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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!"Said Donald Trump (on Truth Social). That message follows the news: "The Trump administration says it will freeze $2 billion in funding after Harvard refuses its demands" (NYT).
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China."Said "a top Chinese official," quoted in "China fumes ‘peasants in the US’ will suffer as country issues stark warning on Trump’s ‘shameless’ tariff war" (NY Post).
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Don't we all have pants like that? Too long, and we're too busy to get them re-hemmed. We can just wear them now and inform people that they are "puddle pants.""I know it sounds strange, but it keeps them from getting filthy on the street or the train. Once I’m indoors, I just pull them back out and let them drape as they’re meant to."Said the designer Hillary Taymour, quoted in "Are My Pants Really Supposed to Drag on the Ground?
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"... during their historic 1972 visit to China: Mao joked with them, played with words and made them feel at ease — a deliberate mask concealing one of history’s most devastating authoritarian records. Private interactions, no matter how pleasant, should never influence how we weigh any leader’s record. Matthews softened his judgment of Castro after their personal encounter, helping shape American perceptions of the Cuban revolution — perceptions that soon collided with reality.
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Said the lawyer for Mohsen Mahdawi, quoted in "Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE at citizenship interview/Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test" (WaPo)(free-access link).
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
I guess they're still waiting and hoping that they'll be the one to wedge in a question that will somehow stymie the man who's never going to stop:I am SO GLAD the Trump administration decided to completely UNLEASH Stephen Miller on the media. He regularly displays a masterclass in debunking their lies. "Guys - do you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order? Do you know the difference?
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"I would say if there is an objective point of view, then I’m totally irrelevant to it. If you look at the universe and the complexity of the universe, what I do with my day cannot be relevant."Said Daniel Kahneman, on March 19, quoted in "There’s a Lesson to Learn From Daniel Kahneman’s Death" (NYT). On March 27th, he followed through with his plan to die by assisted suicide.
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Said El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, quoted in "El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Abrego Garcia to U.S." (CNBC). "I mean, we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere and you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world? That’s not going to happen."Noem v.
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1 week ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
The man arrested for the crime, Cody Balmer, 38, has confessed, the NYT reports. The authorities said surveillance footage showed a person checking out the governor’s mansion before scaling a fence and using a hammer to break a window on the south side of the residence. He threw an object into the house, igniting a fire, the Dauphin County District Attorney said in a statement.
