Charles C. W. CookeVerified account

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Editor of . Off Twitter for a while because I don’t enjoy it any more.

The Sunshine State
Joined January 2011

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    Political Twitter has never been sillier, never been more hysterical, and never been less like the real world outside of it. It was always a bubble, but now it’s a bubble floating off in space, millions of miles above the subjects it’s discussing. It’s a video game.

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  3. Much as I‘m amused by the idea that I rule with an iron first, this is actually because we’re adults who respect each other despite our often profound disagreements, and because we have no interest in issuing Soviet denunciations of each other on Twitter.

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  5. Witch culture: If you’re “accused of witchcraft” but do not wish to be, you must WORK to EARN back people’s respect by owning up to being a witch, LISTENING to those who identified you, and ADVOCATING on behalf of people that you harmed/turned into newts

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  6. Jul 8

    You're thrilled to see this for YOUR reasons, not for theirs. And your reasons are, "Oh good, now that black guys did it it'll be illegal!" Do you know how goddamned condescending that is?

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  7. Jul 8

    The idea that I would attempt to get Leon, my corevolutionary and oldest friend in politics eliminated is risible. I was only trying get my colleagues to stop ice picking each other and I regret that anyone thinks the ice pick was intended for Leon.

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  8. Jul 8

    Matt Yglesias rn

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  9. Only question now is which one knows how to work the guillotine.

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  11. Why Vox Is Polarized, Simon & Schuster (2020)

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  12. Jul 8

    For example, the David Shor episode is really about whether he would have the power to retain his job after tweeting an academic paper.

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  13. Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Instruct its writers not to tweet anything about a topic, and then subtweet them about it in front of 2.6 million people.

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  14. I vote reply with a concrete example.

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  16. Matt Yglesias's Perfidy, Explained

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  17. Not surprising for Klein, who is also opposed to due process, and will happily be opposed to whatever progressives are currently opposed to.

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  18. This is just a fancy way of saying that you're opposed to free speech.

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  19. Today provided a nice reminder than what Pfeiffer and others mean when they say this is not "the Supreme Court" but "the Constitution."

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  20. No, this works the other way around. The carve outs, insofar as they're acceptable, are from the First Amendment; the First Amendment isn't a carve out from employment statutes.

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  21. Little Sisters of the Poor is also 7-2, with Sotomayor and Ginsburg dissenting.

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