I used to write for the NYT. DMs open. signl: 415-604-2709 farhad.manjoo@gmail.com.
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Hey @elonmusk tell me why this isn’t real-time doxxing? Fox News has a drone flying over people and reporting their exact location “right now.”
Is that why you’re saying wow? Because you’re stunned at the violation of your policy?
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nice speech but she avoided all the tough issues
1) electric boats vs sharks
2) low-flow toilets not flushing it all down
3) steam vs electric carrier catapults
4) with wind power can’t watch TV when the wind isn’t blowing
5) no position on Hannibal Lecter
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how about a law that says you have to get a vaccine but the state isn’t making you do it, it’s just that everyone can sue you if you don’t, and if they win they get $10,000, if you win you get nothing
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students in Germany (from what I’m gathering maybe students in all of Germany??) were apparently asked to analyze a column of mine on a big exam and I am getting lots of messages saying either thanks for helping them get an A or ... ruining their lives
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Face it, Kamala Harris just isn’t brave enough to have a one-sided conversation with one of her largest campaign donors.
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Ugh, when you see these signs it means “we don’t pay enough for people to want to work here.”
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No one read his blog. His newsmax interview was a dud. Reporters didn’t even know his FB page was still up. And yet he is somehow still controlling an entire political party.
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Very unfair to try Donald Trump in the city where he lived most of his life, where his name is on several buildings, where he made his fortune, where his TV show was set and where the charged crimes were committed
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THE TWITTER FILES:
A half dozen screenshots of content moderation policy executives earnestly debating content moderation policy
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there is an obvious difference between an anti-masker refusing to wear a mask during a pandemic and a pro-masker insisting on wearing a mask after a pandemic. one is harmful and the other isn’t, and I’m surprised the discourse about “mask lovers” doesn’t really appreciate this
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Why would he go in the water in a suit? Why would he be handing out paper towels in a flood? What are they gonna do, soak up the flood water with brawny? These keep getting dumber and still all over FB
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People with student debt should really have applied for a PPP loan is what I’m learning
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difference between Trump and Cruz is Trump would have stayed in Cancun and done a rally there
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Finland sounds like the greatest country in the world
Finland's Prime Minister is 36 years old, went out clubbing till 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text telling her she needed to quarantine. bbc.com/news/world-europe-59…
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weird that all those rich guys upset at Harvard students aren’t saying anything about the world’s richest man’s open antisemitism
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the CNBC interview is just a disaster. He has trouble saying a single thing without creating a Biden ad — flirting with cutting social security, unable to explain his position on tiktok, lapsing into gibberish. He’s becoming the inept aged caricature they painted of Biden
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just never in my lifetime have I heard a president propose so many real ideas to help people
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everyone’s either going to Portugal or just been to Portugal, if they aren’t currently in Portugal
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Elon Musk: an appreciation.
He makes products that customers love and are good for the world.
He is taking on some of the worst industries.
He’s not a monopolist, he didn’t inherit his wealth or get it through connections.
My @NYTOpinion column nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opini…
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press release vs reporting. what happened here? They are not at all making it gender neutral. Did they make a quick change or did all the reports get it very wrong?
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just renewed my car’s extended warranty with a nice man who called me over the phone. Turns out he had been trying to reach me for months and fortunately I answered on the final attempt! boy sometimes the universe just saves you at the last second, I truly am blessed.
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Somehow elections went from totally rigged to completely fair in four years. Another huge Biden policy achievement
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the funny thing is in the actual segment he instantly backtracked and groveled a fake explanation that he’d misheard or something but now that he’s fired he’s an
edgelord comedian who never backs down
You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can't go on CNN if you make a joke. I'm glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.
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Kimbal Musk confessing the Musks were illegal immigrants. Hadn’t seen this before. From a 2013 interview
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at the end the message is basically “maybe Q was really the friends we made along the way.”
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How does “liberal cities’ inability to maintain basic law and order” explain why more than half the cars stolen in Chicago in 2023 are made by two carmakers with 11% market share? 57% of cars stolen in Cleveland: these two carmakers. 60% in Minn. 41% in Baltimore.
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don’t listen to political analysis from anyone who says “democrat party”
If you haven’t figured it out already, it is now abundantly clear that @realDonaldTrump is going to crush @POTUS.
If the Democrat party wants to have a chance of putting up a candidate who can compete with Trump, it needs to quickly get behind a strong, credible contender for President, and Biden needs to step aside.
@deanbphillips is that candidate. He is super smart, highly experienced and successful in business and politics, and he is a moderate, appealing to both Republicans and Democrats.
