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"Who are you? What is this?"
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Analysis: What Just Happened In France And What It Means
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This is why the French Military Academy’s curriculum began with a mandatory year as a private in a random unit.
If you spend any significant amount of your life around people with lower IQs than yours, you can't help but notice how many of them are better people than you in qualities that you value, including the virtues. This is not idealism. It is the empirical reality of life outside
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Many people are saying…
Very interesting. Population density is negatively correlated with fertility. If you vaguely sensed creepy techno-utopian anti-natalist vibes from the YIMBYs your intuition was correct. They really do want you to live in the pod and not reproduce. 👶🚫
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What if you could reduce crime by locking up criminals?
V good essay on the stunningly successful Bukele crackdown on gangs in El Salvador, which had a murder rate of 107 per 100,000 in 2015 and was at 5.5 per 100,000 last year.
I’d wanted to read something like this for a ages. Long but very informative.
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This is such a basic point that it seems the only way to miss it is through deliberate dishonesty
The "migrant crime wave" has nothing to do with crime *rates*. Rather, the millions of illegals Biden & Harris have let in have committed thousands of crimes that wouldn't have happened otherwise. *That* is the illegal-alien crime wave, caused by the Biden/Harris administration.
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RT and follow
@PolicySphere
if you think Politico sucks
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Industrial Policy and the Digital Longhouse - PolicySphere Morning Briefing – April 3, 2024
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As usual, Will's confidence is matched only by his ignorance of subject-matter specifics
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Smart people no longer trust corporate media
The New York Times concludes that Venezuela was destroyed by “brutal capitalism.” Unreal.
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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd says the future of dating is having your AI date other people's AI and recommend the best matches for you to meet
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Best short definition of neoliberalism we’ve ever encountered: "banker socialism"
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Grownups don’t say "clap back", who in the zoomer writes these headlines?
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) claps back at Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over Trump-related criticism.
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Remember that people saying this also say we should just legalize drugs because laws against them are just impossible to enforce
It's already illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote in federal elections. It's so illegal that it's a felony, a ground of deportation, AND a near-permanent ban to receiving any future immigration benefit.
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We foresee zero unintended consequences
Over the past 5 years, women between the ages of 25 and 54 have driven much of the increase in the overall U.S. labor force participation rate.
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Exclusive: Saurabh Sharma, NatCon Conference: "Every Piece Of Content Got Maybe A Hundred Times The Attention It Would Have Otherwise Gotten"
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@DamonLinker
The fact that semi-literate conmen like
@DamonLinker
are able to collect checks as "journalists" was a big impetus for founding Sphere! We are excited to be building the future of media for intelligent, serious professionals in every industry.
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We really enjoyed doing this in-depth interview, on all aspects of immigration policy, with the great
@MarkSKrikorian
:
Exclusive:
@MarkSKrikorian
,
@CIS_org
: "We Would Be Happy to Send You to Mongolia, Free of Charge, And They Will Consider Your Asylum Application There"
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This seems like an accurate summary
Biden on the border:
2020: I promise to use executive order to reverse all of Trump’s border security policies.
2021: I just used executive order to reverse all of Trump’s border security policies.
2022: The border is secure.
2023: The border isn't really secure but I can't
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Chevron! Chevron! Chevron!
PolicySphere Morning Briefing:
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French labor laws get a bad rap, especially given the US DEI regime, but this is definitely a true effect
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What do you think about what we wrote about the "Great Replacement"?
@BillAckman
@elonmusk
Is It Discrimination If You Cannot Buy A Hermès Handbag? Also, Great Replacement Talk - PolicySphere Morning Briefing – March 20, 2024
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Strange way of describing his conversion to natural law integralism. (This is a joke tweet which 5 people will get)
Column | Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sounded a public alarm, saying in a new book and interview that if conservative justices' continue to deploy their methods of interpretation, the court can’t service the country and is doomed to fail.
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Some will say "infrastructure"; we say "competency crisis"--but most importantly, we say our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this horrible event.
BREAKING: Ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse
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Of course, this only works if the immigrants are net economic contributors......
When you realize that immigrant workers help fund the Social Security and Medicare used by retirees
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Exclusive:
@MarkSKrikorian
,
@CIS_org
: "We Would Be Happy to Send You to Mongolia, Free of Charge, And They Will Consider Your Asylum Application There"
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Never forget
In 2006-2007, publishers went all-in on the idea that America was about to become a theocracy.
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I'm ok with the taxpayer paying for the First Lady to attend D-Day memorial ceremonies in France.
