My thought bubble: Billionaires have historically been alluring, magical figures.
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I always thought Bubble from Big Brother Two was cool.
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My thought bubble: Investing in common stock is certainly risky.
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My thought bubble: Expressed concern doesn't necessarily equate to action.
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My thought bubble: The situation is emblematic of our future.
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Our thought bubble: These are requested rates, not approved rates.
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My thought bubble: This issue isn't going away for Twitter.
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Thought bubble: The 0.2% uptick in joblessness was notable, too.
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Our thought bubble: Democrats are going to lose this battle.
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My thought bubble: It's also a remarkably generous deal for Celgene.
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Our thought bubble: Audience demand doesn't shift from business-side pressures.
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My thought bubble: Parking is a pain, especially during the holidays.
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Our thought bubble: In many cases, that's clearly a good thing.
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"And so it ends as it began," Luke's thought bubble reads.
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Our thought bubble: Does racism fit the definition of high crimes?
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My thought bubble: I was involved in some 2016 leaks myself.
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My thought bubble: I tried packing two boxes on my visit.
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My thought bubble: The AI is better at guessing than drawing.
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Our thought bubble: Snap's admission about redesigning its app is telling.
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Our thought bubble: Right now, public fears aren't what's ailing nuclear.
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My thought bubble: As depressing as this is, it checks out.
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Our thought bubble: There are potential holes in both sides' arguments.
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She tells me: Our thought bubble: It's all a long shot.
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My thought bubble: Economic orthodoxy aside, it's not a crazy concern.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: Sadly this dress just didn't fit.
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My thought bubble: The consensus here is noteworthy all the same.
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My thought bubble: This is much ado about ... not all that much.
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Our thought bubble: Firstly, all credit to EY for repeating its survey.
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Our thought bubble: The Affordable Care Act is neither collapsing nor thriving.
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A thought bubble: Trump has voiced his view on debt for decades.
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Thought bubble by Axios' Dan Primack: Pinterest is consumer-focused and unprofitable.
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My thought bubble: The committee's hearing may not have been industry's dream.
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Our thought bubble: This type of marketing is bound to cause confusion.
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Our thought bubble: It also matters a lot which carrier you have.
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Our thought bubble: Nobody has really taken this "renegotiation" idea especially seriously.
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Our thought bubble: That sounds like America First on a global scale.
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" Jamie Dimon's thought bubble: "This privacy issue is a a big deal.
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My thought bubble: This is the continuation of a somewhat ironic trend.
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Our thought bubble: These requirements are a positive step towards transparency online.
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A thought bubble extending from Breed shows homeless individuals with numbered signs.
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My thought bubble: Our health spending is already on an unsustainable path.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Stef Knight: Migration crises are never random.
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But, oh, to have a thought bubble over Chief Justice John Roberts' head.
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Our thought bubble: The yield curve is not, yet, flashing a recession sign.
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My thought bubble: New Beida Party Secretary Qiu Shuiping is wasting little time.
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My thought bubble: Honestly, this is one we should all be rooting for.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Ina Fried: Laptops aren't Huawei's most important business.
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My thought bubble: Is anyone surprised that this is where we ended up?
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Thought bubble: McAfee and Brynjolfsson have delivered another smart roadmap for business executives.
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My thought bubble: That's a pretty Exxon way of approaching a climate topic.
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Our thought bubble: This is the latest example of Steyer's longterm political plans.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: I cannot express enough love for these wedges.
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My thought bubble: The anger sweeping the globe is more destructive than constructive.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook needs to perform a delicate and difficult balancing act.
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Thought bubble: This race is about a lot more than just health care.
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My thought bubble: That Smith has smart things to say is hardly a surprise.
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Our thought bubble: Pruitt may be more inclined to side with the independent players.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios contributor Bill Bishop: This move can not be overstated.
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My thought bubble: I've got 7,998 notes stored in Evernote, collected over a decade.
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Our thought bubble: The tech is being used for now to bolster fan engagement.
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Our thought bubble: The SEC settlement amounts to some "tough love" for the company.
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Our thought bubble: As Axios' Eileen Drage O'Reilly explains, this remedy is greatly needed.
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Thought bubble: Mnuchin's position makes little sense from either a philosophical or revenue perspective.
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Our thought bubble: This isn't some rogue project BuzzFeed is experimenting with on Twitter.
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Our thought bubble: May's embrace of "national unity" comes pretty late in the game.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Felix Salmon: Malpass has fewer qualifications than other contenders.
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Our thought bubble: These are Zuckerberg's first comments on the weekend's events in Virginia.
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My thought bubble: It's too soon to say the smartphone has passed its peak.
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Our thought bubble: This won't take down the whole net neutrality house of cards.
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Our thought bubble: Obviously there are generational differences when it comes to sharing information.
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Our thought bubble: Millennials are looking for a different type of candidate in 2018.
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The first icon is actually a little thought bubble displaying your own profile photo.
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Our thought bubble: Has there ever been an SEC filing that began like this?
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My thought bubble: I use words like issue or problem to describe climate change.
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Our thought bubble: That's bound to happen, as the origins of 8chan itself prove.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: The personal styling service nailed it with this one.
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My thought bubble: Get over it; the new Supra is a true sports car.
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My thought bubble: Consumers still suffer from range anxiety when it comes to electric vehicles.
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Thought bubble from Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: More: The new global race to space
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My thought bubble: The decision is yet another sign that Microsoft is winning the techlash.
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Our thought bubble: Conflating a trade dispute and national security concerns is a dangerous game.
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My thought bubble: These problems are not what America's bankruptcy regime was designed to solve.
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My thought bubble: McConnell would not be doing this unless he saw a political opening.
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Our thought bubble: Wednesday's event sounded like the online-platform equivalent of a military briefing.
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My thought bubble: Big Tech's place in the fight against climate change defies easy labels.
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My thought bubble: Lincoln's lane-centering technology is not a hands-off highway system, though.
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Our thought bubble: Even if the bill does pass, don't expect newspapers to recover overnight.
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My thought bubble: There are a lot of bad bets in the global debt market.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Ina Fried: Lots of apps have access to your photos.
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Our thought bubble: Many contributors answer the "which is the best hacker movie" question incorrectly.
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My thought bubble: Normally I ignore such cash grabs, as they reek of sour grapes.
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Our thought bubble: Until bill specifics are released, it's uncertain how holdout Republicans will vote.
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Our thought bubble: A lot of terror content that spreads online these days is domestic.
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Our thought bubble: Impeachment proceedings are incredibly difficult to carry out, as we've written before.
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Our thought bubble: Trump's administration has been portrayed as a battle between nationalists and globalists.
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My thought bubble: It's like they're two ships not passing, but colliding in the night.
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On the cartoonist's desk is a sketch of Scaramucci's face and an empty 'thought bubble.
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My thought bubble: It's worth noting that eMarketer is measuring user numbers, not dollar figures.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook prizes openness and has no economic interest in censoring political viewpoints.
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Our thought bubble: The poll shows a huge drop for Facebook (and Twitter and Google).
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Our thought bubble on the economy from Axios Business Editor Dan Primack: Democrats are stuck.
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Our thought bubble: 5G, for now, is like the new augmented reality or virtual reality.
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Our thought bubble: Google's cherished freewheeling culture of debate has already taken lots of blows.
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Our thought bubble: All of these services can feel a bit like a protection racket.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Dan Primack: Sanders and Warren have been unabashedly pro-union.
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Our thought bubble: Entrepreneurial drive doesn't necessarily translate into true leadership, particularly as organizations grow.
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Our thought bubble: European regulations are tougher than the U.S., and they're coming much faster.
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Our thought bubble: How does posting about or tagging someone in a photo translate into support?
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My thought bubble: If you don't have a business model that works, great technology doesn't matter.
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My thought bubble: Improved market access for US companies has been a goal of trade talks.
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My thought bubble: I'm not saying that Samsung will be successful with its Bixby voice assistant.
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My thought bubble: Would-be investors would be wise to study a bit of company history.
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Our thought bubble: Engaging more girls early on is one piece of improving the gender gap.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Sara Fisher: Lynch has a history of managing companies in transition.
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Our thought bubble: Everything these companies say may be correct, but none of it is satisfying.
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Our thought bubble: When we begin conflating "America" with partisan forces on either side, they've won.
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My thought bubble: Remember Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn" rule: "If you break it, you own it"?
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Columbia's emphatic conviction is underscored by a thought bubble in the shape of an exclamation mark.
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Our thought bubble: These companies have experienced enough leaks to know their smartphone secrets won't keep.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios technology editor Scott Rosenberg: Twitter is unlikely to suspend Trump's account.
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My thought bubble: T-Mobile's own success is one of the biggest hurdles in its case.
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Our thought bubble: This type of issue advertising is typical around international trade disputes like this.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: I wanted to like this skirt much more than I did.
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Our thought bubble: Where Disney will be most competitive is its content offering and competitive pricing.
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Our thought bubble: The well-intentioned law aims to keep people's mistakes from living forever online.
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My thought bubble: These comments were predictable, but where the administration lands with the rule isn't.
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Our thought bubble: Mike thinks media coverage of those hardships could end up forcing the president's hand.
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Our thought bubble: It's hard to imagine anyone other than Apple being interested in acquiring the business.
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Our thought bubble: Private equity is the polite term for what used to be called leveraged buyouts.
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My thought bubble: A lot of the political debate over drug prices falls along these same lines.
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The thought bubble above his head would have read, "This is really going to suck," he said.
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Our thought bubble: We're inclined to take this more seriously as a sign of things to come.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Ina Fried: Google has prided itself on having a vocal employee base.
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Our thought bubble: Motivating the masses to shout loudly that they want 5G faster could be tough.
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Our thought bubble: Privacy has partly supplanted net neutrality as the major tech issue on Capitol Hill.
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My thought bubble: I'll be paying extra close attention to the expected 5G version of the phone.
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Our thought bubble: Instagram can be harder to monetize on and it's difficult to link out from.
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Our thought bubble: These platforms have massive, loyal audiences who are mostly consuming their content on mobile.
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Our thought bubble: Revenge porn and extortion are sometimes a part of sexual harassment and other misconduct.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook makes money from advocacy and political advertising on both sides of the aisle.
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Our thought bubble: The conversation seems to be taking an antagonistic turn, with critics digging in deeper.
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My thought bubble: Foreign banks make for a very appealing piñata in most countries at most times.
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A thought bubble over his head contains a keyhole, the suggestion of something waiting to be unlocked.
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Some cheered me on, and others courteously smiled while the thought bubble above their head said, delusional.
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My thought bubble: My brain is already numb at the thought of doing 2017 all over again.
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Above her head, as a joke, someone had pasted a thought bubble: "You fascinate me!" it said.
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Our thought bubble: An impeachment hearing, one might think, would be a must-see event for Americans.
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Our thought bubble: At first, Facebook used facial recognition to power a single feature — automatic photo tagging.
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Our thought bubble: Use your own timeframe and judge against benchmarks which are meaningful to your own circumstances.
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Our thought bubble (h/t Bob Herman): Insurers have just a couple months left before they file rates.
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Dion's thought bubble: Powell speaks much more frankly and in simpler terms than Yellen or Bernanke or Greenspan.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Jonathan Swan: "After the midterms" is the only important part of this tweet.
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My thought bubble: Normally a market swoon of this magnitude would slam the window shut on primary deals.
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Our thought bubble: So much for bringing high tech to Middle America, assuming the Times report is correct.
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My thought bubble: I'm guessing nobody wants to smell any of those trillion odors in an autonomous vehicle.
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My thought bubble: To be clear, I typically side with limited partners when it comes to fee structures.
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Our thought bubble: Via Axios' Dion Rabouin, Powell has been the perhaps the most political Fed chair ever.
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Our thought bubble: This problem isn't new to Amazon, whose open platform is 10 years older than Facebook's.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Credit cards are one of the most insidious forms of indebtedness.
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Our thought bubble: What leadership keenly understands is that the bottom falls out on a vote like this.
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My thought bubble: Drudge provides no further evidence beyond the tweet, but I have been hearing similar things.
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My thought bubble: These issues actually represent business as usual when it comes to energy and Republican politics.
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Our thought bubble: It's obvious that Polly is capitalizing on current popular trends, namely Snapchat and polling apps.
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Our thought bubble: But seeing the account temporarily deleted by a single rogue worker is actually quite troubling.
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Thought bubble: We hear a constant squawking about an employee-and-skills shortage from companies of various types.
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Thought bubble, via Axios' Steve LeVine: Dyson has stepped on a rake with his foray into EV batteries.
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Thought bubble: Wall Street viewed Zuckerberg as a competent leader, and Congress as unlikely to impose strict regulation.
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Our thought bubble: Backing from the Koch brothers initially prompted questions about the editorial independence of Time Inc.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Jonathan Swan: Beyond the very serious geopolitical stakes, this move is pure Trump.
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Thought bubble: This deal isn't healthy, but it has a bit more pulse than WSJ seems to think.
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Our thought bubble: Internet idealists and tech visionaries have long bemoaned the sluggishness and inefficiency of government processes.
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My thought bubble: Russia doesn't need high oil prices as much as some other petro-states, notably Saudi Arabia.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Dion Rabouin: It's important to note that the length of this shutdown is unprecedented.
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Thought bubble: Stocks rallied Monday on hopes that Trump had declared a truce in the trade war with China.
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My thought bubble: On the merits, this does not seem particularly likely to set back overall enrollment very much.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' Dan Primack: Flannery's relatively short tenure was best-known for getting rid of things.
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Our thought bubble: Populism will remain a powerful and righteous force in American politics so long as that continues.
