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@paulkrugman -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:30 +0000 2021
Pragmatic progressives versus centrists living in the past https://t.co/ddMton1Bwm
@paulkrugman -- Tue Sep 28 15:12:15 +0000 2021
There surely is a hard core of people who really believe that vaccines will turn you into zombies, or something, and will quit rather than take their shots. But most of them will fold 3/
@paulkrugman -- Tue Sep 28 15:10:04 +0000 2021
A large part of the anti-vax, anti-mask mind set — not for everyone, but for many — involves refusal to accept personal inconvenience, real or perceived, for the sake of the public good. Naturally, such people won't make personal sacrifices for their beliefs 2/
@paulkrugman -- Tue Sep 28 15:07:42 +0000 2021
So angry people claiming they'd quit rather than getting vaxed are ... getting vaxed. They huffed, and puffed, and caved. And I think this was predictable 1/ https://t.co/4UUtRTCULE
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 00:36:12 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom maybe this was all a crafty plot to get cops to self-abolish
@digby56 -- Tue Sep 28 17:28:53 +0000 2021
As the president meets with Sinemanchin I hope he reads them this quote: https://t.co/hkNpCbc0DX
@joshtpm -- Mon Sep 27 19:00:04 +0000 2021
@yeselson This really is on the level of "If gravity is real, why don't the people in China fall up?"
@joshtpm -- Mon Sep 27 23:15:26 +0000 2021
Remembering the time @tedcruz thought the weather sucked and high tailed it to Cancun and then got caught and had to scurry back and hand out some water bottles in mom jeans.
@joshtpm -- Wed Sep 29 02:27:39 +0000 2021
I feel like Catholics asking for religious exemptions should probably be sent this link. https://t.co/S8OfPmbzK7
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 15:36:17 +0000 2021
it's just the regular process of Republicans threatening to light the country on fire if they don't get their way. I mean, happens every two or three years. https://t.co/X2dHOYLeTX
@joshtpm -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:47 +0000 2021
lib version of boat parade. sad. https://t.co/hPfJW3HMoo
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 02:27:23 +0000 2021
@DanteAtkins Gold Member in Gold Member
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 00:32:34 +0000 2021
wear it with pride https://t.co/g2jrXjlBom
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 15:11:42 +0000 2021
this is one of the most horrifying and anger inducing things I’ve read during the whole pandemic https://t.co/AZZqyZm2tR
@joshtpm -- Tue Sep 28 17:07:00 +0000 2021
nice of Cotton to give Milley the opportunity to drop kick his 'my neck is as wide as my head' ass from here to eternity https://t.co/lZjMX7BBuR
@joshtpm -- Mon Sep 27 18:35:44 +0000 2021
Just got an Instagram ad for a Lego Christmas house set. And man that’s so old school after huge LOTR and various other lego sets my kids had. I’d expect they we’d be on to like a Chapo Traphouse lego set or maybe Jan 6 lego set w various members of the MAGA cinematic universe.
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:25:44 +0000 2021
Sociologist @JessicaCalarco has observed that, while other nations have social safety nets, the U.S. chooses to rely on women. "It was the kind of statement that knocks you back a step for how obvious, complex and direct it is," writes @tressiemcphd. https://t.co/rbP1WAqy12
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 15:02:38 +0000 2021
RT @BozT: A sobering and accurate description of so much of the current landscape with regard to criminal investigations and prosecutions o…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 14:46:10 +0000 2021
“Assuming that he is in good health, Trump will almost certainly run for president in 2024, and if he does, he’ll do so in a Republican Party pacified of any resistance to his will to power,” writes @jbouie. https://t.co/LituXBMQtG
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 14:43:39 +0000 2021
RT @joehagansays: "[T]he belief that TikTok is nurturing aesthetic genius sometimes feels a Philistine’s delusion, nurtured by an adult est…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 14:05:05 +0000 2021
As a 9-year-old, Devon Michael knew the role of Anakin Skywalker could change his life. But he didn’t know how. He shares his story in a new Op-Doc by @bgproudfoot. https://t.co/Aw4qzC8aDB
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 14:00:30 +0000 2021
“We might think we have dominion of the land, but our power is nothing compared to the glaciers that shaped New York or the climate change that is taking shots now,” writes Eric Sanderson, a conservation ecologist. https://t.co/VUYvN3FDLS
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:37:57 +0000 2021
"When I first went to the Smokies and hiked up into the old growth in the southern Appalachians, it was like somebody threw a switch," Richard Powers tells @ezraklein. "The world sounded different and smelled different." https://t.co/HoNXZraQLT
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:36:15 +0000 2021
RT @dwallacewells: “Contrary to legend, many of the balking Democrats don’t come from swing districts; anyway, the Biden economic agenda is…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:34:55 +0000 2021
RT @Eugene_Scott: “Assuming that he is in good health, Trump will almost certainly run for president in 2024, and if he does, he’ll do so i…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:15:56 +0000 2021
We asked artists and graphic designers to redesign the American flag. Here’s what they came up with. https://t.co/S7vYvoRJzJ
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:12:26 +0000 2021
RT @thatdarongirl: Very unexpectedly moved by this this morning. https://t.co/errP0q2rIV
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 13:08:17 +0000 2021
RT @rickhasen: New ⁦@jbouie⁩, citing my paper on the risk of election subversion https://t.co/OjKrbw0yC7
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 12:49:51 +0000 2021
“If you actually want to take precautionary steps that might really limit whatever damage social media is doing,” @DouthatNYT says, “you need to create a world where social media is understood to be for adults.” https://t.co/U2uMuJMYKN
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 12:26:36 +0000 2021
“Sometimes, and much to our detriment, we find real events are simply too outlandish to take seriously,” @jbouie writes. “Many professional Republicans, for example, initially dismissed the movement to ‘Stop the Steal’ as a ridiculous stunt.” https://t.co/huM8CrMomG
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 12:03:33 +0000 2021
“It’s no longer radical, or even really necessary, to proclaim that women take pleasure in sex,” writes @michelleinbklyn. “If anything, taking pleasure in sex seems, to some, vaguely obligatory.” https://t.co/Qqtla4Doyo
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 11:41:32 +0000 2021
“The digital maps that orient our lives on smartphones and laptops are the result of a series of compromises or half-truths and don’t always accurately represent the world as it is,” writes @GregBensinger. https://t.co/wcbWkEKNYW
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 11:11:57 +0000 2021
Sociologist @JessicaCalarco has observed that, while other nations have social safety nets, the U.S. chooses to rely on women. "It was the kind of statement that knocks you back a step for how obvious, complex and direct it is," writes @tressiemcphd. https://t.co/viYpZAm3Xk
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 10:44:44 +0000 2021
Angela Merkel's "real legacy is the evidence that effective politics need not mean shedding humanity or steadfastness, and that being underestimated may be the true key to political longevity," writes Serge Schmemann. https://t.co/FEvURZjp7k
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 10:05:08 +0000 2021
“We ran one of the largest and most sophisticated studies of mask wearing,” say @Jabaluck, @Kwong_Laura and Stephen Luby. “In communities where we promoted surgical mask use, Covid-19 cases dropped by 11 percent.” https://t.co/KPx9CIzr4v
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 09:44:43 +0000 2021
"We ought to begin with the idea that each one of us has dignity whether we work or not," writes @jonmalesic. "Your job, or lack of one, doesn't define your human worth." https://t.co/ozxBWuxEWh
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 08:09:02 +0000 2021
When a someone facing almost insurmountable political odds — as a woman, an East German and a scientist — rises to the pinnacle of German power and stays there for four terms, there’s something there to learn and emulate, writes Serge Schmemann. https://t.co/TMCefvdGy1
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:48:06 +0000 2021
"It's somewhat Orwellian to rewrite historical utterances to conform to modern sensitivities," writes @michelleinbklyn. https://t.co/5NTsYjJjUB
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:25:02 +0000 2021
"The Biden administration’s handling of the Haitians was just wrong, and heartbreaking, and disgusting," @CharlesMBlow writes. "These Black people were treated like animals because Biden is afraid of a Washington full of monsters." https://t.co/GzP1Qsnmly
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:08:54 +0000 2021
More surprising than G.O.P. efforts to undermine the Biden agenda "has been the self-destructive behavior of Democratic centrists," says @paulkrugman. Why should Biden abandon highly popular policies like taxing corporations and reducing drug prices? https://t.co/mGZjxysAwY
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:24:22 +0000 2021
"When New York City was the epicenter of Covid in the United States, large swaths of the country looked on at our suffering but apparently found it impossible to see themselves in us," @MaraGay says. "How many lives could have been saved if they had?" https://t.co/ss0TPoCf9H
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:18:27 +0000 2021
RT @MichaelRStrain: THREAD. It is in Republican's political interest to cooperate enough with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling. It is al…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:18:15 +0000 2021
"When New York City was the epicenter of Covid in the United States, large swaths of the country looked on at our suffering but apparently found it impossible to see themselves in us," @MaraGay says. "How many lives could have been saved if they had?" https://t.co/fS6QZCQWh0
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:28:20 +0000 2021
"What’s gone wrong for Biden is a combination of bad luck, bad choices and inherent weakness," writes @DouthatNYT. https://t.co/dw4ESpD5lU
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:18:06 +0000 2021
RT @MargaretRenkl: No matter how hard I try to understand, this makes no sense to me at all. Via @nytopinion: https://t.co/Kaw0TSBx7j
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:17:41 +0000 2021
RT @DusetzinaS: If you are wondering how it feels to live in a low vaccination state now, this describes it well. When Medical Ethics Col…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:10:57 +0000 2021
RT @fayepenn: Never bet against NYC. It may take time, but we will figure it out. Love this ⁦@MaraGay⁩ essay and how it captures the opti…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:08:50 +0000 2021
RT @JessicaValenti: This clear-eyed love letter to NYC from @MaraGay is just gorgeous https://t.co/lDJzQJD3AN
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:08:41 +0000 2021
RT @ConnieSchultz: “It is the people who live here who deserve credit for getting us to this point: the residents who got vaccinated, who a…
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:59:48 +0000 2021
RT @paulkrugman: Pragmatic progressives versus centrists living in the past https://t.co/ddMton1Bwm
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:45:14 +0000 2021
RT @petercoy: How a Princeton Economist Teaches Resilience https://t.co/YXmqPF6NTN
@nytopinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:17:17 +0000 2021
RT @michelleinbklyn: https://t.co/OyoMAk2swI https://t.co/VoQiuvfFff
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 21:20:22 +0000 2021
Interrupting isn't always rude, explains the linguist Deborah Tannen. Indeed, for those of us who learned the cultural practice of "cooperative overlapping," talking over people can be a supportive conversational move. https://t.co/sSWWWgdmnP
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:51:00 +0000 2021
"We ought to begin with the idea that each one of us has dignity whether we work or not," writes @jonmalesic. "Your job, or lack of one, doesn't define your human worth." https://t.co/kJTOmYLTwk
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:01:05 +0000 2021
“Nearly one-fourth of U.S. adults have a disability, many of whom rely on S.S.I. or home- and community-based services to survive,” says @SeeMiaRoll of @CAPDisability. Reducing the funding Biden promised them “would be more than just ethically wrong.” https://t.co/CBID4XNtE6
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 19:34:19 +0000 2021
"The convergence among candidates goes beyond political style," @onachtwey of Germany's election on Sunday. "After 16 years of rule by Ms. Merkel, the country has settled into a seemingly unshakable status quo." https://t.co/L8BCgWK5AP
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 19:11:53 +0000 2021
"We’re going to keep going with New York City if that’s all right with you. And it will sure as hell be back," wrote @JerrySeinfeld last year to a "putz on LinkedIn" who had fled to Florida. https://t.co/zaTxIyKdc6 https://t.co/PxAu56Pfvk
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 18:47:24 +0000 2021
According to a new report, the 27 richest American dynastic families have seen their wealth grow by a combined 1,007% since 1983, while the typical family has seen its wealth increase only by 93% over nearly the same period.  https://t.co/xiY0ptjA14
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 18:26:27 +0000 2021
RT @gailcollins: Heaven forbid you pass up a chance to score political points just because it could wreck the economy. https://t.co/OnqnQs…
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 18:20:00 +0000 2021
Vladimir Putin, knowing that Angela Merkel fears dogs, deliberately summoned his black Lab into the room where they were meeting. She offered a biting explanation: “I understand why he has to do this — to prove he’s a man. He’s afraid of his own weakness.” https://t.co/o8FQebqPb8
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 17:59:43 +0000 2021
After his failed run for Democratic presidential candidate, @BetoORourke has turned his attention toward defending voting rights in Texas. He gives @karaswisher a status update on today’s episode of Sway. https://t.co/rVTOyEB9vj
@nytopinion -- Mon Sep 27 17:34:51 +0000 2021
RT @MaraGay: I wonder how many lives could have been saved if America had seen itself in New York City. https://t.co/nIjnJe6mu8
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 20:57:11 +0000 2021
Parts of Trump’s own voting base view him more skeptically now because of his support for the vaccine, and that skepticism has furthered him talking about “freedom” from mandates. https://t.co/QBTwsEXqpa
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 00:01:46 +0000 2021
This post-election breakdown that @TonyFabrizioGOP did of the "tribes" within the GOP is a useful reference point for understanding where Trump is w/r/t the Republican voters refusing to take the vaccine. https://t.co/dpgBjXohDO
@Bernstein -- Tue Sep 28 12:24:15 +0000 2021
I guess a tweet of mine got screengrabbed and posted by one of the truly big Instagram meme accounts. Now people I knew from like, Hebrew school, are reaching out to congratulate me — “I always knew you were talented,” “so insane,” etc. Puts my “accomplishments” in perspective.
@jbouie -- Mon Sep 27 18:02:07 +0000 2021
yep! “reform not defund” elides the fact that police departments are largely outside of lower-case democratic control, and “reform” rests on a two-way assumption of legitimacy. can’t reform anything that doesn’t view the reformer as legitimate to begin with. https://t.co/EOrPcUqvj8
@JerryDunleavy -- Mon Sep 27 21:37:29 +0000 2021
I can confirm that Post Pub is reopening within days. https://t.co/5kAgq8fGIx
@seungminkim -- Tue Sep 28 01:46:47 +0000 2021
Folks .... https://t.co/NBIidAmkGX
@seungminkim -- Tue Sep 28 00:02:33 +0000 2021
This week sucks
@jmartNYT -- Tue Sep 28 02:01:06 +0000 2021
.@Liz_Cheney @deucecrew NH https://t.co/RbBdKPLOVi
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:02:31 +0000 2021
NEW - Trump loses his arbitration case against Omarosa Manigault Newman alleging she violated her non-disclosure agreement with the campaign by writing her book, "Unhinged." https://t.co/IMJZYq1CjJ
@Bencjacobs -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:45 +0000 2021
Some personal news . . . https://t.co/gqqiJYHtwj
@Alyssafarah -- Mon Sep 27 20:42:47 +0000 2021
Reminder: ✨✨you don’t have to follow me ✨ 💃🏻
@AP -- Tue Sep 28 02:38:02 +0000 2021
The FBI says homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since it began keeping records. Experts suggest the increase is a "unique situation," due to a confluence of factors, including the pandemic. https://t.co/Dou81yDBM5
@freedlander -- Mon Sep 27 23:22:19 +0000 2021
"Dem Run City" here is a mall on Staten Island https://t.co/0pezmbsKrl
@adamgoldmanNYT -- Mon Sep 27 17:35:08 +0000 2021
@alanfeuer Because NYT reporters prefer to say informant/source rather than CHS to avoid FBI jargon.
