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Brent Roraback

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Surprising how quickly and completely I feel like I'm switching over to Threads. So different from when I was trying Mastodon, etc. Would not have predicted Twitter could be replaced so quickly and completely (absent DMs and lists, so far).


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Hey Justice Roberts, here’s a thought: if you are going to reference the French Revolution, perhaps show a modicum of sympathy for those seeking liberty & equality, vs. those with inherited wealth, power, & position.


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cc: Vladimir Putin

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.



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A real-time crisis—like this possible coup in Russia—is exactly the moment when one needs verified accounts to filter out news from bullshit rumors. This is also exactly the moment to remember that @elonmusk has burned this once-useful information ecosystem to the ground.


"Heads up. Due to increased summer travel, it’s going to take longer than usual to get through security at Seattle airport tomorrow. Please give yourself at least 3.5 hours to make your way to the gate." Really @AlaskaAir? For my 8am flight I should arrive at 4:30 am?!


Lotta wisdom in this tweet from @shreyas.

Some user-focused companies reward PMs for collecting user feedback for years & years and yet their products don’t actually win in the market and yet their go-to solution to this problem is.... MOAR USER FEEDBACK! These companies don’t understand that collecting feedback is…



Recommend this thread recapping the indictment.

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment. I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST. HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know. but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.



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1/Before everyone gets too spun up about reports Judge Cannon has been assigned to the Trump case, a little law. I used to be an appellate chief in the 11th Circuit (where Florida is) and I litigated a few appeals where we asked the court of appeals to order a judge to recuse.


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Biden ate McCarthy's lunch. There’s a lot less to this than meets the eye. That trillion in savings? Only the first two years of caps (worth about $200b) are enforceable. The rest is purely an assumption about what Congress will do. Work requirements? Loosened, on average.


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I wish more people would say it this way: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

GregTSargent's tweet image. I wish more people would say it this way:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

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