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Our thought bubble: Every tech company experiences bugs, but Facebook's massive user base means any flaw can affect millions.
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My thought bubble: Momentum behind the "Green New Deal" is certainly growing — roughly two dozen House Democrats support it.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' technology reporter Ina Fried: How you see this depends largely on where you sit.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Once again, a French national has the most powerful job in Europe.
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My thought bubble: This bill is a reminder of the awkward politics Republicans find themselves facing on health care.
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Our thought bubble: Privacy feels like an afterthought in tech because historically that is almost always what it's been.
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Our thought bubble: In tech, market definitions are unusually fluid because hardware evolves quickly and software is infinitely malleable.
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Our thought bubble: Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer says this request doesn't mean the 2024 deadline will be met.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Dan Primack: Uber loses more money than any other company to ever go public.
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Our thought bubble: Yes, this is a Republican district, but this is still a big loss for the Dems.
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Our thought bubble: The survey seems rather short, which is likely an effort to entice users to complete it.
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Our thought bubble: This is the biggest reason we think the Graham-Cassidy bill is unlikely to go anywhere.
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Our thought bubble: Unlike other tech rivals, Snapchat uses editorial judgement to verify the content created on its platform.
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Our thought bubble: This still seems like it could backfire, but it isn't as crazy as it first sounded.
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"Mom warned me about Republicans," a thought bubble above a blonde woman in the style of Roy Lichtenstein reads.
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Our thought bubble: This is a pretty cavalier way to announce a foreign policy move with potentially massive implications.
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Our thought bubble: It's not that Facebook doesn't put its business first — after all, it's a publicly traded company.
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My thought bubble: If you haven't yet been convinced that the politics surrounding drug prices has changed, think again.
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Thought bubble: San Francisco's transportation agency says that it will issue permits (if any) by the end of June.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Joe Uchill: The posts appear to be the early stages of a social media campaign.
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My thought bubble: The wireless carriers always want some point of differentiation they can tout to distinguish their plans.
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Our thought bubble: Some of the most inflammatory speech in social media today comes straight from the Oval Office.
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Our thought bubble: Doing business in and with China has always meant some level of compromise for U.S. firms.
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Our thought bubble: Members of Congress understand this dynamic, and play to it during public hearings to win coverage.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: Eh, my face says it all, this was one didn't hit home for me.
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My thought bubble: The UN isn't Trump's favorite venue, and this certainly wasn't his most surprising or captivating speech.
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Our thought bubble: Efficiency is important, but the numbers YouTube is sharing are hard to evaluate in a vacuum.
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My thought bubble: Harris has gone back and forth on the elimination of private insurance, a centerpiece of Sanders' plan.
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The first two minutes are still the hardest, as I create my thought bubble and let it float above me.
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Our thought bubble: If Democrats win the House, Ross will be at the top of their list of investigative targets.
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Our thought bubble: It always takes a while for businesses to figure out how to work with a new administration.
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Our thought bubble: This move reaffirms Trump's longstanding support for the pipeline, but it's unclear whether it does much else.
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He touted the administration proposal to end EV purchase tax credits (my thought bubble: that's not going anywhere in Congress).
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My thought bubble: People choose fund managers because they don't have the requisite time or skills to pick stocks themselves.
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Our thought bubble: The results come at a risky time for Tesla as the company seeks to become consistently profitable.
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Our thought bubble: That would lead us to think it's largely about PR (or in corporate marketing language, "social responsibility").
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Our thought bubble: Viacom is in a much stronger position today than when merger talks first reignited several years ago.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' media reporter Sara Fischer: Consumers expect brands to stand up for issues they believe in.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Jonathan Swan: Trump's team has been looking for ways to punt the auto tariffs decision.
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Our thought bubble: Giving Google the benefit of the doubt doesn't mean assuming that it's acting purely out of altruism.
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Our thought bubble: Advertisers eventually return to these companies because their scale enables them to target potential customers very efficiently.
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Our thought bubble: The elections indicate that Australia will continue to closely resemble the Trump administration's positioning on climate change.
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Our thought bubble: An Anthem retreat is still a big "if," so take the note with a grain of salt.
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Our thought bubble: Chinese IP theft has long been an issue for tech companies, particularly among software and semiconductor makers.
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In early April, thought bubble-shaped signs started popping up around Pennsylvania with offensive statements directed toward people with disabilities.
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Our thought bubble: Despite populist promises, cracking down on Silicon Valley is not one of President Trump's near-term priorities.
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Our thought bubble: These primary results make Nancy Pelosi a better bet to be speaker if Democrats win the House.
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Our thought bubble: Republicans are going into Tuesday's hearings looking for reasons not to have to regulate the tech companies.
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Our thought bubble: While the White House budget plan is always DOA, it nonetheless helps to set parameters around decisions.
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Thought bubble: For the last several years, shale has obliterated the four-decade-long U.S. economic dependence on OPEC oil.
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Our thought bubble: While Tuesday's filing didn't exactly lay bare Apple's plans, it's certainly more than Apple would otherwise share.
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Thought bubble: The analysis represents a move by the Obama administration to gin up pro-Obamacare research before leaving office.
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Our thought bubble: It's a little premature, given that the rest of the Senate hasn't agreed to the name change.
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My thought bubble: Health care is hard to disrupt — that's part of the reason no one has done it yet.
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Thought bubble from Axios' very own former gymnast, Sara Fischer: Go deeper: The creation of sports highlights is being automated
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Our thought bubble: If you've ever been involved in drafting a mission statement, you know how complicated it can be.
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My thought bubble: The WTO was negotiated before China dominated international trade, and before the internet disrupted all global commerce.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: I would like everyone to know it took me forever to photograph these pants well.
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Our thought bubble: We've been charting the ascendance of the Jared Kushner camp in the administration and there's no mistaking it.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Ina Fried wries that Trump has been ignoring the advice of security experts since he took office.
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Our thought bubble: This ruling challenges the company's longtime practice of effectively outsourcing quality control to its customers and their reviews.
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Our thought bubble: Neither issue was Apple's fault and, indeed, the company had policies in place designed to prevent such behavior.
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Our thought bubble: The future of TV probably most closely resembles a combination of pay TV's scale and digital TV's efficiencies.
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Our thought bubble: When it comes to malicious or harmful content, Zuckerberg is making an unabashed pitch for industry self-regulation.
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My thought bubble: Providers and policymakers can duke it out over whether this or that payment reduction is bearable or not.
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Our thought bubble: Each year that goes by without a new home-run innovation from Apple reinforces the Apple-doubters' case.
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Our thought bubble via Axios' Ben Geman: The Defense Department requires massive amounts of jet fuel, diesel and other liquid fuels.
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Our thought bubble: The future of TV probably most closely resembles a combination of Pay-TV's scale and digital TV's efficiencies.
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Our thought bubble: Different parts of our society are still in vastly different places when it comes to talk about gender.
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My thought bubble: Media companies are prioritizing climate change news like never before, and that includes Axios and my own coverage.
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Our thought bubble: Trump often muses about possible personnel moves that he never makes, sometimes just to gauge the listener's reaction.
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Quick thought bubble: When Snap first opened a self-serve platform, there were instances of spammy ads surfacing on the platform.
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Our thought bubble: Some publishers worry that almost no one will ever hit the paywall with the way it's set up.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Dan Primack: Markets care more about the top-line number ... it was a relatively weak report.
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Our thought bubble: California saw its deadliest and largest blaze on record in 2017, which killed 41 and burned 281,000 acres.
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My thought bubble: Hardly anyone is actually talking about a literal expansion of the existing Medicare program, whether voluntary or compulsory.
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Our thought bubble: The whole story is worth a read, but the disconnect in public opinion is what stuck out most.
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Thought bubble: It's a recognition of the need to support companies improving or creating technologies that will yield emissions cuts soon.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Dion Rabouin: The negative impacts of Trump's trade war are already being felt by American businesses.
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My thought bubble: Insofar as financial illiteracy is real, it's a symptom of poverty much more than a cause of it.
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Our thought bubble: Politicians have always shaded their messages based on their audiences, and it's often how they get into trouble.
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Our thought bubble: Regions are competing fiercely for the jobs and talent to fuel economic survival in the era of automation.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Miriam Kramer: NASA is fighting an uphill battle when it comes to tracking potentially dangerous asteroids.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Sara Fischer: News companies have discretion over the types of ads they will or won't accept.
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Our thought bubble: This is a big step for Twitter, and it may put pressure on other tech firms to follow suit.
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Our thought bubble via Axios' Joann Muller: Fiat Chrysler's talks with PSA could be a way to leverage Renault to restart negotiations.
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My thought bubble: In an intensely low- or no-fee environment, platforms are clearly worried about getting new customers in the door.
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Our thought bubble: Europe starts out with a more privacy-oriented culture than the U.S. and is less conflicted about antitrust action.
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My thought bubble: Despite the chasm between activists and the industry, both groups stand well apart from President Trump on climate change.
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My thought bubble: I've driven quite a few Audi models lately and I've noticed a big improvement in their lane-keeping systems.
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My thought bubble: It's not like Microsoft didn't try, both before and after the iPhone, to land a place powering the smartphone.
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Our thought bubble: It's (past) time to start making rules for how this information can and can't be accessed and by whom.
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Our thought bubble: Staying politically neutral is tough enough, but being seen as neutral might be an impossible task in this era.
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My thought bubble: Will the U.S. really stop sharing information with any of the members who have Huawei gear in their networks?
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Our thought bubble: This isn't just about user accounts, credit cards, or corporate security — all areas in which breaches are more common.
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Our thought bubble via Jonathan Swan: GOP leaders have been paralyzed by the fear of dividing their conferences on the Dreamer issue.
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Our thought bubble: It's pretty common for the federal government's tech efforts to lag behind the tech industry's fast pace of innovation.
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Our thought bubble: Tweaks to legislative language during floor debate is nothing new, and Democrats are highlighting written edits to draft language.
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My thought bubble: The Trump administration should be given credit for breaking into the echo chamber that conferences like this often foster.
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A thought bubble: Musk may introduce a creative approach to the autonomous electric trucking future, such as leased batteries or battery swapping.
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Our thought bubble: The same thing happened with viewability standards — specifically, whether an ad loads to the point of completion — in 2015.
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Our thought bubble: ESPN, while still a nationwide leader in sports production and storytelling, will face competition in the sports streaming space.
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My thought bubble: I am in several groups of mostly Chinese-American immigrants and I regularly see some crazy stuff getting posted.
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Our thought bubble: Something like this doesn't have much chance of passing Congress, even if it's packaged into other must-pass legislation.
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Our thought bubble: Expanding investment in India is nothing new for Samsung, or other tech companies like Apple, says Axios' Ina Fried.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Joe Uchill: This leaves a gap in nuts and bolts tech understanding that the House already lacks.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: There are someone's feet out there that these are a fit for, but they're just not mine.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Alayna Treene: There are four unsubstantiated assumptions about adult vapers in the case being presented to Trump.
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Our thought bubble: The odds of a carbon tax gaining political traction among Republicans are vanishingly low, and even that is probably optimistic.
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Our thought bubble: Amazon's strategy is notably different than its biggest streaming rival Netflix, which has shied from investing in live sports rights.
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Our thought bubble: It's possible that well-meaning sources confused malware Apple reportedly found in Supermicro firmware with a hardware-based espionage campaign.
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Our thought bubble: It's easier to have such a joint effort between companies and law enforcement when a financial harm is being committed.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Felix Salmon: At worst, Tesla was single-digit weeks away from having to do a dilutive equity capital raise.
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Our thought bubble: Expect to see more gaming companies leverage storylines from entertainment companies to build out more compelling storylines within interactive games.
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Our thought bubble: The goal for Warner Media is likely to convert as many HBO subscribers as possible over to the new service.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios energy reporter Ben Geman: Hickenlooper is looking for moderate turf in the crowded and often progressive primary field.
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Our thought bubble: The accuracy of old-school polygraphs — the ones that output the seismic wiggles seen above — has long been in question.
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Our thought bubble: In a time of data spills, malicious hacks and privacy abuses, "open" can sound like a danger, not an ideal.
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Our thought bubble: Reince has redefined what it means to be the White House Chief of Staff — and not in a good way.
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My thought bubble: Apple could have avoided some of the grief it got by being more upfront sooner about what it was doing.
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Our thought bubble: If it passes, the package will be the first concrete legislation to come out of a renewed "techlash" in Washington.
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Our thought bubble: These fines are a slap on the wrist for Facebook, a company that makes roughly $27 billion annually in revenue.
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Our thought bubble: Democrats say that drawing districts is something Republicans do very well, but calling that advantage insurmountable is a bit hyperbolic.
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Our thought bubble: There's a case to be made for Facebook to use its algorithms to demote, rather than ban, low-quality content.
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Our thought bubble: Fox News defendants will likely point to today's condemnations as an example of Fox's journalistic credibility for months to come.
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Our thought bubble: Put all that together, and it's clear that the burst of regional government and corporate actions are important, but insufficient.
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My thought bubble: My final drive would be in a red Mazda Miata, with the top down, and my husband by my side.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Courtenay Brown: The IMF says global trade tensions, particularly the U.S.-China trade war, is dragging down growth.
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Our thought bubble: It's hard to envision any candidate winning the 2020 race without a top-notch strategy for digital and social media.
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My thought bubble: "Devolved Parliament" is not a particularly good work, but it's very big, which matters a lot in the art market.
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Our thought bubble: Trade deals are always messy compromises, and the sheer lure of boosting commerce all around often overrides different interests' priorities.
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Our thought bubble: As Berkeley professor AnnaLee Saxenian has argued, this kind of mobility of brains and skills is what made Silicon Valley.
