal but has not been imposed due to @GavinNewsom executive fiat, yet assisted suicide is illegal (non-terminal) but apparently being practiced under the supervision of @rgarymccoy & @HealthRIGHT360 in SF.

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@ClownWorld_

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@KevinKileyCA You know it’s bad when you’ve lost the NYT & a key contractor - SNCF - bailed for North Africa because it was “less politically dysfunctional.” 😆 Why do people trust ANYTHING @GavinNewsom says or does? “How California’s Bullet Train Went off the Rails.”

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@EytanWallace @Elex_Michaelson @GavinNewsom @ChrisHoldenNews @Elex_Michaelson @ZavalaA @DanCALmatters @CalMatters PLEASE investigate WHY??? Airports charge exorbitant prices, shouldn’t they be most able to pay the new min? Gambling establishments…really? (This is clearly a bone thrown to Indian tribes who have political muscle). ALL of

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@EricRWeinstein @amitkgupta84 @Crowdpac A picture that is worth a thousand words.

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@BrandonRichards So what I’m hearing is that it’s great to be poor in California? There is no absolute “right” level of taxes, what matters is tax dollars being efficiently rendered into services or the ROI. @GavinNewsom is DEAD LAST on this metric - literally #50 .

States with the Best & Worst Taxpayer ROI

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@HMDatMI @CityJournal

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@GavinNewsom @ShellenbergerMD 🚀🚀🚀

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@elonmusk Could not agree more - just look at Michael Bloomberg vs Bill de Blasio

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@ZavalaA Incredible to me that both @POTUS & @GavinNewsom have prospectively stated who they would nominate for important positions predicated solely on the basis of race & sex. This is patently illegal under the EEOC in the private sector. Apparently different rules apply in politics.

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@ocropinion @KevinKileyCA California is a statist version of the Hunger Games, with 18% living in functional poverty while the 1% - including @GavinNewsom - signal their virtue and dine at the French Laundry. Gavin is Caesar Flickerman.

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@GadSaad You are 5 min from my UCLA B-School digs in Hermosa Beach at 3301 The Strand. Imagine the dopamine release you would experience from leaving the frozen tundra of Montreal for SoCal? You are already a happy person, so the dopamine release would be orgiastic. You deserve it.

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@garrytan @GrowSF The era of sado-progressivism is over.

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@ShellenbergerMD Sadly, government handling of the homeless / drug epidemic is so inept that it invites satirization.

The Babylon Bee

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Biden Admin Issues New Masks With Holes In Them So You Can Smoke Your Free Government Crack Pipe

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@JonHaidt @candice_odgers 👇👇👇👏👏👏

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@JonHaidt @candice_odgers Mr Haidt, your constant polite patience and composure in the face of criticism ranging from reasonable doubt to ad hominem, in a time of the quickfire, reactionary online gladitorial arena; is truly inspirational. It is that level of composure that creates fruitful discourse.

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@micsolana Orwell’s Animal Farm is the best allegorical tale for understanding sententious Democratic elite like Newsom. French Laundry and private schools for me, but not for thee…

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@ukarlewitz @Tepper_Jonathan Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and become party of the elite coastal clerisy. As @thomasfrank_ asks in the subtitle of Listen Liberal, “What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?” The VA election should be a wake-up call.

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@grigorisargeros @glukianoff @JonHaidt The Righteous Mind should be required reading for all incoming freshmen. Both Jon and Greg are leading voices for reason in the public square.

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@JeremyTate41 Brilliant. Emblematic of why Pano Kanelos was the right leader for @uaustinorg 📚📚📚

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@WHAAsstSecty Why does OUR OWN government mislead citizens about a communist government that lies to the world?

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@pschofie79 Really great work documenting the tragedy.

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@McCormickProf How it all started…

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@glukianoff “It’s a feature of elite academic institutions that faculty and students don’t recognize what it means to be elite.”

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@DionLimTV Stunning-a popular & profitable business closing due to anarchy: “this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety & wellbeing of our Customers and Associates - we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment.”

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@petercalloway @Moonalice Great to hear that this 👇 type of OPEN FENTANYL USE in a PUBLIC bus stop won’t be tolerated by @BrookeJenkinsSF . I would recommend everyone read @ShellenbergerMD ‘s “San Fransicko Why Progressives Ruin Cities” and follow @JacquiBerlinn for how progressives also ruin lives.

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@ZaidJilani @micsolana Bingo

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@AuronMacintyre @MrAndyNgo Meanwhile in San Francisco, full-on burnouts, torched cars and mob rule of the streets - but no Pride Flag involved so apparently it’s OK.

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This is San Francisco at 3:00am. "No one is above the law" is the Big Lie.

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@derabkin I just saw a SF parking enforcement officer writing an expensive ticket for a car at an expired meter in legal spot. Directly behind was a row of tents, “parking” for free and obstructing the sidewalk - no tickets.

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@ErinFriday75490 Time to stop the insanity…

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@EpsilonTheory @JonHaidt @TheAtlantic 💯🎯 Every parent, educator & “wellness” professional should read Jon’s book, which releases in exactly one week. On April 1st at 5:30 PM PDT I am hosting @JonHaidt in conversation with @tristanharris - don’t miss it! Remote & in-person registration 👇

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@yvessmith Thomas Frank’s latest is also caustically insightful on this topic: “In a democracy, a faction that chooses to go about its business by admiring its own moral goodness and scolding average voters as insensitive clods is a faction that is not interested in winning.”

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