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- CIA says alleged National Guard shooter worked for agency's paramilitary unit in Afghanistan. Director also says he never should have allowed here.
- Senator Mark Kelly gets dragged on social media after making comment on shooting of National Guardsmen. The commenters weren't wrong.
- The untold story of Charlie Munger's final years. Outside the WSJ paywall.
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- James Boasberg the Deep State's favorite judge. He deserves to be impeached. No one is above the law.
- Everything is TV. Social Media is not social.
- From the archives: The 3 characteristics of an educated man.
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- The natural alliance between Japan, Australia, and the US. Now more than ever.
- Shane Gillis on the Tush Push.
- The Microsoft-China Pentagon link is disturbing. Cancel all contracts with Microsoft immediately.
- John Fetterman on social media. He's more and more the voice of reason.
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- The price of anti-social media.
- Certain NGO's like Meals on Wheels deserve our continued support. They're not all bad apples.
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- VDH on Bill Gates and foreign interference. Gates is on the naughty list.
- Who should regulate content on social media?
- Did President Trump just call for an end to income tax?
- Borepatch on the Ross Ulbricht pardon. I don't know how to feel about the pardon either other than that it was another campaign promise kept.
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- Court orders CNN to turn over financial information in suit brought by Navy veteran. Should be no surprise that a Jake Tapper report is at the center of this suit too. A loss can could hasten CNN's planned layoffs and maybe break the network
- The FBI and the Jan 6th pipe bomber. Fishy.
- The Daily Coach: Am I devoted to my calling or distracted by my device?
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- Daniele Bolelli: Sacrificing to the Gods of the Algorithm. "Call me crazy, but I find the prize not worth the price," He's not wrong.
- Things keep getting worse for CBS News. Apparently they learned nothing from the example of Dan Rather.
- The New York Times is lying about Kamala Harris's plagiarism.
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- NCAA, Power Conferences agree on $2.8 billion settlement. College sports will never be the same.
- If you can't follow these simple instructions you don't deserve a vote.
- How Apple, Google, and Microsoft can help protect children.
- Merrick Garland's ultimate test of principle. Thank God Garland was never nominated to the Supreme Court.
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- Tucker Carlson Episode 91 Israel and Christians
- Uri Berliner's Free Press on working at NPR. People at NPR are just so used to getting funded by taxes that they don't care what he says - but you should.
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- Thomas Sowell's Three Question. Good practice to ask these questions in all aspects of your life.
- City Journal on Jordan Peterson on trial in Canada. I'm on team Peterson. Hail Lobster! (HT Execupundit)
- Jonathan Turley on free speech on campus in the US. Mask policies should be universally condemned. Maine should be ashamed of itself.
- China is working hard to influence your opinion. Don't let them! And remember it is against the law to post or share any negative economic information about China in China - a clear tell that the CCP is afraid of the truth.
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- Biden quietly sells off border wall parts to thwart GOP plans. Is there any doubt that the Biden Administration hates America?
- Even the Washington Post admits that Ukraine's counteroffensive isn't working. Where did all the money go?
- Noah Smith on why China's economy ran off the rails. To give Smith credit - he has been pointing out for years (as have I) that China's economy was in trouble. Of course you can no longer get any negative economic news out of China at this time (another indicator of how bad things are).
First off, any argument that makes the case that the "cool kids" no longer just toss off one-liner Tweets is a bad argument. The moral standing of "cool kid" experts has been a dumpster fire for a while now. No fault of Twitter or Social Media at all.
Next I would disagree that Twitter is in decline. When Elon Musk rate-limited users (verified accounts could read up to 6,000 Tweets a day while unverified accounts could read up to 600) - I did not see any degradation what so-ever. Perhaps it is just that I'm not Social Media or Twitter addicted or that I have a life. Perhaps because I thought Musk's stance on Free Speech was worth supporting and am a verified account - those 6,000 Tweets per day were plenty (maybe a reason to fork over that $8 per month - remember if a service is free that you're the product).
Finally, I would not be using Mark Zuckerberg's Threads of any evidence supporting my argument, You cannot be on Threads unless you're already on Instagram and just attaching things to a popular platform is the quickest way to ruin that platform. I'm tempted to see if Noah Smith was also arguing that Meta was the next big thing because that clearly was a huge misplay by Zuckerberg too.
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- Andrew Huberman's daily routine and diet.
- A must have NFL preview guide. And it's free!
- Hilarious - Indigenous tribe wants Ben & Jerry's to return "stolen" land their Vermont HQ is built on. On a related note here's Ben & Jerry's latest stock price (part of Unilever). Some thing to keep an eye on..
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- Gen Z is ditching smartphones for flip phones. Don't think its so much nostalgia but more of an awareness of how unhealthy social media can be for a person. (HT Execupundit)
- The Biden Administration is so very, very corrupt.
- Is playing in the NHL hazardous to your health? Interesting study but it raised more questions with me than it answered.
- Jason Tatum befriends 10-year old cancer patient. After reading that - how can you not root for Tatum and the Boston Celtics.
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- Conservative Twitter alternative Parler gets acquired. Will it remain the same, better, or has its window passed?
- Leaked documents show at least 4 more Chinese spy balloons in recent months. The country is in the very best of hands.
- FDA purges NMN from list of supplements under rationale that it is being investigated as a drug. Reminder that supplements are big business and perhaps nothing bigger on horizon than NAD+ and NMN.
