@dilanesper Avatar @dilanesper Dilan Esper

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"BTW I am mocking all the Musk tweets but all this space exploration BS is one thing I think where the public's instincts are spot on. They are ignoring all of it despite massive PR pushes by NASA Elon Musk India etc. The public does not care. It's not the 1960's anymore"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:08Z 13.9K followers, 597.9K engagements

"I am going to try and perform one more public service on this vote suppression thing and explain the Kansas litigation. The "31000 Kansans disenfranchised" talking point is totally wrong (which your critical thinking skills should tell you anyway)"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:46Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"China basically took over Tibet which had been independent. Since then they have meddled in the country's religion and invited Han Chinese to move in and change the ethnic/religious composition of the province. And yet nobody is seriously saying China must pull out of Tibet"
X Link 2025-07-30T15:40Z 13.9K followers, 662.1K engagements

"we know. The Rodney King cops who didn't know they were being filmed all filed reports that said nothing unusual happened in the arrest Imagine if there was no video Imagine if there was no video"
X Link 2026-01-25T14:17Z 13.8K followers, 935.9K engagements

"It's the year [----] and you are flying into Donald Trump Airport. What city will you be flying into"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:31Z 13.9K followers, 83.7K engagements

"entirely appropriate day given how terrible the argument to overturn Wong Kim Ark is. The Supreme Court has revealed its schedule for the March argument session and will hear the birthright citizenship case on April [--]. https://t.co/F1SpEKbl8c The Supreme Court has revealed its schedule for the March argument session and will hear the birthright citizenship case on April [--]. https://t.co/F1SpEKbl8c"
X Link 2026-01-31T03:53Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Luigi Mangione is awful but the death penalty is also awful and I don't like charging ordinary state law crimes as federal charges to get around states that oppose capital punishment. so i am glad the death penalty was thrown out. https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-murder-weapons-charges-against-alleged-unitedhealth-ceo-killer-2026-01-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-murder-weapons-charges-against-alleged-unitedhealth-ceo-killer-2026-01-30/"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:17Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"i read this same passage and i think Brooks is a totalitarian. i can't think of a more basic and fundamental freedom than the right to reject moral principles pushed by so-called authorities. those authorities were so often wrong (e.g. about gays or the role of women). Theres a lot that David Brooks has written that I dont agree with. But this is 100% spot-on and powerfully stated. https://t.co/vzl9Z6Wy6o Theres a lot that David Brooks has written that I dont agree with. But this is 100% spot-on and powerfully stated. https://t.co/vzl9Z6Wy6o"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:31Z 13.7K followers, 15.1K engagements

"i think the NFL is so amazingly successful they get jealous of the few things other leagues have. That's why it took over Christmas from the NBA. It's why they over-market their trophy trying to mimic the Stanley Cup. And it's why they keep trying to salvage their all star game. My take: The NFLs effort to monetize it destroyed it. When it was in Hawaii it was a convention for star players away from the normal media attention of the season. Peyton Manning used to hold court at the pool and counsel guys. That draw is now gone. So now its a big zero. My take: The NFLs effort to monetize it"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:27Z 13.8K followers, 53.4K engagements

"fun fact: there was no second shooter on the grassy knoll Exclusive JFK assassination film held by feds could be worth $900M and could prove 2nd shooter on grassy knoll https://t.co/Q0NUIJXPnv https://t.co/dRePXu4Csm Exclusive JFK assassination film held by feds could be worth $900M and could prove 2nd shooter on grassy knoll https://t.co/Q0NUIJXPnv https://t.co/dRePXu4Csm"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Wasn't this the plot of Godfather III The Epstein files have a lot more behind-the-scenes scandals than just what happened on the island. Here is former US Secretary of the Treasury revealing to Epstein why Pope Benedict may have vacated his papacy. https://t.co/YgfabJG2Hs The Epstein files have a lot more behind-the-scenes scandals than just what happened on the island. Here is former US Secretary of the Treasury revealing to Epstein why Pope Benedict may have vacated his papacy. https://t.co/YgfabJG2Hs"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:59Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"NBC has done a bunch of lobbying to ensure the US goes near the end to force people not to turn off the opening ceremony. The IOC changed its rules for them. Fun alphabet olympic parade story. At [----] Montreal the US ABC TV producer did not realise teams entered in French alphabetical order and cut to a commercial break just as Etats Unis entered the stadium Fun alphabet olympic parade story. At [----] Montreal the US ABC TV producer did not realise teams entered in French alphabetical order and cut to a commercial break just as Etats Unis entered the stadium"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:01Z 13.9K followers, 212.3K engagements

"The Baseball Steroids Problem. Once you allow massive cheating everyone has to cheat. You are a chump if you are honest and all the cheaters outscore you. At Stanford almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather we openly discuss strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers the feeling is that if you arent getting accommodations you havent tried hard enough. https://t.co/1WeyZnEZ9c At Stanford almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather we openly discuss strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers the feeling is that"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:59Z 13.7K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Skiing is not a very safe sport to begin with but I really hope that Lindsay Vonn will be OK. She's taking serious risks here. https://us.yahoo.com/sports/olympics/article/lindsey-vonn-plans-to-compete-in-olympics-despite-torn-acl-sustained-in-fall-145802036.html https://us.yahoo.com/sports/olympics/article/lindsey-vonn-plans-to-compete-in-olympics-despite-torn-acl-sustained-in-fall-145802036.html"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:50Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"You can watch the highlights of any game you are interested in-- not just the Caps and Wizards but any NHL or NBA game any womens professional soccer game even a big cricket game from Pakistan or a European indoor track meet"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:56Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"my similar point is that parents don't have to live with a silly name. kids do. And their peers will mock them mercifully. giving your kid a non-boring name is an extreme act of parental selfishness. find another means of self-expression. My one rule for names that never fails: Your offline grandmother should be able to recognize that the name you chose is a human person's name not some new slang or a random vocabulary word or a cat walking on your keyboard. Choose any name you like as long as it's a name My one rule for names that never fails: Your offline grandmother should be able to"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:18Z 13.7K followers, 58.4K engagements

"America is a land of opportunity. Never forget that. https://t.co/n4YyF77VpV https://t.co/n4YyF77VpV"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:35Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"i have ridden the Taipei metro. there are no people on it using as anything other than transportation. everyone behaves- Taiwan is quite conformist. Yes you can absolutely have bathrooms. but it means you need to remove rulebreakers. You go to other countries and they just. have this stuff. https://t.co/3FKi9dXL5d You go to other countries and they just. have this stuff. https://t.co/3FKi9dXL5d"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:34Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I think if New York Magazine would understand the severity of drunk driving-- that drunk drivers are essentially dangerous violent criminals who often happen to have a lot of class privilege and are thus not seen as the thugs they are-- they would have to reconsider their take"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:30Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"A massive massive problem with the pro-rail movement is it is full of people whose basic interest in trains is nostalgia and who think transportation planning should be centered on bringing back the early 20th century system of palatial stations and long distance trains. The grandeur of the long-abandoned Buffalo Central Terminal (Buffalo New York) captured in the winter of [----]. It officially closed in [----] ending [--] years of service as a major passenger rail hub. Today it reminds us of what rail travel in the United States once was. https://t.co/837AqcED9z The grandeur of the long-abandoned"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:49Z 13.8K followers, 25.3K engagements

