Maxim Lott
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With assistance from lawyers at
@HamLincLaw
, I and others (
@slatestarcodex
and
@tedfrank
) have filed an official comment with the CFTC urging them not to ban prediction markets in the US, as they have proposed doing.
I hope the regulators will listen!
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CNN's lead story ... the Trump campaign has a devious new plan ... trying to goad Harris into a trap known as a "major media interview"
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Great response from Detroit police chief James Craig: "I trust people who are trained -- regardless of race, regardless of gender."
I still can’t get over this. A sitting member of congress saying that people should be hired by the government based on skin color. Progressives racism must be called out as they try to institutionalize it.
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Sam Harris says out loud what the NYT/CNN/WaPo “journalists” who covered up the Hunter scandal knew privately: it’s not that the story was untrue, but that it’d help Trump, & they hate Trump.
But that’s no excuse for “journalists” to hide the truth.
Holy shlit
Sam Harris just admitted he supported censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because it helped Biden
This man just set his entire career on fire
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Andy Ngo is one of the bravest journalists around
I see today, Antifa-types are upset about him posting accurate information from police footage and documents. So they send him deaths threats, racial slurs, etc
I donate to
@MrAndyNgo
's journalism here:
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The charitable interpretation of
@RealCandaceO
's remark is NOT that Hitler would be fine if he stayed in Germany -- but rather that he wasn't a real nationalist as he had global ambitions.
But some will be eager to call her pro-Hitler because they fear she is effective persuader
Was Hitler a nationalist? (And Leftist journalists are still insane).
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There's exactly one state in the US that knows how to quickly count votes...
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@jordanbpeterson
@elonmusk
My new website tracks AI bias every day. Grok is one of the more lefty AIs.
We'll see if that changes!
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Andy Ngo is one of very few journalists brave enough to report about Antifa on the ground.
Even after they beat him up, he keeps covering.
Deserves support.
Please support my journalism so I can continue reporting facts you won’t see on MSM. Your support covers security & more. Patreon, SubscribeStar, PayPal, Locals & Venmo (MrAndyNgo):
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DHS official: Border security bill does NOT contain ‘amnesty’ poison pills
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In retrospect, he should have spent more time studying Afghanistan this summer and less time pushing woke racial narratives
Gen. Mark Milley: "There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days."
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New Twitter rule bans sharing pics of people who don't want to be shown.
What's crazy is the *exception*... Twitter will “assess the context ... and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service.”
Means "if Twitter likes your politics, it's fine"
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Ben Shapiro doesn't shy away from making unpopular factual arguments, which one has to respect regardless of whether one agrees with him on any given issue
And as far as skill level, my analysis that women's soccer is on par with boys teenage soccer in many cases remains true. See, e.g., here:
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Just added
@AndrewYangVFA
#YangGang
to
Bettors give him 3.4% chance to take the Dem nomination and 2% chance of winning the Presidency.
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GovTrack just deleted their own widely-cited ranking from 2019, where they ranked Kamala Harris as the single most left-wing senator.
Fortunately, web archives still have their ranking:
Hard not to be suspicious that political bias led to the deletion.
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Yes, defund NPR.
Government shouldn't be involved in the press.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch disputed a viral NPR report in a joint statement Wednesday: "It is false."
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@literaryeric
If by “one of the least cool” you meant to say “literally the coolest” then we are in agreement
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Canadian police only let in journalists friendly to the ruling party:
That's odd. Police wouldn't let our reporters pass. They asked what network we were with, and made a police decision that we weren't the right journalists to let walk in the capital city.
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Media's dishonesty when Trump correctly said the same thing a week ago was pretty incredible.
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Canada WAS one of the most high-trust, cohesive countries.
Not sure
@JustinTrudeau
etc realize the value of what they're destroying -- by demonizing & essentially declaring war on part of the population, rather than treating them as fellow citizens
I am representing 9 Canadians who have had their bank accounts frozen & insurance policies cancelled.
None of them are charged with any offences; most had no trucks in Ottawa or elsewhere.
The Trudeau gov't is destroying these Canadians because they spoke out.
Whose next?
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I despise the trend of Democrats saying everything is a “threat to democracy.”
No — a 3rd party trying to win electoral votes and be kingmaker is not a “threat to democracy.”
