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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Student loan debt is disproportionately held by people with higher incomes. Demanding that everyone - including many millions who are worse off - subsidize the interests and investments of those who are better off is fundamentally and inescapably immoral.
Had a thread of sorts on this awhile back.
If we were serious about forgiving debt that is often crippling and has a clear racial dynamic we would be talking about medical debt. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
But since the people who design/lead/volunteer for campaigns are far more likely to be/know someone who thinks they can’t buy a house because of student loan debt than someone trapped in poverty because of medical debt, the former gets attention.

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10 Dec
🧵THREAD🧵

We’ve got to talk about the Jussie Smollett case.

I know it can seem easy to laugh or shrug off. But it’s instructive in why so many people don’t trust the corporate press and the Dems & commentators who help drive it.

So let’s revisit ⤵️
First, a reminder on the original details. Actor @JussieSmollett alleged that two white men wearing MAGA hats out for a stroll at 2 AM in Chicago in -20 degree weather recognized him & beat him up yelling racist and homophobic slurs. Luckily, he fought them off, supposedly.
The press quickly jumped on the story despite the relatively inconceivable nature of the allegations, asserting that surely this had happened as Smollett describes.

Here’s @CNN reporting this as not something they was alleged but that definitely happened (multiple times). ImageImage
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6 Dec
The entire internet is slowly but surely becoming Slate, a magazine on the web.
Tough day for the Planned Adultery crowd
All of these things seem to be given equal weight by the advice seeker and that’s a bit curious to me.
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27 Nov
“She would also have to walk from the bus stop to school through an area where frequent gun shots are a problem.”
“Wh*te Parents Concerned about Exposing Their Children to Occasional Gunfire are Promoting White Supremacy” coming to your local opinion page any day now
I continue to wonder how deep the brainworms must be to write “an area where frequent gun shots are a problem” seriously.
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26 Nov
What Frum does here is a good representation of what the Russian Collusion narrative has always been and continues to be: huge allegations drawn from smoke without any actual evidence of fire.

🧵breaking down this piece.⤵️
Before we get to Frum’s points, it’s important to remember what this debate is about. Dems & media insisted that Trump worked w/ our enemies to influence an election.

You’ll remember that an extensive investigation already failed to find evidence of this. americanbar.org/news/abanews/a…
But suspending disbelief, let’s get to the case.

First, we’ve got Trump’s pre-existing, publicly known business ties to Russia. There are a lot of them.

While we should be conscientious of who the leader of the free world owes, this isn’t, of course, evidence of wrongdoing. ImageImage
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19 Nov
🧵THREAD🧵

It’s time to revisit the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.

With the news that he has been acquitted on all counts, don’t forget the ways that Dems and the corporate press came together to craft a false narrative in his case.

Let’s break down how we got here⤵️
We need to start with the media coverage that framed this case in the public mind.

To the press, Rittenhouse was as good as guilty when the news broke. So naturally, to @CNN, the people he shot in self defense were heroes & those defending him had “justified murder.” ImageImage
This wasn’t just limited to CNN.

@nytimes put out what amounts to a hit piece on Rittenhouse because his “social media accounts showed strong support for officers.”

They even put out a piece about how right-wingers attacking protestors was some sort of phenomenon. ImageImage
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18 Nov
This makes zero sense. There have been four Covid deaths in the last two weeks in DC. Hospitalizations continue falling. We’re under 100 cases a day with a 1% positive test rates.

Enough.
Mendelson’s follow up point - about kids - is even more ridiculous. For the entirety of the pandemic there have been about 700 kids 18 or under who have died *nationwide*. About what we would expect from two flu seasons. Kids are MANY orders of magnitude less at risk than adults.
DC should focus on vaccinations, as I explained when the mayor reinstituted this nonsensical policy originally: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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