David Weigel

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@bobjeffers559 @neontaster Right, I think the Oberon-inclusive language got ported over, even though it wasn't relevant anymore. Just say "Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win the award." — PolitiTweet.org

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@AviHein @neontaster The tweet is accurate, just piles on extraneous language that makes it more confusing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dts0012 @neontaster Yeah. So, a lot of outlets couched the "first" stuff about Yeoh by pointing out that she was the second Asian woman to be nominated for Best Actress, after Oberon, who didn't identify as Asian. Yeoh, unlike Oberon, won the award. Don't need to couch it but NPR did anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@entoliberal @Ellie_Kit66 @PoesMyaa @MorgothArc I'm not reading this whole thread but I think we agree that the NPR tweet was maximally confusing. Could have just said "Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win Best Actress." — PolitiTweet.org

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@AviHein @neontaster No Asian woman had ever won Best Actress before Yeoh. Ben Kingsley is half-Indian (birth name: Krishna Pandit Bhanji) but doesn't identify as "Asian." — PolitiTweet.org

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@neontaster "Openly Asian" is going to sound weird to people who don't know the Merle Oberon story - but Oberon never won, so that fact wasn't relevant when Yeoh did. The extra ungainliness comes from trying to un-gender the word "actress," which the Academy doesn't do but NPR does. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RSGAT: Everyone with student loan debt right now: https://t.co/NH1UOIv2MQ — PolitiTweet.org

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And now Nikki Haley is attacking the "Biden bailout" https://t.co/ZH8i7xUfo1 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Timodc: This weekend the Colorado GOP elected a guy who tried to legally add Let’s Go Brandon to his name as chair. I spoke to folks I… — PolitiTweet.org

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@adambonin I also think the divergent patterns of mail voting led to overconfidence. If you assumed the remaining AZ ballots would break like the remaining PA ballots, Biden was heading to a mid-single digit win in AZ. But the state had a difference mail ballot trend. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Redistrict: This by @Nate_Cohn is correct. https://t.co/dZjIScvV49 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkAmesExiled: Lead paragraph has this bombshell: “regulators said that keeping the bank open could threaten the stability of the enti… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FreezingFinTake: https://t.co/hjwW0EMkNv — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbarab: In case you get into a discussion about how illegal migrants are allegedly bringing fentanyl into the country, the fact is that… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rebexxxxa: she (barbara walters) was right and she should say it https://t.co/2sFERvOJUO https://t.co/mRqXIUDe9l — PolitiTweet.org

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@welloldstem Greta Gerwig in "Mistress America": "New York isn’t the New York I used to know. There’s too much construction. Maybe LA is my lady. In LA I qualify as well-read." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @willdigravio: So happy to have my first piece for @PasteMagazine be one I’ve wanted to write for a long time: an essay to guide you thr… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Read 'The Pilgrim's Progress'" is something more and more people are saying. — PolitiTweet.org

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Watched this live and muttered "oh no" when Graham thought Grant's "vanity fair" reference was about the magazine. Downhill from there https://t.co/zjBF7dXv5b — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McCormickJohn: Iowa, which holds the first GOP nominating contest, has seen fierce education debates. For close to a year, the Linn-Mar… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maustermuhle: Today around 10:20 a.m. tune in to @1a for a discussion on what happened with D.C.’s revised criminal code! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jordainc: Scoop: House Homeland Committee is launching an investigation into a domestic intelligence gathering program at DHS: https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RachelEnsignWSJ: It was the first bank run ever organized over Slack. Our play-by-play of how VCs and start-ups yanked an extraordinar… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PaulSkallas: Since the Oscars are on ill repost this clip. James Cameron was a truck driver in his 20s. He read a few books on filmmaki… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FranklinH3000: That time THE MUPPET MOVIE made up for the Academy Awards' greatest oversights... https://t.co/0pA7xOx8Qa — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JStein_WaPo: Here’s a story I wrote 5yes ago about Barney Frank — earning +$1 million on Signature Bank’s board — using his name as aut… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RubenGallego: What is the difference between me and Kyrsten Sinema? When the bank lobby asked me to weaken banking regulations, I sa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @VivekGRamaswamy: It’s a bailout, pure & simple. For years, SVB and its cronies lobbied for looser risk limits by arguing that its failu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattZeitlin: I'm going to be on Breaking Points in ~15 minutes to chat Silicon Valley Bank with @krystalball and @esaagar! Tune in! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: “Elizabeth Warren has called twice to apologize. Over a month later, Kamala Harris hasn’t called back,” report @IsaacDovere and… — PolitiTweet.org