Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @mattyglesias: Would be nice if that Pfizer anti-viral drug that’s so effective they halted the clinical trial for ethical reasons were… — PolitiTweet.org

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@valoriedthomas Oh no! So sorry to hear that — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Sancho98954019 @BluishCheckMark @watsonclint @jbarro @Popehat I have only attacked his ideas. Now he doesn't want me to see his ideas anymore. I can't say I blame him as the attacks were rather incisive. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@WajahatAli Would you like to wager on whether America is still a democracy ten years from now? If so I'd happily help you to find someone to take the other side of the bet. — PolitiTweet.org

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When excellent surfing ends in a brutal wipeout https://t.co/MpyzMv8z2r — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why those takes were so wrongheaded. https://t.co/5r0DGQeqBt https://t.co/2G7R2FsOPm — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@DonHelios If I was jealous I'd simply become an activist myself and rake in the money. But I prefer my own approach and career. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Failures to understand economics plague California housing policy, where politicians who speak in the language of advancing equity are in fact keeping housing unaffordable for everyone but the rich. It's impact, not intentions, that matter, right? https://t.co/ftetDFc8gU — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

This is one of the very few occupational licensing regimes that I can get behind. — PolitiTweet.org

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See the UC system for public universities with rising tuition and staggering increases in administrators — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Christopher Rufo blocking me Critical Race Theory? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the future college administrators want. https://t.co/7TNKHsVFJx https://t.co/EYR3UDDrkt — PolitiTweet.org

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@EdwardLawsonJr @JakeMGrumbach You could use a refresher on begging the question. That said, state the substantive criticism you'd like me to address and I'll do so. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Positing fundamental cultural distinctions btwn people w different pigmentations-not different class, regional, national, or religious backgrounds, but merely different concentrations of melanin-is better left to white supremacists than equity coaches." https://t.co/KAeUq31hd1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@oldlife @JohnHMcWhorter Like I said, not a literal miracle, but a scientific breakthrough that's going to save millions of lives — PolitiTweet.org

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@oldlife @JohnHMcWhorter A vaccine that helps end a deadly pandemic and helps the world return to normal isn't a literal miracle but it's not totally unlike one — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavefromTO Who are the "anti-woke crew"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe Yep — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe Yes, not alone in that, to be sure, but definitely one speech constraining faction — PolitiTweet.org

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Henry Louis Gates was right the whole time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EdwardLawsonJr @JakeMGrumbach Wow, Edward, you're so uncharitable that you start out with intelligence and can't manage anything more than narrow-minded insults grounded in false premises. As for Jake, I found his Tweet reasonable enough. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pareene There may be other things about the effort that are not sensible but the highlighted language is perfectly sensible--more so, indeed, than the status quo at many existing institutions of higher ed, where bloat is out of control — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AaronBlake: My piece on how this is an extreme episode in the increasing book-banning debates taking place across the country --> http… — PolitiTweet.org

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The reflexive desire to dunk on this new project is so strong that even as straightforwardly sensible a thing as *keeping costs down* by avoiding the amenity creep that everyone paying attention sees running rampant through higher ed is recast as a mockworthy approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EdwardLawsonJr @JakeMGrumbach No, not bullshit. I am happy to engage you and your ideas or critiques on any matter of substance. But my patience for strangers falsely impugning my motives is thin. Your choice how this goes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EdwardLawsonJr @JakeMGrumbach Hi Edward. It is done in good faith. And that makes you another person on Twitter who'd be less wrong if you were more charitable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Always good to discover a very accessible new exercise to try https://t.co/tsMSGiYiqY — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamsolo @bernybelvedere @ArcDigi @SykesCharlie @JonahDispatch FWIW I totally agree with @JonahDispatch on that and certainly don't mean to imply that any writer is obligated to switch to activism rather than calling things as they see them. The way I see things just happens to be that coordination around a not Trump is the best course here — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bernybelvedere: For @ArcDigi subscribers, I wrote about the debate between @conor64 and @SykesCharlie (and others within the NeverTrump… — PolitiTweet.org

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Good piece by @bernybelvedere. Two thoughts for those who disagree. 1) @SykesCharlie, while thoughtful on many points, is wrong to think any outcome in 24 will be "permanent" for the GOP. Neither Lincoln nor Nixon was. No one is. 2) if not DeSantis, who? — PolitiTweet.org