Dwight Eagan

Big Brother. Rugger. Lawyer.

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[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

A quite moving plaque in the cloisters of England's Durham Cathedral:

[Chris Oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

RIP john adams you would have loved twitter

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad

[Joe Barrow @barrowjoseph]

New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!

With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!

2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!

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[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸

Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Kind of crazy to think less than 30 years ago we were still building unapologetic statues of Western heroes

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

One thing that needs to be studied is how “farmer’s market” used to mean “farmer’s market”

…and now it means “open-air pop-up shop with laser cut wood signs, 3D-printed fidget toys, and some lady bedazzling Stanley tumblers

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

@andybrohard Both can be true. But also consider that when you pay someone to identify racist organizations, they find more than if you don't pay them. And that is what has been happening with SPLC. So it might be a measurement incentive issue too.

[Ogre @solsenois]

Ça fait longtemps que l’effondrement civique ne m’avait pas autant frappé qu’en voyant Tintin utiliser son journal pour ne pas salir les banquettes du train.

[Victor Glover @AstroVicGlover]

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

[Will Campbell Franchise LT @TheJoeyMcNeely]

Vrabes getting caught cheating in 4K a week after he criticized his player for having Christian beliefs is cinematic.

[Dwight Eagan @DwhiteEagan]

@LauraPowellEsq They turned law schools into SJW political factories

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Harvard circa 1700s:

"No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon."

Harvard circa 2026:

"We can't assign whole novels anymore."

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Non-believers don't believe that believers really believe.

It harms their understanding of the world.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

I don't think people appreciate the insanity of a statistic like this.

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

> Startup accused of fraud
> Check bios of both founders
> Forbes 30 under 30

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

―Alexis de Tocqueville