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@EsotericCD The thing about Dylan is that he really is a fine singer, he just has a lousy voice.

I've given this a lot of thought, and I've concluded two things about Leonard Cohen: (1) He really just cannot sing, and don't give me that Dylan retort either, because Bob Dylan knows PRECISELY how to convey feeling. Cohen sings like a slab of granite. (2) We were denied the Dustin Hoffman-starring biopic we deserved. It's too late now!

@Brooklynp8triot @VickieforNYC But remember, blacks are scared to death of cops, so much so that they need ‘The Talk’. We’re supposed to believe that they think if they don’t cooperate completely they’ll be executed!

This incident, in which high school students displayed overt disrespect and aggression toward law enforcement, highlights a troubling erosion of authority in certain New York City neighborhoods. Compounding the problem, footage of police officers being chased out by groups of teenagers underscores a broader collapse of order. Critics attribute these failures, at least in part, to the effects of aggressive DEI-driven hiring practices within the NYPD, which they argue have compromised standards and effectiveness.

@jessica_roy Maybe, just maybe, you’re not nearly as smart as you think you are

Everyone who thinks they're too smart, too financially aware, too tech-savvy to have this happen to them is wrong. Sorry. thecut.com/article/amazon…

@JillFilipovic @PeterMoskos So you’re proposing that those protestors do a full and impartial investigation? Fly to Israel, find the parties of interest, etc?

I get why people are mad at the Kristof column, which contained many explosive claims. However, isn't the answer to do a full and impartial investigation of the prisons where so many claims of abuse, torture, and sexual assault have occurred?

@JeffAnderson_ So your point is that racial discrimination isn’t really a big deal? I guess this is slightly better than yesterday when you accused someone of not having read the article and then triumphantly pulled a quote from it that destroyed your entire argument. That was classic

Yall can seriously not be this pressed about Yale having 44 total black medical students lol.

@JeffAnderson_ @LakerGMC_ @washingtonpost Logic isn’t your strong suit Jeff

@LakerGMC_ @washingtonpost Read the article Gary in DFW. “[black applicants] had higher odds of getting an interview for admission than an EQUALLY strong Asian applicant with SIMILAR academic credentials.”

Breaking news: After a year-long investigation, the Justice Department concluded the Yale School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions, favoring Black and Hispanic applicants over White and Asian ones. wapo.st/3Rp0yTo

@seledka_vodka @cthulhupotamus @HBO Most viewers missed this?

There is a scene in @HBO's Chernobyl that most viewers miss. A scientist presents evidence of the disaster to a Belarusian party official. The official dismisses her expertise, then boasts that he used to run a shoe factory. It is not central to the plot, but it explains everything. The Soviet Union was governed by a snowball of incompetence - decades of nepotism where ministries were handed to people with no relevant knowledge, provided they had the right party connections. Pedigree was political, not professional. I grew up there. My parents were subject matter experts who spent their careers battling apparatchiks enforcing decisions they did not understand. That is why I flinch when I hear the same logic here in Britain. @UKLabour politicians celebrate the "right background" - the poorer, the more deprived, the better. Council house to government, presented as triumph. Progress and resilience deserve recognition. But in these jubilations, merit vanishes. And celebrating ascent without competence is not progress. It is the embryo of disaster. Look at the Labour Party's front bench. Britain's central challenge is wealth creation - economic growth. Yet these are former charity workers, public sector lifers, people who have always been on the receiving end of funds rather than generating them. They have never had to create value others willingly pay for. So they look to regulators for growth ideas. It is farcical. It is only possible in a culture where navigating party structures replaces proven ability. A friend told me recently his wife had to close her coffee shop - high traffic, real revenue, still unprofitable due to taxes and business rates. In his frustration he said something raw: he no longer cares if folks running the government are toolmakers' sons or landed gentry. He wants competence. He found himself saying he would rather be ruled by Old Etonians. Not because Eton College guarantees talent. It does not. But sheer competence - knowing your subject - has become so scarce in British governance that the impulse is understandable. We are not the Soviet Union. We are nowhere near collapse. But on the left of our politics, the distance is shrinking faster than we admit.

@Roybattyforever Wasn’t he in Airplane and Naked Gun?

¿Cuántos fans de este gran tenor por aquí?

@RockNRoLL_85 Why Don’t We Do It In The Road is a better song than Imagine

Is “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Paul McCartney a better song than “Imagine” by John Lennon

@TheCinesthetic Deliverance

What’s a sex scene that genuinely mattered to the plot and couldn’t be removed from the film?

@jk_rowling @dicentra33 I agree with that statement, but how do you explain that a higher % of women than men support trans guys in women’s sports?

The number of men who don't see women as fully human can be measured by their indifference to trans-identified males invading women's spaces. 'What's the harm?' they shrug. 'Who's it hurting?' Women. It's hurting women. And the essence of misogyny is thinking that doesn't count.

@DannyDrinksWine The most realistic portrayal of an alcoholic I’ve ever seen in Under the Volcano

Remembering the great English actor, Albert Finney, on his 90th birthday! Albert Finney on his role in "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning" (1960): "I was the first man to be seen sleeping with another man's wife in an English film."

@mattyglesias By ‘personal consumption’ you mean spending in the marketplace, allowing businesses to grow, pay employees and suppliers, pay their taxes,etc? What’s wrong with this exactly?

But conversely, while there is nothing wrong with building a great business and becoming extraordinarily wealthy there *is* something wrong with hoarding that wealthy for personal consumption or to pass to your kids. slowboring.com/p/the-real-pro…

I think it’s interesting that going back at least as far as Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain the go-to examples for this argument are always celebrity entertainers when obviously the vast majority of extreme wealth is either successful founders, successful investors, or their heirs.

@Logically_JC Welcome to separation of powers

1.6 million voters approved the redistricting in Virginia. 4 judges denied them.

@Suzierizzo1 Take away the right of black voters to be in voting districts where they’re the majority, regardless of their geographical dispersion? Where exactly Is that right set out?

Tennessee is finding out what happens when you try to take away the rights of black voters by gutting the Voting Rights Act.Republicans think that this outrage will just go away quietly,but it doesn’t look like it will so they better be prepared for the long haul.

@ThrillaRilla369 Pop

For those who gave up soda… what are you drinking now instead? 😁🫗

@BernieSanders ‘This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.’ Odd you’d admit this on your own tweet, but we appreciate the honesty

Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election. Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California. He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.

@miles_commodore The actual number is ‘more’

Question for Democrats. What does “paying their fair share” mean? Is there an actual number?

@AJKayWriter You forgot to mention one of the most important: cowardice. Scientists have let a vocal minority take over respected institutions and politicized science while keeping their heads down, afraid to say a word

What’s really wild is watching scientists blame the public for the loss of trust instead of recognizing it as a predictable response to their own failures (e.g. opacity, arrogance, conflicts of interest, groupthink, politicization, dogma, authoritarianism, censorship, fraud, lies, and outright harm to name a few.)

@BarackObama @MichelleObama @ObamaFoundation Huh. Didn’t realize you two were still married. Who knew?

Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center! Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more. Tickets available at tickets.obama.org.