@elonmusk @Jason and I did a Spaces yesterday on @X with him.
Please give it a careful listen.
The Democratic Party and Joe Biden are heading toward a train wreck.
We need to pull the train off the tracks now!
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this feels terrible but somehow much less terrible than 2016 — for me at least. That was a surprise. This was confirmation
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masking when CDC guidelines say you don’t have to is not “ignoring science.” At most “science” says you might not have to mask — it doesn’t say wearing a mask is bad (in fact it says you should sometimes)
OTOH Not wearing a mask when sciece say you should is ignoring the science
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My main problem with ebikes, really the only problem with ebikes and bicycles is all the cars out there gunning for you. Gimme protected bike lanes and I’d trade so many car trips for bike trips.
This is true of so many car alternatives: they’d be awesome if protected from cars
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but why do members of congress need disaster relief, they aren’t levees
This should go without saying, but PPP loans aren't the same as college debt. We faced a natural disaster (pandemic) compounded by government shut-down orders that blocked people from working. PPP is better viewed as a form of disaster relief.
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congress will investigate a private company’s editorial decisions to make sure that private companies’ editorial decisions aren’t being influenced by politics
Comer: We’re going to have every single people at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible
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only just read this piece by Justine Musk, who was married to Elon from 2000 to 2008.
marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53…
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nearly everyone he hired in the White House he now hates. He chose milley, he chose John Kelly, he chose Nikki Hailey who he calls a birdbrain. He even chose Mike Pence.
At some point someone’s gotta ask him if he’s so smart why does he keep hiring people who he later finds are idiots? Seems like a terrible recruiter.
Trump goes on deranged rant against America’s military generals: “Stupid person. Very stupid. One of the dumbest people I've ever met”
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I wrote about the problem with electric cars that nobody talks about: They're cars.
It's great that we're getting cleaner cars. Yay us!
But the issue with American transport isn't gas-fueled cars, it's car-dependent lives.
Let's think beyond the car.
nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opini…
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I’m not sure why every Republican official isn’t being asked: “do you believe Donald Trump will be reinstated to the presidency before 2025, and if so how?” nationalreview.com/2021/06/m…
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Silicon Valley spent billions building convenient, sustainable travel.
The answer has been right there all along. It’s a bus.
All we have to do is pay for good bus service. Millions of people’s lives would be instantly improved.
Me @nytopinion nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opini…
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Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Tesla rigorously adheres to this principle? This guy was fired after distributing leaflets in the company's parking lot. If Tesla can ban speech from its parking lot why can't Twitter ban speech from its site?
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
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Here’s Ben Domenech making the case for vaccine mandates in The Federalist. “This is one of the few areas where government necessarily exercises power.”
Don’t usually agree with The Federalist but credit where it’s due, they were early and 100% correct
thefederalist.com/2015/02/03…
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they’ve really convinced themselves. Their defense is, Trump didn’t say neonazis were fine people, he said the *people marching with the nazis* are fine people. Yeah … see the problem there?
Biden leaning fully into the Charlottesville Hoax at the convention — the most debunked, disproven and discredited hoax in existence — deliberately stirring up hatred weeks after the attempted assassination, is beyond vile. It’s psychotic. It’s their pretext for authoritarianism.
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why isn’t it obvious that working without pay is inherently inhumane even if you had to do it
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you’re in a very bad place as a society when you can have an entire culture war based on one mistaken report about a toy potato
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the American cult of productivity is so insane. taking leave when you have a baby is considered some huge dereliction. come on, people, work isn’t everything, it’s not even most things.
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they’re all twitter shareholders and they’re getting (maybe!) a windfall from the world’s richest man who’s been taunting them for weeks, it’s gotta feel like catharsis
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newsom wants to give every registered vehicle owner in cal $800 in free gas. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes $11 billion in a California tax rebate to offset high gas prices, including $400 debit cards per vehicle.
He must negotiate a final deal with the Legislature
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ok one question I have that I’m just gonna go ahead and ask: why is “virtue-signaling” bad?
Just from the literal meaning it seems … good?
Is there a parent out there who doesn’t virtue signal?
kind of a weird culture we have when acting good is thought to be bad
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sir I was told this would be based on TWITTER FILES not a characterization by an unnamed former employee
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wait so … By the midterms Biden will have signed a stimulus, infrastructure bill, gun bill, semiconductor bill, now possibly a climate and tax bill and maybe even do a prisoner swap. Not as bad as you might have heard!
