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Andrew Burton
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Sometime TennisWorld contributor, Sylvia’s husband, Cathleen’s dad. Known to cook. New here (joined July 2023).
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
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I've been working with the team to save little Storm all week in the background.

Wasn't confident enough to share him until today.

What a little fighter he is ❤️
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It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
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This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
www.nytimes.com
Don’t you dare increase marginal income tax rates, though. Don’t you dare think about passing reforms that give more power to employees.
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As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."
JESUS CHRIST DUDE
Populism always talks to and for “the real people.” Sometimes it’s “hard working families,” which sounds pretty benign (sorry, students); then it shades into “white, native born” or “us, not the metropolitan elites.” Inevitably, it’s driven by the groups it’s against, not a big tent it’s for.
Thread. Something, something, make, something, white again.
A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
US Department of Labor launches Project Firewall to protect America’s highly skilled workforce
www.dol.gov
“Siri, what is audience capture?”
“President’s poll ratings don’t budge after Fifth Avenue gun discharge. Some assert other consequences should apply.”
I wrote a thread on a similar theme about 8 months ago: bsky.app/profile/burt...
What are governments for, in our day to day lives? And how does Gordon Ramsey’s show “Kitchen Nightmares” help us to answer this?

My answer is this: governments exist to backstop our assumptions that we will be treated in good faith by people we don’t know. (Start of a thread)
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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
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Is this the Binance guy? Seriously.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
“Waiting for principled conservatives to take action because of displeasure at Trump’s nonsense“ was the original title of Samuel Beckett’s masterwork, but it wouldn’t fit on theater marquees.
It’s a very good piece. Good luck on the job hunt!
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The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.
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I would hope that one of the many MPs who benefits from Sunder's tireless work would take up this case - the defamatory video needs removing urgently, and the person responsible needs to be found and held accountable
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DHS just posted a Little Dark Age edit. Clear pattern of black-pilled memes and fashy fancams that reflects who ICE wants to recruit

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I regret to inform you that Bari Weiss is a hack.
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The rest of the world knows what time it is. Only American voters are clueless.
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
We also have data showing whether foreign companies are eating the tariffs (no) or whether US companies are cutting margins (somewhat, for now) or US consumers are paying higher prices (yup, increasing as time goes on).