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Our thought bubble: 2020 Dems could also be miscalculating the broad appeal of other liberal stands, including free college and decriminalizing border crossings.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Ina Fried: Don't forget Apple has spent a bundle on original content but has yet to announce a strategy.
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My thought bubble: Chill out ... this will continue to be a grind, but I still believe Xi is very motivated to make a deal.
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"Brexit is the thought bubble looming large over retail investors' heads," said Mike Loewengart, vice president of investment strategy at E*Trade Financial Corp.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Sam Baker: This shouldn't come as a surprise — Alabama's law was designed to push the limits of abortion law.
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Our thought bubble: With Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement this summer, Roberts is more in control of the court's direction than he has ever been.
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My thought bubble: Rubio is correct that since buybacks are economically equivalent to dividends, it makes sense that their tax treatment should be identical.
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Our thought bubble: This kind of story is often framed as a tug of war between Silicon Valley and the rest of the country.
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My thought bubble: Pharma is going to hate this, especially if it puts the industry as a whole on the hook for greater discounts.
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Our thought bubble, per future editor Steve LeVine: Smart U.S. policy will attempt to create discord between Russia and China through carrot and stick.
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My thought bubble: Everyone's written a million stories about congressional Republicans being pulled between President Trump and some traditionally conservative idea or interest group.
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Our thought bubble: If anything, the Bloomberg timeline suggests that Intel might actually have more Mac business in 2020 than some had been expecting.
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Our thought bubble: The move also reflects how big tech companies are not only going after legacy companies, but are essentially copying newer startups.
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Our thought bubble: Democrats are very unlikely to support the Freedom Caucus' first plan, meaning there's no path to 60 votes in the Senate.
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Our thought bubble: Publishers are going to have to go through some tough sales conversations to become compliant, and it will likely be costly.
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My thought bubble: Further investment in this priority shift might be difficult to achieve, however, as the Pentagon has been under multiple continuing resolutions.
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My thought bubble: If the deal made strategic sense for Wynn before the talks leaked, then it still makes strategic sense one day later.
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Our thought bubble: Given the low likelihood that Bitcoin will become a mainstream means of purchasing, say, coffee, this bill feels a bit unnecessary.
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My thought bubble: I can't help but worry about a world in which the vulnerable are unable to keep even their innermost thoughts private.
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Our thought bubble: The most striking moments of a congressional hearing come when a lawmaker surprises the witness with unexpected — or unexpectedly aggressive — questions.
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My thought bubble: China has benefited enormously from its accession to the WTO and it does not want global trading disrupted by anyone else.
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Our thought bubble: Companies may feel safer handing government the hot potato of figuring out where to draw lines around this potentially controversial technology.
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Our thought bubble: Bevin has shown no hesitation about putting real-world Medicaid coverage on the table as part of the broader legal debate.
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Thought bubble: Given that Trump did not nominate anyone for so long, it's unclear how much influence Droegemeier will have in the West Wing.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Kaveh Waddell: Expect to see more headlines like these as CBP facial recognition systems pop up at more airports.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Amy Harder: The political relevance of this project has taken on a life far larger than its actual impact.
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Our thought bubble: Axios has room to grow in this regard, too, and we are always looking for ways to evaluate our own coverage.
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Our thought bubble: The tech industry still commands such a reserve of money and talent that it might find a path through this maze.
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Our thought bubble: The industry's founder-power corporate arrangements have succeeded at keeping many stellar startups from being seized by short-term-minded investors.
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Our thought bubble: Trump could not have eviscerated the WTO at a worse time for Johnson, who is in many ways his British doppelgänger.
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My thought bubble: The transactions look very much as though they were entered into just to allow the foundation to retain its nonprofit status.
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Felix's thought bubble: ESG fund managers have had no incentive to complain in public about competitors that don't live up to their marketing materials.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Michael Sykes: The NCAA's TV partners would panic if California schools were ruled ineligible, so that probably won't happen.
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Our thought bubble: There are four unsubstantiated assumptions about adult vapers in the case being presented to Trump: They start out as Trump voters.
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My thought bubble: High-deductible plans and chronic disease are both pretty ubiquitous, and this will surely help sick people get the care they need.
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Our thought bubble: It is true that Pichai has a different reputation from his predecessors and has struck a different tone than other Google executives.
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The other side: Manchin says ... Our thought bubble: I'll return to a point I made recently: This is something of a tempest in a teapot.
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Our thought bubble: Per Axios Future editor Steve LeVine, the optics of the move are not terrific — Musk looks like he is acting in haste.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook and other tech companies will likely continue to innovate around ad transparency and fairness as more examples of abuse are uncovered.
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Our thought bubble: Snapchat is using its moments out of the spotlight to focus on creation and product development, which are arguably its greatest strengths.
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Our thought bubble from Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried in San Francisco: Now is the time to establish a clear policy against altered video.
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My thought bubble: I'd be less concerned about this next round of funding falling through than the one after that, or the one after that.
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Our thought bubble: But, at the same time, it's disingenuous for an Amazon policy spox to tell NBC that AOC's criticism was a significant factor.
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Our thought bubble: A broad range of products could be affected, though the restrictions it envisions, such as licensing, wouldn't necessarily ban the exports outright.
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Our thought bubble: Feinstein is expected to face a primary challenge from Kevin de León, who is mounting a campaign as a more progressive alternative.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Jonathan Swan: If Trump had known about this interview there's a zero point zero percent chance Pruitt would be EPA Administrator.
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Our thought bubble: From the TV/multi-device perspective, "Watch" seems like it could be more of a competitor to YouTube than perhaps anything else.
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Our thought bubble: The big question looming over much of this debate is whether the administration looks to repeal rules only, or eventually replace them.
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Our thought bubble: That made some sense in the era where not everyone had a PC at home and many were on dial-up connections.
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Our thought bubble: If the excise tax becomes too big a problem, we bet they replace it with the repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate.
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Our thought bubble: Generally, experts are saying the more reinsurance money, the better — if Congress is serious about bringing down premiums in the individual market.
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My thought bubble: What could possibly go wrong by unleashing a bunch of math nerds to program their own self-driving cars in their garage?
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Friend request: Mark Zuckerberg responded to the goodbye note in a Facebook comment: Our thought bubble: Most telling will be Facebook's actions, not Zuckerberg's words.
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Our thought bubble: It makes sense that Spiegel, the CEO of a now publicly-traded company, would aim for profitability, although the timing seems rushed.
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He has promised to be more "restrained" about the account after taking office Our thought bubble: This is a missed opportunity for the Trump Administration.
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Our thought bubble: If Facebook says its platform is being abused, it wouldn't be surprising if other platforms are being manipulated or facing threats, too.
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What's happening, per FT: My thought bubble: Very high on Liu's agenda — which I hear comes directly from Xi — is to have ZTE's punishment lessened.
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In my head, if there was a thought bubble, it would have been: Please don't walk out, please don't walk out, please don't walk out!
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My thought bubble: There's a practical, non-ideological argument for expanding veterans' options outside VA facilities, and that case is especially intuitive for emergency care.
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Our thought bubble: The financial strain on newspapers, in which obituary rates increased over the years, makes it easier for the rich to be remembered.
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My thought bubble: If we're going to get a grasp on the teen vaping epidemic, relying on Juul to self-regulate isn't going to work.
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Thought bubble: In a general election campaign, Trump would be defending his record, while Sanders would be pushing for radical change, especially on health care.
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Our thought bubble: While Erdogan may be facing international pressure, the offensive and his defiance of the U.S. is clearly playing well domestically right now.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Ben Geman: This impasse shows how hard it's proving to transform the Paris climate agreement's vision into more concrete steps.
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Our thought bubble: It's a big deal because it would be the first time ever that candidates could solicit donations through highly-accessible voice technology.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook and Google built their ad empires through precise targeting and platforms where companies can spend millions without dealing with a human salesperson.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Dion Rabouin: The message from Powell was clear — the first half of 2019 is off the table for interest rate hikes.
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Our thought bubble: The push of health care costs onto employees via their out-of-pocket costs has been unpopular and untenable, and employers are responding.
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Walker's thought bubble as soon as he gives it up reads "pass it back right now!" but Lamb decides to jack up a wild three instead.
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Our thought bubble: CEO Mark Zuckerberg has frequently said Facebook intends to develop artificial-intelligence filters to perform this function at the vast scale Facebook needs.
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My thought bubble: Democrats should probably start trying harder to make sure that their own voters understand at least the good parts about Medicare for All.
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Our thought bubble: By settling now, Qualcomm ideally preserves its licensing business while Apple increases its ability to have 5G iPhones on the market next year.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: The military has long viewed climate change as a national security threat, both at home and abroad.
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Our thought bubble: Establishing such an oversight entity is super complicated, and the feedback shows that even experts are split over how to handle the mechanics.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Sara Fischer: Most private equity firms understand a lot about execution, finance and markets, but are less steeped in technology trends.
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My thought bubble: The opportunity for Maduro to take a king's ransom and live on "a nice beach somewhere" has been on the table for years.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook and Google keep adding more and more human reviewers as content crises compound but neither company says it is a media company.
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Our thought bubble: Snapchat's format and offerings are still relatively new and evolving, so it will take some time before widespread adoption — if that ever happens.
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Our thought bubble: If Trump were truly concerned about this sales-tax loophole, he could get behind the bipartisan bill, reintroduced in the Senate in April.
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My thought bubble: There's way too much hype around the idea that some app or whatever is going to turn the health care system upside down.
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Our thought bubble: Advocates for foreign tech workers will argue Trump's policies are making it harder for the U.S. to recruit the best and the brightest.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' Jonathan Swan: The language is like nothing we've seen in recent memory from a White House official to a Canadian leader.
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Our thought bubble: Look for Democrats and environmentalists to cast the naming of Dravis as further evidence of close ties between fossil fuel companies and Pruitt.
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My thought bubble: There is a ton of investor skepticism over WeWork's business model, with expectations that it could receive Tesla-like treatment from public shorts.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios chief financial correspondent Felix Salmon: Forever 21 remains a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. and across the Americas.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Margaret Talev and Alayna Treene: Trump thinks of O'Brien as a winner, because he has been successful at getting hostages released.
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Our thought bubble: This deal shows how much value is being placed on live sports in an era when very few things are viewed live anymore.
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Our thought bubble: For some media brands born on social, audio or video platforms, standalone websites aren't always considered the primary point of monetization (like The Ringer).
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Our thought bubble: With ever more advanced AI, details about our bodies and behaviors — even data we've long forgotten we've shared — can come back to identify us.
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My thought bubble: The active Eastern Pacific season may be related to a brewing El Niño, which features above-average ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Thought bubble from Axios China author Bill Bishop: Expect a reaction soon from Beijing, quite possibly including the arrest of an American in China as a spy.
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My thought bubble: There's a school of thought that the increasingly repetitive messaging (that America's real goal is China containment) is just propaganda posturing for negotiating leverage.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Dan Primack explains that the move isn't a surprise, as Uber has been talking about a 2019 IPO for at least a year.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Kim Hart: IBM has been shifting for years away from mainframes and servers to selling software and services that bring recurring revenue.
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Our thought bubble: Though he claims to be a neophyte, McNamee is clearly attuned to the rhythms of media and politics — and used them to his advantage.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook has tried to seem more open to criticism and debate before, such as its blog post series called "Hard Questions," with mixed success.
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" Our thought bubble: YouTube is unlikely to move all its kids' content into YouTube Kids — as many children turn their noses up at anything labeled "for kids.
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Our thought bubble: An all-out ban is unlikely, but the position makes for a strong opening salvo in the looming fight over regulating facial-recognition tech.
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Our thought bubble: This could be a smart move as Airbnb inches closer to going public, when it will need to show investors a diversified revenue stream.
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Our thought bubble: While Congress has invested countless hours grilling tech companies about foreign meddling, far less attention has been paid to these types of misinformation efforts.
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My thought bubble: This activity on Reddit aligns with a multi-year Chinese effort to gain greater global "discourse power" to shape the global discussion about China.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Felix Salmon: We live in a world where the Dow Jones Industrial Average can rise or fall 1,000 points in one day.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios cybersecurity reporter Joe Uchill: It's important to remember, in cases of hacked voter databases, that the effect may not be manipulating elections.
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Our thought bubble: Media companies are shifting from relying solely on Google and Facebook for news distribution to relying on other, more niche channels, including private networks.
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Our thought bubble: A party made desperate by its failure to pull off a key campaign promise is about to step into another major legislative food fight.
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My thought bubble: The chaos in Washington comes up all the time in my conversations with sources whose jobs are devoted to wonky energy and environmental issues.
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Thought bubble: Although the State Department release doesn't include the word "Afghanistan," you can bet Tillerson will be talking about it since he's visiting India and Pakistan.
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Thought bubble, part 2: The 11th-hour uncertainty is truly remarkable, given the stakes and the years spent planning for the IPO of 5% of the company.
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Our thought bubble: While fitness trackers and smartwatches have found a niche audience, true health applications could transform them from nice-to-have gadgets to a necessity.
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Our thought bubble: Oscar was able to slow the financial bleeding after exiting several Affordable Care Act individual markets last year and decreasing its membership to 90,000.
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Our thought bubble: This bump in border crossings is likely to keep the Trump administration pushing for its preferred merit-based immigration reform and tougher border security.
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Thought bubble: Given the massive headwinds facing U.S. carbon taxes, debating their design kind of feels like debating what to have for lunch after we colonize Saturn.
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Our thought bubble: Axios Future Editor Steve LeVine explains, Chinese big tech is responding to its gargantuan economic and societal impact very differently from its American counterparts.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: A long-lasting heat wave and drought conditions are making the fire especially severe and difficult to contain.
