T Johnson
310 posts
I don’t want to talk about Hungary this much. But having actually read and researched and developed various sources over there over the years it’s insane to watch people casually assert that it’s some kind of North Korea on the Danube.
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This would be a serious mistake
Ken Girardin@PolicyEngineer
Good morning! Today could go down in history as the most expensive day ever for NY taxpayers. Public employee unions are right now headed to Albany to pressure Gov. Hochul into retroactively sweetening their pensions and slashing their retirement age to 55. Some background...🧵
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@Noahpinion Can I pass some version of the marshmallow test so I can go back and visit for a bit, I’ll go to Nagoya or something..
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Reading Right: James Gunn is a one-man demolition squad for how he politicized his awful #Superman reboot. Here's why: nationalreview.com/2025/07/the-un… #ReadingRight
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In fact, the American mind can easily comprehend that.
What the American mind cannot comprehend is THIS.
Cigarette Nostalgia@CigsMake
The American mind cannot comprehend this
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TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife trib.al/c6XdKvH
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My Conversation with the excellent @kylascan, Kyla Scanlon, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/kyla-…, #Cowenconvos
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Everyone's imagining Judge Dredd-style towers, but Tokyo mainly achieves this by having hundreds of miles of homes on small lots, human-scaled streets, and a lots of low-rise multifamily sprinkled around.
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A Greater Los Angeles built to the population density of Greater Tokyo is a city of 264,000,000 people.
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New on Chatter:
@shaneharris spoke to John Strausbaugh about his new book, "The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned," about how the Soviets created a space program with little concern for the cosmonauts they sent into space. lawfaremedia.org/article/chatte…
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@CathyYoung63 @NoahCRothman Don’t cede our founding symbols to one political affiliation, those symbols should belong to all those who in good faith seek to work for and within what that generation in their best intentions sought to achieve
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@NoahCRothman Doesn't that depend on the context, though? E.g., historical display vs political statement? (Perhaps that we need a new American Revolution?)
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Between this and the allegation that Justice Thomas observes a suspect “extreme closeness” with his wife, I wonder if Times reporters have a single person in their lives who is willing to tell them how crazy they sound.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
BREAKING NYT: Samuel Alito — two years after flying an upside-down American flag outside his Virginia home — flew at his vacation home an 'Appeal to Heaven' flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by Capitol rioters on Jan. 6. It appears to have been flown over the course of several months. nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/…
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@Noahpinion Alas, but I have saved Mikkeller on my google maps list! Thanks!
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Is Hurts' arm, well, Hurt? No passes beyond the LOS in the last three drives?
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I don't have to imagine it. I shot this video yesterday anticipating it.
Patty_C_83@PattyC831
@BudElliott3 @Cover3Podcast Imagine if Notre Dame goes undefeated the rest of the way but doesn’t get in the playoff… this could become a truly infamous moment
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@Noahpinion Spent three years there, it would be great if more Americans would go, it would demonstrate what is possible
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If you haven't been to Tokyo, then you simply have not seen the full potential of what a city can be.
noahpinion.blog/p/tokyo-is-the…
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T Johnson retweetledi
America hasn't built many walkable places in the last few decades, but there are a few exceptions
When collecting a list, I was shocked to discover that most of these special places are in the South!
I wrote up some reflections on why that might be: devonzuegel.com/america-s-hidd…
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@MikeBlack114 @overdesigned @_Dan_Ryan @zach_ota @BA_Friedman What's funnier is the Army will turn off the lights and maybe lock the doors (probably not) on a full ramp of about a hundred helicopters, while making some soldiers stay awake at the barracks for the 8735th Transport Company
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