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Twitter’s Extreme Free Speech Makeover


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Elon Musk just became Twitter's largest shareholder and newest board member. We'll all tweet happily ever after, probably. In the first round, we've got lots of news from Congress this week: KBJ has a clear path to the bench, while Madison Cawthorn finds out what it takes in today's GOP to get...benched. And we'll check in on Ukraine, where the atrocities are mounting, force availability is in question, but the international community is providing an ample supply of strongly-worded statements.

Mike's drinking: Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale

Erol's drinking: Writers' Tears, Walsh Whiskey, Carlow, Ireland

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Pitch perfect flyers showed up on Capitol Hill after Madison Cawthorn’s weird interview: https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/status/1511029632669208584?s=21&t=4AJroEL3cCfPMKUB1bttbA

Wait but Why series of articles on Elon Musk: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html

Spicy nuggets:

Larry Summers on Ezra Klein’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000555567714
Casimir Pulaski, hero of the Revolutionary War, was most likely intersex: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/science/casimir-pulaski-intersex.html
Erol's tribute to his Nene: https://medium.com/p/5bc05cd2b836

Erol’s migration event: https://www.csis.org/events/world-migration-report-2022-deciphering-global-trends-and-complexities

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