Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Xi going after semiconductor guys now?
Truly, no industry is safe...
Edward White @edwardwhitenz
Another China tycoon down: Beijing detains high-flying Tsinghua semiconductor boss and former Xinjiang shepherd Zhao Weiguo — the latest aggressive billionaire dealmaker to fall foul of Xi’s government … via @ftchina & @caixin https://t.co/1Qj9okDuDv
6:04 AM · Jul 26, 2022
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Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal
Wow
The Associated Press @AP
BREAKING: Russia will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country's newly appointed space chief said. https://t.co/c38istczel
12:27 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This @jaycaspiankang piece on the anti-homework movement is very useful for mustering a lot more patience with it than I'd have been able to bring....
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Movement to End Homework Is Wrong
2:40 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The conceit of this account that the big problem in American politics is that the New York Times is too conservative seems off to me. https://t.co/B6oaPiwppz
New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
Only 18% of pregnancies end in abortion, so the Dobbs decision does not affect the median pregnancy.
by Matt Yglesias
6:35 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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YesterdayIsAHardWordForHat@Popehat
I still don’t know who leaked, but I’m more confident that people who were being assholes about “well OBVIOUSLY it was liberals, you idiot” were way over their skis. https://t.co/GilBuCByMm
Rolling Stone @RollingStone
The leaked draft opinion foiled Chief Justice John Roberts’ attempts to persuade fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh to act as Roe’s saving vote. https://t.co/rINAXl58cv
7:18 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But to a large extent what the progs think is that the mods are bad people, who ought to be cast out from the circle of leadership and replaced with themselves.
So instead of declaring victory, the progs espoused new further-left ideas to keep the feuding going.
8:12 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The mods, meanwhile, have a perverse tendency to blame the progs for their electoral problems when the actual issue is stances that *they themselves decided to adopt* in order to box out the progs and maintain control of the levers of power.
8:13 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Forced Birth Punks Fuck Off 🇺🇦@spooknine
The best things communism ever did was scare capitalism into doing the right thing, a little bit, sometimes
Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal
Post-war Germany built a lot of housing, not only because a lot of their housing was destroyed in the war, but because the government believed that housing construction had a deradicalization effect, particularly athwart to communism. https://t.co/DhStbj7l3S
8:17 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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Illia Ponomarenko🚀@IAPonomarenko
Yep, that 2nd greatest military power that has to bow down to Iran to possibly get some dubious combat drones
Lara Seligman @laraseligman
The White House has "no indications of any delivery or purchase of Iranian drones by the Russian ministry of defense," says NSC spox John Kirby.
But adds that just the fact that Putin was pursuing a deal shows that "sanctions are having an effect"
7:40 PM · Jul 26, 2022
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