"So wait Kamala's part of Gen-Z Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:59Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@shlevy [--]. There was so much evidence of Simpson's guilt that the jury blew it anyway. Indeed even the claim about the glove makes no sense. How is it that the murderer wore the glove Nicole bought for OJ at Bloomingdales Why are Nicole's and Ron's blood on it"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:10Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Who puts a press release saying they won't run for Mayor on "Austin for Mayor" stationery https://t.co/e4WBjkcyse https://t.co/e4WBjkcyse"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:24Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The market nationalized and the local bookstores-- even institutions like Cody's Books in Berkeley closed. As I said the only weird thing is that journalists can't understand that their own profession is subject to the exact same market forces that we see over and over again"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:37Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Here's the principle in axiom form: "when any market nationalizes businesses whose business model relies on local monopoly will either downsize or fail unless they are one of the tiny number of players (often 1) who win the national competition""
X Link 2026-02-05T16:39Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The number of people who obey that is a rounding error. The point is-- almost everyone including religious conservative believers behaves as though having a normal sex life without being married is perfectly ordinary"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Almost nobody actually accepts the religious teachings here. Which means that maybe the religious right needs to stop thinking putting on the show is important That's ultimately what the entertainment industry concluded-- notice Olivia Rodrigo has been open about her sexuality"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:13Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Since I always get this when I do threads on high speed rail it's probably worth doing a thread as to why NY-Chicago is an honesty test for HSR advocates-- it would be a supreme waste of money and we shouldn't listen to any HSR advocate who advocates it"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:57Z 13.9K followers, 11.5K engagements

"@Yellow_Dog1959 NY-Philadelphia is on the NEC. That should get high speed rail full stop. Pittsburgh is the 28th largest MSA. Columbus is 32nd an also too far from NY. Fort Wayne is 118th and also too far from NY. It would be a massive waste of money to build HSR for those routes"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:37Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"i don't think this is new. there is a long standing tension between the way righties talk about public sexual mores and the way they view powerful men who have a lot of partners. i think it's inherent in "fusionism" the alliance of rich people and the religious right. One thing that's always been obvious about postliberalism "tradlife" etc. is that it's actually quite shockingly libertine. They claim they're for order yet routinely yield to their basest instincts. Even when they're not sexually libertine they embody the works of the flesh One thing that's always been obvious about"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:40Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements

"what HAS happened is as America has become less religious the more libertine faction has become louder whereas the religious right has lost power and influence. but the contradiction was always there; it is just more visible now"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:41Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements

"yep. body cams have been great for good cops. and there's lots of good cops. there were also some bad cops and body cams have been terrible for them. I watch a lot of body cams at work and it has completely changed how I view the police here. These guys walk into homes on reports of child abuse and speak to families with kindness consideration and patience. They often spend entire evenings helping mothers access services or I watch a lot of body cams at work and it has completely changed how I view the police here. These guys walk into homes on reports of child abuse and speak to families"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:43Z 13.9K followers, 112.8K engagements

"As someone who thinks the post-1960's societal consensus on racism (1) exists (sorry right wingers just because lefty academics and activists talk too much about race doesn't mean this doesn't exist) and (2) was a very good thing that immensely benefits us I am worried"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:02Z 13.9K followers, 27K engagements

"And then you get the unfounded claims of immigrants destroying America. To be clear I'm not talking about claims backed up by strong data here. You can argue about those. I am talking about sweeping claims that immigrants bring criminality don't believe in American values etc"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:07Z 13.8K followers, 11.2K engagements

"These are getting thrown around all the time and in some very "respectable" right wing circles. For instance ever noticed how a lot of anti-birthright citizenship argumentation is based on this "allegiance" thing"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:08Z 13.9K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Post any tweet on a violent crime and you'll immediately draw a bunch of right wingers saying stuff about Black people being inherently criminal. Call them on this and they will say "I'm not racist it's the data Black people are more likely to commit crimes""
X Link 2026-02-06T13:12Z 13.9K followers, 61.4K engagements

"The basic problem is the racist troll who always chimes in about the Black crime rate isn't actually offering any legal moral and useful way of utilizing that information. They just get off on saying Blacks are inferior and maybe hope we engage in more racist policing"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:14Z 13.9K followers, 49.5K engagements

"And this is the context for what Helen Andrews and some other people are doing dumping on Asian Americans because they do better as a group on some academic measures than white people do. That can't to a soft racist be a good thing. Whites have to be on top"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:18Z 13.8K followers, 10.2K engagements

"The point is this is rot. Intellectual moral cultural rot. And I think a lot of folks on the Right know it is rot but are afraid to stand up to it. But the post-1960's societal settlement on racial discourse while not perfect or impermeable has worked reasonably well"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:19Z 13.9K followers, 16.4K engagements

"@claud334 That paper ignores that its own line of flights from Cleveland to Pittsburgh is tiny. Like the actual data that people would never ride this white elephant is in that paper but the people who authored it are lying railfans so they deemphasize it"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:39Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"One more on high speed rail. The smarter high speed rail advocates are aware that of course nobody other than a railfan wants to ride a six hour train from New York to Chicago. So they argue instead that it will make sense based on all the folks using intermediate stops. @claud334 That paper ignores that its own line of flights from Cleveland to Pittsburgh is tiny. Like the actual data that people would never ride this white elephant is in that paper but the people who authored it are lying railfans so they deemphasize it. @claud334 That paper ignores that its own line of flights from"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:42Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"According to Wikipedia there is not even a single nonstop flight from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. Doesn't sound like a massive travel market So sure you pick up a few people going from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. But not enough to matter"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:47Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@DanteJeffe14617 Except the Republican Party's intellectuals went for decades only occasionally trafficking in this stuff and sometimes even making explicit anti-racist arguments"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:54Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements

"This isn't how language works. Actively winced when a NYT columnist said both that the WaPo had been decimated and that a third of its staff had been cut. As @charlescwcooke asks: why does no one know anything anymore Actively winced when a NYT columnist said both that the WaPo had been decimated and that a third of its staff had been cut. As @charlescwcooke asks: why does no one know anything anymore"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:59Z 13.9K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Every time she takes a curve wide my heart skips. I hope she makes it through this. Just one week after tearing her ACL Lindsey Vonn has completed her Olympic training run in Cortina. The women's downhill competition takes place this Sunday. https://t.co/FgEG8xkWTI Just one week after tearing her ACL Lindsey Vonn has completed her Olympic training run in Cortina. The women's downhill competition takes place this Sunday. https://t.co/FgEG8xkWTI"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:02Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@rkylesmith "I could care less" is correct English because people use it in sufficiently formal register. That's how language actually works. It's not a logical system and isn't supposed to be logical-- it's supposed to communicate and does"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:11Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@dominic_coletti The Seventh too. The thing is the Seventh and Fourth were right and the other circuits were basically trying to negate a Supreme Court decision they didn't like"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:12Z 13.7K followers, [--] engagements

