Rick Wilson

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Lincoln Project and Resolute Square founder. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated pilot. pod.link/1650861232

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Aspen, July.

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I have a piece in The NYT this morning. When a Minneapolis suburb hired a Black chief and assistant chief, over half the department quit. Yet the world didn’t end. When cops would rather quit than respect the wishes of the communities they serve, maybe it’s okay to let them go.

Opinion | Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.www.nytimes.com The charming town has a powerful tale to tell.

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Passage of Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 already found to be lowering US greenhouse gas emissions https://phys.org/news/2023-06-passage-inflation-reduction-lowering-greenhouse.html

Passage of Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 already found to be lowering US greenhouse gas emissionsphys.org A large team made up of academics and professionals in the private sector from across the U.S. has found that just a year after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), measurable drops i...

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Experts: "I have no idea what the entire fuck just happened." Randos: "Allow me to illuminate you through the medium of memes."

Rick. Scott. For President. This is less of a joke and more a proof the gods have their own sense of humor that passes far beyond our mortal understanding.

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"still punk as fuck" i whisper to myself as i slowly lower my standing desk to be a lying down desk

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Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waters

Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waterswww.theguardian.com Cetacean exhibits same behaviour towards vessel in North Sea that has been seen in Iberian orca population

Their romance is slowly blossoming.

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@therickwilson.bsky.social “People from Moscow come to Miami and go ‘Wow, this place is fucking corrupt’” Speaking to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social about how easy it will be for some MAGA dickwad to blow up the jury pool on this Trump classified documents theft. Exactly. Scary shit.

The decline of the Birdhellsite is notable over the last few days. Good Lord.

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We need @rvawonk.bsky.social on here — and to actually skeet this kind of brilliance, often ✍🏼

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A former OceanGate employee complained specifically that the tourist submersible was not capable of descending to such extreme depths — and then he was fired

Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel Tonewrepublic.com Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

God the Trump speech is agonizingly terrible #evergreenskeet

Palazzo Vecchio last night.

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Right? "I hope you're in high spirits because you're going to need them by the time I'm done."

“High spirits” sold me though.

access to classified information in order to represent his client in a lawsuit over pre-publication review of a manuscript." The first clue that this was going to be a weird ride was the formatting. Simply put....it's a letter. And that first line is a doozy.

The gift of shameless gives Republicans the power to go out and declare victory in a debt ceiling deal in which Joe Biden roundly spanked them.

Right-wingers are attacking Chik-Fil-A. Happy Tuesday.

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Um, guys, I just got these texts and I’m a little concerned…

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Kandiss Taylor squishes the globes — like, for a side hustle with the devil… way down in Georgia 🌎 🗺️ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kandiss-taylor-globes-anti-flat-earth-brainwashing-1234741082/

I upgraded my GITMO status

That is a weird looking prison camp

Moment of zen from a party I was at last night.

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I think the "AI is killing truth" storyline is overcooked but it's pretty wild how fast the bullshit-to-viral pipeline has become https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/22/pentagon-explosion-ai-image-hoax/

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Kari Lake lost the 2022 gubernatorial contest in Arizona for the sixth time on Monday. Doesn't matter. The fight she's engaged in is against reality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/23/arizona-kari-lake-governor-false-claims/

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Inches away…

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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/18/wall-street-executive-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-group.html

Meet the Wall Street executive funding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine groupwww.cnbc.com Mark Gorton, who also created LimeWire, says he's helped fund presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine group.

It’s about to dawn on them that it’s easier to lose top-tier students, private, and federal, grant, money, and reputation that it is to gain it back once it’s gone.

Republicans are also delusional about the near-term future of Florida’s (once) very good universities under DeSantis. You don’t get to have bugfuck insane fascist politics and a thriving, intellectual research community in 2023.

Someone is going to write a brilliant book one day about the exact process by which Elon became red-pilled.

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Well, well, well. How the turntables…

Pew: 60% of U.S. Twitter users have 'taken a break' from the platform in the past yeartcrn.ch A new study by Pew Research Center paints a picture of a pause in Twitter usage by U.S. adults, but the data doesn’t necessarily point the finger at Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform as the source of the blame. Instead, Pew’s survey of U.S. adults, which was conducted over a week in […]