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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 1

    here it is, the metapolitical compass

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  2. 4 hours ago
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    people told me donald trump would not win a single primary. then a year and a half ago they still thought trump wouldn't get the delegates

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  3. 4 hours ago

    twenty months ago the "serious" politicos in my life told me marco rubio would beat jeb bush in a tight race for the republican nomination

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  4. 4 hours ago

    they are FINALLY starting to get it

    Is this going to be a whole book of sour grapes?
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  5. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.

    64 replies 3,451 retweets 11,460 likes
  6. 6 hours ago

    this guy makes good threads

    A big problem regarding the Trump "specter": no one who fears him realizes that he's only so scary because of the system he might inherit.
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  7. 7 hours ago

    but of course this is because stereotypes CREATE their own accuracy - or better yet they CONSTRUCT it - because [Rousseauianism/blank slate]

    Stereotypes of the sexes tend to be quite accurate
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    7 hours ago
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    So we have a "fact" in the NYT traced to a 3 year old unreplicable study from a for-profit personal finance website & no one bats an eye

    11 replies 14 retweets 62 likes
  9. 8 hours ago
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    this is the most unhinged shit since, idk, the last protest

    1 reply 4 likes
  10. 8 hours ago

    what the fuck lmfao

    Activists will erect & then pull down a Jeff Sessions "statue" outside of DOJ tomorrow to protest DACA announcement, et al say
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  11. Retweeted
    8 hours ago
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    I ran this through the Eichenwald Equation, and it checks out

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  12. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    If you want to change people's minds, I think you should focus much less on instantaneous change. Give them sound args to reflect on later.

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  13. 9 hours ago

    resolutions for a new year: - replace Bad propaganda with Good propaganda - feel vaguely persecuted despite tenure

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  14. 10 hours ago

    what's a good online publication related to history, literature, culture etc.? something like the Hedgehog Review but publishes regularly

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  15. 10 hours ago
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    holy shit, Noah Smith blocked me. that is a PRESTIGIOUS block!

    4 replies 23 likes
  16. 10 hours ago

    even the brightest of these morons can't resist the thrill of attempting to humiliate a few poor people every now and then

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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    whenever i see Peter Daou i think he's the Man in Black from Lost "look guys if you just start respecting Hillary i can get off the island"

    2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
  18. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    "...no evidence women [in philosophy] are at a disadvantage in tenure-track competitions." Allen-Hermanson 2017,

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  19. Retweeted
    Aug 11

    there's this russian guy on tumblr who makes good cat posts and a sub-community who translate his captions and i just love it

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  20. 12 hours ago

    i've roughly organized my ongoing work into three essay collections. where can i go to receive money and reassurance as i write them

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  21. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    . on how moralistic posturing has frozen politics & obscured some of the commitments of liberal tradition:

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