Phil Nelson
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Phil Nelson
@ThePhullNelson
Unrepentant Old Whig. I tweet about politics and war that my children may have liberty to tweet about mathematics and philosophy.
Katılım Şubat 2014
210 Takip Edilen37 Takipçiler
What’s the protocol here?
You just waxed a boat full of pirates. Do you just sail away?
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@mattyglesias @RBReich They why doesn’t @RBReich have a billion dollars? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought so!
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@RBReich I feel like there are a lot of counterexamples to this!
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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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And it is I, Hannah Einbinder who stands alone against this horror.
Variety@Variety
Hannah Einbinder says Hollywood not speaking out in support of Palestine "pisses me off" and they "need these issues to affect a white person for them" to care. “I look at these people who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind and they cannot utter a single word. I really can’t understand it... People in Hollywood, unfortunately, need these issues to affect a white person for them to see it as relating to them,” she noted. “Like, they see Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air suddenly, they see Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled by CBS, which is owned by the Ellisons, and they go, ‘How could this possibly happen?’ And it’s like, we know how because we saw students and professors and journalists and authors and Palestinian folks be silenced and fired and expelled and imprisoned… it took it happening to these white men for people to be like, ‘Oh my god.’” variety.com/2026/film/news…
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A cheeseburger is one of the most perfect food items conceived by man, but I think they’re best with mustard, not some dirty mayonnaise-based “special sauce.”
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@awstar11 @Heminator . . . to the eternal shame of the NY Times.
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Dogs can rape humans. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my prestigious media job over? Dogs can rape humans.
AG@AGHamilton29
It’s telling that Kristof has to lie about this because he can’t defend the claim or sourcing. Insane that NYT didn’t have any editors who objected.
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@bendreyfuss Correct. Mustard, pickles, bacon, and - for fancy lads like me - sautéed onion. And that's it. Nothing else. Nothing.
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@Hebro_Steele It’s a true vision of Hell: the ideas that we permit to occupy our minds, and in doing so, poison our souls.
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“How long are you going to ride that beef?” — Shelby Steele
Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
"If someone fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today, they would say the only difference is now Black Americans have TV shows and wear nice suits" "They've swapped out Klan Hoods for Brooks Brothers suits" Horribly divisive rhetoric from Bakari Sellers on CNN tonight.
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@ingelramdecoucy “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”
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The Trump plane hanging out in the background is what we call “foreshadowing”
donut 🌹@donutical
Mitt Romney, circa. 2012, following his loss against President Obama in the November Election.
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Took my a full minute before I realized that this was supposed to be a negative post about Pratt
James Li@5149jamesli
🚨 Spencer Pratt, in a private DM: - called antisemitism a "mind virus" - accused current leaders of playing "far too cute" with antisemitic tropes - promises more LAPD presence around Chabad centers - says DOJ should more aggressively prosecute antisemites
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@JonnyMicro They’re gonna do to my beautiful Wustofs what they’ve done to our gas can spouts!
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After they take your guns they won’t stop there, folks
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
Actor Idris Elba has an idea how to stop knife attacks in the UK. You're gonna want to hear this one.
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@eigenrobot @RonColeman @Megankstack They all gathered around and touched me in my bathing suit area, i don’t like to talk about it
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i was raped by a large number of new york times employees. anyone else have this experience? i think @Megankstack needs to know
the worst part is they were uniformly terrible lays. put that in the story
Megan K. Stack@Megankstack
14 people telling a journalist they were raped is, imo, too many to dismiss. Especially in a society where shame/stigma around sexual assault is even greater than in the US. Incredible how many people just will. not. consider that their pre-existing view might be flawed.
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Love that Trump has some immensely fat friend that he randomly decides to drag in the middle of press conferences, probably one of his most relatable “dude” traits
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "He's a famous guy. He's begging me not to release his name. He's a very highly neurotic, very fat -- sort of a fat slob I would call him."
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@spengjr @AndGaijin Correct. We have plenty of uneducated U.S. citizens to do that job already.
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@AndGaijin We don’t need to import uneducated foreigners just to tell us what we’re doing wrong
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Student visa holders are supposed to come here, complete school, then go back to their home countries; not abuse the freedoms the Constitution protects for its citizens, in order to foment hate.
Senator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen
Free speech is free speech — you don't get to pick and choose. If you are mad about Trump's efforts to muzzle Jimmy Kimmel, you should be equally angry about his efforts to punish students who speak out against U.S. complicity in the horrors in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/08/nyr…
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@jay_kobbe The real problem here is that, even as a joke, it’s just not that funny.
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@feelsdesperate @AnthonyAbides I’m so much happier when billionaires hoard their wealth and leave me alone than when they try to spend it to make the world a better place
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I wish these guys could get even 1/10th as upset about $ trillions in public funds being wasted and stolen as they do about a handful of billionaires having fun on their yachts.
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@ingelramdecoucy This is what I am here for. Feed it directly into my old, old veins.
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One of the nice things about having an older follower base is I can generally just drop a random reference to some movie that was popular 30 years ago and feel reasonably confident that most will get it
And yes, As Good As It Gets came out nearly 30 years ago
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Having reason and accountability
Elma@oelma__
Women deal with periods, pregnancy, menopause wtf do men deal with ?
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"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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@burn50041 @charlescwcooke Four legs good, two legs bad, indeed!
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@charlescwcooke The 4 legged variety are cuter and smarter than the 2 legged.
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