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Newport Beach, CA
Joined November 2007
Mehdi Hasan fundamentally does not believe in democracy
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.” I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…
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The Left loves confrontational protest and hates incremental policy gains, so the fact that confrontational protest tends to be unpopular and incremental policy gains tend to be popular is a problem for them.
Yglesias is just correct here. Hasan is quoting a bunch of stats about how elements of the civil rights *protest movement* were unpopular, but the actual law was not.
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The Soviet Union once single handedly drove several whale species to the brink of extinction because murdering them pointlessly was the best way to fulfil the fishing quotas set by communist bureaucrats in metric tonnes.
“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986
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According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
This book is really damning for Kushner. It claims the UAE paid Kushner $50 million to get Rex Tillerson fired as Secretary of State.
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a guide to the many twitters
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i like the idea of twitter no longer being a platform but a concept, shattered across time and space
a guide to the many twitters
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This November experience The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth at the New Beverly in spectacular 35mm! Plus, Bogdanovich & Boorman, Ann Harding rarities, and much more! Share with friends and let us know what you're most excited to see. [Cliff Booth tickets on sale 11/2]
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Obama may actually be a 4d chessmaster, getting this idiot to spend the last week telling everyone about all the expensive interior decorating he's been doing while gas in $4-5 bucks a gallon.
Trump appears hurt by Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke: I've taken care of the White House. I have fixed it with the finest artisans in the world. The exterior plaster was broken, cracked. And the painting was terrible. I've re-skinned the building beautifully. The White House is beautiful.
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what's obviously behind the "wokeness" discourse is that relatively esoteric academic theory from the 1970s and 80s got dumped on people who had no context for it in the 2010s
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reactionaries hollowed out the American soft power apparatus that was used to flip past Brazilian elections specifically bc they’re too stupid to understand that the woke USAID facade was the velvet glove concealing the iron fist of American hegemony. you need both to do this
USAID probably could've stolen that election for bolsonaro, if only the evil leftists in charge of the US hadn't dismantled it
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dying that Bessent got to do this one. A man who has a home in Provincetown would never hang with the "Martha's Vineyard set."
Bessent cooks Obama after dining at the Cheesecake Factory: "This is the man who built the museum that looks like Darth Vader’s tomb... I had a great meal, and I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try." 😭
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Communists can’t help themselves, they just love purges.
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Zooey Deschanel does the best Crumbl cookie review I’ve seen. She basically said “nope, nope, hell no, wtf is this, absolutely not, nope. I hate these cookies” 🤣🤣🤣 I love her 🤣🤣🤣
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Coolest thing Walter Koenig did was fail to tell anyone Chekhov wasn't in Space Seed during the production of Wrath of Khan.
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Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans? Here’s what the data show washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
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I also love that being compared to Saddam Hussein just rolled off Trump’s and every other Republicans’ back. That was the actual insult guys!
Who could've guessed the joke would've baited Trump into spending the last week of the election talking more about his White House renovations?
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I think there's a lot to be said for the theory that the WNBA enjoyed being, more or less, a subsidized social club for lesbian athletes and doesn't actually like their newfound spike in popularity.
Game 6 of 2026 WNBA Finals to Be Played at State Farm Arena on Thursday, October 29 at 12:30 P.M. ET
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Who could've guessed the joke would've baited Trump into spending the last week of the election talking more about his White House renovations?
A butthurt Trump copes by defending the Cheesecake Factory: "I fix things very good, very beautifully and I always build beautiful and inexpensive... He said, this isn't a Cheesecake Factory, can you believe it, which is a very successful company... He doesn't like successful companies"
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