"I realize this isn't the issue here but I've always wondered what John Foster Dulles ever did to merit a major international airport being named after him. Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds https://t.co/ILdGQjWvwC Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds https://t.co/ILdGQjWvwC"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:16Z 13.9K followers, 113.2K engagements

"What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. The team has a perfectly good stadium. NEW: new renderings of new @Commanders stadium at RFK site released at todays @NCPCgov meeting. Questions remain about columns parking garages metro access pedestrian access vehicular traffic flow. The stadium is expected to open in [----]. @nbcwashington #wmata https://t.co/wX8r08Keqe NEW: new renderings of new @Commanders stadium at RFK site released at todays @NCPCgov meeting. Questions remain about columns parking garages metro access pedestrian access vehicular traffic flow. The stadium is expected to open in"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@chrisbbehrens @gdholtby @rkylesmith "Correct" language is what is in the dictionary i.e. what a critical mass people say in reasonably formal register. What you guys believe is a bunch of "rules" that don't actually exist but which you think make you look smart when in fact they show your ignorance"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:01Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"To bring this into its own thread-- there is no better demonstration of "ignorant people who falsely believe they are smart" than linguistic prescriptivists. They don't understand a basic premise of language but are convinced that those of us who DO understand it are dumb. @chrisbbehrens @gdholtby @rkylesmith So no what you think is correct is not "correct". It's "what elite snobs incorrectly believe is 'correct'". The problem is you guys have an ignorant view of language and like many ignorant people are convinced your ignorance is actually correct. @chrisbbehrens @gdholtby @rkylesmith So no"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:05Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"there's a whole bunch of Americans a group I identify with who thought it was wrong when DEI-left types obsessed about race and also think it's wrong when the right obsesses about race. I actually think my position is the majority view of the country"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:28Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"quite apart from me thinking my position is right i actually don't think most Americans are clamoring for massive discourse about the supposed merits and demerits of various racial groups. It's only the ideological extremes who want that"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:30Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Olympic torch relays were better when one person ran the torch into the stadium and lit the cauldron. the modern version is a form of participation ribbon culture-- organizers are cowards who can't just pick one specific person"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:29Z 13.7K followers, 10.1K engagements

"one of my background beliefs about racism is that racism is an incredibly dumb thing to believe and the people who espouse it are convinced that in fact they are incredibly smart"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:33Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"lots of raunch culture codes right. the real issue is that only tiny minorities actually are as prudish as the religious right is and yet we pretend they are still a big political force Newly resurfaced clip of Kid Rock at Woodstock [--] saying "Monica Lewinsky is a fcking ho and Bill Clinton is a goddmn pimp" before launching into his song "Balls In Your Mouth." Kid Rock is performing at TPUSA's Christian-focused All-American Halftime Show this Sunday. https://t.co/nsm3x9nzm5 Newly resurfaced clip of Kid Rock at Woodstock [--] saying "Monica Lewinsky is a f*cking ho and Bill Clinton is a"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:11Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"this is a really good summation of the whole thing. complaining about high skill immigration is like being given a Ferrari and complaining that the fuel filler door is on the wrong side. The bottom line on the Asian culture debate: to have your country populated by smart low crime hard working people is such an advantage that you need an amazingly good reason to be opposed to it. If someone is going to just hand you one million dollars in a bag you take it The bottom line on the Asian culture debate: to have your country populated by smart low crime hard working people is such an advantage"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:59Z 13.8K followers, 20.5K engagements

"even under the most optimistic scenarios about high speed rail one high speed rail line is about 1/200th as useful as [--] airports from which you can fly all over the world. THAT'S why a lot of HSR math really is cost prohibitive. LAX is currently undergoing a $30 billion taxpayer-funded capital plan which brings total cost of its construction to $70 billion in [----] dollars. SFO is currently in midst of $11 billion upgrade bringing total cost to around $30 billion. That doesn't include the planes. LAX is currently undergoing a $30 billion taxpayer-funded capital plan which brings total cost of"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:42Z 13.8K followers, 16.2K engagements

"You really need a ton of people to ride a HSR line for it to be worth the money. in contrast basically any conceivable infrastructure improvement at LAX or SFO is going to be worth the money. It's apples and oranges"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:44Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I go back and forth as to whether Wizard of Oz or Mary Poppins is the best children's movie of all time. MeTV will return the classic Wizard of Oz to broadcast TV for the first time since [----] Watch for it in October- and one airing will be with the Sven Squad and me MeTV will return the classic Wizard of Oz to broadcast TV for the first time since [----] Watch for it in October- and one airing will be with the Sven Squad and me"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:48Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@SukritGanesh China is a repressive Communist dictatorship that overrides its citizens' preferences You guys are sick when you cite those murderers as some sort of model for how Americans should live"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:01Z 13.9K followers, 29.9K engagements

"I have mixed feelings about the 5th circuit's decision on holding undocumented immigrants without bond which is linked to in the next tweet. I think this is conservatives doing what liberals are accused of-- making a compelling policy argument where the law is against them"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:56Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Mark_Sutton2 that doesn't mean every deal will screw them"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:44Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@js_hicks yep"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:12Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"the Winter olympics really are a regional niche competition You have [---] billion people and the Himalayas and you could only find TWO athletes 😭😭😭😭 are you deadass https://t.co/cKMABi2Sbz You have [---] billion people and the Himalayas and you could only find TWO athletes 😭😭😭😭 are you deadass https://t.co/cKMABi2Sbz"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:48Z 13.9K followers, 73K engagements

"Let's talk about the single most widespread delusion in all of American politics-- one that is shared by rightie immigration restrictionists leftie trans activists and even normie voters What is the delusion That you make policy change by electing a President who makes orders"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:11Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"If President Obama had instead tried to rewrite the country's health care system through executive order it probably would not have stuck. Very likely the courts would have struck it down and even if they hadn't it would have been repealed in 2017"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:17Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Think of all the major policy changes in American history-- things like the Civil Rights Act or Social Security or Medicare or the Sherman Anti-trust Act. These were all major policy shifts. And they all came from Congress. No POTUS could have done it through executive orders"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:19Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"And again they are hard to repeal. All of the stuff President Biden did on trans stuff and DEI and campus rape rules-- REALLY easy to repeal. Just needed a signature from President Trump or maybe even from one of his department heads"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:20Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Everything President Trump is doing on immigration Same thing. Really easy for the next President to just wipe it all out. Easy come easy go. But if you go to Congress and get something passed it can stick. Ideologues and partisans though HATE Congress"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:21Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"The thing ideologues really hate about Congress is to pass bills you have to make deals. Ideologues HATE deals. They'd rather get everything even if it gets struck down or erased by the next POTUS than have to horse-trade and give up stuff they want to get a bill passed"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:23Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Indeed partisan polarization has made this dynamic worse because partisans are constantly telling themselves how terrible the other side is. If you think the Clintons are murderers or President Trump is a fascist that makes the entire notion of cutting a deal seem illegitimate"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:24Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements

