Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

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I spent a half hour trying to figure out the right way to formulate a paragraph for my book's introduction and when it finally clicked into place, I literally clapped my hands and said "that's it!" out loud. That's the kind of pure nerdy excitement that AI steals from us.

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In case you needed any more evidence that Carville is a Republican

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the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

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“merit” means elite or selective institutions are mostly white with some number of east asians permitted and at most a smattering of anyone else.

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