Matthew YglesiasConta verificada

I've been here almost 20 years and have never been invited to an orgy by a sixty-something, but I guess I don't hang out with as many Republicans as Cawthorn does.https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1508127124498141187 …

It’s not a question of “free speech” exactly, there are obviously tons of forums in which tough on crime politics is welcome. But many people here were behaving with an understanding of the social role of universities and academic research that I found disturbing.

That NYT piece 10 days or whenever about free speech has been an absolute killer to my productivity and I've written easily a half-dozen unsatisfactory unfinished drafts about what I think about it.

My version of this is that to be a small-d democrat requires you to have open eyes about the practical need to engage in some squalid compromising rather than break the system and end up with something worse.

Do you? Or do you just need the old Churchill joke that there’s no alternative that would reliably do any better?https://twitter.com/yascha_mounk/status/1508077451896832008 …

If everyone agrees that: (a) Originalism is good (b) Precedent is also good (c) A modest, apolitical judiciary is also also good Then everyone can just keep on Calvinballing toward their policy preferences without too much fuss.

This is the way IMO there’s no sense arguing about legal theory.https://twitter.com/cshea4/status/1508069116636274688 …

Probably because The Third Man is so cool, everyone wants to do their spy stuff in Vienna.https://twitter.com/bondhack/status/1508026627493711872 …

And that’s fine — of course Republicans think decisions should be friendlier to Republicans, to people who Republicans like, and to ideas Republicans favor. But that’s different from a policy agenda aimed at creating flatter, more neutral distribution channels.

You obviously *could* try to impose common carrier rules on Facebook or YouTube or Twitter but nobody ever seems to actually propose that — instead the idea is just that moderation, rules-enforcement, programming design, etc should be friendlier to Republicans.

I think people tend to make a category error and see Republican complaints about “big tech” and “censorship” as part of a regulatory policy agenda when they should be understood more like complaints about “the liberal media” — ref-working without a defined goal or end state.

What's unfortunate about Trump is that all my life I've been critical of term limits, but if he wins in 2024 and I'm going to glad we have them — nothing worse than being forced by events to change your mind about something.

Cinema is when you get the really wide 21:9 aspect ratio.https://twitter.com/Lucas_Shaw/status/1507971769923096584 …