How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed Mr. Bankman-Fried said in an interview that he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs. But he shared few details about his handling of FTX customers’ funds. ....... In less than a week, the cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried went from industry leader to industry villain, lost most of his fortune, saw his $32 billion company plunge into bankruptcy and became the target of investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. ......... The empire built by Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was once compared to titans of finance like John Pierpont Morgan and Warren Buffett, collapsed last week after a run on deposits left his crypto exchange, FTX, with an $8 billion shortfall, forcing the firm to file for bankruptcy. The damage has rippled across the industry, destabilizing other crypto companies and sowing widespread distrust of the technology. ........ Mr. Bankman-Fried, 30 ....... He said his other commitments had led him to miss signs that FTX was running into trouble. ....... Mr. Bankman-Fried, who is based in the Bahamas, declined to comment on his current location, citing safety concerns. ........ in Washington, he was pushing an ambitious regulatory agenda while speaking critically about Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of the rival exchange Binance, who eventually mobilized his extensive Twitter following to set off the run on FTX. .......... In the Bahamas, Mr. Bankman-Fried led a sometimes cloistered existence, surrounded by a small coterie of colleagues, some of whom were in romantic relationships with other FTX employees ........ He and his top lieutenants lived together in a penthouse in Albany, a 600-acre oceanside resort on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. .......... Asked whether he was overly dependent on that small group, Mr. Bankman-Fried said his circle of close colleagues numbered about 15. “Realistically speaking, I don’t think anyone can maintain close contact and close communication with more than 15 people,” he said. .......... The relationship between Alameda and FTX was the root of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s downfall. He founded the trading firm in 2017 and rented offices in Berkeley, Calif., not far from where he had grown up as the son of Stanford Law professors. Soon the company made millions of dollars exploiting inefficiencies in the Bitcoin market. ....... FTX and Alameda were closely linked. Alameda traded heavily on the FTX platform, meaning it sometimes benefited when FTX’s other customers lost money, a dynamic that critics called a conflict of interest. ........ Alameda was supposed to operate out of a separate office, but a guest who visited FTX’s complex in recent months said Ms. Ellison had been sitting within view of computers displaying the exchange’s trading data. ........ Mr. Bankman-Fried moved FTX to the Bahamas in 2021, drawn by a regulatory setup that allowed him to offer risky trading options that weren’t legal in the United States. On the exchange, investors could borrow money to make big bets on the future value of cryptocurrencies. ........ Mr. Bankman-Fried and Ms. Ellison were at times romantically involved ......... Mr. Bankman-Fried made it a point of pride that FTX had only about a 300-person staff, much smaller than its top rivals, Binance and Coinbase. .......... and offered Elon Musk billions of dollars to help finance the mogul’s Twitter takeover. ....... Mr. Bankman-Fried said he wished “we’d bitten off a lot less.” ....... “The venture stuff was probably not really worth it given the attention that it took,” he said, referring to his investments in other companies......... Perhaps Mr. Bankman-Fried’s most ambitious aim was to shape crypto regulation in Washington, where he testified to Congress and met with regulators. He also used his growing influence in the capital to criticize his biggest rival, Mr. Zhao, in private meetings, people familiar with the matter said. ........ On Nov. 6, Mr. Zhao announced on Twitter that he was selling the FTT, spooking customers who rushed to withdraw their FTX deposits. ....... “We won’t pretend to make love after divorce,” Mr. Zhao wrote on Twitter. “We won’t support people who lobby against other industry players behind their backs.” ......... In a Signal group chat that included Mr. Bankman-Fried and other FTX representatives, Mr. Zhao posted a curt note, according to two people familiar with the matter. “Sam, I’m sorry,” he wrote, “but we won’t be able to continue this deal. Way too many issues. CZ.” .......... Mr. Bankman-Fried scrambled to line up new financing. “I shouldn’t throw stones in a glass house, so I’ll hold back a bit,” he said in a message to employees obtained by The Times. “Except to say: probably they never really planned to go through with the deal.” ......... the exchange lent as much as $10 billion to Alameda. .
