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Someone could write an entertainingly snarky analysis of what the shifting patterns of MacArthur winners tell us about how bien pensant liberals have reimagined the meaning of genius over the years.
@jasonintrator Isn’t that literally how disciplinary communities are defined?
The US command chain from the Pentagon down should be relieved in deserved disgrace esp McKenzie👇
"Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, sat across from Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and showed him a map with a circle around Kabul"
https://t.co/JYMQuo19Qb
This alone should be grounds for dismissal, no? https://t.co/AX5M5wQVjZ
The three causes of China’s power outages – SupChina https://t.co/mVCGEY6aKb
‘Who is capable of acting against Shiva? The Lord Shiva will protect us from fear resulting as a result of the asuras. There is no other refuge in the world. Shiva is affectionate towards his devotees’, writes @bibekdebroy https://t.co/aeZxcnqn7O https://t.co/2n6ZijwmVY
I write in @the_hindu that "If AUKUS overshadows the enthusiasm around the Quad, it would be disadvantageous to India’s interests in the Indo-Pacific. The Quad faces the potential challenge of becoming a talking shop without an actionable mandate."
https://t.co/Ch9QVEgSyQ https://t.co/m8J0sF24sQ
What is important to note is that closer defence ties with the US were apparently conditional on the deal
RT @NewStatesman: This week's cover: @MacaesBruno on why tech billionaires are the new revolutionaries.
Plus, @stephenkb on Labour's unci…
@KoriSchake @USNatArchives Didn’t Cheney blame WH coffee largesse for his heart attack? Remember reading it
Not sure my teenage self - going to the British Council in Porto to learn English reading the @NewStatesman - would have believed you if you told him one day he would write the cover story
In Toxa in Spain to discuss the future of the West. From here it doesn’t look so bad https://t.co/nmA5Bo5uqc
“I see Covid as a sort of warm-up,” said Mr Macaes.
“I think the climate emergency will soon look similar to Covid in the reactions; in the public measures that we’ll be forced to take; in the conflict, social and political, that it will bring about. https://t.co/B9Uyl236vN
RT @axios: Biden sold his strategy for leaving Afghanistan on uniformity of support.
Today, the people in uniform contradicted him, with J…
If you ask me would Covid in the US had been better without Trump, I feel only now for the first time is Covid in the US consistently worse than its European peers and thus only now can you actively try to draw a link between political failure and the severity of the pandemic
@MPascalH I would be open to opposite arguments. Hence the “no?”
Notice how it quotes Chinese academics and media reports with no awareness of the biases this contains
I read this and honestly my reaction is to be alarmed at the signals US intelligence was picking up. If as good as signals it picked up in Afghanistan, we should all run for cover
https://t.co/XfpVC1tAyf
RT @fravel: Remarkable document just released by DoD, “General Milley's Engagements with the People's Liberation Army Leaders” [PDF] https:…
The Israeli government now gets involved in who teaches courses at ..
University of North Carolina https://t.co/yPEphjoVt3
Rumours that France may ask for Australia’s Eurovision ban…
Real Madrid just lost at home to Transnistrian giant Sheriff
@BrunoTertrais So it’s independence in reference to whom?
@BrunoTertrais "C'est avec le même pragmatisme et la même lucidité pour notre indépendance que nous devons, en tant qu'Européens, prendre notre part dans notre propre protection"
@BrunoTertrais Seems to be a summary, but not a deceptive one reading the actual quotes
RT @bctallis: As EH Carr noted, it’s folly to confuse your national interest with a historical mission.
It’s even worse to confuse someth…
He dates the problem to the Pivot to Asia — which is not entirely wrong
Macron has found his historical mission. First two years after 2017 it was a fiscal union. Then for another two years until 2021reforming Islam. The third attempt is “independence from the US”. More realistic at least https://t.co/z9LT9OqCJ9
RT @Meghann_MT: Milley says he's talking to the media two, three, four times a week. Hm.
- You’re fired. Pick up your things and leave
- My granddad didn't get a choice to leave at Iwo Jima. Those kids at Abbey Gate didn't get a chance to leave. I am not leaving
Milley just threw Biden under the bus. What a hearing this has been. Every minute a stunner
https://t.co/cjO4b5QsGl
Milley says both that his call to Chinese counterpart was perfectly normal and that the situation was completely exceptional
There’s no point in talking about decoupling,” Raimondo told reporters on Monday. “As the president has said, we have no interest in a cold war with China. It’s too big of an economy — we want access to their economy, they want access to our economy”.
https://t.co/HLbTlCG8LS
Can’t understand how France thinks this is compatible with European strategic autonomy. https://t.co/ttQxmc0TOh
RT @robfox45: Terrific discussion led by @londonvinjamuri on Covid and Geopolitics , contributions from @MacaesBruno and @HelenHet20 on syn…
Milley is everyday in the news — with increasingly unhinged comments and ideas. Is this deemed appropriate for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs? https://t.co/K3eDs1BwK3
People asking why I say Australia unreliable. Well, if you sign a strategic agreement critical for your security over the rest of the century and four years later decide a completely different agreement is better, “unreliable” is charitable
It supports the French reaction: UK very accessory, Australia not reliable, US no longer has a concept of a transatlantic community
Finally in print the real reason for Aukus
https://t.co/WaCjq4EOiA https://t.co/wybC2sRmVY
@shetlerjones You need a coherent framework, can’t decide day to day. The EU has it, the US or UK not at all
This is the EU approach (which the US keeps attacking) — and fully developed in the EU as opposed to the US, where it will be “figured out” https://t.co/hQe4PlTdew
@MacaesBruno George Costanza could have used that one.
This old Dune boardgame sounds wild. https://t.co/9SbccOCiK7
Anyone ever play it? @doctorow?
Great piece @a_greenberg (Just bought Sandworm too)
Whereas in Russia & Ukraine, where feminist dissent is repressed & the few activists often adopt extreme tactics (Pussy Riot & FEMEN), many women dont relate
Priests & politicians reinforce these stereotypes, telling everyone ‘feminists’ are ugly, aggressive, man-hating lesbians
@BrankoMilan @blair_fix Agree 100%. My point is that logs don't play much of a role as an obstacle.
"For sure, Marx thought that wages were unlikely to be high (even if he admitted that they can increase with development), but even with high wages, you do have exploitation. Exploitation disappears only if profits are zero, at which point capitalism pretty much disappears too." https://t.co/9zUJAQNF1b
"It’s very rare that “inequality” appears in Marx's writing. Moreover, and this is more of a philosophical issue, in Marx’s critique of capitalism, inequality is not the main or even an important reason for his critique." https://t.co/9zUJAQNF1b
On Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo & Marx. https://t.co/N03ZTnoirF
RT @BrankoMilan: Being against inequality has acquired a ritualistic or symbolic character. You just say that you are against inequality an…
RT @GGrimalda: Differences in country-level #inequality worldwide correlate with people's #preferences over distribution #fairness & #belie…
RT @CardiffGarcia: Q&A preview of the forthcoming book by @BrankoMilan on how Quesnay, Smith, Marx, and Ricardo thought about income and we…
The same people who for two decades have been writing how high inequality is in China, now when Xi tries to do something about it say, it is wrong and you cannot support Xi because he is an autocrat.
Okay: so do we discuss inequality or we discuss autocrats?
@IShoikhedbrod @Permanentkritik @readeroftweets4 Looks interesting (except that I cannot access it).
@voss_59 Good point: did not know that Petty & Juglar were doctors.
So one is puzzled: should we just keep on bewailing high inequality and never do anything--because whatever you do (yes!) it's going to affect somebody.
Go back to the ritual:
"I denounce thou, high inequality!"
if it goes after corruption, it is political. If it bans for-profit tutoring, it will change nothing.
Same in the US. If Facebook or Google are broken up, the Chinese will take them over. If tax rates on capital are increased, nobody will invest.
Like in Christianity, when you were supposed to ritualistically denounce the devil. You do it & everything is the same.
But when somebody tries to check inequality, there are immediately problems. If China goes against Alibaba & Tencent, that's bad for innovation.
Being against inequality has acquired a ritualistic or symbolic character. You just say that you are against inequality and so long as nobody does anything about it you can continue saying you are against. Life goes on as before.
@MilesCorak Yes, it does. But it is not the "inequality" we study today which is between persons; it is inequality (largely) between classes that is automatically refleced into one's position in income distribution.
"It is not often realized how critical Adam Smith was re. capitalists' political influence. The reason: that's the only class whose income (profit) decreases w/ development. So they have no incentive to be pro-development." https://t.co/9zUJAQNF1b
"But if capitalists win [in Ricardo], not only will the economy grow, but inequality will be reduced b/c capitalists would gain vs the landlords who are by far the richest class. There is no trade-off between growth and equality. Both improve." https://t.co/9zUJAQNF1b
"When Quesnay says that the wealth of the country is reflected in the wealth of ordinary people, it totally changes the objective of economics. That, of course, continues and gets amplified with Smith." https://t.co/9zUJAQNF1b
RT @AntheaERoberts: We will be posting some additional videos in the coming week, including a discussion with @paulkrugman @BrankoMilan and…
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches
by N Deutscher and B Mazumder
"Uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 different mobility measures."
https://t.co/eykvcSnKkw
Pathways Toward Inclusive Income Growth
by Z Patolin & @JanetGornick
"introduces the concept of national growth profiles, the additive contribution of changes in taxes, transfers etc. to changes in income distribution"
https://t.co/7U33msddux
A brief review of new @stone_lis Working Papers.
The Great Gatsby Curve
by @sndurlauf, A Kourtellos & Chih Ming Tan
"The paper provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work on the Great Gatsby Curve."
https://t.co/F5VimIlWFW
@RodZeidan @blair_fix I think Marx was not interested in the relationship that preoccupied Pareto; he did not even think of it (or of inter-personal inequality). So he missed it because he thought that it was not important.
RT @JanetGornick: Want an advanced peek at @BrankoMilan's next book? Voila!
"How is income inequality or wealth inequality seen in their…
In @JacobinItalia, a nice review of "Capitalism, Alone" (since published in Italian translation by Laterza) by @MarcoRanaldi_
https://t.co/4NDV1Pp4Vd
RT @stone_lis: How did Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, & Marx see inequality in their time? @BrankoMilan discusses the founders of political econo…
Responding to the challenge of modernization https://t.co/uhezwNaDBS
RT @ChinaDaily: Tourists visit a winery of Helan Mountain in Ningxia. Universally recognized as a perfect area to grow wine grapes, winemak…
Dagens must read - om #ulighed. Fantastisk god og nuanceret artikel. Eneste lille tilføjelse herfra; Kina har gjort den globale ulighed mindre i mange år, men vil faktisk snart bidrage til at øge uligheden igen som @BrankoMilan her skriver: https://t.co/9dyb73Hs2x https://t.co/BNmaoVinzm
And the exact same thing goes for climate change... https://t.co/ZerT6uQvFa
Want an advanced peek at @BrankoMilan's next book? Voila!
"How is income inequality or wealth inequality seen in their work? Where does it come from? What is the main reason for inequality? Will more advanced societies be more unequal or less? These are the topics I discuss." https://t.co/OFoHeiYBn8
“At some point, China’s leaders must confront this tradeoff: sustainable economic efficiency and political omnipotence do not go hand in hand.” Read Daniel H. Rosen on how Xi’s record of failed reform will force an economic reckoning in China:
https://t.co/upnHDqW2qC
If you are worried about labor shortages you should be for this. https://t.co/lx3Wkf01z3
@M_C_Klein @TheStalwart @tracyalloway If there is a running theme through French history it is that France will throw a hard money wrench into a global monetary order to spite the Anglo-Americans -- often with good reason but without articulating it clearly-- and then get hit the hardest by the consequences.
@M_C_Klein @TheStalwart @tracyalloway And how deeply those hard money policies are tied in with French geopolitical machinations vis a vis the United States and Britain. Timely!
The criminals ruling Venezuela will not participate in their own ruin, write @MoisesNaim and @fp_toro. What can the international community do to help end the country’s unending nightmare?
https://t.co/0XQmPYfO1L
The most dystopian cyberpunk theories of "viral media" barely anticipate the greed-addled cynicism on display here. Bleak. https://t.co/RxTXJXSnnR
summoning circle, hope this works
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@nwrdcmfrt @athenogenes @joolsd I don't want to imply I'm super wedded to developmentalism as a model here (or at least what its taken to imply) but all capitalist development has been experienced as both demolition and new production
@joolsd @athenogenes Oh yeah def agree, thats what I meant to hint at
@dcgolden @athenogenes @joolsd I just mean at the level of, what is the basic problem: getting rid of carbon intensive technologies.
But this is a great point, theres a institutional problem here
@athenogenes @joolsd Of course theres also a whole lot of other important stuff not captured by developmentalism. ie. making that transition just, rethinking our relationship to our environments, rethinking transportation and human settlement patterns, etc
@athenogenes I mean surely someone was running around talking about the American System and Henry Clay (or even just Progressivism) as a model for New Dealism, but yeah the level of reverence and reference to 30s/40s policy is on its own level I think
Only cheery thoughts, people, only cheery thoughts https://t.co/6DXKbMBqZO
@profmusgrave This calls for a fun* infographic, as it varies so much by state (and maybe by city).
*not actually that fun
Melania Trump is a garbage human being who enabled her garbage husband on multiple occasions… but this is a boss move and I would want to do the exact same thing. https://t.co/VWYSv5gPz8 https://t.co/THDM5XuNys
This is key. People aren't moved by granular policy details. Making the state work in an effective, transparent way builds support for more social welfare policy. All this means testing stuff is just about inter-party positioning. https://t.co/P0OkbyYGbV
very fun to watch congress struggle to resolve a convoluted process that only exists because that same congress has decided that passing stuff on a simple majority vote is too spicy
why didn't they stop buying avocado toast? https://t.co/Zl2nRdCR35
Crime wave in the US, what crime wave in the US? Just right-wing fake news, bourgeois hysteria, & white racism. Everyone knows that. Move along, nothing to see here
Inside the San Francisco Bay Area’s pandemic murder surge: ‘No one knows this pain but us’ https://t.co/9DmAahCzjH
Inside the San Francisco Bay Area’s pandemic murder surge: ‘No one knows this pain but us’ https://t.co/9DmAahCzjH
👇👇👇China AI Ethics & Governance norms announced. This is a very succinct & broad description of norms including bold framing on human accountability for AI and principles/values in 5 areas. New generation references the 2017 AI dev plan for 2030 to lead globally https://t.co/A51mMwaidr
group chat in disarray at news of Mom (🐍🐍) yelling at Dad (JPow)
@dmk1793 @jfeldman_epi Thins thing you think is good? It's bad, actually.