Closer to the opposite is true, since they’d have democratically win votes & then follow constitution
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Federal laws are starting to be enforced:
Thanks to
@DHSgov
, they've been able to arrest rioters recorded committing serious crimes like assault, arson, property destruction & more. Some of the weapons found on the federal suspects here include a machete, pipe bomb, hammer & more.
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Enthusiastic response to adding
@AndrewYangVFA
#YangGang
to makes me think he's being underestimated by media & pundits.
Odds give him 4.3% chance to win Dem nomination. If you haven't heard of him, you likely will soon. He wants universal basic income
Just added
@AndrewYangVFA
#YangGang
to
Bettors give him 3.4% chance to take the Dem nomination and 2% chance of winning the Presidency.
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NPR claims “limited scientific evidence” that biological men tend to have a physical advantage in sports.
Attaining such levels of absurdity often requires years of study!
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Funny.
@NYTimes
just assumed
@TheFIREorg
was "conservative" because it supports free speech
Substantially updated NYT article on the regs (
@TheFIREorg
, however, is *not* a "conservative higher-education group."
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Incredible shift in the odds for President in 2024!
@RonDeSantisFL
overtook Trump for the first time.
That's because DeSantis just won a swing state with an crazy 20% margin. For comparison, he won his race in 2018 by just 0.4%.
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Klobuchar shares "women get 71 cents on the dollar" myth.
Reality:
#DemocraticDebate
#DebateNight
#DemDebate
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Tax money at work:
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@NPR
interviewed & promoted an antifa writer’s new book, “In Defense of Looting.”
@Vicky_ACAB
says looting is moral & “strikes at the heart” of whiteness, capitalism and police.
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Many are noticing Gemini's crazy race rules (it won't draw white people, basically.)
My site gives AIs the political compass quiz every day.
Google's Gemini IS pretty consistently the most left wing. See the stars in the bottom left:
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Even Florida Democrats defending Florida Gov DeSantis after
@60Minutes
misleadingly edited footage of him:
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@nathancofnas
Counterpoints:
— 70 years ago, conservatives dominated academia. This fights your “just not meant to be” claim
— in numerous non-western countries, conservatives are well-represented
— math, econ ppl are also “scholars”
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Kavanaugh's betting odds shot up in the last 40 min. (Was at 50/50 then)
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Founded just 6 years ago,
@TheBabylonBee
already gets more viewers than The Onion -- making it the most popular satire site in the world.
Cc
@The_Kyle_Mann
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.
@realDonaldTrump
's odds of winning re-election just hit a new record high amid
#IowaCaucuses
voting confusion and early results that are relatively evenly spread among many candidates.
#iowacaucus2020
#Iowa
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Humorless PC censors don't get that comedy is all about offending the cultural powers that be -- it's not about limiting oneself to only safe "approved" jokes.
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Wow, this is a real tweet.
I saw it as a screengrab via
@MichaelMalice
and honestly thought it was satire
Not sure I've ever seen such a tasteless "OK, people just died, but what about the other guy who died 2 years ago" line before
As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.
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My understanding of this case against Trump (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
-- NY charged Trump with fraud in applying for a bank loan, even though the bank testified in Trump's favor (because Trump repaid the loan in full and the bank made a profit.) It was a victimless
NY AG Letitia James is now allowed to seize Donald Trump's assets, starting Monday.
I hear Mar-a-Lago may have some value.
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I made this site showing PER CAPITA coronavirus maps:
Headlines too often read "U.S. has most cases in the world!!" ... without adjusting for population.
Map automatically updates. Hope you find useful!
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Finally, a good idea from woke reformers!
Requiring college degrees most harms people who don’t have $100k and 4 years to throw at a certification.
Better to directly test skills.
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It seems bad that giant communications platforms make decisions like this over allegations.
Even if the allegations are true, it seems better to rely on courts and viewer opinion to punish him, rather than some bureaucrats at Google?
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Extreme ignorance of history from the
@ACLU
.
Virtually every society in human history had the death penalty.
It only began phase out after enlightenment-era philosophy and prosperity took hold.
REMINDER: The death penalty evolved from lynching. It has no place in a justice system worthy of that name.
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.
@EzraLevant
on citizen journalism: "When people say, 'what do we do about the media?' I say, you become the media"
I was invited by the truckers to give a short speech. Here’s what I said:
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now updated with final conference bill!
See how your taxes will be impacted:
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@mattyglesias
Someone determining what they think in order to get dates is ultra weak.
