Bull Moose

The French call me “late”

[Bull Moose @firebragg]

@muoiod @JCColtin @TaxNyc @JustinBrannan @JoeBorelliNYC

[Ajibola @4jibola]

being in your 20s is so crazy because every year you’re like a completely different person

[Jamie LeFrak @Jamie_LeFrak]

Since a government mandated renewal lease at a massively below market rent is not an arm's length transaction, shouldn't the IRS consider a rent stabilized lease a "bargain purchase" with the arbitrage subject to income tax? This would ameliorate the means testing problem of high income people benefiting from insane low rents because at least they would have to pay tax on the giveaway. Why not?

[Bull Moose @firebragg]

Second order consequences. Need to think about them.

[signüll @signulll]

it's unclear if most ppl realize that ozempic’s real effects on culture haven’t even started.

cuz what you’re seeing now is the first order effects & some glimpses of second order where ppl get thinner & some products experiencing a resurgence.

but the second & third order effects are where things might get gnarly due to the fact that these drugs seem to dampen desire itself across a surprisingly wide range of behaviors (it's not universal or obvious yet). food is simply the first & most obvious target.

liek what happens when millions of people suddenly spend less time thinking about consumption? what happens to industries built around cravings, indulgence, impulse purchases, addiction loops, or even certain forms of entertainment?

entire sections of the economy assume humans will remain governed by the same reward circuitry we’ve had for thousands of years. if these drugs meaningfully alter those circuits, we’re talking about a tool that edits human motivation.

we are gonna see thinness but in a lot of diff ways it seems like.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

Just being in the city is goal for many people. It has replaced doing something interesting in the city or creating something. The city itself is the end goal now.

[Bull Moose @firebragg]

@ogobonyebe @35mmAmerican Private lakefront house… more bourgeoisie than a club!

[Bull Moose @firebragg]

@HunterBiden My most woke take as a right-wing guy is that you’re actually an incredible artist. Hope you share some of your art on this account!

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

Justice Thomas faults his colleagues for declining to hear cases involving race-based school admissions, military families denied compensation, and campus free speech, while intervening in a death-row case over what he views as a minor error unlikely to affect the outcome.

[Indra @IndraVahan]

i have realized that the ideal startup composition is a jewish founder, indian cto, chinese founding engineer, a white designer and a gay seed fund investor with questionable ties to the white house

[Alasar @aphrosociety]

Great thing about NYC is that if you’re an interesting sharp person, class markers just don’t matter. Like you can have the sloppiest appearance & still collect friendships w the coolest people in the city & no one will care

Opposite LA where status signaling is everything

[Gilles (10x💉) #Brigitte2027 @vaxpourmacron]

Contrairement aux rumeurs propagées sur X par les pro russes, il n'y a pas eu d'émeutes mais seulement des manifestations spontanées de joie populaire.

Quelques véhicules ont participé aux festivités et certains commerces ont choisi d'ouvrir leurs vitrines à l'esprit du partage.

La démocratie, le football et le vivre-ensemble sont sortis renforcés de cette soirée historique. ⚽️🇫🇷

[Kurt @_kjs1874]

Quite nervous for the game tomorrow. By far the biggest game PSG have had since I started supporting them this morning

[Bull Moose @firebragg]

It was fun until the sun went down

[Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel]

Il n’y a qu’en France où la victoire d’un club de foot provoque des émeutes. Il n’y a qu’en France où chacun se sent obligé de s’enfermer chez soi un soir de victoire pour éviter d’être confronté à des violences.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

This won't be popular with my fellow law school professors (or many lawyers), but the best possible outcome of the turmoil with ABA accreditation of law schools would be for states to allow undergraduate law degrees to suffice for admission to the bar. Universities could establish undergraduate law departments and students could combine the 7 years of education into 4. An internship would probably be required for admission to the bar after the undergraduate degree.

This would align us with much of the rest of the world. The JD would remain as an optional graduate degree credential. If it has value, people will pay for it. If it doesn't, then they won't. There's just no need to have a separate undergraduate major in political science or French or whatever before beginning legal training.

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

I have taught law school for a long time and one of the main things I have learned is there should be a math section on the LSAT.

[Professor X @rationalhumanis]

This is at the heart of everything.

Straight white men have made up the vast majority of elected officials in American history, but Democrats have systematically stunted the career of almost all straight white men in their ranks over the last 15 years. This has two devastating effects for Democrats:

- The Democratic bench is very thin, which is what you would expect when you systematically discriminate against a huge chunk of the most qualified applicants. This is why Dem leaders are incredibly old - they successfully hollowed out their next generation.

- The young white men who are left as Dems are a very specific breed of beta orbiter who turns off most people, voters included.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

"White males are disproportionately committing rape."
❌ Not true
✅ Legal statement in Belgium

"Non-European migrants are disproportionately committing rape."
✅ True
❌ Illegal statement punished by prison

This is because our Anti-Racism Law criminalizes any statement that could increase "disapproval of a protected group", such as asylum seekers or migrants. White males are, of course, the only non-protected group.