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1 year

Centrists are convinced voters want a little bigotry as a treat because that is what they want

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1 year

Transphobia is a huge political loser. It's amazing how the right and centrists refuse to see that.

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lol

Zoë Schiffer

@ZoeSchiffer

2 years

NEW: Luke Simon -- one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants at Twitter -- appears to be out. He's been deactivated on Slack.

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They usually don't quite say it outright, but the Republican belief about romney isn't simply "the press was mean to him in an unprecedented way" it's that in exchange for nominating him, democrats were supposed to just let him win. That was the deal in their heads

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Who will be the first prominent conservative activisit to write about how she didn't mean doctors should let people like HER die from ectopic pregnancy

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1 year

The man left office with like 15% approval

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

1 year

Christie really is a tragedy. He had so much promise and he squandered it all through hubris and cowardice.

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when the current discussion is about a 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated I think it should be obvious that sometimes the term "pregnant women" does not always encompass the full range of people who get pregnant

Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

2 years

Today someone asked me what the Republican equivalent of "pregnant people" was: a signal of in-group loyalty and perfect ideological consistency that alienates normal voters. The answer is: stuff like this.

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Jonathan Alter

@jonathanalter

10 months

It’s terribly sad to see Gazan civilians killed. But when a NYTimes front-page caption says they have “virtually no safe place to hide,” that is false. Thousands could hide in the 250 miles of tunnels if the Hamas government—which is supposed to protect its people—would let them.

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Our centrist pundits all pretend they are more left than real americaa but actually they are more right

Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy

2 years

From new WSJ/NORC poll: -65% of Americans say being transgender should be accepted by society -27% of Americans think their local schools focus too much on racism (40% too little)

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about 40 years ago, wage increases detached from productivity increasea and many economists are deathly afraid this won't continue

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i watched some random feed of the starship launch and people started clapping when it blew up (it was not supposed to blow up) and that's musk's entire career right there

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2 years

Remember when cheney would leak bullshit to your paper and then cite your paper as justification

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Why did the U.S. invade Iraq 20 years ago? Two decades after the Bush administration said it wanted to disarm weapons of mass destruction and free Iraqis, the debates rage on about who knew what when, and which motive mattered most.

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my guy you just had paternity leave

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

@SecretaryPete

2 years

In the US transportation system, there is no substitute for a functioning freight rail network. A shutdown would be devastating for workers & farmers across America. @POTUS is calling on Congress to enact the deal that union leaders & companies reached at the bargaining table.

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do reporters ever feel mildly embarrassed about covering the republican "pretend to be interested in a deal until attention moves elsewhere" game

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A bizarre part of DC culture is the social norm of treating bad faith actors- like your friends whose job is to lie for money - as honest players and my friends we do not have to emulate that on twitter dot com

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@jamesrbuk jimmy I say this with respect - you are the dumbest motherfucker on this website

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1 year

Glad journalists ran 700 "no one wants to work" stories. Good job all.

Julia Coronado

@jc_econ

1 year

Prime aged (25-54) employment population ratio up to 80.9% in June, above last cycle's peak of 80.6% and on a nice upward trend. We can put the lazy worker narrative decisively in the garbage

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@InternetHippo i love how everyone who works in 'tech' acts like they make ARM processors when they actually have a company which tricks you into ordering food at a 30% markup through fake websites

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Nooruddean

@BeardedGenius

1 year

Who's the definition of a 'stupid person's idea of a clever person'

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as people have been saying for years, there is literally no acceptable and allowable method of protest

Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

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received a release tn from Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine saying that students were threatened with disciplinary action for a planned “study-in” that consisted of silent studying in a campus library in keffiyehs while displaying their divestment demands

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numerous powerful people, including journalists, are going to pretend to believe this and that's really the whole situation in miniature

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

4 months

BREAKING: The IDF opens an investigation into the air strike in Rafah on Sunday night. The IDF says its operational assessment ahead of the strike was that no civilians were going to be harmed

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2 years

"real clear politics is a partisan republican propaganda outfit" is something some of us tried to explain like 15 years ago

Taniel

@Taniel

2 years

This had to be one of the most absurd thing I've seen. And when this is all over, we should have a talk about what in the world it was.

