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Cole Maritz
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Cole Maritz
@ColeMaritz
EIR @ManhattanInst. Opinions my own.
New York, NY Katılım Ocak 2014
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Caffe Panna’s Cookies & Panna is superior, but is only available in speciality supermarkets so is ineligible for the title.
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After sampling many varieties of store bought ice cream, I have definitively concluded that McConnell’s Sea Salt Cream & Cookies is the best supermarket pint available.
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The NBA could easily improve their ratings by requiring that all the coaches wear a suit and tie again. The quarter zip has negative aura.
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As someone who has lived in NYC for more than a decade, I can say this reflects my personal experience. We have seen a material increase in random subway murders compared to pre-Covid. My neighborhood has more homeless crazies than before 2020.
Dismissing crime and disorder concerns suggests you are letting your ideology override legitimate concerns.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
This insistence that crime and disorder aren't really issues in American cities, when in fact many cities just basically decided to stop doing law enforcement post-2020, just feels very Orwellian and tone deaf.
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A desire to fix quality-of-life issues should be seen as nonpartisan, and local politicians should focus exclusively on local issues. Daniel Lurie is one of the most popular politicians in the country because he’s solely focused on SF issues. Spencer Pratt is wise to emulate him.
USA TODAY@USATODAY
Opinion: Spencer Pratt's goals shouldn't be controversial, but in today's political climate, even quality-of-life concerns are often dismissed as "MAGA." usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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And that's a wrap.
I am so grateful to everyone who has helped me in this journey all the way from high school in Venezuela to becoming a PhD in Economics.
The best is yet to come!
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LA having 10%(!!!!) of the entire country’s homeless population is so insane it sounds fake. And people wonder why Spencer Pratt is surging in the polls.
Brandon Fuller@fuller_brandon
LA has 3% of America's population but 10% of its homeless. Its unsheltered homeless population is 10x larger than NYC's. CA spent $20B on homelessness from 2019–2024. Homelessness went up. LA is a magnet: More than half of LA's street homeless are from outside of LA county. This isn't compassion, it's gross negligence. @CharlesFLehman on new reporting from @christopherrufo and @kennethschrupp in @CityJournal cityjournal.substack.com/p/whose-streets
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They’re doing everything they can to make me like Becerra, but I’m not going to fall for it.
jordan@JordanUhl
If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick? But this isn't a hypothetical. On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers. Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.
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@DecaturTenant I used to think that, but the evidence suggests otherwise. Oregon decriminalized drug possession in 2020, but then re-criminalized it in 2024. And the evidence that safe use sites keep people alive is thin: city-journal.org/article/superv…
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@ColeMaritz Additionally, if you have Safe use sites that one helps keep people alive, but it also takes people that are using drugs off the street. And again offer services to help them deal with their addiction.
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Hard to think of a policy that’s done more harm to our cities than ‘harm reduction’.
jj smith@war24182236
Previously Film As long as San Francisco still have things going on in the city like this,freely giving away drug paraphernalia in the name of Harm Reduction SAFE USE and not offering nobody treatment. We’re gonna stay in this drug crisis.
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Is there any platform with more users and less cultural influence than Snapchat?
They have nearly 1B MAU globally vs ~600M on X/Twitter. Yet almost no culturally significant content comes from Snapchat.
LinkedIn is more culturally relevant.
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@PresKrekorian Did you watch his video? He discusses how he’ll use existing laws to implement his policies.
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@ColeMaritz Do his ideas comply with the law? In other words are they even possible to implement? Because it is not deeply considered and thoughtful to throw our unworkable solutions.
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For all the criticism Spencer Pratt has received for being a reality TV star and not a politician, he appears to have by far the most deeply considered and thoughtful policies on key issues of all the candidates in the race.
Christina Buttons@buttonslives
I could not agree more with @spencerpratt on mandatory treatment. I investigated California’s behavioral-health spending for @CityJournal, and what I found supports Spencer’s point: the state spends billions on voluntary care while failing people who need mandatory treatment. My investigation focused on youth settings, but the same philosophy applies to adults: prioritize the “least restrictive settings.” In 2024, Newsom pitched Prop. 1, a $6.4 billion bond, as a solution to California’s treatment-bed shortage. But 30% went to homeless housing under Housing First, which requires no sobriety or treatment. The treatment-facility funding was expected to yield 80% outpatient slots and 20% treatment beds, essentially all voluntary care. And even those projects are badly behind schedule. California will fund almost anything except locked treatment programs that can keep people with serious mental illness or drug addiction in care long enough to save their lives. Youth with serious mental-health needs repeatedly cycle through crisis settings, only to be “treated and streeted,” because there is nowhere safe for them to go. Los Angeles County warned that high-need youth were being placed in programs never designed to safely manage them. In unsecured settings, kids run away, die from fentanyl, and are sex trafficked, while staff face serious assaults. Yet instead of listening to hospitals and county workers begging for more intensive treatment options, the state spent millions on social justice and equity consultants who claim the root causes of mental illness and substance abuse are white supremacy and racism, and call to "decriminalize" drug use. When I asked the Newsom admin for comment, they called secure youth treatment “cruel.” It is far crueler to let people who could be helped in secure treatment die on the street. Sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do is make treatment mandatory. Read more: city-journal.org/article/califo…
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I felt the same way about Zohran in his election. He was dominating the Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok discourse. I thought there was no way it would translate to the real world. But it did.
Increasingly social media is more real than the real world, because it’s one of the few places left people feel safe to express their true feelings.
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I don't underestimate Pratt. He's been very impressive. But I do wonder if the Twitter buzz overestimates his penetration of the conscience of the voters in Los Angeles. Twitter is not the real world, which is where the voters live.
Mann Made Cinema@Hotshot_Movie
When was the last time you saw a 9 minute video get 3.3M views and 68K likes in the internet attention span age? Keep underestimating him 🤷♂️
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@fuller_brandon @reihan It’s sad to see how far Stanford has fallen.
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Stanford’s new flagship freshman course “Why College?” assigns 45 pages of classical Western philosophy against 500+ pages of contemporary writing on identity and oppression — an 11:1 ratio. No Aristotle, Kant, Mill, or Locke. Lots of Freire, Kimmerer, and Tara Westover.
Stanford’s “progressive-to-canonical” course ratio has tripled since 1999 and now leads all peer institutions — higher than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Chicago.
Professor Iván Marinovic offers a precise indictment in @TheFP.
thefp.com/p/stanford-fac…
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We are living in the personal revenge era. Spencer Pratt, Trump, Elon, this guy. They all suffered a tragedy, personal setback, or public humiliation, so took it upon themselves to autistically pursue excellence in a specific domain. People like this should never be underestimated.
The Real Guardrail Guy@theguardrailguy
3 MILLION VIEWS LATER @TVAnews fixed the guardrail. @timburchett staff saw it and called me. Thanks for your help Tim, you have a great group of staffers!
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