Bijan @bijanm

privacy & public policy; lawyer. snark, basketball, and policy in no particular order. views are mine alone. RTs = Super Smash Bros. challenges. Washington, DC Joined May 2008

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Brendan Karet @bad_takes

a week ago

i walk around the airport and see nothing but sick children. i wish they were as obviously healthy as me, a a 71 year old former heroin addict who sounds like a speak-and-spell that got thrown into a toilet

Acyn @Acyn

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Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

a week ago

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philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

a week ago

Uh oh https://t.co/Jbq2eZ3ERt

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Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

2 weeks ago

Rather than take equity positions in private companies, perhaps the government could confiscate ~20% of pre-tax earnings. And then when it comes to control, Congress could pass laws governing corporate behavior.

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Maia @maiamindel

2 weeks ago

Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts to the humanities come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money?

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derek guy @dieworkwear

2 weeks ago

the paradox of young MAGA men: fetishizes pre-1990s WASP aesthetics bc they associate it with respectability and status, but also wants to pose as working class. loves establishment ivy league looks, but hates the establishment ivy league. ultimately just about a performance.

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Olivia Li @oliviali_

3 weeks ago

Absolutely no reason why we aren’t innovating on microwaves. Make the phased array microwave that cooks my chicken breast to exactly 145F like it’s straight out of a sous vide. You guys need to stop making b2b saas

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris

3 weeks ago

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain

4 weeks ago

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Fell For It Again Award 🎖️ @FellForItAgainA

3 weeks ago

unusual_whales @unusual_whales

4 weeks ago

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Bobby Kogan @BBKogan

4 weeks ago

New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs It was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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a.🦄 @xcowboygeniusx

4 weeks ago

babe wake up taylor swift is behaving like the zodiac killer again

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Boots, 'with the fur' @afraidofwasps

4 weeks ago

Teacher: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Class "Genius": Ahhh - I can't calculate - Does... Not.. Compute 🥴🤯 Me, the prodigy janitor: (smiling wisely) Yes - and No ,

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derek guy @dieworkwear

4 weeks ago

I actually have an MA and PhD in architectural history. The first two photos show the detailing at Amalienburg, a German hunting lodge done in Rococo style. Note the level of detailing. The third photo shows the Oval Office, which is done in the traditional Cadbury bunny style.

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California YIMBY @cayimby

a month ago

The only way to make housing broadly affordable is to reform zoning and build a lot more homes in the places people want to live.

The Pew Trusts @pewtrusts

a month ago

The only way to make housing broadly affordable is to reform zoning and build a lot more homes in the places people want to live.

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The Pew Trusts @pewtrusts

a month ago

New research: When states and cities don't allow more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—it pushes up *all* rents. This makes it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods. pewtrsts.org/4l9r7VQ

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Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez

a month ago

Man, we used to laugh at the British for Brexit being such an own goal. This administration is going to make Brexit seem like a parking ticket. There will be no coming back from this. This is going to set us back for decades and decades.

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock

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Hattie Zhou @oh_that_hat

a month ago

Interesting piece by Matt Levine on the huge AI salaries: “I tell you what, if Meta Platforms Inc. paid me a $100 million signing bonus to come work for their artificial intelligence business, I would be the most dedicated worker they have ever seen until the check cleared!…

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ape attack survivor @pissvortex

2 months ago

It’s been said before but it’s still really funny that a country of people with some of the easiest lives on earth voted to elect the candidate that ran on shutting down all the universities and work from home jobs to send everyone back into the coal mines

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Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan

2 months ago

Over the past 150 years, the US built a university system that was the envy of the world. It made us a leader in research and science, helped shape global culture, and brought the world's brightest people to our door. It's now being dismantled with stunning speed, for nothing

Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler

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Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers

2 months ago

Wrong. We can see the effects of tariffs on prices pretty clearly. Compare the change in prices across tariff-affected and unaffected industries. The reason we aren't seeing aggregate effects is the Federal Reserve is tightening monetary policy to keep prices stable.