As part of Binance’s exit from FTX equity last year, Binance received roughly $2.1 billion USD equivalent in cash (BUSD and FTT). Due to recent revelations that have came to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. 1/4
Binance always encourages collaboration between industry players. Regarding any speculation as to whether this is a move against a competitor, it is not. Our industry is in it’s nascency and every time a project publicly fails it hurts every user and every platform. 3/4
Not locked. We usually just hold. It removes any doubt that we would attack a “competitor”. Not financially sensible. We want the industry to grow together. But there is a limit to hold, lol.
Liquidating our FTT is just post-exit risk management, learning from LUNA. We gave support before, but we won't pretend to make love after divorce. We are not against anyone. But we won't support people who lobby against other industry players behind their backs. Onwards.
How an American Survived Hiding From the Russians in Kherson for 8 Months Timothy Morales, a teacher, was trapped in the southern Ukrainian city during the occupation. To evade Russian troops, he rarely ventured out, switched apartments and pretended to be Irish. ....... an American English teacher, who hid from the Russian military and secret police through the entire eight-month occupation of the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, afraid that his nationality had made him a target. He emerged in public only after the Ukrainian Army liberated the city last week. ........ The thud of artillery fired toward the city from Russian positions across the Dnipro River still rattles windows, and Kherson remains a grim and dark city, without electricity, water or heating. Most of its residents fled months ago, and the retreating Russians took with them anything of value they could carry. .......... The Russians swept into Kherson in early March, and soon soldiers patrolled the streets and officers of the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency to the K.G.B., searched for members of a pro-Ukrainian underground guerrilla movement. ....... For two months, he said, he didn’t dare venture beyond the courtyard. ....... Relatives of his former wife, who is Ukrainian, brought food, and sometimes he shopped at a grocery store where he knew the clerk, a teenager he trusted would not betray him because of her pro-Ukrainian views. The shopping trips were an exception to his generally cloistered life. ......... Mr. Morales, who speaks Russian but not well enough to pass as a local, told the officer that he was an Irishman named Timothy Joseph, taught English in the city and had lost his passport. The secret police left. The neighbor, an older woman, helped with the ruse, telling the secret police they had no reason to suspect him......... “That sort of changed my perspective,” Mr. Morales said. “Before, I was careful. Then I became paranoid.” The questioning by the F.S.B., he said, was “the highlight, or the lowlight,” of his ordeal. He said he escaped only because “they weren’t the cleverest people in the world.” ........ He fled to another apartment and did not return to the site of the search until after the city’s liberation, lest the secret police return. ........ He passed the time watching several hundred movies he had downloaded onto his laptop before the invasion. ......... From hiding, he managed to resume teaching English online, using the internet connection of a neighbor to connect with students elsewhere in Ukraine and other countries. “It kept me sane,” he said of being able to work online, though he had no means to receive payment. .......... over time, he also noted something that was becoming obvious to other residents of Kherson: The Russian Army was unraveling. Discipline was breaking down, soldiers were appearing more disheveled, and more often they were driving stolen local cars rather than military-issued vehicles...... “Over time, they got scruffier and more hodgepodge,” he said. ........ In the final month, he noticed that soldiers who had stolen expensive cars, like BMWs or Mercedes-Benzes, had taken these vehicles by barge away from Kherson, farther from the front line. The disappearance of the expensive looted cars, he said, “gave me hope.” .......... Mr. Morales joined the celebration in the city’s central square on Friday, greeting the Ukrainian soldiers as they entered the city without a fight, driving pickups and jeeps. However happy he is for the city’s liberation, he said, he plans to leave now. .
Bankman-Fried’s Cabal of Roommates in the Bahamas Ran His Crypto Empire – and Dated. Other Employees Have Lots of Questions “The whole operation was run by a gang of kids in the Bahamas,” a person familiar with the matter told CoinDesk on condition of anonymity. ........ Many are former co-workers from quantitative trading firm Jane Street, others he met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater. All 10 are, or used to be, paired up in romantic relationships with each other. That includes Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, whose firm played a central role in the company's collapse – and who, at times, has dated Bankman-Fried, according to people familiar with the matter. ........ It’s a place full of conflicts of interest, nepotism and lack of oversight. ...... “All of the stakeholders would have a hard look at FTX governance,” tweeted Bankman-Fried on Thursday. “I will not be around if I'm not wanted.” .......... “Some employees kept their life savings on FTX,” the second anonymous employee told CoinDesk. “We trusted that everything was fine.” .
