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I’d rather be rebounding.

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@passfirstmafia @PpollingNumbers This is R voters only. Feel like this is just normal partisan blinders and not even that bad a result. Definitely true that Biden era policies contributed.

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@lymanstoneky Other people are suggestible and I don’t want them to die. I will vote blue as long as I assess that a coalition of the suggestible and their allies can be sustained. Said sustainability is obviously impacted by the wording of the question.

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@passfirstmafia @_emKamm somehow i missed this whole saga. What were the best parts?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

We've become so accustomed to cowardice and capitulation that quiet dignity and real courage shine all the brighter.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984

[Ross Douthat @Douthat60]

Excited to learn what kind of deal we've struck with our great authoritarian rival to safeguard the app they built that makes us all hate each other.
https://t.co/kmFte74GsL

[Surrealistship @SurrealistShip]

Its telling on the algo that my rw friends feeds show them leftists celebrating, and my lw friends feeds are showing liberals denouncing it.

The bubbles will keep causing death and engagement.

[kache @yacineMTB]

humans progressively live less life every day because there are software engineers at google trying their hardest, using the most advanced software systems man has ever built, to steal your hours. hours away from your family, time away from the one life you have

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@psychosort @passfirstmafia it’s a post about you 😂

[Kateryna Yushchenko 🌻 🇺🇦 @KatyaYushchenko]

“The leaders of 500 millions Europeans are waiting for 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million russians who haven’t been able to win against 30 million Ukrainians for 3 years.”

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

I've argued for and supported a ban or forced sale of TikTok since 2018. The argument I made 6 years ago was that if we do not act now, looking at the growth curve, the service will become so popular that lawmakers will find themselves in an impossible position and a ban will never happen

Unfortunately that is exactly what has now happened and now a horrible precedent exists. To any foreign government out there the message is that you are allowed to enter US markets under any pretense, with zero reciprocity for US companies, and as long as you are popular and influential enough the US government and population will go out of its way to facilitate your access

If we are going to go to such extraordinary lengths for a foreign company and government Trump must make a demand of absolute reciprocity. Meta, X, Google, Snapchat, and all other US based technology companies must be allowed total market access in China immediately with zero control by the Chinese Government

Now when the Chinese government inevitably laughs at this demand, ask yourself why. They correctly see Meta, X, Facebook, and Google as instruments of US soft power and as cultural contamination of their civic ideal which undermines their hold on power

We however seem to naively believe we're immune from the same influence and have waited so long to act now that we face terrible choices. The one we've made inevitably means we will have a natural experiment now of what it means to allow a government which actively seeks to undermine our civic institutions with the most powerful known technological tool to do so

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country. This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@JonahDispatch @passfirstmafia

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@GregoryFaletto This is terrible advice. Conditional on being interesting (“stat-sig”) the true value is often much less likely to be on the interval than that

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@DKThomp @NateSilver538 @passfirstmafia

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to make a call to Sonia Sotomayor.

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@NateSilver538 If you switch that param to yes, what happens to the dems odds?

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@passfirstmafia @mattyglesias Damn that goes hard...Kinda hard to imagine Kamala dropping that line lol

[Matt @MattRGoldman]

@passfirstmafia @0xgaut I knew it!!!