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9 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
"ceaseless assemblage of negotiations and compromises."

Is it like Thesaurus day or something? This is incredibly awkward usage
For the English nerds:

"ceaseless" connotes something happening over time

"assemblage" has nothing to do with time

Better word choice would be "ceaseless procession"
Even better word choice would be "endless negotiations and compromises."

Omit needless words
Moreover using "assemblage" to refer to something that isn't "assembled" in some way is quite awkward
Bingo

Whenever I see awkward usage of big words, I immediately think two things about the writer: 1) they used a thesaurus 2) they are insecure about their own intelligence

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10 Apr
Any Dem who has even the slightest issue with what Tucker Carlson said recently should take it up with Julian Castro ImageImageImage
Democrats have 1) gloated about how immigration will turn states blue and 2) advanced policies to decriminalize illegal immigration

They do not like Texas' electorate - and rather than persuade Texans, they seek to change the composition of that electorate
And as Tucker explained, this isn't about *race*

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Instead, Democrats seek to use non-citizens to disenfranchise citizens
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David French wrote a whole column whining about Justice Thomas' brilliant Big Tech opinion

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If social media moderation decisions are free speech - EVEN in the face of laws like section 230 that explicitly say the platform is not the speaker - then any act of exclusion is free speech

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Hi @davidfolkenflik!

Are you going to apologize for this bs hit piece on @EmmaJoNYC, suggesting her massive scoop on Hunter Biden's laptop was disinformation?

Because you certainly owe her one

npr.org/2020/10/17/924…
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8 Apr
I think this is going to get cross-examined into oblivion

It's a snapshot, you can't see where Chauvin's other knee is, and it looks like he's leaning a little bit to one side (which is enough to take a LOT of the weight off of the other side
Also this is an area where the prosecution expert doesn't really have expertise

What in his training gives him the ability to analyze a photo and figure out how weight was distributed?
This was also the moment where I realized how ideological the expert was

He was on solid ground talking about how the knee in the back and the handcuffs being pushed into the mans back could constrain his breathing

But this is just spitballing, and Nelson will catch it
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Today is a crucial day in the Derek Chauvin Trial

Prosecutors just called their first medical expert witness: Martin Tobin, a pulmonologist working at Loyola University Medical Center

Expect him to testify that George Floyd did not die of an overdose

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7 Apr
Wow

Chauvin's lawyer just played a short excerpt of George Floyd - while being held on the ground - screaming out "Ahhh! I ate too many drugs!"

This trial shouldn't be happening
UPDATE: Here's the video

You don't understand the defense at all

Drug use isn't the justification

It undermines *causation*

Chauvin didn't cause Floyd's death, an overdose did

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