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 15:04:32 +0000 2021
Happy birthday @bobhardt. Gonna get you a copy of a campaign buzz column
@maggieNYT -- Wed Sep 29 01:24:20 +0000 2021
Oh I forgot about Navarro previous books and this excellent @arappeport joint https://t.co/3WYaOT0JIw
@maggieNYT -- Wed Sep 29 00:16:39 +0000 2021
Peter seems to think all NYT female employees are the same. This was written by @katierogers, not me. But thank you! https://t.co/ZSppSEfQLO
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:57:42 +0000 2021
Arbitration cases can't set precedent. But they can be cited by other arbitrators if they're made public. https://t.co/C5JUGzDPxV
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:54:25 +0000 2021
The issue was about not wanting to transfer power and not be seen as weak. But the anecdote is a reminder of how much energy was expended on what turned out to be pretty small stuff throughout four years
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:51:57 +0000 2021
* go under anesthesia
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:51:28 +0000 2021
This is a weird take! https://t.co/lqNW5mZXX0
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:49:43 +0000 2021
From @katierogers writeup of Grisham book, the final answer to the mystery Walter Reed trip was not that Trump had a secret heart ailment or some other deep health secret; he was getting a colonoscopy and decided not to get sedated https://t.co/MG5g7wbiwJ
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:40:13 +0000 2021
The meta point here after this case and another in SDNY - the NDAs that Trump has relied on for years are basically unenforceable, at a time when a former aide wrote a tell-all that comes out next week and other former aides are contemplating books https://t.co/IMJZYq1CjJ
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:27:17 +0000 2021
RT @dnvolz: “Alerted to the violations by the Journal, 56 of the judges have directed court clerks to notify parties in 329 lawsuits that t…
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:25:17 +0000 2021
The NDA "effectively imposes on Respondent an obligation to never say anything remotely critical of Mr. Trump, his family or his or his family members’ businesses for the rest of her life...Such a burden is certainly unreasonable.” https://t.co/IMJZYq1CjJ
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:22:50 +0000 2021
Asked for comment, Trump did not reference the suit itself - one he insisted on filing as a warning shot to other former aides - and instead delivered personal attacks on Omarosa. https://t.co/IMJZYq1CjJ
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 13:11:27 +0000 2021
The arbitrator said the NDA is basically unenforceable under NY law, overly broad and too onerous https://t.co/IMJZYq1CjJ
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 12:22:52 +0000 2021
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…
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 02:58:08 +0000 2021
RT @cliffordlevy: The ⁦@ACLU⁩ tweet, sent out on Sept. 18, changed Justice Ginsburg’s words, replacing each of her references to women with…
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 02:38:36 +0000 2021
RT @AP: The FBI says homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since it began ke…
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 01:50:40 +0000 2021
RT @seungminkim: Folks ....
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 00:57:03 +0000 2021
RT @TheOnion: Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond https://t.co/61luQg3wDI https://t.co/jZrRZ0J20m
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 00:48:24 +0000 2021
RT @alexburnsNYT: “Several senior Democrats are also hoping Biden will more forcefully weigh in on the infrastructure vote Thursday, public…
@maggieNYT -- Tue Sep 28 00:05:47 +0000 2021
RT @bobhardt: It took the Metropolitan Opera 138 years to perform an opera by a Black composer. Here’s to Terence Blanchard, a New Orleania…
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 19:29:08 +0000 2021
RT @igorbobic: McConnell says he got his COVID booster, calling it “an easy decision"
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 19:21:53 +0000 2021
RT @ZekeJMiller: NEW YORK (AP) — R&B star R. Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial after decades of allegations about sexual misconduct…
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 18:16:55 +0000 2021
RT @succession: Tom Wambsgans. Gregory Hirsch. #Succession https://t.co/fLhwA3mNF9
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 17:36:41 +0000 2021
RT @aseitzwald: Beto dropping oppo breadcrumbs on Mathew McConaughey! We may need Richard Linklater to moderate/direct this Gen X Texas d…
@maggieNYT -- Mon Sep 27 17:30:37 +0000 2021
RT @ccadelago: (AP) — Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appr…
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 23:06:36 +0000 2021
What is Ozy?
@rickhasen -- Tue Sep 28 12:40:09 +0000 2021
New ⁦@jbouie⁩, citing my paper on the risk of election subversion https://t.co/OjKrbw0yC7
@JohnJHarwood -- Tue Sep 28 11:44:29 +0000 2021
former Trump press secretary: “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as if it were in the air conditioning system,” Grisham writes. https://t.co/5bBPUcELYi
@BudgetHawks -- Tue Sep 28 14:29:17 +0000 2021
Join us TOMORROW to discuss Tax Policy in the #BuildBackBetter Act. Get a breakdown of what’s in, what’s out, and what it all means for the country Our expert panel includes @MarcGoldwein, @RichardRubinDC, @dashching, and @AlexBrill_DC #TaxBackBetter ⤵️ https://t.co/wRePdpq65O
@rickhasen -- Tue Sep 28 14:11:04 +0000 2021
This, from @jbouie on Democrats ostrich-like behavior, is 💯 https://t.co/OjKrbw0yC7 https://t.co/uJ41MRECiL
@rickhasen -- Tue Sep 28 00:34:09 +0000 2021
Want to learn more about the risk of election subversion? See the pieces linked in my thread from earlier today: https://t.co/F46kdpTljp
@rickhasen -- Mon Sep 27 21:03:49 +0000 2021
#ELB: Rather Than Affirmatively Condemn John Eastman for Trying to Steal the Election, the Federalist Society “Slow-Rolled” His Departure So As to Not Look Pressured (According to David Lat) https://t.co/JWWVnHJsqb
@frankthorp -- Mon Sep 27 18:29:03 +0000 2021
@kelsey_snell @bresreports Bres took us all hostage with his excellent reporting.
@frankthorp -- Mon Sep 27 18:21:06 +0000 2021
I’m just going to room rate this backdrop as a 12/10, because you don’t want anything to distract from the perfection that is @bresreports, so a blank white wall is the only appropriate backdrop —> https://t.co/9DJVvEik4x
@ATabarrok -- Tue Sep 28 00:58:50 +0000 2021
@JohnHolbein1 💉⏩
@JohnJHarwood -- Mon Sep 27 17:40:31 +0000 2021
Nancy Pelosi is a peerless vote-counter Chuck Schumer understands his caucus Joe Biden has 90% job approval among Democrats and an instinct for common ground tough negotiations ahead but "i think we're going to land the plane," says Sen @ChrisVanHollen https://t.co/CHshCSE85d
@JohnJHarwood -- Mon Sep 27 21:32:38 +0000 2021
from AP: As daughter sought state license, Noem summoned agency head https://t.co/CiOBnKEVW6
@greenfield64 -- Mon Sep 27 21:15:12 +0000 2021
It was a matter of huge pride among us Bx HS of Science folks that Darin was a graduate. Made up for the army of slide rule nerds. https://t.co/4GTE1varxE
@goldengateblond -- Tue Sep 28 03:35:28 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @JoyAnnReid as if going to the dentist wasn't bad enough, now I have to talk to lawyers too?!
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 18:41:14 +0000 2021
"If an enemy of the US wanted to decapitate America’s national security leadership, they could hardly do a better job than Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have by blocking scores of top nominees" @djrothkopf only gets harsher from there https://t.co/02l5lXvnzI harsher from there:
@MelissaJPeltier -- Mon Sep 27 19:55:59 +0000 2021
So this happened…#CityOfAngelsWomensFilmFestival @MIArtbox @marykerry @ChrisRGibbs https://t.co/5iWEiGHZJd
@Popehat -- Tue Sep 28 02:07:14 +0000 2021
Honestly @mitchellvii is coming off a bit timid here. Hard to imagine being frightened of @SebGorka unless you're a curb, a pleather vest with weak buttons, or a Der Wienerschnitzel. But then Bill was never what I'd call robust. Nice hair though. https://t.co/0T3RJuBmqD
@Timodc -- Tue Sep 28 02:34:11 +0000 2021
The last paragraph here about how there’s no rhyme or reason / pattern to covid is just preposterous. I think there are varying explanations for Florida but the three low-vax, gulf coast states are en route to the top 3 in deaths per capita and it’s not one big coincidence https://t.co/VqcqicnYDw
@TedNesi -- Tue Sep 28 01:13:14 +0000 2021
There was a great camaraderie working at Borders in the 2000s. We were the big chain bookstore of the people - no fancy ampersand like Barnes & Noble! - down to earth. A national retail chain could still have a sort of personality, in its own way. Most of that was the people. https://t.co/2KwxMmIUef
@dcherring -- Tue Sep 28 05:44:47 +0000 2021
@natfinnonE @RadioFreeTom @TheRickWilson Mobs aren’t always easy to start, but once u got one movin….
@jentaub -- Tue Sep 28 02:03:54 +0000 2021
To be clear, I am a caffeine person, not a cannabis person. But maybe I do need my hearing checked. https://t.co/hDj1ruVtgx
@ericowensdc -- Mon Sep 27 22:28:43 +0000 2021
@dubsmud @RadioFreeTom I have a smaller-town doctor friend who owns an expensive pickup truck. He’s made the same observation. He can pull up in his truck and patients see a man of the people. But If he buys a Mercedes for the same price, he’s that fancy, rich doctor. It’s weird.
@ericowensdc -- Tue Sep 28 03:26:48 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @dburbach @DDFStrand Also, none of the jobs you mention, David, except possibly accounting would have required a college degree 40 years ago. You just worked your way up. And college was still broader. “Pre-law? Pre-med? What’s the difference?”
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:41:47 +0000 2021
After everything that Republicans have done - and are doing - to destroy American democracy, if you still think this is about the economy and globalization and forgotten towns and opioids, you've lost the plot.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:31:17 +0000 2021
"I talked to my attorney before I came here." Clearly, the stresses of globalization and economic anxiety have been haunting this woman ever since we elites offshored her job to China back when she was in grade school https://t.co/vjhXR5n3Lo
@alice_radley -- Mon Sep 27 20:18:36 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom WHY WON’T YOU BUY CARLA WINE? YOU’RE A MONSTER! IT’S A FINE PURRGUNDY! https://t.co/ie0Oi0t3J5 https://t.co/tVejXhi52l
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:24:00 +0000 2021
At the very least, the Democrats are proving that they are not nearly organized enough to pull off that big socialist vote-rigging coup that FOX nuts are always screaming about.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:22:03 +0000 2021
This is like watching the Russian opposition bicker about who gets which office at the Duma while Putin cemented his grip on power. I never thought I'd be wishing for a more bare-knuckled Democratic Party, but here we are. https://t.co/GSBvmvdGGQ
@bobsalpha1 -- Tue Sep 28 01:36:06 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom You also have to love that they are incapable of seeing the consequences of yelling and harassing the staff of a dental office to force them to work on her teeth. Like, I don’t want to piss off the dental hygienist before she gets to work.
@ellenbraaten -- Tue Sep 28 03:52:06 +0000 2021
@DeanxRiley @OpheliasMarbles @RadioFreeTom @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Speaking of bad tweets, this is great fun though I couldn’t believe there was not a single tweet from @RadioFreeTom https://t.co/Pbx7qVldiT
@ellenbraaten -- Tue Sep 28 03:46:53 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom @dburbach @DDFStrand We need employers to stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t require a college degree.
@ellenbraaten -- Tue Sep 28 03:44:18 +0000 2021
@MikeWMerritt @RadioFreeTom @AdrienneLaF Read the article.
@HelenKennedy -- Tue Sep 28 00:33:14 +0000 2021
@chrislhayes I love your show - you’re the smartest guy on tv - but this business of opening with you standing while the camera drifts drunkenly around is making me seasick.
@PattyArquette -- Tue Sep 28 02:12:41 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @gpgomez No. We are many.
@dburbach -- Tue Sep 28 03:43:44 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @RadioFreeTom @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Hopefully. I have been shocked to learn how far into a liberal arts major you can be at some large universities while encounting nothing but multiple choice or short answer exams in textbook-based courses
@dburbach -- Tue Sep 28 03:38:06 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @RadioFreeTom @ericowensdc @DDFStrand the right loves to beat up on gender/race "studies" or art history, but there are far far far more underemployed people with degrees in business, communications, hospitality, concrete management, etc than those fields
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:31:41 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Somewhere along the line, we convinced people that only losers don’t go to college. This was a pernicious lie fostered across the political spectrum.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:29:32 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand And then quit.
@dburbach -- Tue Sep 28 03:26:17 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @ericowensdc @DDFStrand My own extended family fits this pattern almost to cliche: my generation is almost 100% graduate schooled + moved far away, or, no college, never moved away, often unstable relationships and/or addiction, now often antivax. Nobody in between.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:26:05 +0000 2021
@dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand There is no greater resentment than people with “some college“ or a degree from a local university that prepares them to do absolutely nothing.
@dburbach -- Tue Sep 28 03:21:00 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @DDFStrand @RadioFreeTom 40 years ago there'd have been a lot more responsibility and decision making power in the hands of a manager of a local department store, vs now a WalMart manager's sphere of control and required skill level (and pay) is much lower, with more done by central IT in Bentonville
@dburbach -- Tue Sep 28 03:12:44 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @JMoLawre @NomineNemo @dubsmud @ericowensdc I can vouch that on the rare instances when I'm driving a truck or SUV it's because I'm in Oregon taking it down dirt roads my dad told me to stay off of. https://t.co/I0GSbuBVPP
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:50:20 +0000 2021
@JMoLawre @NomineNemo @dubsmud @ericowensdc The tell is that those trucks are shiny and un-dinged and have never been used for actual work-related stuff. Just saw one in the parking lot at the local supermarket the other day; the wheels alone were worth an entire off-shored Chinese factory. It was so economically anxious.
@OpheliasMarbles -- Tue Sep 28 03:33:50 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Absolutely. My employer just added a degree program in Concrete Management. I'm pretty sure people used to learn those skills quite effectively on the job site.
@ericowensdc -- Tue Sep 28 03:32:41 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @dburbach @DDFStrand I often think of George Bailey at the old Building & Loan.
@ericowensdc -- Mon Sep 27 22:10:36 +0000 2021
@FixSheltersNow @RadioFreeTom @glassmeg I’m sure you are asking Tom. But @davidfrum said something interesting: Trump so floods the zone with admitted scandal and crime that people are somehow bored with it.
@ericowensdc -- Mon Sep 27 21:57:17 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @glassmeg Trump’s executive orders were almost uniformly toothless. As an aside, a public university with a blanket policy against nazi speakers would be acting unconstitutionally. There’s no way any school had or has such a policy — written down.
@ericowensdc -- Mon Sep 27 19:41:54 +0000 2021
@glassmeg @RadioFreeTom But it didn’t and the schools could and did and do refuse speakers, or accept them. Richard Spencer and Milo Y. are not speaking on campuses. They were speaking more before the order.
@joanwalsh -- Tue Sep 28 14:48:45 +0000 2021
@JRubinBlogger @RadioFreeTom Wow. Together we really turn out the misogynist Trumpy trolls! Haven't blocked this many folks in ages!
@joanwalsh -- Tue Sep 28 01:01:13 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom It often lurks within bigoted WASPs.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:42:05 +0000 2021
An unserious nation plagued by dangerous toddlers who believe they deserve clemency because hey, at least they didn't shit on anyone's desk. https://t.co/uNXoFl6XG5
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:53:54 +0000 2021
@dcherring @TheRickWilson Trump said it a month ago and got booed and it's getting worse; not sure they can stop that train now. :(
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:59:02 +0000 2021
I see Tom Cotton has gotten to disgracing himself.
