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I was at the first “Inside Safe” operation in December 2022. Mayor’s office wouldn’t explain what the plan was other than they were going to put 1,000 homeless people in hotels for six months (out of 45,000). The question I kept asking was “and then what?” The mayors office had NO ANSWER. Never has. That’s not a damn plan. It doesn’t solve anything. And I caught so much shit for being negative, but the plan made no sense.
All the media who gave Karen Bass fawning coverage based just on her empty campaign promises should have to publish follow-up stories, in which they ask: How did it go so wrong? How did Karen fail this badly?
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Brandon Harris retweeted
One of the world’s largest Wall Street firms warns that if AI helps Americans stop being ripped off by low interest rates banks pay, the financial system could collapse. So they screamed the quiet part & admitted Wall Street’s business model relies on everyone being fleeced.
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Brandon Harris retweeted
SNL is writing Tucker Carlson jokes as if he’s still stuck in the 2018 culture wars, which he’s clearly not. Why? Because SNL has become a corporate monolith that’s too risk averse and no longer edgy enough to go where Tucker is now. Where’s Norm Macdonald when you need him 🥹
Tucker Carlson is back at the Update desk to chat this summer's blockbuster hits
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Brandon Harris retweeted
The problem with AI personhood discourse is that AI chatbots hijack what George Santayana called our “animal faith”: our reflexive assumption that the world is as it seems to be and that things we encounter in the world that *appear* to be other minds are in fact other minds.
For people who deny AI personhood for any AI model at any point in the future, you're going to need better arguments than this. There are arguments out there, but once agents can solve Navier-Stokes, write music and poetry, and provide people with seemingly fulfilling life advice, this kind of line is just not going to be persuasive. "YOU'RE CRAZY" no longer lands.
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me too.
today was the last time that a man who is older than me appeared in a major league baseball game
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Brandon Harris retweeted
This is also 25th Amendment stuff. Extremely disturbing.
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Brandon Harris retweeted
Adding Cal and Stanford to the ACC was so dumb that it still defies explanation. Who actually sat in a room, looked at a map, looked at the economics, looked at the travel, and said: Yes. This is the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference. And were Cal and Stanford really so horrified by the thought of joining forces with Washington State and Oregon State that flying non-revenue teams 2,500 miles across the country seemed like the more sensible option? The whole thing is ridiculous. College sports managed to destroy regional conferences, inflate travel costs, punish athletes, and produce a league stretching from Berkeley to Boston— all in the name of “stability.” So dumb.
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Brandon Harris retweeted
the NYT reports this morning that Abdul is polling well while Troy Jackson in Maine is not. This shows precisely what happens when the DC consultant class is allowed to come in and wreck a campaign: currentaffairs.org/news/the-…
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Brandon Harris retweeted
1987 Eric Davis absolute did. 2026 AI Eric Davis absolutely did not.
My grandfather used to say some players make the game look easy and a few make it look unfair. Eric Davis in 1987 was the second kind. He hit three grand slams in May alone, which tied the major league record for one month that Rudy York set back in 1938, and he was doing it in a Reds outfield where he also happened to be one of the best defenders alive. The number that stops me is 129. He gave back 33 games to hamstrings and shoulders and still finished at .293 with 100 RBI to go with the 37 and 50. Nobody had ever paired 30 homers with 50 steals before him. Somebody out there watched a player like this and has been waiting years for an excuse to bring him up.
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If the Dems run Kamala or Newsom, I may write in Hubie.
Happy 93d for Hubie Brown, a truly, truly, truly GREAT basketball man with a tremendous sense of humor. He was a mentor and he is a friend.
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Congrats Elly de la Cruz. 30/30. Welcome to the club
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Brandon Harris retweeted
It always blows my mind that Nirvana’s Nevermind, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik came out the same day. September 24, 1991.
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Brandon Harris retweeted
When Carney gave his now-famous speech in Davos, many of us - perhaps naively - were excited that Canada would emerge as a global leader to reinforce international law and its principles. Ever since, Carney has worked hard, it appears, to disappoint us. Here, for instance, he downplays Trump's language of annihilation as mere "war talk" and goes on to repeat the Israeli line that Iran constitutes an existential threat to Israel. Carney's key point in Davos was that Western states applied international law "with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim." And that is exactly what Carney did here. He downplayed Trump's horrific language (would he have done it if Pezeshkian had uttered those words?) and then went on to indirectly justify the illegal war by repeating Israeli propaganda re Iran's threat to Israel. Deep inside, I knew he would disappoint. Just not this fast and not this embarrassingly.
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The movie business would be much more interesting if Sundance was in Cincinnati, Paramount was in Nashville and David Ellison was still just a failed actor.
