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Here's something exciting: @reason is hosting a debate on Big Tech—good or bad?! It's me and @ENBrown vs. @emilyjashinsky and @ryangrim of Breaking Points etc etc. (A mini Rising reunion!) This live event is happening in DC on December 10... get tickets at the link below!
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I am far from a knee-jerk critic of Trump, but this press briefing has to be one of the most embarrassing moments of his presidency. Just an utterly unhinged, childish temper tantrum.
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If 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II can "continue light duties" while experiencing mild covid symptoms, what is the argument for continuing to mask 5-year-olds in kindergarten all day?
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If public schools insist on not re-opening until it's 100% perfectly safe (i.e. never) because they are beholden to teachers unions, we really should just defund them and give the money back to parents so they can arrange private education, tutors, daycare, homeschool pods, etc.
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I cannot endure the idiocy of having to be masked while in line for food at a grab-and-go place, when everybody sitting and eating is unmasked. I just can't.
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Sydney Sweeney is doing fascist propaganda, and if you like her, you're a fascist too... is quite possibly the stupidest, most-likely-to-backfire liberal overreach social media pile-on in the history of the internet.
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Maybe "your kids belong to us and also fuck you" was not the greatest education slogan for Democrats to run on
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1. THREAD: THE FACEBOOK FILES
Twitter is not the only social media site to face pressure to censor content. I obtained emails showing that the CDC had significant influence over covid moderation at Facebook and Instagram. Here’s what I found.
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So let me get this straight.... David Hogg started complaining, loudly—and rightly—that the Democrats alienated young men and have no plan to win them back (and in general are too deferential to older establishment figures and identity politics), and the DNC is voiding his vice chairmanship to humor a 61-year-old Native American woman who claims the process was not sufficiently rigged in favor of a woman.
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If @esaagar and @elonmusk criticizing a Twitter executive (for a decision Twitter itself admits was bad!) counts as targeted harassment, then isn't WaPo itself engaged in targeted harassment of Saagar and Elon? I unpack this utterly ridiculous standard. reason.com/2022/04/27/elon-m…
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MSNBC commentator: "Armed civilians are now a part of American life." Wow, what an entirely unprecedented development.
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It is fascinating to watch the police again become heroes in the media. Like the entire summer never happened.
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It’s amazing that Pete Buttigieg, who has presided over the complete collapse of the airline industry, is seen as a possible successor to Biden.
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NYT columnist on Kavanaugh accuser: Hero
NYT columnist on Biden accuser: What to do with this inconvenience
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, responding to JD Vance: “We should be very clear that free speech in Europe means that you are not attacking others in ways that are against legislation and laws we have in our country."
On this, Vance is right. European leaders don't understand free speech, and they certainly don't protect it.
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Actually, Biden backed out of his scheduled debate with Trump. There was no debate planned between Trump and Harris.
JUST IN: Trump Backs Out of ABC News Debate With Harris While Agreeing 'With Fox News' to Debate Kamala Harris mediaite.com/trump/just-in-t…
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Following Trump's press conference, I'm switching back and forth between various cable news channels and it's all EVERYTHING HE DOES IS WRONG or EVERYTHING HE DOES IS PERFECT and it just seems incredibly unhelpful that we have our news filtered through mindlessly partisan sources
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I watched the footage. The word “accident” has no place here.
Police said the girls, 13 and 15, assaulted an Uber Eats driver with a Taser while carjacking him, which led to an accident in which he was fatally injured. cnn.it/2NXeK5K
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I ask this in genuine good faith: How do you square this sort of reporting with your stated position that doxxing is never okay? It seems you are likely to direct no small amount of harassment toward this woman as a result of exposing her.
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I really, really do not like when people lose their jobs because of idiotic things they tweeted. If Elez Marko had said these things when he was like, 16, I'd be all for ignoring it—I'd even join the mob forming against the WSJ reporter who uncovered it.
But he said that stuff a few weeks and months ago. He's 25.