@conorsen If policymakers don’t screw up this cycle firms are going to learn how to hire and train workers, raise prices, and invest in productivity enhancing capex
@kcjohnson9 @ACLU The ACLU being against due process for the accused is really something. Even more than retreating from aggressive 1A advocacy as they did a lot to reinforce these rights
Either they have changed or their social media person doesn’t understand the mission of the ACLU
Perspective | China’s weak, counterproductive hostage-taking diplomacy. https://t.co/ljp3pgKPQ5
Today @dandrezner said, “One could certainly argue that Australia should be pushing vaccinations harder and lockdowns with less vehemence. That said, Australia is decidedly freer than communist China right now and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. https://t.co/bHzES2pjYM
I mean calling Australia dictatorial seems awfully hyperbolic and wrong but so long as you say it with confidence you’ll be paid handsomely by Florida taxpayers, so 🤷♂️. https://t.co/BmrRtwOJr9
Today, like most days in 2021, is a day to be thankful that I no longer need to curate a #ToddlerinChief thread. https://t.co/VWYSv5gPz8 https://t.co/FKnAVDKjAh
So that mysterious 2019 Trump visit to Walter Reed was for a routine colonoscopy? https://t.co/VWYSv5gPz8
Folks, the anecdotes change but the underlying theme is constant: Trump acts like a petulant toddler, and that’s a bad person to be the commander-in-chief. https://t.co/LaoFWHBQNS
Just FYI I have some thoughts about China’s own brand of coercive diplomacy: https://t.co/dIMORSPp2M. Let us know if Hua has any comment! https://t.co/Krc8gWPd0l
This all started because you tweeted out a quote from your boss Governor DeSantis saying that maybe China was freer than Australia right now. Saying China is as free as Australia right now is one hell of a claim. https://t.co/ON8EqHi8mj
BREAKING: A public relations spokesperson for Governor DeSantis knows nothing about China, and — fittingly for a DeSantis staffer — has chosen her hill to die on. https://t.co/4gVsiLyvLZ
E.U. and U.S. try to forge closer alliance on trade and tech after recent discord https://t.co/dYLmZ30HNQ
This is what happens when people don't read my books. https://t.co/QQ8spRUO5E https://t.co/o9T5HbkF3m
RT @smotus: Not pursuing a particular legislative tactic is not the reason young people are skeptical of government.
RT @joshtpm: it's just the regular process of Republicans threatening to light the country on fire if they don't get their way. I mean, hap…
RT @JuliaDavisNews: During that meeting, Stephanie Grisham listened to Fiona Hill, Trump’s top adviser on Russia who later became an impeac…
RT @glcarlstrom: This is an excellent answer grounded in a foundational bit of civics that often gets lost and ignored in American politica…
RT @AmritaNarlikar: And now in English, as requested by some of you lovely Tweeps😊🙏 https://t.co/sgoLAHS8vf
RT @daveweigel: It's the most wonderful time of the year https://t.co/v3DLanZ7D3
RT @jtlevy: CPAC Is Going to Hungary, Never Mind Viktor Orban’s Attacks on Churches https://t.co/fVpBfBtgmz
👀 “Ms. Grisham says that a trip to North Korea inspired Mr. Trump to ask her to research ways the press could be permanently evicted from the James S. Brady Briefing Room.” https://t.co/6h1BbMxadU
RT @Redistrict: A few months ago, typical midterm backlash and adverse gerrymanders looked like roughly co-equal threats to Dems' House maj…
RT @IA_Forum: RT @ForeignAffairs: .@dandrezner discusses the problems created by the United States’ overreliance on sanctions and considers…
RT @Nolan_Mc: @dandrezner But he’s so full of crap, so no colonoscopy would be routine
Full disclosure: I wanted to talk with @anamariecox about the original “Fantasy Island” pilot for our “Schlock or Awe?” series, but it’s not streaming. So we talked about the FOX reboot instead and how network tv has changed in the last 40 years. https://t.co/wFtTIhYp7e
@MattWelch COVID deaths exceed murders by orders of magnitude, yes?
RT @MattWelch: Interesting juxtaposition. https://t.co/Ee1JRBE7fv
RT @AnnaMeierPS: Fellow glasses-wearing academics! I ordered a bunch of new masks for the fall term & they're great for living my best life…
RT @seungminkim: She saw Trump lean toward Putin that day and tell him: “Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes…
RT @AdamParkhomenko: I wanted to let this go but I wish the New York Times cared a fraction as much about a memo outlining a coup attempt a…
RT @MaxCRoser: Russia is now at the highest number of daily confirmed deaths since the start of the pandemic 21 months ago. https://t.co/o7…
RT @HaidiLun: Bloomberg scoop: creditors say Evergrande is on the hook for a $260m dollar bond due Sunday. The note is issued by Jumbo Fort…
RT @jeannasmialek: Dallas Fed President Kaplan follows Boston Fed’s Rosengren in retiring. Both announcements come in the wake of 2020 trad…
RT @nathanTbernard: Only one out of 2,200 state troopers actually quit over the vaccine mandate in Massachusetts so far. Not even dozens, j…
RT @SonnyBunch: Just had my phone incorrectly autocorrect “ducking” to “fucking,” which means I’ve won, I’ve finally broken its spirit. How…
RT @donaldcclarke: Good piece by @dandrezner pointing out that the Meng/Michaels deal is far from an untarnished victory for the Chinese go…
My thoughts on China’s hostage-taking strategy. https://t.co/Y5y6H1YUZY
RT @julianku: “I am not worried that China’s hostage-taking represents a strengthening of their bargaining position. I am worried that it r…
the funny thing about “sinema refuses to put up a number or counterproposal” is that last week (or the week before?) axios had that beat sweetener about how sinema was deep in the weeds, plugging numbers into her spreadsheets https://t.co/7QrublAKOH
drugs are too expensive to give to kids for free on halloween https://t.co/uETvGFue5W
specifically it is another form of “owning the libs” under the guise of anti-partisanship https://t.co/8eQTps4Ayc
@jdcmedlock It seems quite possible that it will play out differently, yes. But do we have evidence, beyond the popularity of Medicare and a couple of other non-means-tested programs?
when you read this imagine i’m doing a dennis miller impression
it’s not “accede to my demands” it’s “honor the agreement we made and which helped get your bill out of the senate” https://t.co/sShTSpJ90O
the idea that you could shame mcconnell — the most unrepentantly nihilistic legislative leader in living memory — could only occur to people with terminal senate “we’re all friends here” brain https://t.co/Ftah8eKhv4
@RottenInDenmark meanwhile, reactionary parents with real political power are trying to keep books about the civil rights movement out of elementary schools
I think this is exactly right. Either both bills pass or neither does, since the consequences of letting Sinema et al win this game are much worse than the consequences of not passing a glorified highway funding bill. https://t.co/LqZEuYn1a5
The fact that some disabled people need individual motorized transport does NOT mean that literally everything needs to be built around cars. That is one of those stupid "gotcha" false dichotomies that social media incentivizes but is just death to thought.
Advocates of walkable urbanism definitely need to be more clear on how they would provide mobility to the disabled. But at the same time, it makes me deeply tired when people say that advocating walkable urbanism or a car-free lifestyle is intrinsically ableist.
@mattyglesias What if things you write take a backseat to how you perform on Twitter.
@joshtpm i have come to the conclusion that she is a total narcissist who lives off of flattery and attention, and it is that flattery and attention — from republicans and chamber of commerce types — which is the biggest influence on her behavior
@rickhasen To me that's the most notable feature of the generational myth that got created in wake of Nov 2020: An entire political party and 10s of millions of Americans forgot how to lose gracefully.
@adamkotsko A lot of what makes urban landscapes dangerous to disabled people using mobility aids to get around is how much of our urban spaces are given over to motorists.
RT @Popehat: In America, these are the sorts of cockroaches that scuttle out when you suggest that people jailed upon being accused of crim…
@AbhiDhabi5 @fools_n_kings The Roanoke to DC line, for example, is one of the most trafficked lines on the entire Northeast Regional. The reason Virginia is investing in rail is because when they build it people use it.
@AbhiDhabi5 @fools_n_kings No, traffic is pretty straightforwardly a function of cars on the road. Also, I would spend some time reading about passenger rail usage in Virginia (it is very high) before passing judgment on whether a new line will be used.
RT @joshchafetz: so, this is a hell of an investigation https://t.co/09JQvdM1SC
RT @AdamSerwer: The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s n…
RT @JCWE1: Nina Silber asks what has changed in the field since the publication of Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992). She rev…
@RottenInDenmark anyway imperial nostalgia is a hell of a drug https://t.co/pzRcU3BrCj
@RottenInDenmark very reminiscent of the run-up to the iraq war
The Institute of the Black World was founded to carry forth MLK's radical legacy. Learning from its rise and decline are vital to the work of Black study in this century: https://t.co/l8wD5YD7Cs
“MLK was a student of the Black world. He was never walled off from the life-and-death struggles for Black survival or from its visions of transcendence. He learned from it, reflected on it, & expressed its movement continuously.” —@ajd_theory & @loggins__ https://t.co/l8wD5YUIu0
Nice to see Fisher having some fun while I'm in Canada https://t.co/TmhpLWv8Gm
@darth @hassankhan @molly_knight Gosh dangit we were supposed to be watching for this whose shift was it I want their gun and badge on my desk by the end of the day.
not in a silly way, guys
*JOHNSON: URGING PEOPLE TO FILL UP VEHICLES IN NORMAL WAY
@hassankhan My husband converted me to no tip sheet (just duvet - European style) and no extra pillows. It’s the best, and wish this for you and your future love
summoning circle, hope this works
future wife makes way more money than me, will accept throw pillows on the bed in this circumstance https://t.co/hSIZ5eEXT9
[Victory Alert] Two more of @cayimby's bills have now been signed into law by @GavinNewsom!
Thank you to every pro-housing voter, activist, and elected official working to make California a more affordable place to live 🏘️🏘️🏘️
@hassankhan Alright that's it hassan we getting you a wife, what's the budget
Unpopular opinion, but if you’ve only been to fancy and Ivy League schools your entire career or sui generis… Lucky you, and also sorry. You actually don’t understand what real people experience in life, work, and reality.
I used to do math tutoring for children of immigrant DV victims at a shelter in NY back in the early 2010s. One of those kids apparently started at Dartmouth this year.
Sometimes the world does end the right way up.
@hassankhan You don’t get to say what goes on the bed, padawan.
AB 602 (Grayson) reforms housing impact fees to make them more fair and transparent, while SB 478 (Wiener) directs cities to stop using land use “tricks” to block multi-family housing that is otherwise legal.
@hassankhan *monkey paw curls*
here is your throw pillow infested couch
Incentive structures are a policy choice. https://t.co/wuyYTN2Kpg
@theemilyaccount @NickatFP *scratches “the Emily account” off my list of wedding invites*
@theemilyaccount @NickatFP this is my price https://t.co/2bG2sIenj5
I’m a pretty well connected non-journo and I have 0 understanding of a) what’s happening and b) why democrats can’t just pass shit themselves https://t.co/JsiKPSTqb2
RT @summerbrennan: When I got Covid in 2020 and spent weeks in the hospital, it was harrowing. But it was nothing compared to what my famil…
@NickatFP If I come to your house and see that thing looking up at me I’m stepping on it
Not enough of you watched the below. Please note his original setup. https://t.co/6jFTbVj518
RT @mucha_carlos: We really are the worst. Just spoke to someone who tested COVID+. If he isolates for 2 wks, no pay (& no sick leave, reme…
@EthanBWinter Hey whoa we can’t hand them out like candy
ok reflecting on this and it’s… my brother’s pandemic life?
- no student loan payments
- multiple stimulus checks that he’s used to meme stonk and options trade
debt jubilee and unfettered access to derivatives markets
@jbathgate @FoolAllTheTime Not at all when you consider solid-state replaced rotating disks for secondary memory.
The Impending Chinese NAND Apocalypse
YMTC 128 Layer NAND is the first semiconductor where China is technologically competitive!
Chinese subsidies and investment in NAND will be the real memory winter.
$MU $WDX $SSNLF $HXSCL Kioxia $LRCX $INTC $TOSYY
https://t.co/y5eGycgcq2
Now I could be wrong, I could be the sucker that doesn't sell at the top. I have become convinced that we are in an inventory cycle, but not just for semiconductors. For everything. The biggest cycle we've ever seen, the whole world moving from just in time to keeping inventory.
did everyone just eat a lot of lead paint, is that what's going on? https://t.co/u9dFKEurMQ
If you enjoy the rich, savory umami taste of mushrooms, fish sauce, or cheese, thank your primate ancestors, who developed an increased taste sensitivity to the amino acid glutamate as their diets shifted to include more leaves and fewer insects. https://t.co/fhkqaWkcvW https://t.co/QcfFeKxrcA
A superficial view would conclude that being constrained to a specific "body" makes intelligence weaker. Actually it makes it stronger. It takes a smarter AI to live in a particular body than in no-body. Incarnations are smarter than gods.
The older I get the more I realize the solution to life’s biggest problems isn’t money, it is robots.
don't get it twisted yall https://t.co/MhcGWS7VHz
Congratulations to Emma Rothschild whose book 'An Infinite History: the Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries' has been shortlisted for the @CundillPrize and whose essay is forthcoming on Aeon #CundillPrize #history @HistoryEcon @Harvard_History
Not great if you are in Nunavut, Saskatchewan or Alberta, tbh. https://t.co/tVd4vHs9cg
@jtlevy @drfarls If you mean Australia has a history of joining in unnecessary and criminal wars of choice that kill millions like Vietnam and Iraq, yes.
I think it was @jakebackpack who compared Trump to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Something to that. https://t.co/xMtc6IbRr5
@ebruenig A possible article for you is that when people say "white women" what they really mean is liberalism. They experience liberalism as sucking but can't quite say so (because liberalism is the horizon) so it becomes white women sucking.
@MatthewSitman The whole mental history of Resistance Liberalism is going to present some challenges to historians.
@MatthewSitman Let the record show that some of us were skeptical from the start. https://t.co/H5yMfW6Gk2
This is a terrific essay, not just a very nuanced profile of Dan Savage (which is interesting enough) but using Savage to tell the story of the last 3 decades of arguments about sex. https://t.co/hVGmGx0jUN
The Dems are a loose ramshackle party but a party nonetheless. But Sinema? I don't think she thinks like a party person.
My one addition to Sinema-ology is that people need to think about her Green Party roots. Manchin is a very conservative Dem, but a Dem nonetheless. He'll pare down the bill as much as he can, make it as corporate as possible. But he won't blow it up. Sinema? I dunno.
