Alex Linsker

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"Israeli military officials: ... Palestinians... Immediate steps needed... To prevent starvation."

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@ezraklein the goal is not good governance

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@rexsalisbury @sam_d_1995 It's like a NJ TV repair tariff

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Ironically, the *more _____* (straight, queer, pro-gun, Christian, pro-trans) a city/state is, the more people will say/imply early on that they are pro-_____. Because the default assumption, the political rounding of words, will be that they are *less _____* than what they say.

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#politicalrounding /6

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#politicalrounding The more a society in a city or state goes in a political direction (such as right or left), the more political rounding happens in the opposite direction. For example, banning words by definition means publicly sanctioned words leave out the private words. 4/

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#politicalrounding In Portland Oregon, it's more common to say one is "progressive" at first but later disclose being a "Reagan Democrat" or owning guns, once they feel it is safe to do so. In Cleveland Ohio, gun ownership & not being a Democrat is disclosed much more upfront. 2/

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New phrase: "'Political Rounding' – The process by which individuals initially present themself and their views in a way that is influenced towards the more socially acceptable stances in a given setting, later revealing more divergent beliefs as relationships develop." 1/

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@google And clicking within the Account, such as from the main page to Privacy settings, sometimes switches between accounts without notice. Lost a lot of data from my main account because of this.

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@google Serious bug - clicking Accounts tab from Gmail sometimes opens not the account from that Gmail screen, but the originally opened Google account on the browser, with no notice other than changing the profile pic in the top right. I deleted a lot of history from wrong acct

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@USPS @USPSHelp @USPSbiz Your URL " usps .gov " isn't redirecting to " www. usps .gov " (without spaces) and needs to be fixed! Just trying to help.

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@chrissyfarr What are you researching? I can maybe help

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Portland: if you want joy, results, and accountability, including police accountability which she has led, please write about, donate to and vote for Candace Avalos for East Portland city councilor. Whomever gets mentioned the most often wins. @candaceforpdx

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East Portland is a growing and evolving community that has been waiting too long for promises by city leaders to be realized. I am running for Portland City Council District 1 to be East Portland's champion in City Hall!

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@Henryz_mom Also we punish the operators not the manufacturers or "insurers" that profit or gas profiteers that we subsidize at $30 per gallon who have the most lobbyists of any industry

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@gmail #ux when ! is clicked, instead of asking if we intend to unsubscribe or report spam, please add another icon to only unsubscribe next to reporting spam on the main toolbar when an email is selected, thanks! Sometimes it is both: spam also means unsubscribe @google

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@StateFarmLatino State Farm is even more ludicrous.

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@Henryz_mom Everything is an accident when I'm driving this thing

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@schmangee There are a lot of factors, not just college. Kids who don't graduate high school die on average 11 years younger (at least when I worked to increase K-12 school funding 9 years ago), so college isn't a sharper line than that. Increasing wealth inequality causes earlier deaths.

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@sophiegreenleaf It'd be a very useful list for wealth taxes, and for valuations. How many are city councilor donors or lobbyists through PBA or otherwise?

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@AmySilverberg They thought it would be swallowed or wiped off?