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just can’t stand the smugness of people who think they achieved some
kind of victory that will help the Palestinians
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both of Trump’s impeachment trials will result in acquittals based on the most comically strained reading of words as obvious as “do us a favor” and “find me the votes.”
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there is a kind of … nihilism and resignation on the left tonight. like: let’s see Trump actually enact 10 percent tariffs, let’s see how much you people love him when he shreds government services, we’ll just stand by and watch. No longer the resistance, more like the bystanders. I hope you get what you voted for.
What will make this so much worse is that it’s hard to imagine that liberals will continue to engage in politics the same way they have the past 8 years. People are exhausted. They’ll retreat to their safe liberal cocoons and frankly who can blame them.
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she’s got the tough no-nonsense attitude of the woman president in a superhero movie
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it’s true. ran out of column ideas
Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo leaving the New York Times, per an internal note from opinion editor.
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I drove so many electric cars this year. A lot of them as good as or better than Teslas.
Elon Musk’s redpilling is happening at the worst time for Tesla.
China production, potential recession and lots of great competition.
Read my @nytopinion column
nytimes.com/2022/12/23/opini…
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this is such a desperate move. honestly hard to remember the last time a tech company did something this baldly antagonistic to users and just so … pathetic.
he must be losing a lot of money. but this whole thing is making him so so small.
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His rambling here is pretty incredible. He does not finish a thought, just goes from one topic to another to another.
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So many people responding to this with the legend that Musk inherited money from his father's emerald mine. There is zero evidence of this.
The story comes from a Business Insider interview with Musk's father, Errol, from whom Elon is estranged and has called "evil."
Elon Musk: an appreciation.
He makes products that customers love and are good for the world.
He is taking on some of the worst industries.
He’s not a monopolist, he didn’t inherit his wealth or get it through connections.
My @NYTOpinion column nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opini…
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one thing on this: self-driving vaporware has been so damaging to transit!
every time people propose better transit now, there’s always some techie who says why bother, self-driving Uber Teslas will soon solve everything.
It’s always 5 years away. we could just buy buses now
Silicon Valley spent billions building convenient, sustainable travel.
The answer has been right there all along. It’s a bus.
All we have to do is pay for good bus service. Millions of people’s lives would be instantly improved.
Me @nytopinion nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opini…
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We need protected bike lanes everywhere, now.
We need intersections that are designed for people who walk and bike, everywhere, now.
We must think beyond cars in how we design our roads.
Here’s my @nytopinion on America’s deadly roads.
nytimes.com/2022/04/21/opini…
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I wrote about animal welfare and the right to rescue animals from inhumane factory farms.
And about how vegans are right. (I’m not a vegan.)
But on the incomprehensible cruelty of industrial farming? They’re so, so right.
My @NYTOpinion column nytimes.com/2023/02/14/opini…
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this is like a long international flight and you’ve watched all the movies and now the only thing to do is nap
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enough time has passed to say tiger king was terrible and it’s a measure of how terrified we were that we turned to it in that moment
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The “controversy” over the boxer Imane Khelif is shameful and an example of anti-trans disinformation run wild.
She is a woman — was born a woman, has never changed her gender, has always competed as a woman, is identified as female on all official documents.
wired.com/story/imane-khelif…
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free speech except for important national symbols isn’t in my copy of the constitution
REPORTER: Trump proposed banning flag burning. Your response? Especially considering banning flag burning is a breach of free speech
JD VANCE: I think we can all recognize that there are important national symbols worth protecting, & I think the American flag is worth protecting
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Huge long term study shows no association between kids screen time and anxiety or depression, and more screen time associated with stronger peer relationships.
theconversation.com/kids-and…
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Agree! If you don’t count public universities, public research (which created the internet, gps, touchscreens, crispr, mrna vaccines like the covid vax), public infrastructure, public healthcare (seniors, veterans, your free covid vax), public schooling … socialism totally sucks
Socialists never build institutions, they only hijack and take them over. They appropriate the political, cultural or economic capital created by others and spend it down to nothing.
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Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar and ruined it.
Me @nytopinion nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opini…
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Halfway through this she feeds him the line he’s supposed to say and he still refuses!
She’s like “what you meant was they’ll never have to vote for you!”
And he’s like, no, what I meant was Christians don’t usually vote (????) so I’m telling them they just have to do it this once
Ingraham asks Trump about his comments telling Christian backers they won't have to vote again in 4 years. Trump responds by saying Jews should have their heads examined if they vote for Dems. Ingraham presses him & Trump doesn't exactly quell concerns he wants to end elections.
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