@JMoLawre -- Tue Sep 28 01:27:00 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom I keep circling back to We let Trump win in 2016 despite our Soros backing
@gpgomez -- Tue Sep 28 02:23:13 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT MY TWEET HAS 314 LIKES AND COUNTING AND YOURS HAS 19
@gpgomez -- Mon Sep 27 23:04:14 +0000 2021
@shoutingboy @RadioFreeTom @lorikramer58 TOM WILL BE DISAPPOINTED NO MATTER WHAT IT'S HOW HE IS
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 15:31:00 +0000 2021
Cotton knew what he was asking. He is not stupid. He was creating video for FOX. https://t.co/5dfqSQ89OU
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:55:09 +0000 2021
Sen. Fischer basically saying that the problem in AFG pullout was the elected President not obeying military orders.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:13:52 +0000 2021
This was the point I was making early on: That Milley was saying he can't approve orders, but he wanted to know about them. A fine but important distinction. https://t.co/ajYiI3FVaz
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 23:35:44 +0000 2021
"Rarely has so significant a faction in American politics behaved in a way that so directly claims the life of its own supporters," @conor64 writes: https://t.co/YrGarwG1zQ
@DeanxRiley -- Tue Sep 28 03:45:02 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @Sarcher Even if she had worn a mask and behaved, the second she mentioned speaking to her lawyer, probably any doctor or dentist would be looking for reasons to refuse her service.
@DeanxRiley -- Tue Sep 28 03:34:40 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @joanwalsh Also it's not really so much a choice to convert as it is going from being ignorant of the teachings of one Church to parroting what they hear in another.
@Marmel -- Mon Sep 27 23:58:07 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom “Mack the Knife” is my go to Karaoke choice and I have video with a live band in Tokyo for receipts.
@joero3 -- Mon Sep 27 20:51:43 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Do you have your tuxedo on?
@Ondine_MD -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:05 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom @IT_not_real @mtbguy1 I agree with a lot of this. Even passions can be real work. I love working w ppl but will never learn to love 4 a.m. pages. :(
@Ondine_MD -- Mon Sep 27 17:32:38 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @mtbguy1 @RadioFreeTom … where they live, what they eat, where the kids go to school, and where they take vacation. (New Yorker Writer vs local Auto Dealership Franchise owner.)
@elliotcwilliams -- Mon Sep 27 20:55:43 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @joero3 I'd expect nothing less. After all, you're not a farmer
@hilaryluros -- Mon Sep 27 20:35:28 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Please ask Carla what her PayPaw account number is.
@DSSebastian1 -- Mon Sep 27 18:13:16 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom @IT_not_real @Ondine_MD @mtbguy1 Yep. And now we have thousands of film school graduates who think we should forgive their student debt.
@kleavitt -- Mon Sep 27 18:47:02 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Thanks T-Nick. I’m not always on my own best behavior. And ever since you criticized Antony Blinken’s socks, I’ve felt you should up your hosiery game.
@ChrisO_wiki -- Tue Sep 28 02:15:08 +0000 2021
@MattWinfough @RadioFreeTom You could call the cat sidekick... Pussy Galore.
@Ukrainolution -- Tue Sep 28 02:10:23 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Not being able to do a convincing Russian accent didn’t stop this man. Go live your dream. https://t.co/TCOFE6ao4z
@RadioFreeTom -- Wed Sep 29 02:35:19 +0000 2021
Man, I got into a lot of heads with one book https://t.co/3pH05nessd
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 19:03:57 +0000 2021
This makes Obama's "I'll have more flexibility after the election" seem like savage diplomacy, but at this point, there could be photos of Trump giving Putin a foot massage and Trump supporters would explain why it was a brilliant move. https://t.co/gmiOQ64Fei
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:47:18 +0000 2021
Milley and Austin on somewhat different pages about the “credibility” issue
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:14:47 +0000 2021
Meanwhile, as Milley defends trying to keep the country safe, this is the guy who was president https://t.co/V0z2iyl9mL
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:14:10 +0000 2021
RT @AndrewDesiderio: Wow — this line was not in Milley’s prepared remarks: “I am not qualified to determine the mental health of the presi…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:13:09 +0000 2021
RT @PDShinkman: "I know, I am certain, that President Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese." Cites "concerning" intelligence that Chi…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:09:57 +0000 2021
RT @AaronBlake: Milley: "With respect to the Chinese calls ... [they] were coordinated before and after, with Secretary Esper and Acting Se…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:09:53 +0000 2021
"With the knowledge and oversight" of the civilians. https://t.co/p7YZu7MedT
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:07:36 +0000 2021
RT @laraseligman: He issues a stark warning that "a reconstituted Al Qaeda or ISIS with aspirations to attack the United States is a very r…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:07:15 +0000 2021
RT @DanLamothe: "I have no illusions who we are dealing with," Gen. Milley says of the Taliban.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:05:26 +0000 2021
RT @PDShinkman: Whoa. Now Milley confirms previous reports that he received an unclassified, unsigned order to withdraw all U.S. forces fro…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:04:42 +0000 2021
RT @laraseligman: BREAKING: Milley just now acknowledges reporting that on Nov 11 he received an unclassified signed order from Trump direc…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:04:05 +0000 2021
Important point here. Milley planting a flag on his advice. https://t.co/ItIGX5uRAV
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:02:43 +0000 2021
RT @laraseligman: Milley now going into depth about Trump admin efforts. Says under the Doha agreement, the Taliban failed to honor nearly…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 14:02:00 +0000 2021
Milley making the point (rightly) that preventing further 9/11s was the mission.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:59:50 +0000 2021
RT @AaronBlake: Inhofe today: "We went from 'we we will never negotiate with terrorists' to 'we must negotiate with terrorists.' " Inhofe…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:59:25 +0000 2021
RT @AaronBlake: Interesting from Lloyd Austin: "We need to consider some uncomfortable truths ... [including] that the [2020 Taliban deal]…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:58:30 +0000 2021
In fairness SECDEF says Bagram wouldn't have been that useful - but mostly because it would have to be defended, and then...well, back to "that meant staying at war," which seems to me to be a hand-wave.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:56:56 +0000 2021
Circular reasoning on Bagram, imo. "Defending it would have meant defending it, which POTUS said we would not do, so we did not do that."
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:55:03 +0000 2021
RT @laraseligman: Austin now defending the decision to turn over Bagram air field to the Afghans in early July. Read my deep dive on that…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:54:44 +0000 2021
RT @qikipedia: "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." MARK TWAIN https://t.co/v6HR9sltLR
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:51:14 +0000 2021
RT @BillKristol: "Perhaps you were under the impression that the political class was comprised of serious people who recognize that we are…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 13:41:42 +0000 2021
RT @davidfrum: Latest in @TheAtlantic For all the attention on how Trump might try to steal the 2024 elections in swing states - if price…
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:57:05 +0000 2021
I was robbed https://t.co/IIdfY1VAWA
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:43:48 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Communications has become a default major in a lot of schools.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:43:16 +0000 2021
@MikeWMerritt @AdrienneLaF MySpace did not have a quarter of the planet on it
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:37:42 +0000 2021
@Sarcher Yes, it was very common in my factory town to indicate that you had spoken to your lawyer before routine medical procedures
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:37:18 +0000 2021
@GMcFerren All set!
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:33:07 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @dburbach @DDFStrand I say this institution is not necessary!
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:32:32 +0000 2021
@jeffaleon It doesn’t work that way. Remember, millions of dollars were poured into the attempt to create liberal talk radio. It failed. You are confusing cause and effect.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:30:39 +0000 2021
@Real_MrBill @ericowensdc Guys, you are speculating here but it is unnecessary. He literally disobeyed a direct order and then challenged his command in public to arrest him. There was no alternative to that. I’m amazed it didn’t happen sooner.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:28:50 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @dburbach @DDFStrand I was going to say, the overproduction of college and graduate degrees created cutthroat competition for jobs that used to be perfectly acceptable high school diploma jobs and still are
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:23:58 +0000 2021
@jeffaleon I wish there were a more interesting answer
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:22:59 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @drhpa33 In the story. He literally challenged his command to arrest him. They obliged him.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:22:38 +0000 2021
@dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand All of this is true and I agree with it. But there is also a problem that college has become the default setting, and four years or five years of college does not prime you to go back to your hometown. It’s the worst of all worlds: not prepared to do anything, and nowhere to go.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:17:42 +0000 2021
@jeffaleon Outvote them.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:16:46 +0000 2021
@drhpa33 @ericowensdc If anyone had bothered to read the story, he was put in the brig for disobeying a direct order. The military does not take kindly to that at any rank but especially not in a senior officer.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 03:16:00 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @SollySollinger Disobeyed a direct order.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:43:46 +0000 2021
@dannyc12taw No.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:43:34 +0000 2021
@shoutingboy CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:42:33 +0000 2021
I have the best followers and also I hate them https://t.co/O6fLpyg5Hp
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:40:04 +0000 2021
Yikes. https://t.co/ogyxCVHsOb
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:38:30 +0000 2021
Enjoy! https://t.co/Cey9Gf63DH
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:37:25 +0000 2021
@FousekMichael @RonFilipkowski Whoa.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:36:52 +0000 2021
@gpgomez @PattyArquette *backspaces a joke that would haunt me forever*
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:24:56 +0000 2021
@PattyArquette @gpgomez https://t.co/x0Q0H55xRI
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:22:25 +0000 2021
It's @AdrienneLaF vs #Facebook and it's 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/AuVCb1m23Q
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:17:32 +0000 2021
@bhandel58 A fat, old Jack Ryan, yes
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:15:47 +0000 2021
@ChrisO_wiki @MattWinfough IT WAS RIGHT THERE and you were the first one to it
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:10:58 +0000 2021
@gpgomez @CharlesPPierce IF HE CAN REMEMBER TO PICK YOU UP
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:10:23 +0000 2021
This would be a version even I would watch https://t.co/Ij3VKI5hdi
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:06:50 +0000 2021
@MarVistaWriter @domjgordon I wanted to maybe snap you back a little closer to political reality, but if you post in this TL, you get what this diner serves.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:06:07 +0000 2021
@gpgomez CALL WALLY SHAWN
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:05:07 +0000 2021
@MarVistaWriter @domjgordon I just thought it was easier to get right to the point.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:03:01 +0000 2021
@MarVistaWriter @domjgordon "Republicans have been planning this for decades" is ridiculous. "Democrats are thinking only of the future" is also ridiculous.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 02:01:12 +0000 2021
@gpgomez You are so alone.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:39:51 +0000 2021
@sdrose @bigolewannabe @alice_radley @gpgomez https://t.co/6PXcse8cxg
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:36:24 +0000 2021
@AnneNotation I hate that you're right
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:32:49 +0000 2021
I already tell my colleagues that they "appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season." I think I'd look fab in full Drax. https://t.co/n34N0DxJkW
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:22:26 +0000 2021
@MattWinfough The cat could sell it, but Blofeld cornered that shtick
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:14 +0000 2021
I just can't do that convincing of a British accent, so I took myself out of the running https://t.co/1ulQufqmLl
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:19:05 +0000 2021
@JRubinBlogger @joanwalsh And yet hyper-conservative Catholics will let that fastball go right past them - or worse, have become like the political Evangelicals who don't bother with the whole "church and belief" part.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:11:07 +0000 2021
This is the part that I find incomprehensible. How you do live with yourself after turning 180 just to see if you can go to Oz? | Lying for Power: A Wyoming Parable in Two Parts  https://t.co/51duhOMD9y via @BulwarkOnline
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 01:01:10 +0000 2021
@gpgomez @alice_radley THE RAIN YOU MAKE IN MY SOUL NEVER STOPS
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:34 +0000 2021
@ScotchTrousdale Dunno. I don't see notifications from anyone who doesn't follow.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:40:25 +0000 2021
"And also, Tucker, seeing as a represent a massively Catholic country, if you could lay off that anti-Catholic shit until my segment is over, that'd be great" https://t.co/tZpH3ek1qZ
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:39:11 +0000 2021
I couldn't fit into the jeans I wore at 21 when I was 23, and I am calling bullshit on these so-called "experts" and their "science" and "facts" https://t.co/2alX67XsrS
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:30:36 +0000 2021
@ChicNHip Pretty sure me checking in on Tucker isn't the issue here. You run your own Twitter account, I'll run this one.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:27:16 +0000 2021
@IceIsMyVice @Marmel Just imagine how much I could raise for charity with that one song
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:26:45 +0000 2021
This is a mistake. Never ignore what millions of people are watching. Keep yourself informed. https://t.co/hr07Bo5xgj
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:26:16 +0000 2021
@ChicNHip To make you ask stupid questions.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:13:57 +0000 2021
@Marmel I once did “867-5309” with a live band. True story.
@RadioFreeTom -- Tue Sep 28 00:12:43 +0000 2021
Just when you thought he would stick to white supremacy, he’s decided to go in for some anti-Catholicism while he’s at it, likening the president getting a booster shot to “people who take communion every day“ https://t.co/j7eEncdDVZ
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 23:51:01 +0000 2021
RT @TheAgenda: "This is what happens when you get a bored middle class that is fed a steady diet of propaganda about how they are the downt…
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 23:08:06 +0000 2021
@steven_metz Engaging them convinces them that they are right
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 22:51:47 +0000 2021
RT @ConnieRR4: Truth by @RadioFreeTom Trump is not ruining democracy, we are. And it's been anguishing to confront: Tom Nichols https://t.c…
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 22:51:08 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @dubsmud And inane.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 22:13:21 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @FixSheltersNow @glassmeg @davidfrum Yep
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 21:53:24 +0000 2021
@glassmeg @ericowensdc Same reason he did most things: performative bullshit
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 21:52:59 +0000 2021
@rbdoeker @Timodc Because we’re so clear and objective?
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 21:30:41 +0000 2021
@stannieholt @mattski_o Yes. Excellent book.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:52:19 +0000 2021
@joero3 It's not after 6 yet
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:50:51 +0000 2021
I am listening to Bobby Darin because one should do so on a regular basis.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:32:58 +0000 2021
RT @dubsmud: @ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom A Chevy 2500 High Country costs the same as a 5 series BMW. Guess which driver is a blue collar, fl…
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:31:32 +0000 2021
This is the way to my heart https://t.co/WulaCg2peE
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:31:05 +0000 2021
Her anxiety about globalization the offshoring of manufacturing is palpable https://t.co/MHQqNGrrtk
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 20:30:11 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @glassmeg This is such a weird argument. Trump's "order" did nothing.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 19:48:44 +0000 2021
RT @ebombicino: Inequality. Globalization. Deindustrialization. The entire business model of social media. There’s been a lot of reasons th…
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:13 +0000 2021
@JMoLawre @sdrose @IT_not_real @ericowensdc @Ondine_MD @mtbguy1 The idea that you have to have passion for your work or you get to hate everyone else is a modern invention.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:56:06 +0000 2021
"The racial gaps — while still existing — have narrowed. The partisan gap, however, continues to be enormous." - @DLeonhardt https://t.co/uyRY8l2Fpo https://t.co/72qO9jXeZc
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:45:27 +0000 2021
@mtbguy1 @ericowensdc @JMoLawre @IT_not_real @Ondine_MD If by popular, you mean "peaked in 11th grade," okay
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:44:50 +0000 2021
@JoeReynolds2020 @ericowensdc @TastelessAlex "Those black people and their rap music (that my son keeps buying)"
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:44:07 +0000 2021
@DSSebastian1 @ericowensdc @IT_not_real @Ondine_MD @mtbguy1 "Do what you love and the money will follow" is usually not true, and "Follow your bliss" is the kind of hare-brained advice you can only give in an affluent society.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 18:43:17 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @IT_not_real @Ondine_MD @mtbguy1 Yes. This is why I keep saying that affluence and living standards enabled our resentment.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:56 +0000 2021
@IT_not_real @Ondine_MD @ericowensdc @mtbguy1 I didn't feel any sense of job security until well into my 40s; the thing that causes resentment, I suspect, is that "elite" jobs provide more psychic income even if they pay less and are less stable in many ways.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:47:55 +0000 2021
RT @dandrezner: Perspective | How scared should we be about 2024? https://t.co/1nEMatvHNH
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:45:04 +0000 2021
@peetapeisreal It's not a big deal. Presidents get colds and the flu, they sleep, they have medical issues, just like everyone else.