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1 year

None of this stuff works without validation from journalists and centrist dipshits. Good job

John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

1 year

social conservative leader on picking transgender issues to rile voters and donors after same-sex marriage defeat: “we needed to find an issue candidates were comfortable talking about. we threw everything at the wall.” now 20 red states have passed laws

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Easiest marks in the world

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2 years

he spent years selling his customers a product that will never exist!

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the precise circumstances changed over time, but an issue everyone "forgets" is they couldn't keep schools staffed because teachers/staff would get sick and there were no subs

Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어

@torriangray

1 year

Monday morning QBing this is so silly. Society faced a massive trolley problem and a lot of people did their very best to make things work in impossible circumstances, despite freaks refusing to face reality.

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2 years

A very funny genre is "sure i am a garbage person but have you considered that other people are garbage too"

Matt Taibbi

@mtaibbi

2 years

Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about “PR for the richest man on earth,” and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc.

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still marveling at this

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The willing marks who launder their reputations.

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It's hard not to joke about QAnon because so much of it is absurd but at heart it's a movement dedicated to the mass executions of political enemies

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"liberals are responsible for the bad things conservatives do" is always the play

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

1 year

Interesting that Douthat appears to be forwarding the idea that Trump prosecutions are going to upend efforts to remove Trump through the normal electoral process. Sort of anti-Trump GOP were juuuuuuust abt to deal with Trump and then, well Jack Smith & Garland had to mess it up.

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oh no what if all the justices are completely corrupt what should happen then (they should all resign, jesus this isn't hard)

Andrew Fleischman

@ASFleischman

1 year

Before taking out too strong a position on Justice Thomas, you might wanna wait for the other shoes to drop. I am guessing this is probably epidemic in an institution marked by secrecy and prestige

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chait and yglesias were the people who legitimized the iraq war!

Good Vibes Stan Acct 🥥🌴

@csilverandgold

2 years

I truly think that in the future the broad left of center coalition should look on people who legitimized this anti-trans panic as Chait and Yglesias’ generation looked on their predecessors who legitimized the Iraq War.

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in 2005 this guy wrote, "I believe that liberals loathe the [Iraq] war because they loathe Bush, rather than vice versa."

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

2 years

I do not believe, and have never said, anything like "trans people are icky." This is an example of the bad faith is which @HeerJeet routinely engages.

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Ah my favorite genre: journalists against journalism

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what if the police are pro insurrection (narrator: many police are pro insurrection)

President Biden

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2 years

You can’t be pro-police and pro-insurrection.

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People really fail to understand this is not "just" about "elective abortion" very little medical care for women can be safely provided for "possibly pregnant" women. Ectopic pregnancies (requiring emergency attention) just most obvious

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Who will be the first prominent conservative activisit to write about how she didn't mean doctors should let people like HER die from ectopic pregnancy

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men, when you hit that troubling age go buy a sports car or hell even go have an affair, don't let your brain melt into goo as you rage against the 'woke'

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who does the world owe this debt to

CNN

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The world is in debt. A record amount of debt. Three hundred trillion dollars, to be exact.

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2 years

the rules of objective journalism are endlessly fascinating

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the number of journalists running with "who amongst us doesn't have inappropriate relationships with our sources and people we cover?" is great, as your ethics advisor I advise you to keep on typing this shit out

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This is it. They didn't even have a response I would consider bad, they *Did not have a prepared response at all.* It's quite clear nobody is doing any work in the white house. Just checked out completely. And they aren't letting their cabinet people do anything either

Bruce Bartlett

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@Econ_Marshall One problem with this argument is the implication that even after the draft Alito opinion was leaked, no one in the White House apparently gave any thought whatsoever as to how Biden should respond when the final decision was issued.