There's some truth to this. In general Sinema is very much a creature of the 1990s and early 2000s -- with her third party roots (Greens), deficit mania, "bipartisanship" etc. https://t.co/EK9RoJYZJX
The Daily Poster has been very clear-eyed and also done excellent reporting on the donors that shape the conservative Dems https://t.co/CVyEMl2NZ9
It's very interesting to hear this from Chait. https://t.co/6sVU6Whgox
If you're the type of person that really lives for attention, this must be great. https://t.co/lppSb7fLV0
Left wing cancel culture is out of control. https://t.co/Csv0TW2qYG
@garyerskine These two variant covers are among my favorite Jaime art. They tell a lifetime of stories
ICYMI: To understand the threat to American democracy, it's necessary to move beyond Trump and look at GOP https://t.co/ajFg52Eek4
@dailydishwater @jbouie No, because means testing often imposes a cost in terms of paperwork & time that the poor can't meet, so they are often cut out of stuff. And creates stigma & makes it easier to cut stuff. It's really bad
"Rear end" is better than "ass"??? https://t.co/f9cc8cUHIE
@dick_nixon We all remember how he inflated a disgruntled FBI job seeker into a whistleblower & sparked a constitutional crisis.
@tonyweiling @brouillettese Other than that, there's not a super lot especially considering the body of work. Worth going through old Comics Journals for reviews and interviews (there have been at least 2 big ones). Locas recently had an interview.
@brouillettese @tonyweiling Hmm. Not as much as there should be but start here: https://t.co/vicfdTdo4Y
One issue I've been divided on is how seriously to take the ongoing Trumpist push to undermine democracy. Here I look at arguments from Robert Kagan and Jack Shafer to ask whether how dangerous a clown can be. https://t.co/ajFg52mCVu
@barryba72526426 @dariustahir JFK told NASA to go to the moon and back in a decade & they did it. Biden wants medicare to give dental care to old people in a year and they say "ah, it's going to take a decade." You cool with that?
@brennangriffin @MattBruenig "Pre-passage popularity" and "popular enough to pass" weans what in this context? Public isn't that engaged in details of CTC & desire for means testing rises only if moderates make a stink. It's something they are choosing to do. To make a program worse & less popular.
@dariustahir The United States defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 45 months but needs 84-90 months to deliver dental care to elders?
It's hard to imagine any other political party in the world other than the Democrat that is so reluctant to deliver quickly stuff that they can provide which their constituents (and indeed the public as a whole) want. https://t.co/TekDByKlnb
This is a great post, which has implications well beyond the immediate policy. The crucial thing is that people styling themselves as popularists (i.e. wanting Dems do popular things) often want to sabotage popular policies and make them wildly less popular. https://t.co/MGUq37oEdM
@jerryzmuller @ToryAnarchist Haven't plutocrats (most recently the Koch family) for decades been spending vast sums to seed Austrian economics with endowed chairs, with little success in convincing anyone who isn't a true believer?
A look at two competing views of the threats to American democracy: https://t.co/9peG408Tgf
"My tee-shirt saying my penis is not small or toadstool-shaped as described by Stormy Daniels is raising questions answered by the tee-shirt." https://t.co/FEBoiI6gyb
@MatthewSitman Isn't it usual in that form of thought to believe that women are already inherently socialized and that the ral task of civilization is taming men?
every time i log back in i see something that makes me wanna quit again immediately https://t.co/GJ5Kl1cVxV
@jdcmedlock Everyone bombard his office with our paper on what would happen if we went backwards on this. 3.2 million more kids in poverty.
Really enjoying Cavell's The Census of Walden, especially the part where he's like, "OK, one Thoreau, 1200 squirrels, probably 10,000 tiny fish, 37 crows."
Oh. Senses of Walden. My bad.
Berlin is 85 percent renters and had a huge squatting movement in the 70's and 80's. These squatters now live in co-ops because they didn't want to become landowners. https://t.co/jbjJTdK3c7
My local paper reports on the further decline of neoliberalism: rail operator South Eastern, one of the greediest piggies at public trough of phoney state-sponsored 'competition', has been taken over by the government - with a tweet from Grant Shapps.
https://t.co/R7h6BMg45z https://t.co/tE4uj1VAjA
Facebook Marketplace delivering as impeccable a vibe as ever https://t.co/cm30uQvFZc
'Fair Deal Grants' for working families (£250 each month paid directly to your landlord to make them think about lowering your rent)
@michaellondonsf @dpu_ucl @AntonJaegermm Absolutely! Coming to study in London from abroad is inevitably a crash course in comparative capitalism
The important difference between a renters’ society and a rentier society https://t.co/rAD3In7yMR
The struggle against french theory in practice. https://t.co/sPtKYO8tog
Not my favourite King Crimson album, but definitely my favourite King Crimson incarnation. Solid essay, too. https://t.co/4GST2teSSe
RT @Zachstreetboy: Happy to see this excellent piece by @MaxSkjonsberg on the @JHIdeas Blog.
https://t.co/5hUchT8yQX
RT @Prada_Meinhof: "In the Chinese housing market context we are now seeing very similar dynamics come to a point of culmination, much the…
Anthony Burgess freaking out about unions during the Winter of Discontent was more interesting. https://t.co/JU8MOPvY3o
RT @davidjmadden: The important difference between a renters’ society and a rentier society
RT @tamcgath: Berlin is 85 percent renters and had a huge squatting movement in the 70's and 80's. These squatters now live in co-ops becau…
RT @_gabriel_U: @_TimBarker Meaney's lapidary conclusion in a review of a recent biography still magnificent. (And this be the line you gra…
RT @sensiblehuman96: @Arbeit_Fish Hmm alternatively had you considered this? https://t.co/LbUc2MM5tk
"In the Chinese housing market context we are now seeing very similar dynamics come to a point of culmination, much the same way they did in the US a decade before. There is one big difference between now and then, however:" 1/ https://t.co/WVtzTf47lR
@davidjmadden This is good grist for my lecture this afternoon on London to new students of @dpu_ucl
who have come from around the world for some "comparative capitalism" I'll quote @AntonJaegermm
@conorsen that plus leadership not telling them "either you vote for reco to keep the party together or you're not in the party anymore"
I'm on a daily basis deeply confused by just about every Democratic Party faction's actions in this whole thing. https://t.co/rO1N7ATLml
This is patently ridiculous rhetoric from Warren and anybody with an iota of knowledge about Powell's record can't take it seriously. https://t.co/QYo0dDaRAI
Grad school is ordering six books and a can opener from Amazon and the most expensive thing in the order being the can opener
"Was the Apollo program neoliberalism?", the greatest thread in the history of etc.
Just remind them it was a huge gravy train for defense contractors and they'll be right on board again https://t.co/P5vABBXSJ3
@LPDonovan @TheStalwart @chrislhayes Whereas there is a statute that clearly authorizes minting the coin.
Part of the problem is Dems are more interested in illustrating GOP irresponsibility while simultaneously keeping the legitimacy of stupidly dangerous law (debt ceiling) intact
EPI’s @joshbivens_DC endorses minting the platinum coin. https://t.co/lIp4RHGHm2
@LPDonovan @TheStalwart @chrislhayes I’d bet on a big number yielding more shrieks.
Minting the coin feels like something Trump was meant to break the norm on. https://t.co/tXedd4crjd https://t.co/XNhykdtuRU
@tysonbrody Probably could turn this into Greenwald bait. “see, AOC and Biden didn’t have the guts to stick it to Wall Street. She weaseled out and raised the debt ceiling instead!”
The debt ceiling is a default-commitment device. Why are we perpetuating such an irresponsible statute?
This is 100% untrue. There isn't nearly enough money in the BIF to replace all lead pipe service lines to homes and schools. They offered half of what was in Biden's American Jobs Plan, which wasn't enough. We don't even know where the lead pipes all are!
https://t.co/nUy55NQSKN https://t.co/6XPSyL2fv6
Movie trailer voice:
“He’s on a mission…
To prove he’s serious about emissions…
By making it more attractive to mine and sell coal?
This Christmas, get ready for…” https://t.co/UJY6ChSNcm
"I am no expert on the politics of fiscal legislation..." or the policy!
I have never seen a large economy like Europe (UK+EU) sleep walking into an energy crunch (maybe let's call it a crisis since major industrial companies are having to shut down) and no a single politician appears to give a damn about it. Incredible.
Europe’s giant job-saving experiment pays off in the pandemic https://t.co/ylJv6OVlqv via @carolynnlook @readep @pogkas https://t.co/QToKeRO5ZV
OIL MARKET: Brent crude rises above $80 a barrel for the first time in nearly 3 years on the back of strong demand post-COVID, supply outages, and OPEC+ firm control | #OOTT
I guess my point is that unless OPEC is putting another embargo on the US like it did 50 years ago, OPEC will instead work on stabilizing the market so that there won’t be massive shortages.
Saddam torched 1.5 BILLION BARRELS of Kuwaiti oil. We’re talking about 5 million barrels per day for 300 days. Even that didn’t cause $100 oil because Saudi and others ramped up production in order to compensate loss. US taxpayers saved Kuwait, so OPEC had to spare US taxpayers. https://t.co/L4X7BuqRGx
Natural gas prices are SURGING around the world today 🚀📈
🇪🇺 Dutch TTF jumped as much as 12% to above 85 euros/MWh, a record high, after a drop in Russian supply
🇺🇸 US Henry Hub just topped $6/mmbtu for the first time since 2014
🇯🇵 JKM is above $30/mmbtu, a seasonal high https://t.co/LE1bAiVnVC
I had the sickening realization yesterday that some of my Gen. Z students were open to the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory because the idea that the U.S. government could actually accomplish something big and complex was totally outside of their lived experience.
@SkeleCap one thing I enjoy about the oil and gas people is that even when they're winning they can't have fun. It's just them complaining about how they hate the energy policy that led to prices going up make them mad? I would simply enjoy profits
China energy crunch triggers alarm, pleas for more coal https://t.co/JQyS251Ved
@johnhhaskell @IrvingSwisher The Dao of punditry. Many words, little information.
I guess we’re in blowoff top mode. Where she stops nobody knows.
Question is where the level will settle after the bodies have been carted off. Substantially higher I think than where we’ve been- but probably not up here? https://t.co/m5j813WiVl
RT @JavierBlas: OIL MARKET: Brent crude rises above $80 a barrel for the first time in nearly 3 years on the back of strong demand post-COV…
#commodities The focus was on #oil and #gas prices which advanced again. US inventory draws and concerns regarding a possible #energy crunch are the main drivers, chart @csresearch https://t.co/e7FP3AGq7V
@MilwaukeeBonds @IrvingSwisher another brilliant Trinhnomics tweet. She's giving Ian Bremmer a run for his money. Who will win? Only time will tell, we'll have to see what happens. https://t.co/SY9aPlqJDF
He's expressing the (well-founded) anxiety that Manchin and Sinema killing the bill will agitate, organize, and empower *his* political enemies to the left, only a year after Chait believed that particular political dragon had been slayed once and for all.
The thing about that Chait thread is that he mostly seems upset that Sinema and Manchin are jeopardizing centrist hegemony over the Democratic Party.
You ever sit and think about how the same people who crippled universal healthcare in 2009 screaming about how it would lead to “death panels” are the same unvaccinated people clogging ERs with COVID cases and denying access to healthcare for others with deadly results?
The thing about Kyrsten Sinema is that she's Exhibit A in why you should never, *ever* trust people who were or are involved in the U.S. Green Party.
When you break it down by religion it becomes painfully clear this is what's happening.
42% of Mormon students ID as "moderate," which would have been remarkable a decade ago. https://t.co/EGQT0TayYN
How could we have gone to the moon when we can’t even pass a measly infrastructure bill?
And… exhale. New big pandemic piece coming out tomorrow am. (I know it’s faintly ridiculous to promote these as if I’m dropping a new album but, idk, they’re a lot of work and I hope people will read them.)
@SamoBurja What you are missing is that you have already factored in the seismic shift, so when the shift occurs you find it unsurprising, since it is not a seismic shift compared to your expectation. Conversely Trumps slight overperformance in 2016 was a shock for the opposite reason.
i hope that litigation costs on both sides are so large they overwhelm the (very large) payout https://t.co/fdpoe6nY1j
we are here to protect you
do you have stairs in your house https://t.co/ctSUeJ03Mz
on a related note, the accelerationist idea that you can actually want bad things to happen without being blamed for them is the worst idea ever
if i am reading an article about your machiavellian political theory then you have already fucked up
the idea that hundreds of facebook contractors had access to facebook messenger messages without audit trails is the worst conceivable privacy smell
@conorsen @jc_bradbury Between the Braves/Cobb stadium racket and the cartoonishly large 30% film production tax credit Georgia hands out, I’ve decided nothing would make me happier than if Congress taxed it away. https://t.co/dxyiJTZpV0
If you "want to have a similar influence on the Court," then "learn from" the right. But if it's a lie (as @AdamSerwer also says) that Supreme Court decisions are apolitical, why do politics via control of this institution in the first place?
https://t.co/DsBvWiA1Se
With greater size, influence, & power comes greater responsibilities for transparency & accountability.
Don't built platforms for billions if you aren't willing to govern them & minimize societal harms.
I agree with @CaseyNewton: @Facebook should open up https://t.co/H7GvXcRrZc
Some personal news: Work is getting in the way of tweeting.
Wow. @PhilKlay has written an absolutely refreshing and wonderful review of #Humane, based on a brilliant and careful summary of the book, while not holding back from excellent criticisms. He is a great American writer and thinker. 🙏https://t.co/9Eut2gYjMr
@ljtcpa @biocultural13 @BrandyZadrozny People are never trash.
@mat Too bad. Would have been powerful in a pissing contest
My book, along with many others, is 40% off. Consider ordering as an early academic year present to yourself (or as an alternative sleep aid) https://t.co/O2jUnShAzN
You're a progressive, Liz! You're supposed to say Powell hasn't done enough easy money to help the little guy, not that he's encouraging financial crises and needs to tighten up!
Come on!!
@JaclynLeeTV @BensalemPolice @6abc BEWARE: As Halloween draws near, local news & police will fearmonger about our kids being given candy laced with THC, instead of holding local governments accountable for addressing risks from air pollution, housing, lead pipes & paint, cities made for cars, & school shootings.
@EmilyDreyfuss @FrankPasquale Octavia Butler's vision isn't. It's looking increasingly apt.
Elites mocking #MintTheCoin don't realize that rural folks regularly forge platinum currency to pay their debts.
@NickSinai Yes! Her prepared testimony lays out all of the reasons CRS isn’t delivering on mission, & the folks who know the institution & its deficiencies nodded after — as you have, I think.
