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Aug 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
August 1920 - American swimmer Ethelda Bleibtrey, age 18, at the Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. She won all three women's events at the Games that year. #100yearsago Image
Ethelda Bleibtrey took up swimming to recover from polio. In 1919, she was arrested for "public nudity" for taking off her stockings to swim at Manhattan Beach. The resulting public outrage changed prevailing attitudes about women's bathing attire. #100yearsago Image

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Nov 7
I no longer feel like I belong in this country. On a deeply personal level, its values are no longer my values, as they once were. My persistence in it feels increasingly strange and unwelcome.
This is not some angry declaration. The feeling perplexes me, more than anything else.
I say this as someone who served in the military, worked in politics, and spoke proudly and fondly of our country while living abroad.
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Nov 6
Well, so it has come to pass. I cannot say I am surprised, because I did see it coming, but it is saddening nonetheless. I will not say much, because I don't trust myself to. But I do think this nation has made a grave mistake. How grave, we shall only learn in time.
This is not the country that I spent a lifetime, at home and abroad, loving and defending. It is something else, and what exactly that means for me I cannot yet say.
I'm cautious about sayihg what I really feel right now, especially on this platform, because I know it would be mocked. And that, itself, is a symptom of what I see, the glee that many now take in other Americans' sadness and fear. We are remaking ourselves in his image.
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Oct 29
Then you're a fool. We have a democratic republic. I've been a limited-government conservative Republican my whole life. In fact, some of my major criticisms of Trump are that he is too much a big-government interventionist in the economy.
This inanity about "the US is not a democracy, it's a republic" is getting way too prevalent. The US has a republican form of government - as does China and North Korea. Unlike them, it is democratic in that it derives its authority from the consent of the governed.
"The US is not a democracy, it's a republic" is a line that comes from the old John Birch Society (which was drummed out of the mainstream Republican Party because of its extreme conspiratorial views) based on a very ignorant reading of how the Founders used the term democracy.
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Oct 25
If Musk tried to withhold Starlink services to aid a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, our Defense Dept should sit him down and tell him he going to restore it or the U.S. government is appropriating the company in the interests of national security. Full stop.
I’m usually for the U.S. government taking a hands-off approach to business, but we’re talking about a wartime scenario that would almost certainly involve the U.S. in a peer-to-peer conflict and there’d be no room for fooling around.
And quite frankly if he was having conversations with any adversary country about it that would be very problematic in and of itself.
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Sep 11
1. There are times when a thread makes so many important mistakes and feeds into so many misconceptions that it's worthwhile to address it point by point. My apologies.
2. It is true that Trump's tariffs against China were ostensibly imposed for the purpose of forcing China to alter it own unfair trade practices - in large part because the President's legal authority to levy special tariffs requires him to cite this as the reason.
3. However, it was unclear from the start what the "ask" was from China - what exactly the Trump Admin wanted China to do that would allow the tariffs to be lifted. And Trump repeatedly talked about tariffs being good and beneficial in their own right.
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Jul 27
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem. As someone who used to analyze and “summarize” these bills for Congress, let me explain …
The reason the bills are “mammoth” is that they includes hundreds, even thousands of legislative changes on a wide variety of unrelated topics. Basically a “bill of bills”.
Where AI could help us by offering some context to what these often small changes actually mean, in terms of policy. Often it’s hard to understand what changing “and” to “or” in Clause 81 of Title II refers to or the impact it could have.
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