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Our thought bubble: Trump's speech condemned "white supremacism," but his call to social media companies asked them to detect "mass shooters" rather than pursue any specific group.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Stef Kight: Trump's administration has made multiple attempts to penalize immigrants who use or are likely to use certain public benefit programs.
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Our thought bubble: Voters may put aside their economic worries if the election becomes a referendum on impeachment; 33% of UAW workers voted for Trump in 2016.
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Tania Asnes, whose puff of blond curls suggested a cartoon thought bubble, was asked to write a haiku about Mr. Chernow and his refusal to be interviewed.
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Our thought bubble: Fake news is prevalent on platforms, where scammers can game the system to maximize clicks and exposure to either make money or sway public opinion.
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Our thought bubble: The fire has destroyed much of the town of Paradise, about 90 miles north of Sacramento, and the death toll is likely to rise further.
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Our thought bubble: Look at this brief timeline of Sears in the 21st century... Lampert's hedge fund, ESL Investments, bought bankrupt Kmart in 2003 to merge with Sears.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Scott Rosenberg: The president's outspoken criticism of Amazon and its founder put the Pentagon in a tough place however the choice came down.
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Our thought bubble: Once inquiries like this get started, they develop their own momentum even as they proceed at what feels like a leaden pace to tech insiders.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: A sample size of one — achieved in Berlin over a decade ago — is now a sample size of two.
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My thought bubble: It all sounds like a big distraction to me, but I suppose it could be useful when we are passengers, not drivers, in autonomous vehicles.
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Speaking at the big CERAWeek by IHS Markit event, Pompeo said... Our thought bubble: Pompeo's speech marks the Trump administration's dueling continuity and rupture with the Obama administration.
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Our thought bubble: The real test of the right's new "regulate Big Tech" wing will come not in White House theatrics but in attempts to pass actual legislation.
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Our thought bubble: The letter, including the criticism of Amazon's services for oil companies, underscores the complicated relationship between Big Tech and climate change, per Axios' Ben Geman.
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Our thought bubble: Putting the tech giants under new scrutiny, with executives testifying multiple times in the last year, might have been the easy part for global regulators.
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My thought bubble: The problem of rising health care costs is even more dire at the federal level, but states — unlike the federal government — must balance their budgets.
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Our thought bubble per Axios' David Nather: Amash has departed from the party line many times, and he's unlikely to bring a lot of House Republicans with him.
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Our thought bubble: If it's accurate, and Trump plans to enshrine DACA into law without funding the wall, he is risking a revolt from elements in his base.
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Our thought bubble: The big question for companies here is whether they're willing to adhere to local regulations around the world even when they conflict with American norms.
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My thought bubble: When the nonstop Twitter-sized news cycle makes everything seem like the biggest and newest deal ever, tracking down historical context is a worthy exercise.
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Our thought bubble: The efficiency of these platforms has become unrivaled due to the massive amounts of data they've been able to collect over years of under regulation.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Alexi McCammond: A 28-year-old socialist Latina beating a 56-year-old white man is the most 2018 thing to happen this cycle.
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Our thought bubble: This puts Trump kind of on the same page as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, but also creates an extremely unrealistic timeline for Obamacare replacement.
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Thought bubble: At this point it's a wonder that ex-GE CEO Jeff Immelt isn't blind, given all the fingers stuck in his eyes by successor John Flannery.
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My thought bubble: When I was a student in a Chinese university in the early 1990s, I remember similar complaints about the stupidity of the political study classes.
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Our thought bubble: Traditional broadcast has recently competed more aggressively with cable news, as the 24/7 political news cycle driven by President Trump has gauged consumer interest.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook made roughly $13 billion dollars on ad revenue last quarter, with almost all of that ad that revenue coming from programmatic, or automated ads.
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As he faced the reporters arrayed before him, you could almost see the thought bubble rising above his head: I gave up a morning of writing for this?
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Our thought bubble: For Twitter, Trump represents a kind of catastrophic "edge case" — the term engineers use for scenarios that expose the contradictions or weaknesses in their systems.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios Joe Uchill: China has a reputation for domestic companies beholden to the state that frequently manipulate business relationships and technology for espionage purposes.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: A one-on-one mentoring session with Dalio can be looked at as an invitation to the world's worst VIP room.
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Our thought bubble: For the past few years, a narrative has been built that digital media companies need to scale to compete against tech giants for ad dollars.
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My thought bubble: The Fed's traders could probably have told Treasury's liability-management team that the timing of their bond issues would be problematic for the money markets.
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My thought bubble: While I don't necessarily agree with that, it's always interesting to compare the two coasts — and it's a comparison we rarely hear applied to sports.
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My thought bubble: This is great news for a lucky few patients, but it's not a long-term solution to the world's issues with access to pricey drugs.
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Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios Our thought bubble: Until now, retail workers — unlike the car-making and coal-mining industries — have made little political splash.
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Our thought bubble: Where Snapchat has a clear advantage is that it knows how to create content that actually works within the framework of its app better than anyone.
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Our thought bubble: Google Home Hub, sans camera, is a sharp contrast to the Portal that Facebook unveiled yesterday, which focuses largely on its camera and video chat abilities.
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Our thought bubble: Beyond the substantive arguments about how to end gun violence, the hashtag campaign also raises questions about how Twitter and other platforms will handle disturbing content.
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Our thought bubble: Per Axios' Ina Fried, Microsoft is often at the forefront of the technology and the discussion in an area, but slow to capitalize on a trend.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' Joann Muller: Tesla is destroying the value of its brand with a series of flip-flopping decisions on vehicle prices and its store presence.
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My thought bubble: The company that successfully lays the groundwork for a space-to-space communications system stands to reap the rewards by charging others for using the network.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Dave Lawler: Turkey is a NATO ally, but relations with the U.S. have deteriorated sharply amid conflicts on a variety of issues, including Syria.
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Our thought bubble: One thing seems to infuriate Google critics of all political stripes — the company's tendency to respond slowly or not at all to inquiries, complaints and outrage.
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My thought bubble: It's fine for lenders like Affirm to charge simple interest rates higher than 15% when borrowers are deliberately borrowing a specific amount for a specific purpose.
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My thought bubble: I'd guess that SoftBank's lawyers can work their way around the SEC, particularly given that the current rules seem to codify a distinction without a difference.
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Our thought bubble: One bright side of this debacle is that Facebook is being more transparent about how it makes these decisions than it has been in the past.
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Our thought bubble: The move highlights the contradictory nature of the White House posture on climate — what my colleague Amy Harder calls "Trump's conflicting climate agenda" in this column.
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Our thought bubble: Trump prides himself on being a dealmaker, and helping negotiate Americans' return from foreign nations has been a prominent success for which he can claim credit.
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Our thought bubble: Hollywood has often struggled to tell Silicon Valley's stories in a way that's both commercially successful and rings true to the tech industry's real-life participants.
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The question floats above their heads in a collective thought bubble, like that wordless prayer that unites two hundred passengers during airplane turbulence: Let me live, let me continue.
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Our thought bubble: These audits take a very long time because they are extremely thorough and carried out by a small but efficient team of experts at the MRC.
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David McCabe's thought bubble: While Walden was cautious in announcing any specific action, this is striking talk coming from a pro-industry Republican with close ties to House leadership.
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Our thought bubble: The importance of the big oil and natural gas companies when it comes to political and legal debates over climate change far exceed their objective contribution.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Science editor Andrew Freedman: The archaeological find is related to record heat and dry weather across the United Kingdom and Ireland so far this summer.
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Our thought bubble: Time will tell if these efforts are able to resonate in local communities as well as the hyper-local sites backed by those with political ambitions.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Miriam Kramer: Some space experts are concerned that the U.S. has fallen behind as other nations — like China — have made moves to weaponize space.
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Our thought bubble: "Foreign-made" is relative, of course, and for much of the world beyond U.S. borders, relying on apps from Google, Facebook or American startups raises similar concerns.
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Our thought bubble: A march won't likely change peoples' positions on scientific issues that have become entangled with identity and politics (and it runs the risk of further polarizing people).
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Thought bubble from Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: This is the latest in a string of fast-moving, explosive wildfires that has spread into a populated area on short notice.
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Our thought bubble: One can assume that conversations about Fox eventually selling the stake over to Comcast have been happening for a while, in anticipation for this series of events.
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My thought bubble: High-deductible health plans are increasingly popular, in part, because of the idea that patients will use their purchasing power to drive a more efficient system overall.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios contributor Bill Bishop: This is a huge deal — if China is really serious about making substantive changes to this plan, rather than just repackaging it.
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My thought bubble: A Democratic House may leave industry somewhat worse off on those ticky-tacky but big-for-industry priorities that are always floating around, looking for a vehicle.
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Very well coached [thought bubble becomes visible through speakers depicting Francesa thinking of former Maryland coach Gary Williams, who retired in 2011] but sometimes they win and sometimes they lose.
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Our thought bubble: With 2020 just around the corner, Big Tech companies are on a PR blitz to ensure they can't be blamed for a surprise outcome of another election.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Ina Fried: Notable about today's event will be that Apple, which has always made its money from hardware, has a showcase devoted exclusively to services.
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Thought bubble from Axios Science editor Andrew Freedman: The risk for tornadoes, including several strong tornadoes, is elevated particularly over the Texas Panhandle and a slice of far western Oklahoma.
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Our thought bubble: New hardware is nice, but it's hard to see the consumer market, in particular, taking off until we get a convergence of affordable, powerful headsets and content.
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My thought bubble: The elevation of Jacobs, who previously ran weather programs at Panasonic Avionics, could position the administration to pull Myers' nomination if opposition is too strong to overcome.
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Our thought bubble: If big internet platforms are having a tough time regulating fake news stories on their platform, imagine the chaos of trying to monitor doctored videos and photos …
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Our thought bubble: If Mueller wants to flip Flynn to testify against Trump associates, involving his son in the investigation could be a great way to compel him to talk.
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Our thought bubble: There's a general feeling of net neutrality fatigue: people are getting wary of this decade-long fight and some companies and consumers want the issue settled already.
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Our thought bubble: It's vitally important that future content feeds are built on top of a human-curated supply of content – rather than just anything that surfaces on the Internet.
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My thought bubble: China has had these campaigns before, but the use of the word "struggle" in the notice likely indicates this time will be much more expansive and harsh.
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Our thought bubble: Less professionally-curated content could make make it harder to compete for TV ad dollars, but much easier to compete for digital video ad dollars with YouTube.
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Our thought bubble: As you read this, a screenwriter in an apartment somewhere in Santa Monica is hoping to knock out the first five pages of her Jeff Bezos vs.
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Our thought bubble: it's clear through the cross-examinations that AT&T's infamous trial lawyer Daniel Petrocelli is putting more pressure on some of the witnesses than the DOJ's attorneys.
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Our thought bubble: Snap has done a lot of restructuring to its ad product, including shifting more of its resources to automated ad sales, which require less people to execute.
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My thought bubble: The pact is the starkest example yet in a wider movement of states, companies and local governments rebuffing or counteracting the White House posture on global warming.
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Our thought bubble: Many of these outlets are venture-backed, and could face the same fate that some other venture-backed media companies have experienced over the past few years.
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Our thought bubble: It's worth noting that while Apple News and Twitter are featured as debate co-hosts, Facebook is noticeably absent after co-hosting debates in 2012 and 2016.
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Our thought bubble: If AT&T is considering dropping its live TV business, then it makes sense that they wouldn't want to pay big bucks to renew the NFL contract.
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Our thought bubble: The White House first declined to rule a carbon tax out, then told Axios last month it was ruling it out, so we'll see if the seesaw continues.
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A thought bubble says, "I'm going to build you a brother..." In another Trump looks like he's embracing a guard tower with pink hearts flowing in between the structure and Trump.
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My thought bubble: This is a pretty complicated calculation to ask people to do, especially those who don't have a clear picture of how much health care they'll need next year.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Ina Fried: It's not exactly a shock that Gates is defending the idea that a tech company can be big without needing to be split up.
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Our thought bubble: The reaction is another example of the kind of turmoil Silicon Valley companies face when leaders make choices that clash with values held by many in their workforce.
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Our thought bubble: While bugs don't reflect greater existential market threats like regulation, they can point to Twitter's struggle to be mindful of user privacy while also innovating its ad product.
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Our thought bubble from Axios Space newsletter writer Miriam Kramer: Taking the company public is a bold move for a private spaceflight company that has yet to fly its first tourists.
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My thought bubble: The timing matters — Tesla's first quarter earnings report is expected on Wednesday and the company has a history of touting product news just ahead of poor financial results.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: It's not easy for an airline to cancel an aircraft order without paying penalties, and Garuda will have to negotiate with Boeing going forward.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Erica Pandey: Amazon wants to collect as much data as it can from its customers and use it to get better at marketing and selling products.
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Our thought bubble: We've written about the invisible, underpaid class of workers who power and improve AI, often from outside the developed countries where the technology is deployed for others' benefit.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Andrew Freeman: It's not surprising that rivers large and small are cresting above levels seen during any previous flood in history in the Plains and Midwest.
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Our thought bubble: A boycott would serve as a signal to lawmakers in Georgia and other states that restrictive abortion policies could impact their ability to lure projects, companies and jobs.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios Science editor Andrew Freedman: The extreme weather we've been seeing is consistent with a warming climate in which the atmosphere is able to hold more moisture.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' Andrew Freedman: It's unusual to have pilots unions ask an aircraft manufacturer to correct a safety feature or possibly ground an aircraft in the first place.
