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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How many shirts do you wear when you turn yourself in to federal authorities?
Already been normalized. We've become numb.
And the answer is... three plus a jacket

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15 Nov
Lots of things now are abnormal, but a VP whose staff squabbles with the White House and worries about their lackluster image is about as normal as it gets.
PS As Jim Stimson points out, VPs always seem to lack independence and stature until they run on their own, which shifts their image substantially (GHWB, Gore). It seems to be a reflection of the (largely powerless) office and the way it is covered.
Indeed
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30 Oct
WTF: “The ban is an extraordinary limit on speech that raises questions of academic freedom and First Amendment rights.”
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28 Oct
Shades of the extremist backlash to Clinton that helped lead to Oklahoma City and Ruby Ridge. Put on the air by Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch and the Fox board.
At some point, people who aren’t in on the grift are going to start taking Trump, Carlson, and their kind literally and/or seriously. And tragedy will result
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26 Oct
Internal docs showing pernicious political/management influence on Facebook content moderation decisions
politico.com/news/2021/10/2… embed.documentcloud.org/documents/2109…
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Facebook features Breitbart on its platform due to external political pressure despite its own data showing it is low-quality and low trust wsj.com/articles/faceb…
And the stuff in other countries is... nytimes.com/2021/10/23/tec… cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
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25 Oct
Discouraging result given this positive nudge finding in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… - worth trying to disentangle why effects so different. Simple story is unvaccinated population is more resistant in mid-2021 than early 2021 as most persuadable folks already got vaccinated.
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21 Oct
Shooting things in ads is quickly becoming passé. MTG already ostensibly blew up a car with a .50 cal. How far are we from tanks, missiles, etc.?
Reverse Daisy to come
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