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Ben Dreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·
Then a time traveler appeared out of thin air and broke the kid’s neck and said, “I know you won’t believe me but that kid was going to grow up to be Hitler 2.0” and vanished in a puff of smoke.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
Bob Dylan, who turns 85 today, is a fine lyricist, put out a few very decent records, and is one of the worst singers ever to hit the top 5. The Byrds got to number 1 with Mr. Tambourine Man (a good song!) because he couldn't sing and they could.
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neo@neo_kme·
The radio debate between Eugene McCarthy and Joseph McCarthy (1952) was a surprisingly lowkey and the two got along fine.
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Robinson Meyer
Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer·
At the absolute peak of the water crisis in Flint, the city’s kids had average blood lead levels of 1.3 micrograms per deciliter. That was, obviously, a crisis — it was roughly 2x the average American child’s blood levels that year. But from 1976 to 1980, the *average* kid in Los Angeles had average blood levels of 15 micrograms — and that was seen as normal. And little wonder: In the era of leaded gasoline, lead levels in LA’s ambient air were 50 times higher than they are today. That’s one of many staggering facts I learned from Ann Carlson’s new book, “Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air.” She tells the story of how LA cleaned up its air pollution problem — and helped solve the entire world’s air pollution problem in the process. For instance, the global end of leaded gasoline was in some ways a happy byproduct of the quest to eliminate LA’s smog. The successful cleaning up of LA’s air is one of many environmental victories that have become so normal that we hardly notice them — even though much of the real progress behind that win actually happened in my lifetime (and the lifetime of my fellow Millennials). Listen and get the whole story at @heatmap_news: heatmap.news/podcast/shift-… or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/65bac3af03341c…
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ChrisO_wiki
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki·
Hindu nationalist "history" is pretty wild. I guess my ancestors must have been merpeople?
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Greg Ip
Greg Ip@greg_ip·
These two charts show the step-rise in trend federal deficits and inflation over the last 3 cycles. Makes you wonder why bond yields took this long to get to this level. My column discusses: wsj.com/economy/centra…
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Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17·
Folks, to clarify for some replies/DMs: at the levels the national environment is at right now, the House isn't even close to a tossup, whatever may happen with redistricting. You can credibly make an argument that the *Senate* — where the 51st seat is Trump +13 — is a tossup.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
People fighting for their lives, their homes, and their families are always going to fight harder than people fighting for imperial dreams of conquest, rape, and plunder.
François Fleuret@francoisfleuret

I have always been pro-ukraine and reasonably optimistic about the situation, but I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams that (1) Ukraine would be that good on all axis, and (2) that Russia would suck so much. It's amazing.

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chairman biden@chairmanbiden74·
when democrats win back the presidency in 2028 they wont be able to get the senate votes to rebuild the east wing so for the foreseeable future a third of the white house will just be in ruins which i think is a beautiful physical representation of the state of american democracy
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Ethan C7
Ethan C7@ECaliberSeven·
Underrated dynamic rn is that under Biden, Dems actually held their own downballot for Gov & Leg, giving them the ability to, among other things, fight the gerrymandering war. If this war happened in 2017, after the catastrophic Obama-era losses, it would’ve been a bloodbath.
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
least antisemitic russian peasant
Kyle Orton@KyleWOrton

#Russia: in a village not far from Moscow in 2008, a local was asked why the population was so antisemitic: "It is because the Jews have a secret vegetable they eat so they don’t become alcoholics like the rest of us. And they refuse to share that vegetable with anyone else."

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1926 Live@100YearsAgoLive·
About 2,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan march through Bellingham, Washington after  being banned from Bellingham’s Tulip Parade. They made their *own* flowery float!
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1926 Live@100YearsAgoLive·
Bubbling Over wins the 1926 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Kentucky.
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