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Our thought bubble: The list may reflect an internal compromise between administration factions supporting a hard line and another, aligning with President Trump, that prefers backing away from the sanctions regime.
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"Our thought bubble for the president when he spontaneously made the fiscal package deal in front of a chagrined Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan: "You say I can't make deals anymore?
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Our thought bubble: Revenue declines have often been blamed on ESPN, which already had major layoffs this year, but the network doesn't look to be affected by this round of cuts.
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Our thought bubble: The move on Rosenberg's part draws parallels to when Sally Yates, then acting attorney general retained by the Trump administration, said she'd refuse to defend Trump's travel ban.
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Our thought bubble: Judging by the comments underneath Musk's outbursts, he resonates authenticity to at least some of his faithful, in the same way that Trump's broadsides do with his base.
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Thought bubble: There's no doubt that this revelation is bad news for the social media companies as they face questions from Congress over Russia's influence over last year's U.S. presidential elections.
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Our thought bubble: As a business unit, LinkedIn continues to cost Microsoft more than it brings in and its data and functionality have yet to be fully integrated into Microsoft's products.
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Our thought bubble: As Axios chief technology correspondent Ina Fried puts it, this looks like a case of "we got our hands caught in the cookie jar—so cookies for everyone!"
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Our thought bubble: This data supports the narrative that Trump was elected by voters left behind by globalization and the economic recovery, and who backed him to upend the status quo.
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Our thought bubble: This is a sophisticated hire for Atlantic, which is pushing to invest more heavily in product and technology under the leadership of its new majority owner, Emerson Collective.
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In a work made shortly after his first Italian trip, "The Inspiration of the Artist," a beleaguered draftsman is overwhelmed by a swirling thought bubble of figures from history and myth.
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Ray's Try-On Thought Bubble: Remember when I said I forced myself to choose a few pieces I didn't care for so I could maximize on my eight monthly allotted options?
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My thought bubble: Tesla's truck will find an audience among high-end, tech-savvy buyers, but it's hard to imagine they'll steal many traditional truck customers from Chevy, Ford or Ram.
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Our thought bubble: Regardless of the divide within the party, O'Rourke has successfully shifted the debate so that expanded background checks or an assault weapons ban look more modest by comparison.
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Our thought bubble: This is a necessary and forward-thinking step for Google, but it will take ad buyers some time to integrate the technology into their TV and digital buying habits.
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Our thought bubble: Mosseri played a very public role at Facebook in the aftermath of the 2016 election, explaining the way Facebook's News Feed worked and how the company was tackling misinformation.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Andrew Freedman explains that the fire has destroyed much of the town of Paradise, about 90 miles north of Sacramento, and the toll is likely to rise further.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Sara Fischer: Conservative outlets are trying to ensure that they have support from the press corps should they face adversity from a Democratic-leaning administration in the future.
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Thought bubble, from Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: China is making great strides in multiple fields, including supercomputing, AI, gene editing (biology), medicine, atmospheric sciences and space exploration, to name a few.
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My thought bubble: While tech CEOs have to consider their fiduciary duty to shareholders in weighing how much to confront Trump, Gates is freer to take a tougher line if he chooses.
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Our thought bubble from Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: Climate change is extending wildfire season year-round and increasing the frequency of extreme fires that spread quickly and are harder to contain.
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Our thought bubble: "Fake news" and "misinformation" are abstract terms, which gives people in power — such as President Trump — room to weaponize the term in order to denounce news they don't like.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Sara Fischer: TV advertising is an especially important medium for drug companies, which often struggle to advertise on digital channels, due to lengthy side effect disclosure requirements.
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My thought bubble: One press conference on one day is no big deal, but we've already watched Democrats build a narrative and a campaign message around health care — including this exact lawsuit.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Steve LeVine: Disaffection, distrust and insecurity have dominated politics across continents since 2016, and the survey shows that these drivers are not dissipating, but growing more powerful.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Dion Rabouin: Despite growing fear on Wall Street, economists predict the economy will keep humming along, so that should provide a boost to Trump's re-election chances.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios editor-in-chief Nicholas Johnston: Too much computer can be anodyne, like Waze directing me off a highway when it erroneously thinks there's a jam up ahead.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Eileen Drage O'Reilly: Emerging virulent pathogens are a threat each nation needs to report on a transparent basis to promote possible global coordination to halt their spread.
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" Thought bubble from Axios markets editor Dion Rabouin: "Lost in much of the discussion about the jobs report and the Fed is the fact that globally central banks are still easing policy.
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Yes, but: There remain significant unresolved issues, as Bloomberg writes... My thought bubble: It sounds like the easy wins have been made (they were there for the taking, for a long time).
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Thought bubble: It wouldn't be surprising if a number of unlocked investors sold a minority of their holdings today as downside protection, with the optimistic hopes that Snap's share price can recover.
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Our thought bubble: Democrats who support the Iran nuke deal, like former Secretary of State John Kerry, are worried about a bill that passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.
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My thought bubble: Beijing and its representatives are saying all the right things about globalization and free trade as they explicitly try to contrast Xi and the PRC with Trump and America.
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Our thought bubble: European regulators introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, which will put major restraints on how these companies can use consumer data to sell ads beginning in 2018.
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Sara's thought bubble: Sheryl Sandberg continually stressed — as she has done in previous calls — the importance of measuring how ads lead to actual sales, not to brand awareness or other proxy metrics.
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Your friends can see your responses and comment on them when they use the app; they either appear in a stream or when you tap a little thought bubble over your Mii.
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Our thought bubble: Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were clearly important figures in the Trump campaign, but Papadopoulos didn't feature prominently and was paid little attention by Trump or other senior advisers.
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Our thought bubble: The distribution ecosystem for digital content is rapidly evolving, and until now, it's been difficult to understand where the power lied between platforms (content distributors) and publishers (content creators).
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Our thought bubble: Read this letter in light of the "fake news" controversy surrounding the election where Facebook found itself accused of not doing enough to combat the spread of false information.
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Our thought bubble: Huawei says it will release the operating system as open source software and aim to get a wide range of developers in and out of China to build apps.
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My thought bubble: There's something deeply unsettling about the idea that a friend is reaching out only because an app reminded them to — it's hard to believe they truly care about you.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Zachary Basu: Giuliani's correspondence with a convicted felon can be explained by his dedication to rewriting the narrative of the 2016 election and discrediting the Russia investigation.
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Our thought bubble: The giant tax-exempt hedge funds known as Harvard and Yale lose about 5% of their assets every year, in the form of donations to their venerable educational subsidiaries.
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Our thought bubble: There is very little reason for anyone to be satisfied with the cost of health care in the U.S. — and that has been true for a very long time.
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My thought bubble: It would have been cramped with seven passengers, but with the third row folded down, we had plenty of room for four passengers, four suitcases and assorted other stuff.
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My thought bubble: Statistics like these only feed the school of thought that says competition isn't doing enough to drive down drug prices, and so the government should take a heavier hand.
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Thought bubble: Greene brought tons of industry credibility at a time when Google needed to establish itself as a cloud player, but much work remains as Google continues to battle Amazon and Microsoft.
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My thought bubble: Both companies are trying to gain ground on Tesla, as well as some legacy automakers in the EV space, so collaboration makes sense as they try and close the gap.
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Our thought bubble: Verizon's strategy to spend $10 billion assembling a digital marketing business is vastly different than rival AT&T's strategy to spend $85 billion to create a content and licensing business.
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Our thought bubble: On its surface, the move reflects the economic reality that search is where Google makes its money on Android, which it has historically offered free of charge to device makers.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Andrew Freedman: In the past, such payments have totaled in the millions for airlines, but there's no precedent for such a large grounding of a brand new plane.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: The Agriculture Department's approach to its climate science research contrasts sharply with other parts of the Trump administration, such as NASA, NOAA and the Energy Department.
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My thought bubble: Both new exhibits do exactly what good VR should — that is, convincingly take you to a place you couldn't go, somewhere either inaccessible, like Everest, or unreal, as with Monet.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Courtenay Brown: If nominated and confirmed, Moore, who previously called Fed Chairman Jerome Powell incompetent, would fill one of the two vacancies on the Fed's board of governors.
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Our thought bubble: Successful subscription models are able to sidestep the traffic trap of covering easy-gratification topics for clicks by reaching audiences in more intentional consumption environments — newsletters, magazines and streaming services.
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Our thought bubble: Ad agencies, which bill a significant amount of their time to digital services, are facing the same pain on the media buying side as publishers are on the selling side.
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Our thought bubble: It benefits these ad companies to have as access to as much data as possible, not just for profit, but because they want to provide better advertising experiences for users.
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The first thought bubble had three question marks, while the second, jagged-edged one had three exclamation points, allowing participants choose the words to describe the situation without any bias from the researchers.
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Our thought bubble: There have been a lot of rumors that Facebook is jumping on these updates in response to controversies like Cambridge Analytica and the EU's new sweeping data privacy law, GDPR.
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Our thought bubble: Germany benefitting from a cheap Euro is just another reason for the Trump Administration to dislike the European Union, and to support events that might help end the currency union.
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My thought bubble: While impressed by the car's smarts and focus on safety, I think the UX is too cramped and its infotainment system too complicated to get me to fork over $40,000.
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Our thought bubble: There will always be room for plenty of players in the aggregation game, but so far there's little reason to think that anyone can seriously challenge the tech platforms' dominance.
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Our thought bubble: It's a small fine given how much backlash YouTube has experienced over the past year for not adequately policing content and advertising on its platform that is aimed at children.
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My thought bubble: It'll be interesting to see what degree the policy becomes a big topic in this year's presidential election — specifically Iowa, a key battleground state and America's top corn-ethanol producer.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Bob Herman: Purdue was expected to file for bankruptcy regardless of a national settlement, and it ultimately could protect the Sackler family's wealth against all governments and creditors.
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Our thought bubble: Advertisers know Facebook, Google and other platforms face these problems regularly, and that they are better off buying from publishers directly to protect their brands, but that's easier said than done.
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" Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said, in an unusually harsh statement aimed at an ally: Axios' Jonathan Swan posted this thought bubble: "We're inclined to take this seriously as a sign of things to come.
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Our thought bubble: For all the talk of how the smartphone market has peaked and Apple iPhone sales are hurting, the company is expanding at a pace that suggests it expects to keep growing.
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Our thought bubble: For Univision, and for all network TV companies, one difficult aspect of its sales pitch will be its renewed focus on live, as cable operators get pickier about carrying expensive channels.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Ben Geman: Legal hurdles are just one of many uncertainties clouding the potential for Arctic offshore drilling, despite what are thought to be huge hydrocarbon deposits in the region.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Sara Fischer: There's been no substantial proof that the engineers at any of the big tech platforms have systemic bias against one political ideology over another when building algorithms.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Dion Rabouin: Crypto began as something of a counter-cultural current and Wall Street jumped on the bandwagon when it rose to a pop culture phenomenon, pushing prices higher.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: These floods are, in parts of Nebraska in particular, worse than longtime residents have experienced and in many cases are downright unprecedented in historical records.
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Although Discover is meant to prioritize content you're already watching, you'll also be shown Stories from publishers and creators you may be less familiar with in an attempt to avoid creating a thought bubble.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Ina Fried: The questions now are where the U.S. will draw the line when it comes to Chinese acquisitions and how far back it will go to unwind deals.
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My thought bubble: The use of the ER for primary care is often treated as a thing that happens mainly in lower-income areas with lower health literacy and worse access to primary care.
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Our thought bubble: Not only is this a strategic move for Amazon, it's a good time for Eero to give up trying to go it alone in the increasingly competitive market for networking hardware.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios tech editor Scott Rosenberg: Facebook's "pivot to privacy" has a long way to go to persuade users that the social network is a safe place to share their information.
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Our thought bubble: FOX sports is a part of the "New FOX" network that will exist after a potential Disney-FOX merger goes through, which the Murdochs say will focus on sports and news.
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Our thought bubble: This is an especially poignant message coming from Sandberg, a revenue expert, who repeatedly reminds investors on earnings calls that Facebook's top priority is to help marketers execute effective ad campaigns.
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Our thought bubble: The foray into streaming is smart because they have experience in that market, which is growing rapidly as their core audience of millennials cuts the cord and ditches standard cable packages.
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Our thought bubble: If this is what Facebook looks like when it's back on its heels, it's hard to imagine how dominant the social networking giant would be if it were, say, leaning in.
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Our thought bubble: The DOJ needs to prove that the proposed merger could be harmful to consumers, and that will require hard evidence of a negative effect on consumers, like rising cable subscription fees.
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My thought bubble: It's hard to imagine many patients who are so prepared and insurance-savvy that they could protect themselves from an out-of-network bill in the middle of a heart attack.
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My thought bubble: If Qualcomm wanted a place in low-end machines, a natural spot would seem to be the Chromebook market, where the company would just need to deliver a good browsing experience.
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My thought bubble: The choice before lawmakers now could not be more Washington-in-2019: Side with voters getting slammed by these bills, or side with the private equity-backed groups profiting from them.
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Our thought bubble: Hurricane Michael illustrates a scenario that meteorologists have worried about for years — a rapidly intensifying hurricane moving toward the coast at a steady clip, giving coastal residents precious little time to prepare.
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Our thought bubble: Adding health features like fall detection and improved heart monitoring is probably the best way for Apple to turn the Apple Watch from a nice-to-have product into a must-wear.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Sara Fischer: A Department of Homeland Security report a decade ago warned that right-wing extremism was a growing danger in the U.S., but criticism from conservatives blocked any action.