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:44:00 +0000 2021
RT @Acosta: ICYMI: Fired Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt was fired for calling Arizona correctly. On yesterday’s show he reacted to the res…
@RadioFreeTom -- Mon Sep 27 17:35:19 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @TastelessAlex Greater levels of contact with people we don’t happen to like
@Blackwater52 -- Mon Sep 27 23:42:23 +0000 2021
The pedestal I place @RadioFreeTom on is so high he must get nosebleeds. I don't have my own copy of "Our Own Worst Enemy" yet but I read his stuff. (I taught at Framingham State U while I lived in East Boston.) https://t.co/hgp2sgdLF2
@mktsutherland -- Tue Sep 28 03:50:27 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @MaryMhc1988 I am just finishing chapter 4 (audiobook) and surprisingly I am more open to considering this argument than I was when I started. When is the book club discussion? Could you open a weekly thread where we tell you why we disagree & ask questions? We could show proof of purchase
@seasquirt99 -- Tue Sep 28 03:49:47 +0000 2021
@OpheliasMarbles @RadioFreeTom @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand I was a college advisor for a short time in the 1980s. Once, a kid who wanted to be a business major, but couldn't take any of the major courses because he didn't pass the 9th grade algebra prerequisite, said to me, "You mean I have to take all these bullshit courses?!"
@JarBomb -- Tue Sep 28 00:14:38 +0000 2021
Really missing Iraq today. Fascinating country—I hope it becomes a place that’s safe to travel to in the near future. I’d love to go back… https://t.co/7x6oVePHTm
@WaltCorey -- Mon Sep 27 21:44:26 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Are you certain I'm not 10 years your junior? Bobby Darrin? Any thoughts on Frankie Avalon, Annette Funacello?
@andrewdgravy -- Mon Sep 27 19:52:30 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom I'm gonna have to tweet a LOT more 80's movie quotes/gifs! ;) https://t.co/SQoGVUH3Es
@jim_mortensen -- Tue Sep 28 03:42:50 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @ericowensdc @drhpa33 As the son of a Marine officer and a veteran myself, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for those that undermine the chain of command.
@SMcTavishESQ -- Tue Sep 28 01:25:53 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Clearing the way for Jessie Plemons
@CriticalCricket -- Mon Sep 27 19:55:05 +0000 2021
@AnneNotation @ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom @IT_not_real @Ondine_MD @mtbguy1 People don't realize that chasing a pecking order like that is unhealthy as opposed to being content with the current one you have. Every time they move up into a new pecking order, everything gets reset and they are relatively poor again.
@bigolewannabe -- Tue Sep 28 01:47:07 +0000 2021
@sdrose @RadioFreeTom @alice_radley @gpgomez "Girls, please. This is a book reading. People paid for tickets. Go back to the car then we'll get ice cream after it's over." "TWO SCOOPS AND WAFFLE CONES OR NO DEAL". "Fine. Just go."
@JVillesvik -- Tue Sep 28 02:23:36 +0000 2021
@alice_radley @RadioFreeTom @gpgomez In the spy novels by Trevanian, one of the running gags was that the agency hired spies who looked like Wallace bec they were against type. However, they were so consistently hired that they were easily identifiable
@barontmoney -- Tue Sep 28 01:22:25 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Putting my resume together now: https://t.co/baQtGQ2aCg
@CarolYMorrisse1 -- Tue Sep 28 13:52:47 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom 🐈 https://t.co/iAPqmgK02h
@adosis -- Tue Sep 28 04:25:09 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Saw you on @tvo tonight can’t wait to read the book
@OpheliasMarbles -- Tue Sep 28 03:04:13 +0000 2021
@BordewickSteve @RadioFreeTom Minions. Tom has minions.
@OpheliasMarbles -- Tue Sep 28 02:06:32 +0000 2021
@gpgomez @RadioFreeTom I'M WITH MONEY DAD ON THIS ONE 😬
@GregoryBTrotte1 -- Tue Sep 28 03:37:37 +0000 2021
@gpgomez @RadioFreeTom I liked Tom's, but not yours. I'm trying to tip the scales. 😉
@FloofSpikey -- Mon Sep 27 22:56:55 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom it’s here!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/K0YafyZlyu
@DiscoTempoJazz -- Tue Sep 28 01:22:58 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom "Tom, we need you for one last mission." "I'm retired, you know that."
@MattWinfough -- Tue Sep 28 01:21:46 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Who knows, maybe they feel it's time to turn James Bond from action spy to an academic with an awesome cat sidekick.
@agathaX -- Mon Sep 27 22:29:53 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @RadioFreeTom We had a main street anti-vax protest in Sturbridge yesterday.
@monahan_william -- Mon Sep 27 17:30:52 +0000 2021
@MostlyOverThere @RadioFreeTom I’m from western CT and it’s pervasive there. Trump flags, “unmask our kids,” conspiracy BS, etc. I’ve come to realize how easily duped by nonsense people a really are
@ScotchTrousdale -- Tue Sep 28 03:47:08 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @BillyPilgrim26 @OpheliasMarbles @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand Another pernicious lie was that having a "desk job" was something to be desired.
@OpheliasMarbles -- Tue Sep 28 03:30:05 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @dburbach @ericowensdc @DDFStrand With a mountain of debt.
@17db17 -- Tue Sep 28 03:23:33 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Sure Tom. Tell us it had nothing, NOTHING to do with the fact that Act I, Scene IV, was a meeting with an agent considering flipping to our side, but Bond had to, over the course of a long dinner, eat a Vindaloo and pretend he adored an Aloo Paratha while cajoling him to flip.
@TheMosasaurus -- Tue Sep 28 02:41:42 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @bhandel58 I sense an opportunity. Russell Crowe playing Tom playing Bond. Instant cult classic. That'll have the British accent covered, but we'll have to sacrifice some sex appeal.
@stannieholt -- Mon Sep 27 21:15:27 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom @mattski_o David Brooks is an easy target these days but his analysis in “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class” of how/why the markers of wealth shifted still makes sense to me. Basically, it’s not displaying sheer wealth but education/taste/principles (which take wealth to acquire).
@WarlickLeslie -- Mon Sep 27 19:37:51 +0000 2021
@ZTPetrizzo Q on Q violence. You hate to see it. Maybe not hate exactly.
@Eddie_NYC -- Tue Sep 28 00:13:34 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Damn, that's like old school, 1920s KKK bigotry! How low can this guy go?
@WillPierceDude -- Tue Sep 28 03:20:01 +0000 2021
@ericowensdc @SollySollinger @RadioFreeTom Either he goes to the brig, or his direct superiors take a loss of confidence in their command. Pretty simple
@GMcFerren -- Tue Sep 28 03:05:47 +0000 2021
@RadioFreeTom Just PayPal'd for one, better you than Amaxon. Appreciate the consideration. Can't wait to read it.
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 22:43:36 +0000 2021
Republicans just voted to drive the United States into default. Now let's see how many news accounts convey this basic fact clearly and without any jargon or obfuscation. When very few do, you'll understand why Republicans believe they can get away with this in the first place.
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 20:52:00 +0000 2021
After soiling himself with Trumpism, Glenn Youngkin is working to erase the stain. Youngkin is in furious walkback mode after refusing to say he would have certified Biden's win. Don't let him spin away all the footsie he's already played with the big lie: https://t.co/vnS4LGojWE
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 22:58:56 +0000 2021
Even better: https://t.co/ABIqKjhhcn
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 22:37:05 +0000 2021
Here @RoKhanna seems to suggest progressives might be prepared to vote on the infrastructure bill if the party unites behind a framework for reconciliation. Points out that Manchin/Sinema must to agree to it: https://t.co/66D75zyYsZ Supports the first scenario in this reading: https://t.co/G63gJdayr7
@ThePlumLineGS -- Mon Sep 27 23:11:51 +0000 2021
@ryangrim she did indeed say this
@ThePlumLineGS -- Tue Sep 28 15:39:12 +0000 2021
Dem outrage is met with savvy coverage that paints GOP depravity and recklessness as a dilemma *for Dems* while marveling at how politically shrewd Mitch is being. No more. Time to put Republicans in the role of sputtering with outrage. cc @jayrosen_nyu https://t.co/EUuZU3oBQ7 https://t.co/B25tOPzy9y
@ThePlumLineGS -- Tue Sep 28 14:58:37 +0000 2021
Right now, Dems are searching for *another* procedural trick on the debt limit. This is absurd! Kill it already! It can be done in reconciliation, by simply tying it to the debt. This solves Dems' substantive *and* political problems. Here's how: https://t.co/EUuZU3oBQ7 https://t.co/7t5lrVjASY
@ThePlumLineGS -- Tue Sep 28 13:30:02 +0000 2021
The right answer to this, I think, is to make it all about Manchin and Sinema. If House centrists want BIF to pass, then they should help persuade Manchin and Sinema to persuasively endorse a good reconciliation framework and to allay all doubts that they'll support it later. https://t.co/OR16iD1jaf
@jenniferdoleac -- Tue Sep 28 00:07:13 +0000 2021
@ass_deans More efficient to give cash.
@BigOrangeEcon -- Mon Sep 27 21:53:57 +0000 2021
Three years ago at the 1st AEA 5K I finished last, 37:48 This year, I’ve lost 60 pounds so far. Today, I ran an initial pre-training run of 31:38. goal by race day is to be another 20 pounds lighter, three minutes faster, and not injured. Thanks @causalinf and @dbergstresser https://t.co/tyDcQgzBA2
@kearney_melissa -- Tue Sep 28 12:02:37 +0000 2021
Attn students: The word for passing statutory taxes onto other parties is called “tax incidence.” Not absurd. Perhaps unfortunate. Definitely happens (hint: elasticities matter.) Understanding potential unintended consequences of a policy is key to good policy making. https://t.co/JhCsUh9X5y
@profholden -- Mon Sep 27 23:33:59 +0000 2021
@JustinWolfers @BruceJPreston One of the great economic lessons of the past--oh, let's say half a century--is that what goes on in financial markets often has huge effects on the real economy. I guess some folks still haven't got the memo. Perhaps because they still converse via memos?
@JustinWolfers -- Tue Sep 28 12:54:05 +0000 2021
Yeah, that's not right. There's definitely a cost to using resources. That's definitely true even if you raise enough offsetting revenues that debt doesn't rise. https://t.co/xBaNe5Rvpp
@mcuban -- Tue Sep 28 03:53:19 +0000 2021
You know how to tell if someone "gets it"? It's really easy for them to explain "it" to anyone. Even me https://t.co/7RvrowboYV
@BruceJPreston -- Mon Sep 27 23:19:49 +0000 2021
@JustinWolfers @profholden Completely agree. Silly stuff. Reflects the complete absence of a coherent framework to think about monetary policy.
@JustinWolfers -- Tue Sep 28 13:59:57 +0000 2021
Yeah, but when evaluating policies what really matters is where the numbers are *relative to the counterfactual*. If you don't specify a counterfactual, you're not saying anything about the effects of school re-opening. https://t.co/CqSs921a0A
@JustinWolfers -- Tue Sep 28 12:56:10 +0000 2021
https://t.co/VocyLa4C8h
@JustinWolfers -- Mon Sep 27 23:53:53 +0000 2021
It turns out that upon reflection, the Fed officials who were actively trading individual stocks in an economy they directly influence and have heaps of inside info about, see an ethical problem. Both Kaplan and Rosengren are resigning. https://t.co/IonGgBZAlX
@JustinWolfers -- Mon Sep 27 23:23:02 +0000 2021
RT @charles_gaba: Frame This. https://t.co/NSYn9dDof7
@JustinWolfers -- Mon Sep 27 23:16:14 +0000 2021
@BruceJPreston @profholden A simple rule of thumb is that when you use more than one analogy, it's to cover up for the fact that you don't quite understand your own argument. This one is incoherent in almost every paragraph.
@StephanieKelton -- Tue Sep 28 12:52:36 +0000 2021
While searching for something else, I stumbled upon this. Started reading and thought, 'this is terrific.' Scrolled up to see the byline, and of course...it's Jamie Galbraith. https://t.co/IFwsiMPGXG
@rglenner -- Mon Sep 27 20:17:09 +0000 2021
Taught my first class at UoC today and despite the time (8am on a Monday morning) turnout and engagement were great! Its so good to have the campus buzzing with students again and everyone enjoying the fall sunshine. #UChicagoFirstDayofClass https://t.co/tWYpVYJjFd
@kaushikcbasu -- Tue Sep 28 02:05:38 +0000 2021
Voltaire on war and nationalism: “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
@jodiecongirl -- Tue Sep 28 01:11:32 +0000 2021
fox has really got to stop using excel's y-axis defaults https://t.co/9OLAufLmIg
@BrankoMilan -- Tue Sep 28 20:18:13 +0000 2021
"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
@BrankoMilan -- Tue Sep 28 20:16:25 +0000 2021
"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
@michaelsderby -- Mon Sep 27 23:49:20 +0000 2021
If we’re now down two Fed officials what the hell is that going to do to the December dot plot?
@johnjhorton -- Mon Sep 27 23:02:01 +0000 2021
@benconomics Seems like an appropriate topic for me and my 10yo - do you get to kill rival dealers?
@profwolff -- Tue Sep 28 01:15:31 +0000 2021
Capitalism (1) promises technological progress to eliminate exhausting work, yet workers remain emotionally and physically exhausted, and (2) promises to out-perform all other systems in providing food, clothing, shelter, healthcare & education yet fails to do so for millions...
@BrianCAlbrecht -- Mon Sep 27 17:31:46 +0000 2021
Apologies for the non-econ tweet: But I want to thank @causalinf for inspiring me to start Noom and lose weight. I've neglected my health since I started my PhD, gaining 70 lbs in 7 years. That's hard to make public. Here's to committing to changing things!
@Cutler_econ -- Mon Sep 27 18:06:18 +0000 2021
Interested in being a visiting scholar in aging and health research at NBER? Look here. You needn't be an NBER affiliate to apply! https://t.co/bi329g88Fz
@davidbauer -- Tue Sep 28 04:50:15 +0000 2021
«Aber die Intensivstationen sind ja gar nicht ausgelastet…». Einer der grausligsten, zynischsten Sätze seit Beginn der Pandemie. Die Realität, in vielen erschütternden Details: https://t.co/loXJDIeR4Q
@MikeGrunwald -- Mon Sep 27 18:08:03 +0000 2021
It's weird how climate is the biggest issue ever and the reconciliation bill is the biggest climate bill ever, but the coverage is all about price tag, offsets, progressives vs. centrists, timing with infrastructure/debt ceiling, everything but whether DC acts on climate or not.
@TheStalwart -- Mon Sep 27 23:54:31 +0000 2021
Folks I have an imposter. @TheStqlwart. As far as I can tell, the person is anti #MTFC. Please report. Thank you.
@SuriTavneet -- Mon Sep 27 18:45:35 +0000 2021
@singhabhi @lwantchekon @DinaPomeranz @HaroonBhorat @restatjournal Expect a referee request from me soon!!! Thanks for the lovely thoughts. I have to say I am completely loving editing @restatjournal!! I learn so much and get to see so many different papers, its really such an honor and privilege to be able to do this!
