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Incredibly happy to announce that today I submitted my senior thesis! It has been the culmination of more than a year’s worth of research and writing. A big thank you to all my family and friends for pushing me through.
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France spends more on social welfare as a percentage of its budget today than the USSR ever did
not to get into either side of this argument, but is there a historical or instrumental reason that mathematicians use regular english words in (1) unconventional ways or (2) have contradictory definitions for single terms? it makes communicating about math very frustrating
and maybe this is true for continental-esque philosophy, but at least they have the decency to mostly invent jargon rather than simply redefining normal words. but again, i’m stupid so maybe i’m just bad at math or not thinking abt this enough
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"We need term limits" Americans need to grow some balls and actually vote out incumbents, actually
the truth is the best way politically to universal coverage in a single payer system is to indroduce medicare to kids, then gradually lower the eligibility age and raise it for kids until private insurance is entirely squeezed out of the picture
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by far the worst performing senate candidate of 2026 quantitatively was troy jackson but you have to account for that he ran against the literal teflon senator and had 100 days to do so when he got subbed in for a rapist at the last second. that’s gotta add 15% at least
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Dark Woke is so much more effective than woke 1.0
A fascinating CrookedCon tidbit from Dem strategist @katz_morris, who said that on the IE side for Talarico, they ran digital ads targeting people googling things like “my husband cheated on me” or “I think my husband is cheating on me” 👀
actually an insanely GOATED delegation. Close to MA in ‘08 (Kennedy, Kerry, and Barney Frank) in terms of modern political history
Independent Bernie Sanders wins Vermont's open Senate seat, defeating Republican Rich Tarrant with 65.4% of the vote.
Sanders is the first self-described socialist to ever be elected to the United States Senate, after having served 16 years as Vermont's sole U.S. Representative.
Succeeding Sanders in his congressional seat is Peter Welch, the President pro tempore of the Vermont state senate.
i actually don’t know why basically any of these guys would want it after seeing daniel craig reemerge and everyone remember that he’s actually good at his job after like 2 decades of shitty bond movies
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significantly more excited imagining a Conclave style movie about the casting than about sentencing one of these guys to a decade of hell in the Bond Dimension
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Schumer's biggest weaknesses are (1) his own politics being bad and (2) being historically bad at keeping people in line. The first will show its head as it always does, but I feel like the second will *really* matter once The Deep Red State Dem Caucus rolls around.
really learning right now how few people understand what the jobs “Senate Majority Leader” and “Speaker of the House of Representatives” entail
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Somebody on here recently said something to me about “the myth that the Harry Potter books got children reading.” This is such bizarre revisionism. They absolutely did get children reading! Virtually all Millennials—plus their parents and teachers—can attest to this! 1/🧵
