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deputy editor, @dcexaminer magazine | past: education policy, @aei | read in: @wsj @nationalaffairs @nro @quillette @insidehighered , others | go Hogs 'n stuff

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Grant Addison
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Having a degree doesn’t make you intelligent. Sorry for all the money you wasted
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"THIS IS FOR JACK, YOU ICY BASTARD"
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Hunting for 'the world's purest water'
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You are all overusing “Karen,” as you do literally every other meme
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famed economist Milton Keynes
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Quit retweeting Rex Chapman
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Who is sending out this idiotic talking point?
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Lord, give me the confidence of an ex-GOP political consultant with a lifetime losing record
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go pound sand, Kirk
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Right Wing Watch
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Charlie Kirk praises the CPAC audience for booing when he mentioned Mitt Romney: "Every time his name is mentioned, you should respond that way."
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"55 percent of Democratic [students] said opposite political views would make them less likely to befriend another student, compared to 21 percent of Independents and 12 percent of Republicans." Ideological tolerance looks pretty thin at Dartmouth.
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I don’t care who you are, this is gold
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Trump has a Diet Coke button, I’m dead.
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You love to see it
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Perfection
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high on heroin doing legal sex work with a whale without seatbelts or driver's licenses
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Libertarian Party
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In your words, what do Libertarians believe?
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Put this tweet in a museum
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Ahh, yes, people like me who believe Asian Americans should be treated fairly in college admissions
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this is not, in fact, what our country's national motto means, but then why would a tenured history professor know that
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Vox staffers ripping on Yglesias for having the gall to say open debate is good is the most predictable development of the day
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Because, as we all know, dictators so often put themselves up for popular reelection votes
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Rarely do you get just a perfect distillation of how useless someone is at their job
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i think about this clip at least once a week
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Folks
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Nothing says “my commentary is no longer necessary to the Left” like a $6 bottle of champagne
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Why anyone still pretends to take this person seriously is beyond me
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Definitely believing that unequivocal apology!
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Sure, that’s it
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The Hill
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AOC on increased NYC crime: "Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent & so they go out & they need to feed their child & they don't have money so... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry."
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This is the platonic ideal of a Vox take. You might not like it, but explaining how the new Animal Crackers box art is problematic because it doesn’t dismantle capitalism is what peak performance looks like.
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So far this weekend, one NYT journalist has lied about a respected entrepreneur using a bad word in an attempt to get him punished; another has published the personal phone number of a journalist in an effort to shame him; 1/
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Good luck beating this headline
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Restaurants can’t have indoor dining with tables 10 feet apart but this weekly circle-jerk can skirt Covid restrictions by paying its live audience.
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Just to be clear, this is “essential”, but small businesses and their employees throughout NYC are not...
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*Kid gets punched in the face* WaPo: CONSERVATIVES POUNCE
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The Washington Post
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A conservative activist was punched in the face at UC Berkeley. The response enraged the right.
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I can’t get over how bad Jacob Wohl is at committing crimes lmao
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One is a civil rights icon, the other pretended to win an election. These are definitely comparable
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If Georgia indeed flips for Biden, these two deserve a lot of credit for years of work to make this moment happen.
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When my friend Adam Rubenstein was berated publicly on here and elsewhere and thrown under the bus by his feckless colleagues for doing his job, you said absolutely nothing to his defense. Eat a gallon of shit.
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NYTimes Communications
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New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay's comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context. Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith.
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The new “he wore a tan suit” lie unfolding in real time
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Moving apartments really makes you put your possessions into perspective. For instance, I hung this up before I even put together my bed frame.
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(Twitter deleting that awful, awful tweet about the queen from the unpleasant professor is not great and seems like a new rule standard they just made up?)
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This paper published Erdogan, Vladimir Putin, and the Taliban: no such outrage or public weeping from its so high and mighty staff.
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Important to remember New York has massively slashed their testing to seem better off
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New York flattened the curve much like how China solved their famine problem.
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One of the nice parts about being conservative is I don’t feel the need to pretend that children have any unique insights to offer about anything
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This diminutive clown writes a book about another network then claims that it’s not his place to speak about the publicly obvious issues with his own network
@DailyCaller
Daily Caller
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. @MeghanMcCain asks @brianstelter about recent ethics concerns with Jeff Zucker and Jake Tapper, and if it was acceptable for Chris Cuomo to have a "re-occurring prime time comic routine with his brother" instead of asking about his order sending COVID patients in nursing homes
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Love to dignify my new office and respect my constituents’ support
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Cry more, lib.
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Go pound sand, hacks
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ahahaha
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Lmao
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Brain Stelter is an embarrassment
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There's a lot to love in Charlie Kirk's latest op-ed, but my favorite is the bit where he defines *the moon*
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Anti-vaxers are a scourge and a menace two degrees away from attempted murderers.
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Measles: This baby caught it because of anti-vaxers
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Quit electing crazy people
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I just filed Articles of Impeachment on President @JoeBiden .
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and the Washington Post decided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers name is “dangerous” because pirates, or something. This whole journalism thing is going well.
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Straight up communist propaganda
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“The United States had two months or more to learn from China’s experience with this coronavirus,” writes Yi Rao. “It could have done much more to lower infection rates and fatalities.”
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Why does the CNN countdown chyron look exactly like the Domino’s pizza tracker?
