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@ggreenwald @julie_kelly2 Love Rybakina, but it's absurd to compare the aesthetics of her game to Federer's. She doesn't have the elegant one-handed slice Federer had. Or the graceful foot movement. Or the beautiful variety of shot: the dropper, the tweener, the half-volley from the baseline, &c., &c.

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@BrianEastwoodx Just last year, she introduced legislation to repeal the Patriot Act. What an about-face!

https://t.co/lufA4eg2Qr

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@grok @Geo_Hasan_T @drhossamsamy65 What would unfabricated misinformation look like?

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@GeopoliticsDH Have you read Chomsky's political articles and books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s?

He was unmistakably on the left. In fact, he made it a point of slamming liberals (e.g., Anthony Lewis) who spoke of Vietnam having been a "mistake" rather an egregiously immoral act.

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@DjokovicFan_ I can think of a few he hasn't broken:

1) Consecutive weeks at #1 (237, held by Federer).

2) Career titles (109, held by Connors).

3) 346 consecutive weeks in the top 2 spot (held by Federer).

And so on...

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@grok @maviddedsker @occultni For the length of the 1980's, Hitchens supported the October Surprise claim (perhaps as early as 1991 the booze started to wreak havoc on the old bloke's mind?). Bani-Sadr and other Iranians also claimed that deals were being made between Reagan officials and the Iranian gov't.

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@grok @maviddedsker @occultni Polygraphs are notoriously unreliable. Various observers, including Christopher Hitchens, looked at the 1980 October Surprise and concluded it occurred. One must receive "official probes" with caution, as they are as likely as not to conceal wrongdoing.

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@grok @maviddedsker @occultni When Ben-Menashe alerted the world to the October Surprise and to the Iran-Contra scandal, people questioned his credibility and even wrote him off as a crackpot. Turns out he was right, and the naysayers and skeptics were wrong. Cf. Gary Sick's work on the October Surprise.

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@Zwxsh N.B.: Federer won 7 of the last 8 matches he played against Nadal and had a winning record against him on grass and hard courts.

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@imdanielallan @S_RF_CA Good list, Daniel.

It's premature to put Carlos in the top 10 (he could succumb to injuries, for instance).

Wawrinka is better than Roddick (3 majors to 1, and he beat Djokovic and Nadal in the finals to win them).

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@TLAVagabond https://t.co/HpCozfbe6e

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@TLAVagabond Whitney Webb misidentified Jack Brooks as a senator. He was, in fact, a congressman. He was one of the only members of the House to ask deeply probing questions about the Iran-Contra affair.

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@KitKlarenberg @MaxBlumenthal Bill Binney, 30-year veteran of the NSA, told Jimmy Dore there is, in fact, a "deep state": https://t.co/r9vGkgAgaY

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@TennisTV @nikhilt__ @atptour Fun fact: Federer's the only player ever to have bageled Nadal on 3 different surfaces (grass, clay, hard). The love sets occurred at 2006 Wimbledon, 2007 Hamburg, and 2011 ATP finals.

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@ElmoSecond @Breakawayrider1 I think there were 3 "no" votes: 2 shrill women with chips on their shoulder and the predictably anti-industry view of Sidney Wolfe, an old warrior at Public Citizen.

I've always liked Wolfe, but his (overlong) testimony today showed that he knows very little about pimavanserin.

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@ElmoSecond Because of the cost of Nuplazid and the burden it would place on Medicare's budget, I don't think the FDA will approve the drug with the stipulation that a phase 4 post-marketing trial be run.

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@Breakawayrider1 Why is the question "Do the benefits outweigh the risks?" rendered irrelevant by the Agency's concession that it "has no concerns about safety"?

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@theflynews $ACAD Recall that Stifel's Paul Matteis predicted the phase 3 Harmony trial would fail. He was wrong.

Matteis had a "buy" recommendation on SAGE when it was trading for $180 per share.

This analyst is no sage.

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@elderconsult @wjdeardorff Various clinical data suggest there are about 24% of patients for whom Nuplazid is unavailing.

But there are scores of caregivers who report significant relief from the drug. For example: https://t.co/oVrM40iaqE

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@JohnnyGWeir @USA_Network Please know that not all of your American viewers hold a guilty-until-proven-innocent view of Kamila.

Remember what Katarina Witt recently said: that no performance-enhancing drug can produce the sublime skating we've seen from Valieva; that she's in a league all her own.