17) All of the stakeholders would have a hard look at FTX governance. I will not be around if I'm not wanted.
All of the stakeholders--investors, regulators, users--would have a large part to play in how it would be run.
15) First, one way or another, Alameda Research is winding down trading.
They aren't doing any of the weird things that I see on Twitter--and nothing large at all. And one way or another, soon they won't be trading on FTX anymore.
I WAS NOT VERY CAREFUL WITH MY WORDS HERE, AND DO NOT MEAN ANY OF THEM IN A TECHNICAL OR LEGAL SENSE; I MAY WELL HAVE NOT DESCRIBED THINGS RIGHT though I'm trying to be transparent. I'M NOT A GOOD DEV AND PROBABLY MISDESCRIBED SOMETHING.
Hey guys, last night in Twitter DMs I asked Sam Bankman-Fried when Alameda first borrowed FTX customer funds, what he really thinks of the SEC, and a lot more. https://t.co/Yq8InqNPS4
A Sunday to watch out for in #Nepal where a new crop of young parties & politicians is taking on traditional leadership in parliamentary elections. Samik Kharel meets some of them, including an engineer contesting against PM @AJEnglish#NepalVotes2022https://t.co/TRv3ZCzc0O
Goodness is hidden, silent; it requires slow and continuous excavation. Because God’s style is discreet. He does not impose himself. He is like the air we breathe - we don't see it but it allows us to live, and we realize it only when it's missing.
Just to reiterate the crucial role that Twitter plays in disaster communication: The story about Russian missiles hitting Poland broke on Twitter in near real-time. Within an hour of the first images being posted to Twitter, U.S. intelligence confirmed the missile strike. pic.twitter.com/lYhRfjqYT2
ЁЯз╡ on the meaning of Russian strikes on Poland. This is a terrible development both for the loss of life & for what it tells us about the trajectory of Russia’s war. For those that have heard me speak on it, Russian strikes on NATO were an inevitability, in a long war scenario.
Poland. This is not a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the reality we've been warning about. We were asking to close the sky, because sky has no borders. Not for ЁЯЗ╖ЁЯЗ║ uncontrolled missiles. Not for the threat they carry for our EU&NATO neighbours. Gloves are off. Time to win.
⚡️ Czech Prime Minister: Confirmation of missiles hitting Poland would be ‘further escalation’ by Russia.
“Today’s massive missile attacks by the Russian army on Ukraine clearly show that Russia wants to further terrorize its people and destroy the country,” Petr Fiala tweeted.
If it is an S-300 in Poland, it's probably Ukrainian air defense that went off course -- which makes sense with the huge onslaught of Russian barrages today and UA SAM interceptions. Russia has used S-300's for ground-to-ground strikes, but that'd be really far for them to use it https://t.co/Vvw482YbGz
My condolences to our Polish brothers in arms. Criminal Russian regime fired missiles which target not only Ukrainian civilians but also landed on NATO territory in Poland. Latvia fully stands with Polish friends and condemns this crime.