SCOOP: The DNC will pay for Jill Biden's flight costs - reimbursing gov't the equivelant of first-class ticket - in her whirlwind Wilmington/Paris flights last week; taxpayers will be on hook for majority; total cost estimate for all flights is $345,400
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PEG here- btw,
@DamonLinker
either forgets or pretends to forget he blocked me after I called him out on a transparent, deliberate lie (pretending to have read a book before floridly denouncing it as RaCiSt).
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Oof
Leonard Leo’s 🔥🔥🔥 statement on the Supreme Court nonsense:
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Boeing's corporate collapse had zero to do with DEI policies and everything to do with bad regulatory choices.
I dislike DEI, but the attempt to push every problem into the DEI bucket is just a lie designed to protect Wall Street's and corporate monopolists.
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Does the Antisemitism Awareness Act Make the New Testament Illegal?
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Many people are saying...
Important new wonk insider policy blog that has clearly "done the reading."
Interesting developments in DC.
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It looks like our account, which was suspended earlier today with no explanation, was reinstated...
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This effect on a company’s stock is so well-known that it spawned an entire investment category with dozens (hundreds?) of hedge funds dedicated to it, "M&A arbitrage". As Oren says, like most short term stock price moves, this doesn’t tell you about the underlying business.
Hard to be diplomatic, here. OF COURSE share price of US Steel goes up when asset holders think Nippon will pay a premium for shares, goes down when that seems less likely.
Confusing that with underlying health/value of operating entity is... unimpressive.
@DominicJPino
@NRO
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It's a really good book!
Our interview here:
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The French Have A Cure For the Common Cold, But the FDA Doesn't Want You To Have It
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It’s really amazing that every two weeks Mark Cuban decides to come on X dot com and humiliate himself for the world to see.
You don't find this terrifying and problematic ?
"I mean that the president should have more authority over the federal bureaucracy, so that it implements his policies faithfully".
Isn't this the antithesis of having 3 equal branches of government ?
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The fundamental insight behind Sphere is that media is fundamentally broken--in part because of political bias, but by no means is that the only or even the main problem--and that a different model needs to appear to fix it.
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"They say the cost structure in media is brutal"
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You will see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
Many folks might be surprised at the low technical level of a lot of published academic research. A good example: snowball sampling. Get a small initial sample, ask for their friends/contacts, and build the sample from there. 178000 papers on Google Scholar using this. 1/4
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Exclusive: Tom Shakely, Americans United for Life: "All Human Persons From Conception To Death Are Protected Before The Law"
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Now we're talkin'
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Exclusive:
@matthewstoller
: "Conservatives want what a government can deliver, but they don’t want a government"
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By overturning Chevron deference, the Supreme Court has put the decision-making power on many technical and policy issues into the hands of unelected lifetime judicial appointees, writes
@Cam_Kerry
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👀
The fight is here. You must now surrender to the Leftist Regime or commit yourself to its defeat. These are the only options.
We are hiring four reporters. You must be courageous. You must be talented. You must love the fight.
We intend to fight and win. DMs are open. Join us.
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Oh, and while we're at it: as so often with the left, the accusation is a confession. It's bizarre to fantasize about "right-wing slush funds" for "welfare make-work" projects when the amount spent by left-wing dark money groups like OS and Arabella on various such projects is...
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"She wasn't the border czar, she was more the border constitutional monarch"
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Oops
This is the most classic NEPA story of all time:
The US Forest Service wanted to implement a wildfire prevention plan, so it had to fill out an environmental impact statement. Before they could complete the environmental impact statement, though, half the forest burned down.
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Opinion: Time For A Federal Anti-Doxxing Statute
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... many, many times larger than comparable figures on the right. In any case, while there's obviously nothing wrong with non-profit work as such, Sphere is a for-profit company funded by private investors and revenue. Some of our investors are on the right, some are ...
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Baltimore Bridge Collapse - PolicySphere Morning Briefing – March 26, 2024
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Of note: "minority stress" is a pseudoscientific theory which we covered before at PolicySphere:
Should taxpayers be funding astrology-tier pseudoscientific theories?
National Institutes of Health grant (2023)
Amount: $481,970
Recipient: University Of Nebraska
Purpose: Experiences of rural sexual and gender minority couples: does alcohol use explain the link between minority stress and intimate partner discord and violence
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Should we run The Case For Asbestos? (The case for asbestos is actually good.)
BREAKING: The EPA has banned asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted.
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We are still waiting for our Orbanbux checks to clear…
Hungary is not sitting on oil wealth they can just throw around DC. Love Orban or hate him, he is not buying influence in this town. Hungary is simply not that wealthy of a country.
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Shock Report: The Biden Administration's Quiet Mass Amnesty
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Infrastructure Week is coming soon! What would you like to see us cover?