"But at the end of the day a lot of people are just wrong on this and stupid about it and grossly immature. Because in the real world a congressional statute where you get 75% of what you want and which is going to remain the law is much better than any executive order"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:25Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"The way I would put it is most judges will render a decision they think is unjust only if the lawyer convinces them they have no choice under the law and will render a decision they think is just unless the lawyer convinces them that they can't. As I regularly tell young lawyers and law students no no judge renders a decision they think is unjust because youve got some F.3d cite a linguistic analysis about the placement of a comma or a study of original public meaning. Judges do what they think is just and As I regularly tell young lawyers and law students no no judge renders a decision they"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:47Z 13.8K followers, 17K engagements

"@steve_vladeck Your legal interpretation (and the dissent's) is correct but come on many of these people are absolutely flight risks. We have tons of people with removal orders who dodge the government and their legal obligation to obey them"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:25Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"This is the correct answer. Made me laugh as a [--] year old in the theater and I never stopped laughing ever since. I still laugh even THINKING about the "shit hitting the fan". Airplane (1980) is one of those comedies where the joke density is so insane youre always missing something. Straight-faced acting nonsense treated like gospel and background gags doing half the work. Rewatchable forever. https://t.co/kdhjWkt77g Airplane (1980) is one of those comedies where the joke density is so insane youre always missing something. Straight-faced acting nonsense treated like gospel and background"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:27Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"One of my questions about what is going to happen in [----] is how they will handle a daytime opening ceremony which I assume NBC will want (so it airs live in prime time in the East). There has not been a daytime ceremony since Nagano in [----]. Organizers prefer night ceremonies. The incredible classic aesthetics of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in [----] https://t.co/o35481XkEL The incredible classic aesthetics of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in [----] https://t.co/o35481XkEL"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:06Z 13.8K followers, 177.6K engagements

"I'm dead serious about this last point. E.g. if it turned out there was a ring of flight attendants on an airline who abused unaccompanied minors who traveled and airline executives who found out about it covered it up this is what we'd demand everyone at the airline do"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:41Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"When child sexual abuse was discovered to be happening under the auspices of the horrendous Joe Paterno and his pedophile assistant coach at the Penn State football team this what we demanded Penn State do. And since it was a state run institution they were forced to do it"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:42Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"The point is we have a roadmap for how to handle it when systematic child abuse is discovered we know how to implement it and what the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world and yes the Pope John Paul II's of the world do is they use their power to prevent us from doing it"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:43Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@jodiecongirl Interestingly the summer Olympics works differently and you will see some developing country runner entered in the womens [---] meters who runs [-----] or something (and the winter Olympics used to do this too e.g. Jamaican bobsleds)"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"it's also wrong. I bought coffee this morning and I was not charged anywhere near the maximum i would pay for coffee. Only a limited number of markets feature that sort of price discrimination. The breeziness with which @superwuster brushes past the interests of the poor in this chat with @ezraklein reflects a transformation of the purpose of progressive economic policy that I find a little disturbing. https://t.co/vxXSgRhTe8 The breeziness with which @superwuster brushes past the interests of the poor in this chat with @ezraklein reflects a transformation of the purpose of progressive"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:31Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@StevenWisdom13 @MrGritty28 it went from 7:30pm to midnight local time. We call that night"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:32Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"The confidence of anti-immigration conservatives that sending ICE troops out to confront people on the streets and in their homes was good politics is one of the greatest political delusions of my lifetime. It's amazing they actually believed that and stuck to the bit so long. Absolutely eye-popping polling on ICE reforms. Body camera requirement is +87 Judicial warrants to enter homes is +50 independent investigations of shootings is at +65. These are off the charts numbers. Democrats have the upper hand. https://t.co/FYL1AWW1ZY Absolutely eye-popping polling on ICE reforms. Body camera"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:39Z 13.9K followers, 27K engagements

"my incredibly brilliant position about the issue of age of consent is that there should be one and if you hook up with someone younger than it you are a sleazeball. If any sexual contact with persons aged [--] or [--] is now presumptively considered "pedophilia" it's really strange that [--] states have chosen to legally enable pedophilia. Do you live for example in Maryland or Nebraska If so you're in the midst of an ongoing pedo crime spree If any sexual contact with persons aged [--] or [--] is now presumptively considered "pedophilia" it's really strange that [--] states have chosen to legally enable"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:00Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"one of the reasons this happens is because silly sports like "big air" were added to the Olympic program Starting one of the most extreme events before the Opening Ceremony and giving out the medals on the very first day before most people have tuned in is one of the worst Olympic scheduling decisions Ive ever seen Starting one of the most extreme events before the Opening Ceremony and giving out the medals on the very first day before most people have tuned in is one of the worst Olympic scheduling decisions Ive ever seen"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:08Z 13.9K followers, 109.7K engagements