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My thought bubble ... You may be sick of hearing me say this by now, but it's true: Health care is not a competitive market, and the more you need it, the less competitive it is.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Andrew Freedman: This move is seen by some as having the effect of reducing the influence of USDA's scientists and statisticians, who will be far away from D.C. power brokers.
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My thought bubble: While the agency said that, as far as it knows, no one has actually hacked into someone else's insulin pump and harmed them, this is the future of health care cyber risk.
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Our thought bubble: Although they are making opposing arguments, both sides are actually pointing at the same problem: YouTube's rules for taking down videos and "demonetizing" creators still appear to be vague and unevenly enforced.
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Our thought bubble: We've seen several times in recent weeks that different standards across platforms about what type of content is considered safe on the internet causes confusion and frustration among lawmakers, brands and consumers.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Strategically, it makes zero sense for the U.S. to enter a two-front trade war, engaging Mexico even as the confrontation with China is reaching a boiling point.
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My thought bubble: If self-driving Teslas are going to appreciate the way Musk promises, savvy entrepreneurs ought to to build up their own mini-fleets to rent via both sites — Turo and Tesla Network.
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Our thought bubble: Kalanick may not have been completely ignorant of his company's culture: He sent a memo in 2013 ahead of a company retreat bemoaning his inability to have sexual relations with his employees.
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Our thought bubble: Both parties are being driven by activists on immigration and it's extremely hard to imagine an immigration deal that could pass the House and the Senate with the support of President Trump.
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Our thought bubble: The way conspiracy thinking works, the very fact that YouTube briefly linked the two events and then deleted the information might just "prove" to some observers that something fishy was going on.
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Dan Primack's thought bubble: SXSW has become a victim of its own success, getting so bloated that, at this point, it's little more than an excuse for Bay Area techies to network in different environs.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios tech editor Scott Rosenberg: Amazon's entry into the prescription market is a natural follow-on to its move (with Warren Buffett and JP Morgan Chase) into the broader healthcare field.
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He wrote: Our thought bubble: Google's abstinence in this particular case doesn't mean Silicon Valley will shy away from military contracts — it hasn't, and it won't — or even that Google itself isn't pursuing other leads.
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Anne's sister Margot, whose saintly composure she often envied, is drawn as a bird, gazing at an empty plate: "I feel full just by looking at the others," the thought bubble above her head reads.
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Our thought bubble: Tuesday's report sent a message to investors that if Disney's bet on streaming doesn't pan out, its traditional businesses may not be enough to protect the company from long-term industry changes.
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Thought bubble per Axios' Amy Harder: This is sure to further inflame already tense relations between the Trump administration and California, which are already fighting over the state's ability to issue tougher fuel efficiency standards.
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Our thought bubble: Disney is most competitive thanks to its content offerings and competitive pricing, costing less than Netflix and Amazon Prime — and its bundled service costs the same as Netflix's most popular subscription tier.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Joann Muller: Tesla's truck will find an audience among high-end, tech-savvy buyers, but it's hard to imagine they'll steal many traditional truck customers from Chevy, Ford or Ram.
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Our thought bubble: The key differentiator for all of these new streaming offerings will be whether the packages are "sticky" enough to keep users coming back after they finish their favorite show or original series.
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My thought bubble: Maduro's ouster could be an inflection point in the country's history, but it will take a lot of work to turn what's effectively become a failing narco/petro-state into a functioning economy.
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Our thought bubble: If AT&T is able to build a streaming service that can compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon, it too might be able to penetrate markets abroad with its media content.
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Our thought bubble: No matter how much tech gripes about GDPR, Monday's fine makes it clearer than ever that Europe, not Washington, is setting the pace when it comes to building guardrails for Silicon Valley firms.
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Our thought bubble: Democrats will make the case that they are the party that protects pre-existing conditions, while Republican messaging on the case — and more broadly, their health care platform — will be muddled at best.
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Our thought bubble: Even if you agree with Harris about both the problem and what the industry should do, it's hard to imagine these companies forsaking a business model that has made them huge and rich.
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Our thought bubble: Most critics don't see content creation around sports betting as a breach of journalistic integrity, and the demand for betting content across all networks suggest that fans don't see it that way either.
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What they're saying: My thought bubble: AV tech is proving to be more difficult to develop than many predicted, but a lot of smart engineers are working on it, and I'm confident they'll figure it out.
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Our thought bubble: There are a lot of moving parts here, and it may not be easy to merge the cultures of the UNC academic system with the public Carolinas system known for high executive pay.
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Our Thought Bubble: Protests like this can be effective at raising awareness about the issue, but the 11th hour campaign seems unlikely to change the minds at the FCC, which seems solidly split along party lines.
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Our thought bubble: The indictment will likely put more pressure on lawmakers and social media companies to find a path toward more oversight of bad actors using social media to manipulate Americans and meddle in elections.
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My thought bubble: For an upstart to really crack the smartphone market, they'll probably need to have something as different from today's iPhone and Android as the iPhone was from the BlackBerry over a decade ago.
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Thought bubble: If you're reading Zuckerberg's note and wondering why Facebook hadn't yet taken these seemingly basic steps, it's because the company is now begrudgingly curbing its core business function: collecting and providing access to data.
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My thought bubble: During his visit to Washington at the beginning of March, Liu He, now a vice-premier, presented the U.S. with a list of areas in which the PRC was willing to make concessions.
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Our thought bubble: When a company in this sort of crisis is serious about putting controversy behind it, it can come clean, conduct a thorough top-to-bottom audit, report the results, and — maybe — move on.
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Our thought bubble: Part of the problem is that for years Apple has gathered the world's attention at these events with the promise of at least some "wow" moments, and there really weren't any on Tuesday.
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My thought bubble: I'm all for customization, but this sounds like a situation where there should be a standard sound so people know when a car is approaching and don't confuse it with other ambient sounds.
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Our thought bubble: Trump's record-low approval rating suggests people aren't happy with his presidential style, but his core base of supporters have remained loyal — 93% of Trump voters approve of the job he's done so far.
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Our thought bubble: During the seven-year Keystone XL saga (which ultimately led Obama to reject it in November 2015), many Obama administration officials privately said the fight was a distraction and the pipeline should be approved.
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Our thought bubble: "Compared to previous generations, today's parents tend to be less comfortable letting their kids roam unsupervised after dark, instead preferring community or school gatherings in more controlled settings," Axios' cities correspondent Kim Hart notes.
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My thought bubble: A big question is whether there will be a bankshot effect that alters the Beltway posture of powerful auto and oil industry trade groups, which often oppose or seek to scale back climate regulations.
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My thought bubble: Some of these tools are really only available to large employers, and don't do much to change the underlying system in a way that would also provide spillover benefits to small businesses or individuals.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Stef Kight: There is a generation of young people with little memory of foreign terrorist attacks such as 9/11, but who have grown up witnessing their peers killed by domestic terrorists.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: A key trend in the scientific literature during the past few years has been the increased recognition that global warming constitutes a major economic threat nationally and worldwide.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: The FAA's statement contrasts with early assessments from Boeing that a software fix would soon be available to prevent the MCAS system from kicking in repeatedly based on erroneous data.
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My thought bubble: There just didn't seem to be a killer feature — the kind of thing that made me want to download the beta onto my everyday phone as soon it was available despite warnings not to.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios cybersecurity reporter Joe Uchill: This isn't the first time this theory has surfaced — in fact, many people assumed this was the case right away, with new converts over the past 2 years.
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Our thought bubble: Walmart seems to be doing the thing everyone else talks about — trying to save money in the long run by investing in quality up front — with rigorous metrics and research to help define it.
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Our thought bubble: The startup's new round of financing is quite surprising considering that Soylent has issued four product recalls over the last 18 months, the most recent being on April 24, less than two weeks ago.
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Our thought bubble: The dramatically different information Trump receives daily under the leadership of Chief of Staff John Kelly is an under-looked factor in Trump's decision to double down on his partnership with the Democratic leaders.
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IBM pointed to this quote from Microsoft from a different case: Our thought bubble: Regardless of the legal merits, treating diversity as something to beat other companies on rather than an industrywide goal seems a bad approach.
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My thought bubble: CEOs were quick to fire off tweets and Facebook posts condemning the travel ban, but a number of tech companies are now in a different political reality than a year and a half ago.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Sara Fischer: The network's record viewership comes as Americans' news consumption has become increasingly polarized — and as the left-leaning cable news audience likely split its time between rivals CNN and MSNBC.
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Our thought bubble: The NYT op-ed, in which the author said he's part of a "resistance" working to thwart the president's agenda, reinforces and feeds into Trump's preconceived idea about a vast "Deep State" inside his administration.
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Our thought bubble: Given Trump's determination so far to keep his taxes hidden, it's not crazy to imagine that he'd rather not be on the ballot in a state he's certain to lose than turn over his taxes.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Dave Lawler: Experts worry that by stepping back from the exercises Trump is appeasing North Korea, undermining part of his leverage over Kim Jong-un, and weakening the U.S.-South Korea military alliance.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: Rosselló may be taking a more aggressive stance against the White House now that he has a well-known political challenger for his job in San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.
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" Tunnel engineer Arnold Dix, advisor to fellow billionaire Richard Branson's Hyperloop project, told the ABC it was probably just a "thought bubble" from Musk, and that "he was probably just sitting on his jet with nothing to do.
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My thought bubble: Yes, yes, it's early days, but I'll be watching to see if Inslee, who is far down in the polls, can seize on voters' interest in climate change that's been apparent in some recent surveys.
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My thought bubble: A big key to bullish expectations for China is that the country still has significant room to grow because of the number of rural citizens who could move into higher earning urban areas and occupations.
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My thought bubble: Republicans are the bigger sinners in this debate because most of them refuse to acknowledge that climate change and humans' role driving it is a real thing, as I wrote in my column last week.
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Thought bubble, part 1: My Axios colleague Dan Primack passed along some context on what it would mean to scuttle a public listing and shift to private sales: For Aramco, this would still bring in lots of cash.
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My thought bubble: Ng's chops in the field are second to none, but it's a bit unclear how a small team can effectively work with a large number of companies given how massive such operations tend to be.
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My thought bubble: It's the growing pains of a new movement, one which recently stumbled when AOC's office released and then pulled back a GND "FAQ" sheet that muddied the waters with claims absent from the underlying resolution.
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Our thought bubble: The level of transparency with this announcement is a sign of maturity for the 11-year-old company, which is now trying to build its business moving forward by focusing on consumers' health and democracy.
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Our thought bubble: Some analysts were scratching their heads over the deal, which was viewed as a rushed attempt to copy UnitedHealth Group — and generally questionable given that Express Scripts would lose its most lucrative client in Anthem.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Dave Lawler: Trump has been criticized for taking a hands-off approach to the situation in Hong Kong, which some claim is effectively a green light for Xi to crack down on protesers.
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My thought bubble: The fact that average prices of the NPR basket have risen by about double the rate of inflation suggests the tariffs are playing a role in increased prices even at a retail behemoth like Walmart.
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My thought bubble: We've pointed it out before, but there's a strong irony to the fact that conservatives' darling policy idea has led to Americans being more willing than ever before to accept a single-payer health plan.
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The steamship itself sails on a river flowing across the horse and onto the rest of the canvas, freed from the confines of a thought bubble and moving the locus of acting from the past to the present.
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Our thought bubble: While conversations around children's privacy have increased over the past year alongside the national privacy debate, this case will certainly draw even more attention to the way tech giants mine data through apps targeted to kids.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Alexi McCammond: It will likely be politically toxic for any 210 Democrat not to release their tax returns, since this is an example of how anything they demand of Trump they must do themselves.
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Our thought bubble: It's easy to look at membership in a hacker group as a signal O'Rourke is some kind of secret anarchist, but the hacker groups of the '80s and '90s have produced people with civic bone fides.
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Our thought bubble: The Trump bump that supported the news industry through difficult economic times is not sustainable, and media companies that were once reliant on politics coverage to get through tough times are going to have to pivot.
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Our thought bubble: Apple has $250 billion in cash and President Trump is known for praising companies that take steps to promote U.S. manufacturing (and browbeating those that don't) so this could be smart politics at a good price.
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Our thought bubble: There's going to be a lot more premium video inventory on the major platforms for marketers, and the quality of the content, mobile delivery, and brand safety will be a big part of what drives buys.
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Our thought bubble: Perry's comments, which got picked up by numerous other media outlets, came off as inarticulate and opened him up to a barrage of criticism that he was both inaccurate and insensitive to victims of sexual assault.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Ina Fried, who has covered this story from the beginning, notes that Apple really lost the case in the early days when it failed to get an injunction forcing Samsung to change its phone design.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer explained it like this: Our thought bubble: Ivanka's current relationship to her business is similar to that of President Trump's with the Trump Organization, in that she resigned from management but didn't divest.
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My thought bubble: Many of the health jobs that are going to be in high demand are relatively inexpensive, but they're not free, and we're still going to have to come up with a way to pay for them.
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My thought bubble: I know this is kind of obvious, but it's worth mentioning because lots of attention is paid to candidates' sweeping targets (like net-zero by 2050) and aggregate spending levels (like Bernie Sanders' $16 trillion proposal).
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Our thought bubble per Axios' Dave Lawler: While the detentions in Xinjiang have sparked growing international outrage, and senior members of the Trump administration have raised the issue publicly, most governments are silent and others have even defended Beijing.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Felix Salmon: In countries like Canada and Ireland that have robust social safety nets, the need for permanent philanthropic capital is lower — which could be why foundations in those nations have less in assets.
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Our thought bubble: We last discussed this situation in June, around the Slack direct listing, and argued that investors should work with the SEC to create a hybrid structure whereby companies could both list directly and raise new capital.
