Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I think there's some chance that we will see a bring-back-the-SAT ballot initiative. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@davidamann @emm_257 @Cagedbeing1 There's clearly a lot that you're missing here. One place to begin is that I criticized what Yale administrators did, while, in contrast, I want people who run down protesters in cars to be charged with murder and imprisoned, a rather harsher treatment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thevivafrei No, says me, someone who has never lied to my audience, unlike Glenn Beck. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @toddlowehk: @JeffreyGoldberg @conor64 Corollary to the old concern about TV anchors who never wrote for a newspaper. Let us fervently p… — PolitiTweet.org

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Coverage of this trial is just abysmal. Again and again folks are marshalling the most dire and incendiary abstract framings possible to impose narratives that are unsupported by the facts of the case. The jurors were not casting votes about "Black life" which was not on trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democratic primary electorate showed with their votes in 2020 that overwhelming majorities wanted someone other than Harris to be their standard bearer. I'm not sure why revisiting that reality is cause for hostility. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IHoward1749 By reading the analysis of other people who have expertise on the particular tasks and how long they should take — PolitiTweet.org

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@JackUpton5 That isn't true uniformly, but regardless, the vaccine is extremely effective against severe Covid and death. Protection against mere infection has wanted with time and variants. That plus age profile and seasonality likely explain the world today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JackUpton5 Yes, I have been very curious and have determined that they are extremely effective — PolitiTweet.org

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Once again, thousands of lives hang in the balance as the FDA decides how quickly to issue an EUA for a new tool against COVID-19, but there is almost no curiosity about the extremely opaque process, just widespread apathetic trust that the current pace is fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Come on, guys, Obama isn't in the IDW just because he sensibly stands up for free speech and against racial essentialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbarro: Warren’s explanation of why gas prices have gone up is stupid (and reflects an expectation that the listener is stupid) but ris… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RogueWPA: Sometimes I wonder what things I will say that I have the scholarly training to know are ridiculous if I am so unfortunate as… — PolitiTweet.org

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While we are discussing this: I would love to see a detailed breakdown of the specific tasks the folks at the FDA who are reviewing the Merck and Pfizer pills have to do before voting on an EUA so more people can evaluate if they are going fast enough — PolitiTweet.org

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Is it correct that the Pfizer Covid pill had its trial stopped because it was so effective that having a placebo group that didn't get it was considered unethical... but that it doesn't yet have an EAU, so no one can get it, which most public health folks find... ethical? — PolitiTweet.org

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@AschleighJ @tampa_tweeter @jimmyshi03 @powellnyt You think it's sketchy to have worked as a cab driver? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: .@conor64: "I worry that with every year that passes, the typical media outlet is staffed and managed by more people w… — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent interview with @powellnyt that includes something I have found to be true as well: https://t.co/D8BTDlWMnj https://t.co/JkRSNSm2SR — PolitiTweet.org

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Pope Francis is right: journalists need to do more to escape being too online. In my estimation, in person is especially underrated in opinion journalism. But lots of compelling forces are pushing in the opposite direction. https://t.co/A2RS3GMRdi — PolitiTweet.org

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@emm_257 @davidamann @Cagedbeing1 If the idea that the verdict was legally correct but that others are interpreting it in ways that could lead to danger, then, I guess that could happen, and I hope it doesn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Cagedbeing1 @emm_257 @davidamann Sure I do, but I don't think the video in this case showed a defendant "targeting protesters" — PolitiTweet.org

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@emm_257 @davidamann @Cagedbeing1 Do you think the video showed Rittenhouse "targeting protesters"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann @Cagedbeing1 @emm_257 I'm not sure I understand. What speech is the Rittenhouse verdict supposed to chill? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann @Cagedbeing1 @emm_257 The question was *which of these two things are a bigger threat* not *is one instance of a thing objectionable* — PolitiTweet.org

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It takes chutzpah to spend years filling chalkboards with nonsense on Fox News only to turn around and present yourself as righteously indignant at corporate media falsehoods. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BobbyWa03325006 What celebration? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Cagedbeing1 @emm_257 @davidamann I guess that depends on how many vigilante murders you expect in the next year. How many do you expect? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RiffRaf979 I'm with you on all three. — PolitiTweet.org

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Certain spectacles--the tiki torch march in Charlottesville, rioting and looting of cities, antifa in Portland, the January 6 storming of the Capitol--are radicalizing. The people who engage in them all but guarantee responses in reaction that add to the toll of damage to society — PolitiTweet.org

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I do not claim it was mainstream. It was a well-known view of a noisy faction that too many people who should know better popularized and treated as if it was mainstream, despite its untenability and unpopularity. It wasn't treated as "nuts" but now you say it's "nut-picking" — PolitiTweet.org