"i was at the trials in New Orleans where O'Brien no heighted and got knocked out of the Olympics. Who remembers Dan & Dave https://t.co/lG0NSpmg9S Who remembers Dan & Dave https://t.co/lG0NSpmg9S"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:23Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"2 points: [--]. If you are a famous and rich pop star you aren't a representative of any marginalized community. [--]. While lesbians are of course a marginalized community literally anyone including tons of privileged people can and do call themselves the q-word. Brandi Carlile on singing America the Beautiful at the #SuperBowlLX : "The through line to being queer and being a representative of a marginalized community and being put on the largest stage in America to acknowledge the fraught and tender hope that this country is based https://t.co/AKgYdSa65I Brandi Carlile on singing America the"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:35Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"the q word in practice is used by plenty of c i s straight people. and it is used almost exclusively by highly privileged people- celebrities and their children the elite educated and well off people. it is the precise opposite of a marginalized group"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:45Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"there is no more tired debate than this. she's intersex. she was raised female as many with her condition are. depending on the criteria her condition may make her ineligible for women's boxing. all of the essentialism about what sex she supposedly "really" is is pointless. Imane was born female. That means her chromosomal pattern gonads internal reproductive structures and developmental pathway were all aligned with female sex at birth. She was not male with SRY nor was she born with a condition like 5alphareductase deficiency. Nothing in Imane was born female. That means her chromosomal"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:02Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@DanWolken because figure skating is a long established winter sport"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Breezy Johnson is the best name for an American skiier since Picabo Street. I hope Vonn is OK. Breaking News from @TheAthletic: Breezy Johnson became the first American in [--] years to win the Olympic downhill gold. Her teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed and was airlifted off the course. It was the Americans first medal of these Games. https://t.co/cTYa3IBvPz https://t.co/5KlRgmUw21 Breaking News from @TheAthletic: Breezy Johnson became the first American in [--] years to win the Olympic downhill gold. Her teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed and was airlifted off the course. It was the Americans first"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:25Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"The Gaza war was definitely unpopular. But there's zero evidence that it cost Harris the election. There was a prebaked narrative that was to be rolled out about Muslim voters if Michigan had been the decisive state. But she lost ALL the swing states. Weird dynamic among Democratic talking heads in that the far left and the mainstream left have converged on the unsubstantiated-by-anything-but-feelz view that the Biden administration's moderation on Gaza cost the Democrats the election. 1/ Weird dynamic among Democratic talking heads in that the far left and the mainstream left have converged"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:31Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"wait Springsteen cheated on Patti with a 9/11 widow I don't know that story Springsteen was married three times cheated on his current wife and bandmate with a 9/11 widow admitted to spending too much time (while a global superstar) drinking alone in New Jersey strip clubs had untreated manic depression for [--] years etc. I think they could have made Springsteen was married three times cheated on his current wife and bandmate with a 9/11 widow admitted to spending too much time (while a global superstar) drinking alone in New Jersey strip clubs had untreated manic depression for [--] years etc."
X Link 2026-02-08T14:53Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"the broad point is correct. music biopics suck because copyright law means the people who control the rights to the music (usually the artists or their heirs) won't allow the truth to be depicted. this is why "South Africa" was never mentioned in the Queen pic"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:55Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"this was a tweet from the period when i was trying to convince Democrats that Biden was down in the polls. It is timeless though. Parties need to nominate the best candidate every time and not assume the other side can't win. The lesson of this and [----] is that in a polarized society the other party's candidate ALWAYS has a good chance. Even if they nominate Trump So instead of trying to please constituent groups and the powerful and to avoid conflict parties need to select the best candidate. The lesson of this and [----] is that in a polarized society the other party's candidate ALWAYS has a"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:39Z 13.9K followers, 11.4K engagements

"whatever happened to Olivia Nuzzi"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:24Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@minervas_muse @thornt25628 the category "women's sports" was created for two reasons- inclusion and competitive fairness. whether intersex people should get in depends entirely on which of those two goals you think is important"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:32Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@minervas_muse @thornt25628 the "some women are really tall" argument doesn't work because if you created say a [--] feet and under basketball league (we had one in Burbank when I worked for the parks and rec) it doesn't matter that the criterion didn't exclude other forms of advantage in basketball"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:34Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"fun fact: i live in a majority Hispanic middle class neighborhood now and lived in majority Black South Central LA for [--] years in law school. Again racists are dumb. It is a rigid mode of thinking that fails to understand nuance. @dilanesper Where do you live Dilan Is your neighborhood sufficiently diverse If not opinion discarded. @dilanesper Where do you live Dilan Is your neighborhood sufficiently diverse If not opinion discarded"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:45Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I have been thinking about the policy and politics of immigration a lot lately. And I think both parties are hemmed in by some really bad tendencies. On the Right it's performative cruelty. On the Left it's serving the Groups. I will try and sketch out a third way here"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:04Z 13.9K followers, 10.4K engagements

"In any event that's the basic problem-- the Right is too addicted to cruelty against foreigners and the Left is too in hock to our Groups and too interested in protecting incumbents. So what would a viable popular immigration policy actually look like"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:17Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I think it should be some combination of the following: [--]. We do reasonable amounts of interior enforcement that will catch and deport undocumented immigrants without violence cruelty illegal searches etc. We also use other tools like e-Verify and employer sanctions"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:19Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"At any rate that's my plan. Got a better one"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:30Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Oh one more plank: [--]. All arrestees and people found guilty of any infraction are checked under e-Verify for legal status. Anyone who is not legally in the country goes into removal proceedings and is subject to the detention requirements of (4)"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:33Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The NFL did him dirty. The Super Bowl is being played in Colin Kaepernick's former home stadium at a societal moment that echoes the issues he forced football fans to confront nearly [--] years ago after he kneeled during the national anthem before a 49ers game. https://t.co/TX2l7r7msx The Super Bowl is being played in Colin Kaepernick's former home stadium at a societal moment that echoes the issues he forced football fans to confront nearly [--] years ago after he kneeled during the national anthem before a 49ers game. https://t.co/TX2l7r7msx"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@Noahpinion If you never heard about what happened to Chomsky's generative grammar theories when Daniel Everett discovered the Pirah language and how Chomsky reacted it's an amazing story"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:28Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@RobertOBrien26 He wasn't where he was when he went to the Super Bowl. But you guys are wrong that he was bad. He was better than at least some NFL starters that year"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:53Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@RobertOBrien26 Kaepernick's passer rating was a [----] in [----]. That's higher than several other starters in the league that year-- i.e. he was a qualified starting quarterback"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:57Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@illuminatithot1 @Noahpinion It is true that some linguists are very pissed off that what he discovered refuted the theories of a leftist icon so they have contested what he documented. But those people are being dishonest"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:59Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"This is so laughably wrong. The best football stadium in California is the Rose Bowl. The second best football stadium in California is Memorial Stadium. The best football stadium in California is the Rose Bowl. The second best football stadium in California is Memorial Stadium"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@TrishtheSkeptic @ElectionBabe Correct. But that's the thing-- and BTW Harding faced this too. They just didn't give female skaters enough credit for jump difficulty back then. They had a vision of a dainty little ice princess and they penalized skaters who departed from that ideal"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:23Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements

"this. it really is the worst possible thing economically that you can build. it just sits empty [---] days a year Disagree. NFL stadiums are a giant blank-walled dead zone 95% of the time. Theyre a waste of our extremely limited supply of prime transit-accessible urban land Disagree. NFL stadiums are a giant blank-walled dead zone 95% of the time. Theyre a waste of our extremely limited supply of prime transit-accessible urban land"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:41Z 13.9K followers, 98.5K engagements

