Word herder. Formerly at @qz, @business, other places. "The answer to all of your questions is money."

New York
Joined August 2010
It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts. I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me: There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States. The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud. This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal: A presidential commission under President Donald Trump. The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena. Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government. State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud. Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems. Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud. Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud. What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud? Ask The Heritage Foundation. For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an ā€œElection Fraud Database.ā€ The database contains ā€œproven instances of election fraud.ā€ It covers elections going back nearly fifty years. That’s billions and billions of American votes. Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is: 1620. That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things: 1. Some individuals commit election fraud. 2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA. The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time. It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that. Stop trying to subvert our democracy. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
Replying to @TerryMoran
Whenever election fraud enters the news, libs seek out the worst arguments and mock them. Instead of the straw men, why not seek a steel man argument? Because when your tribal mind is made up, you're not interested in the steel man.
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Replying to @nahuelzn
Lo mal que tenƩs que hacer las cosas para que un Ɣrbitro sea querido.
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We didn’t care about how much protein we ate. We used drugstore shampoo and conditioner. We drank out of plastic bottles. We touched receipts. We could wait in a line without needing to check our phones. We could watch a 3-hour movie without even flinching. No one knew what was happening in our lives because we didn’t have social media to tell them. We could get to places without using GPS. We didn’t even know how powerful we were.
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Once again, for those in the back.
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The 3 factors that changed debt levels the most since CBO's 2001 projections: 1. The series of tax cuts in 2001, 2003, & 2017 (inc. extensions in 2010, 2012, & 2025) 2. 3 recessions + economic relief (inc. ARRA, CARES, & ARP) 3. Iraq & Afghanistan (most of "discretionary" here)
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PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
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Dale Earnhardt was the most redneck redneck to ever redneck and he took the confederate flag off his car because his Black housekeeper said she didn’t want to see it. It’s really not that hard to not be an asshole.
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Outright lies. Trump's assets aren't in a blind trust, and he bought and sold individual Nvidia stock in 15 separate transactions totaling millions of dollars. That's what Trump's financial disclosure - which has his signature - says. See for yourself: extapps2.oge.gov/201/Preside…
.@SenWarren All of our assets are invested in a blind trust by the largest financial institutions in broad market indexes. To suggest that individual stocks are being bought or sold, at the discretion of any member of the Trump family, would be a lie and blatantly false. Using a silly example, if you buy the ā€œSchwab 1000,ā€ you will get some exposure to Nvidia - as well as a 1,000 other U.S. companies large- and mid-cap stocks. It’s completely disingenuous to represent anything to the contrary. Please be better than this…
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Central Park is great, but it takes up a lot of space and isn’t utilized to its full potential. That’s why I worked with McKinsey on a plan to make it a state of the art data center, complemented by rooftop parking and nuclear power. We can still build beautiful things.
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Mike Lawler ran to Donald Trump for cover because he’s afraid of my campaign. He should be, and so should Trump. See you in November Mike.
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hasanabi
@hasanthehunMay 7
why is @lawler4ny and donald trump so afraid of @effie4congress that they're actively weighing in on this race before the democratic primary?
Donald Trump weighs in on the NY-17 Democratic primary, calling Effie Phillips-Staley a ā€œFRAUDSTERā€
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Drop everything you're doing and watch this now. RIGHT NOW. Ari K and Schuyler Brown, I have no idea who you 2 beautiful bastards are, but you're instant legends. Hopefully someone in the comments knows and tags.
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šŸŽ„šŸ New post: We Need More Democrats Like Effie Phillips-Staley. This is the kind of candidate profile that makes you think, yeah, the party really does need more people like this. šŸ‘ Must watch! thelibertypear.com/2026/03/2…
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Trump is completely unable to understand systems based on any kind of abstract logic
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Replying to @gtconway3d
BREAKING: For the first time in history the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize has started a war.
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Coming soon to Las Vegas casinos: an ATM that melts down your gold jewelry at 2200°F, verifies the purity and weight, and then transfers the value (minus fees) to your bank account. This will devastate the local pawn shop industry.
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Immigrants saved US government at all levels $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023 because the taxes they paid cut budget deficits by nearly one-third in real terms, a new Cato Institute study reports. Learn more from @David_J_Bier. ow.ly/gvWM50Y8lau
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What is the "crypto industry"? Like, what does it produce?
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Good chart for people looking for A.I. impact:
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It’s so strange how the democrats were able to steal the 2020 election when they were out of power but couldn’t steal the 2024 election when they were in power.
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