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"History tells you about how people in the past stood up to things like this... So I think when we look at history, we can find a lot of inspiration to continue the work that we're doing.” The students are so much better than the institutions that are failing them.

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I've heard execs/Wall St analysts take comfort in fact that consumer spending has held up even as consumer views of the economy are tanking. After all, revealed preferences matter! But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):

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Perfect.

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Miserable weather today in San Francisco. Here's a live glimpse of everyone suffering in Hayes Valley.

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In 2020, the #Virginia General Assembly passed my bill defining transition-related care as medically necessary and prohibits health insurers from discriminating against trans people seeking care. That is Virginia law — not an illegal executive order blocked in court nor what this mess claims to be.

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i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

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🎵 How many rights, can a man take away Before you call him a fraud? How many lies can a President say And still claim he's chosen by God? Yes and how many times must the mnokey shit fly? Before they admit he's a clod? The answer my friend, is blowin' Putin. The answer is blowin' Putin. 🎵

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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

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hey now here’s some war plans get your bombs out go play hey now it’s the group chat here’s some spy names let’s go get played

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Sheesh, PSA y’all.

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Brilliant

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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

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Between yesterday's hearing about the deportation flights before Judge Boasberg, today's unhinged Trump post attacking him and Roberts's response, and the decision that just came out enjoining Musk and DOGE re USAID, we're about to find out just how big of a constitutional crisis we're in.

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things are so bad that if you just tell people factually what's going on, you sound like a maniac ranting on a street corner, so at this point when people ask me how things are I just shake my head, look at the floor, and pour us both a drink

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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

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I think it's nice that for women's month they've brought out a lady with a punchable face, it's usually just the men

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Friends, I very highly recommend these accessible, concise lessons from @carlbergstrom.com and Jevin D. West if you need to explain to anyone what LLMs/AI are, what their pitfalls are, and why they cannot be said to "think." Read it yourself even to be ready for these convos thebullshitmachines.com

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This is the tweet of 2025. We will return to it again and again.

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yes yes yes www.404media.co/the-digital-...

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my student: the ides of March are coming up me: my student: the Senate has the chance to do the funniest thing possible, that’s all I’m saying

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Absolutely priceless!

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Hello Virginia

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Good advice, but use Duck Duck Go instead of Google.

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

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You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.