@LHSummers -- Tue Sep 28 18:30:16 +0000 2021
@ABABankers I have long resisted those who seek to demonize bankers and impose punitive and unreasonable regulations. I will continue to do so. But the ABA s attitude here helps me understand those who condemn the industry
@LHSummers -- Tue Sep 28 16:11:04 +0000 2021
The @ABABankers attack on tax information reporting is disingenuous demagoguery. Tax compliance relies not just on going after cheaters but on universal reporting thru W-2s, and 1099s, including on interest. https://t.co/8QpKtyNClt
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 18:00:08 +0000 2021
Either “big houses are good, actually” or “there is overwhelming evidence that visible police presence is an effective crime reduction strategy.” https://t.co/tdHXe5V7QH
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 21:47:39 +0000 2021
Genuinely a secret desire to be a political scientist is one of the strangest accusations I’ve ever faced in my life. I did speak on an APSA panel once. https://t.co/OMGt7peX1n
@jmorenocruz -- Mon Sep 27 20:15:51 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I am with you on this one. At some point last year someone wrote about how disposable masks where going to be difficult to recycle and cause environmental hazards or something silly like that. Read the room, people.
@zeynep -- Mon Sep 27 20:17:20 +0000 2021
In any case, after looking through the history of how the aerosol/airborne debate actually went down, versus what the textbooks said, I think it's really useful to look at history at times with fresh eyes. Did we really know this, or did we conclude something and kept asserting?
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:39 +0000 2021
I highly recommend that you read the paper, read the substack, watch the video and ask @SCarter611 and @AbigailWozniak questions about the study, as it's got many fascinating elements and I think a lot to teach us abt both people but also our models too. 18/n
@DinaPomeranz -- Tue Sep 28 09:07:43 +0000 2021
No, people in the US, Switzerland is not Sweden 😜 Ht @ThBenkoe https://t.co/JjM2448cDP https://t.co/iGIndE7opx
@DinaPomeranz -- Tue Sep 28 08:00:13 +0000 2021
RT @mjKolly: Carmen Karde hat uns von ihrem Alltag auf den Intensivstationen erzählt. Davon, – wie es dort den Covid-19-Patientinnen geht,…
@DinaPomeranz -- Mon Sep 27 20:32:34 +0000 2021
RT @DanRather: One of the problems with how politics is covered is  many have forgotten that the purpose of politics is policy, as in solvi…
@DinaPomeranz -- Mon Sep 27 20:28:21 +0000 2021
@Cutler_econ But a US citizen or greencard holder
@mavori2 -- Tue Sep 28 06:47:50 +0000 2021
@hansi_voigt Weil die AFD als faschistoide Partei gegründet wurde, die SVP aber als ursprünglich konservative Partei zur faschistoiden P umgebaut wurde.
@DimitriRougy -- Mon Sep 27 20:21:02 +0000 2021
Ich suche in Twitter nach #Baerbock, aber es kommen nur Tweets zu Laschet. Kann mir das bitte mal jemand erklären? https://t.co/DjKh97ucae
@glichand -- Mon Sep 27 19:51:24 +0000 2021
Florian is an example of intellectual curiosity and humility https://t.co/pA3ZC2882y
@elia_bluelle -- Tue Sep 28 06:28:18 +0000 2021
👇🏽 https://t.co/xHBjzpVyc4
@elia_bluelle -- Mon Sep 27 20:26:50 +0000 2021
☝🏼 https://t.co/CHgUUt2Xz6
@jmhorowitz78 -- Mon Sep 27 19:14:35 +0000 2021
Support for the Black Lives Matter movement declined between June and September 2020, but has remained stable since. https://t.co/Yzb1cBpoVi https://t.co/sRUixQToHa
@sam_a_bell -- Mon Sep 27 20:00:48 +0000 2021
wHy iSn’T pOweLL ADdreSsing thE feD’s eTHics ? https://t.co/EPpS0LRMDP
@marthagimbel -- Tue Sep 28 01:49:58 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior This is the most Lancaster thing I have ever heard
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:24 +0000 2021
The AER and QJE are quite similar to me. Very in your face, no frills. I do like all caps blocked letters of QJE titles and names. The AER is probably my least favorite, but only because it just feels very modern and without a lot to say for it except "I'm a journal article." https://t.co/oj3KKvoKlv
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:22 +0000 2021
I have to give props to Restud, but putting that aside, what I like about REstud is how many different font sizes there are on the first page. I also like the positioning about the article information at the top left. Some journals could learn from that. 3/n https://t.co/v6spjNdflC
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:21 +0000 2021
I am a huge fan of the minimalism and font of the JPE though. It's definitely one of my favorite fonts the more I think about it. I love how clean the authors' names always look below that thin line. 2/n https://t.co/z3rcudPbBF
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:19 +0000 2021
I really like the distinctive front page of many economics journals articles. Here's a few nice ones. First, there's the @J_HumanResource . I like the indentation of the first line, the dark thick black horizontal line at the top and the lining of the abstract, plus the font. 1 https://t.co/NLXLlI2mWO
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:51:47 +0000 2021
Wow -- major resource for the Stata community. Even includes matrix completion with nuclear norm regularization. FYI @Susan_Athey . https://t.co/g8LGDNEKeQ
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 00:08:29 +0000 2021
Remote work innovation or no? https://t.co/NC2nQ5z7L3
@SorryToBeKurt -- Mon Sep 27 20:53:08 +0000 2021
Great seminar today @EIEF_Rome 1st in person seminar since 2019. I’ve enjoyed zoom the last 18 months, but definitely prefer in-person. More engaging, discussions afterwards, &c. And dinner in Rome is 👌 But there was some “skill depreciation”…couldn’t hook up the projector😂 https://t.co/Fs2B82J4aM
@TheStalwart -- Tue Sep 28 18:19:23 +0000 2021
It's pretty obvious who's face should be on the trillion dollar coin IYKYK https://t.co/1IJn6itgyk
@MattZeitlin -- Mon Sep 27 23:35:12 +0000 2021
i would simply not fire someone based on a 30 second clip posted by the satanic rituals airbnb guy
@KhoaVuUmn -- Tue Sep 28 17:07:13 +0000 2021
@econhist_allday @ModeledBehavior There's no higher recognition than having someone read your dissertation and say it's quite important 😂
@vtg2 -- Mon Sep 27 19:19:31 +0000 2021
Lael Brainard, a favorite of progressive groups to replace Fed Chair Powell & candidate for the central bank’s top regulatory job, said the US has fallen behind other countries in preparing the financial sector to deal w/the consequences of climate change https://t.co/LZJTysWRgx
@UofGVC -- Mon Sep 27 18:24:49 +0000 2021
When your daughter asks you for an ice-cream… https://t.co/H3yV7W2wmV
@sam_a_bell -- Mon Sep 27 23:53:32 +0000 2021
@michaelsderby https://t.co/gVgsk8nJtM
@cblatts -- Tue Sep 28 01:29:38 +0000 2021
@BrianCAlbrecht @causalinf The man is a walking, tweeting spillover effect
@cblatts -- Tue Sep 28 01:28:26 +0000 2021
@BrianCAlbrecht @causalinf @causalinf inspired me too. 25lbs lighter as a result!
@SHamiltonian -- Tue Sep 28 01:11:55 +0000 2021
The rapid testing failure, while likely less impactful than the vaccines failures, is somehow so much more infuriating for its sheer bloody-mindedness. It is the sharpest example I’ve seen of the public health tendency to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
@SHamiltonian -- Tue Sep 28 01:09:06 +0000 2021
@ATabarrok Yep, I saw Tyler’s link to it. One of the most extraordinary public statements by a public health official I’ve ever seen. Yet people just lap it up unquestioningly. It is infuriating. My take on it yesterday: https://t.co/bMtHnchvU9
@SHamiltonian -- Tue Sep 28 01:02:15 +0000 2021
“We promise to stop being stupid morons in 1 month”
@mileskimball -- Mon Sep 27 19:16:20 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Thanks, Claudia! I think it would be better to send people to these two blog posts, which lay things out a little more specifically: https://t.co/APy98yjPm9 https://t.co/ELhshjS77E
@arvindsubraman -- Tue Sep 28 12:01:19 +0000 2021
Hearty congratulations and a tribute to the amazing work of Rukmini Banerji and @Pratham_India and @asercentre https://t.co/H6zTq5lxnG
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 14:15:00 +0000 2021
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. https://t.co/elVn2hsp9I
@mattyglesias -- Tue Sep 28 10:26:21 +0000 2021
“We should let kids vote” is one of my pet ideas, sad to see it’s literally the least popular thing they could think of.
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:10:55 +0000 2021
https://t.co/Ihq0kn6y7g https://t.co/ZKnu5a5ike
@hausfath -- Mon Sep 27 19:56:36 +0000 2021
There is a lot of discussion right now about expensive natural gas in the US. While higher gas prices could ultimately help reduce emissions and encourage fuel switching, in the near-term it will result in a lot more idle coal capacity coming back online: https://t.co/KhXBs9bOQR https://t.co/gWNIhGaafa
@ATabarrok -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:11 +0000 2021
@imbernomics Agree.
@SarahJacobsonEc -- Mon Sep 27 22:03:47 +0000 2021
I know we have a lot of work to do in broadening and diversifying our field, but @AereOrg has shown a commitment to doing that work. I'm grateful to be a part of that effort. It's a great community and will be even stronger and richer when it reflects more voices. 2/2
@SarahJacobsonEc -- Mon Sep 27 22:03:46 +0000 2021
I joined @AereOrg frankly because I was going to my first AERE conference, back in Asheville, NC. I found a great community in AERE - so much talent but so warm, so serious in their work but so adventurous and fun. I found it intimidating at first but quickly welcoming. 1/2 https://t.co/eKPGK4oy87
@jdcmedlock -- Mon Sep 27 19:04:43 +0000 2021
Conservatives love to make their whole brand Facts and Logic and then insist that giving people money won’t make them not poor
@mishachellam -- Tue Sep 28 03:45:29 +0000 2021
New post from @Noahpinion makes sense to me. Curious if there are folks who thoughtfully disagree? cc @saikatc @SeanMcElwee @nataliefoster https://t.co/eDofV3riKS
@arnoblalam -- Mon Sep 27 20:26:43 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion That we know of.
@jdcmedlock -- Mon Sep 27 23:55:30 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @russellmz @Noahpinion @tmychow There are real challenges to single parenthood we can't replace with government, but we can absolutely make sure those challenges aren't compounded by material scarcity. https://t.co/braHje0IYU
@bopinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:20:06 +0000 2021
A deep dive into the mechanics of the world's most indebted real estate company https://t.co/1pfvWX69CK
@AlecStapp -- Mon Sep 27 18:36:20 +0000 2021
Why is South Korea the only country that seems to be able to keep moving down the learning curve for nuclear power? In every other country, it's been getting *more* expensive to build nuclear power plants over time. https://t.co/95prnhtXJI
@AlecStapp -- Tue Sep 28 01:11:44 +0000 2021
The y-axis here is a chart crime https://t.co/3tOSphxJDB
@greg_ip -- Mon Sep 27 18:54:04 +0000 2021
The US spent $145B to rebuild Afghanistan's economy, more than on the Marshall plan. It was a failure. GDP stopped growing once troops began to leave, and there's no sustainable pvt sector to support infrastructure it built. By @SuneEngel & @JMitchellWSJ https://t.co/GH3994HPed https://t.co/S44XJzzLEE
@TBPInvictus -- Mon Sep 27 20:52:35 +0000 2021
I’ll take any two of @Claudia_Sahm, @drlisadcook, @IvanTheK, @mark_dow to replace Rosengren and Kaplan.
@ezraklein -- Mon Sep 27 20:37:01 +0000 2021
@jdcmedlock Clearly someone has not compared the fonts and margins.
@mark_dow -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:11 +0000 2021
Tonight‘s the first night when you can see a container ship out in front of the house. Two, actually. We are 50 miles south of the port of Long Beach. It’s not getting better.
@mark_dow -- Mon Sep 27 21:47:17 +0000 2021
@TBPInvictus @Claudia_Sahm @drlisadcook @IvanTheK Will only come back from California if I get to run the PPT
@NickTimiraos -- Tue Sep 28 14:40:00 +0000 2021
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.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 20:01:06 +0000 2021
I sincerely appreciate both Robert Kaplan and Eric Rosengren stepping down. it’s a hard to do and a decision that serves the credibility of the Fed. thank you.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:47:52 +0000 2021
An American melting pot in which both White and Black people are minor players is incredibly interesting, because it allows us to observe which things about American culture go beyond our traditional racial divide -- and thus envision the future of an integrated, mixed America.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:45:17 +0000 2021
I'm very interested in the parts of California that are mixed Asian-Hispanic. These regions represent a form of racial integration that simply doesn't correspond to the traditional Black-White pattern. For example, check out the southern part of San Francisco: https://t.co/ULaI4gwhtW
@mnolangray -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:10 +0000 2021
There's an entire shelf in your local library of 00s books explaining how Wal-Mart is going to eat the rest of the economy. https://t.co/zumtCyvaWK
@Steinernomics -- Mon Sep 27 23:14:26 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion The problem is our default position is to think the absolute worst of our fellow Americans, their personal situations and their motives and foist a huge heaping helping of victim blaming upon them
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 20:55:35 +0000 2021
everyone who is pushing for the Fed to be a better Fed, let’s give three cheers to @michaelsderby … no one at the Fed was reading the financial disclosure statements. he did and reported on it. thank you! https://t.co/dzxknXolFd
@lastpositivist -- Mon Sep 27 21:45:00 +0000 2021
I just really strongly feel that I should have tenure. Give it to me.
@lastpositivist -- Mon Sep 27 19:15:52 +0000 2021
Yes. YES! https://t.co/1q0mxYUkxQ
@dwallacewells -- Mon Sep 27 21:53:18 +0000 2021
When it comes to assessing an individual’s risk of dying from COVID, age may be a more significant determinant than vaccination status. https://t.co/fZVVijv34P
@Richard_Florida -- Mon Sep 27 19:25:39 +0000 2021
"If you treat your city like a suburb, then it’ll have the demographics of a suburb." via @Noahpinion: https://t.co/ByEEepyD2R
@skdh -- Tue Sep 28 06:28:34 +0000 2021
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
@nominalthoughts -- Tue Sep 28 03:36:58 +0000 2021
@a_fad_es @Noahpinion reconciliation is gonna happen anyways and moderates are gonna have the same bargaining positions
@EGirlMonetarism -- Mon Sep 27 19:55:46 +0000 2021
Wtf he found the Gödel statement of the Midwit Meme axiom system https://t.co/cU4iKssfxg
@POTUS -- Mon Sep 27 22:02:04 +0000 2021
Poll after poll makes it clear: The majority of Americans overwhelmingly support my Build Back Better Agenda. Let’s get it done and deliver for the American people. https://t.co/uptz12TQmP
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 19:19:36 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @realchrisrufo He's a perfectly reasonable fellow.
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 19:15:05 +0000 2021
My latest for Pull Request! @realchrisrufo on Critical Race Theory and what drives him in the one-man media war that's pissing off everybody. https://t.co/Tbk6ZEsuxp
@originalspin -- Mon Sep 27 19:32:19 +0000 2021
Saw this and was transported back to the Sixties, when powdered drink mix for kids was just casually racist https://t.co/X50JBsEI0f
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:37:32 +0000 2021
Now that the public debate has begun to turn against them, the NIMBYs are focusing less on their bad policy arguments and more on attacking YIMBYs. It won't work. https://t.co/HOBSl9dSB6
@john_voorheis -- Tue Sep 28 01:51:00 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Typically, capitalists couldn't even let workers have a month to themselves, had to put Capital day in September
@sdamico -- Mon Sep 27 23:11:49 +0000 2021
@garrytan I wonder if the doomsday scenario for deepfakes isn’t some sort of forged political opposition research as currently posited but rather short-form videos of say Elon Musk with analogous intent to the spammy cryptocurrency reply tweets.