We are in vigorous agreement. Becoming more open to the public will serve Congress better, too. https://t.co/ct1orAfqlS
Instead of focusing on police who quit because of vaccine mandates, what about exhausted health care workers who quit where there are no mandates?
Has anyone heard from the captain of this boat?
I fear it sank in the Potomac in 2021, never to surface again. https://t.co/4ZwE7ORChB
Steven Pinker’s Misguided Optimism | The New Republic https://t.co/tUr1HuEhlJ
Stuck in an Anonymous Midlands Car Park with the rain shagging down, and I've been boggling at a middle-aged man's terrible wig in the way only a baldy can. But he's close enough now I see it's his real hair. How much more sadness can I cram into this tweet without a bereavement?
@ClaireBerlinski Indeed, to the extent that WTO's function has been "to help international trade flow as smoothly and as freely as possible," it has now encountered a world where that objective collides with many other priorities. And for good reason.
Your regular reminder that not every game is a Prisoner's Dilemma, and that the dominant strategy is not "defect" when "defect" hurts you without hurting the other player at all. https://t.co/xY4SDlliTW
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@ClaireBerlinski ‘s OK. Many of us ‘ood ‘ol ‘uys drop our g’s 😉
@ClaireBerlinski @cosmo_globalist @BobWolfeSPS @CoppetainPU I'm so disappointed with Biden: he spent enough time in Congress to deal with those blowhards - but on the geopolitical stage, he's got two left feet. Blinken is no better: first the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan - and probably the faux-pas with France. Il doit partir.
@ClaireBerlinski @cosmo_globalist @BobWolfeSPS @CoppetainPU When the WTO ruled against PRC in the recent solar panel dispute with the USA, it was howling about an unenforceable resolution: there aren't enough judges for a quorum. Once again, Biden's geopolitical ineptness is on display.
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I finally managed to take my family to Albania 🇦🇱. We are safe. I wholeheartedly thank the government & Police force of Albania as well as all the US 🇺🇸 & non-US facilitators.
I also thank the people & govt of Pakistan 🇵🇰 for their hospitality & open arms in this difficult time.
The best tourism advertising ever. 🧐🐼
But many of us might be in the minority...
Please, never forget #Uyghurs #Tibet #HongKong https://t.co/50t8Va8kHg
.@ClintSmithIII on his book “How the Word Is Passed,” which was excerpted for The Atlantic’s June cover story:
“Confederate history is family history, history as eulogy, in which loyalty takes precedence over truth,” Smith writes.
Read the story: https://t.co/FdHGO1vD39 #TAF21 https://t.co/75vOt03tB2
RT @TheMarkazReview: Read these (redacted for safety) letters from an Afghan family seeking egress from Taliban ruled Kabul: https://t.co/f…
There we go.
Good work, @theintercept. https://t.co/tXGFrH0Bvx
@greatgrace84 @Gormogons Thanks so much for trying and for asking. They've felt completely forgotten and abandoned by the world, and the response to this fundraiser has lifted their morale enormously. They'd really run out of hope until TYTW and all the people who contributed showed up for them.
@greatgrace84 @Gormogons and if you'd like to contribute, I *know* they can use it. GoFundMe can be glitchy for some people and I don't know why. Try again, and if it doesn't work, DM; you can send it to me via PayPal and I'll add it to the pool. Or you can send it to them directly, but that's trickier.
@greatgrace84 @Gormogons Thank you for trying. We've reached the goal, but I should have set it higher. I chose a number than sounded plausible--"Maybe this would be enough to keep a family of eight fed and housed for a month or two in Pakistan" was my thought--but it wasn't more rigorous than that:
RT @TubunMuzuru: @ClaireBerlinski @cosmo_globalist @BobWolfeSPS @CoppetainPU I'm so disappointed with Biden: he spent enough time in Congr…
@rodrikdani Do you think the WTO is thus in crisis--to the extent that it's in crisis--because governments have ceased to view this function as uniquely desirable (and for good reason)? Or is it owed, as the authors suggest, to American diplomatic neglect and obstinacy?
RT @BobWolfeSPS: @CoppetainPU and I argue argue that the chorus of calls for “WTO reform” puts too much emphasis on Geneva when the real so…
@rodrikdani, what do you make of this assessment of the sources of the WTO's dysfunction?
We have such an good essay in @cosmo_globalist today by @BobWolfeSPS and @CoppetainPU. They write that the WTO is facing one of the biggest crises in its history--but the solution is not "WTO reform.” Read it to learn why. (And for the real solution.) https://t.co/d0XMaJuQxM
RT @NicholasDanfort: For centuries people have debated whether Turkey belongs in Europe or Asia. Now, for just $97.45, you can finally find…
RT @NicholasDanfort: Modernity has been a contested concept since the Enlightenment. Find out whether its good or bad for the new low price…
RT @CombatJourno: I finally managed to take my family to Albania 🇦🇱. We are safe. I wholeheartedly thank the government & Police force of A…
@CathyYoung63 Ah. They didn't remake it. It's a documentary about it. Still, it looks good.
@CathyYoung63 Oooh! I didn't know they'd remade it. I'll watch with you.
@2young2wed, I've written about you here. I'll write more when the family is safely out of Afghanistan. https://t.co/2z9qkw26TG. Thank you so much for what you're doing.
@alove2506 @justinamash Yes, that's interesting indeed.
RT @is_OwenLewis: Please support this. These people are in a horrendous situation where they face death, or in the case of the women in the…
The World Trade Organization is regularly in crisis, but this time could be different, by @ClaireBerlinski @BobWolfeSPS @CoppetainPU https://t.co/DAKZZqvIZ3
@ClaireBerlinski @cosmo_globalist @BobWolfeSPS @CoppetainPU https://t.co/0FibqSFDI9
@ClaireBerlinski @theintercept How do they keep their medical licences after this
Lawyers that promoted the big lie are losing their licenses - same must apply here
This will be my evening reading 👇👇👇 https://t.co/Rwq9pGY38w
@CoppetainPU and I argue argue that the chorus of calls for “WTO reform” puts too much emphasis on Geneva when the real solutions can only be found in the capitals of its 164 members.
@SdB_dip @KendalHembroff https://t.co/nV5GzxFFqY
Please support this. These people are in a horrendous situation where they face death, or in the case of the women in the family, something worse. https://t.co/F1YgUnpiBq
Read these (redacted for safety) letters from an Afghan family seeking egress from Taliban ruled Kabul: https://t.co/fQKD3VwSSp @ClaireBerlinski @BayoumiMoustafa @sarahleah1
@Gormogons Did @ClaireBerlinski get the funding she needed for the Afghan family? I tried to donate yesterday but godundme wouldn’t take my money.
Florida Man, meet California Woman https://t.co/IftwBLcyNJ
One problem with the "big opening bid" theory is that people don't necessarily know what's "big".
If the $3.5T bill gets cut down to $2.8T, was it gutted, or was $3.5T just a big opening bid?? https://t.co/L71CeVoG38
@csilverandgold Hold out? Manchin doesn't care about the infrastructure bill. He won't take any loss at all if it fails. It's like taking some random store clerk hostage to try to stop the bad guy from getting away with the McGuffin. Bad guy just laughs and walks out the door.
How many rich people go to community college? Come on. https://t.co/cc1PZruUbU
The time to build nuclear was 45 years ago. We missed the window... https://t.co/c7zBgJjO3B
One day our grandchildren will ask us, how did you cope with this pandemic back then, when one in 500 people around you died, and all we'll have to say is well, we got used to it. https://t.co/VZBIqPtVfU
@csilverandgold Taking Biden hostage to threaten Manchin is the worst possible strategy here...who has more to lose from a failed Biden presidency, Manchin, or progressives? That's not a rhetorical question!
A deep dive into the mechanics of the world's most indebted real estate company https://t.co/1pfvWX69CK
@Noahpinion Seems like most of these areas are in the suburbs now
vivid and to the point #synesthesia https://t.co/lf05d8oMOL
He just wants freedom from his eternal servitude https://t.co/br5ETAQNN4
"Tactical urbanism"!! https://t.co/NGKvJlsEid https://t.co/fVczkfddV2
AND a diehard crusader against air pollution!
https://t.co/30qhNEUhj4
@Noahpinion You're right; this is a hostage situation where the hostage is either non-corporeal, or is actively belching carbon into the sky.
Powell is asked if the inflation we're seeing is broader and more structural than earlier in the year.
"Yes, I think it's fair to say that it is."
Supply bottlenecks "have not only not gotten better, they've actually gotten worse." He points to ships parked off the port of L.A.
If progressives kill the infrastructure bill, they'll keep lead in the drinking water of millions of marginalized people.
And they'll starve trains and buses of funding all across America.
And they'll show Dems can't govern.
DON'T DO THOSE THINGS.
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how is cost of housing not even on this list? https://t.co/wbcGKyUqxm
@Noahpinion Yeah take your own advice 👇 https://t.co/bhG3BADtrY
Pass the damn infrastructure bill, dammit (@noahpinion / Noahpinion)
https://t.co/Lx1wWH5UWh
https://t.co/MwXOhItw7c
The bipartisan infrastructure bill would be a huge win for progressivism.
It would get rid of lead water pipes in America.
It would pour $105 billion into trains and transit.
It would prove that big government is good for the economy.
TAKE THE W.
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@Noahpinion Also in places like San Leandro - three-way mix of Latino, Black, and Asian, often in the same person (many of which are absurdly attractive). It's the future.
Fair point, I also tend to slaughter, rape and pillage when I'm confused, unless war has been officially declared in which case I restrain myself https://t.co/BZ0FK1qtJ6
If you're an IQ Bro who spends all his time on Twitter talking about how important IQ is, I want to see you become a diehard crusader for lead pipe replacement.
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“It is an assumption that it’s okay to get infected and get mild and moderate disease, as long as you don’t wind up in the hospital and die. I have to be honest: I reject that,” Anthony Fauci says. #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/0n9PBFSU31
@Noahpinion I worked at our law school CLE as an undergrad. Our director had a post JD degree & insisted we refer to him as Doctor. He made me write essays for the Federalist Society newsletter despite my being a public employee and 18. They were not good, because of incompetence and intent.
That said, Dazai seems to have been more of a beer guy. https://t.co/NbiYREPztT
I just tried to write "violence begets violence", and my keyboard corrected it to "violence Vegeta violence"
Time to log off
Jesus f***ing Christ get the lead out of drinking pipes right now https://t.co/WytYmo6ZlE
New Pew research finds that Twitter is used by the 23% of Americans who think "I beg of you", "You idiot", and "Imagine thinking this" are persuasive arguments https://t.co/8p8rvz6VCR
@thought_less_ Courage to do what, buddy? Spike a good bill that Manchin doesn't really care about, just out of spite? Yeah that's real mature. 🙄
Wow, I didn't even know China was keeping some American hostages too! https://t.co/NltaBchZVC
Kai Strittmatter's "We Have Been Harmonized" really home the point that under Deng, Jiang, and Hu, China really did create a novel, flexible, adaptible new form of autocracy...but then Xi Jinping came in and started turning it into something older and more familiar.
@puremalarkey Again, I think you're confusing public opinion with progressive Twitter opinion here, but now we're going in circles. Anyway, I will circle back when stuff happens, and we can see!
@puremalarkey They could never receive anything in return because no one else really cares about the infra bill. So pass it, because it's good, then use that success to gain popularity and help exert more pressure on Manchin by whatever methods do exist for exerting pressure on Manchin.
@bengrossbg Second one is to stop people from talking down to you
Today in Reply-Tweets: You're allowed to talk down to people about society if they have only ONE law degree. https://t.co/hK0Y9QDkEy
@wolfe_herb I can't drink or do any drugs, medical issues
@puremalarkey If bribery works, DO THAT SHIT. Hell yeah.
@puremalarkey I mean, taking lead out of pipes is gooder than not taking lead out of pipes. Honestly that's something I never thought I'd see done in my lifetime.
There are so many things about the pre-internet age that I want to go back and experience now that I've learned of their existence via the internet
RT @Matt_Alt: I've written extensively about Japanese sensibilities inflecting global youth culture, but never imagined Osamu Dazai going v…
@stan_keshi The connection is psychological. It's not in the genes.
@puremalarkey Conservatives don't have any policy plans except preserve the status quo and ban CRT and abortion at the state level. They already got all their tax cuts. What's left to bribe them with? They're just gonna sit there and block everything as long as they can.
@puremalarkey I think the "until they get some of what they want" part is the flaw here. It's like step 2 in the Underpants Gnome plan. Remember, if Congress passes absolutely nothing, conservatives pretty much win.
@stan_keshi I mean, I share genes with my ancestors, but the idea that this means I share ownership of a nation with them is purely psychological.
@puremalarkey If conservatives have a majority in Congress, they can do whatever the hell they want, legislation-wise.
@AImas8706 His name is Giggles, but that's similar to Gigolo
@stan_keshi That's the ADOS view. But I think connections are in our heads, not our genes.
@stan_keshi I don't think your genetic definition of "replacement" makes any sense...
@puremalarkey I mean, America is more conservative than us, and America's governing class is more conservative than America, and this is a problem. And it's a problem I don't think we can solve by refusing to remove lead from pipes.
@stan_keshi I mean, I just don't care about "founding stock" as much as you do. Or really at all, tbh. Like...who cares if you share genes with the Mayflower people? That means zilch to me. I don't understand why I should care about that. America isn't in the genetic code.
@puremalarkey Conservatives didn't even want to spend money on infrastructure. They definitely didn't want to give Biden a legislative victory.
@heynottheface @samdman95 Who ever got blamed for killing a bill they voted for?
@puremalarkey I mean, they are really bad. But what can we do to stop them? I believe we can do something, probably. But this is not something that will stop them. It just isn't.
@stan_keshi The point is, America's racial composition has changed. We are now only 73% White+Black. I want to know what that does to our society. I'm pretty optimistic it will be good. But I want to understand the changes.
@stan_keshi I feel like you're just making up new definitions for common words in order to justify misuse of those words.
@monopaulist Well, more than fractious, it makes them look chaotic and hapless.
@puremalarkey Blowing up the infra bill to get Manchin is like hitting Manchin in the knee with our nuts.
@puremalarkey Yes, because I don't actually know how to threaten them. I assume there are threats. I just know this isn't one. This isn't a threat. So let's not tell ourselves it is.
@Theophite Manchin and Sinema will take no heat if progressives vote down a bill that Manchin and Sinema voted for. So blowing up that bill is simply not a credible threat.
@jaycaspiankang Yep. Suburbs have always been the engines of integration in America, possibly because they're just so hellishly isolating that you have to hang out with whoever there is.
@stan_keshi So if your parents die and you're still here, you didn't replace them because you're genetically related to them??