If we discovered that a USAID employee had recently tweeted, say, "normalize anti-white hate," I think most MAGA folks would be justifiably calling for that person to be fired.
So let's have some consistency here. One way or the other.
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Just to be absolutely clear, the thing Cuomo should resign over is the nursing home deaths. Getting hundreds or thousands of people killed and then trying to cover it up is significantly worse than sexual harassment.
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DC has become the most paranoid city on earth. People walk outside wearing two layers of masks while thousands of armed troops and barbed-wired fences guard against a nonexistent threat. You wouldn't want these people in charge of anything, yet they run the whole the country.
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AOC: The difference between me and the Tea Party is I don't call anyone names, unlike those xenophobic white supremacists.
Rep. AOC says the difference between her movement and the Tea Party is her's don't call anyone names. Whereas the "grounding of the Tea Party was xenophobia, the underpinnings of white supremacy," and the Koch brothers funded them.
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I'm writing about that whole ivermectin-overdoses-crowding-hospitals thing, and boy oh boy did the media screw up with this one.
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I'm glad our 15 days to slow the spread is finally over. It felt a lot longer for some reason.
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Some of them work at Fuddruckers, or places like it. Not everyone can afford the luxury of staying home, ordering takeout, and watching Netflix for two months. We can't all be wealthy overrated comedians.
Anne Frank spent 2 years hiding in an attic and we’ve been home for just over a month with Netflix, food delivery & video games and there are people risking viral death by storming state capital buildings & screaming, “Open Fuddruckers!”
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Biden is saying fuck you to every financially responsible person in the country. It's just incredible.
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I am concerned how rapidly the word “disinformation” has come to mean “information I wish the public didn’t have.”
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I am not generally a Trump fan, but haters should probably just admit this was a pretty great speech that most people would like and agree with... and Dems looked super petty. #SOTU
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Antonin Scalia, in defense of the right to burn the American flag: "If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king."
The arch conservative justice was part of the 5-4 majority decision in Texas v. Johnson that upheld flag burning as a protected First Amendment right.
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Every time law enforcement bullies Donald Trump, Republicans suddenly start promising to actually reform DOJ, FBI, DHS, NSA, etc. Then when push comes to shove, they vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act. It's all talk. Talk, talk, talk.
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Craziest campus story I've seen in a long time. A student asked a dean a question about microaggressions—he was mildly skeptical of the concept. He was branded an "aggressive threat" and banned from campus. (And no, there's not much more to it than that.)
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Javier Milei introduced libertarian, free market reforms to a socialist country, over the protestations of a hundred leftwing economists.
What happened? Inflation decreased, the affordable housing supply increased, the currency stabilized, and in general, Argentina is flourishing. There must be some kind of lesson here...
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Entrapment? The FBI paid an informant $54,000 to help organize and encourage the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. reason.com/2022/01/26/gretch… via @reason
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They should declare the winner of Iowa is Bran the Broken and make everyone even madder.
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Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, on why they weren't stationed on the roof where the assassin fired from: "That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof."
But... the Secret Service officers who killed the assassin were on a different, sloped roof.
This excuse makes no sense. None whatsoever.
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Canceling 👏 all 👏 student 👏 debt 👏 would 👏 constitute 👏 a 👏bailout 👏 of 👏 relatively wealthy 👏more privileged 👏 people 👏 with 👏 better 👏 job 👏 prospects reason.com/2019/06/24/bernie…
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Ramsay Bolton, austere diplomat and animal caretaker, passed away at home surrounded by his dogs. #WaPoDeathNotices
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Trump should be confidently reassuring the American people, and he actually has some good news to deliver. Instead he is essentially screaming YOU ARE A LIE at the reporters.
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What is woke about this? Can someone please explain? Because this is starting to become the conservative version of liberals calling everyone they disagree with a nazi.
GAP released an ad in retaliation to Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad…but nobody even noticed.