@IDoTheThinking -- Tue Sep 28 03:43:12 +0000 2021
Tucker Carlson: All the Christians are disappearing!!! https://t.co/0QPjQr3ZGN
@ArmandDoma -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:34 +0000 2021
I should sell a coffee table book that is just terrible graphs from Fox News https://t.co/8UxWfajlX4
@russellmz -- Mon Sep 27 23:07:55 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @Noahpinion https://t.co/aopWLpGZos "...the change in Social Security benefits between 1967 and 2000 suggests that the increase in benefits can explain all of the 17 percentage point decline in poverty that occurred during this period."
@Theophite -- Mon Sep 27 17:34:17 +0000 2021
like man insane clown posse is great https://t.co/YYT8YLNodt
@jmhorp -- Tue Sep 28 01:30:09 +0000 2021
@AlecStapp 77% = enthusiastically Christian 65% = Hail Satan
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:18 +0000 2021
Shut (and I cannot emphasize this enough here) up. https://t.co/5IDA6G4vdv
@swin24 -- Mon Sep 27 18:16:50 +0000 2021
https://t.co/vjflZG6L5a https://t.co/XlXoxfEemq
@mikekofoed -- Mon Sep 27 18:25:09 +0000 2021
Sad to have my grandfather pass away this weekend. He was a US Army vet who served in Germany during the Korean Era. He also retired from the Salt Lake Police Department after a full career. He taught me to fish, hike, and love the beauty of southern Utah.
@bdquinn -- Tue Sep 28 03:27:38 +0000 2021
I really think progressives have badly undersold the virtues of the BIB when trying to hold it hostage, so futilely, to coerce Manchin and Sinema into a more aggressive reconciliation bill than they support. It's a good bill. I'd vote for it without reservations. https://t.co/EfRCUzi4l6
@tiredgenerally -- Mon Sep 27 20:18:07 +0000 2021
Asking the people who are like “but what about battery disposal? Or lithium mining? Or desert tortoises who lose .5% of their habitat to solar farms” to consider that there is, in fact, a difference between good and bad things https://t.co/kQbV0vxSUt
@daguilarcanabal -- Tue Sep 28 05:32:09 +0000 2021
don't get it twisted yall https://t.co/MhcGWS7VHz
@tiredgenerally -- Mon Sep 27 20:14:50 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion well said
@PekingMike -- Mon Sep 27 23:04:57 +0000 2021
BREAKING: American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S. with @chubailiang https://t.co/PkERVOUSm7
@jaycaspiankang -- Tue Sep 28 05:37:58 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Seems like most of these areas are in the suburbs now
@jfeckstein -- Mon Sep 27 20:05:03 +0000 2021
@conorsen Yes @Noahpinion will be great
@spooknine -- Tue Sep 28 01:44:55 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Weird how human trafficking doesn't even make the list and yet is used to justify all kinds of bullshit
@LittleKeegs0 -- Mon Sep 27 19:58:20 +0000 2021
It's twice as good as the Bible https://t.co/ky5i8NGkyy
@jallepap -- Tue Sep 28 06:24:15 +0000 2021
vivid and to the point #synesthesia https://t.co/lf05d8oMOL
@eean -- Mon Sep 27 22:22:12 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion weebs posting their Ws
@eean -- Mon Sep 27 20:04:30 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion or is WoT just Folsom Street Fair fanfic
@MandHF -- Tue Sep 28 06:00:16 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion You're right; this is a hostage situation where the hostage is either non-corporeal, or is actively belching carbon into the sky.
@swimming_blerd -- Tue Sep 28 05:33:06 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion https://t.co/S3zIN5gehM
@swimming_blerd -- Tue Sep 28 03:44:23 +0000 2021
“That’s right.” https://t.co/LdSfkbgDwo https://t.co/lUD8JUeZGz
@swimming_blerd -- Mon Sep 27 21:30:56 +0000 2021
https://t.co/1qCw6hzI4V
@swimming_blerd -- Mon Sep 27 21:01:31 +0000 2021
https://t.co/tMLi7uDIuN
@LouisWoodhill -- Mon Sep 27 19:11:25 +0000 2021
@bainbridge_dk @Noahpinion How could any reasonable person object to "All Lives Matter?" But a lot of "activists" do.
@PeterMoskos -- Tue Sep 28 03:54:55 +0000 2021
TAKE THE W! https://t.co/XzBS6REY4E
@scottlucas -- Tue Sep 28 01:49:45 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Tells you something about SF's moderate/progressive divide too
@holz_bau -- Tue Sep 28 04:25:34 +0000 2021
how is cost of housing not even on this list? https://t.co/wbcGKyUqxm
@dotorii_muk -- Tue Sep 28 06:47:15 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Yeah take your own advice 👇 https://t.co/bhG3BADtrY
@Mario_Gibney -- Mon Sep 27 20:22:43 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion But sir, the batteries are pRoBLeMaTic.
@markgongloff -- Mon Sep 27 20:58:14 +0000 2021
Oh you think you've got a housing bubble? That's cute. China's housing bubble would eat yours for breakfast https://t.co/rfN2G1YlxA w @Noahpinion @anjani_trivedi @foxjust and more
@IAmKrishanPatel -- Mon Sep 27 19:42:46 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Some white Tankies would have been fascists had they jumped down the right rabbit hole instead of the left one.
@tjl -- Mon Sep 27 20:27:34 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Totally get the appeal of being told new things you can feel bad about. My family had a standing Sunday morning appointment with an expert for exactly this when I was growing up. Seemed like a good frequency.
@memeorandum -- Tue Sep 28 06:56:05 +0000 2021
Pass the damn infrastructure bill, dammit (@noahpinion / Noahpinion) https://t.co/Lx1wWH5UWh https://t.co/MwXOhItw7c
@observingjapan -- Mon Sep 27 22:17:51 +0000 2021
cc @Matt_Alt https://t.co/KJZxXUWDIN
@davyde -- Mon Sep 27 20:10:28 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Noah Smith Hivemind Inc.
@EricGomezAsia -- Mon Sep 27 19:16:50 +0000 2021
We made a missile that can throw an entire other missile https://t.co/IKrQv1RrX7
@HistoryBoomer -- Mon Sep 27 19:54:28 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I ignore all the Sam Vimes books.
@AImas8706 -- Tue Sep 28 05:51:27 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Also, I support giving pet rabbits exotic dancer names. Is the other one named Sapphire or Tarzan?
@AImas8706 -- Tue Sep 28 05:50:41 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion *big boned
@Vitolae -- Mon Sep 27 22:17:34 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion First time in Paris this week in a long time: LOTS of new Korean restaurants. Everywhere. How come?
@stevemushero -- Tue Sep 28 05:24:27 +0000 2021
@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.
@ryanlawler -- Tue Sep 28 01:45:20 +0000 2021
I love how Americans think the affordability of healthcare and gun violence are big problems but vote for people who won’t do anything about those things https://t.co/I4DlkvNHzU
@nextdoorsv -- Mon Sep 27 22:50:27 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion BTS: Bagels, Talmuds, Schmaltz
@crispy_bart -- Mon Sep 27 20:24:21 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
@JohnCarltonKing -- Tue Sep 28 00:35:42 +0000 2021
Look I'm not really in the mood to spell out all of the ridiculous and flat out false things in this thread. We all know it's wrong. I just want to say that this guy is a real asshole. https://t.co/W9jBN7lZ5h
@MoralHazardPay -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:13 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @Theophite @plike_ He's a nasty weirdo; broke with Trump on racial issues including immigration, wants to bring kill teams to hospitals on anti-mask crusades
@nanaze -- Mon Sep 27 20:26:05 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion If it produced any I am terribly curious how.
@Exposed768 -- Mon Sep 27 20:25:10 +0000 2021
I chose @Noahpinion https://t.co/R3cqbFOI9F
@SarahGrynpas -- Tue Sep 28 01:49:13 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Also, Asian and Hispanic are within themselves very broad and diverse categories.
@MonkeySalad -- Mon Sep 27 22:22:12 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Ok, that counts. But it's still a very San Francisco mall. Has at least two sushi places.
@camilomgn -- Mon Sep 27 22:38:12 +0000 2021
There is a mall like this in Lima, Peru. I think some tourists have dubbed it the Latin American Akihabara https://t.co/UJLpkXHBta
@BrandonLBradfor -- Mon Sep 27 20:06:28 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion hahahahaha
@znmeb -- Tue Sep 28 06:14:57 +0000 2021
@MattAlhonte @Noahpinion ICYMI https://t.co/b41gjFXUcj
@bnjd18 -- Mon Sep 27 20:34:41 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion 2020 sucked.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:23:59 +0000 2021
PASS THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL RIGHT NOW. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@DerekMYoung -- Tue Sep 28 07:23:57 +0000 2021
@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.
@ethanbaron -- Mon Sep 27 21:55:45 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion A message of opposition to electric mountain bikes (e mtb), on a water tank above UC Santa Cruz in CA, where a bunch of biking trails come together
@ethanbaron -- Mon Sep 27 20:37:28 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion exhibit E https://t.co/dRl2F8AJGK
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:40:05 +0000 2021
This is correct https://t.co/TxDvLEgIuq
@archibaldcrane -- Tue Sep 28 00:24:51 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Thought this was the Santa Anita mall in Arcadia but didn't recognize the food court
@Matt_Alt -- Tue Sep 28 06:33:53 +0000 2021
That said, Dazai seems to have been more of a beer guy. https://t.co/NbiYREPztT
@Matt_Alt -- Tue Sep 28 00:23:11 +0000 2021
I've written extensively about Japanese sensibilities inflecting global youth culture, but never imagined Osamu Dazai going viral in US. Thanks to an anime, #dazaiosamu has 1.4b TikTok views & Keene's translation of No Longer Human is Amazon bestseller. https://t.co/7PpL7NNJLm
@cowabungatime -- Mon Sep 27 22:19:30 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Japan/Korea cornered the market on cute and wholesome stuff as well as little convenience items.
@GregChase -- Mon Sep 27 22:14:18 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @Valergain In California, you also get to inherit your parent's ancient property tax assessment too.
@Noahpinion -- Wed Sep 29 02:08:19 +0000 2021
YES. THIS. 1000X THIS. https://t.co/aysfKfF75Y
@Noahpinion -- Wed Sep 29 01:44:06 +0000 2021
He just wants freedom from his eternal servitude https://t.co/br5ETAQNN4
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 22:12:51 +0000 2021
Yes https://t.co/eBPcrVvegU
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 19:13:52 +0000 2021
I just tried to write "violence begets violence", and my keyboard corrected it to "violence Vegeta violence" Time to log off
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 18:15:22 +0000 2021
Jesus f***ing Christ get the lead out of drinking pipes right now https://t.co/WytYmo6ZlE
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 17:44:14 +0000 2021
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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 16:22:05 +0000 2021
@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. 🙄
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 16:18:44 +0000 2021
How many rich people go to community college? Come on. https://t.co/cc1PZruUbU
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 16:15:42 +0000 2021
@BenjaminDanard Yes
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 11:30:00 +0000 2021
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. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 07:46:57 +0000 2021
@DerekMYoung shit man, that sucks
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 07:45:40 +0000 2021
Wow, I didn't even know China was keeping some American hostages too! https://t.co/NltaBchZVC
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 07:44:19 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi Ceausescu banned Scrabble
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 07:31:40 +0000 2021
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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:57:32 +0000 2021
@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!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:56:18 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi It does seem like it! 😊
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:55:57 +0000 2021
@clayranck @Theophite @samdman95 Thanks I hate it
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:54:16 +0000 2021
@EEMthethird Get em
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:52:07 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:49:45 +0000 2021
@bengrossbg Second one is to stop people from talking down to you
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:48:45 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey Just keep racking up wins man
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:48:10 +0000 2021
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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:47:05 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb I can't drink or do any drugs, medical issues
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:46:39 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey If bribery works, DO THAT SHIT. Hell yeah.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:45:22 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi Yeah
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:44:44 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb Well u a poo poo hed
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:43:38 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi (2) is psychological
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:42:44 +0000 2021
@dotorii_muk https://t.co/X3RZ6ZfX5a
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:41:07 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:40:29 +0000 2021
@scorzeth @kejjmad Awwwwwwwwwwwww
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:37:42 +0000 2021
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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:35:10 +0000 2021
RT @Matt_Alt: I've written extensively about Japanese sensibilities inflecting global youth culture, but never imagined Osamu Dazai going v…
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:34:36 +0000 2021
@scorzeth What's his name?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:34:08 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi The connection is psychological. It's not in the genes.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:33:34 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:31:25 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:30:15 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi What?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:29:31 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:28:02 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey If conservatives have a majority in Congress, they can do whatever the hell they want, legislation-wise.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:23:10 +0000 2021
@AImas8706 His name is Giggles, but that's similar to Gigolo
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:21:45 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi That's the ADOS view. But I think connections are in our heads, not our genes.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:18:46 +0000 2021
@scorzeth Damn that's a cute rabbit.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:18:20 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi I don't think your genetic definition of "replacement" makes any sense...
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:16:53 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:15:00 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:13:10 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey Conservatives didn't even want to spend money on infrastructure. They definitely didn't want to give Biden a legislative victory.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:12:02 +0000 2021
@JHead1984 @VoidOfRoses I mean you're not wrong
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:11:29 +0000 2021
@RealPotatoFan Gave her smaller treats
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:10:20 +0000 2021
@heynottheface @samdman95 Who ever got blamed for killing a bill they voted for?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:09:57 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:09:06 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:07:12 +0000 2021
@DLEG101 https://t.co/f6uquuxzlw
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:06:03 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi I feel like you're just making up new definitions for common words in order to justify misuse of those words.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:05:17 +0000 2021
@monopaulist Well, more than fractious, it makes them look chaotic and hapless.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:04:24 +0000 2021
@Theophite Welp
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:04:08 +0000 2021
@monopaulist Maybe, but it makes Dems look fractious
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:03:25 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey Blowing up the infra bill to get Manchin is like hitting Manchin in the knee with our nuts.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:02:51 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:01:59 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 06:00:14 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:58:57 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi So if your parents die and you're still here, you didn't replace them because you're genetically related to them??
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:58:24 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:57:35 +0000 2021
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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:56:10 +0000 2021
@Theophite @samdman95 Draw me the strategy payoff matrix and tell me if we're facing a prisoner's dilemma, hotshot
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:53:22 +0000 2021
@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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:51:57 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:50:31 +0000 2021
@Bamfurlough Oof I'm sorry.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:47:29 +0000 2021
@levraibzzz Ooh, got data on that?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:46:54 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:46:03 +0000 2021
Important news: Despite having lost a bit of weight, Cinnamon is still fat ❤️ https://t.co/BUKmcOKmEw
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:45:07 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi Are you a replacement for your parents?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:43:23 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey Dear Lord, this is so bad
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:32:23 +0000 2021
@ringtrick I mean, I was going to praise Haitian immigration specifically, but I realized that no one actually cares anymore.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:31:44 +0000 2021
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. (end)
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:28:44 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey Nobody takes heat for the death of things they vote in favor of!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:28:29 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:27:30 +0000 2021
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
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:25:37 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:18:20 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:16:47 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:03:39 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:02:36 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey There's no goddamn leverage there. If the infrastructure bill fails, Manchin and Sinema won't be blamed; they voted for it.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 05:02:09 +0000 2021
@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.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:46:28 +0000 2021
@DanFagella But I agree with that.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:43:17 +0000 2021
Florida Man, meet California Woman https://t.co/IftwBLcyNJ
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:42:39 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb OK sensei
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:42:04 +0000 2021
@KI7BDA They are really good with fatty food, not as good on their own. In my opinion.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:41:24 +0000 2021
@BenjaminDanard Agreed.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:41:16 +0000 2021
@wophugus Both are true, and both perspectives will continue to oscillate as needed in the future.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:39:55 +0000 2021
@BrandyFromTX You're absolutely right, of course.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:24:51 +0000 2021
@VoidOfRoses Yes...and?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:24:05 +0000 2021
@PatrickLeijon @whstancil Well, the fact is, I was right, and eventually everyone agreed with me, and it was not I who was burnt :-)
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:23:32 +0000 2021
@SamJabbers @whstancil Man, owned
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:23:13 +0000 2021
@SamJabbers @whstancil No I didn't, I said they were nuts
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:22:49 +0000 2021
@patio11 Well, why don't we average over the past decade
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:21:48 +0000 2021
@ThinkMiamiBeach That wasn't even one of my arguments
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:11:42 +0000 2021
@puremalarkey You have no counterarguments to any of the points, do you
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:05:06 +0000 2021
@amicus_obscura "Burn it all down"? Man, shut up
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:04:22 +0000 2021
@JHead1984 @klein86alex This is so goddamn dumb
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:03:04 +0000 2021
@SeanErnst Cut their losses? Fuck that! Take all the Ws!!!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 04:02:39 +0000 2021
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!!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:52:48 +0000 2021
@whstancil Remember when I said Warren wasn't going to get the VP spot and you assured me that you were talking to people behind the scenes to make sure she did?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:52:19 +0000 2021
@PatrickLeijon @whstancil ?? I was right and everyone agreed with me and my thesis became conventional wisdom. Who got burnt? 😃
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:50:37 +0000 2021
@SweetCainMusic How can you talk about laziness and not even read the subtitle of my post, much less the post itself? This is the OPPOSITE of "giving up on reconciliation".