@puremalarkey The answer is no, of course. So the question becomes how to credibly threaten them. And blowing up infra just isn't any kind of a threat to them. So use the threats we do have.
@Theophite @samdman95 Draw me the strategy payoff matrix and tell me if we're facing a prisoner's dilemma, hotshot
@samdman95 Whoa, they broke a promise? HOW FUCKING DARE THEY, who could have ever foreseen this.
Well, some assholes broke a promise, we better blow shit up now
@puremalarkey There's just no convincing argument here that killing infrastructure, or even just threatening to kill it, will exert any kind of leverage over the centrists. If I thought it would it would be a different ball game.
@puremalarkey It's stream of consciousness, but it's also based on the conceit that progressive Twitter's opinion corresponds to public opinion. And when has that ever proven to be true? Such inside baseball. I'm sorry.
Important news: Despite having lost a bit of weight, Cinnamon is still fat ❤️ https://t.co/BUKmcOKmEw
@ringtrick I mean, I was going to praise Haitian immigration specifically, but I realized that no one actually cares anymore.
Anyway, killing infrastructure will not hurt Manchin; he voted FOR the bill. Threatening to kill the bill will not compel Manchin to support reconciliation; other means of compulsion must be found.
Vote for the infra bill because it's good, and because it's progressive.
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@puremalarkey Nobody takes heat for the death of things they vote in favor of!
@puremalarkey They voted for the infra bill. If it dies they won't take the heat; they voted for it. The complex idea that its survival hinged on a deal about the reconciliation bill will not make it into the heads of American voters; it's far too complex.
Was going to write a post about how well Haitian immigrants do in America, and then I realized it doesn't matter, because the people who really care about halting immigration don't actually give a shit about that, and everyone else already likes immigrants. https://t.co/UN4Z26Ba4O
@ImNotOwned @Taara535 Why are people acting like this is an alternative to the reconciliation bill? The idea that killing this bill will hurt Manchin in any way is fantasy.
@JimJamison84 Days or weeks are fine. But if that turns into months, it saps Biden's momentum, and that will be bad. Most worryingly, if Manchin calls progressives' bluff, and they actually vote DOWN the bill, that's a disaster.
@puremalarkey It's not fine; Manchin and Sinema are horrible. But can they be compelled by threatening the infra bill? If it goes down, they don't take any heat. They were fine not passing infra in 2019, and 2018, and 2017, etc. They'll be fine. This is not leverage.
@TheOmniZaddy I mean of course they need to do this, but threatening the infra bill is pointless; if it fails, Manchin and Sinema won't take the blame for its failure. So there's no leverage there. Instead, simply put them in the spotlight as the obstructionists they are.
@puremalarkey There's no goddamn leverage there. If the infrastructure bill fails, Manchin and Sinema won't be blamed; they voted for it.
@TWOMARD @BrandyFromTX Whether the infra bill passes will have no effect on their votes, unfortunately. If it fails to pass they won't take the blame.
@KI7BDA They are really good with fatty food, not as good on their own. In my opinion.
@wophugus Both are true, and both perspectives will continue to oscillate as needed in the future.
@PatrickLeijon @whstancil Well, the fact is, I was right, and eventually everyone agreed with me, and it was not I who was burnt :-)
@SamJabbers @whstancil No I didn't, I said they were nuts
@patio11 Well, why don't we average over the past decade
@puremalarkey You have no counterarguments to any of the points, do you
@SeanErnst Cut their losses? Fuck that! Take all the Ws!!!
Voting down the infrastructure bill -- or threatening to vote it down -- doesn't do a damn thing to pressure Manchin and Sinema. They get to sit back and watch progressives be the obstructionists. PUT THEM ON THE DEFENSIVE!!
I should start talking to people like this of anyone brings up anything about confectionery (thankfully no one ever does, because I'd be insufferable). https://t.co/g19fpReVNz
@Noahpinion Yeah, this is not a great way to strengthen the breadth of their appeal, though perhaps it comes across as more noble than hapless to the base.
@Noahpinion @Theophite @samdman95 Sinema and Manchin win because they get nice lobbyist careers to fall back on, and America gets nothing because that’s what we ultimately want.
@EEMthethird @Noahpinion Sir take that back, I was contemptible well before I got my jd.
@Noahpinion I needed this. I just had a package stolen for the third time in the past two months. Cinnamon soothes my rage.
@Noahpinion I think the strategy here is more like: “threaten loudly to defect while stalling for a couple weeks and then sulkingly cooperate when the obvious bluff is called.”
It doesn’t accomplish much, but maybe it maximizes news coverage or something?
@AngelicaOung @noahsmith @noahsmith or @Noahpinion ? Does have the given name Noah Smith automatically mean you have 🐇🐇🐇?
@Noahpinion Also, I support giving pet rabbits exotic dancer names. Is the other one named Sapphire or Tarzan?
@Noahpinion 楓糖 Fengtang, means maple syrup (named by @kejjmad)
@Noahpinion @stan_keshi I think it'd be more reasonable to say that most people won't care about it.
@stan_keshi @Noahpinion You can think of nationhood as a: (1) blood and soil, or (b) shared ideals and shared purpose. In the first concept, ethnic demographics is integral for nationhood, in the other it isn’t. Which one are you for?
@Noahpinion The Jiang and Hu mode had serious shortcomings, which gave Xi legitimacy as he went the other direction.
@Noahpinion Among my questions is how did she aquire the bear urine?
Just blocked somebody for talking shit about @noahsmith’s rabbit.
@Noahpinion I already think you are an idiot if you have ONE JD, much less two. That is contemptible.
@Noahpinion linking this here since I *did* type up a whole bunch of counterarguments I don't think anyone saw because I apparently dislike myself
https://t.co/hJPDikBqRM
@Noahpinion So he paid double? Can’t be a smart decision.
@bluefiddleguy @noahsmith @Noahpinion Oops! apologies @noahsmith, although I would also stand up for your hypothetical rabbits. Yes @noahpinion’s rabbit, specifically Cinnamon.
@Noahpinion @znmeb Right, sometimes it's an Iterated Ultimatum Game
@stan_keshi @Noahpinion Consoles were banned in China for like a decade
Two years ago, @VidyaKrishnan wrote in @TheAtlantic about the plight of the Rohingya, focusing in particular on the remarkable leader, Mohib Ullah.
Mohib Ullah was killed today in Cox’s Bazar.
https://t.co/0syc5n1PJ8
For The Atlantic Daily, @mimbsy guides you through our coverage of how the confusing booster rollout muddles an already fractured pandemic. https://t.co/rrM2TdwS7x
Today at #TAF21, editor in chief @JeffreyGoldberg interviews @SenSasse, @NBCNews's @alroker sits down with @EPAMichaelRegan, and staff writer @amandamull speaks with designer @CSiriano. Join the discussion: https://t.co/WNIa19Px8m
When her father died, @stephmurrayyyy knew she had a lot of logistics to manage. She didn’t know she'd be barred from entering his apartment—and that she’d end up collecting his belongings from the sidewalk when he was evicted months later. https://t.co/RHLYrisxCw
SPONSOR CONTENT: Watch the "Strengthening the Small-Business Support System" session, underwritten by @PayPal, at @TheAtlantic Festival to learn from the experiences of underserved small-business owners and the organizations that support them. #TAF21 https://t.co/VFM2MoQSjN https://t.co/eVGZAS62E2
Extremely online young people say they miss some parts of early pandemic life, @morganhikaru and @realcpaz report: https://t.co/cdFxS0YsgL
RT @alroker: Looking forward to talking with @EPA Administrator Michael Regan @TheAtlanticFest at 2pm - FREE - at this link> https://t.co/…
Today in The Atlantic: @edyong209 warns that America's window to prepare for future pandemics is closing. Plus: @peteratlantic on why Biden is not panicking about the next elections and @katherinejwu on how sea slugs photosynthesize. Read it all here: https://t.co/FF5WQEkOT3 https://t.co/NC83GPyfFk
The NLRB’s general counsel has released a new memo saying that she will pursue cases against colleges that classify athletes as “student-athletes” instead of employees.
In July, @AdamHSays explained the origins of this phrase—and why it’s on its way out: https://t.co/7dstnVYMPJ
RT @Vinncent: Far too many people act as if the Cold War primarily affected North Americans and Europeans. This is wildly incorrect - the v…
RT @prashantrao: Two years ago, @VidyaKrishnan wrote in @TheAtlantic about the plight of the Rohingya, focusing in particular on the remark…
Britney Spears returns to court today over the status of her conservatorship.
But even if the courts grant Spears her freedom, what about the prying media and hypercritical public? @skornhaber on how the singer’s liberation would be a test for us all: https://t.co/uzrZli7I2E
“Our feelings are like a compass. They tell us what direction to go in,” @lorigottlieb1 says. “If you don’t access your feelings, you’re kind of walking around with a faulty GPS.” Numbness tells us something needs to change. #TAF21 https://t.co/22QvBhAyZR https://t.co/IKqmhrCcYh
RT @russellberman: Should Biden panic? @PeterAtlantic surveys nervous Democrats and finds, perhaps not surprisingly, that some think he sho…
RT @skornhaber: Britney Spears has a hearing today. Here's what media ethicists, mental-health experts, and fans told me about what should…
Happiness isn’t a feeling—it’s more like a meal with three macro ingredients: enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose, @arthurbooks says. If something seems off, it’s because you’re missing one of the ingredients. #TAF21 https://t.co/Z8lRNihdus
"The urgency of the assault on our democracy is real, and we must prevail," Nancy Pelosi says in conversation with @JeffreyGoldberg at #TAF21. https://t.co/V9KI7tudaJ
President Joe Biden’s approval ratings have slumped to their lowest levels since his inauguration. He isn’t panicking about the 2022 and 2024 elections, but some Democrats think he should be, @peteratlantic reports: https://t.co/tuGcLk6occ
RT @JohnGHendy: Smart piece from @morganhikaru and @realcpaz https://t.co/ZkxbNC4VgV https://t.co/v1A5OYb3ZQ
RT @PeterAtlantic: A Democratic House member, talking about Democratic divisions over Biden's infrastructure plan: "We’re in a pissing matc…
"There was no crime wave—there was a tsunami of lethal violence," a crime expert tells @GrahamDavidA about 2020's historic rise in homicides. The country must think about the problem differently: https://t.co/cd94K67s8y
RT @TheAtlantic: The Atlantic is launching a new podcast: “How to Build a Happy Life,” with @arthurbrooks. Learn practical tips for how to…
"What would it be like, if we just ate salad for a week, and then you don’t need to worry about where you’re getting your nutrients ever again?" one researcher said to @KatherineJWu. Certain sea slugs might have an answer: https://t.co/47hVhOmGfr
RT @YasmeenSerhan: The results of Hungary’s first-ever primary, expected tonight, could determine who will challenge Viktor Orbán in 2022.…
One of the most important lessons of the Cold War should be that it was primarily innocents in poor, developing countries who paid the price. A standoff between the U.S. and China carries similar risks, @Vinncent writes: https://t.co/T4iR4ZIDlg
RT @edyong209: 🚨Here's my new piece about our great challenge—control this pandemic while ALSO averting the next. For centuries, the US has…
RT @AdrienneLaF: In 2018, @edyong209 wrote a big story for @TheAtlantic about how ill-prepared we were for a global pandemic. He was right.…
We are not guaranteed the luxury of facing just one pandemic a century, or even one at a time. New diseases are inevitable. The lessons of this pandemic could help prevent the next one—but only if we choose to learn them. @edyong209 reports: https://t.co/jlUx3Qy34I
Pfizer has submitted data to the FDA on the use of its vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. Last month, @rachgutman explained where the process goes from here: https://t.co/zf1cisYCSo
In her writings, Simone de Beauvoir repeatedly returned to a childhood friendship that was as fulfilling for her as it was painful. @storyshaped on the philosopher’s novel “Inseparable”: https://t.co/bXfakx9XIW
"At 28, we are just old enough to remember what things were like before the attacks, and young enough to have come of age in a thoroughly post-9/11 country," @AmyWeissMeyer writes: https://t.co/2Yl8pd9hI1
R. Kelly’s crimes relied on a larger system of patriarchy—“the archetypes he fulfilled, the manly codes he supposedly lived by,” @skornhaber writes. https://t.co/nIS8VH15Sb
“How many things could a person lose in a moment? This was one of the best messages of The Bachelor: In every moment lurks the possibility of great love but also great loss.” Read a new short story from @sanjenasathian: https://t.co/mMEjuj8DGk
“I believe there’s something specific, real, and grotesque about speaking directly to the ‘real thing.’” @sanjenasathian discusses "The Bachelor" and her new short story, "The Missing Limousine," with Oliver Munday: https://t.co/T3edFUSdbY
Ford’s new mega-factories in Tennessee and Kentucky show that the arrival of EVs is becoming irreversible, @yayitsrob writes: https://t.co/OHYz0r36z5
“The Many Saints of Newark” attempts to turn a sprawling prestige TV show into a movie. The result is a film that feels more like a curious side project than a distinct work. @davidlsims on the “Sopranos” prequel: https://t.co/JGAbxmVw4O
The insistence that judges are just following the law is a common rhetorical tool, but also fantasy. "No one wants to admit to being a hack," @AdamSerwer writes. https://t.co/569RxecLSW
After further conversation with Pfizer, we'd like to correct our initial understanding; we can expect COVID-19 trial data for children 2 to 5 years old by the end of the year, not for vaccinations to necessarily be available. https://t.co/546aUhlhII
“I think we should be preventing people from getting sick from COVID even if they don't wind up in the hospital,” Anthony Fauci says in conversation with @edyong209 at #TAF21: https://t.co/rIQaL5doY1
Football nerds were always going to love ESPN's new Twitch-style broadcast hosted by the Manning brothers. But it seems unlikely that two Brooks Brothers–clad 40-somethings are the answer to the league's Gen Z problems, writes @derek_j_rob. https://t.co/BQNOJZAyqX
With the problems Joe Biden is facing, Donald Trump might not need to steal 2024, @DavidFrum writes. https://t.co/9gFzxDkIsH
COMING SOON: “How to Build a Happy Life,” with @arthurbrooks. Your one-stop shop in a busy world to build stronger relationships, understand emotions, and develop practical skills to help you on your journey to happiness. Listen to a preview: https://t.co/ErpZSfDUVm
Ford’s new mega-factories in Tennessee and Kentucky show that the arrival of EVs is becoming irreversible, @yayitsrob writes: https://t.co/ukOJrlC3VS
EXCLUSIVE: Watch a clip from “Mass,” a new film from @bleeckerstfilms about the process of healing after a school shooting. On Thursday, join @shirklesxp for a conversation with director @frankranz about the making of the movie. #TAF21. Register here: https://t.co/C78etNayCp https://t.co/yZnuv6HYye
“How many things could a person lose in a moment? This was one of the best messages of The Bachelor: In every moment lurks the possibility of great love but also great loss.” Read a new short story from @sanjenasathian: https://t.co/m9orkjJcdt
R. Kelly’s crimes relied on a larger system of patriarchy—“the archetypes he fulfilled, the manly codes he supposedly lived by,” @skornhaber writes. https://t.co/G7mmEtehzq
“I believe there’s something specific, real, and grotesque about speaking directly to the ‘real thing.’” @sanjenasathian discusses "The Bachelor" and her new short story, "The Missing Limousine," with Oliver Munday: https://t.co/Ik3L9jFvin
.@Jeff_Daniels on reprising his role as Atticus Finch in a tweaked version of Broadway’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”: “It has the chance to be as powerful, if not more powerful a production than before, simply because of the way that we’re addressing white blindness.” #TAF21 https://t.co/ltcF0tTJLH
What do we “need to be doing now to avert tomorrow’s pandemic?” @edyong209 asks Anthony Fauci.
