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    Aug 31

    I wrote about what’s surprised me this month about the conversation around Afghanistan, what hasn’t, and what to do with that information

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    17 hours ago

    This is how you do it.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    The Venn diagram of people who think software engineers can solve all of humanity’s problems and people who think that folks choosing their own pronouns will bring about the collapse of civilization is basically a circle.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    I don’t know about that but I do find the smarmy whiggish techbro thing extremely annoying

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    21 hours ago

    this story keeps getting worse. what a brutally fitting epitaph to American power in Afghanistan.

    “Our dreams and hopes have been totally shattered. We had big dreams for our children,” he said. “Anytime I remember my daughter, I just want to die myself.“
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    19 hours ago

    The ivermectin Facebook groups are a microcosm of how COVID denial has evolved. In 2020, COVID denialists believed the disease was a government plot. In 2021, COVID denialists were forced to confront that it's real, but it's the vaccines/nurses/ventilators that are killing you.

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  7. 18 hours ago

    I considered this but they are also willing to kill more marginal members of the party to protect the core members as they see them. The main victims of the anti-vax position are their most devoted followers; liberals for the most part will survive.

    Suggesting they are pro-death is a hedge against calling it like it is - they are as pro-death/pro-life as Nazis, which is to say, they are concerned with the unobstructed continuation of one specific phenome as a population; all other variants are to be extinguished
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  8. 18 hours ago

    Prove me wrong. Find me an issue in which the American right’s consensus position is to maximally protect the lives of human beings who have been born.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    They’re the same as they always are: pro-death

    just amazing that being "anti-vaccine mandate" is the only clear policy position of the gop today
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  10. Sep 12

    Case study in the genre of “our FOIA came through and there’s no real news in there but I guess we ought to write about it”

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  11. Sep 12

    The term nothingburger gets thrown around a lot, but I just read this article twice to make sure it doesn’t say anything, and it really doesn’t say anything.

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    But, but new emails show things we already knew and that changes everything!
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  12. Sep 12

    Whoops, sorry, tweeted a draft I was saving for November. Remember the lab leak?

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  13. Sep 12

    Remember ivermectin?

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  14. Sep 10

    Shabbat shuvah shalom

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  15. Sep 10

    Engagement is king

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  16. Sep 10

    Twitter in one screen grab

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  17. Sep 10

    This war couldn’t have ended soon enough

    The NYT finds the last US airstrike before leaving Kabul was an unmitigated disaster—no evidence of explosives in the car, driver was an aid worker for a US-based organization who was probably taking water to his family, 10 killed including 7 children.
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    Sep 10

    All you need to do to get objective reporters to repeat something bananas is to have enough of the leadership of one of the major parties repeat it, then it becomes a Mainstream View they have to Respect. The crazier the position the greater the return.

    I’ve always been a Takes Guy and will always defend the Takes Game against the hard-news scolds, but “analysis” is truly the biggest weasel word in journalism — worse even than “experts say.”
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  19. Sep 9

    🧘

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  20. Sep 9

    I constantly wonder how Bernie’s campaign would have gone if he had hired spokespeople interested in winning.

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  21. Sep 9

    Good

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