David Freddoso

Opinion editor, The Hill. Send me opeds: dfreddoso at thehill dot com

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Wait, what? Now it costs $40 a month to keep using Tweetdeck?

Sounds like a good excuse to step back from social media.

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@FudgeFuturistic Wow.

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If you set aside a few COVID panic months, we've had full employment for nearly a decade now. It's a shockingly long period and unlike anything in our nation's history.

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The working age population will soon start shrinking. Are we ready for permanent full employment?

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@TPCarney Sed contra, I grew up in a university community. I believe him.

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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the raising of the Berlin Wall.

The East German government's official name for it was "The Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier" (Antifaschistischer Schutzwall), which serves as a reminder that sometimes people use the label "fascism" to justify their own totalitarian behavior.

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@JPMarsteller But they all act like yellow buses are just something from TV, not real. Every American knows that's not true.

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The weirdest thing about all these Euro World Cup takes about America are the takes about yellow school buses being some kind of magical, impossible thing.

No, listen -- THEY ARE REAL. They are not remarkable. You see them every day. What ever gave you the idea that they were just in movies?

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Thank you, Google. I wouldn't want to confuse him with the current Roman Emperor.

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@TrollFootball "Soccer" is a term of British origin. Don't blame us for using it.

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ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρός σου, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου.

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be."

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Interesting. This was the month when the Trump-era decline in the number of employees on the federal payroll stopped. It ticked up just ever so slightly from 2.676 million to 2.677 million between April and May.

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Ha! I never noticed the triforce emblem in "Kagemusha" until now.

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@CauseofourJoy The Third is great, but sometimes you want the Fifth.

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Alexa has gone downhill so fast. Now takes much longer than before to do simple tasks like scheduling reminders. And it feels like just yesterday that she could actually play Bach's Fifth Brandenberg Concerto, starting with the first movement, on request. Now, she either plays the Third instead or goes straight to the Fifth's second movement. The upgrades @amazon did about 6 months ago are a total failure.

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@RobertKYarbro @EsotericCD @ScotBertram That would be Leo Ryan.

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What is this about four alien species? Sectoids, Floaters, Mutons, and Snakemen, I assume? Still haven't found the Ethereals?

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Just re-watching The Expanse, and I guess I missed the first time through that one of the ships was named the "Guy Molinari." Staten Island politics ftw.

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@dangainor @BuckSexton I liked that series, although I don't remember the pilot.

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@dank1j @BuckSexton Best pilot, though.

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@MPelso @BuckSexton That was a good pilot.