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I’ve been doing a bunch of thinking, and I’ve come around to the idea that we should raise some taxes
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So @TylerShultz_ as a Theranos whistleblower. And he wrote the piece you need to read about ‘You Can See Everything.’
Elizabeth Holmes is still lying, he says. And the filmmakers, while creating a great piece of art, fall short on looking outside the walls of her apartment to document that.
One key detail: "My wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE."
Again, that device Holmes showed? It's not the one we're talking about!!!!
Having seen the film, I basically agree with Tyler's take.
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Mamdani has discovered that socialism can succeed in New York through one simple trick: abandoning socialism theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Moderates have been searching for their version of Zohran Mamdani. Call off the search, I've found the guy! theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Zohran Mamdani, moderate hero theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Jonathan Chait retweeted
As recently as 2023, we had a four-team playoff. Exploding from four to 24 in four years is whiplash-inducing madness, but those selling it aren’t pausing long enough to acknowledge the unsettling impact. They don’t care.
Why the runaway expansion? Because there is no such thing as enough in an undisciplined market that refuses to regulate itself.
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In competitive authoritarian countries, regime allies limit and control mainstream media visibility to opposition figures and media. We're not there yet, but this is what it looks like.
(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies.
.. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.”
@THR
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Rogers is clearly saying the cops won't be intimidated, not that they should engage in intimidation. But deploying cops at poll stations is ugly stuff.
LEAKED AUDIO: Mike Rogers, falsely claiming his last election was stolen, says he wants to intimidate Detroit voters this time around.
"Let's put retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit. Go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."
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Or, those who thought Putin had disturbing sway over Trump were right all along theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
There's been a lot of hysteria over the years at Trump's posture towards Russia, which has often been worse rhetorically than practically. But this time, the wolf comes as a wolf.
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Jonathan Chait retweeted
To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
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Katie Zacharia, we hardly knew ye theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Five Fabulous Days of Katie Zacharia theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Why democratic socialists should not work with Leninists washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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I'm in complete agreement with my @TheAtlantic colleague, @BernieSanders theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Jonathan Chait retweeted
Horrified by what happened to our dear friend Heidi Levine while she was on assignment today.
“They just kept kicking me and kicking me,” she said.
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Jonathan Chait retweeted
This is false. The facts are, as we reported: Hasan Piker invited Jonathan Chait on his show. We instead invited Piker to do an interview with Chait and our podcast host. Piker's team accepted, before postponing twice, and then ultimately canceling. It was always clear who would be part of the interview.
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Jonathan Chait retweeted
"The most important problem with inviting Piker to join the pro-democracy coalition is that, by any reasonable definition of the term, he does not believe in democracy."
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"When you consider that this is my first time reading words out loud, today was actually a pretty impressive performance. I swear that I have seen a sentence before, and I know where one stops and. Starts. And whether? To speak. With a rising inflection?" --@petridishes, natch theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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