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@RichardHanania
Feb 3, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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DC had a program that randomly gave poor parents $10,800, taken as a lump sum or 12 monthly payments. What did they do with the money?

Washington Post profiles some winners. First, Canethia Miller, who took a $6K trip to Miami and bought her kids new outfits every day. Image
By taking her kids on an expensive vacation they couldn't afford to look at rich people's houses and yachts, she says she motivated them to succeed. Image
Saleemia Quigley regrets that she splurged, wishes she took the monthly payments instead. Penn professor says that giving them money is part of a larger system of oppression when they behave irresponsibly.
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DC has voted to extent the program another year. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…
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Stacey Adams graduated from Howard, and also has a Masters. She failed her social worker licensing exam and takes care of her four kids. No mention of any father(s) around.
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This guy was sued by his own firm for falsely inflating his role as “Head of Macro,” misusing confidential information to promote his own fund, breaching debt obligations, and defaming the firm to investors.

Yes, it's unsurprising that Trump brought him into the party.
He eventually admitted sharing confidential information and paid the costs of the lawsuit. Image
He called himself "Head of Macro," a position that didn't exist. The company says he was hired as a Research Analyst and then fired for poor performance. Fishback has now reinvented himself as a MAGA influencer. Image
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Sep 26
How to explain Indian hate?

The truth is simpler than you think.

Many Americans dislike dark skin. But they make an exception if you're good at football, and Indians are bad at sports.

They'll make us a poorer country for that.

Yes, it's that stupid. richardhanania.com/p/indians-are-…
There's a human preference for light skin. It shows up almost everywhere and predates colonialism. Indians and blacks are the darkest groups Americans are exposed to or interact with in any significant degree. Image
But blacks, in addition to the historical guilt, have traits many Americans like. They're good at sports, good with women, and charming enough to be actors and entertainers. Image
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Aug 30
US-India relationship is being harmed because Pakistan is more willing to kiss up to Trump, and Modi has too much pride to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize when he didn’t do anything.

Modi is now going to meet Putin and Xi in China.

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Mr. Trump contends that he used trade as leverage to get the two sides to stop fighting. After these enticements and warnings, he said, “all of a sudden they said, ‘I think we will stop’” the fighting.

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Aug 22
Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts released! See here for thread on the most interesting parts. 1/n
Ghislaine is asked whether Epstein ever received money from any intelligence agency, including Mossad. She replies that not as far as she knows and she would be surprised if he did. Image
Epstein started taking testosterone in the late 1990s. But he was not on any other substances. Image
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

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Depressing read. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/…
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Earlier I discussed Casey Means, Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, and her mystical and quack beliefs.

I've looked into her story about how she left her residency. It's very strange, and indicates that there's something that we don't yet know.
Means says she was in an otolaryngology residency and almost finished, but she instead decided to quit because her surgical residency didn't focus on nutrition enough. Isn't that something she would have known well before 4 years of residency, on top of medical school? Image
I think the real reason was she was unfit. Look at her cohort. The other two doctors went straight through their residency normally. Means, in contrast, had a one month gap between June-July 2018. I don't know what can explain this, but it indicates something abnormal happened. Image
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