Mitchell Epner@MitchellEpner
Despite numerous credulous media accounts that Mr. Ornato would testify that Cassidy Hutchinson's 1/6 testimony was false (because he didn't tell her that FPOTUS lunged at the neck of his driver), Mr. Ornato never provided that testimony. Today, he resigned from Secret Service.
Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN
News: US Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato left the agency Monday, sources tell @jamiegangel & @WhitneyWReports.
This is a significant departure coming 2 months after Cassidy Hutchinson's explosive testimony before 1/6 committee.
https://t.co/8Wzicg5DBl
11:24 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
Don't trust the GDP reports of autocratic countries?
This paper compares growth in city lights to claims of economic growth, and it appears that autocratic regimes over-exaggerate yearly GDP growth by a huge 35%! (& the GDP gap between 🇮🇳 & 🇨🇳 is smaller than official estimates)
7:46 PM · Aug 28, 2022
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Mia@smackmiaround
Phenomenal map work from Al Jazeera
5:20 AM · Aug 28, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I feel like people who think there's something uniquely inefficient about government bureaucracies has never had to deal with a private-sector bureaucracy.
2:40 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
You don’t see any windmills in Westeros because the dragons make any promises regarding the rule of law inherently non-credible.
10:39 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Matt Levine@matt_levine
This guy hoped that Elon would notice and buy his newsletter.
bloomberg.com
Musk Tries a New Way Out of Twitter
6:12 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Welp. Looks like Finland is still Finlanding... 🇫🇮
8:32 AM · Aug 29, 2022
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sam@sam_d_1995
conservatives be like “it’s Biden’s fault that I have to spend so much money on gas”
nah, you chose to buy a pickup truck that gets 17mpg and live 81 miles from the office, take some personal responsibility
Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Literally drove 421 miles twice this weekend. My office is 81 miles one way and if traffic is bad can take more than 2 hours to get there. I have 3 trips this week that’ll be about 300 miles driving. Electric cars aren’t practical right now. https://t.co/oyWnI0Zl4f
5:04 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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orko@orkoliberal
Thinking of the HIV patients who paid more than they should have for treatment to bring you this message
10:20 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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toot.cafe/@chartier@chartier
I didn’t realize the upcoming Harry Potter game was about crushing what is basically a civil rights movement of enslaved/oppressed/segregated goblins, an anti-semitic stereotype.
How did this make it off a bar napkin, never mind to production?
reddit.com
r/WitchesVsPatriarchy - Even If The Transphobia Doesn’t Bother You, Please Don’t Buy (or Even play) The New Hogwarts Game
3:58 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Tony Morley@tonymmorley
"In March, a two-year randomized trial in Tanzania involving 39,000 households found that IG2 nets reduced malaria incidence by 45%" - Why the Interceptor G2 net could be a game changer for malaria eradication #HumanProgress
gatesfoundation.org
Why the Interceptor G2 net could be a game changer for malaria eradication
10:20 PM · Aug 28, 2022
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