David Boaz Resident Writing Fellow @JoinYoungVoices

Joined January 2024
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name THE hardest line in all of fiction.
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Fetterman never needed media glazing to relate to male voters. He was just authentic...
With campaigns that blend manliness with populist outrage, “dudebro” candidates across the political spectrum hope influencer-style swagger will win over voters. So who exactly is this guy? 🔗 on.wsj.com/4uzDsrd
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We’re always just one more tax away from utopia.
A 5% tax on Elon’s net worth would fund every community health center in America for the next 26 years. I’ll say it again. Tax the rich.
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We should make sure Americans are not pursuing entrepreneurial, game-changing, humanity-improving innovations and inventions that create enormous value and catapult American competitiveness? That culture and pursuit are what makes America special and unique. And it’s why Europe has no trillion dollar companies and is nowhere in the ai revolution or technology
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
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Good? Blatant antisemitism towards a recruiter is unprofessional & abhorrent. This isn’t cancel culture digging up some age-old comment/dumb joke.
Cornell student Austin Franco was doxxed by Jewish business leaders after explaining that he “didn’t want to work for a Jew,” claiming his experiences with Jews were not “pleasant,” after a NYC startup he had applied to reached out to him three times. After one of the cofounders, Gabe Einhorn, posted Franco’s reply with his last name blocked out, Franco was quickly identified. Einhorn said he did not “want to ruin his life,” but wanted to “raise awareness” of antisemitism. Franco, in a now-deleted post, said that in his personal and professional experiences, Jews were tribalistic and vengeful, and tended to ruin and bully others who opposed them. Franco stated, “I am sure that if you indicated you didn’t want to work for someone who was White or Christian this would not have blown up…” Franco claimed that the actions by Einhorn and the Jewish community, posting his reply, doxxing him, and then trying to investigate and uproot his personal life, vindicated his concerns that Jews do not work with others politely. Follow: @AFpost
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Dario (48 hours ago): “US gov should be able to block model deployment” USG: *export controls models* Dario: “not like that”
The Trump administration has placed Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 under export controls. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Dario Amodei tonight stating that foreign governments, companies, and individuals will no longer have access to either model.
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Why hasn’t terror-aligned chaos agent Mahmoud Khalil been deported yet?
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NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.
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Politicians have spent billions of taxpayer dollars on duplicative broadband connectivity programs. SpaceX, a company that can credibly claim the ability to connect everyone on earth to the Internet, goes public and those same politicians spend the day demonizing its success.
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An ordinary 401k/Roth delivers superior returns to Social Security and provides a cushion of financial flexibility. Our government-mandated system is designed to keep us poorer.
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We have had 47 murders on the NYC transit system since 2020, plus four self-defense killings, most of the murders random stranger on stranger killings with no provocation. We used to have 1-2 murders a year on transit. That number has consistently quadrupled in the past six years and it hasn't abated this year. Why is it so hard to get people to understand the data??? Don't just wander over here and spout off your theoretical urbanist nonsense. Actually research and understand the facts for once.
Replying to @humantransit
As always: I am not denying that actual crime sometimes happens, but I do think it’s relevant that actual crime rates are falling. I respect everyone’s right to act on their own feelings, but we can’t make public policy based only on feelings, because . 2/
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Bernie Sanders realizing he now has to update his speeches to attack the multimillionaires, billionaires and trillionaires
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Elon is the closest thing we have to a real life superhero.
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk
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Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire Following the successful IPO of SpaceX, which merged his space business with artificial intelligence projects, Elon Musk has officially crossed the $1 trillion net worth threshold.
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Yes, but this is a choice: - the average age of a primary voter is 65 - young people have no AARP - instead they get psy-opped into obsessing about side issues like climate change, Gaza, etc. while ignoring the fundamental material reality:
Seeing a lot of millennials gloating about this. I’m sorry but if you actually think the boomers are going to take a 22% haircut on their Viking River Cruise checks I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
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‼️ICYMI, my latest @realDailyWire on how corporate America can ditch the SPLC. "The SPLC’s hate list helped inject lies about faith & right-of-center politics into corporate America. This lie damaged America’s social fabric and created genuine danger for real people." ⏬
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I like this thinking. Safe, reliable subway lines reaching further into the outer boroughs & NJ would go a long way in making NYC more affordable and prosperous.
New York City is actually FAR LESS dense than people think, and it's all got to do with transit. Most residential density is located around the subway, where land values are higher (and thus more built up) BECAUSE it is within the boundary of land within a commutable distance to other parts of the city. Outside of these areas, New York is actually extremely low-dense. Residential land across all five boroughs averages a 1.69 FAR, meaning that if it were evenly distributed, the average building would be under two stories. (In reality, the distribution isn't even, and lots of lots are only partially used). Rents have increased because, for the last eighty years, we just haven't been expanding the boundary of commutable land like we used to (86% of the subway was completed by 1940), pushing up prices within the limited space that is most accessible. Fix the subway, and you fix housing.
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"Palantir’s role is to help make complicated systems run more efficiently. In doing so, it has saved the lives of thousands while helping the government to uphold the law. Only the truly deranged fail to see that."
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Grounded in over a century of antitrust law by presumptively banning unilateral practices by firms who have a certain amount of revenues and users without any demonstration they have monopoly power or dominance? Yeah, that's exactly how Section 2 of the Sherman Act works. 🤣
It is encouraging to see bipartisan action to advance a straightforward American ideal: markets work best when there is real competition—and when the biggest players can't rig the game in their own favor. It is time for Big Tech's monopolistic practices to end, and we applaud these Senators for prioritizing the interests of consumers and small businesses. We hope the Committee will advance this legislation expeditiously. AICOA is grounded in more than a century of American antitrust law, running straight back to the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the bedrock principle that a monopolist cannot leverage control of an essential marketplace to crush competition. The bill would be enforced by antitrust authorities and adjudicated in American courts, where covered platforms receive the due process and affirmative defenses our legal tradition guarantees.
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