- Adopt a journo? Nah
- Pocahontas’s revenge
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Border patrol says “well what can you do?”
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This week, the press’s opinion of its own dying business bifurcated. The unequivocally left-wing New York Times suggested journalism school should be free (or rather, you should pay for communist baristas to go to journalism school), while the literally communist Jacobin suggested the government should simply fund all media. But might there be some better way forward than dramatically increasing the supply of journalists as demand craters to its lowest point in modern history, or building an information ecosystem entirely dependent on the patronage of the very power it is most intended to police? Probably, but with goals like this I really don’t care anymore. These outlets are dinosaurs, and we’re the clever little mammals. Let the meteor take its course.
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Liz Warren and the other communist legislators reintroduced their Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act yesterday (which would also randomly abolish private health insurance?). This would effectively confiscate the majority of a successful tech founder’s stock over his lifetime, inverting the incentive to develop new technologies that has fueled the American economy for over half a century. Which is of course the point. It’s telling that when I fed the text of the bill to ChatGPT and asked for ethical tax mitigation strategies, it — no joke — told me to carefully consider “renouncing U.S. citizenship.”
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Border patrol says “well what can you do?” |
A federal appeals court has just blocked a Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants suspected of illegally crossing the border. The law was needed because, even though Biden's layabout Border Patrol has invested millions in surveillance tech along the border, surveillance is basically all they are using it for. They're watching Hispanics run back and forth across the border like it’s a fentanyl-themed soccer game and saying "uh oh," just like everyone on Twitter. If Texas police are willing to do more than that, we should probably let them.
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A Fiery, But Mostly Peaceful Conversation About the Media |
last year, mike solana, kmele foster, and ben smith tussled about the future of media, and no one argued that it should be government-controlled |
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Open Borders for Thee, Not for Me |
from the archives: river explains how democrats craft immigration policies to keep the border disaster out of sight and out of mind |
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Florida Just Banned Lab-Grown Meat, I Tried to Find Out Why |
is the conservative war on cultivated meat a matter of protecting the beef lobby, protecting consumers, or a third more mysterious thing (owning the libs)? |
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