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:49:35 +0000 2021
Remember Flint? The infrastructure bill would make sure that never happened again! When a bill promises to get poison out of the drinking water of every poor person and every marginalized person in America, YOU VOTE FOR THAT BILL. https://t.co/IOl1JXEMzl
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:45:23 +0000 2021
RT @ArmandDoma: I should sell a coffee table book that is just terrible graphs from Fox News https://t.co/8UxWfajlX4
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:43:02 +0000 2021
@mullansp @TomCruise_69 Both are bad and realistic.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:38:15 +0000 2021
@whstancil Says the guy who assured me that he was politicking behind the scenes to get Elizabeth Warren the VP spot
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:36:58 +0000 2021
@dubioushandle https://t.co/s5TCZYbqpn
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:36:29 +0000 2021
@klein86alex WRONG
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:35:54 +0000 2021
@The_Libertaaron No, just against spending indiscriminately.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:35:17 +0000 2021
@Taara535 It includes $105 billion for public transit funding and a plan to take all of the lead out of all the drinking water in America. "Minor"? The fuck?!!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:34:32 +0000 2021
@GordonAChaffin You're kidding, right? This bill would increase public transit funding as a percent of transportation funding in America.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:33:47 +0000 2021
@codytfenwick @payer_single Progressives are vowing to vote against the bill unless their demands are met. My post, which is NOT wrong, argues that they should vote for the bill on its own merits (and that their political maneuvering is going to fail anyway).
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:32:29 +0000 2021
@jaredbritton7 Did ye read the post?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:32:21 +0000 2021
@a_fad_es Yes, pass reconciliation! Pass each thing as soon as humanly possible! Don't play these stupid factional games! Take the W!!!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:31:09 +0000 2021
Are progressives really going to vote against taking the lead out of the drinking water of millions of poor and marginalized Americans? Are they really going to vote against $105 billion in funding for public transit? Don't play this goddamn 27-dimensional chess. TAKE THE W.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:25:05 +0000 2021
@payer_single READ MY DAMN POST, DAMMIT
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:22:58 +0000 2021
@ElectionsJoe The transit funding is in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, hoss. Take a look.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:04:22 +0000 2021
RT @markgongloff: Oh you think you've got a housing bubble? That's cute. China's housing bubble would eat yours for breakfast https://t.co/…
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:04:13 +0000 2021
The big lesson here is that if you want Americans to care about something, just talk about it as much as possible, and try to reduce the number of things you talk about so you can grab the top few spots
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:02:52 +0000 2021
@hmantegazzi @SarahGrynpas My friend: "My kids are half Chinese, a quarter Peruvian, and a quarter Polish, so we were a little surprised that they turned out to look Filipino"
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 02:01:34 +0000 2021
@SteveNegusMasr I ordered it between the time you made the initial tweet and the time you corrected it
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:59:53 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi The sinister plot to replace America's founding stock with people who wear the same hoodies and sneakers, listen to the same hip-hop songs, worship the same God, watch the same anime, and have the same political fights about housing and crime and taxes
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:57:04 +0000 2021
@RylandLu1 will do
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:56:30 +0000 2021
@DrRobertNFord Rob, I like you because despite being on the Right, you also smoke a lot of weed, and I respect this💖
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:40:56 +0000 2021
What do Americans think is a problem: Answer: Pretty much everything they read about in the news. https://t.co/3IhL5f9sNS
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:38:10 +0000 2021
Remember this next time you call for "a Marshall Plan for X". The Marshall Plan was a success because we gave the money to countries who were willing and able to use it effectively. We can't remake the world by throwing dollars at it. https://t.co/ddyWzjKTnI
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:31:52 +0000 2021
@roboso Centuries of history and reams of research
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:30:55 +0000 2021
The disconnect between the urgency of the climate issue and the sense of popular urgency around the climate issue is just bananapants. https://t.co/uOrgsJZHP3
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:23:45 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb No, he's not a fascist stormtrooper. You have to brake more slowly.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:23:01 +0000 2021
Linguistic distinctiveness is often a key input into a sense of national distinctiveness. https://t.co/rT06pN1rfr
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:47 +0000 2021
@MoralHazardPay @Theophite @plike_ Yes. He is quite bad. But in the end I think we'll see him as just a guy who wanted to act out and smash stuff.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:17:46 +0000 2021
RT @PolicyShill: @MaxMurrayShow @jdcmedlock And it worked https://t.co/cHIDEzrPz6
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:16:28 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb But he's not. He's just nothing. He's just an unhinged guy who wants to act out and get attention and feel violent and powerful.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:15:44 +0000 2021
I love this tweet so much. https://t.co/WhCpytj2t8
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:14:43 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb Well, like I said, come see me in ten years.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:10:20 +0000 2021
@David_Jorgonson @Theophite @plike_ Who does?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:09:00 +0000 2021
@wolfe_herb https://t.co/G1xxTNm9PN
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:08:35 +0000 2021
@DaisyChewy @plike_ @Theophite Oh they are absolutely insane. But like many insane people, I'm guessing theirs is less ideologically clear of an insanity than the narrative would have us believe.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:08:02 +0000 2021
@Theophite @plike_ He is certainly a violent idiot.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:07:10 +0000 2021
People in an Era of Unrest don't like being told how ridiculous so many of the people and ideas and movements and actions of that era will look in retrospect. So come see me in a decade and we'll talk again. (end)
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:05:31 +0000 2021
But like I said, we're not ready for this conversation yet. We're not yet out of the Era of Unrest, even if I'm right in my prediction that we've seen the peak. https://t.co/v16zMHpo5r
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:03:50 +0000 2021
Maybe in 5 years, maybe in 15, we're going to look back and see very clearly that a lot of the prominent figures from this period were attention seekers, outrage entrepreneurs, or just riled-up people who didn't really know why they were riled up. https://t.co/JPpF6uNozA
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 01:01:57 +0000 2021
For many, only by insisting to themselves that everyone has a very clear ideological side in a very clear ideological battle (instead of just acting out) can they convince themselves that their own activism, their own hatreds, their own imagined acts of violence mean something.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:58:56 +0000 2021
But we're not ready for that conversation, because we're still in the era of unrest, and so we still have to justify our own agitation to ourselves by telling ourselves that everyone has a very strict ideology.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:57:36 +0000 2021
What we're eventually going to realize is that 2014-whenever was a period of unrest, where a lot of people felt that they needed to make dramatic demonstrations and take dramatic actions, but not all of those people really knew what they wanted.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:56:29 +0000 2021
@plike_ @Theophite insists these guys want fascist death squads and race war
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:51:57 +0000 2021
@Mal_A_Clypse @Theophite If they say things indicating they aren't fascists, we must not believe them, because who would believe a fascist?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:46:32 +0000 2021
@ElGranCAQuetzal In my experience, media tries to cater to existing narratives rather than creating narratives.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:43 +0000 2021
@Theophite He also came out in support of BLM!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:15 +0000 2021
@ElGranCAQuetzal I mean, false narratives are simply incredibly common; most things are complicated.
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:43:10 +0000 2021
@Theophite You guys should hang out and discover all you actually have in common! 😊
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:41:42 +0000 2021
@Theophite Haha I was thinking of you when I wrote that tweet. Turns out you and Ammon agree about the police!
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:41:11 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @jdcmedlock @PolicyShill @russellmz @tmychow But "more spending" has been so damn effective, why throw away a winning strategy
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:40:36 +0000 2021
Wow, first I'd seen of this. Pretty amazing. Kinda complicates the narrative that Ammon Bundy was a fascist stormtrooper... https://t.co/h8MmjY4Mqg
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:35:56 +0000 2021
@jason_path10 It's Chinese, right?
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:35:24 +0000 2021
@AnyOnly2 I did not...
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:55:06 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @russellmz @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @tmychow Check out Stockton's experiment
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:30:25 +0000 2021
@tomosrlloyd Yes
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:28:42 +0000 2021
@NoahProoval I'll ignore the "hero" comment because you're a Noah 😘
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:25:52 +0000 2021
@NoahProoval AFDC was a pretty bad program, but we just didn't replace it with anything. Still, we increased other programs and manage to still drive poverty down during the 00s and 10s.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:24:50 +0000 2021
@Steinernomics Yup
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:24:28 +0000 2021
RT @tekashi996: What if the “sex trafficking mania” that’s sort of taken suburban social media by storm is a form of secular Evangelical es…
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:14:45 +0000 2021
@Fourthletter58 @HeavyHymnal @theendismeh Mexico
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:09:00 +0000 2021
Check out this discussion thread. Tons of evidence shows that giving poor people money usually makes them non-poor. Amazing how that works! https://t.co/LvdoUT4PR3
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 23:07:49 +0000 2021
@kowalskr Stonestown
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:47:09 +0000 2021
@super_chalm3rs Yeah
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:39:22 +0000 2021
@nextdoorsv The Jews will replace you* *with anime and Kpop
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:38:25 +0000 2021
@persimfan I don't own any real estate but you can have my old sofa
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:21:27 +0000 2021
@Network_Guy @Valergain The Ottoman Empire knew how
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:21:02 +0000 2021
@MonkeySalad Stonetown mall I think
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:19:36 +0000 2021
The food court too. Almost all Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese stuff! https://t.co/vk9Qjd3AfU
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:16:32 +0000 2021
Walking through an American shopping mall for the first time in many years, and it's all just Korean and Japanese stuff. ❤️ https://t.co/IO1d8LxJk0
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:14:50 +0000 2021
@JamesTimmins @Insert_Name28 This is a LARPer man, ignore it
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:08:52 +0000 2021
@Valergain Your bougie parents will leave you their suburban real estate, don't worry
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:02:52 +0000 2021
@Ciel_Cicatrice You should change your name to Dumb Butt BAM
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 22:02:22 +0000 2021
@Insert_Name28 You only say that because you know it'll never happen. When someone tries to raise property tax on you by like 0.03% you'll be screeching that it'll cause gentrification or something. Cosplay kid.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 21:59:17 +0000 2021
@Insert_Name28 No! You don't! You just want to be a Boomer but pretend like you're not!
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 21:58:42 +0000 2021
@ethanbaron For duck's sake man
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 21:48:21 +0000 2021
@ethanbaron What am I looking at
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:42:12 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Yes, and that argument appears to be wrong.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:35:48 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Actually we've gotten a good return on our anti-poverty spending
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:32:24 +0000 2021
I feel like Outrage Entrepreneurship is reaching the Juicero stage here. First movers already exploited all the lucrative niches of things to get people mad at, so the new wave has to get mad at stuff like e-bikes. Late Stage Outrage Capitalism.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:28:20 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Or I choose a politics based on the goddamn evidence, one or the other
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:27:21 +0000 2021
@miniver I tried to read the first book and then literally burned it halfway through
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:26:55 +0000 2021
Final crime numbers for 2020 are in. Murder up 30%, assault up 12%. https://t.co/diVJOto5YT
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:24:48 +0000 2021
America also invented pachinko but is among the countries least interested in pachinko. But in that case it didn't result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. https://t.co/AMxsBzutWH
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:22:54 +0000 2021
@John47137220 Yeah the orgs seem highly dysfunctional and not that useful in general.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:21:08 +0000 2021
@ReubenMcCallum @DeepDarkRock @gobsmackled "things that people who know nothing about Japan whatsoever say"
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:18:09 +0000 2021
@excigaddict @originalspin *wakes up from nightmare and looks at arms* Whew, safe!!
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:12:12 +0000 2021
@Itmechr3 I have a question. What must happen to ICE?
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:07:04 +0000 2021
@eean It's like asking why Dylan bothered making that awful Hendrix cover
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:06:13 +0000 2021
@originalspin In 2008 I was drinking a cup of Tazo Awake tea, and I noticed on the tab it had the words: "Imagine yourself on a lush tea plantation in India in 1850. The tea you would be drinking would probably taste a lot like Awake." I said "What if I was the one picking the tea?"
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:03:18 +0000 2021
Passed by Folsom Street Fair yesterday, and realized I will never not be able to see it as Wheel of Time cosplay
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:01:53 +0000 2021
@WesLawe Has more BDSM anyway
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 19:51:23 +0000 2021
Yeah but Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series is 15,497 pages. Bow to the true master https://t.co/qLR6m7XBZX
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 19:41:36 +0000 2021
At least the non-white tankies have some sort of rationale, as opposed to the white tankies who just got tired of playing video games or whatever and needed a new thrill https://t.co/ZSfFLi2Otc
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 19:37:06 +0000 2021
...prompting me to write "Americans dressed as clowns defeat clowns dressed as Americans"...
@plike_ -- Tue Sep 28 00:44:31 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion When was that ever the narrative about the Bundys? Sovereign Citizens and SovCit-adjacent people are (in)famous for being anti-Federal government and state use of violence. That’s their whole thing.
@rwlesq -- Mon Sep 27 19:55:33 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I've somehow read/listened to the entire Discworld series, but get scared off by the books over 500 pages.
@jrdnmdhl -- Tue Sep 28 00:41:22 +0000 2021
@AlmingtonCap @Noahpinion Before I explain, have you heard of front yards?
@rwlesq -- Mon Sep 27 20:00:26 +0000 2021
@HistoryBoomer @Noahpinion Strong Disagree. The ranking of Discworld storylines is clearly: 1. MvL 2. Watch 3. Tiffany Aching 4. Other Industrial Revolution 5. Death 6. Witches 7. Ancient Civilizations 8. Wizards/Rincewind
@rincredible -- Tue Sep 28 07:06:40 +0000 2021
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
@paulbaumgart -- Tue Sep 28 06:10:28 +0000 2021
@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.
@themindscourge -- Mon Sep 27 22:26:30 +0000 2021
All true. The increase in Asian influence in the US is huge, over just the last 10 or 20 years even https://t.co/W5FoA4aScz
@urbanenergyplan -- Mon Sep 27 20:27:57 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @johngmcnally Did a car write this?
@hmantegazzi -- Tue Sep 28 01:56:33 +0000 2021
@SarahGrynpas @Noahpinion You can even get several layers of Hispanic-Asian mixtures, like, dunno, the children of a Chinese-Peruvian and Philippine couple, or Japanese-Brazilian and Korean-Chilean. And I'm not even counting people from Western or Southern Asia, or Central America
@bbalkus -- Mon Sep 27 22:30:30 +0000 2021
@BorderPolitics_ @Noahpinion San Francisco plus parts of Southern California. There are malls like this in Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley. I used to go to the mall in Arcadia (aka Chinese Beverly Hills) for Asian food all the time. It was a little shocking to me when I first moved to California.
