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Jan 1, 2022

The lessons of the past two years for me was the complete and utter destruction of institutional credibility and the politicization of truth itself, by the very institutions (media) tasked to uncover it. My sense of the world broke in a way that hasn't recovered (and won't).

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Conservatives love to complain about education; progressives, about police brutality. More conservatives should become teachers and more progressives should join the police force. You know, be the change you want to see. Maybe they’ll end up seeing the other sides’ POV too.

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Feb 5

They sent a reporter to cover it! So wholesome. I just love it

I love living in a place where this kind of thing makes the evening prime time news

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For the record,

, I retracted the apology and quit the band

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Bill Maher

@billmaher

Feb 4

If you're part of today's woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control.

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Feb 4

Makes total sense now

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Feb 3

So mask mandates are just multilateral disarmament of hot privilege

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He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment.

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Long before the Globe published this piece though, it was

@SnoozyWeiss

@TheFP

who first published a detailed investigation into the fall of one of our generation's best scientists. You can read it here:

thefp.com

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

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the Spotlight Team at the

@BostonGlobe

, yes the same one that ran the investigation into the Catholic church sexual abuse scandal (which was turned into the award-winning Spotlight movie with Michael Keaton) do a deep dive on this, handling the story with nuance and care.

numerous people rely on, to cancel work that has a huge impact on everything from cell biology to immunology to cancer. Besides the injustice done to a man, his reputation and livelihood, this is a staggering loss for humanity. I'm glad to see

a case of buyer's remorse," something which nowadays can trigger the weaponization of HR to intervene, escalate and ruin peoples' lives. It's one thing to go after a comic and cancel his work. It's another to go after a sitting professor whose lab

Those insisting this incident as another just cause in the #MeToo movement have to realize that this only serves to discredit women who are actually victimized when they come forward. This case is just as ridiculous as the cancelation of Aziz Ansari over what essentially is

of women in STEM? There seems to be an incongruence with arguing that as women, we demand to be treated equally as adults and yet consider that a 30 year old woman can possibly be groomed into a sexual relationship that morphed from something demonstrably consensual years later?

Whitehead Institute at MIT (without a single complaint on his record), he minted numerous scientists, doctors and professors, many of them now female professionals grateful for his mentorship. I ask you in all earnestness. Exactly who here, has done more to set back the status

to society are not trivial. David's research was pioneering in the field of cancer biology and he was Nobel Prize-bound. He ran a 40-person lab, and all that research was abruptly terminated, resulting in untold loss of medically significant knowledge. Over his 24 years at the

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One of the greatest casualties of the culture wars is Prof. David Sabitini. What was, in any other time, a complex romantic interplay between grown adults has instead devolved into a public spat, facilitated by the DEI-HR industrial complex. The costs

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Whitehead Institute sexual harassment allegations: Inside the fall of David Sabatini

Scientist David Sabatini is hoping for a comeback after he was ousted amid sexual harassment allegations. The case raises hard questions: Is there room for lesser penalties in such complex cases? Did...

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The radical rewiring of society is coming from the highest powers. When my alma mater gave tenure to Kendi to start the Center for Antiracist Research, I knew the writing was on the wall. Now all PIs who receive federal funds are required to fully comply with the DEI paradigm.

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Jan 30

12pm: these edibles ain’t shit 5pm:

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Why is Mounds called mounds when Almond Joy is the candy with the actual mound (the almond)?

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The International Correspondent

Jan 30

Why is Mounds called mounds when Almond Joy is the candy with the actual mound (the almond)?

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Steven Pinker

@sapinker

Jan 26

Fighting for Girls' Education No Matter What, by

@faisalalmutar

"The Taliban have not changed, but our women have grown stronger. They stand up and fight for their rights."

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Join me as I explore complex topics related to foreign affairs and geopolitics. Along the way I will introduce you to many of the courageous heroes and fascinating people I have met along my journey...

