Conor Friedersdorf

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@kittypurrzog Especially since putting every kid through the drills means every shooter is intimately familiar with protocol and how everyone is likely going to react — PolitiTweet.org

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@danwvette Perhaps the only silver lining of the trial was Norm's pitch-perfect Weekend Update after the verdict: "Well, it is finally official: Murder is legal in the state of California." — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're too young to remember that trial you probably don't know that The Tonight Show hired a dance troupe of lookalikes of the judge and had them do surrealist performances. This is the level at which the trial dominated the culture. And The Kardashians are downstream of it! — PolitiTweet.org

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Being a teen trapped in the car with my mom daily during the interminable OJ Simpson trial, which all adults in SoCal seemed to listen to constantly, has made me permanently averse to paying attention to any celebrity trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's amazing that faculty have acceded to any sort of compelled statements like these. If you tried to implement compulsory Freedom, Magnanimity, and Virtuousness (say) statements, faculty would properly rebel, even though we all agree all those things are all good & desirable. — PolitiTweet.org

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*State law shall compel any child athlete to have a compulsory genital exam if any random stranger requests it* is really taking intrusive statism to creepy new levels. — PolitiTweet.org

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Important @radleybalko piece https://t.co/Uw9ToQswVM — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson @felixsalmon @JamesSurowiecki I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying the Post was found to have libeled him? Or if not, why would that dramatically change the calculus of news coverage of powerful men? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson You've prompted me to seek out Eugene Volokh's piece, the first thing I've read on this, and he finds no new precedent has been set https://t.co/CUkYFKWlxf What new precedent do you think was set? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson Major in the sense of "involved celebrities so many in the public paid attention" or major in the sense of "new precedent was set"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson I didn't watch the trial at all. I imagine lots of other journalists similarly don't know what happened. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidfarrier @AdamRutherford That rather overestimates the number of stones thrown at birds! — PolitiTweet.org

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"I direct too, mostly drone work, but before you ask, because everyone gets this wrong, David Fincher is my favorite." — PolitiTweet.org

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Caption contest. https://t.co/22UkdKgVth — PolitiTweet.org

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What if instead of empowering small groups of people to block infrastructure investment we built more things more cheaply than is now possible by not empowering them to do that? Deflationary! — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/4uy1XM22cq — PolitiTweet.org

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"The prevailing mode of engaging right-wing ideas is 5-alarm panic combined w name-calling, as if... the right can be defeated politically & intellectually merely by drawing moral red lines, issuing fulsome denunciations, & affixing scarlet letters" https://t.co/CXjJFtzjey — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey "you obviously don’t really give a darn about listening to people to understand beyond what you already want to know." Also, *I am in no mood to answer your clarifying questions about what I meant.* Okay, man, have a good night. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Wait, so you're saying the ACLU'S old approach to free speech *does* need to change? If so, I disagree. You're being very confusing here. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey You're being a bit sensitive about an apparent misreading of a vaguely written Tweet. I'm glad we agree that the ACLU doesn't have to change it's traditional approach to free speech. What did you mean? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I'm glad we agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey The ACLU's old position on free speech does not need to change, nothing about a diverse society requires or implies that it should. — PolitiTweet.org

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What steps do we need to be taking now to reduce the number of people who starve months from now? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Matt_Cagle: BIG WIN: the Marin County Sheriff has stopped illegally sharing driver locations with out-of-state & fed agencies, ending a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @swilliamsjourno @DashDobrofsky Everyone thinks they understand what it means, but they are wrong, because the term is flawed in a way that makes analytic clarity impossible. I am not pretending anything. I am pushing for accurate, precise language that helps us talk about this with precision — PolitiTweet.org

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I remain in the nervous-about-Ukraine club. https://t.co/skSTsJNgFi — PolitiTweet.org

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Robert George keynote on free speech at Pepperdine's School of Public Policy, with an intro by its dean @Pete4CA https://t.co/oKYj0O9Hav — PolitiTweet.org

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@swilliamsjourno @DashDobrofsky And my point is that "only one side is politicizing this" is so poorly formulated a criticism, because inaccurate, as to obfuscate what the debate is about. A different criticism is needed. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think there are some good ideas in this post that public health Twitter should treat as higher priorities than yelling at @DLeonhardt https://t.co/ZAhRxq3EZ0 — PolitiTweet.org

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I think there are some good ideas in this post that public health Twitter should treat as higher priorities than telling at @DLeonhardt https://t.co/ZAhRxq3EZ0 — PolitiTweet.org