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#EconTwitter. #GenX. #RuggedIndividualist Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.
Claremont, CA Tham gia Ağustos 2009
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Tax exemption should not be a status bestowed upon those adhering to the demands of whatever party is in power. Virginia will now spend additional money to fight for the right to discriminate against those who have opposing views in the state.
jonathanturley.org/2026/04/18/spa…
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@matthewgburgess @SamuelAbramsAEI @WSJ Undergrad Econ is where I learned about socialism from a socialist professor.
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Requiring economics for all college majors is a great idea.
@SamuelAbramsAEI argues persuasively in the @WSJ that young people enamored with socialism should learn undergrad economics (and statistics) so they can at least understand how capitalism works and why, and make their case from knowledge and not ignorance.
I've also heard colleagues make analogous arguments that right-leaning students benefit from learning about market failures (and deadweight loss, gains from trade, etc.) in undergrad econ classes, to sharpen their arguments.
Yes to all of it, I say! Basic economics (and quantitative reasoning) is essential to understanding all of our major policy debates and tradeoffs. Making it a core part of liberal/civics education seems like a good idea.
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Lines are being crossed that fully delegitimize a local government. This is not the first, of course. It should be the last.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn
Dogs are being used to test drugs on Skid Row, advocates say | KTLA ktla.com/news/local-new…
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RFK Jr. just EXPOSED the massive healthcare fraud machine: "We are paying for fraud now as much as for medicine."
"Today, the biggest job in New York, 650,000 people, the biggest employment niche is home care. These are family members who are getting paid to do things that they used to do as family members for free.”
What makes it worse: CMS cannot verify if the work was even done. No tracking, no proof, just taxpayer dollars flowing.
The result: Medicaid spending DOUBLED under Biden, with fraud now rivaling real medical care.
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The notion that a city would have a “climate plan” is insane.
Pave the fucking roads you incompetent grandstanding idiots.
New York Post@nypost
Karen Bass brings more misery to suffering Angelenos with radical 14-point climate plan trib.al/G9SB0O7
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The Governor appoints 4 of the 12 members of the Coastal Commission, and he appointed the Chair. So spare us all
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
This is NOT a decision the Governor made. Our office is looking into this matter on behalf of the people of Long Beach!
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The whole thing's really simple I think. Some people in academia last decade stuck their necks out against illiberalism within the academy. They did so when it was difficult and professionally damaging to do so. Either those people get more authority within the institution and lead it out of the present impasse, or they don't. One or the other.
Don't expect the old guard to have any interest in solving old problems, which they don't even perceive as problems.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
It’s not just that they were policing language. They were prohibiting a necessary question by publicly shaming the person who dared to ask it.
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Democrats are discussing plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose it again. Carville (curiously on a national podcast) told Democrats to keep the plans quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.” ... jonathanturley.org/2026/04/17/fk-…
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A bigger problem is that culturally dominant institutions equate capitalism with market distortions: political corruption, cartels, regulations that block competition. People who benefit from such market distortions promote mistrust of capitalism for self-serving reasons.
Marian L Tupy@Marian_L_Tupy
"My students are embracing democratic socialism because they’ve never been taught how capitalism works." wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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In isolation, the Eastman case is horrific. It effectively stripped a man of his ability to earn a living for the “crime” of giving legal advice. But in context, it is worse, because it shows how lawfare now punishes people simply for carrying out their professional duties.
The Federalist@FDRLST
John Eastman Disbarment Marks New Low In Lawfare Against Conservatives thefederalist.com/2026/04/17/joh…
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Government doesn't create wealth.
It redistributes it.
Usually badly.
Usually to friends.
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This is literally mind blowing
Spencer Pratt exposes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power salaries
- Over 100 LADWP employees earn an annual compensation of over $500,000 per year each
- 26 LADWP employees earn more than $600,000 thousand dollars per year
- 4 top level LADWP employees earn more than $700,000 dollars a year
- The LADWP has a combined water and power budget of 11 billion dollars
I looked into it further, and get this
100% of leadership and oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are aligned with Democrats
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass appointed the 5 member Board of Water and Power Commissioners, which sets policy and approves major decisions like executive hires and salaries
California is essentially run by the mafia
They are literally giving themselves $500,000 -$800,000 EACH and this is just one department
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Notice how the left always talk about "taxing the rich". Taxing the rich. Not "benefiting society". Not "helping the poor". The line is "tax the rich", over and over. Their goal is to punish success. To tear it down. And they're completely transparent about it.
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We as conservatives love to talk about how this doesn’t work and makes everything worse, which is true, but we also need to make the case for how morally depraved it is.
Envy, greed, resentment, pitting Americans against each other… it’s absolutely evil. Scum of the Earth.
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Fundamentally un-American to celebrate Tax Day by announcing new taxes. This is deeply disturbing — and from a rich kid who went to private schools, etc. Socialism is a luxury pastime of people who evade its costs. It’s never worked anywhere, and it will hurt working people most.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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If giving bad or unpopular legal advice amounts to cause for disbarment, they should disbar half the lawyers in California.
Note: the Marc Eliases of the world, who unleash hoaxes like Russia collusion for Democrats, are never disbarred for much worse.
latimes.com/california/sto…
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This is one way to increase viewpoint diversity, but the heterodox thinkers to be hired would lack meaningful power on campus. Activist, woke departments would treat the heterodox thinkers as freaks, perhaps also as archenemies.
Through its new Hamilton School, the U of Florida offers a more promising way: establishing competing departments that are not woke. Under UF’s reform, students get to choose courses from either side: the old woke departments and their un-woke alternatives.
Advantages: 1) Heterodox thinkers are not marginalized. 2) Competition for students induces woke departments to shape up. To survive, the preexisting activist departments start putting more emphasis on scholarship and on improving their courses.
Harvard’s path offers neither advantage.
The Harvard Crimson@thecrimson
SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. @HugoChiassonn and @EliseSpenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/4…
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A brief history of California politics:
First the Pelosi/Newsom/Willy Brown San Francisco Democrat Machine looted SF.
Then they used the spoils to take over and loot the rest of California (the wealthiest state in the nation).
The spoils from the looting of California were then used to install Joe Biden.
Electing Spencer Pratt as mayor of LA and ending the corruption would be a HUGE blow to the corrupt Democrat machine.
He's got a very good chance of winning. But the voter fraud will be off the charts. This has to be too big to steal, and every little bit counts. So please spread the word.
FischerKing@FischerKing64
Rogan dropped an interview with Spencer Pratt - LA guy told me to watch, probably knowing it would raise my blood pressure. Pratt is running for mayor, and the episode goes into detail about all the NGO fraud. Here they are talking about how of all the tens of millions in charity raised to help people whose houses burned down in the 2025 fire, basically none of it went to victims. NGOs got the $$ and wasted it. So it’s no shocker that so few homes in places like Pacific Palisades have been rebuilt. If you’re in LA you should take a look - and if you’re not, but want further insight into how the various NGOs rip off taxpayers for things like homelessness without ever solving the problem, it will interest you too.
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Rogan dropped an interview with Spencer Pratt - LA guy told me to watch, probably knowing it would raise my blood pressure. Pratt is running for mayor, and the episode goes into detail about all the NGO fraud.
Here they are talking about how of all the tens of millions in charity raised to help people whose houses burned down in the 2025 fire, basically none of it went to victims. NGOs got the $$ and wasted it. So it’s no shocker that so few homes in places like Pacific Palisades have been rebuilt. If you’re in LA you should take a look - and if you’re not, but want further insight into how the various NGOs rip off taxpayers for things like homelessness without ever solving the problem, it will interest you too.
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