I like eng.twitter writing: "please Poland, don't start WWIII" POLAND? Bitch, Russians are committing a genocide of Ukrainians for almost 9 monts and now they killed 2 Poles in Poland. By the way, which fucking WWIII are you even talking about? NATO destroying Russia is not WWIII
— Mykola ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗж (official, not a parody) (@bloombeary) November 15, 2022
Poland asks for discussions under Article 4 which allows any NATO member to seek consultations so “the Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”
Poland summons the Russian ambassador after a Russian-made rocket fell on the Polish village of Przewod├│w at 3:40 p.m. local time, — the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Michelle Obama Has Some Advice In her new book, “The Light We Carry,” the former first lady shares coping strategies for surviving stress and uncertainty.......... It’s not easy being Michelle Obama. Fabulous, yes. Easy, no. ....... “I’m not a leaper or a flier, but a deliberate, rung by rung ladder climber” ...... that tower of cool and confidence Barack Obama. For this crew, self-assurance seems like a birthright. ..... I want to hear from Michelle Obama, who doesn’t always like the way she looks, who felt like an outsider after becoming the ultimate insider; the one who easily becomes lonely; the striver who has spent a lifetime dogged by the question: Am I good enough? The person who sweats. ....... and the bickering and resentments that led the Obamas to seek couples counseling when they had young children. ....... In a chapter on friendship, Obama writes about the importance of having a “kitchen table” of girlfriends. ....... The fact that she loves “lowbrow TV” and counts the hilarious but racy Ali Wong among her favorite comedians says the world about who Obama is when she gets together with those friends. ....... After
“Becoming” became one of the best-selling memoirs of all time
......... In a chapter aptly titled “The Power of Small,” for example, she tells us about how, when the world seems overwhelming, little victories can see us through. (For Obama, it was knitting: “Shaken by the enormity of everything that was happening, I needed my hands to introduce me to what was good, simple and accomplishable.” She taught herself using YouTube.) ......... advice from the writer Toni Morrison: “When a kid walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s, does your face light up? That’s what they’re looking for.” ........ a young Black girl from the South Side of Chicago who went to Princeton after being told by a high school guidance counselor that she wasn’t “Princeton material” — a remark that lives rent-free in her head to this day — and who became our first Black first lady ............ “an arsenal of phrases” — such as “affirmative action,” “scholarship kid,” “gender quota” and “diversity hire” — can be turned into “weapons of disdain.” ........ she begged her mother to come and live in the White House to help her out and give her daughters a sense of normalcy ........ I’ve decided that the sweaters she knits are missing stitches, and one arm is longer than the other. In other words, like a sweater I would knit. ........ “My goal was always to do serious work in a joyful way, to show people what’s possible if we keep choosing to go high” .
I don’t know more than anyone else who follows the news.
........ Trump holds what I consider reprehensible policy views or even the fact that he engaged in several acts, including an attempt to overturn a national election, that can reasonably be described as seditious. ........ Trump, however, comes across as 76 going on a very bratty 14. ........ He veers, sometimes in consecutive sentences, between cringeworthy boasting (what kind of person describes himself as a stable genius?) and whining, between bombast and self-pity....... His only major domestic policy initiatives were a failed attempt to repeal Obamacare and a standard-issue G.O.P. tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. ........ “It’s Infrastructure Week!” became a running joke. ........ President Biden didn’t get everything he wanted on domestic policy, but he did get a major infrastructure bill and, in the Inflation Reduction Act, both unprecedented spending to fight climate change and a significant strengthening of health care. ........ Overseas, Biden assembled and held together a coalition in support of Ukraine that has enabled the invaded nation to resist Russia’s attack — a huge foreign-policy success reminiscent of America’s pre-Pearl Harbor role as the “arsenal of democracy.” And Biden’s China policy, centering on export restrictions designed to undermine China’s technological ambitions, is vastly more aggressive than anything Trump did, even if it hasn’t gotten nearly as much media attention. ........ these days, perhaps because celebrity culture infects everything, business leaders are taken seriously even when they seem unable to refrain from flamboyant displays of ego and insecurity. (Cough. Elon Musk. Cough.) ......... Fox News, the main source of political information for much of the G.O.P. base, gave Trump the kind of hagiographic coverage you’d expect from state media in a dictatorship. ......... And Republican politicians, many of whom knew Trump for what he was, spent years praising him in language reminiscent of Politburo members praising the party chairman.
An Ode to Stacey Abrams She built the huge voter registration and turnout machine that helped Joe Biden carry Georgia in 2020, and helped the state elect its first Jewish and Black senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, giving Democrats control of the Senate. ....... Georgia is a state transformed. Liberal Georgians have tasted power, and there is no turning back from it. ....... I simply couldn’t find enthusiastic Abrams voters in my everyday interactions. I live in midtown Atlanta, but I also wasn’t seeing many yard signs or window placards. I wasn’t seeing many TV ads. ....... She was clearly the better candidate. She had an encyclopedic knowledge of the issues. And she had a message that should have energized liberals. ........ she just couldn’t get enough traction. Her message lacked momentum. ........ just months before the election Kemp rolled out a program of cash payments of $350 to low-income Georgians. It wasn’t exactly money for votes, but money to mitigate anger. Kemp paid for placidity........... She is relatively young, incredibly smart and a brilliant tactician. She has a future that only she can write.