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Jan 24

This is what it’s like to be hoisted by your own petard. Activists and media make it all about race. Remember the Atlanta spa shooting? Investigators say it wasn’t a hate crime but media coverage emphasized the shooter’s race and ran with the claim of racial attack. But now…

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Singapore as a progressive utopia: - 80% live in public/subsidized housing - racial quotas in public housing that match demographics - highly centralized education system (but not woke - see social conservatism) - no guns - multicultural society - overbearing censorship

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Singapore as a conservative utopia: - strong rule of law - socially conservative - low taxes - no minimum wage - virtually no welfare - conscription for all men at 18 yes - high defense spending - easy to start businesses - no illegal immigration - meritocracy* - death penalty

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The original Matt Walsh tweet and the replies infuriate me. Conservatives claiming Singapore is conservative, and progressives claiming it as progressive. Everyone cherry picks. You cannot apply your myopic left-right political paradigm here.

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@yupster

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Singapore has four official languages, celebrates it's multiculturalism, and has some of the most progressive assistance programs in the world, including free healthcare, money for gym memberships, and subsidized laptops for poor students.

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I’m pretty sure

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would love to join me in hosting an MDMA-assisted reunion of the original IDW group profiled by Bari for the NYT.

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you want to know who has my greatest respect among the IDW types it is not the people claiming to be right. It is the people who never stopped talking to each other. @DouglasKMurray, @MsMelChen, @BridgetPhetasy would be examples of role models who still talk to everyone.

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DOD Awards New $3 Million Grant To EcoHealth Alliance, Group That Funded Wuhan Lab Research

Now that Dems no longer control congress, I assume the Republicans will make it a priority to subpoena Peter Daszak and all involved at EcoHealth Alliance & the NIH? Or are we going to keep rewarding EcoHealth with millions as the DoD just did last month?

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The DOD awarded a seven-figure grant to EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization that funneled millions in tax funds to the WIV for bat virus research.

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So even when it’s not white supremacy, it’s still white supremacy. Got it.

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(he/siya) #isangbagsak

@tonyrosaspeaks

Jan 22

The way white people want to comment & dm Asians that the shooter in #MontereyPark was Asian; instead of check in on how we are doing is perverse and desperate. It’s also a defense mechanism of white supremacy.

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Jan 21

Me: I just did this El Chapo-themed escape room, it was fun!

@faisalalmutar

: what’s an escape room? Me: it’s an immersive space with a series of puzzles, often themes, where the goal is to escape the room!

@faisalalmutar

: WTF I already escaped the Iraq War. No thanks

Cocaine Mitch!

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UberFacts

@UberFacts

The U.S. Coast Guard found a turtle with $53 million worth of cocaine strapped to it

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This is not CCP propaganda. This is a comparison of two school systems and cultures. American schools ALSO indoctrinate children. Whose indoctrination do you prefer? Which one do you think better prepares your kids to be functional adults? For the job market?

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Laura Ingraham

@IngrahamAngle

Jan 18

Why does the NYT run CCP propaganda? Opinion | China Helped Raise My American Kids, and They Turned Out Fine - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opi

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Stop calling it “aubergine” you pretentious twat! It’s just eggplant. Why is the whole menu in English except for the 🍆

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Me when I sent this tweet:

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Chinese Lunar New Year is such a misnomer In fact, it's lunisolar, meaning that intercalary months are added to the lunar calendar every few years to align with a solar cycle. The only lunar calendar is Islamic. And it's not JUST Chinese Someone had to Neil deGrasse Tyson CNY!

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Peter Zeihan is the Paul Krugman of geopolitics. Especially on China. China to collapse within 10 years? Yeah, no. Wishful thinking.

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Jan 19

There are only two kinds of people: those who have back pain, and those who don't have it... yet. I guess that means there's only one kind of person. The shit we gave up for bipedalism, I swear.

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The Case for American Seriousness

Jan 18

This is how we get back to being serious people, building serious things, and being a serious country. (but we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously) I loved this piece by

@KTmBoyle

for

@TheFP

thefp.com

We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity.

The spawning of new tech hubs around the country due to ideological reasons makes me optimistic. I used to look at the culture, politics & lifestyles in SF and despaired that those were the same folks building the ecosystems that defined so much of our lives. Now there’s hope.

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There is no way Heaven, if it exists, can match the unadulterated joy of floating on velvety, tantalizingly untracked snow beneath a muted sun that backlights each snowflake, turning it into flecks of falling glitter that occasionally catches your eyelashes.

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