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First night in Xi’An, got in near closing time. Went to place down street and everyone was drunk inside. One guy was being carried out as I went in. No idea what to order, since no cell service, so I pointed.

Got pile of bean sprouts and peppers & some massive dish of diced chicken and somehow more peppers. I don’t think I’ve had a dish …

BREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders just officially signed a bill making Ivermectin available without a prescription in Arkansas.

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OK, it's possibly not optimal to post this at 11:15 in the evening, but the newsletter has been slow this week, so what the hell.

My review-that-I'm-not-calling-a-review of Abundance.

These are a lot of work, but I do read a lot of nerdy books, so let me know whether you’re interested in the format.

America probably can’t have abundance. But we deserve a better government.

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The ‘humble, hidden event,’ and wishin’ for a commission

Rubio today exulted in the disappearance of a Tufts student into a Louisiana jail prior to deportation for writing an op-ed and going to an anti-Israel demonstration. He’s proud of it and says this is just the start of the war on free speech.

He need charge no crime - and hasn’t in the cases of Khalil and Chung and Ozturk. He doesn’t even need to prove that Ozturk “caused a ruckus.” He just has to assert that any student whose foreign policy views he believes are harmful to the US is now ipso …

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THANKS DEB.

(This is Jim again) I am very grateful for the volume and seriousness of response to this post. Inconveniently, we're about to get in the car for a long drive, and then back again later today, which will keep me out of keyboard range much of the day. I recognize the importance of following up on many of the questions people have raised. I'll do that as I can today, and much more by tonight and tomorrow. Thank you.

Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment.
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