"@TrishtheSkeptic @ElectionBabe It wasn't "all about the artistry1" but it was the case that they didn't like skaters who didn't fit their stereotype of what a skater should be. Lipinski obviously did win on her technical skill but. she also fit judges' stereotypes a lot more than Bonaly/Ito/Harding"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:36Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"This is complete crap. For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than [--] years whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than [--] years whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:36Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@hackerjay They claim that but their own website seems inconsistent with that. It's very possible that like most football stadium owners they lie about this. https://www.caesarssuperdome.com/events https://www.caesarssuperdome.com/events"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:02Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Love that-- the Seattle owner thanked Santa Clara for hosting us. Not San Francisco"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:39Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I'd love to see a country show-- we could have Shaboozey Garth Brooks Willie Nelson and Kane Brown for instance. But-- the NFL prefers acts with international appeal now that they are marketing the game globally. The last country music Super Bowl Halftime showfeaturing Travis Tritt Clint Black The Judds and Tanya Tucker. Its been over [--] years (1994) without a country music artist for the Halftime show. https://t.co/fyDbUEYYj2 The last country music Super Bowl Halftime showfeaturing Travis Tritt Clint Black The Judds and Tanya Tucker. Its been over [--] years (1994) without a country music"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:46Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@andrewmartonik Lumen Field is not full a large percentage of the year. Indeed it would cause huge problems for the Mariners next door if it were. Lumen is a little better than most because it has the MLS team. But MLS franchises demand NOT to play in NFL stadiums. https://www.lumenfield.com/events-tickets/event-calendar https://www.lumenfield.com/events-tickets/event-calendar"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:54Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@PoliticsAndEd None of them host more than mid-double digits of events per year (despite what they claim). And most MLS teams demand public financing for a soccer specific stadium"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:55Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"It's pretty shocking the replies to this. One guy said the Cowboys stadium hosts [---] events a year. The Superdome which hosts MAYBE [--] falsely claims it hosts [---]. These stadiums publish their calendars They are largely empty this. it really is the worst possible thing economically that you can build. it just sits empty [---] days a year this. it really is the worst possible thing economically that you can build. it just sits empty [---] days a year"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:56Z 13.9K followers, 56.3K engagements

"People really WANT to believe that new football stadiums are big moneymakers probably because they think they are cool and want their football teams to build them. But no they really are basically empty hulks"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:58Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Everytime I watch Olympic figure skating I am just amazed watching women landing triple axels. More amazed than even watching the men land their quads. It's astounding that these women can do the [--] 1/2 turns and land cleanly"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@SeekJustice117 Ricky Martin is [--] years ago and Lady Gaga is more than [--] and they supported Bad Bunny today"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:13Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@NavinFS Unless you are just talking about having humans live on the moon for a few weeks or something doing nothing and then coming back and wasting a ton of money a "moon base" isn't an actual thing humans can safely do"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:15Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The Chinese government sucks. And the people who admire it also suck. BREAKING: Jimmy Lai the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing is sentenced to [--] years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law. https://t.co/YE6s2IJw1X BREAKING: Jimmy Lai the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing is sentenced to [--] years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law. https://t.co/YE6s2IJw1X"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:19Z 13.9K followers, 41.4K engagements

"@SeekJustice117 Lady Gaga is irrelevant. The Grammys are old people's music"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:49Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@rohitjoycpa @EditrixLane Kane Brown is your headliner"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:51Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"I have to say Americans' aversion to foreign languages is real (they hate pressing [--] for English and a lot of the Bad Bunny criticisms come down to people disliking Spanish) and also one of the dumbest things about our country. How paranoid and shallow we are about this"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:20Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The Palestinian Cause has deliberately politicized the human rights movement (their theory is that if enough human rights lawyers declare Israeli actions to be crimes against humanity the Palestinians will get to take over Israel) and this does enormous damage to human rights. Israeli historian and antizionist token Omer Bartov didnt like it when I exposed how other antizionist scholars were pressuring him to legitimize the genocide libel under threat of professional exclusion. No one wants to see the dark underside of the antizionist https://t.co/caC5Vr5Shj Israeli historian and antizionist"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:56Z 13.9K followers, 20.4K engagements

"But maybe you respond to that with "it's a partnership not a corporation". Do you believe that though. Let's say it's a chain of three coffee shops owned by a corporation and the CEO of the corporation is the person whose brother supposedly slept with the guy's wife"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:11Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Is your argument that by taking the corporate form the shareholders consented to subjecting themselves to arbitrary government action that would have been unconstitutional if they had formed a partnership instead And what if was a limited partnership Or an LLC"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"And really does anyone think that book publishers have no free speech rights If the government wants to force Simon & Schuster to publish a book or prohibit it from publishing a book based on its viewpoint we all agree that violates the First Amendment right"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:18Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Same with newspapers. Newspapers are almost always published by corporate entities. Does The New York Times Company have no free speech or free press rights How about Fox News or MSNOW If they don't have them it seems to me we've carved a massive hole in the First Amendment"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:20Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The last move people advancing the "corporations have no rights" argument make is the'll say "well OK obviously corporations whose primary business is religion or news have First Amendment rights but that doesn't mean Coca-Cola should have them". But that doesn't work either"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:21Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"So what then about Citizens United the case that "gave corporations free speech rights". It did no such thing-- an easy way to see this is to think of the famous cases that were captioned "New York Times Co. v. _____" such as the Sullivan libel case and the Pentagon Papers"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:25Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Corporations have really had constitutional rights since [----] when Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R.R. was decided. It's not something Citizens United invented. What Citizens United did was apply this doctrine to a badly written campaign finance law"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:26Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Amazingly for all the discourse surrounding Citizens United very few people seem to know the facts of the case. It was a simple case-- Citizens United was yes a corporation which was formed by anti-Hillary Clinton activists to make a movie about her in an election year"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:28Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"McCain-Feingold the bipartisan campaign finance bill barred speech about the candidates by corporations within a certain number of days of the election. The notion which TBC was plausible is that this sort of speech can really be a campaign contribution and they're limited"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:29Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"But the problem is while sure in the real world it absolutely could be a disguised campaign contribution take a step back. It's a bunch of people who want to make a movie about how bad Hillary Clinton is when she's running for office. That's protected speech"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:30Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"At the end of the day corporate personhood and Citizens United do not exist because of some nefarious plot by right wing SCOTUS justices to give corporations more rights than people. They exist because without them legislatures could do serious damage to INDIVIDUAL rights"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:37Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Once again all of this is complete BS. Mars will start in [--] or [--] years so will be done in parallel with the Moon but the Moon will be the initial focus Mars will start in [--] or [--] years so will be done in parallel with the Moon but the Moon will be the initial focus"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:46Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Stewart was wrong about Crossfire. To be clear of course Crossfire was a silly show where people yelled at each other. But Crossfire was also a venue where liberals and conservatives talked to each other. And we have lost something when we lost those venues. Jon Stewart's most viral moment is going on Crossfire and confronting Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for producing substanceless theater. [--] years later that criticism could just as easily be leveled against himself. https://t.co/NhOX08gBXk Jon Stewart's most viral moment is going on Crossfire and confronting Tucker Carlson and Paul"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:48Z 13.9K followers, 87K engagements