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As KOSA Goes Up For A Vote, A Refresher
Today's Morning Briefing, featuring
@PTBwrites
@ClareMorellEPPC
,
@DrSamuelGregg
,
@MarkSKrikorian
,
@Wid_Lyman
,
@jneeley78
,
@wesyang
and more
(Link below)
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RT and follow
@PolicySphere
if you think Axios sucks
Sorry victims of abuse,
@Axios
's
@StefWKight
says that 11,816 convictions for assault at the hands of illegal aliens arrested by ICE in 2022 amounts to "little to no evidence" that "migrants are committing crimes"
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Fair point!
Walmart got a right-wing judge to block ICE from cracking down on illegal immigration based on the premise that internal administrative courts are unconstitutional. Conservatives need to decide whether they want a government.
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This is a good moment to remind our readers that there exists no person named Kate Middleton. There is HRH Catherine, Princess of Wales, and we wish her a speedy recovery and assure the royal family of our prayers.
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The Biden War on Appliances; What Just Happened in France
PolicySphere Morning Briefing:
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Go to church, but then get to work on that warp drive
This may be my philosophy major bias, but I don’t trust technologists and engineers to define “human flourishing” for all of society. Read Aristotle. Go to church.
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Have you considered limiting third world immigration and not releasing criminals back into the streets?
It’s very scary that in basically every Western democracy immigration politics is powering a massive far right surge and nobody on the non-far-right seems to have any idea how to deal with it
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We snorted.
Interesting that the left is pro-squatter’s rights but also anti-Israel.
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“super far left” person: omg i hate public drug use
rightwinger: i agree! let’s kill em
leftwinger: we shouldn’t dehumanize drug addicts who self medicate and instead tackle the real problem
“SFL” person: drugs are scary. i have no choice but to agree with the right
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Today's briefing features
@JDVance1
,
@realJeremyCarl
,
@MarkSKrikorian
,
@CharlesFLehman
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@America_2100
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@alexrecouso
,
@cremieuxrecueil
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@realchrisrufo
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@TPCarney
,
@MoreBirths
,
@RealEJAntoni
and, of course,
@EmmanuelMacron
Immigration Insanity - PolicySphere Morning Briefing – May 6, 2024
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Yes, UBI is still a terrible idea. And more, in today's morning briefing (link below)
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(This tweet is not about China)
99.8% of studies in Chinese journals find that acupuncture works. Given that acupuncture does not work, this gives us something to consider.
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Friday Essays And Links - PolicySphere Morning Briefing – May 17, 2024
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Ok, this is fun
🚨NEW TODAY🚨
@CatoInstitute
has launched Spending Madness 2024, pitting 32 wasteful federal spending programs head‐to‐head in a single‐elimination tournament that runs thru April 11:
Click on the bracket at the link & vote for the programs YOU want cut.
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PolicySphere Morning Briefing – March 15, 2024
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How Do We Do Public Health Post-Pandemic? – PolicySphere Morning Briefing – March 18, 2024
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We have figured out the issue that was preventing us from sending some emails. As ever if there is any problem, get in touch with us.
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As someone who represents some of the wealthiest precincts in America and presumably spends a fair amount of time hobnobbing with billionaire donors (the vast majority of whom are Democrats), you should know this is a non-sequitur.
Trump claims he is a billionaire. But he can’t pay a $464 million judgement. That means he is lying. How do I know? Math.
#TrumpIsBroke
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Exclusive – Sen. Marco Rubio: “Convincing Working People That Their Government Cares About What They Care About”
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Never Forget.
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Most reddit community note
God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent.
Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come.
I pray that our country listens. 🙏
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what
Secret Service member robbed at gunpoint during Biden’s weekend California trip.
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Drop the first album you ever bought.
Drop the first album you ever bought.
(Technically, my dad bought it for me bc I was 4, but it’s the first one I owned and I was ELATED.)
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(If we were in a bad mood we might say something about policy analysts who sing the virtues of capitalism but have never worked a day in the private sector.)
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Quite
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"The Social Darwinist case for mass immigration"
the "immigrants took my job" brigade are so funny because if someone fresh off the boat is competing with you for employment maybe you don't have have any skills and shouldn't have been in a job in the first place
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Thoughts?
“We are not ‘part’ of the conservative movement. We are the conservative movement.”
American Moment Board of Advisors Member
@RachelBovard
addresses NatCon 4.
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I had the privilege of talking to Woody several years ago. My obit of an incredible war hero for
@amconmag
:
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Finally putting those crazy "Great Replacement" conspiracy theories to rest
NEW: The foreign-born population has hit RECORD highs in March 2024 of 51.6m and 15.6% of the total U.S. population.
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Crime is a policy choice
Fort Bend County, TX: Last month, Jose Dalex Argueta Quintanilla was arrested for Indecency with a Child - Sexual Contact.
He has an immigration detainer hold.
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