“We’ve gotta be prepared from multiple standpoints … to have a basic and fundamental clinical research endeavor.” #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/RTJPfQUgdL
There's been criticism that too many of the show’s characters are on opioids, says “American Rust” showrunner Dan Futterman. But the way the series addresses drug use is intended to act as commentary on the pervasiveness of America's opioid crisis. #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/Vk8tyfOVQD
Many portrayals of the Rust Belt feel false, @HarrySmith says, or as though they're looking down on people.
"American Rust" executive producer Dan Futterman said he aimed to create an “insider view” with the help of co-showrunner Adam Rapp, who's from Joliet, Illinois. #TAF21 https://t.co/Av0KhuR1Yh
.@HarrySmith, himself from the Rust Belt, says Showtime’s “American Rust” feels authentic.
@Jeff_Daniels, who lives in Michigan, says he knows community members who are similar to his character. “These people are just looking for somebody to tell ’em the damn truth.” #TAF21 https://t.co/wqJX1bgrxX
“The Many Saints of Newark” attempts to turn a sprawling prestige TV show into a movie. The result is a film that feels more like a curious side project than a distinct work. @davidlsims on the “Sopranos” prequel: https://t.co/V13Ocb1hpg
“Ultimately, I believe that the optimal regimen for the vaccine for mRNAs is going to include that third booster shot,” Anthony Fauci tells @EdYong209. But that wasn’t always known. #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/nyAcp2msP5
“What is your stance on the role boosters should play in the pandemic going forward?” @edyong209 asks Anthony Fauci at #TAF21.
“Let me put it in context … We shouldn’t do our boost at the expense of getting vaccines to the developing world.” https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/BSLdgyAEmS
We’re not going to give more doses this year to the U.S. just because it’s approving boosters, @Pfizer CEO @AlbertBourla tells @craigmelvin. "We’re not changing the allocation to any countries in the world that we’ve promised doses to this year." #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/Azz3HnJJRk
.@Pfizer CEO @AlbertBourla tells @craigmelvin the company will continue to develop variant-specific vaccines as it did for Delta even if they are not ultimately used. “We will always try to be ahead of the virus.” #TAF21
https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/EzXQOhCDdB
What do we owe the Afghan women whom we told life would be getting better? @jeffreygoldberg asks. “It did get better,” @speakerpelosi says. But if the Taliban want international cooperation, it is contingent on how women are treated there. #TAF21:
https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/tuBL7ZRWe9
How soon after vaccination approval for children ages 5–11 can we expect children under the age of 5 to be able to get a shot?, @craigmelvin asks @Pfizer CEO @AlbertBourla.
“Between 2 and 5 [years old]… before the end of the year.” #TAF21 https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/mT40i7Hxhn
.@SpeakerPelosi insists that the spending bill is “all paid for.”
“This is objective fact,” she adds. #TAF21
https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI https://t.co/C1qSBHGPrj
Today at #TAF21, editor in chief @jeffreygoldberg speaks with @SpeakerPelosi, staff writer @edyong209 interviews Anthony Fauci, and @NBCNews’s @craigmelvin speaks with Pfizer’s CEO, @AlbertBourla. Join these conversations:
https://t.co/rEeWZWqPTI
The scholar and curator Nicole Fleetwood is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. In March, @lsjamison wrote about an exhibition Fleetwood guest-curated, “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which showcased the ingenuity of incarcerated artists: https://t.co/DH2j7Ihjhp
DAILY CROSSWORD: five letters for "shaped like a witch's hat or Bugles" https://t.co/bZBsNutNIK https://t.co/QAvuT4WpP2
RT @AdamSerwer: Conservatives did not spend several decades and billions of dollars to put impartial justices on the Supreme Court, and the…
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RT @AtlanticLIVE: .@CityofSanJose Mayor @sliccardo warns against "checking the boxes" and technocratic solutions to police violence at #TAF…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: Breaking down silos, says @TheLAMission’s Troy Vaughn, instead of narrowly focusing on the criminal justice system, is al…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: .@CountyofLA Alternatives to Incarceration Initiative’s Songhai Armstead says's that it's critical to connect people who…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: Stanley Andrisse of @HowardU shares a preview of the personal story that inspired his new book, "From Prison Cells to PhD…
"Cancel culture" is a murky term with murky consequences. For The Atlantic Daily, @mimbsy looks into what could come next for someone who has been canceled: https://t.co/4oPmSVaTAt
The insistence that judges are just following the law is a common rhetorical tool, but also fantasy. "No one wants to admit to being a hack," @AdamSerwer writes. https://t.co/G23kyyUyJa
RT @AtlanticLIVE: "Protests are not pixie dust," says @NAACP_LDF's @JNelsonLDF about the failure of police reform efforts in the Senate #TA…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: .@ColorOfChange's @rashadrobinson says that racial justice is a "majoritarian" issue—but that structural barriers stand i…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: Part of what the United States has to reckon with, notes @UNM 's Barbara Creel, is that indigenous peoples haven't histor…
"At 28, we are just old enough to remember what things were like before the attacks, and young enough to have come of age in a thoroughly post-9/11 country," @AmyWeissMeyer writes: https://t.co/dtbIGfO7Ko
RT @JohnGHendy: .@AdamSerwer: "What I take exception to is the demand from judges and justices that the public acquiesce to their self-delu…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: "Jefferson sort of ... personifies America,” @ClintSmithIII tells @JenishaWatts at #TAF21. “He wrote one of the most impo…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: “What does it mean that to get to school I had to go down Robert E. Lee Boulevard … that my parents still live on a stree…
RT @AtlanticLIVE: How do we end up with discriminatory voter-ID laws? @JenishaWatts asks @adamserwer and Vann Newkirk. “A majority of the j…
Today in The Atlantic: With the problems Joe Biden’s facing, Donald Trump may not have to steal 2024, @DavidFrum argues. Plus: @AmyWeissMeyer talks with former students of a school near Ground Zero about what they remember 20 years later. Read it all here: https://t.co/aMVh6GUUM7 https://t.co/2Oh4ouVYPD
RT @marinakoren: It's Scholastic book fair season for the kids, and wow-I'll-never-feel-that-kind-of-joy-again-will-I season for the adults…
RT @AmyWeissMeyer: 10/ Why am I telling you all of this now? Working on this story throughout the summer and up through the anniversary was…
RT @AmyWeissMeyer: 4/ I contacted their teacher, Kara Pranikoff, who shared student drawings and assignments she had saved. I was trying to…
RT @AmyWeissMeyer: 1/ I was in third grade in NYC on 9/11, old enough to get that it was very bad but too young to immediately grasp what w…
RT @marinakoren: A friend says they're doing a Scholastic book fair at her kid's daycare today.. here's the slightly depressing piece I wro…
In her writings, Simone de Beauvoir repeatedly returned to a childhood friendship that was as fulfilling for her as it was painful. @storyshaped on the philosopher’s novel “Inseparable”: https://t.co/ADD3a4ySGb
Pfizer has submitted data to the FDA on the use of its vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. Last month, @rachgutman explained where the process goes from here: https://t.co/DgSX734S7K
RT @AdrienneLaF: “Democracy is genuinely on the ballot in 2022 and 2024, as it was in 2016, 2018, and 2020. But this time, so too are price…
With the problems Joe Biden is facing, Donald Trump might not need to steal 2024, @DavidFrum writes. https://t.co/WdZSUEtEIO
RT @bvaughan71: "At 28, we are just old enough to remember what things were like before the attacks, and young enough to have come of age i…
RT @YasmeenSerhan: What mattered, @OlafScholz told me and a small group of reporters, was that Germans all felt a degree of responsibility…
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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "Only one side is 'to blame' for the crisis: those willing to reelect a corrupt and authoritarian president, even by d…
RT @AdrienneLaF: One of the most fascinating parts of my recent conversation with @ericschmidt was about how today's misinformation crisis…
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RT @Prof_Andrisse: I am looking forward to participating in @TheAtlantic Festival this year. You can register to watch for free here: https…
@ChrisBurkeShay Amazing how everything fits together so perfectly in each issue 🧐🧩
Pandemics are just one symptom of a broader ecological sickness: a “rift” in the planet’s social metabolism that occurs when economic abstractions are treated as more real than ecological limits. https://t.co/RfwVHTJwdD
Action shot from the dissertation writing bunker - it went poorly today 🤘😎 https://t.co/cRdFtmfZPb
Kyrsten Sinema dramatically crosses the aisle, joins the GOP, and rips off her mask to reveal — it's been Martha McSally all along!
The Sharon(ism) reading list:
1) Trade Wars are Class Wars https://t.co/JMcMktd31f
Lawmakers’ Plan C runs through internet hippo https://t.co/6SjS7dpLFu
Important point from @MattBruenig. https://t.co/69qxKD5TMt https://t.co/jWT5tovyHJ
Tradeoffs like means-testing or adding burdens may not give you the long-run political support that survey experiments suggest. Classic @jbsoss & @sanfordschram piece shows that the promised support for welfare never emerged after 1990s welfare reform https://t.co/Q4cZCB5tmF https://t.co/opfYwBMI3k
Work requirements and low means testing thresholds don't work if we don't have the ability to actually know if people are working or what their means are in real time. Need to make policy with attention to these constraints!
This is an expert maneuver of tax economists and lawyers.
"What if we just flipped around what it's called, but it still had the exact same effect?"
When you've got a good proposal, it's worth tricking the public and/or the law into accepting it. https://t.co/Y4E6ngMODK
@HeavyGrenadier It would involve VAT for big spending, a carbon tax, removal of step up and some smaller things such as getting rid of section 199a and carried interest. Perhaps also limiting charitable deduction and small steps toward mark to market. Corporate tax integration would be a dream
Also I am bitter at the Trade Lawyers, who say that a VAT plus an EITC is fine, while a DBCFT is not, even though for certain EITC parameters, they're identical.
Yes, tho admittedly this didn't work out that well for the Padres ultimately https://t.co/RxFvhTQhFq
I think legally it has to be deposited at the Treasury but only while there's an active issuance of debt happening. Can you imagine the drama of some rando Nebraska Rep having to race to get it back on time.
They should give every member of Congress a day with The Coin like it's the Stanley Cup. Make it like pizza sized
@mattyglesias @donmoyn @jbsoss @sanfordschram To the extent that this is true, it goes to show that mass opinion on low salience policy details doesn't matter very much and that making policy worse to pander to beliefs expressed in polling experiments is maybe not the best way forward
A few issues with this
1). Lowering the threshold does increase the administrative burden by increasing program churn/overpayments
2). The precise phase-out is not a salient issue and will move few votes, but pulling payments from people already getting them is salient https://t.co/5ONBq6M2yR
Bad take but hopefully Warren and the squad opposing Powell will give Manchin and company cover to support him https://t.co/8LRTQXN90a
Given Manchin is shaky on CTC full refundability, Dems should talk to Romney about resurrecting the deal to end stepped up basis and add full refundability
https://t.co/9OEH3RWkQE
See JD Vance talking about childless cat people, or Mitt Romney’s child benefit that goes to people even further up the income scale. Republicans are not going to attack based going to people too rich, they’re going to attack the lack of work requirements
On 2, seems unlikely the median voter knows where the CTC phases out now. The idea that they would vote on it seems even more unlikely. It’s not like college debt forgiveness, where Republicans could weaponize resentment easily. Children are on the other side of the culture war
Basically, a lot of ideas sound good at a surface level, but the actually administrative infrastructure to deliver them might completely change how they are actually delivered.
Echoes many of the points @PeteTheCitizen has raised about work requirements: https://t.co/C6RdrnhhDO https://t.co/2MDqwNwcZR
@jdcmedlock or Jimmy Dore invented the concept of leverage
either way Jimmy Dore invented something
@jdcmedlock Jimmy Dore invented not voting for a bad deal out of principle
I hope it works--and I do think Hemel's phrasing has a better chance of working. @fedtanyl made the same point, if I remember right.
@jdcmedlock https://t.co/HbGyqjfHzg https://t.co/SNDz1Ip8n4
Two beautiful Twitter pundits stand before me, but I only have one prof pic in my hand… https://t.co/hHU7OiDKQv
@TheOmniZaddy @jdcmedlock Yeah in general the piece seems unmoored from the reality of the politics, while staking itself solely on it being better politics for worse policy
@jdcmedlock I don't think the politics are actually helpful because it dependent on the material changes not mattering and the only thing that mattering being the polling data of it
@jdcmedlock Like it's muh realistically electability approach but it doesn't really get that no one really gives a shit about phase out lines and that isn't what the GOP will complain about because it's far too wonky
@mattyglesias @donmoyn @jdcmedlock @jbsoss @sanfordschram The specific argument was that cash welfare would become more popular if you restricted it. It didn't. Programs that expanded eligibility became more popular (e.g. Medicaid). Empirical evidence is that if you restrict CTC eligibility (means test), it will become less popular.
i just can’t get over how both 2 senators and almost the entire press treat Mark Warner’s $350b/yr over a decade as some massive number. Mark Warner is like in the top 3 most sellout to big business democrats in the senate! He doesn’t even support the PRO Act.
very important to means test paris hilton out of the diploma of office administration at the local community college https://t.co/QOOzlbdkaI
@jdcmedlock You want Bill Gates's son to get free community college?
one: this isn’t true, I’ve met many good ppl irl from twitter
two: told gf long ago I think I can do a pretty good @jdcmedlock impersonation irl (with plausibility since we’re both in norcal) for free drinks and whatnot. she told me not to do it and then asked who Medlock is https://t.co/7hjrV5FUDz
Corporations promoting communism are suicidal. https://t.co/LtkkzjbSHX
@jdcmedlock @mmburton You picked a DECISIVE winner 🥂
@jdcmedlock Would you please send your energy to @mmburton for today's municipal election in St. John's, NL
@GravelInstitute @jdcmedlock @a5h1ra Medlock create a video for Gravel
@jdcmedlock Jesus was the original preacher of corporate communism
@ChadNotChud @jdcmedlock Right, in no other circumstances would blocking the agenda of a President elected by the majority of the country be considered something a "moderate" would do.
