Thanks @SquawkCNBC for giving me the opportunity to advocate for closing tax loopholes & cutting government waste rather than crashing the innovation economy. https://t.co/sSe0hXLv56
Ok, I’ve watched 40 Charlie Kirk videos at this point… none of them were outrageous.
His opinions were the exact same as the Catholics I grew up with (and was one)
I disagree with many of those traditional beliefs, but none are shocking… in fact, they’re extremely predictable for a Catholic
I have resigned as the honorary secretary of the Oxford Literary Debating & Union Trust, the charity that owns the @OxfordUnion’s buildings, and dispenses its charitable responsibilities onto the Union as its delegate.
The callousness of the Union’s President-Elect has shocked me, but I also can't accept the lack of intervention on the issue.
The trust is full of the most incredible people. I hope this ultimately helps, in a tiny way, a great British institution that I care so much about.
Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:
“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.
“That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.”
“Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”
Beyond politics Charlie Kirk was someone’s father, husband and son. Remember that first, before engaging in whataboutism. His family will never be the same. Political violence has to stop by all sides.
Bless you @VanJones68 for your moral clarity!
Speaking on CNN:
"I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country. Normal countries don‘t blind women because they showed some hair. They don't empower little gangs and proxies to surround a country and fire rockets and rape people.
They cannot have a bomb ... Because they say death to America, death to Israel and death to all the Jews. One of those should offend you if you're progressives — at least one should offend you.
We cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran."
When you see the pro-Hamas supporters on our campuses, marching in our streets, and blocking our highways, these are the animals they are supporting. Actually I am doing a disservice to animals. These are the monsters they are supporting.
It will forever boggle my mind that there exists an organisation that can kidnap 1 and 3 year old babies, kill them, parade their coffins on stage to cheering crowds of civilians, and still be considered the victims by morons in the west.
🚨 JASON CALACANIS: “I think the best part about (DeepSeek) is the fact that Sam Altman was supposed to be doing open source, he made it a closed source company, he stole everyone’s data, he got caught red handed, he’s being sued by The New York Times for that, and now the Chinese have come and open sourced all the stuff he stole, and he’s got a real competitor on the mission that OpenAI was supposed to do.
I have zero sympathy for him or the team over there. I’m glad that this is all going open sourced. It should have been open sourced, and it’s better for humanity, and the fact that the Chinese did it to Sam Altman is comeuppance for the fact that he stole everyone else’s content.
But I don’t have strong opinions on it.”
LMAO. Wow. Jason with the double headshot. 😂
“This was supposed to be the water to put out the Palisades fire.”
The FP’s Austyn Jeffs visits the Santa Ynez Reservoir that has reportedly been empty since February 2024.