Adam

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[Adam @AdamMoline]

@BobMurphyEcon People don't give the Athenians enough credit for how long they put up with Socrates.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

You never really know whether California's elections are stolen legally, with tactics like ballot harvesting that no sane democracy would allow, or illegally, with methods that are technically banned but de facto protected by state laws that stymie enforcement.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

I don’t think the L.A. election was stolen. What’s happening is legal.

The problem is that what’s legal in California is gross third-worldist slop that would make a dictator blush.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@UpdatingOnRome i simply would not have trusted arminius

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@DaveSteinSays "Democratize" in the sense that there's no longer an exclusive caste of people with special privileges. The people who are mad about the new system aren't mad about the cost, they're mad because they've lost the only thing making them special, as pathetic as that is.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

If anything, this comparison is a little unfair to Rura Penthe.

[𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc) @myth_pilot]

They’re cooking him in the Guardian now. Obama is done.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@OliverJia1014 I don't disagree with that, but I also don't think Disney Star Wars would be in the state it is now if they'd just made Star Wars projects that were well-written but not to everyone's taste, like Andor. The fundamental problem with Disney Star Wars is egregiously bad storytelling

[Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) @IamSean90]

The way this headline is written you'd never know that Mamdani is shortchanging NYC pension funds by $15 billion over the next 8 years so he can spend it on stupid stuff during his term(s) & this will create a $24 billion pension deficit for the next Mayor when they take office

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@OVTweetmarck europeans will literally write a manifesto instead of using modern technology to cool their homes

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

It's all a big grift

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@DaveSteinSays I feel like at 16+ speeding violations in one year, people should be facing more severe consequences, like getting their licenses suspended for significant time at minimum. It's yet another area where the most antisocial 1% cause wildly disproportionate harms.

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

Educated people who value civic virtue do not stand with a party nominating an actual Nazi, a guy calling Oct 7 a “false flag,” and whatever that is in Michigan.

Criticize Republicans all you like—reject them entirely even—but let’s stop pretending that Democrats are virtuous.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

if you shook me awake in the middle of the night and shouted “who is the stupidest person on Twitter,” I would say “Kate Willet/the nimby socialist comedian,” but the actual fact is that her replies are filled with defenders who are maybe even stupider.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Exactly this. One of the things that turned me anti-lockdown was the clear objective proof that population-wide lockdowns *did not work* and I firmly believe we should not do things that do not work

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@DastDn One of the perils of politics as religion. Every cause becomes a crusade, and if you're not fully on board you get branded a heretic.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

I think I'm fairly engaged, politically. And antisemitism in the left-wing spaces was something I was aware of.

But the scope, speed & virulence with which it metastasized, was shoved into mainstream legitimization after Oct 7th, & keeps growing - fuck. That took me by surprise.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@DaveSteinSays The part Mamdani was emphasizing was the expropriation. The process reforms aren't included as a YIMBY thing, they're in there to facilitate the process of seizing the city's low-end housing for his political allies.

[Adam @AdamMoline]

@DanielDiMartino The silver lining is that between this and LA's new rent control scheme, this tees up excellent cases for the Supreme Court to finally limit or abolish rent control under the Takings Clause.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps

Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance.

Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

We are approaching levels of dissembling that no one thought were humanly possible.

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

Platner is truly the DC-brain idea of a “working class” guy. He went to GW and worked at Tune Inn (iykyk). He’s a trust fund oyster man. But because he talks like like an idiot and has a Nazi tattoo on his chest apparently he’s real and authentic.