Have some self-respect! These young people do, at least.
Pretending to think something you don’t is slightly less self-disrespecting, but still bad.
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Another example of Google censorship.
Data on how it's common:
Google this exact title
- How a Convicted Terrorist used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Website to Identify Targets
No results for it on Google.
They completely removed the page, which posted official court records.
DuckDuckGo has it.
Google just deleted it from search.
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Bettors are all but calling it! 88% for Youngkin:
Are they adequately factoring in (blue) Fairfax county's announced delay in releasing final results?
Bettors' money is on the line, so, one hopes so...
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To recap:
-- Biden's son gets high-pay job with Ukrainian company
-- Ukraine prosecutor is about to investigate Biden's son & company
-- Biden demands Ukraine fire prosecutor, else US withholds loans. Ukraine fires prosecutor
-- Trump asks Ukraine to look into
-- Impeach Trump?
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@ATabarrok
The real test would be whether an AI fed Steven Landsburg's class transcripts and textbook would pass his exam.
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Wow — Harvard Pres Gay not only repeatedly plagiarized, but she refused to share her data for her study that was subsequently debunked anyway.
Harvard may have a fraud in addition to a plagiarist?
Excellent original reporting by
@realChrisBrunet
:
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@powerbottomdad1
Why do you care how many minutes he’s working? Just pay what the output is worth to you.
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It's true that betting markets rose similarly for Trump on election night in 2020, only to get knocked out by late-counted mail votes...
We'll see what happens here!
Gosh! This is totally coincidental to why the vote count is being delayed in Virginia.
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"adds value to the public discourse" = if we like your politics
"Public interest" = if we like your politics
"is relevant to the community" = if we like your politics (clearly their community finds it relevant, since they're sharing it! They don't actually care about *that*)
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@NateSilver538
Maybe of use: I quantify these differences, and track them over time, on my new site
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My latest!
Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists
Think one of my more important investigations:
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is currently calculating over 50 tax results *per second*! Still no major slowdown in service
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A $230k exec.
For anyone wondering how the US manages to spend more on education than just about every other country in the world... and still get worse results
This is interesting. Also the idea of the job: 1-percenter county deploys $200k exec to hire up the best “diverse” teachers from other parts of the country that probably can’t afford a $200k headhunter.
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Maximum Truth: Verifying Sweden's Impressive Covid Performance
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@Facebook
holding firm on free speech, for now
Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come
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Wrong for journalism institute
@Poynter
to encourage blacklisting of sites like
@BreitbartNews
@TheBlaze
@Project_Veritas
.
Such sites often report true things that are ignored by major outlets for ideological reasons. Are critical for full understanding
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As it stands, Republicans are in trouble this November, per the bettors: :
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Clear case of awful "fact-checking"
ANY candidate quote can be aided with "more context"
Here, a fact-checker censors people who condemn Warnock's attack on "whiteness"
They'd never "add context" to a racist-seeming statement by a candidate they oppose
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After comedian
@DefendGavin
was banned from Twitter, FB, and Instagram, he started doing more parodies of the left:
He also has a new website and show. Hard to censor that:
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Interesting reporting from
@JamesOKeefeIII
@Project_Veritas
-- a Facebook employee exposes internal details of Facebook's censorship attempts:
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Claude-3 by
@AnthropicAI
blows the other AIs out of the water in terms of passing an IQ test.
It's the first AI to score over 100.
My report linked in the comment below
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The propaganda from once-respected outlets like
@sciam
is truly incredible...
People are still free to read book from the middle ages and earlier, and see how blatantly false all their claims are.
Idea that "Two-sex model" served for "racial division" should be stand-up comedy
Before the late 18th century, Western science recognized only one sex—the male—and considered the female body an inferior version of it. The shift historians call the “two-sex model” served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions by tying social status to the body. (6/7)
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now has the NYC mayoral candidate odds!
The visionary
@AndrewYang
and pro-law-enforcement
@ericadamsfornyc
lead the field.
Dem primary is June 22.
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Yesterday, regulators announced they'll BAN all US election betting.
Why? And will it actually happen? I report (link below):
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@ChrisWillx
Based on his biography, Elon’s mental conditions are what made him into the most world-changing man on the planet right now.
Maybe successful therapy would make Musk happier, but it could also dampen his crazed obsession with changing the world. That’d be bad for the rest of us
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DEEP DIVE: Covid Myths -- How the medical establishment AND skeptics failed
My NEW investigation outlining the worst myths from ALL political tribes.
