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DHacker615 🇺🇸 retweeted
A few months back Ezra Klein gave a theory of social media and politics that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
"Whoever wins Twitter pays for it 3-4 years later."
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Werner Herzog on psychoanalysis: “If you harshly light every last corner of a house, the house will be uninhabitable. It’s like that with your soul.”
Only Herzog could make a metaphor about darkness sound this profound.
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I actually like Cheesecake Factory and have enjoyed every meal I had there, but aside from their comically enormous menu and pretty good cheesecake, a big part of the enjoyment comes from the fact that it looks like you're dining in the tomb of the gayest pharaoh.
DHacker615 🇺🇸 retweeted
When this conversation comes up, I always go back to this really succinct quote from Fran Lebowitz.
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Everyone NEEDS to spend 5 Minutes listening to this clip tonight of Obama Talking about Trump's Reaction to his Cheesecake Factory comment.
It's not only hilarious, but so true.
Every American needs to watch this.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
DHacker615 🇺🇸 retweeted
My alma mater, Columbia University, quietly added this short answer question to their undergraduate application this year.
Even they are starting to become wary of the strain of anti-Americanism that has infested universities across the West.
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Portland’s Royal Sonesta: bought for $108.3M in 2016. Now reportedly sold for $6.83M for 220 rooms—just $31,000 per key. A staggering 93.7% price collapse.
This is what happens when government fails at public safety, downtown disorder spirals, Measure 110’s consequences go unaddressed, and Multnomah County’s mental-health system fails people in crisis.
Tourism doesn’t thrive where visitors feel unsafe and downtown businesses struggle to survive.
Portland didn’t get here by accident. Policy choices have consequences—and taxpayers, workers, businesses, and property owners are paying the price.
@mitch4portland
@pnwpolicyangel
@TeacherTiff4PDX
@kanalforpdx
@MayorKWilson
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How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed?
At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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The Oilers Entertainment Group are likely going to learn an expensive lesson. They tried to push ticket prices to extract the maximum value people would be willing to pay. Not an unreasonable idea in a simplistic market situation. Why let scalpers capture the scarcity profit? /1
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Back in the day this would obliterate a sitting president, today it’s just another silly ol day
Trump Accused of Brutally Raping Former Miss Switzerland at Plaza Hotel in 1993, He Denies
tmz.com/2026/10/27/beatrice-…
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Brazil’s Federal Police has canceled Bolsonaro’s passports and are currently searching for him, CNN Brasil reports. cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/…
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The Left loves confrontational protest and hates incremental policy gains, so the fact that confrontational protest tends to be unpopular and incremental policy gains tend to be popular is a problem for them.
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The Soviet Union once single handedly drove several whale species to the brink of extinction because murdering them pointlessly was the best way to fulfil the fishing quotas set by communist bureaucrats in metric tonnes.
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According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
DHacker615 🇺🇸 retweeted
i like the idea of twitter no longer being a platform but a concept, shattered across time and space
