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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Being struck by a vehicle on a bridge: bad

Opening fire on the bridge in response: ???????
Here's a video. Seems like a heck of a lot of shots fired in a lane crowded with cars
Police have plenty of resources to apprehend suspects, which they eventually did in this instance. But a lot of people seem to take great pleasure in the state bypassing all due process and just executing suspects on the spot

But I'm sure all the internet tough guys would've been just fine with a hail of bullets flying right past you, if you'd been sitting one car over
I'm not making any assumptions, beyond my pre-existing assumption that opening fire on a crowded bridge is dangerous and there's a high bar to justify it. Others seem to be making the assumption that unloading the hail of gunfire was obviously justified

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30 Nov
Is @TwitterSafety barring the posting of photos taken at public events, so long as "activists" or "women" can claim they've endured "emotional harm" by the photos being posted? Image
There's ostensibly a carve-out in the rule for "public interest," but of course it's now up to Twitter moderators to determine when media of this kind "adds value to public discourse" and when it doesn't -- an extremely vague standard that I'm sure will be enforced "equitably" Image
Twitter just made this clarification (which they strangely forgot to include in the post announcing the policy) but caveats it as applying "generally" to "large-scale protests" -- so we'll have to see how that works in practice 🙄
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26 Nov
Alright the "Get Back" documentary is, as expected, a goldmine. For decades, Beatles junkies could only dream of seeing this footage. To give just one example, you watch them literally introduce and work out the structure of "Let it Be" in real-time, complete with amusing banter
The mythology that John + Paul were at each other's throats during this period just gets exploded when you see their enthusiastic collaboration, constant jokes, low-key cheeky demeanor, etc. They always said the "feud" narrative was largely a media creation and now there's proof
Love when Billy Preston arrives Image
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24 Nov
How AOC "Emotionally Manipulated" The Entire Democratic Party To Do Her Bidding mtracey.substack.com/p/how-aoc-emot…
Few seemed to notice, but the censure resolution passed in the House last week at AOC's behest was the first time in 100 years that a censure was issued to punish speech. AOC's whole paradigm now dictates what is officially deemed by Congress to be "indecent and obscene" speech
Trying to popularize this saying on Twitter. "The drama is the point." Maybe the Atlantic will let me write a histrionic essay coining it
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23 Nov
You'd think constantly being in a state of extreme psychological distress about US politics wouldn't be such a great testament to the analytical acuity of a professional political columnist, but I guess times have changed
This has been going on for years with Michelle Goldberg: a never-ending cycle of psychic turmoil that serves as the impetus for her New York Times columns. Is lacking the ability to regulate one's emotions supposed to be an admirable quality in a professional political columnist?
In 2016, Michelle Goldberg confessed that Trump had "poisoned her dreams" and was causing her to regularly wake up in the middle of the night panicked with "agitated horror." Totally seems like a psychological disposition conducive to grounded, rational political analysis
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22 Nov
You'd have to actually read the report to discover this, but after 8 months of investigating and $5 million in public funds, NY Assembly investigators conspicuously chose NOT to opine on the veracity of the Cuomo "victims" who prompted the whole investigation in the first place!
This whole affair was launched due to the claims of Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett, who admit to having coordinated with one another to launch a PR offensive. Both were highly suspect, but Bennett in particular was later revealed to have previously fabricated allegations
Boylan and Bennett -- again, the very people who prompted this entire investigation in the first place -- were subsequently proclaimed "credible" by the AG Letitia James last August. Now the Assembly investigators omit any judgment as to their credibility!
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20 Nov
Shocker! My Column In Today's New York Daily News mtracey.substack.com/p/shocker-my-c…
With a bonus aside on the Rittenhouse verdict: Image
Also don’t miss the note of qualified optimism about the US media. Perhaps the most shocking part of the entire Substack post
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