I'm a liberal who still believes in liberalism.
California, USA
Joined October 2010
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Americans are quitting their jobs at record rates—but that doesn't mean they're not working!
Instead many people (especially those in low-pay industries) are taking new, higher paying jobs. It's a worker's labor market, and that's good for America.
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Catalytic converters bring all ages, races, and genders together. So beautiful.
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Last year, San Francisco became one of the first cities to defund the police. Yesterday, the city's mayor dramatically reversed herself, calling for a significant increase in police funding, and an end to the city's deadly open drug scenes. Why?
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"We're a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that." -- Pelosi's rationale for why spouses of members of Congress should be able to trade individuals stocks is not very convincing
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Big news: San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed has just announced a major crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, & retail theft
The plan contains much of what I & my colleagues @calif_peace have been advocating
This is a big step in the right direction
We need to change course on how we handle public safety in San Francisco. We can't be a place where anything goes on the street.
Today, I am announcing a series of new steps to address public safety in our city. londonbreed.medium.com/a-saf…
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HKUMed shows Omicron infects and multiplies 70X faster than Delta in the human bronchus, which may explain why it transmits faster, BUT also shows Omicron infection in the lung is significantly LOWER than the original virus, which may be an indicator of lower disease severity. 🧵
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Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.
Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.
Over the Thanksgiving break, Lauren Boebert said she was recently in a Capitol elevator with Ilhan Omar when a fretful Capitol police officer ran up.
Lauren Boebert said: “Well, she doesn’t have a backpack. We should be fine.”
Boebert then called Ilhan Omar, “jihad squad.”
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I asked @Giannis_An34 if Oreos and milk are on the Thanksgiving menu. His response was 2 minutes long.
"From now on, that's an every night snack for me."
You won't believe me but a kid just told me to try dunking my Oreos in milk... mannnnn game changer 🔥🥛#MadMyGirlDidntTellMeSooner #NewBedtimeSnack
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My brother has been carving Mini Pufts out of mashed potatoes for the last 3 hours
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puakev retweeted
The broadening of inflation - not just a US thing
(These are SA MoM annualized, before you blame German VAT etc..)
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Some universities' reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict, @conor64 writes, "is an illustration of a bigger problem in academia: Administrators make ideologically selective efforts to soothe the feelings of upset faculty members and students."
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"If a man dares post how good she looks, that guy is a creep. Message her privately and that’s “sliding into her DMs.” Men are supposed to ignore how women look which, seeing as men have started wars over the beauty of women, has traditionally been somewhat of a challenge."
My piece on the unsexiness of modern life, and how that predictably is leading to less actual sex, is in the December issue of @TheSpectator, and now out from behind the paywall. spectatorworld.com/topic/lif…
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"We conquered that lynch mob...this is history today."
"For real, all lives matter...I don't want to see nobody go through this...it's all our problem. So let's keep fighting." -Marcus Arbery
#AhmaudArbery
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puakev retweeted
Socialists Shoot at their own. Talk of expelling Jamaal Bowman from DSA because he took fact-finding trip to Israel with J-Street, liberal organization. DSA committee says treating trip “as its highest priority right now.” @jacobkornbluh with story: forward.com/news/478442/ny-c…
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Everyone who is saying that Kyle Rittenhouse would have been found guilty if he were black should recall that Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor's bf) shot a cop (!) in self-defense and was cleared of all charges (and rightly so).
It's amazing how selective people's memories are.
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puakev retweeted
Is there a more ironic photo on twitter right now?
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I keep reading about how “cancel culture” is rampant on the left and yet I’ve had people on the right tag my employer like a half dozen times because they don’t like my tweets.
In this case, I compared Nikki Haley’s expertise on Iran policy to Bill Buckner’s fielding 😂
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