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What is woke?

2 years 8 months ago
Bethany Mandel, a conservative writer, had a bit of brain freeze on live TV yesterday and was unable to define woke for her interviewer. This gave us lefties a chance to laugh at her, and fair enough. That's life in the arena. I really don't understand why movement conservatives haven't yet figured out a simple, ...continue reading "What is woke?"
Kevin Drum

It was necessary to destroy the bank in order to save the bank

2 years 8 months ago
Here's a chart that must be driving all the ex-managers of Silicon Valley Bank nuts: One of SVB's problems was a portfolio of long-dated Treasury bonds that was $15 billion underwater. But 10-year Treasurys have fallen by more than 50 basis points since Peter Thiel's run on deposits put SVB into receivership. Their portfolio has ...continue reading "It was necessary to destroy the bank in order to save the bank"
Kevin Drum

Court Makes It Clear: Government Submissions To Twitter Flagging Program Do Not Violate The 1st Amendment

2 years 8 months ago
There’s been a lot of discussion of late, especially because of the various Twitter Files, regarding where the line is between governments simply flagging content for social media websites to vet against their own policies as compared to unconstitutional and impermissible suppression of speech in violation of the 1st Amendment. As we’ve highlighted over and […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The Premium Ethical Hacking Bundle

2 years 8 months ago
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Gretchen Heckmann