"@CoreyWriting And obviously if Taylor Swift wanted to do it Jay-Z would agree to have her do it in a New York Minute"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:49Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"This is silly. NBC could have just had someone else host the Olympics for a few days (or had someone else announce the Super Bowl). It looks like NBC chartered two Bombardier Global [----] private jets to transport Mike Tirico and others from the Super Bowl to the Olympics. They left California at 1:30 am local time and will land at [--] pm in Milan roughly [----] miles and 10+ hours of total travel time. https://t.co/vvZ43dVLKV It looks like NBC chartered two Bombardier Global [----] private jets to transport Mike Tirico and others from the Super Bowl to the Olympics. They left California at 1:30 am"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:57Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@vrilainy I think generic statements like this at airy levels of generality are bad arguments"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:08Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@AltFemKG a "compelling state interest" isn't a magical phrase that automatically permits government censorship every time you utter it. WHAT is the interest specifically served by banning a movie about Hillary Clinton And is banning the movie the least restrictive means to achieve it"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:45Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@MyersVince6621 The First Amendment says nothing about democracy. That's something people inserted into it. It also says nothing about what types of speech are protected. We can use tradition and legal reasoning to create categories of unprotected speech but they should be narrow"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:24Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@MyersVince6621 So no I think a test that says speech is only protected when it is "good for democracy" is essentially repealing the First Amendment without having the votes for a constitutional amendment. Free speech means people have a right to make movies criticizing Hillary Clinton"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:25Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@AltFemKG @davidgaw So the expenditures language isn't necessary for the holding of Citizens United and it also isn't what people mean when they get mad at SCOTUS for saying "corporations are persons". But to take on expenditures since Buckley v. Valeo expenditure limits have been unconstitutional"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:30Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"If you want a political example of sanewashing see all the people talking about basing rights in Greenland and a need for greater US influence when POTUS was proposing we just take it over and eject Denmark"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:51Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"So this is a shift in televised entertainment that not only is happening at the Super Bowl but also at the Olympics opening ceremony as well. Watch recent cauldron lightings versus what they did in the past and you will see it. I rewatched Princes iconic Super Bowl halftime show from [----] and one difference that jumped out at meother than the massive disparity in talent was that Prince was performing for a live audience rather than for the cameras. Bad Bunnys performance might as well have been https://t.co/Y8HPAbHeOE I rewatched Princes iconic Super Bowl halftime show from [----] and one"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:08Z 13.9K followers, 17.2K engagements

"It shouldn't surprise anyone that this is happening-- after all the folks who pay to see these events are essentially mostly rich people engaged in status competition rather than people who demand the best view of the action"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:08Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Compare it to the last [--] minutes of this from Paris in [----]. This is a TV show. There's nobody present seeing this. Nobody's running and relaying the torch or running up to the cauldron to light it. https://youtu.be/MwOZNRArDuIt=189 https://youtu.be/MwOZNRArDuIt=189"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:13Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"And here's [----]. Same thing. This is a TV show. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=N7vBnBdqB7s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=N7vBnBdqB7s"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:14Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"FWIW one of the underrated skills of Richard Nixon was he was really good at making conservatives think he was a conservative and moderates think he was a moderate. That's hard to do. This discourse never ends because Harris had cautious instincts and a less-progressive-than-thou record. until she started angling for the [----] nomination when she was pushed from left and responded with concessions/new stances. Then in [----] she tried to undo that. https://t.co/rSZsObLXf0 This discourse never ends because Harris had cautious instincts and a less-progressive-than-thou record. until she started"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:23Z 13.9K followers, 14.8K engagements

"Question: who are these voters who think AOC is on the far right and who are these voters who think JD Vance is on the far left"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:33Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@colorblindk1d My point is even with Harris there's a bunch of voices saying "we CAN'T flip flop we'll be accused of flip flopping". And that's terrible advice. Go ahead and flip flop Try to get closer to the median voter"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:43Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"bookmark this tweet. this will not happen. the military is not going to be sent in to seize ballots in November and this sort of fearmongering is monstrously irresponsible. Over the past three weeks the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible https://t.co/4eZNLzgjSX https://t.co/EPJzVhqPqN Over the past three weeks the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible https://t.co/4eZNLzgjSX https://t.co/EPJzVhqPqN"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:15Z 13.9K followers, 107.9K engagements

"@EggplantOmlet About [--] or [--] different checks"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:46Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"It's worth asking conservatives what they actually think Puerto Rico should be. I imagine they wouldn't favor ceding the territory and giving it independence given what we just heard from them on Greenland. So if it's part of the US the Spanish they speak there is American These situations whatever you think of them are dis-analogous. Italians coming to America from Italy were immigrants who spoke a native tongue non-indigenous to their new home. The United States took Puerto Rico and its Spanish speaking population from Spain in the Spanish These situations whatever you think of them are"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:00Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

""Tariffs on China have been set at [--] [--] [--] [---] and [--] percent in just the last few months." Here's a free link to me in @nytimes today: "No one wished events would prove libertarians wrong more than libertarians themselves." https://t.co/o11HScMrpk Here's a free link to me in @nytimes today: "No one wished events would prove libertarians wrong more than libertarians themselves." https://t.co/o11HScMrpk"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:06Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@stillreezy Under a law Hong Kongers never asked for and the Communists insisted upon"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:44Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"As I indicated when I did all my threads about how old and decrepit Biden was we face major dangers that the current occupant of the office is old and doddering and has diminished capacity as well. This is truly unhinged. Trump in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup." https://t.co/2ZbUmF1P7O Trump in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:57Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"This again is BS. SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩 SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:58Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"If there's a hotel within walking distance to a stadium (surrounded by a parking lot) they should build the walkways necessary (including underpass/overpass) so that you can make the walk. I'm shocked they didn't given all the public funds that went into the stadium. genuinely horrific and dystopian https://t.co/rVIXs2iUSr genuinely horrific and dystopian https://t.co/rVIXs2iUSr"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:01Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Satarized brilliantly in the Simpsons. The [----] WHEN THE US WINS YOU WIN promotion was an unexpectedly costly one for McDonalds when the Soviet Union and [--] eastern bloc countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in LA and the US dominated in unprecedented fashion. [---] medals [--] golds thats a lot of Big Macs https://t.co/V7Mxy7oXzC The [----] WHEN THE US WINS YOU WIN promotion was an unexpectedly costly one for McDonalds when the Soviet Union and [--] eastern bloc countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in LA and the US dominated in unprecedented fashion. [---] medals [--] golds thats a lot of Big Macs"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"A couple of things a lot of people don't understand because you get likes and retweets by dooming on Twitter: [--]. January [--] didn't reverse the election and had no chance of doing so if Mike Pence had not certified the vote. [--]. POTUS says lots of things he doesn't actually do"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:04Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Honestly liberal doomers should have opposed John Eastman's disbarment. After all they buy into his dumb legally unsupported belief that it is possible for the President to reverse the result of an election. They think he's a brilliant lawyer rather than a craven moron"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:06Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"In the real world however things that can't happen won't happen. POTUS can certain make a stink at an election result and he could even do some real harm (as happened January 6) but he can't "overturn democracy". The elections will be fair and liberals need to stop it"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:07Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The basic narrative they taught you in school is correct-- we went to the moon [--] times found there was absolutely nothing there and no reason to be there completely inhospitable to humans far away and immensely expensive and dangerous to go. So we stopped going"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:10Z 13.9K followers, 20.5K engagements