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Oh, also, Time wrote a piece about how election interference is super duper great
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The New York Times published an op-ed by Ben Shapiro because his website gets more clicks than theirs does. This is not difficult.
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More than one registered voter placed Iran inside of America.
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Respondents were first given a larger, global map. 23% were able to correctly identify Iran.
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Saying that violent video games lead to more mass shootings has about as much statistical evidence as saying that playing Madden leads to more CTE and playing FIFA to more tax evasion.
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@peterjhasson @chrislhayes Been a rough few weeks for journos doing math
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Gulags
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Kaine literally mentions the British slave system two sentences before saying this. What spineless, shameful pandering
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Sen. Tim Kaine: "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it."
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We should not, in fact, “listen to everybody”
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Jonathan Swan is very good at his job. We are lucky to have him. Why he seems to be the only one across similar American outlets and positions who asks necessary, blunt questions, and concomitant follow-ups, is another question altogether.
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. @jonathanvswan presses Rep. Tlaib on backing a bill to end federal prisons: To what extent have you wrestled w/ potential downsides? Tlaib: I think everyone's like, oh my god, we're going to just release everybody. Swan: But the act you endorsed actually says release everyone
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Who would dare accept a nomination to the Supreme Court after the president fulfilled their constitutional duty by choosing them to fill an open seat?? How ghastly
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“I’m not sure what exercise does for your body, but here’s my stupid ignorant take anyway”
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On the left, Vox writer's claim about what a data set says; on the right, what the data actually say. *rinse, repeat*
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this is hell and we're all stuck here for eternity
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Happy birthday, George Lucas, the man who gave us the greatest line in all of cinema:
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THREAD: For the next time bad-faith critics say that free-speech types never stand up for non-conservative academics, here's a list of prominent right-wing writers defending Fresno State University professor and execrable troll Ronda Jarrar.
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“If your mom dies from cancer, but your father and sister died from a break-in double-murder, aren’t those the same thing?”
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Important to keep in mind that Google is also probably lying
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this should be impeachable, imo.
@JerryDunleavy
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NEW: Nancy Pelosi just urged U.S. Olympic athletes not to speak out against the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses while they are in Beijing, saying the athletes shouldn’t risk “incurring the anger” of the “ruthless” Chinese government.
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"Biden getting COVID is a tremendous, tactical move from the best president of the era," Jenn Rubin writes for the Washington Post
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We buried the greatest man I’ve ever known today. Give thanks for your family and love on them while you still can.
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well they do have the meats
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Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby's card
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Imagine getting paid to write this joke
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this is a government account
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Italy invented fascism but also the Brits eat peas at basically every meal, so I’m torn on whom to support
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Your societal position exists because of a governmentally subsidized monopoly, not your own intelligence or merit. But yet these academics pretend they hate “the myth of meritocracy” Lol hack
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Calling Shep Smith “left-wing” is like when the far-left whinges about the New York Times being “conservative”
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Daily Wire
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BREAKING: Left-Wing Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith Resigns Effective Immediately: Left-wing Fox News anchor Shepard Smith resigned effective immediately on Friday afternoon from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Fox News’ breaking news…
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Man, most people on this website just really have no idea about anything, do they
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many of you seem even dumber than yesterday. how is this possible
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God bless America and God bless the people of Hong Kong fighting for freedom
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Please pray for my family, if you’re the type. We’ve been going through it the past few months, and recent news makes pretty clear we’re about to go through it again.
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What I wouldn’t give for @afneil to do such interviews with US candidates
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Sun Politics
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Jeremy Corbyn’s fantasy spending plans exposed in car crash interview with @afneil tonight #GE2019
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$10 million more to support the work of a man who believes there is no such thing as objectivity, rhetorical suasion is "suicidal," and that opposing any number of discrete policies, from universal healthcare to the Green New Deal, makes you racist. Excellent
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$10M to Dr. Ibram Kendi and the Center for Antiracist Research at BU. This research will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change. I appreciate you Dr. Kendi, and I’m grateful for your work!
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I’d forgotten Gillibrand was a senator, to be perfectly honest.
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It is incredible to me that this nation of farcical schoolmarms once constituted the greatest empire seen on the planet
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. @brianstelter ’s entire job is to watch Fox News and then whine about it but yet he can’t seem to take the time to check their coverage to see if a historic church is on fire before implying another journalist is a liar
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Thread. This man hosts a show called RELIABLE SOURCES. He’s “fact checking” Fox News, falsely, and then deleting his tweets without corrections.
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If Trump doesn’t get kicked off Twitter, Youngkin probably doesn’t win in Virginia. Not being forced to answer daily questions about whatever thing Trump went off on that day is going to be such an electoral boon to GOP candidates in the midterms.
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Imagine thinking you’re America’s parent lmao
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famed composer Ludwig van Buffett
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S/o to Elena Kagan’s zero years of pre-Court experience
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The New York Times has been stealth editing portions of the 1619 project, and HNJ has been happy to lie through her teeth about what she said many times before. Read @PhilWMagness here.
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Of the religions, American politics is the dumbest.
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My original tweet is mainly addressed at grad students and PhDs but it works for all levels. The difference is undergrads are usually suckered into believing they have to have a college degree for acceptable remuneration. In fact, that’s not often true. And almost never should be
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perfection
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