‘Kash Patel is the new Greg Packer.’ Discuss …
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Update/Correction: The SAT was “recentered” in the mid ’90s. According to ChatCPT, the mean total score for *college bound* seniors in 1985, the year Newsom graduated high school, was 1001 on the scale used at the time. The mean score for all high school seniors, college bound or
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He could be the first candidate in history who has to prove he’s really as dumb as he says he is https://t.co/INdTkja7aJ
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PPS: Did he really score 960? Entirely possible. But it’s also possible he scored higher and dumbed himself down to where he thought the audience was, which would be where consdescension comes in.
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Well, if he’s accepting SATs as a measure of “better” or “worse,” a) that’s creepy b) there are a lof of people in the crowd who scored a lot better than he did, given a typical distribution. He seems to be stereotyping them all as testing as badly as he did. PS The average SAT https://t.co/JhFMShqvFf
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He’s horning in on the glory of others to shore up his sagging political position (due in part to his Epstein files act) .. https://t.co/XChl9NBpCj
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He’s on a Noem-like Reputation Reclamation Mission. https://t.co/O1CUoitPwq
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Here’s a page with links to the three weeks of the debate: https://t.co/z8Y28iToxf
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In 2002, with the US on the brink of war against a Middle East regime, Slate ran a debate on whether we should do it. The situations aren’t the same, but it’s worth reading now, in part to see whose reporting & reasoning holds up. Some doesn’t! https://t.co/yBzx9Ab9Pt Links
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Wait–one of the secret papers Andrew supposedly leaked to Epstein was a “briefing about nvestment opportunities in Afghanistan, where the UK government was funding reconstruction in Helmand Province.” Was this really a secret Mossad project to bankrupt Epstein?
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This is really a great feature. They’re batting around 10 for 10. Every city should have one. https://t.co/M0JZLIeq6T
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Feb 21, 2026
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What’s worse than defecating in the street? In Los Angeles, the Department of Transportation put out videos urging people not to crap in buses, and to report it if they see it. https://t.co/0ylk8XeFHN https://t.co/LGz0s5Knuv
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Feb 21, 2026
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Have people made the point that losing the tariff case is on balance very good for Trump politically–it tells voters he can be contained to some extent by someone. He didn’t defy the court’s ruling. He’s not completely out of control, as many feared.
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Odd that Obama would lead it … https://t.co/L20L7jBKnZ
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Jackson did say this, which he apparently never retracted. “There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Did https://t.co/UbalK9LDvS
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Even in his response, Bianco says he’s against amnesty, then endorses a “pathway to citizenship” (amnesty). Anytime any pol says “broken immigration system” you know a pro-amnesty pollster has been telling him the weasel-words to use to sneak amnesty past immgration-skeptical https://t.co/nD9bcgprhM
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These pieties would be more inspiring if it were obvious Congress, as conceived by the Framers, was up to the job. But it’s too slow, too corrupt, and diffuses accountability in a way that avoids retribution by the voters. There has to be a better system. (Meanwhile the law is https://t.co/gYOneVkd8X
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Feb 20, 2026
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When you go down to the birth certificate place to get a new copy, how do you prove to them that you are you? Apparently, you show them your driver’s license. (They don’t keep fingerprints, according to Grok.) That seems a bit circular, no? Just asking! (I’m all for Voter ID but https://t.co/YuYytsP5lm
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“[T]he outcomes have been fantastic” https://t.co/9exgMUONsr
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You’re always the angriest when you’re a bit guilty. Rice presided over the Domestic Policy Council when BIden opened the borders, assuring Trump’s return. Now she vows to perpetuate the cycle of crude partisan revenge. She seems confident she’ll remain in the elite pursuing it. https://t.co/kNvZEY5pSH
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Feb 20, 2026
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She has a point … https://t.co/ehmHgCJeKW
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More on the effect of last year’s shutdown on GDP. [Thread] Did Dems get what they wanted? https://t.co/2at5RjzjQn
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Feb 20, 2026
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“The department estimated that the government shutdown…probably took about 1 percentage point off economic growth.”–CNBC https://t.co/w1Rd2oPVnK So the idea that the Dems could provoke/prolong the shutdown to screw up the economy pre-midterms isn’t fanciful.
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Feb 20, 2026
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Raises a possibility I hadn’t thought of: Could an intelligence agency–CIA or whomever–simply use Epstein to find out the kompromat on X. Then they could blackmail X with it themselves. Epstein wouldn’t have to do the blackmailing himself (though we know he wasn’t above that). https://t.co/tJlnT9FIx3
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Feb 19, 2026
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Sensible conclusions from a veteran editor. Point #4 is the core: “His elite contacts would, however, have made him a person of interest for the American, Russian and Israeli intelligence services, among others. After all, he had plenty of kompromat regarding the sexual https://t.co/4QQm2qpmNB
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