@jdcmedlock Centrists aren't "moderates" example 34,789.
@besttrousers @jdcmedlock It's all part of the plan https://t.co/xA6nN1uoW9
@jdcmedlock Hey we don't know, maybe he's just a committed Dengist & thinks "communist corporations" are a good thing
@TheOmniLiberal I don't know if you could say the estate tax exemption is the primary reason rather than stepped up basis. We could close the loophole by modifying either one, it's good to focus on both, esp because stepped up basis repeal is on the table right now
@TheOmniLiberal I feel like the context of the original video got lost a bit here, they're not talking about this stuff as a problem, they're like a success-win real estate guy talking about how it's a good thing for people to exploit
@potatoaim330 @TheOmniLiberal This doesn't seem necessary at all. Like, the video was a guy telling people how to avoid taxes, 99% of people don't pay the estate tax anyway so why would he mention it
@Lib_Demonrat @Yucantcontrolme Fair, so it's 97% instead of 99% https://t.co/IfbgVUMc9U https://t.co/sh1oF3vlP0
@OfPoliticalMind "the estate will have to pay taxes on the difference in order to achieve the step up in basis at the end, it's not just 'tax free' once it goes to your heirs"
99% of the time, this is not true, it just goes to the heirs tax free
@potatoaim330 @TheOmniLiberal For 99% of estates, no taxes of any kind are paid, though the video does specify they're talking about capital gains taxes specifically
@FWillemsby @TheOmniLiberal In 99%+ of cases, it does not
@TheOmniLiberal I don't think anything you're saying contradicts the original video then?
@whstancil I very much do not think people vote on, or are even aware of, these granular policy details, and so we should just do good policy that works well https://t.co/1ajIx3Vk7x
@eean @Noahpinion Right, "Medicaid envy" https://t.co/kaLcio0R6h
https://t.co/eFsFqX5xDT
@Noahpinion I'll put this here too https://t.co/XjD61KyhGf
@Noahpinion This one is a survey experiment, but it also gets at an important distinction, which is between programs that target positively and negatively construed groups.
https://t.co/bWYwS37gf3
@Noahpinion In terms of general evidence, it's hard to separate out from other factors, but this is an interesting one:
https://t.co/3pt3FSO4Iv
@Noahpinion In the case of the ACA, I would be very willing to bet that basically no one knows the exact phase out thresholds, and given that lack of knowledge it would be hard to have any impact on public opinion
@Noahpinion Like imagine if we were having this conversation around the ACA. You could have argued that further means-testing the premium tax credit would be more popular in polls. But would that have impacted the ACA popularity in practice? Doesn't seem plausible imo
https://t.co/usENa3UQ2C
@Noahpinion I think there's a big difference between how people see hypothetical policies in a survey experiment and how benefits play out in practice on a dynamic basis
https://t.co/TH4jyE759Y
Giving people money = good https://t.co/A76wY3Upxg https://t.co/xWy5yplAFL
A good strategy to do progressive spending without onerous means-tests is to do categorical universal benefits for things that disproportionately help low income people. Free community college is like the perfect example - there's basically no money in means-testing it! https://t.co/ZMtGMO9hGv
@Yucantcontrolme Estate tax threshold is $11.7 million so irrelevant for 99% of people
@graphitor Yea it is a bit confusing since there's the tictok claim, omni claim, screenshot claim, and mine
@graphitor "the estate will have to pay taxes on the difference in order to achieve the step up in basis at the end"
That is wrong, the estate will not have to pay taxes on the difference
This is incorrect, 1031 exchanges can be done until death, at which point the heir can inherit the property and pay $0 in capital gains tax if they sell right away because of stepped up basis https://t.co/RRgl3mmQT1 https://t.co/KdYg0Y4bWZ https://t.co/QG5F8MjuN2
@andrew_vanstee @JosephPolitano @arielstulberg Certified Cruelty-Free Animal Spirits
@mtsw Can't trust a first baseman without power or a democratic senator from West Virginia who isn't an economic populist
@mtsw The padres and this congress have had similar trajectories - started with such high hopes!
@mtsw Put it on a necklace and let them wear it like the Padres homerun thing https://t.co/O1fyQ410X6
RT @GravelInstitute: @jdcmedlock @a5h1ra https://t.co/jsVwPbvUkS
@ZCroissant @VoidOfRoses And Lael seems perfectly good, but not necessarily a huge difference or anything
@JosephPolitano @arielstulberg Need more qualitative easing (where the fed buys up bad vibes on the open market)
@arielstulberg Inflation hawkery https://t.co/cNMNlPszA3
Maybe could do a deal to end TANF but replace it with a block grant program that isn't so broken and distributes funds more equitably across states
RT @donmoyn: Tradeoffs like means-testing or adding burdens may not give you the long-run political support that survey experiments suggest…
@simon_bazelon @JHWeissmann Did you do any polling on full refundability?
@TheOmniZaddy @un_a_valeable Yup, exactly, and the GOP can decide what they make salient, so anticipating their attacks is key - with college debt forgiveness, I really do think there’s a good popularism case to make for means-testing, but not for CTC
@un_a_valeable Yea, I’m generally favorable towards popularism, but I feel like you get the worst of both worlds poll testing wonky issues no one cares about. Making policy worse without making politics meaningfully better
@MustaphaTheMond Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t
I take no pleasure in reporting this, as I am personally tax-positive
Doing a big middle class tax increase right before the midterms is a bad idea politically https://t.co/1ajIx3Vk7x
RT @besttrousers: Important point from @MattBruenig. https://t.co/jWT5tovyHJ
I would encourage people to consider a recent experience we’ve had with a different tax credit. You could have made a similar argument then, but now dems are quietly expanding eligibility past the 400% FPL welfare cliff in the reconciliation because it was just bad policy https://t.co/usENa3UQ2C
And in terms of the permanence argument, it’s very important to point out that the means tested part (full refundability to the bottom) *is already made permanent* in the existing bills, and it’s very cheap.
On 1, the design of the tax credit is sloppy, with monthly payments based on an annual income that isn’t known until the end of the year. But the high phase out makes sure this doesn’t cause problems for most people. Bringing it down means more get improperly included/excluded
Yo anyone got a source on the "public investments in elec vehicle fleets (buses, work trucks) grease the wheels for scaling up production" thing? Hard to google for but I need to cite something
Stepped-up basis discourse made me do it. https://t.co/A0ozUPYvDg https://t.co/aJ0AJqQ3S9
@IlhanMN Glad to see Senior Policy Advisor @jdcmedlock is exerting his influence. https://t.co/9AzTv3WsIn
Part of welfare state thought is universality, but another part of it is about coherence. Likely a stronger sense of solidarity around single entity that administers benefits to all non-workers (kids, olds, disabled, unemployed, students) than for a slew of disconnected agencies.
Nevermind found a good one. For the record this is not a pro-car account, but it is a pro-public investment account. https://t.co/22iphpY2TO
Is @jdcmedlock posting his way to being followed by House members?? https://t.co/naH2QwKDWB
Can't help but wonder if the older folks who don't like the CTC would be as mad about it if it were Social Security for Kids and paired with old-age benefits increases. Let the kids join the popular old folks program vs. some new-fangled Democrat tax-benefit scheme.
@jdcmedlock @mattyglesias @donmoyn @jbsoss @sanfordschram All policy poll questions should have a paired question "not counting this call, how many times have you thought about this topic in the past month?". You'd get a lot of zero's.
@jdcmedlock Best thing she could have done for him
@jdcmedlock @JosephPolitano @arielstulberg Unleash the animal spirits they have caged
@jdcmedlock Doubtful as Manchin is an inflation hawk
@pearkes Love Liz on some stuff but her attitude towards financial sector regulation is at odds with a sector balance model AND helps (but does not completely) explain the anemic post-crisis growth in the USA. This goes beyond the pale.
Real estate speculators will literally say "it would be bad for us if people build more market-rate housing"
And mfs will still say "more market-rate housing would only benefit real estate speculators" https://t.co/hQaFAcN2Of
2/3 Despite widely available safe/effective vaccines they chose to succumb to what I term antscience aggression. In "antiscience kills" I've drawn a parallel to how Soviet peasants died in 1930s/40s by starvation from Lysenko vernalization pseudoscience https://t.co/3bNJW7wniJ
@athenogenes I agree that those GND posters that try to recapture the WPA aesthetic are weird
@JakeAnbinder But that's a 30 year difference not a 90 year one!
@athenogenes New Deal was modeled off of TR's Square Deal, Truman in turn modeled his Fair Deal off of the New Deal
Not sure the fakers here really nail the Times' headline tone https://t.co/kcrsovYrjm
The boys ARE back in town 🎼 https://t.co/a4GGw3QnUf https://t.co/q815jss7Uu
my dissertation in a nutshell https://t.co/UQT4AUl9hI
The 9/11 vs. covid response in a nutshell is we digitally erased the Twin Towers from a bunch of movies after the former and meanwhile at 120,000 cases a day we're premiering a film called "No Time to Die"
"Welcome....welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond." https://t.co/NXDm73ktiu
@newdougman The can opener I am retiring is a piece of crap so I was in the market for a good can opener
@DavidAstinWalsh "so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"
Green New Frontier
Green Great Society
Green Contract with America
Green Change We Can Green-lieve In
God this reminds me of trying to read academic writing - so little clarity, so much work, and if you do find a main point that you can articulate it’s something like “genocide is a state of exception” https://t.co/a9nXZdE4Rd
@JakeAnbinder Amateur economists: By applying a few basic principles that I learnt in econ 101, I am able to say vaguely intelligent sounding but actually totally wrong and stupid things about an enormous range of subjects.
Last night my wife said “I’m glad you’re so stupid” and then immediately fell asleep. But I think she meant it in a loving way.
Update: It's been three days since a 16-year-old in a pickup plowed over six cyclists in Waller, just outside Houston. Cops interviewed the teen and let him go from the scene. The latest from Waller PD? It's still under investigation
https://t.co/K6SpKZZ6o8 https://t.co/vn9E0CWc5s
We're very lucky that this man didn't launch nukes and maybe we should take affirmative steps to tyrant-proof american democracy for the future. https://t.co/d288Rnr0Bn
@owasow Mark Meadows, Hope Hicks, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump https://t.co/o2H1DyL5Pv
@DamonLinker @sckimbriel Socrates is full of something like hope, I think, in that his plans for Hades involve finding still more people to talk to—maybe you could say, there’s a hope for coherence of the dialogic world to that extent
@sckimbriel @DamonLinker that seems right—the misologist looks prudent because he counsels that it’s smarter to be without hope
@DamonLinker they really often do! language and reason are very frustrating, so it’s always tempting to believe the misologist is correct
We were only one Broadway chorus away from the end of humanity. https://t.co/OSE2IjWj2C
@sckimbriel @chezaristote Hmm. On my reading, the Socratic tradition culminates in aporia, not a systematic account of a coherent whole. But that's not a topic for tweets!
@chezaristote The misologists always have the upper hand.
@rjcaster That term usually refers to separation of powers. What's going on now blends that with the arbitrariness of today's ideological formations plus the extreme narrowness of the partisan divides in both houses of Congress.
I shudder at the thought of having to explain to someone why it is that the most powerful people in the capital of the most powerful country in the world are a couple of senators from Arizona and West Virginia.
@joelmmathis I'm not claiming Trump is consciously trying to do the things I'm talking about. I'm trying to suggest his man-baby instincts all point in the direction of an upside-down politics of authoritarianism.
RT @MikeGrunwald: If Manchin/Sinema insist on cutting the reconciliation bill in half, well, then you take half a loaf, sorry, you should’v…
Because, unlike Dominion, the military and intelligence services won't sue her for a billion dollars. https://t.co/L8IWc3hll6
@jennfrey @gregorykhillis All of this is just warmed-over democratic theory given a slight Catholic spin. (There are different versions of this in the Rawlsian and Habermasian traditions.) Just keep talking, "deliberate," and Presto, we'll reach a rational consensus! (Or not -- probably not.)
RT @Timodc: Having the federal government seize assets of nonprofits whose politics they don’t like doesn’t feel like a very smart long ter…
@DamonLinker I made this when it happened. Fits perfect. https://t.co/51mn3fMJn0
Ironically, “Memory” is not about a person, woman, man, camera, or tv. https://t.co/Wwsnw3HxFX
Upshot: higher religiosity helps explain why the poor in developing nations don't feel so bad about it. This fits with recent work by @LandonSchnabel documenting that religion is a compensatory resource for disadvantaged groups & suppresses emancipatory thinking in those groups. https://t.co/JJmLY7hsgz
“Mr. Trump’s handlers designated an unnamed White House official known as the “Music Man” to play him his favorite show tunes, including “Memory” from “Cats,” to pull him from the brink of rage.” https://t.co/BWrOfPwWee
And this should be a lesson to the anti-vaxx community broadly. Sure, you're free to choose not to get the vaccine. But, society is also free to impose sanctions on you for being irresponsible. You're free to do whatever you want, but you're not free from the consequences.
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. https://t.co/c0LG9x1mBI
@geoffreyfowler "it’s a robot surveilance camera for your home."
'have you ever said to yourself, "i like to be monitored 24/7, 365 days a year by tech companies - but i sometimes worry there are brief moments of my life they don't get to share.' Well we've got the product for you!'
My kid just now: “You know those anti-vaxxers? Why wouldn’t they want to be magnetic? Like, imagine how popular that would make me at school? I’d be like ‘hey, I’m magnetic!’” 🤣
Hey friend. I know today’s a rough day for you. It’s difficult to not have your genius recognized. Do some self-care today. If you live in Los Angeles, may I suggest a walk around MacArthur Park? 😜
@owasow Stories like this remind me that @pixelatedboat's "Gorilla Channel" fiction was probably closer to reality than we thought.
@socofthesacred @owasow @LandonSchnabel I lived in Kenya for a year in the 80s. One rainy sunday I was on a transport, looking at everyone going to their churches (some trad, some homegrown charismatic) and I, thought, nobody thinks this is real, this isn’t real to anyone. Then I corrected myself: I am the unreal one.