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Our thought bubble: By essentially adding an intermediate, artificial stage of development, the technology could open up thorny ethical questions about when a baby is technically born and for how long a fetus could — and should — be raised outside the womb.
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My thought bubble: The confrontation between Washington and Beijing, which initially centered on alleged intellectual property theft, has metastasized over the past 18 months, roping in US security concerns about telecom equipment giant Huawei and Chinese purchases of US agricultural goods.
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Our thought bubble from Scott Rosenberg, Axios managing editor for technology: The iPhone was such a monster product that Apple is unlikely to repeat the success, and for investors that may be argument enough to see the company as overvalued.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva: It's no surprise that multiple ride-hailing companies, including Uber and Lyft, were born in San Francisco — it's a proven market where the local public transit doesn't meet the needs of some residents.
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My thought bubble: That sounds a lot like the rationale for policies like clean power targets that lots of states have imposed and federal lawmakers — like Inslee, a former congressman who's worked on climate problems for decades — have unsuccessfully pushed nationally.
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My thought bubble: Given the remaining gap between the two sides, that date may be more aspirational now than realistic, unless the U.S. sends its top negotiators back to China sometime after March 15 and they can finalize a deal.
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Our thought bubble: Per Axios' Andrew Freedman: This story makes it more clear that Lion Air should not have flown the plane on the day of the crash without maintenance first, since a previous flight hit such a severe problem.
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My thought bubble: For nearly all of us (Jeff Bezos would seem to be one exception to the rule), there is some level of wealth at which having more money would not make us better off in any meaningful way.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Kim Hart: It won't be lost on critics that Apple, which has come under fire for the addictive nature of its products, is reportedly making it difficult for addiction-fighting apps to survive on its platform.
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My thought bubble: This same tug-of-war animates the political debate over health care — people are receptive to the idea that our system is bad, but there's still a risk in changing what they think works well for them.
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Assange's attorney Barry J. Pollack released the following statement: Our thought bubble, via Axios' Joe Uchill: What's interesting is that the charges focus on Assange technically assisting Manning's hacking, making the charges more about Assange the hacker than Assange the journalist.
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My thought bubble: Though it's possible that Alibaba could follow Japan's strategy from the 1960s and 1970s and break open the American market, it seems to me that Alipay's expansion will be limited to Chinese nationals for the foreseeable future.
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My thought bubble: Tesla's strategy is far-fetched, but plausible, if, as Osborne says, they are better than GM at manufacturing, better than Nvidia at hardware, better than Google at software, and better than Uber at running a taxi service.
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Our thought bubble: The support for the Paris deal from the likes of Exxon and ConocoPhillips highlights a divide between some powerful energy companies and conservative activists who want Trump to make good on his campaign pledge to abandon the deal.
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Our thought bubble: Though Republicans have turned on Flynn after his guilty plea, they haven't turned their backs on Trump — his approval rating among Republicans is 81% — and their continued dismissal of the Russia probe suggests they're not about to.
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Our thought bubble: Asian nations worried about China's rise want both strong military and economic ties with the U.S. The security aspect of the U.S. strategy towards Asia was reinforced with the visits to Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines.
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A happier, more heartwarming event you could not imagine, and as Herb and I and the other guests tottered out to our cars, a single thought bubble hovered over our heads, inconspicuous as the Goodyear blimp: Whaddaya think that cost?
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My thought bubble: If we&aposre going to make a serious attempt to tackle suicide and overdose rates, enforcing the requirement that mental health care be covered the same way physical healthcare is would be a good place to start.
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Our thought bubble: If it is young people's greater tendency to live in urban areas that is hampering Ikea's growth, small format stores will boost sales only if Ikea can simultaneously make online shopping and delivery cheaper and more convenient.
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Our thought bubble: While tens of thousands of people in the United States alone are desperately in need of human organs for transplant, the process is still likely to be controversial when the concept moves from the lab to production.
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Thought bubble: Walmart's effort to seek out and favor high-quality providers, even when it comes at a near-term cost, is a stark contrast to the penny-pinching and cost-shifting that define so much of the employer market.
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Liberals usually decry or lampoon this outsize influence, and a cottage industry of groups and individuals—Media Matters chief among them—has built massive audiences tracing how the latest Fox & Friends thought bubble made its way to the Resolute Desk.
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Our thought bubble: As executives from both platforms have tackled this issue over the past two weeks, it has become clear that Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have fundamentally different views about how their platforms relate to the wider internet.
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Our thought bubble: Stents had already been considered unnecessary for many patients, and this study raises serious questions about whether invasive procedure like stents and bypass surgery should be used instead of basic drugs for stable patients with heart problems.
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My thought bubble: If we're going to make a serious attempt to tackle suicide and overdose rates, enforcing the requirement that mental health care be covered the same way physical health care is would be a good place to start.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Amy Harder: The oil spill is a stark and tragic reminder of the risk we face by using polluting and inflammable energy types, which are inherently more dangerous in extreme weather than, say, wind turbines.
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My thought bubble: The Chinese do need to make a deal, both because the trade conflict is exacerbating underlying problems in their economy and also because I hear Xi is quite concerned about the possibility of U.S. decoupling from China, especially in technology.
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Our thought bubble: With increased volatility in the stock market, and with the knowledge that a 12-month CD would have outperformed the S&P by a full 8 percentage points (!!!) in 2018, expect more managers to start singing the praises of cash.
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My thought bubble: It will likely be at least a decade before fully self-driving cars are capable of operating in all conditions with no human input, suggesting a gradual roll-out of driver assistance features might be the best way to go.
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Our thought bubble: Instagram, which has become one of the most successful social media companies in the world under Systrom and Krieger, is seen as something of a savior for Facebook, providing a steady source of growth as its original platform stumbled.
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That same WSJ story also excited markets by reporting... My thought bubble: Officials denied the report, but it jibes with what I have been hearing about continuing dissension within the U.S. side and an overall softening in the quest to get a deal.
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My thought bubble: Here's one of the subtle ways Trump is making things more complicated for climate advocates in some respects ... By moving hard-right on climate, he gives powerful industries an opening to show climate credentials by merely staying to his left.
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Our thought bubble: Google has long been building an "everything computer" in its cloud — one big machine that already handles most of the world's search, much of the world's video, a ton of advertising, a huge volume of email, and so on.
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Our thought bubble: What should have been a fairly straightforward vote for the prime minister — taking no deal off the table ahead of the March 29 deadline — turned dramatic when an amendment to rule out no deal permanently narrowly passed, over May's objections.
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Our thought bubble: Tech executives are getting a free pass when they head to Capitol Hill because they often find themselves defending their companies against unproven accusations of bias, instead of being pressed to discuss real, proven and persistent problems around content moderation.
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My thought bubble: While companies have long used share buybacks to pump their stock price and deliver for executives and shareholders, the TCJA is underpinning an increasingly distorted market and further increasing the divide between those at the top and everyone else.
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Our thought bubble: The addition of sophisticated photo-editing features and the ability to create longer videos is part of Snap's strategic market pivot from being a self-proclaimed "photo-sharing" company in 2012 to a self-proclaimed "camera company" in 2016.
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Our thought bubble: There's going to be a lot more premium video inventory on the major platforms for marketers, and the quality of the content, as well as mobile and digital TV delivery, will be a big part of what drives buys.
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My thought bubble: The efforts show the aggressive lengths companies are going trying to survive in a hyper-competitive electricity market while also seeking to take advantage of President Trump's vows to boost coal and nuclear power, which has Republican backing in Congress.
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A thought bubble: The less-than-full recovery for white men — including stubbornly flat wages year after year — helps explain the Trump campaign's success with its anti-immigrant message, and why the administration is pushing policies like a crackdown on affirmative action.
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Thought bubble from Axios chief design officer Alexis Lloyd: Think of stories on a spectrum of digital media forms, with linear, deep focus at one end (traditional video) and nonlinear, less focused browsing at the other (any news feed or social stream).
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The mix of humans, partnerships and algorithms makes it more like Apple News than Google News, which has relied almost exclusively on algorithms Our thought bubble: Microsoft's efforts could be bolstered by its Windows product, which reaches a significant number of desktop users.
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Thought bubble: As Axios' Steve LeVine noted yesterday, Trump's talk with Salman put the U.S. back in the pre-shale age, when presidents routinely went to the Saudis asking and sometimes pleading for boosts or cuts in production for U.S. economic purposes.
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My thought bubble: The world's oil, natural gas and coal producers are, metaphorically speaking, encircling a bunch of chairs, and as the world tightens its grip on heat-trapping emissions, the use of these fuels drops — and so does the number of chairs.
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The Disney chief's face darkens in the Happiest Place on Earth, and I see the thought bubble about what he wants to say about the president sending the stock market tumbling with his volatile trade war with China and ordering C.E.O.s about.
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Our thought bubble: It's hard to understand how top executives wouldn't know that a firm was being paid by the company for months to conduct opposition research and manage press strategy around the Russian election interference scandal while Sandberg was testifying before Congress last September.
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My thought bubble: Biden may have an incentive to avoid running left on climate because: He's clearly making a big play for labor's support, and authors of the Green New Deal didn't corral backing from the national AFL-CIO, which has criticized the plan.
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My thought bubble: The U.K. has been on the fence about formally banning Huawei products, saying they might be able to mitigate espionage attempts using technology, but this report would be a fine excuse for Her Majesty's Government to take up the U.S. line.
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Thought bubble from Axios' Caitlin Owens: All 10 may not support abolishing private insurance, but the fact that they all support providing health insurance to undocumented immigrants shows how far left the party has shifted in the 10 years since the ACA was passed.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: This record is a clear warning to public health officials as well as the leaders of social media and e-commerce companies that they need to do more to communicate the safety and effectiveness of the MMR vaccine.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Steve LeVine joins me in saying that after decades of shearing off layers of workers at the bottom of the pyramid, automation is bubbling up into management, threatening middle-ranking jobs and, eventually, officers on top of the corporate ladder.
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Our thought bubble: Given the strong signals that OPEC and Russia will agree to higher output next week, it's possible that Trump's comment is a Twitter-age example of an age-old Washington tactic — taking political credit for something that's going to happen anyway.
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Our thought bubble: One of the main reasons why an El Niño event is relevant right now is that they tend to increase the amount of heat released from the oceans into the atmosphere, thereby providing a natural boost to human-caused global warming.
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Our thought bubble: As Axios noted previously, while Cheddar's exact audience numbers are unknown, it's hoping a wide array of video distribution partners will help broaden its reach amongst younger generations that are "cutting the cord," or ditching their cable packages for cheaper, digital bundles.
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But if you take the examples of this past weekend — Rhode Island's brief experiment with a "papers, please" style of public health enforcement, coupled with Trump's terrifying thought bubble of locking tens of millions of Americans in place — there's reason to be concerned right now.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Jonathan Swan: Unless former national security adviser John Bolton does a last minute reversal and voluntarily testifies — a scenario that appears implausible — Sondland will be the witness who serves as the test case of the White House's theory of impeachment.
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Our thought bubble: The public relations fallout from reports that fake news may have contributed to the surprise 2016 victory of Donald Trump spooked Big Tech, inspiring the companies to make fundamental changes in how they think about news ahead of the next election.
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Our thought bubble: Zuckerberg and company are embarking on a grand experiment in a new kind of online community governance structure that draws some of its heritage from legal systems, some from the business world, and some from the traditions of the internet itself.
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The tiny Palm phone also has a big endorsement via Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry helping launch the device, in an exclusive deal with Verizon in the U.S. Our thought bubble: If you think that sounds a bit like the Apple Watch, you aren't alone.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Amy Harder: This shows that while climate change has risen in political prominence, there are limits to what the broader party is willing to do in response to the more liberal Democrats Other candidates who support a climate-change debate: Sen.
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Here's what you need to know: $3.6 trillion in total spending reductions over 10 years Includes $4.33 trillion in savings from "mandatory" spending Biggest savings: More than $800 billion from health care Balances the budget in 10 years Our thought bubble: Presidential budgets are aspirational political documents.
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Thought bubble: This seems obvious, but: given that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke created a messy situation with his abrupt announcement that Florida was off the table for offshore leasing, not to mention the Trump administration's messy rollout of multiple policies, nothing can be taken for granted.
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Our thought bubble: While Mueller's indictment did not touch on the commercial incentives for bad actors to use some platforms over others, it's becoming obvious that gaming social engagement was a part of the Russian's strategy and will be something Facebook will need to address moving forward.
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Our thought bubble: Axios' Mike Allen reports that Scaramucci is an ally of Trump's nationalist adviser, Steve Bannon, but Scaramucci is also one of the most well-connected members of the Wall Street establishment who supported Scott Walker and Jeb Bush before throwing in with Trump.
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Our thought bubble: There have been dozens of efforts over the past two years, on the right and the left, to create new internet shows that will help audiences distill fact from fiction online, but most have been unable to cut through and make any real impact.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Ben Geman: The attack is likely to push oil prices upward, perhaps significantly so, owing to concern about geopolitical risk — even if, as the Wall Street Journal reports, production is quickly restored and overall Saudi supplies to global markets aren't disrupted.
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Our thought bubble: Bolton shares the same lawyer with former NSC official Charles Kupperman, who filed a lawsuit last week asking a federal judge to rule on whether he should testify given that Trump has asserted he is immune from the congressional process and instructed him not to appear.
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What the shock of this week's election revealed was that up until a few nights ago, we'd been proceeding as though people outside of our liberal thought bubble didn't exist, and as though they didn't need to be involved in our calculus of how to build a better society.
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A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on reparations for individuals affected by slavery's legacy, the first time the issue will be given a House hearing since 2007, per the AP. Our thought bubble, via Axios' Alexi McCammond: Washington can no longer ignore this issue.
