Zack

Dad, gadget-freak, bookworm, political animal, global nomad, cyclist, runner, hiker, photographer, genome blogger, AI researcher

[Zack @zack_a]

Just crazy

[Lance Lambert @NewsLambert]

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate today: 6.64%

Same day last year: 6.82%

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10-year Treasury yield today: 4.43%
Spread today: 221 bps

[Zack @zack_a]

lol

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

The whole point of voting for republicans is to not get this kind of bullshit
https://t.co/2vTfxlQNMb

[Zack @zack_a]

Is it too much to ask law enforcement to be professional and well trained who don’t kill people at the drop of a hat?

[End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism]

Two unpopular opinions on the Minneapolis shooting:

1. The woman who died was at fault. She was acting erratically, inserted herself into a dangerous situation, and behaved in a way that put both herself and others at serious risk.

2. The ICE agent acted on instinct and fired too quickly. He should not have escalated to lethal force in that moment. We need full body cam footage to understand exactly what he perceived, but based on the video available, it does not appear his life was in immediate danger as the vehicle was moving away.

The left is already calling this blatant murder.

The right is already claiming the woman was trying to kill the agent.

Neither narrative is accurate.

The woman who died acted dangerously and recklessly, and the ICE agent drew and fired his weapon too fast.

If both sides don’t pause the political posturing and focus on de-escalation, Minneapolis is headed toward another night of chaos just like George Floyd.

ICE should temporarily pull back from the community, and leaders on the left need to clearly and forcefully call for calm and nonviolence.

There’s almost no chance both of those things happen, which means this situation will likely get ugly and Minneapolis could burn again.

I know this take won’t make me popular with either side but it’s just my initial thoughts on situation.

[Zack @zack_a]

In America every murder or war is so complex!!

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

It's a horrible situation, and it's not simple. There are many questions:
1) Was she trying to run him over or flee? (There's evidence in both directions, but I lean flee.)
2) Did HE believe she was trying to run him over?
3) SHOULD he have realized she was trying to flee?

[Zack @zack_a]

Warmongers all of them

[Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner]

New Interview: https://t.co/lAyrgxhbey

[Zack @zack_a]

Purchase from whom? Can we fund it by selling Pennsylvania?

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

I believe Greenland has massive strategic benefits for the United States.

I do not support taking it by force.

America is not a bully.

Ideally, we purchase it—similar to our purchases of Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase.

Acquiring Greenland is a many decades old conversation.

[Zack @zack_a]

Wait what? Did the Iraq war lies not happen in her universe?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I cannot overstate how philosophically central fidelity to fixed truths once were to being a conservative.

The assault on January 6th was an assault on truth itself. Both its genesis and its aftermath.

And conservatives shrug. Amazing, to watch people believe nothing.

[Zack @zack_a]

How stupid do you have to be

[Phield Martiall Jambavan @SirJambavan]

A math student who speaks English can pick up an English book and read it, understand it.

Flip that scenario and ask a English student to read college level math.

[Zack @zack_a]

The whole of America has lost its fucking mind

[Matt Glassman @MattGlassman312]

It actually might be a good idea to acquire Greenland if it was available for sale. Nothing wrong with offering a price. But it would be bad to try to coerce Denmark into a sweetheart deal, and among the dumbest mistake of US foreign policy history to take it by force.

[Zack @zack_a]

If a shooting is called “related” or “involved “ regarding law enforcement it is a clear signal that law enforcement shot someone

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

My public safety team is working to gather information on an ICE related shooting this morning.

We will share information as we learn more. In the meantime, I ask folks to remain calm.

[Zack @zack_a]

“Don’t believe anything Trump and his administration says at all”

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

I can't believe this needs to be explained but:
1. The US is not going to attack Denmark.
2. The bluster from Trump is to give encouragement to Greenlanders for a vote of independence, and a warning to Denmark not to ignore the results of such a vote.
3. Once the vote for independence happens, Greenland will need an alternative means of economic support because the economy is not self-sustaining.
4. Then they will enter into something like a "compact of free association" with the US that will involve economic support and strategic cooperation.
5. Denmark knows this, and their bellicosity is designed to discourage the Greenlanders from voting for self-determination.
6. Most other informed people also know this, and are spouting off in bad faith.

[Zack @zack_a]

Everything is worse when the right does it

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Texas A&M now believes Plato doesn’t belong in an introductory philosophy course.

The philosophy department is demanding that professor Martin Peterson remove Platonic readings because they “may” touch on race or gender ideology. He’s been given until the end of the day to comply or be reassigned. This is what happens when the board of regents gives university bureaucrats veto power over academic content. The board didn’t just invite censorship, they unleashed it with immediate and predictable consequences.

You don’t protect students by banning 2,400-year-old philosophy.

[Zack @zack_a]

This is the guy y’all voted for

[Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove]

"Norway, a NATO Member, foolishly chose not to give me the Noble [sic] Peace Prize. But that doesn’t matter!"

[Zack @zack_a]

Republicans are thugs

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Rep. Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark -- that needs to end. We have spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes ... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"

[Zack @zack_a]

Donald Trump is a thug!

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

President Trump says the "interim authorities" in Venezuela will give 30-50 million barrels of oil to the US to then sell at market price, "and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!"

[Zack @zack_a]

Hahahahaha

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Frankly, and bluntly, a nation that moves on from mass school shootings within 48 hours cannot be expected to wring its hands every year on January 6th because Democrats want us to.

[Zack @zack_a]

What would Americans call this if it happened in another country?

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Trump put his face on national park entrance passes, a decision that is being challenged in court.
Meanwhile the Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over his face, your pass will be invalidated.
https://t.co/tlcSzMNkz5

[Zack @zack_a]

UK was a democracy when it colonized a large portion of the world. Why not cheer for that too?

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

I think you can cheer for democracies winning and autocracies losing. Like I really do think you can just cheer for that! You can!

[Zack @zack_a]

@SenBillCassidy All the dead thank you for voting RFKjr as Sec

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

New documentation from Honduras: Over 6 days interviewing deportees, researchers found more than half of parents were deported without being given an opportunity to bring their children with them. Most deportees were longtime US residents, not recent border crossers. 🧵