Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It does seem noteworthy that the huge increase in the power of our matching tools has coincided with a *decline* in marriage rates, people having less sex, etc https://t.co/5tYavqZeSZ
Hannah Hoffman Music @HHMusicOfficial
Literally BAFFLED as to how people found love before dating sites and social media. Was settling the norm? Or did everyone just happen to be romantically compatible with the person sitting nearest to them in class?
11:33 AM · Sep 2, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Daily Caller @DailyCaller
BREAKING: Disney+ just released the poster for their newest star wars series https://t.co/rHLJGJSx5G
6:26 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Conor Sen@conorsen
Using the @FiveThirtyEight numbers, Biden approval at this point in his presidency is now above Reagan, Clinton, and Trump, and on par with Carter. Up 3.6% over the past month and flirting with his highest numbers of the year:
2:39 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Mike Masnick@mmasnick
So, uh, yikes?
![Article snippet reading: "Don't know if legal or not but we need cut him in," Favre texted a company official in November 2018, referring to [Mississippi governor] Bryant. Following up three days later, Favre wrote, "Also if legal I'll give some of my shares to the Governor."](https://pbs.substack.com/media/FbrTrniVsAAaj-Q.png)
Boing Boing @BoingBoing
Mississippi gave $1m of welfare money to Brett Favre for “speeches” he never made—and has just fired an investigator looking into it https://t.co/kbon3tAa8A
8:19 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Logan Mohtashami@LoganMohtashami
Fudge 🤨👺
If things get worse, this might be the fastest new listing decline we have ever seen % wise for the 2nd half of a year redfin.com/news/housing-m…
9:20 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Isabella M. Weber@IsabellaMWeber
It turns out that the *expectation* of price caps and windfall profit taxes alone is already bringing down power prices.
3:52 PM · Sep 1, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
If this leak is right, Russia has lost about as many people in Ukraine so far as the U.S. lost in the Vietnam War.
Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko
A 2:3 KIA to WIA ratio, assuming 50K dead per @wartranslated Russian MoD leak, puts total Russian casualties at 125,000.
In the 2014-2015 ATO operations in Donbass, Ukraine has a 1 to 4.5 ratio of KIA to WIA in summer fighting and a 1:2 ratio in the winter fighting
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5:28 AM · Sep 2, 2022
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Ben Collins@oneunderscore__
I'm writing about KiwiFarms now because their playbook of terror is being adopted by far-right internet spaces across the web.
Boston Children's Hospital was locked down due to a bomb threat this week.
KiwiFarms and 4chan users clogged an LGBTQ suicide hotline a day later.
8:53 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Leveraging Tik-Tok influencers for political purposes seems smart, but also underscores that it’s dangerous to have such a popular platform be run by a Chinese company that can manipulate its content for propaganda purposes at any time.
slowboring.com/p/data-privacy…
1:32 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Nobody talks about this but over the best decade, income inequality has fallen.
realtimeinequality.org
8:37 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I can see this as a foreign policy move but if you’re going to go that direction in inflationary times then I think you’d better go Maximum Free Trade on every country that isn’t China. https://t.co/kqe4DZN31I
Eric Martin @EMPosts
SCOOP: The Biden administration's USTR will allow Trump-era tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese merchandise imports to continue while it completes its four-year "review of necessity" of the Section 301 duties.
https://t.co/n7NIvmEQU2
8:59 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the funniest things to happen in the discourse is Republicans kept calling a somewhat expanded welfare state “socialism” so a bunch of young people who favor universal health care decided they were socialists.
11:19 PM · Sep 2, 2022
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sam@sam_d_1995
Republicans: we want to get rid of democracy
Democrats: republicans want to get rid of democracy
The New York Times:
1:46 AM · Sep 3, 2022
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