I hope you find informative!
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Lot of Lenin apologists on Twitter today.
People should know -- Lenin was a genocidal dictator.
See an example of a (real!) order of his below.
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.
@YouTube
censors yet another excellent journalist.
Hope people will start switching to decentralized video operations like
YouTube suspended our
@RebelNewsOnline
channel. 1.45 million subscribers. Never a strike before. They claim a video we made in January - called "If Big Tech can silence Trump, they can silence anyone" - violates their rules.
Join my Rumble livestream here:
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The betting odds, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, have been almost shockingly stable:
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A 4-pinocchio NYT editorial headline lie (regardless of one's views on the issue.)
As most know, it didn't start with Trump -- it's been done by Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now done to more people under Trump. Began when a judge said kids in prison w their parents inhumane in 1997
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Funny Vox article, going through how reporters speculated that JD Vance's wife Usha must disapprove of Republicans -- because she's indian -- and read into her body language to confirm their views.
But, it turns out:
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Maybe Elon Musk was right about woke-ism being an existential threat.
This highlights the importance of restoring America's education system.
SHOCK: 79% of Americans between 18-24 believe that "white people are oppressors" and that this ideology should be "favored today at universities and for employment."
The racial retrograde has begun.
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Biden montage on fracking:
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@DuckDuckGo
manipulates search results now too.
I will stop using them.
A) I doubt they can accurately separate Russian disinfo from Russian info
B) they can do this to anyone they disagree with in the future
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Proud of my latest deep dive into Covid stats -- which answers lots of Covid questions that people often debate!
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Betting odds say that DeSantis has around a 70% chance of winning the election, IF nominated. Trump is a coin toss, if nominated.
@adamirvinmusic
@BreitbartNews
Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America.
If DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign.
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@TeamYouTube
’s mob-based untransparent censorship is absurd — glad to see journalists across the political spectrum condeming it:
Apparently, creating and implementing vague, arbitrary censorship standards on the fly in response to mob demands and then purging people en masse end up suppressing and punishing many voices that censorship advocates like. Who could have guessed this would happen?
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@HannahDCox
So now that are men are behind, can society (universities, HR depts) stop all the focus on treating women as an oppressed group?
It’s not the 1950s anymore, when that may have made a bit of sense
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Anyway, I’m grateful for the brave reporters and editors at
@nypost
, who fought through censorship to inform at least some us, at the time.
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@elonmusk
@adamirvinmusic
@BreitbartNews
Betting odds say that DeSantis has around a 70% chance of winning the election, IF nominated. (Trump is a coin toss, if nominated.)
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A thorough dig into how Wikipedia systematically removed scientific sources, and replaced them with inaccuracies, on subjects that had the potential to be non-PC:
Cognitive Distortions: How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
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@keithdennis
@waitbutwhy
“Guaranteed a job” is the problem here, unless graduation is particularly hard (usually not the case.)
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Post-debate betting:
WAY DOWN:
@MikeBloomberg
UP:
@PeteButtigieg
,
@BernieSanders
,
@JoeBiden
,
@EWarren
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There have now been 4 polls conducted post-debate.
They suggest roughly a ~2 point shift to Trump.
If I were Joe Biden, I doubt I'd think "uh oh, I fell 2 points, better drop out now."
I could be wrong, but my money is on him staying in. I think he's undervalued in the betting
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@voxdotcom
is tripling-down on misleading readers about Florida's history curriculum.
For those curious about the reality,
@charlescwcooke
did a good job here:
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@JoeBiden
claim after Supreme Court decision: “Across the board, the vast majority of the American people don’t agree with majority of decisions the court is making.”
Reality: 74% of Americans oppose using race in admissions:
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Manipulation by exchanges shows need for decentralized pressure-resistant markets!
Crypto exchange FTX_Official trades tokens that match Gamestop stock value:
It's still centralized (& not usable in US) but a decentralized one is coming too, with
@Solana
!
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@TristanSnell
The US is running several percent higher than the EU though, no?
The difference, plausibly, can be attributed to Biden / Covid spending policy.
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Biden just passed Harris again in the odds of winning the Presidency:
Here's why I think Biden won't drop out:
1) He holds all the cards. Beyond social pressure, there's nothing Dems can do to force him out. Biden already won the delegates ...
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