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Prem Thakker

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New from the U.S. State Department: “The United States rejects recent statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible”

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I'm pretty sure most mainstream political reporters would have mocked someone for suggesting this was going to be how it was going to go a mere 2 months ago,

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@FionaSmall @DougJBalloon oh no

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Translation: everyone is blocking my besties (ian and the turd) and we must stop this

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there was incredible racism at his factories! someone in his orbit had critic swatted! I could go on all day on this stuff!! That our premier tech reporter KNOWS NOTHING OF THIS STUFF is the problem

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the political class would rather let a genocide happen than admit lefties are right about anything not the only motive, of course, but much more than you think

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1 year

Musk's rep with our celebrity tech journalists survived years of nonsense like this

Elon Musk

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Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.

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American news outlets tried their best

Guardian news

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1 year

Court rules Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence

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@AJentleson @MadamCAdams Amazing start

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imagine thinking tech journalism was too skeptical

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The rules are, basically, some people get to say whatever they want and call it "objective" while some people will get fired for saying "it's bad if trans people are murdered," and I'll let you figure out how people get sorted into those categories

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congrats Taylor for earning $8.41

Spotify

@Spotify

6 months

History made! On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the first album in Spotify history to have over 300M streams in a single day.

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For a couple of years the free speech they were obsessed with protecting was "milo going to college campuses and attempting to inspire harassment of trans students "

David Menschel

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2 years

You won’t be reading 1000 articles in the Atlantic and NY Times about how banning Ye from polite company is a dangerous attack on “free speech,” because the elite media dialogue about “free speech” was never about “free speech” it was about which speech should be protected.

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@ParkerMolloy right but my point is I don't think they really believe that it was unprecedented, they just think when they nominate "sensible centrists," as romney is to them, it's unfair to campaign against them

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Peter Thiel's Founds Fund told its portfolios companies to take their money out of SVB midweek. These assholes caused the bank run

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look at what is happening now and remember 10+ years of fawning press for elon

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So little has changed since like 2003. The right wing kicks up a shitstorm about something and people like glenn kessler (then it was howie kurtz) dutifullly type it up even when it is bullshit

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I know it's too much to ask for political reporters to remember, but when the US was actually on the path to a balanced budget, alan greenspan suddenly remembered the world economy actually needed a fresh supply of t-bills

Sarah Ferris

@sarahnferris

2 years

NEW: A key part of this agreement is for House GOP to present a BALANCED budget over 10 years - using the 2022 baseline, per multiple sources

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this is fucking shameless even for maggie and the NYT, an outlet known for regularly stealing the work of local outlets without credit

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

1 year

Here is the piece by @migold and @gr_ashford that started the long saga of George Santos, the congressman who's being taken into custody this morning for wire fraud and money laundering

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Stole this idea from someone but forget who sorry!

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mandela ran the paramilitary wing of the ANC which was certainly not peaceful! these fucking people

Elvis Buñuelo

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So this is “progressive realism” is it?

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once upon a time when there was a big fuckup at the new york times every other journalist got very excited about it and now there's going to be a lot of silence

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the "funny" thing about the turmp verdict is it will stop being mentioned in stories from political journalists about him within a week

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Guardian news

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2 years

Rate of executions in Saudi Arabia almost doubles under Mohammed bin Salman

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Correction: tommy tuberville does not have thoughts

Matt Fuller

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Tommy Tuberville has gotta be watching Tim Walz run for VP on his football coaching record and having some thoughts.

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Dipshit centrists love offering compromises that are morally offensive and which have no deal takers among republicans

Kat Abu

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1 year

Former Democratic congressman Harold Ford Jr. advocates for "more jails, more cops" as a "compromise" for common sense gun reform:

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I have come to appreciate the difficult job of academic historians tasked with trying to decipher the past when so many contemporaneous reports are orthogonal to reality

The New York Times

@nytimes

1 year

The federal indictment of Donald Trump leaves his GOP presidential rivals with a stark choice: Defer to a system of law and order that is central to the party’s identity, or take a radical path of resistance. Their response will have enormous implications.

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Between the anti trans stuff and the crime stuff it is quite clear the latest Sulzberger is a monstrous human

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

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1 year

This is a new low for the @nytimes . A whole article characterizing the homeless man who was killed this week as violent and dangerous to others and the ex-marine whole killed him as a chilled out surfer who just wanted to help others. This is sick.

