Policy wonk, lawyer, fmr civil servant, recovering academic. Tweets mine. RTs + ♥ ≠ endorsements. "The important thing is not to stop questioning" (Einstein).
“If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments... Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.”
~ Children of Dune
It’s great so many people want to help @KamalaHarris become our next President.
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I have been struggling to articulate the complex emotions I've been feeling since Saturday morning as a Jew, a liberal/progressive, a believer that Palestinians and Jews have a right to a homeland, to safety and dignity. A thread 1/
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. https://t.co/AXh6XPU3w5
So this is terrible news — for the reading public and her journalistic colleagues, though not I trust for Chantal. There's no shrewder observer of the political scene, anywhere, and coverage of Canadian politics will be immeasurably poorer for her (fortunately not total) absence.
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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
When I look at this jet stream the word insane comes to mind. It's even more astonishing when you consider it's mid June! This configuration, likely enhanced by climate heating, is fueling a record heat dome so extreme that even experts are astonished!
Somebody simply has to write the ultimate catch-all essay on disruptive, libertarian, private-sector-touting entrepreneurs simply begging and demanding for state intervention at the end of their journeys. (This is the Titan sub company's adviser.)
It seems like there are three different kinds of people out there in the world these days. A world that’s melting down at astonishing speeds. Democracy’s on the brink. Ocean temperatures off the charts. Emissions, still rising. Economies, stagnating. 🧵(1/)
1. @FTC has taken action against @amazon for tricking users into signing up for Prime subscriptions—and then deliberately making it hard to cancel. We charge that these deceptive tactics violate the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. https://t.co/ud2j3xmFQ0
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