Trump Is the Chief Obstacle to a Republican Revival A disappointing election has rattled conservatives. The nation’s most influential Republican, Donald Trump, is implicated in the unsatisfying result. But a dazzling performance in one state has presented the party with an opportunity to think again about renewal — and to embrace a popular alternative to Mr. Trump’s abrasive style and divisive leadership. ....... the party must still move beyond Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump will have a say in that, too: He may not allow the Republican Party to disenthrall itself from him without a costly fight. ........ Since his takeover of the party in 2016, Mr. Trump’s G.O.P. has lost the House, the White House and the Senate. ....... Mr. Trump sees no interest but his own. He is the chief obstacle to a Republican revival. ........ In 1998, one silver lining for Republicans was Mr. Bush, who won re-election for governor by nearly 40 points. In 2022, foremost among a cohort of Republican leaders is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who won a second term by 20 points. ........ Mr. DeSantis combines competent administration and conservative principles with a Trump-like pugilism and grass-roots suspicion of liberal elites and expert opinion. ......... Republicans have taken the popular vote in a presidential election just once in 34 years.
If You Want to Understand How Dangerous Elon Musk Is, Look Outside America Supporters of the conservative opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and their right-wing religious allies felt that they had long been ignored by the mainstream press. Now they had the chance to grab the mic. ....... And grab it they did. By 2014, when the B.J.P. first won national elections, driven in no small part by its innovative use of social media to tap into middle-class discontent with the status quo, Indian Twitter was well on its way to becoming one of the world’s most vitriolic online spaces, filled with ad hominem attacks and incitements to violence. And having used social media so adroitly to win power, the new government realized that controlling platforms like Twitter would be crucial to suppressing dissent. ........ Into this stew steps Elon Musk. ....... But the real threat in much of the world is not the policies of social media companies, but of governments. ....... Nowhere is that clearer than in India, where before Musk’s acquisition Twitter had been fighting a legal battle to protect its users from government censorship. The real question now is if Musk’s commitment to “free speech” extends beyond conservatives in America and to the billions of people in the Global South who rely on the internet for open communication. ....... while much of the focus has been on countries like China, which overtly restricts access to huge swaths of the internet, the real war over the future of internet freedom is being waged in what she called “swing states,” big, fragile democracies like India. ......... in capitals like Abuja, Jakarta, Ankara, Bras├нlia and New Delhi. ....... other governments are passing laws just to increase their power over speech online and to force companies to be an extension of state surveillance ....... For example: requiring companies to house their servers locally rather than abroad, which can make them more vulnerable to government surveillance. ........ His lawyers argued that Twitter had engaged in “risky litigation against the Indian government,” and put one of the largest markets in jeopardy. ........ India’s government had demanded that Twitter block tweets and accounts from a variety of journalists, activists and politicians. ......... Independent journalism is increasingly under threat in India. Much of the mainstream press has been neutered by a mix of intimidation and conflicts of interests created by the sprawling conglomerates and powerful families that control much of Indian media. ........... one of Musk’s other companies, SpaceX, would seek government permission to offer its Starlink satellite internet service there. ......... the world needs a digital public square ....... creating one involves balancing free speech against abuse, misinformation and government overreach
The Emperor of Chaos Has No Clothes Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote his upcoming presidential announcement. Republican lawmakers privately say those self-indulgent rallies cost them Senate and House seats because many normal Republicans and independents have had their fill of Trump and his crazy train. .........
Trump has been poison for his party.
..... It’s so bad, the Murdoch empire has turned on its former fair-haired boy. ....... The New York Post ridiculed him on the cover as “Trumpty Dumpty,” with a gratuitous shot about how he not only had a great fall, but couldn’t build a wall. ........ Trump responded by calling the paper “the no longer great New York Post,” and he blamed his failure to complete the wall on former Speaker Paul Ryan, a Fox Corp. board member, and “Broken Old Crow” Mitch McConnell, saying they didn’t get him enough money from Congress. ......... In his Truth Social posts, he tried to paint the election results as better than they were, sneering that candidates who shunned his support, like Joe O’Dea in Colorado, went down big and had a “Death Wish.” ........ saying he would never have won last year without Trump giving “a very big Trump Rally for him telephonically.” ....... warning him not to think about getting in the presidential race. ........ After DeSantis had a crushing victory in the once swingy Sunshine State, declaring it the place “woke goes to die,” Trump’s puerile jealousy exploded. He posted that he had rescued DeSantis when he was “politically dead.” ......... “And now Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games!” said Trump, angry that DeSantis wouldn’t rule out running for president in 2024. ......... Republicans refused to convict Trump on impeachment charges and ban him from running for public office. Now they’re living with the consequences. ...... “If blackmailing Ukraine, inciting a riot, trying to overturn the election, hoarding classified documents, using overtly racist language for seven years .
