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James Palmer

@BeijingPalmer

Deputy editor @ForeignPolicy. Wrote Bloody White Baron, The Death of Mao, and upcoming Heaven's Empires. Married to @larsonchristina. DC, ex-Beijing. He/him.

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calendar_today09-03-2013 13:43:21

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James Palmer(@BeijingPalmer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Dupont parade/high heel race paying a lot of tribute to the Queen this year but disappointingly no Liz Trusses.

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James Felton(@JimMFelton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let Suella Braverman be a warning to everybody: break the ministerial code and you will face the full might of a week off

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Jared Keller(@jaredbkeller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I want to know who thought publishing a paywalled op-ed in the WSJ was the best avenue to reach America's youth.

Dear God, please don't make me FOIA the PAO correspondence that made this happen.

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Andrew L. Seidel(@AndrewLSeidel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The nullification number is harrowing. There's a belief on our side that the court wouldn't overrule Obergefell because it couldn't nullify existing marriages. I wrote about why that notion is mistaken in Religion Dispatches last year: religiondispatches.org/could-this-sup…

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Yair Rosenberg(@Yair_Rosenberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I understand that you are upset that this guy equated antisemites with their Jewish victims, but personally, I'm just relieved that he's moved on from publicly fantasizing about the sexual prowess of minors to more civilized subjects.

I understand that you are upset that this guy equated antisemites with their Jewish victims, but personally, I'm just relieved that he's moved on from publicly fantasizing about the sexual prowess of minors to more civilized subjects.
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hannah(@h_thoreson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it's not just twitter (relevant because NEWS) it's google it's basically every consumer-facing website. computing resources became expensive again, and the costs became legible, so everything is designed to ration them out and not to make them accessible to the end user.

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hannah(@h_thoreson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

the economics of cloud computing are what made the internet feel like a dying mall. if admins can see where every click is costing them a few $0.00001 in compute they know how to maximize the amount of pain the user will tolerate before just giving up too.

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philip lewis(@Phil_Lewis_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jean Kuczka, a physical education teacher, stepped in front of a gunman to protect her students at the St. Louis school. She was shot and killed. stltoday.com/news/local/cri…

Jean Kuczka, a physical education teacher, stepped in front of a gunman to protect her students at the St. Louis school. She was shot and killed. stltoday.com/news/local/cri…
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「𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮」(@tara_chara) 's Twitter Profile Photo

just found out about Kiuchi Nobuo, a Japanese POW captured by the Soviets in Manchuria in 1945, and his *insanely horny* drawings of female Soviet officers at his internment camp in Ukraine

just found out about Kiuchi Nobuo, a Japanese POW captured by the Soviets in Manchuria in 1945, and his *insanely horny* drawings of female Soviet officers at his internment camp in Ukraine
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