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Our thought bubble: YouTube brought in tons of celebrities and rising stars to tout how great the platform is at discovering talent and luring young users, but it barely addressed the major problems the platform is facing in keeping violent videos, misinformation and conspiracy theories off of its site.
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My thought bubble: I was anxious to try Super Cruise again after a moderately frightening experience more than a year ago when the car got confused and lurched to the left and back again when it couldn't find the lane markings as I began to drive across a bridge.
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Our thought bubble: There's an argument to be made that this bill isn't the last chance, and members will decide to vote for the bill in hopes of making it better in conference — or just in hopes that a future Congress acts to keep any tax increases from happening.
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Our thought bubble: If the White House indeed plows ahead with the executive order this week (and it has been pushed back before), it shows they're not worried about the fallout from the EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's high-profile comments Thursday disagreeing that carbon dioxide emissions are driving global warming.
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Our thought bubble, from Axios' Sara Fischer: Analysts don't expect Sony to bow to Third Point's pressure to sell Sony Pictures this time around, especially given that the firm will have even less leverage now than it did when it first pushed the Japanese giant to sell Sony Pictures in 2014.
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They are being announced just as the company detailed plans to repatriate $250 billion in cash and invest more in the U.S. Our thought bubble: The moves follow the recent tax overhaul, but give no credit to Trump or the Republican-led Congress, irking some on that side of the aisle.
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Thought bubble, via tech editor Scott Rosenberg: Apple's warning, while rare and a temporary shock to its shares, is probably more alarming for the wider world, since Apple's visibility into what is actually happening in China is likely to be more reliable than more official info on the state of Chinese economy.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: The protests on Friday are the largest and most widespread demonstrations on this issue since the run-up to the Paris Climate Summit in 2014 and 2015, and illustrate that young people feel a sense of urgency on this issue that those in power have lacked.
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My thought bubble: In one statement, the president has made clear to the Chinese that he can intervene in U.S. criminal matters, has shown that the U.S. judiciary is not really independent, and has possibly undermined the U.S. government's campaign (see next item) to block Huawei from 5G networks around the world.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Stef Kight: Many in the administration and conservative circles have distrusted McAleenan's commitment to Trump's immigration agenda — despite significant declines in border numbers and McAleenan's role in implementing several big immigration policies, such as the recently blocked public charge rule and asylum deals with Central American nations.
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Our thought bubble: We could end up with an encryption law for the 2020s that mandates some kind of updated Clipper Chip (likely via software rather than hardware) — not because anyone thinks it will work, but because lawmakers and voters of both parties have lost trust in the tech companies that oppose it.
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Our thought bubble: Mulvaney is known as a deficit hawk, but he says he's planning to work within the constraints the president has set out (no entitlement cuts, infrastructure and military spending on the rise), so it won't be easy to cut spending and eliminate the debt to the degree he might otherwise like.
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What they're saying: Acton's comments, meanwhile, provoked a host of reactions, including a strong rebuke from Facebook's David Marcus, who stressed he was speaking for himself, not the company: Andreessen Horowitz' Benedict Evans offered a similar criticism: Our thought bubble: Yes, all the sniping between members of Silicon Valley's wealthy founder class is entertaining.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Joe Uchill: While it's easy to try and draw conclusions based on two data points about Toyota's security — and whether they have been targeted by the same actor multiple times — multiple breaches could just be a function of the company being a large multinational firm attractive to many different hackers.
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Our thought bubble via Axios' Amy Harder: If it's true the bill didn't even have enough Democrat support, it's the latest evidence that big climate policy doesn't necessarily have broad approval within a party that generally espouses action on climate change (to say nothing of the Republicans fleeing the state to avoid voting on it).
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But a new book, due to be launched in November at the Thought Bubble comics festival in Leeds, focuses exclusively on "possible, plausible low-carbon transitions to a sustainable world" where almost all energy is renewable, economic systems take into account impacts on the environment, and "we're not buying more and more", McKay said.
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Another poster depicted ways to avoid infection, with big red Xs over drawings of dangerous situations representing the "don'ts": a pair of people carrying a corpse; a family weeping and embracing a deceased loved one; a frying pan filled with flesh, which a thought bubble indicated came from a bat, a squirrel or a monkey.
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Our thought bubble: The contemporary PRC brand of Marxism and Communism is far removed from the original visions, but the CCP believes it has the right, the power and ability to evolve those ideas to fit the times, an effort led by a cadre of theoretical gymnasts who would put Nadia Comăneci to shame.
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All of the play's live action occurs behind a scrim, on which a frenetic, diaphanous landscape of memories is projected, like a poetic thought bubble hovering over the academic as she meticulously calculates her personality, her consumption of intellectual capital, and the people with whom she interacts in a painstaking portrait of self-invention.
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My thought bubble: This move certainly looks related to the crackdown against labor activists and students, and is another sign that the political atmosphere will likely tighten even more (at least from now until June 5 after we have safely passed the 100th anniversary of the May 4 movement and the 30th anniversary of June 4).
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SimilarWeb VP Nitzan Tamari tells Axios that the money will be used to scale their data analytics offerings and build their brand in the U.S. Our thought bubble: There's been a lot of talk about the major players in the media measurement space not being economically incentivized to clean up their data with more sophisticated methodologies.
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" But here's what I imagine the thought bubble in their head read: "Fuckfuckfuck — now I have to become a reality show star in a new episode of 'The Apprentice: Nerd Edition,' bowing and scraping to that luddite Trump, who will probably simultaneously berate us in person and bully us on Twitter later with a lot of poop emoticons.
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Our thought bubble: Even though a lot of tech and telecom companies say it's in their best interest to be transparent with customers about how their data is used, most people don't have a way to fully understand how their data is being pieced together and what these companies really know about them as a result.
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Our thought bubble: This doesn't necessarily mean that Facebook doesn't have a handful of very engaged users — it said that its daily visitors to Watch spend more than 20 minutes with the service per day — but it means that the measurement criteria is still too opaque for ad buyers at big brands to be able to buy Watch ads with the same confidence they buy TV ads.
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Why it matters: The signals from this meeting suggest, among other things, increased efforts to stimulate the economy and work out a trade deal with the U.S. Caixin has the details — Top Economic Meeting Ends With Pledges of 'Greater' Tax Cuts, 'Reasonably Ample' Liquidity: My thought bubble: The Chinese economy is struggling, the debt mess is unresolved and the impact from the U.S. tariffs has barely begun.
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What we're hearing: From the White House statement... The Wall Street Journal reports more detail from people briefed on the talks... My thought bubble: The idea that Beijing is unable to move on the U.S. requests, most made 9 months or even years ago, and that another 60 days will be enough time for them, seems to go against the idea of seeking truth from fact.
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In the interview, Trump said May "had ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy" and said any possible trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. would be wrecked by May's strategy of keeping close ties to the EU. Thought bubble, from Axios' Jonathan Swan in London: This is literally the exact opposite of what the Brits were hoping for from this trip.
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Speaking at the climate talks in Poland, she shamed negotiators there for not acting boldly: What's happening: Our thought bubble, per Axios' Andrew Freedman: The protests on Friday are the largest and most widespread demonstrations on this issue since the run-up to the Paris Climate Summit in 2014 and 2015, and show that young people feel a sense of urgency on this issue that those in power have lacked.
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Trump may have already decreased the likelihood Liu will return to D.C. by tweeting on Thursday: My thought bubble: It's going to take a lot of backchannel reassurances and promises to get Liu back to D.C. The Chinese understand that there's disagreement among Trump's top advisers and Liu has been humiliated on two recent trips to D.C. Liu did not get even a handshake with Trump when he came to D.C. in early March.
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Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the U.S., agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday worth up to $700 million — with $425 million going directly to 150 million affected consumers — for its 2017 data breach, per AP. Our thought bubble, via Axios' Joe Uchill: $700 million is no small payment for any company, but it does break out to less than $5 for each affected consumer.
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Our thought bubble from Axios' Andrew Freedman: Meteorologists see warning signs flashing red during the next several days as a strong jet stream disturbance brings the ingredients necessary for round after round of severe weather to the Central U.S. In addition to tornadoes, there are major flash flooding concerns given the already water-logged ground in this region, and up to a foot of rain likely in some locations during the next 7 days.
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Thought bubble: via Axios' Steve LeVine, a longtime Tesla-watcher... This is Elon going on two streams, both meant to change the subject and project normalcy after his bizarre recent weeks: In one stream is a pep talk and the announcement of a fistful of senior-level promotions, aimed at his employees and Wall Street, in that order; in the other, directed at both audiences, is the suggestion to ignore all of his hijinx, and the reaction to it.
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Five Nights at Freddy's Hitman Sniper Terraria Reigns Tiny Wings Top Free iPad Apps: (Our thought bubble: Video apps dominated the list, not surprisingly.) YouTube: Watch Listen Stream Netflix Facebook Messenger Google Chrome Amazon Prime Video Gmail - Email by Google YouTube Kids Amazon – Shopping made easy Spotify Music Pandora Music The Calculator The Weather Channel App for iPad – best local forecast radar map and storm tracking Google Docs Google Hulu: Watch TV Shows & Movies Amazon Kindle Google Maps - GPS Navigation Google Drive Microsoft Word Top Paid iPad Apps: (Our thought bubble: Here it was kids games that dominated, telling you something about iPad demographics, with children's app developer Toca Boca making up nearly half the list.) Procreate Notability Toca Life: Hospital Toca Hair Salon 22016 GoodNotes 22017 Toca Life: Stable Duet Display Toca Lab: Elements Toca Kitchen 22016 XtraMath Toca Life: Farm Toca Life: Office PDF Expert by Readdle Amaziograph Notepad+ Pro Toca Life: Vacation Pixelmator GoodReader - PDF Reader Annotator and File Manager Affinity Photo Toca Life: City Top Free iPad Games: Super Mario Run ROBLOX Rolling Sky Word Cookies!
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Almost half of adults ages 18-44 agree that the media treats police unfairly, while only 36% of those 45+ agree Police from bigger agencies are more likely to believe they are mistreated by the press and rank and file officers and sergeants are almost twice as likely to say they are mistreated by the media than administrators Our thought bubble: Media coverage of police activity is likely to evolve given the new Administration's position on the role of law enforcement.
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What they're saying: On Tuesday, the Party convened a gathering at the anniversary at which Xi Jinping urged patriotism among youth, striving for brighter China (Xinhua): My thought bubble: Be wary of underestimating how many believe in the patriotic and increasingly jingoistic propaganda and Xi's repeated claims that China is closer than it has ever been to national rejuvenation, or of how many sycophants and opportunists there are in a country as large as China which see safety and opportunity in embracing the Party line.
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Snapchat hadn't updated their guidelines since they launched their Discovery channel in a much different media environment two years ago They now have new technological features that they want to make available to better serve their audience and publishers, like the aforementioned "age-gating" tool They take information quality seriously, and amid a fake news climate, they've added more guidance to their partners about what they consider to be misleading Our thought bubble: Snapchat was selective from the start about the partners they allowed to distribute content on their site.
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Walden raised multiple areas for possible regulation: Liability for online platforms, which the House addressed Tuesday by passing a bill that allows victims of sex trafficking to sue web platforms that knowingly facilitated the crime Digital political advertisements of the sort that Russian operatives bought during the 2016 election Privacy as it related to the massive tranches of data collected by online platforms Net neutrality, which Walden suggested could be applied to platforms as well as telecom companies Our thought bubble: While Walden was cautious in announcing any specific action, this is striking talk coming from a pro-industry Republican with close ties to House leadership.
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October 2016: Opens API platform to programmatic bidding October 2016: Reports of moving from revenue share deal between publishers on Discover to upfront content license fee model November 23: Begins selling new camera glasses, Spectacles, through pop-up vending machines November 2016: Files for its IPO December 2017: Extends third-party measurement verification to select countries in Europe January 2017: Expands self-serving advertising platform, its Snapchat Partners API, to all brands January 2017: Seeks commitment deals up to $200 million from ad agencies January 2017: Announces partnership with Oracle Data Cloud to give advertisers access to user data on offline purchases, like Facebook and Instagram January 2017: Adds search function, which could eventually be monetized through search-based advertising February 2017: Expands QR code reach to allow users to reach brand's websites February 2017: Publicly files IPO paperwork Our thought bubble: Experts predict Snapchat's investments will pay off next year.
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Apple also released its top 20 for other categories, including paid apps, free and paid games as well as leaders in podcasts, music, movies, TV shows and books: Top Free iPhone Apps: Bitmoji Snapchat YouTube: Watch Listen Stream Messenger Instagram Facebook Google Maps - GPS Navigation Netflix Spotify Music Uber Gmail - Email by Google Pandora Music Amazon – Shopping made easy WhatsApp Messenger Wish - Shopping Made Fun Twitter SoundCloud - Music & Audio Google Chrome Waze Navigation & Live Traffic Lyft Top Paid iPhone Apps: (Our thought bubble: This shows the power of subscriptions, validating the bet made by Lightricks, the maker of photo editing apps Facetune, and Enlight) Facetune Tabs & Chords - learn and play HotSchedules Enlight 7 Minute Workout Challenge Videoshop - Video Editor Dark Sky Weather Sky Guide AR Full Fitness : Exercise Workout Trainer Word Swag - Cool fonts & typography generator iScanner - PDF Document Scanner App Scanner Pro by Readdle Afterlight The Wonder Weeks NOAA Radar Pro – Weather Alerts & Forecast Toca Hair Salon 23 LightX Scanner for Me + OCR 1 Second Everyday: Video Diary Fontmania - Add Artworks & Text to Your Photos!
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