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בגלל העניין והחשיבות הציבורית אני ורחלי החלטנו ביחד עם הגרדיאן שהסרט נז״א יהיה נגיש באינטרנט בחינם, ללא הגבלת זמן, כדי שכל אדם יוכל לצפות בו ובעדויות החיילים. זה יקרה בעוד כמה שבועות, בנובמבר, במועד הכי מוקדם שהצלחנו לקבוע. עד אז פנינו לבתי קולנוע בישראל והצענו להם את הסרט ללא עלות, בתקווה שיוקרן בארץ כבר עכשיו, במקביל להפצתו בבתי קולנוע בעולם. הצגתו תהיה החלטה אמיצה אל מול אלימות גדולה שמכוונת להסתרתו. אני יודע שיש ביקוש אדיר לצפות בסרט ואני מקווה שבאופן הזה כולם בקרוב יוכלו לראות אותו: בין אם בבתי הקולנוע ובין אם באינטרנט בעוד כמה שבועות. הרבה דברים לא נכונים נאמרו עלינו ועל הסרט בשבוע החולף. הסרט מבוסס על תחקיר עיתונאי מקיף של שלוש שנים והפרטים בו מאומתים ומוצלבים. הוא ידבר בעד עצמו והאמת סופה להתבהר. עשינו את הסרט כדי לעורר דיון ציבורי לגבי המעשים של הממשלה בעזה, ההרג של יותר מ73,000 בני אדם, רובם אזרחים, הנרמול של מלחמת השמדה, של התפיסה ש״אין בלתי מעורבים״. עשרים וארבעה חיילים וחיילות עשו צעד ודיברו מול מצלמה על מה שחברה שלמה לא רוצה לדבר עליו. ההכרה בזוועות בעזה לא מפחיתה לרגע מהטבח הנפשע של השבעה באוקטובר, שחמאס אחראי עליו, שחיילים מדברים עליו בסרט, ושאין לו שום הצדקה. להפך. הרי ההתעלמות ממה שקורה בעזה היא מהגורמים שסללו את הדרך לשבת הנוראה ההיא. וההתעלמות הזו נמשכת. עיתונות היא לא בגידה. ביקורת היא לא בגידה. זו חובה של כל אזרח שממשלתו מבצעת פשעים לדעת ושל כל חייל שהיה עד להם לספר. מסתובבים כאן אלפי חיילים כאלה, שיצפו בסרט ויזהו את מה שמתואר בו באופן אישי: את ההרג של אנשים לא חמושים שחוצים קו מדומיין, את אישורי הנז״א במאות, את התקיפות המערכתיות בבתי משפחות, את השריפה וההשמדה הפיזית של עזה, רצח וירי על אנשים רעבים במרכזי מזון ופשעים נוספים שאין להם הצדקה. גם אם זה מפחיד, זו חובתכם למצוא את הדרך להעיד על מה שראיתם. יגידו לכם שכדאי להסתיר את האמת למען הסברה בחו״ל, אבל זה קשקוש. שם יודעים כבר הכל. פשעים לא מסבירים אלא עוצרים. הסתרת האמת קודם כל מרעילה את החברה שלנו ומעל הכל מאפשרת לפגיעה בבני אדם בעזה להימשך. ובנימה אישית: אני כותב על מדיניות האש של הצבא בעזה בעברית ב״שיחה מקומית״ כבר שלוש שנים. התחקירים זכו להתעלמות בישראל. עכשיו בפעם הראשונה משהו נסדק במסך ההתעלמות - וזה דבר חיובי. זה דבר בריא. כן, זה מגיע עם מחיר אישי גדול. היה שבוע קשה. אבל בתוכו גם יש המון תמיכה, והרבה נדיבות. מה שבטוח: האיומים לא יעזרו. זה לא מרתיע אותנו. אני ורחלי נחזור לארץ ונמשיך להיאבק על עתיד המקום הזה ביחד עם שותפים רבים.
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Brandon Harris retweeted
38 years ago today I created the 40/40 club I remember the day like it was yesterday
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RT @GlobeBobRyan: Nicholas Batum just concluded an 18-year NBA career without ever attracting much attention. But 18 years means someone al…
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Brandon Harris retweeted
What Bari Weiss did to the great Palestinian poet and author Refaat Alareer -- directing the IDF to murder him by deliberately and blatantly distorting his mockery of Israeli lies about Oct 7 into a celebration of the attack -- has never been fully acknowledged or confronted:
On October 30, 2023 Bari Weiss pinned a target to Refaat Al-Areer’s back. With a single post, she sentenced him to death. Bari Weiss knew there were no babies put in ovens by Hamas on October 7… or any other day for that matter… but she saw an opportunity to doom a man who was superior to her in both intellect and humanity and she took it. Just 37 days later, on December 6, 2023, Refaat was murdered, along with 6 of his family members, when an IDF precision strike surgically targeted him in his sister’s 2nd floor apartment. Refaat had fled to his sister’s home a couple days prior after receiving an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be an IDF officer who said they knew exactly which shelter he was at with his wife and children and ground troops were coming for him. Bari Weiss is an evil, spiteful bitch and the story of how she had a brilliant professor, and loving husband and father murdered is the only thing she should ever be remembered for.
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This is definitely going to be a key moment in the AI Scott Bessent biopic on Warnermount+ starring a simulacrum of Heath Ledger I'll watch on a 124 degree day in 2031.
Notable from Scott Bessent interview with @BretBaier on Fox News: He says: 1. Iran will “say uncle.” 2. If Iran makes a deal, “they will stick to it.”
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Brandon Harris retweeted
An iconic photo setting the stage for a terrifying 21st century. Beaming beside the man who violently assaulted her country and abducted its president and his wife, Delcy signals enthusiastic consent for the Donroe Doctrine and the entire Western imperial ethos of might makes right. This is a green light for the kidnapping of presidents, the assassination of leaders in their offices, and the plunder of resources. Chavez inspired millions across the globe by standing for international law and against the Iraq war at the UN podium. Delcy may sincerely believe she is defending her nation’s interests, but with this single twisted photo op, she has let the world down.
Sostuvimos una histórica reunión con el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, con quien conversamos sobre el fortalecimiento de la relación bilateral entre nuestros países y el avance de una agenda de cooperación en áreas estratégicas como energía, minería, seguridad
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