Because it looks like EVERY single woke garbage ad we’ve been seeing for the last 4 years.. 💀💀
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My patience for the "now is not the time to lift restrictions" crowd is entirely gone.
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All summer, I've watched marches and rallies where Black Lives Matter protesters smash windows and set things on fire while the police follow at a safe distance, only occasionally making arrests. Not sure where this lack of doubt comes from.
"There is no doubt in my mind that if those were Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday breaking into the Capitol Building, there would be dozens and dozens of people dead today," Former CIA Acting and Deputy Director @MichaelJMorell tells @vladduthiersCBS
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Ricky Gervais speaks for the millions of people who don't want to be lectured about climate change by a bunch of celebrities who fly private jets to strategy sessions on private islands and call it activism. reason.com/2020/01/05/ricky-…
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Scoop: I obtained an email from the equity manager of Oregon's state health agency—she delayed a community meeting and then justified this on grounds that "urgency is a white supremacy value."
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It breaks my heart to report that the ACLU, ostensibly an organization that defends civil liberties, is suing to prevent Betsy DeVos from strengthening civil liberties protections on college campuses. news.yahoo.com/aclu-sues-bet…
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Very serious people are currently suggesting that Tulsi's criticisms of Kamala Harris are a Russian influence plan to subvert our democracy.
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No one was mad about black Ariel. No one was mad about a black Storm Trooper. Nobody is mad about a strong female protagonist in the new Terminator movie (there has already been a strong female Terminator, even). Please stop. reason.com/2019/07/09/ariel-…
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That Harvard was the vehicle for punishment in the Kyle Kashuv case is almost incidental: This isn't a campus free speech case, it's a mob-orchestrated cancelling. Repellant. reason.com/2019/06/17/kyle-k…
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I do think it’s hard to justify banning Trump but leaving Chinese authoritarians alone. Seems deeply hypocritical.
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Perhaps we can admit that there was no good reason to restrict smaller liquids in the first place, and that the TSA is security theater?
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Protesters threw a bike at @RandPaul and told him to "say her name." The "her" is Breonna Taylor; Sen. Paul is the author of a police accountability act named for her. To borrow a phrase from the woke set: protesters, educate yourselves! reason.com/2020/08/28/rand-p…
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I can't believe the police would arrest people for simply storming a building, smashing the windows, and taking a janitor hostage.
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Trying to get random working class people fired for wrong speech is bad. Textbook example of cancel culture.
Hi @HomeDepot! Are you aware that you employ people who call for political vioIence and the ass*ss*nat*on of Presidents? Any comment?
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I did not realize that rioters were essential workers and setting fires permissible recreation exempted from stay-at-home orders.
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I see a lot of people seem shocked by the jobless numbers. What exactly did you think was going to happen when we completely shut down the economy?
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A lot can happen in three years, but the weak media attacks on DeSantis are significantly boosting his chances of getting the 2024 nomination.
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The firing of Karen Attiah is a good example of something I do NOT count as cancel culture.
She egregiously misquoted Charlie Kirk, which is journalistic malpractice. WaPo fired her, as was their right. Fine by me.
It's not her opinions, it's bad journalism.
"The Washington Post fired me" over Charlie Kirk posts, writes @KarenAttiah.
"I have been canceled by Columbia. I have now been canceled by the Washington Post." substack.com/home/post/p-173…
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Journalist @MrAndyNgo's weapon is a camera. Antifa's weapon is a clenched fist. It should be the easiest thing for all in the media to condemn what happened to Andy Ngo here. Violence is inexcusable. reason.com/2019/06/29/antifa…
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Sorry, I can't let this go. Everything that applied to Blasey Ford / Kavanaugh seems to apply *more strongly* to Tara Reade / Biden. Why was the former exhaustively covered from the get-go, while the latter is essentially ignored? reason.com/2020/03/30/joe-bi…
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Some personal news from my Sicily trip earlier this month, in case anyone missed it: I got engaged! 💍
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What is the difference between the joke that got Weigel suspended from The Washington Post, “all girls are bisexual or bipolar,” and the extremely popular “men would literally do X instead of going to therapy” joke? Should all the women who retweeted the latter lose their jobs?
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This is exactly why we need due process.
Pro-deportation people will say "but non-citizens don't have the same rights."
Okay, fine... but how do we know who is a citizen or not unless there's a process? No one has to prove they belong here—the government has to prove they don't.
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said.
He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
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The public school system abused families' trust during the pandemic, and the reckoning has just begun.
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This strikes me as very irresponsible. We must be careful here. Republicans often chide liberals for saying hateful rhetoric is causing real world violence. Vance is now doing just that.
Today is not just some isolated incident.
The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
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I know Europe has different legal and cultural norms about speech, but I have a very hard time watching this and not being utterly repulsed.
If that's how Germany wants to run itself, I suppose it's none of my business. But we should not allow them to sic the though police on American social media companies.
Posting or reposting false information in Germany can be a crime, and the punishment for repeat offenders can include jail time.
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That's actually a really good point
Carville escalates feud after Sanders calls him a "hack": "At least I'm not a communist" hill.cm/QdK5GqH
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CNN’s commitment to using the term “Latinx”—something virtually no Latino person actually wants—is pretty amazing.
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One doesn't have to be in sympathy with Weiss' views in order to appreciate the staggering nature of this achievement: She has pulled off an elaborate Count of Monte Cristo–style revenge, if not over The Times itself, at least over the sort of people who made her experience at The Times so miserable.
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This is so frustrating. Breed's point that everyone at the club was vaccinated so it doesn't matter if they wear masks or not is perfectly valid.
But HER OWN MASK MANDATE FAILS TO EXEMPT THE VACCINATED.
San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed defends violating her indoor mask mandate while partying at a club:
“I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask."
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If you can't evict people for failing to pay, more landlords will want the money upfront.
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I continued to shocked, not by the unemployment numbers, but by everyone else's shock that they are so bad. The government is forcing people not to work: What did you think was going to happen?
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2. The CDC had significant input on pandemic-era policies at Meta. The CDC was consulted frequently, at times daily, receiving constant updates about which topics were trending, and giving recommendations on what content to flag as false or misleading. reason.com/2023/01/19/how-th…
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I am very confused by people who say "it doesn't matter" whether covid was created naturally or in a lab, because it absolutely does matter!
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Pro-mask people are going to have like 48 hours of defiant mask-wearing before they too give it up after realizing no one cares.
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Remember the New York covid nursing home scandal that ended Andrew Cuomo's career? Well, Tim Walz had the exact same policy in Minnesota—send sick patients back to nursing homes—except he subsequently said it was "not a mistake."
This alone should be disqualifying.
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I would much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much rather be required to show proof of vaccination than be required to wear a mask. And I suspect I'm not alone.
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Still waiting for mainstream media to cover this reason.com/2020/04/07/alyssa…
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In censoring the NY Post story, platforms ensured it would get even more attention, distracted from the reporting's issues, made themselves look like hypocrites, and probably emboldened the pro- tech regulation faction within the GOP. Nice work, geniuses. reason.com/2020/10/14/hunter…
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3. For instance, in May 2021, CDC officials began routinely vetting claims about COVID-19 vaccines that had appeared on Facebook. The platform left it up to the federal government to determine which assertions were accurate.
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That's literally called plagiarism.
Bonkers explanation from CNN reporter Matt Egan on the Harvard plagiarism scandal:
"We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other peoples writings without attribution. So it's been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone's ideas."
This guy is apparently a journalist...
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The tweet that resulted in Marjorie Taylor Greene's temporary ban—calling covid "not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65"—is not a particularly compelling example of misinformation.
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Trolls have been tweeting this doctored, fake screenshot of an article I supposedly wrote. My actual article made no such claims, and included a vastly different headline. If this is the evolved form of fake news, it’s mildly terrifying. I have asked @Twitter to take action.
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