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Nate Silver is best known for his numbers. A statistician who founded the website FiveThirtyEight (regrettably shuttered by ABC), he now writes on Substack where he has broadened the topics he addresses.

This week he wrote from the heart about the Charlie Kirk murder and its aftermath. It was a message that a lot of people needed to hear prior to Sept. 10.

Its essence was this: You don’t have to say something about every terrible thing that happens.

Silver clarified that he wasn’t talking about people whose job is to comment on terrible things, such as opinion journalists. Instead he was talking about those who use social

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