"If Elon Musk wants to send people there I suppose he can try but it will still be dangerous and expensive and it will accomplish nothing. Essentially our lunar colonists will be bored out of their mind in a small prison-like structure that is difficult to escape"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:12Z 13.9K followers, 14.9K engagements

"The basic problem of all of this is that there is a fundamental disconnect between science fiction and reality. In science fiction celestial bodies are interesting places with alien civilizations and humans travel to them at faster than the speed of light with earth-like comfort"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:13Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"In the real world outer space is dead there's nothing worth going to see travel is prohibitively expensive to the moon and completely impossible for humans to go to Mars or anywhere else for numerous reasons and conditions would be appalling if we tried"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:14Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"And thus we may be destined to waste a ton of money getting some humans killed for no reason as they discover absolutely nothing of any importance to humanity and in the end the species will be stuck on the earth anyway because it's not possible for us to actually go elsewhere"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:16Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"As I said the public is spot on about all of this. I don't think it's because they have necessarily thought through how silly it all is but they can at least tell that there's nothing exciting about going back to a dead satellite a half century after we correctly abandoned it"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:17Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@HoustonHizzoner The problem is all the "explorers" grew up watching Star Trek and thus believe in things that cannot actually be done"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:19Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@CadessborX That's BS. We developed satellites independent of the lunar program. And the advances of the space program was all stuff we were going to develop anyway plus that was [--] years ago and the space program now develops NOTHING useful"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:20Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@dhacker615 Yep. The world where space is "the final frontier" and humans go off and explore a galaxy full of alien civilizations is more interesting than reality. That's why science fiction portrays it that way But in the real world we have one home and we need to take good care of it"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:23Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Wait a second the guy complaining about a halftime show supposedly full of provocative gyrating women is named OGLES Really 🚨The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts women gyrating provocatively and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his https://t.co/wcWTofhQQn 🚨The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:24Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@IanWare98 @LLunaTrexing Sigh. He has repeatedly NOT followed through with stuff. And January [--] was a failure Because a President actually can't successfully do the stuff you are dooming about"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:29Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"is this going to boot Wasserman out of running the Olympics Chappell Roan is leaving the Wasserman agency following revelations about founder and CEO Casey Wassermans ties to Jeffrey Epstein: "As of today I am no longer represented by Wasserman the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman. I hold my team to the highest standards and have https://t.co/yMC2nNMH0W Chappell Roan is leaving the Wasserman agency following revelations about founder and CEO Casey Wassermans ties to Jeffrey Epstein: "As of today I am no longer represented by Wasserman the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman. I hold my"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:29Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"my overly nuanced opinion is that Oswald acted alone but JFK is an excellent movie. "Donald Sutherland was perfect in 'JFK' (1991); hes the fastest-talking actor I know and his scene has fifteen pages of dialogue. He did it in nine and a half minutes very quickly." --- Oliver Stone Full Excerpt: "Interviewer: You used famous actors: Jack Lemmon Walter https://t.co/O1GSH0XDNP "Donald Sutherland was perfect in 'JFK' (1991); hes the fastest-talking actor I know and his scene has fifteen pages of dialogue. He did it in nine and a half minutes very quickly." --- Oliver Stone Full Excerpt:"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:36Z 13.9K followers, 10.8K engagements

"i don't think this is true as written but there's definitely going to be a project to try to avoid sharing wealth if AI spikes the unemployment rate. I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:08Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@StanBaldwin67 @TheRestHistory Amadeus is one of my all time favorite movies. I am pretty good at the whole "separate art from the truth" thing"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:22Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@SanchoPanzy @StanBaldwin67 @TheRestHistory i saw Amadeus when it came out in the theater at age [--] with my father. It was the first movie i really interacted with the way an adult consumes movies or literature. It was actually an important experience to me"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:24Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements

"We know that information (which includes human beings) cannot travel at faster than light and that as you approach light speed the energy requirements are beyond anything we have access to. That means no gallavanting around the galaxy no Star Trek period"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:37Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"We know that the only way to propel objects even moderately long distances involves complex astrodynamics which means narrow launch windows. You can't just hop in your spacecraft and head to Mars let alone anywhere else"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:38Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"These are not unknowns like the people who didn't know how you could achieve powered flight or who thought oceanfarers might fall of the end of the Earth. These are things we KNOW. Elon Musk's money can't overcome them"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:41Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I know people overuse "a religion" as an epithet. Saying stuff like "wokeness is a religion" or "Darwinism is a religion". But the folks who are really super into human space exploration are the closest thing to this sort of secular "religion". It's beliefs without evidence"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:42Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"And it is based on childhood dreams. It's all the people who were super into science fiction as a kid convinced that it must be real and that humans will conquer the universe the way conquistadores conquered the New World. But it's not real. It's not rational"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:44Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"It is a form of irrational belief system that appeals to people who think of themselves as rational. But it's not true. The material world doesn't deliver things you want just because you desperately want them"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:45Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Ryanasaurus i didn't pay for my check mark"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:47Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"this is false. at best human space exploration (1) accelerated things that we were going to invent anyway and (2) innovated a bunch of stuff that is only useful for further space exploration. It's never good when the talking points are BS. @dilanesper Space exploration created so many innovations benefitting our society today. You couldn't be more off base. @dilanesper Space exploration created so many innovations benefitting our society today. You couldn't be more off base"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@901Gregory the things i mentioned in my thread about energy light speed relativity and astrodymamics are laws of physics that ARE complete. The claims that there are ways around them are part of the irrational wishful thinking religion here"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:14Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Just to be clear if your position is "physics are incomplete Einstein was wrong we'll go faster than light" that IS just religion for scifi nerds. The hypotheticals people have conjured up to do that ("speculative physics") are themselves motivated reasoning. @901Gregory the things i mentioned in my thread about energy light speed relativity and astrodymamics are laws of physics that ARE complete. The claims that there are ways around them are part of the irrational wishful thinking religion here. @901Gregory the things i mentioned in my thread about energy light speed relativity and"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:16Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

"If you choose not to enforce a subset of laws at all everyone who violates those laws will know that's what you are doing. This doesn't mean you have to have a Gestapo to enforce every petty law. But it does mean you have to try"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:52Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"One example of a culture of impunity that I am quite aware of is that for [--] years or more the LAPD simply has simply never done drug busts of celebrities' homes and parties even though everyone knows that massive amounts of drugs are being consumed"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:53Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@thornt25628 No matter how many times you guys say it whatever the other side is doing is no permission slip to espouse ignorant vicious bigotry"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:59Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Wow. Good for Vance actually (especially for attending the ceremony) and bad for the folks who took it down. Vice President Vances office deleted this tweet that broke with administration policy in its acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide. 1/ https://t.co/IJP7U9a95A Vice President Vances office deleted this tweet that broke with administration policy in its acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide. 1/ https://t.co/IJP7U9a95A"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:15Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements

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