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Yglesias, chait, take a bow my guys. Your life achievements

Michael Hobbes

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1 year

It’s extremely obvious that we’re in the middle of another Red Scare, this time with DEI and ‘gender ideology’ swapped in for communism. Congratulations to everyone who helped launder the ‘threat’ of drag queens and diversity trainings into the mainstream!

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amazing stuff

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When I was 20, 20-year-olds thought I was pretty funny and cool, and now they don't. There is something deeply wrong with 20-year-olds today.

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he laundered his rep through people like dylan matthews, sean mcelwee, and matt yglesias and they don't care

Jacobin

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2 years

FTX did everything in its power to convince low-income adults to use its platform instead of a bank. Now many of them are facing financial ruin.

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can we at least stop calling it the "Hyde amendment" because lots of people really seem to think it's either in the constitution or some sort of inviolate super-law and not some rider they add to the hhs bill every fucking year no matter who runs congress

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over 20 years later, still pretty good correlation between how much you wanted war with iraq and what a monster you are

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I don’t know how to tell you this kids, but Harrison Butker at your graduation is going to be the highlight of your life

Rolling Stone

@RollingStone

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Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a sexist, antisemitic speech in which he falsely claimed Congress “passed a bill where stating something as basic as the Biblical teaching of who killed Jesus could land you in jail." Watch:

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US journalists opening the box of horrors that is UK journalism. Could devote years to this beat

Doug Henwood

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Ooh the NYT gets bitchy.

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@willmenaker one tesla conspiracy theory is that it's an elaborate front for a drug running business, so this makes sense

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christ I am sorry but this did really make me laugh at loud

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@PippaCrerar @BelTel use your big journalist brain to think about this story a bit harder

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People disagree about stuff, always will, and politics is how we solve some of those disagreements hopefully peacefully. Going into politics and *wishing all disagreements would just disappear* is like becoming the zookeeper and telling the animals to feed themselves

The Hill

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Pelosi tells Brown University graduates to unite in deeply divided country

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This is the kind of "diplomatic protocol" that just gets made up on the fly

Pippa Crerar

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Joe Biden has repeatedly criticised trickle-down economics, saying he was “sick and tired” of the theory and that “it has never worked”. But whether he’s right or not, this is quite a breach of diplomatic protocol.

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amazing stuff

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someone tell josh marshall the speaker of the house is calling for the national guard, also, too

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the chatbots aren't going to get sentient, they're just going to overwhelm all search engines (including each other) with bullshit

Will Oremus

@WillOremus

1 year

@JonathanTurley @VolokhC @USATODAY Now Bing is *also* claiming Turley was accused of sexually harassing a student on a class trip in 2018. It cites as a source for this claim Turley's own USA Today op-ed about the false claim by ChatGPT, along with several other aggregations of his op-ed.

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one reason it's funny is you getting mad at twitter jokes instead of peter thiel

Austin Federa | 🇺🇸

@Austin_Federa

2 years

Watching people delight in the collapse of a bank that’s been vital to the greatest wealth generation engine this country has had for the last 2 decades is really disheartening to see. I think this is a Twitter problem.I’m gonna be spending less time here.

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"Oh no people will lose their jobs if we don't do this" as the fed has been operating with an explicit "throw people out of their jobs" agenda

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@GoodwinMJ Doing good through evil, a justification embraced by all the worst people in history and religion and myth. Maybe read one of those great books you lot bang on about all the time

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we don't hear much about popularism! anymore weird

Dean Baker

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Overwhelming majority favor halting weapon shipments to Israel

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lack of vocal resignations from the biden administration is pretty disappointing

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for decades conservatives used "standing" arguments to narrow access to the courts, it's all just calvinball and anyone who pretends otherwise is a liar

David Dayen

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1 year

43 million borrowers were denied debt relief by the Supreme Court today because the Court cited an injury to an institution that did not seek this case and was in fact opposed to it

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glenn kessler has been doing vibes based "fact checking" his whole career. "doesn't feel quite right, 18 jiminies"

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biden's gonna give a big speech asking for more money for cops, republicans won't vote for it, and "democrats love cops more than republicans" will be the big midterm message

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@SoozUK that can happen but bigger issue is thinking a .75 mile walk is an accomplishment

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