Semafor’s Dime-Store Davos is still going on! Five days of taking over the publication’s website. It’s like an @NPR fundraiser. https://t.co/QInbBn2Zeg
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026 at 02:40PM
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(What’s Left of) Our Economy: Latest Official Data Show Illegal Aliens Still Undercutting U.S. Legal Worker Wages https://t.co/FFAqtQprhP via @AlanTonelson
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Apr 15, 2026
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Those who don’t forget the past are condemned to think it will be repeated. https://t.co/QZHbOKOUj4
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026 at 01:29AM
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“Authorities Wanted an Egalitarian and Cohesive Australia.” https://t.co/x874s9sQH5
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026 at 01:19AM
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Just the Semafor event “partners” alone constitute a crippling number of business to suck up to: https://t.co/f6EmPFN29x
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 08:35PM
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In the end, Hampshire College could not survive @richardrushfield’s memoir https://t.co/RytYulhcrr https://t.co/vorEWN4oea
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 08:15PM
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How hard would it be for @AnthropicAI to configure Claude to collect your info, do your taxes and file your return for you? Not hard, I suspect–if @HRBlock would let it.
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Apr 15, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 08:11PM
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Speakers, sponsors—so many people for ‘journalists’ to suck up to in Justin Smith’s ‘events-based’ business model. https://t.co/gsVCejVBpw
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Apr 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 06:34PM
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And the ‘protected individuals’ aren’t everyone, but “designated immigration support services providers, employees, and volunteers.” So Dems reward favored members of the NGO Blob not just with $$ but with special legal protections against the press. Did Orban think of that one? https://t.co/lkvCN18WK0
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Apr 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 04:06PM
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A Harris write-in campaign would make sense for Dems in the unlikely event that 2 GOP candidates make the runoff. Dems would need *some* top-of-ticket candidate to bring out voters and avoid turnout-driven wipeouts downballot. Valuable even if Harris loses (though not for https://t.co/X8240ocNa9
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Apr 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 02:08AM
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Scott Bessent is a star performer in @Semafor’s dime-store Davos “world economy” conference. That’s money in the bank for Justin and Ben Smith. You think Semafor’s going to trash Bessent anytime soon? It all seems corrupting. https://t.co/DroSsLJc20
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Apr 14, 2026
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.@Semafor news coverage near-totally hijacked by their money-making bigshot conference. …https://t.co/QInbBn2Zeg
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Apr 14, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 11:35PM
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Determined to ignore the effect of illegal immigrants leaving (and not coming any more) … https://t.co/rK1O3JsYZu
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 02:30PM
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Here is an earlier study that also found more than half the employment gains were due to the ’96 reform’s work requirements https://t.co/5os7ByL2eG https://t.co/cNNrbWUCj4
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 02:19PM
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There is now a billboard of the poet Mandy Kahn on Sunset Boulevard (!), featuring the lines of hers discussed in this piece. They’re good lines! https://t.co/kxN9NfMGLA
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Apr 13, 2026
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There is now a billboard of the poet Mandy Kahn (!) on Sunset Blvd., featuring the lines of hers discussed in this piece. They’re good lines! https://t.co/kxN9NfMGLA
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:46AM
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First AI came for the lawyers, and I did not speak out because I didn’t want to be a lawyer … https://t.co/QZHbOKOUj4
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:35AM
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From a local Republican leader … https://t.co/O620TUBv3J
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:25AM
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Real Illiberal Democracy has never been tried
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:18AM
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Now do Journolist … https://t.co/uYpWTSVJGu
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:16AM
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You mean he’s the Ron DeSantis of Hungary … https://t.co/uJhyPpdrRO
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 03:14AM
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“[A]n important principle: Conversation is not a reward to be bestowed on those with whom we agree; it’s a necessary habit in a democracy. The point is not to find agreement so much as to deepen understanding. To talk with others is to believe in the possibility of change —
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Apr 13, 2026
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“[N]othing would improve the region more than the replacement of this regime in Iran with one was focused on enabling its people to realize their full potential… The problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened… And so I
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 01:12AM
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A better theory would be that the problems left to solve –eg. health care, welfare before ’96, racial equality–are the ones that aren’t amenable to “3” compromises, or else they would have been solved already.
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Apr 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 at 12:43AM
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“If somebody is at a two and you are at four, there ought to be some way to get to three.” That Dole quote captures the dreary old-DC mindset of this piece. Sometimes either extreme is better than 3! The bipartiasn welfare reform bill of 1996, which @PostKranish mentions, wasn’t
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Apr 13, 2026
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