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Josh Barro retweeted
The name is “Progressive Champions” but the team is republicans who want to deny @CaitforNewYork the nomination because they know she’s a strong candidate.
NEW FEC F24
PROGRESSIVE CHAMPIONS PAC
$1,500,000-> #NY17
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It’s been a terrific week of Europeans experiencing and opining on all the great things in America. I’ve been talking up hot American breakfast and black coffee for a while. But this gentleman absolutely nails why we’re doing temperature right
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Josh Barro retweeted
BREAKING: Chase Passive Income becomes the world's first gazillionaire as he acquires his ten trillionth vending machine
Elon Musk is reportedly stunned and embarrassed
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NYC-DSA released a public statement criticizing Mayor Mamdani's proposal to increase NYPD headcount.
NYC-DSA leadership has been extremely reluctant to publicly criticize Mamdani since he took office, so this is a very big deal. instagram.com/nycdsa/p/DZf0Z…
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 12
It’s not going to complicate anything. Dude hasn’t run a real race the last 47 times he’s run for office.
Jun 12
.@AlanGrayson has officially qualified in CD 7, entering a Dem Primary against @BaleDaltonFL and somewhat complicating @dccc efforts at unseating @CoryMillsFL.
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Jun 12
People are envious of billionaires. But their lifestyle is indistinguishable from yours. They drive Teslas. They wear Patagonia vests. They eat Le Bernardin sauteed Maine lobster with hazelnut-yuzu terrine and salmon caviar confits. Only difference is you're in business class.
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Oh come on
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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The study defines eminence as accomplishing "something rare" like becoming full professors at research universities or Fortune 500 executives; 12.3% of gifted participants achieved it, far exceeding general population rates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…
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It’s weird how many high-IQ liberals remain committed to the idea that IQ is fake even as liberals solidify their position as the high-IQ political coalition
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 10
Just got a “silver alert” which is a good reminder that California decided to racially segregate its missing person alert system for some reason.
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I realize other people don’t think the same way I do about speeding, but I think driving 116 in a 70 is very, very unethical because of the danger it poses to others, and ought to be taken more seriously as a sign of unfitness.
Jun 11
Jay jones also had a fraction of the scandals that Platner has and I cringe to think what else is about to come out.
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I think the way you drive says a lot about your character — are you courteous? Are you concerned about the safety of others? Are you concerned about your own safety? — and I would love to have black-box data about candidates’ driving styles.
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 11
I think purely linguistic issues are overrated in politics, but if there's one language change I would recommend it's ditching "public safety" and "gun violence" and talking about crime like a normal person.
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 11
If you want a sense of how nutty this is, they couldn’t get Zucman to sign on
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I’d go so far to say college essays are actively pernicious. They incentivize kids who are disproportionately the most well-off to mythologize adversity and develop martyr complexes. It’s ridiculous.
Jun 10
College essays should be abolished. 17 year olds mostly don't have deep interesting things to say ( if what they are saying is even true or written by them) and people shouldnt be at a disadvantage for living a normal middle class childhood.
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 10
Every line of this trailer will have you cringing harder than the one before it right up until the last one, at which point you will actually laugh out loud
Jun 10
Every revolution begins with a reckoning.
The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network, is coming exclusively to theatres October 9.
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This strikes me as unlikely. A national environment where Dems win Iowa or Texas is probably one that drags Platner over the finish line, too. Jay Jones won by six points...
Jun 10
News - With all of Platner's baggage, some Democrats think they can take the majority without Maine. This was unthinkable just a few months ago.
- Sen. Warnock said Maine is no longer a total must-win to flip Senate: “We have many opportunities. And that map has grown wider"
- Sen. Rosen said Dems "absolutely" can win without Platner: Iowa, Texas, Ohio, NC, Alaska: "There is a path for us to take the Senate back ... we're going to make some dents every place that we can"
- Senate Dem: “I can imagine a scenario where you lose Maine” and win the majority. Blumenthal said: “We have a path without Maine. But we’re counting on winning Maine"
D strategist working on Senate races: "Democrats have expanded the map....We don’t have to, nor should we, cross our fingers hoping Platner can drag a mountain of baggage across the finish line in Maine anymore.”
- Rosen, Warnock, Ossoff not endorsing Platner. Fetterman openly going after him. Warren said Dems need to get on board: “He has a really good chance to win in this race. And we should help him do it"
- Dem groups still keeping Maine on board but acknowledge there are multiple paths to the majority now
- NRSC polling was "bleak" yesterday but Collins has improved her numbers a bit, one attendee said
- Sen. Murphy thought my question was silly: "if I'm someone who believes that we're going to win Maine, then I don't spend any time thinking about not winning Maine"
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Josh Barro retweeted
Jun 10
Lol @ all the Biden economic officials *now* complaining about inflation-adjusted wages after spending years yelling at me for covering them when they were in charge
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Josh Barro retweeted
Is that the app your grandfather used to surrender at Yorktown
Jun 9
Why don’t Americans use WhatsApp?????
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But Schlossberg doesn’t have anything to run on besides that he’s a Kennedy. Like Graham Platner, he’s just a grown man who doesn’t work for a living, relies on his family’s financial support, and now wants to make the laws.
Jun 10
During a debate for N.Y.’s 12th Congressional District, candidate Micah Lasher noted candidate Jack Schlossberg's family, and added that Lasher was in the race because of "two decades of public service." In response, Schlossberg, who is the grandson of John F. Kennedy, told Lasher, "do not ever invoke my family name to try to denigrate who I am."
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“F1 is Real Housewives for straight men. It’s rich, hot men having catfights.”
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