They knocked on doors in all temperatures, from the freezing cold to the sweltering heat, to gather petition signatures, persuade voters, and get out the vote.
Our winning campaign has come with many historic firsts. But this would not have been possible without the early and unwavering support from Asian American trailblazers in Illinois, @RamForSenate and @ChicagoTM.
They made history when elected as the first South Asian and Asian Americans elected to the IL General Assembly, but they work tirelessly to make sure they will not be the last. I look forward to working with them to continue growing the IL Asian American Caucus @IllinoisAAC.
Early on, @RamforSenate asked me what my plan was to knock on every likely voter’s door.
I thought he was joking at first. Like all of Ram’s advice, that push was invaluable. Doorknocking helped me connect with voters who weren’t used to voting for someone like me.
Young candidates face challenges balancing seriousness and authenticity in messaging to voters. We’re grateful to our team who helped us communicate our message creatively and effectively. @RaulitoJPG, @GillianRArmour, Laura Hardy, @hajacobo, @agoods, Niles Swinney, @julianmulvey
But I'm grateful for the unconditional support of @IADOChicago, @IA_Impact, @ILMCCoalition, Common Purpose, Clipboard PAC & @runforsomething. They know that to elect young candidates of color, we need to support young candidates of color, even when the path to victory isn’t easy.
I am so thankful for the support we received from labor orgs across our state. Thank you to @ILAFLCIO, @afscme31, UAW, @Local150, @LiUNAchicago, and so many others. I am committed to representing the needs of working families in our district and in our state in Springfield.
A special thank you to @iftaft for their support. My former teachers at @Local1211 were some of the 1st people I spoke to when launching. They’ve been with me every step of the way. My educators believed in me since day 1, far before I launched this campaign. I owe them so much. pic.twitter.com/fTWjpL5c87
A huge thank you to our core team members, @AndKretschmar and @RudiPatitucci, who guided us with their expertise and answered questions, no matter how small. Y’all are the best.
Thank you to everyone — every volunteer, donor, and voter who believed in me and our campaign to flip the 51st district. And now the real work begins to fight for the issues important to our community. ЁЯТЩ
I profiled @NabeelaforIL, a 23-year-old Indian American Muslim who flipped a Republican Illinois district this election. Come January, she'll be the youngest member of the state's general assembly, and she's causing a global stir.https://t.co/iqF2NQEz92
Gen Z candidates like @MaxwellFrostFL, @JoeVogel_ and myself are proof that voters care about electing candidates who will listen to them and fight for their priorities more than they care about a candidate’s age.https://t.co/w6FMbr18Sw
“Young people in our district, in our community, in our state should not feel unsafe,” @NabeelaforIL told me. “I had to do active shooter drills. Future generations should not have to.”
Early on in our primary, a young journalist Lucia Barnum reached out & asked to do a podcast on our race.
What a pleasure to reflect on the incredible work our team & community has done in the primary through @luciabarnum_’s podcast. Take a listen here: https://t.co/9eZd53nqeQ
(1) There was a form of God Moses was not allowed to see. (2) Abraham met God. (3) Nobody has seen the Father but me. A reference to people in the immediate audience or those alive at the time? (4) If God the Son is capable of human incarnation, why not God the Father?
Ranked choice voting has now passed in a blue state, a red state, and a purple state, along with dozens of cities. It’s the most viable, substantive reform to make our democratic system more representative of the electorate.
BREAKING: @dellavolpe calculates that the record-breaking turnout among voters between 18-29-years-old canceled out *every voter* above the age of 65. Gen Z literally saved democracy. And going forward, there is no path to victory for Democrats without young voters. Full stop.
Four years ago, when I released my memoir, Becoming, I traveled across the country and around the world, meeting so many incredible people—including many of you. It was a little scary to share so much of my story for the first time, but I was so moved by your response. pic.twitter.com/RUDCs1cEKe
