Al Urim (@almostalbert) 's Twitter Profile
Al Urim

@almostalbert

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calendar_today12-04-2009 18:12:05

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TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

this is something I can certainly get behind, as long as people recognize the core of Lee Kuan Yew’s approach was not an iron fist for the sake of an iron fist, but excellence-focused pragmatism centered around solving the practical problems of the day tracingwoodgrains.com/p/book-review-…

Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Breed wants to exacerbate the housing crisis with a huge expansion of rent control She says she wants to protect our "low-income population." That isn't what it is for & she's the perf example: She makes $468k (highest $ mayor) yet still lives in a rent-controlled apt herself!

Breed wants to exacerbate the housing crisis with a huge expansion of rent control

She says she wants to protect our "low-income population." That isn't what it is for & she's the perf example:

She makes $468k (highest $ mayor) yet still lives in a rent-controlled apt herself!
Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The pro-Hamas crowd is trying to portray Sinwar’s death above ground as some kind of heroic last stand. The fact is he strayed outside with several of his men when he believed the IDF was focused on Hezbollah. He ordered the massacre of a 1,000 people, most of them civilians and

TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Equity-focused people will say advanced kids have plenty of options in their ideal systems, and in a sense, they do: plenty of well-funded, comfortable schools wholly uninterested in “further privileging the privileged” by encouraging accelerated kids to move beyond age peers.

Noah Smith 🐇 (@noahpinion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cultural appropriation is good Assimilation is inevitable and fine Don't know what the hell y'all were thinking in the 2010s 🇺🇲

TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I harp on this topic a lot. Why? Because while because "children should be provided opportunities matching their ability" is correct and popular, it's opposed and dismissed by a huge proportion of the people making and enforcing policy around it. That must change.

nic carter (@nic__carter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of aerosolized sulfates to increase the earth's albedo in order to deal with climate change. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using climate as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

Adam Schiff (@senadamschiff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kicking a patron out of a restaurant for no reason other than their Jewish ancestry is blatant antisemitism. No one should be turned away because of their faith. This kind of bigotry has no place in California. ktvu.com/news/oakland-c…

Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

every single blue city saw huge shifts to the right and center, and yet some people are still convinced it’s all just curable with that right messaging tweaks. housing is expensive as shit and you can’t walk downtown without getting screamed at by a crazy person. we need CHANGE

Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think this is the most damning result for Democrats. The people who had the most direct experience with Democratic governance—fucking HATED it. We have to do better

I think this is the most damning result for Democrats. The people who had the most direct experience with Democratic governance—fucking HATED it. We have to do better
StripMallGuy (@realestatetrent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It happened again this morning, and it’s sadly becoming a joke at this point. I walked into Starbucks, and the shelf that just a couple of days ago was full of holiday merchandise for the new season was completely empty. Again. When I asked the barista, they confirmed it:

It happened again this morning, and it’s sadly becoming a joke at this point. 

I walked into Starbucks, and the shelf that just a couple of days ago was full of holiday merchandise for the new season was completely empty. 

Again.

When I asked the barista, they confirmed it: