Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mcbyrne @bariweiss If you keep tagging me in Tweets where you ask if I have commented on newly breaking news that I am seeing for the first time in that same tweet of yours, I am going to block you, because it is annoying. — PolitiTweet.org

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1990s Policing: Overrated or Underrated? https://t.co/baoKkyDEGZ (As longtime readers know, my answer is 'a little of both, actually.' But this newsletter edition is your chance to email your perspective.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASnyder @AAUP @imulvey @glukianoff @NAChristakis @TheFIREorg @kewhittington @AFA_Alliance @sandylocks @JeffreyASachs @PENamerica @powellnyt @EmmaJanePettit @jbouie @michelleinbklyn @nickgillespie @DavidColeACLU @HistoryBrian All good questions, but I hope you will also grapple with rather than ignore the tension between some DEI initiatives and academic freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

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Unprecedented nationwide lockdowns and closures until a highly protective vaccine was available, followed by a return to normal after everyone had vaccine access, is not a "let 'er rip" approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @granick: .@ACLUSoCal is hiring a staff attorney and a legal fellow for their First Amendment and Democracy Project. Check their website… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pcdillard Maybe! I haven't followed that one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss .4 for me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV That part wasn't hard to understand. I understood it, as illustrated by my question about what you hadn't yet seen but wanted to see. You presume a lot of mood affiliation that I don't engage in. — PolitiTweet.org

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I haven't clicked yet but I hope the neoliberals who spent years correctly chiding the environmentalists get their due here. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss The only time I felt bad for another team is when we came back against long suffering Portland in a game 7 where we were down 15 in the fourth quarter. And my buddy from Portland was there watching with me. He hadn't seen a championship in his life. And may never! (Hi Josh!) — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss I always forget other people haven't gotten to experience like 11 championships in their lifetime — PolitiTweet.org

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This is actually wrong in the sense that the flu is underestimated as a killer and one thing Covid taught me is that I should be more diligent about getting the flu vaccine. The flu: also associated w heightened risk of heart attack! https://t.co/GDDRUce7PJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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Do you think that the junior high dance djs of the early 90s knew, the first time that they heard End of the Road, that a key part of their set was now taken care of, prompting a grateful, satisfied smile at the burden lifted? Or was it only on second listen that they knew? — PolitiTweet.org

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Something about the freak nature of this makes it just unimaginably awful to contemplate the poor parents. Every moment is precious, life is fleeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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We are in a golden age of Micheladas. — PolitiTweet.org

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Before this ends Trump will find a pair of gloves too small to fit even his tiny hands, performatively fail to put them on during an argumentative exchange with Gavin Newsom on a knockoff North Korean TikTok, and say, as if it makes any sense at all, "see I couldn't have done it" — PolitiTweet.org

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I think General Kutuzov would have been against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV As a two decade long proponent of radical reform it is hardly me who is telling you to wait, and "it never comes" is just false. Since the early 1990s, lots of significant reforms have passed, doing a lot of good. What reforms specifically are you referring to? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV I'd love to see that study. Do you remember where it was or when it came out? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV https://t.co/6zbXctTp7i — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV I agree but it isn't clear to me that more cops lead to more brutalization. It may be that more cops allows more specialization or shorter hours or less fear in ways that reduce rather than add brutality. You're assuming a thing that may not actually follow. I'll dig up a study: — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV The aughts and 2010s, as compared to the 1980s and 1990s, as reflected in the number of Black victims of murder declining significantly, would be my thought, with the caveat that lots of other things remained wrong and in urgent need of reform — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV I don't think it has a tiny chance, I think it is highly likely to reduce murders. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV I am no less adamant about the need for police reform. A separate question is whether, absent reform, adding more cops would result in more murders, or fewer murders, or no change. That is a proposition that we, or at least I, can consider discretely. — PolitiTweet.org

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@_Cuddlefish_ @jessesingal Lol. Jesse's only sadism is directed at himself when he defends people like this and a certain writer I shall not name on principle. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV Also I don't think opposing something that would reduce murders but impose other costs makes one a terrible person. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @cobra0483 @AuntoV While I too favor other police reforms, I think the evidence shows that even absent other changes to the status quo increasing the number of officers would reduce murders. So I favor Biden's position but also want to push for the other reforms I want in addition — PolitiTweet.org

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But "I like these documents and I want to keep them" *would be* "clearly intentional and willful mishandling," esp. *after being notified and affirming in legal docs that they were classified* and *lying about giving them all back* sure looks like obstruction. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's very odd, this idea that because a problem isn't brand new, efforts to combat it are somehow less legitimate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Incorrect. My long held, repeatedly expressed view is that free speech & what Rauch calls liberal science are perpetually under attack in every generation, often from multiple directions. But bygone impediments to constructive exchanges shouldn't cause us to accept them today. — PolitiTweet.org