Rebecca Matovic

This account is almost entirely made of retweets as bookmarks so I can read more carefully later, especially data-rich threads.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

a diarrhea plague and a killer heat wave while we’re doing a Middle East war, the emperor’s army is killing people in the streets, and everyone outside the palace is facing an affordability famine — we’re in the middle of one of those apocalyptic Biblical prophecies

[alexander green @alexframegreen]

Brilliant paper "Mathematical capacity, which is the trained ability to verify, interpret, and challenge mathematical reasoning, is not a byproduct of theorem production but a form of infrastructure, built over generations by institutions that cannot be reconstituted on demand."

Jevon's paradox for mathematicians is real we need to be doubling down on funding for math

https://t.co/l8t8p0NUY3

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg]

Novak Djokovic lost in a match without too much flavor at Wimbledon on Friday, but his press conference--both in English and in Serbian--got fairly spicy.

Read it all--the Serbian-to-English translation included--at Bounces:

https://t.co/MkY9nIiebw

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Pat Kiernan @patkiernan]

I wanted to actually understand where the old Pfizer Building failed. After a couple of hours of matching photos and maps this is my understanding.

[Gracie💙 @Gracie_Blue89]

🚨⚽️ JORDAN HENDERSON didn't touch the ball once, didn't play a single minute of that game,
Yet somehow he managed to get a yellow card, a tournament ending injury and carried off on a stretcher 🤦🏻‍♀️

#MEXENG #WorldCup #England

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@gtconway3d 11 minutes …

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@PhillyPhan010 @Acyn Because outside it’s 102?

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@TheTennisLetter @dieworkwear more Wimbledon, past and present

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@CristinaNcl @dieworkwear more blazer news at Wimbledon

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@TheTennisLetter @dieworkwear any thoughts on blazers at Wimbledon?

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@HQNewsNow So any set of words that come after “I believe …” is butchering the Niceness Creed???

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@bodybuzzrecs Americans or anti-regime ex-pat Iranians? Real question.

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@RuckFulesX @Acyn Temu Goebels — more precise!

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@Acyn I’m older than SM and when I go back to my high school yearbooks from the ‘70s (in NYC), I see a percentage of immigrants/children of immigrants that was higher than SM’s ‘scary’ data.

He doesn’t understand NYC.

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@Nerfmom123 @HQNewsNow That’s lovely for the 250th celebration!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

“I’m the king of the world” 😅

[Rebecca Matovic @ramatovic]

@mattyglesias If you could overlay the water systems (availability + distribution) over those photos … I suspect it would all make sense. Just a guess.