#OTD 1868, a massacre took place in Opelousas, Louisiana, one of the worst outbreaks of violence during Reconstruction. Death toll reached 250, most of them Black men, & a wave of lynchings followed. #KnowYourHistory #history #tdih https://t.co/MeWqDOisH3 https://t.co/kJNTQyfsTm
@XLProfessor @socofthesacred @LandonSchnabel Lately in US seems we’ve cut out the middle man and gone straight to opiates are the opiate of the masses.
RT @socofthesacred: Upshot: higher religiosity helps explain why the poor in developing nations don't feel so bad about it. This fits with…
Our #NASEM consensus study on the well-being of #LGBTQ+ people received an achievement award from @GLMA_LGBTHealth!
https://t.co/y9LVDXkS0k
@owasow Little too on the nose with the old Frankenstein's monster analogy.
Forget the ridiculousness of this story for a minute.
What song would you play to bring you back from the brink of rage? https://t.co/G6xh45OAWS
@TheStalwart knew that would be servaas before i clicked
How dare you question the doctrine of the Virgin berth? https://t.co/C4jgUMJsBL
Foundation (2021), only on Apple TV+ https://t.co/uWzU5l1zj2
If they all sound exactly the same, it’s called Rickardian Equivalence. https://t.co/JFb7CninD0
@M_C_Klein If a Senators blames someone for something they didn’t do that they should have, it’s called A Warren Omission Commission.
@RobinBrooksIIF Doesn’t the combination of USD strength with higher yields suggest a more purely cyclical story rather than a threat to perceived safety of USTs, which would require both higher yield and a weaker USD (as happened in the 1970s and occasionally in 1987-95?) https://t.co/Yg6zFXlVHI
@Gilesyb @TeraPauliina @billwells_1 @MESandbu @crampell Yes, denial of AD amounts to denial of macroeconomics. The purpose of central bank policy is affect AD. (It is a very badly and inconsistently defined concept -- I prefer "total expenditure" for most purposes).
It's pretty obvious who's face should be on the trillion dollar coin IYKYK https://t.co/1IJn6itgyk
@JStein_WaPo @NathanTankus This is part of the problem. Also, my understanding is that Brainard was perceived by many Powell critics as insufficiently progressive when there was discussion about her at Treasury.
H/T to @axios for @CDCDirector's quote, which mirrors my thinking exactly.
I got my Pfizer boost this wk @cvspharmacy in rural GA, where I was on vacation. Zero wait (I wish there was more demand–GA: few masks, 45% vaxxed), mild sore arm only side effect (same as shots 1 & 2). https://t.co/bbtb7hlA0o
@conorsen Well I just mentioned them they’ll probably be here any minute now
BIG BUSINESS: Folks I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[ECONOMISTS nod]
You KNOW I am a supporter of a carbon tax
ECONOMISTS: Absolutely
BIG BUSINESS: BUT! https://t.co/30EmXg7Wgu
And to many of those whose full-time job is paying attention to it https://t.co/ABOOKeQRXB
funny that Warren comes out against Powell *after* he said last week that he will defer to the new VC for Supervision on regs https://t.co/M9JrM3FK7U (ps great q from @vtg2 ) https://t.co/UDe27Ioirk
The fact that, not two days after the Tonys, we are now discussing Cats is offensive to me, personally
@ModeledBehavior @conorsen @TheStalwart (Again not my argument but think of it this way)
Powell way: throw $ —> increase moral hazard —> need to throw even more $
Warren: make system resilient enough so it doesn’t need the $ thrown at it everytime
(Don’t shoot the messenger who also may be misrepresenting message)
@jeannasmialek @carolynnlook @readep @pogkas does this count everyone on furlough as employed?
.@drlisadcook's name didn't come up in this specific exchange. But she is routinely mentioned in conversations about Fed nominations.
Story from June: https://t.co/xZw3DiLWRq https://t.co/Fm5RFGeKkP
@NathanTankus @TheStalwart If not Brainard then who do progressives proactively want that could feasibly be appointed? Rarely get a clear answer to this
Just realized that if someone makes a Powell doc one day, the trailer is def going to be (pls read in movie preview voice):
"Donald Trump called him an 'enemy." Elizabeth Warren called him a 'dangerous man.' The WSJ called him 'Mr. Normal.' Who *is* Jerome Hayden Powell?"
There is nothing romantic about Virginia’s part-time legislator model. It puts public service out of reach for far too many people and ensures we rarely have the time to give our work the full attention it deserves.
@sam_a_bell @jeannasmialek @carolynnlook @readep @pogkas I think it must
We gave @SecYellen a friendlier reception today than she faced before Congress. Great talk on global corporate taxes, US infrastructure, the IRS, inequality and climate change.
#NABE2021 https://t.co/bCU6qvIS8o
This is notable, because I think (correct me if I'm wrong, Fed Twitter) it's the first hint that from someone at the Fed that they're not 100% sure that those trades were in compliance. https://t.co/atH7UfojJw
@karlbykarlsmith @jeannasmialek @carolynnlook @readep @pogkas yeah I think we gotta see what happens when these programs end
@jc_econ @sam_a_bell This is like when they tried to use "Cocaine Mitch" as an insult.
On Friday, the NY Fed announced it was returning the Treasury's remaining equity investment in the Fed's corporate bond facilities. Because of the structure of these facilities, this reduced outstanding Treasury debt by around $12 billion. More breathing room on the debt ceiling! https://t.co/rdPPZXtkGQ
Biden will need to decide whether he should follow Yellen's advice and reappoint Powell for a second term as Fed chair, or listen to Sen. Warren https://t.co/H6WP1Udjim
Great to see a jump in the July SEPH employment!
Some of the outsized (+325K) rise might've occurred in June, since payrolls can take to time update. Still, the narrowing gap btw headline SEPH and LFS to 1.2 ppt (-2.5% vs -1.3%), can bolster our confidence about the recovery 👍 https://t.co/hWONmWaTPi
Realizing I closed a window with like one of those ever-growing 50+ tab "reading list" and I'm not sure if I'm more upset or relieved...
but also
"Fed Chair for Life" -- @DennyHeck https://t.co/6wdICMKjqS https://t.co/LFM9oM5ZKL
.@PhilippaSigl @DezernatZ are everywhere https://t.co/aWYnkrjDl4
RT @rachsieg: NEW: When the Supreme Court struck down the CDC's eviction moratorium, lawmakers, housing experts and tenants braced for a "t…
RT @jeannasmialek: On a group call with some fellow MBA students this past autumn, I mentioned the market crisis in March 2020.
"What cri…
@peterbakernyt @katierogers sources say @marthagimbel and @ernietedeschi play this role in the White House today
RT @kdurquiza: I spent a couple of hours on the phone this morning with @CA_EDD supporting my partner in their #UI claim. We got nowhere.…
@MayankSeksaria @vtg2 I am more -- oh so much more -- than my monetary takes, Mayank
@MayankSeksaria @vtg2 She’s good. For example, https://t.co/YP8inEk3Oa
RT @Reuters: 🇬🇧 Britain's COVID-19 furlough program to stop on Sept. 30: More than a million British workers face an uncertain future this…
RT @PrestonMui: I've got a piece up at @employamerica examining the stories commentators and policymakers tell about why inflation expectat…
@SalehaMohsin and Elizabeth was the one who blocked Larry so Janet could get the job in the first place!
@MayankSeksaria @vtg2 what does that mean? a tweet thread on what?
RT @KalebNygaard: Sam predicted this move three weeks ago on the show 💰 so more a move closer to reality than a substantial change in proba…
high water mark for Lael and low for Jerome on @PredictIt https://t.co/YaSdK5Ftbo https://t.co/BnnZbcUrWq
RT @jc_econ: Senator Warren formally opposes Powell's renomination calling Powell "a dangerous man"
@Fritschner @TheStalwart the Zabars constituency is big into Odd Lots https://t.co/IaPuDbRKFS
RT @NickTimiraos: Powell is asked if the inflation we're seeing is broader and more structural than earlier in the year.
"Yes, I think it'…
RT @SallyLHudson: There is nothing romantic about Virginia’s part-time legislator model. It puts public service out of reach for far too ma…
2. GC's in my experience are averse to transparency. Powell says he wants to preserve public trust. Independent auditors have the mission of finding and disclosing. An IA seems like it would fit the mission better here. 2/
@Zachary For this assertion, the Chamber cites one article that talks about the Fed. Last time I checked, Prof. Omarova was not nominated to be a part of the Fed.
I'm honored and completely overwhelmed by the recognition from @macfound and @HHMINEWS. Flexible funding with a multi-year commitment is the professional scientist's dream and I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity. 1/4
@wwwojtekk @Noahpinion I am always happy to adapt my positions to new evidence
@ColinJMcAuliffe I don't think we should do that though because it is bad policy.
@JessicaCalarco Mine calls every day in the past she can remember "yesterday."
@Robert_t_Orr In general I have a hard time imagining most people not directly affected would care much even if they disapprove. Needs more Mancur Olson.
The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s no risk at all to the officers and no real opportunity to frame it as somehow leading to more crime. They just think they ought to be exempt from the rules. https://t.co/CPtNhyRHFF
Hope II, 1908 #artnouveau #gustavklimt https://t.co/w5zRPmwwwU
It doesn't preclude a winter surge later. But schools have been open long enough that it's looking somewhat unlikely we'll have a national COVID surge caused by school re-openings. Cases are still falling in most of the country.
https://t.co/i8ElZQJZ5p https://t.co/wunbuvY1FN
When your country makes the vaccines, did the clinical trials, and had enough vaccines for every person. But you're #48 on the list
https://t.co/CtQtGEAl0S https://t.co/Oou9ayex1x
“The jump in vaccinations in the days before the deadline gave New York one of the highest rates of vaccination among health care workers nationally.”
Mandates work.
https://t.co/y0Lwsuu4oI
Stay for the 2nd tweet in this short thread.
Gut punch. https://t.co/hC598oRFgd
There's no such thing as "identical twins"
Each person carries a distinct epigenomic signature, which can be used retrospectively to determine the type of twins
https://t.co/BvyRhdEZHy @NatureComms https://t.co/qafFC2LrNY
Features of #LongCovid in over 270,000 people: 42% had at least 1 residual symptom at 3-6 months compared with 30% of influenza patients
https://t.co/X9CxA50wgc @PLOSMedicine https://t.co/RqKkPJtCc9
We couldn’t close the deal because we’re a society with four centuries of deep inequities + a lack of sense of interconnectness/collectivism which could not be remedied/corrected in a year and and a half. https://t.co/5MuCVc7BCv
The headline and data visualization that will go down in history as the leading explanation for America's failure to lead global vaccination, but instead leaving its people highly vulnerable to spread covid, get hospitalized and die. https://t.co/jzgBOxW4xT
Uncoupling covid cases and deaths.
In Southeast Asia's Delta wave, Singapore is now the only country with a notable rise in cases. It also is the country with the lowest death rate and has >80% of its total population vaccinated.
@OurWorldInData https://t.co/Issq9XXXKe
Correction: Thanks to @phylogenomics, it really isn't a "contribution" but a correlation, since the immune status of the individual could account for the
changes in the lung microbiome (and also to #SARCoV2 susceptibility)
Alaska now has the highest case per capita of any state at any time during the US pandemic https://t.co/Q8i61izCxO
Just published @ScienceMagazine
A gene variant in the interferon pathway, our innate immunity, is associated with protection from severe Covid, missing in horseshoe bats, and has marked global variability with high prevalence in Africa
https://t.co/cmsfEBBkzy
@virologist_atu https://t.co/1IcKxA1l4F
Shortest time (25 min) in my experience going from this platform to a slide on a talk given (@GlobalGenes in this case) - so a public thank you to @EricTopol for being an incomparably reliable source of substance and depth on matters of biomedicine and healthcare. https://t.co/grstUvCyEZ
And now … imagine an edit-on-demand pipeline in such a setting.
This is a tractable goal for genomic medicine.
It really is. https://t.co/4bOvNOvaRc
@EricTopol "Given the substantial proportion of asymptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases with high viral levels, interventions, including masking and testing, should be considered for all in settings with elevated COVID-19 transmission."
A review of what's known about side effects of stem cell injections at unproven clinics https://t.co/bDDJ2FtslK #stemcells Data have accumulated so there's a clearer picture https://t.co/g4Im1J1Ht4
@EricTopol I just gave a lecture on COVID to the residents of my Med School and I presented this picture telling them that a medical choice such as vaccination has become the expression of a political identity. They will need to face this unbelievable fact in the future.
How did Portugal become the current #1 in the world fully vaccinated country at 83% of its total population?
https://t.co/hmvDv10J4w
"Health experts attribute Portugal’s vaccination success to constructive co-operation between medics, the military and local officials." https://t.co/mT5CFG8s2w
Why is the trust equation on health in Portugal so much higher than that in the USA or almost any other country. #COVID19 https://t.co/16inM3BimZ
@EricTopol There was almost no politicization of vaccination; all politicians (both in power and opposition) supported the vaccination process. Also, although there are a few crazy anti-vaxers, it is a really very very small number.
PCR cycle threshold (Ct) ≠ transmission liability/risk.
We already know that transmission from vaccinated individuals is low. The magnitude has yet to be quantified.
But it can happen. That's why their concluding statement is prudent nad helpful https://t.co/YqPGBKEEYK
The title tells the story: No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups Infected with #SARSCoV2 Delta Variant
https://t.co/XpJseefHga Findings extend prior reports of Delta asymptomatic infections in vaccinated https://t.co/YYTDZ3td7W
What are the risks of Covid transmission related to air travel? Still much more to learn, may be different with Delta variant. Boarding process and meal service key liabilities
https://t.co/lqbgomi5iL
“I’m disappointed airlines don’t go for scientific approaches." by @MiddleSeat https://t.co/iKJF3XuZW3
Descending from Delta. This is as good as the world has looked in many months
@OurWorldInData https://t.co/0vEYnFBQHY
RT @IanJDickson: The catastrophe in Alaska became national news two weeks ago, I think, when Providence Hospital announced the move to cris…
RT @RobertoBurioni: @EricTopol I just gave a lecture on COVID to the residents of my Med School and I presented this picture telling them t…
Deaths déjà vu
In April 2020, >2,000 deaths a day was horrific.
In September 2021, >2,000 deaths a day is worse than horrific. More than 95% are preventable. https://t.co/LWyDZTDuUY
"The [booster] data themselves weren’t in contention. Rather, nearly the entire debate centered on broader value judgments....."
https://t.co/AJCr0XIqUY by @DrLeanaWen @PostOpinions https://t.co/IeWaEfqBHR
Comparison of 4 vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AZ) for neutralization titer, vs. Delta and other major variants, and prior covid (convalescent) at 4 weeks after full dosing
—mRNA vaccines significantly higher across the board
—Prior Covid highly variable
https://t.co/sGPNAcCQcj https://t.co/Ya1r0TH8qg