@Kirblar024 -- Mon Sep 27 19:50:35 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion The white tankies generally want to go full white nationalist but hold back because it would get them excommunicated from their social circles, so they use an ideology that lets them launder their views. Less of that issue for non-white ethnonationalism.
@clayranck -- Tue Sep 28 06:55:33 +0000 2021
@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.
@russellmz -- Mon Sep 27 22:53:49 +0000 2021
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @Noahpinion "New York City has reduced veteran homelessness by nearly 90% since 2011. ...housing homeless veterans within 90 days of entering the homeless system." https://t.co/qcbYjj28fe
@SophietheBear1 -- Mon Sep 27 20:01:51 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion If you remove the profanity from Discworld, though, it's only 9,273 pages.
@ChristoSilvia -- Mon Sep 27 19:33:35 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I want everyone *except me* to do degrowth
@wophugus -- Tue Sep 28 06:54:02 +0000 2021
@EEMthethird @Noahpinion Sir take that back, I was contemptible well before I got my jd.
@EliasHakansson -- Mon Sep 27 20:08:11 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Googled it and I'm a flat earther now, thanks. I mean how can you not be? https://t.co/9V5znsoVM7
@Duke_of_neural -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:17 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion If I were to go Tankie, I would be convinced that China is going to rule the world and I better get a good record going now. (China doesn't seem to have a problem with Facebook misinformation claiming the vaccine is in salad dressing and will mark you for the devil.)
@ZeframM -- Tue Sep 28 02:02:40 +0000 2021
The budget deficit is number 2 lmao we’re screwed. https://t.co/Ya2PcR4I1u
@ngunn7 -- Mon Sep 27 20:14:40 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @originalspin Are you East India Company management?
@nicksydow -- Tue Sep 28 03:36:23 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Even more complexity in the inner east bay. Very glad to have grown up where the map looks like this. https://t.co/KB2GfEFp2V
@MFPoutine -- Mon Sep 27 20:22:03 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Working against fighting climate change are the deniers, the obfuscators, and the greedy fossil fuel interests, but never discount the airheaded concern trolls.
@Bamfurlough -- Tue Sep 28 05:49:36 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I needed this. I just had a package stolen for the third time in the past two months. Cinnamon soothes my rage.
@ChanakyaDc -- Mon Sep 27 20:36:27 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Juicero - when the stories were juicier than the product.
@RylandLu1 -- Tue Sep 28 01:49:58 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion You should visit Monterey Park the next time you’re in LA Noah.
@Jinom -- Tue Sep 28 00:43:52 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Is this guy another version of the classic Twitter performance art piece, "plumbing the depths of stupidity"?
@KemonomichiTX -- Tue Sep 28 00:42:46 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Dude is more like an anti authority / anti government guy
@paulbaumgart -- Tue Sep 28 06:02:23 +0000 2021
@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?
@David_Jorgonson -- Tue Sep 28 01:09:44 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @Theophite @plike_ And he doesn't like cops *if they limit his violent idiocy*
@bluefiddleguy -- Tue Sep 28 15:17:51 +0000 2021
@AngelicaOung @noahsmith @noahsmith or @Noahpinion ? Does have the given name Noah Smith automatically mean you have 🐇🐇🐇?
@SteverRobbins -- Mon Sep 27 22:29:29 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Joke: Noah should spend it with Stever and find out just what Stever’s price is
@Network_Guy -- Mon Sep 27 22:20:51 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @Valergain I have a brother, how do I deal with him?
@dwitt2020 -- Mon Sep 27 17:35:29 +0000 2021
@joeday05 @Noahpinion Yes, and that’s bad. It should apply to everyone. That doesn’t negate Noah’s point that’s it’s an important principal for any free society.
@scorztv -- Tue Sep 28 06:34:08 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Ya he is 😊 https://t.co/VELb9d18Ea
@KI7BDA -- Tue Sep 28 02:00:11 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion The same is true of IPAs. We'll look back and call them what they are--over-hopped bitter beers.
@entoliberal -- Tue Sep 28 01:28:48 +0000 2021
@cokeynes420 @Noahpinion The murder rate was unchanged last year in for example Germany (https://t.co/OJxDrPhThL) and Mexico (https://t.co/InWUZ6F6Y1). It fell in Britain. The pandemic does not explain the surge in murder in the US.
@scorztv -- Tue Sep 28 06:38:40 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion 楓糖 Fengtang, means maple syrup (named by @kejjmad)
@Lehramt1 -- Tue Sep 28 06:20:02 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @stan_keshi I think it'd be more reasonable to say that most people won't care about it.
@wdavidmarx -- Tue Sep 28 00:47:47 +0000 2021
The city emblem of Otaru, Hokkaido makes it look like they're really into Jewish baseball. https://t.co/Hx39EtaJ1l
@mndl_nyc -- Mon Sep 27 23:05:45 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion The alternative is that these kids would be throwing Molotov 🍹🍹 in real life, so maybe it's fine
@evanbear20 -- Mon Sep 27 20:33:59 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Electric vehicles, carbon capture, etc. are bad as they might lead fewer people to pursue deprivation and degrowth as their solutions.
@PENGINDAKARA -- Tue Sep 28 06:38:26 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion zoomer moment
@fsanchez1983 -- Tue Sep 28 05:36:31 +0000 2021
@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?
@super_chalm3rs -- Mon Sep 27 22:31:44 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Stonestown?
@Pinoyadjacent32 -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:33 +0000 2021
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed. https://t.co/tsiwod9UoL
@MattInNashville -- Mon Sep 27 22:23:55 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Joking at first and then I remembered "Wild Palms" (1993). Had to look it up. Somehow the real version is a bit less frightening.
@AlexYang9 -- Tue Sep 28 11:22:21 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion The Jiang and Hu mode had serious shortcomings, which gave Xi legitimacy as he went the other direction.
@Jack_Pondit -- Tue Sep 28 06:39:04 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Privacy was good.
@lvaughn -- Tue Sep 28 05:08:40 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Among my questions is how did she aquire the bear urine?
@AlmingtonCap -- Tue Sep 28 00:38:46 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion what’s a back yard?
@AngelicaOung -- Tue Sep 28 15:15:49 +0000 2021
Just blocked somebody for talking shit about @noahsmith’s rabbit.
@EEMthethird -- Tue Sep 28 06:50:32 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I already think you are an idiot if you have ONE JD, much less two. That is contemptible.
@SteveNegusMasr -- Tue Sep 28 01:59:00 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Recommend Wendy Cheng's book The Changs Next Door to the Diaz's, about the San Gabriel Valley
@EnricoDandolo2 -- Mon Sep 27 20:40:26 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I am personally (as opposed to impersonally) outraged that I’m forced to Google 50% of your tweets just to know what the hell you are referencing.
@jstrange1925 -- Mon Sep 27 20:01:13 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion My favorite is when its announced that the BLM is setting backfires as a wildfire control measure and right-wing social media loses their minds being hysterical "Black Lives Matter is burning down the forests!"
@puremalarkey -- Tue Sep 28 05:41:53 +0000 2021
@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
@BenjaminDanard -- Tue Sep 28 01:37:11 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Climate change is people's 10th most perceived big problem. The deficit is #2. So this seems like politicians following people's concerns. https://t.co/ULxiNGwyWC
@EliasHakansson -- Tue Sep 28 00:39:14 +0000 2021
@quinoaburger09 @theirfanator @Noahpinion Amazing. Dude's principled to a fault, nobody can take that away from him.
@jme_rbt -- Mon Sep 27 20:18:35 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @originalspin It'll still taste like Awake, you'd just be in more pain.
@Docrev_ -- Mon Sep 27 20:07:59 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion This light novel series is absurdly long (over 43000 pages!): https://t.co/MPoLcUMOb4
@beeforbutterfly -- Mon Sep 27 19:55:56 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion You lured me in with the rabbits and just stole my heart with the Pratchett homage.
@byharryconnolly -- Mon Sep 27 22:24:32 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I'd be very, VERY interested in Japanese cheesecake if I weren't already as big as a house.
@John47137220 -- Mon Sep 27 20:22:07 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Internally, blm is a huge mess. Friend of mine left when pendley moved HQ and went to regional. The rural regionals are very much Trumper anti vaccers. It's kind of a crazy dynamic.
@BeezyManzell -- Tue Sep 28 01:10:03 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion How amazing would it be to be able to read a History of the 21st Century from the 23rd Century perspective?
@John47137220 -- Mon Sep 27 20:25:03 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion They seem to do good work, but the GOP desire to gut the HQ orgs and instead rely on grunts that are both rural and often ex military is intentional and hugely destructive (on purpose)
@JoshPheterson -- Mon Sep 27 19:57:21 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Malazan's coming for that crown.
@realBenShapero -- Mon Sep 27 19:52:55 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Dude isn't even counting the Mishnah or the Talmud. AMATEUR.
@quinoaburger09 -- Mon Sep 27 17:42:33 +0000 2021
@theirfanator @Noahpinion Woke Ammon Bundy https://t.co/7H9bAY6v1Z
@racheleesthinks -- Tue Sep 28 06:54:10 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion So he paid double? Can’t be a smart decision.
@AngelicaOung -- Tue Sep 28 15:21:10 +0000 2021
@bluefiddleguy @noahsmith @Noahpinion Oops! apologies @noahsmith, although I would also stand up for your hypothetical rabbits. Yes @noahpinion’s rabbit, specifically Cinnamon.
@scorztv -- Tue Sep 28 06:18:26 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion https://t.co/RtIKyR8D5L
@MattAlhonte -- Tue Sep 28 06:04:23 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @znmeb Right, sometimes it's an Iterated Ultimatum Game
@Legal_Investor -- Tue Sep 28 00:50:57 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Yeahhh, why would an anarchist ever want to defund the police?
@cory_fitz -- Tue Sep 28 07:45:24 +0000 2021
@stan_keshi @Noahpinion Consoles were banned in China for like a decade
@stayininformed -- Tue Sep 28 03:37:57 +0000 2021
I’m uncomfortable with how often I agree with Noah. This is the best argument I’ve seen for passing the infrastructure bill. I, once again, completely agree. https://t.co/uLd4PK2p7h
@kumararepublic -- Tue Sep 28 01:50:48 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Hawaii also comes to mind.
@BenjaminDanard -- Tue Sep 28 01:16:27 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion These are strange times as people try to find meaning in their lives. Trying to find causes to fight for. I can't imagine anyone will look back at the rise of anti-vaxxers in the middle of a once a century pandemic and not see mass hysteria.
@kar_nels -- Mon Sep 27 23:43:05 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion East Coast influenced by Europe and West Coast influenced by Asia and both influence by Latin America in different ways.
@kto1243 -- Mon Sep 27 20:10:16 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I am no mathematician, but I am not 💯 that’s how the word random works.
@Dewterium2 -- Mon Sep 27 19:54:38 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion I feel like this should be word count. How many pages do they want? We can do that.
@Nowooski -- Mon Sep 27 19:52:57 +0000 2021
Feel bad! Everything that’s good is problematic! https://t.co/hXiOIM5bTp
@wophugus -- Tue Sep 28 01:31:01 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Just thinking about how growing up in the 90s the media was always making fun of the 60s counterculture as frivolous and silly whereas now we are making movies lionizing everyone from the black panthers to Abbie Hoffman.
@JamesTimmins -- Mon Sep 27 22:16:57 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion @Insert_Name28 Noah when are you gonna write a BOpinion piece that tells me whether Succession is an accurate picture of billionaires or not? I assume you know cuz "macroeconomics" == "lots of money" and stuff.
@causalinf -- Tue Sep 28 02:29:36 +0000 2021
I started Noom Oct 2 w/ 170 my goal. Today I weighed in at 173. October 2 is Saturday. So wish me luck. It would be cool to hit it by or on that day. Highly recommend Noom — it has felt very Zen. https://t.co/CDs9X1UphN
@MrRBourne -- Tue Sep 28 02:11:20 +0000 2021
I preach about the sunk cost fallacy, but here I am watching Season 6 Episode 11 of Billions.
@DorfmanJeffrey -- Mon Sep 27 19:12:36 +0000 2021
I think we can all agree the member of #EconTwitter least likely to order a gold covered steak is @ModeledBehavior https://t.co/TVpJFYERE9
@SoumayaKeynes -- Mon Sep 27 22:33:13 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm https://t.co/OlN2w5nOji
@ben_golub -- Mon Sep 27 23:29:57 +0000 2021
@johnjhorton Well, you write down a big matrix, where the number of rows is the number of actions one player has...
@hyperplanes -- Tue Sep 28 00:28:58 +0000 2021
This is not an appropriate use of the terms gross and net. The effect on deficit is a different concept entirely from the cost of the bill https://t.co/xAuaXQHEu8
@jodiecongirl -- Tue Sep 28 01:26:55 +0000 2021
@lukestein perhaps unsurprisingly there is also a didn't understand the assignment corollary
@jneeley78 -- Tue Sep 28 16:14:17 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Time to order your Faraday cage
@RebelEconProf -- Mon Sep 27 20:45:42 +0000 2021
There’s no truth to the rumor that I will be the next president of the Dallas Fed.
@ATabarrok -- Tue Sep 28 12:45:54 +0000 2021
@HJWallEcon @jmhorp Jeremy is kicking himself for missing that one.
@Uptheleft -- Tue Sep 28 10:37:19 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Brexia being Brexiteer will Brexit. Think of that country as a place where GOP/Trump has been winning since 2014 without even stealing anything.
@economistmom -- Mon Sep 27 22:51:38 +0000 2021
I win for having the only affiliation that takes up three lines. @FairGrowthCmte’s proper name is a mouthful! Sometimes we choose to use the catchy SCEDFG acronym instead. 😜 https://t.co/jpk7D2FDCP
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:09:32 +0000 2021
Retweet if this is the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard in your entire life https://t.co/oamU3gzuEK
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:38 +0000 2021
But the really interesting thing was what he found on self-reported happiness. Months later, when asked about subjective happiness, compliers who went through with the decision because the coin came up heads were happier than had they not. 15/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:36 +0000 2021
With that dogma in my mind, I went to the study believing "well, put aside whatever they find, I still believe that these marriages are probably sub-optimal, because why wouldn't they have formed them if they were so great to begin with?" But it's on here the study pushed me. 13n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:36 +0000 2021
As I say in my substack, matching models often show that the assigned matches that occur, when made voluntarily, are better than other assignments that could have been made. Like more stable. This seems sensible -- wouldn't it be people who know best when and to whom to marry?
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:34 +0000 2021
These move induced marriages are a complier population who would have not married (not then anyway) had they not been assigned which to me, and how I think, made me suspect they would be relatively unstable as far as unions go. But it's hard to find evidence for that 10/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:33 +0000 2021
In this table, we see linear probability models of marriage regressed against total number of moves for various types of marriage outcomes and samples. The results are the same -- there is a large increase in the probability of marriage caused by a move. 9/n https://t.co/UvBBqENPnn
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:32 +0000 2021
As most reading this know, randomization has the nice feature of allowing us to draw plausible conclusions about causal effects in aggregate, and the authors walk us through evidence suggesting that moves, indeed, cause marriage rates to rise. 8/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:31 +0000 2021
The questions are scientifically interesting, as well as relevant for questions in labor economics. The US Army, as Susan notes, cares about the well being of its employees, for instance, and so has a natural vested interest in knowing what effect its choices have on others 4/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:31 +0000 2021
The economic impacts of migration, a research question that Wozniak has spent a large chunk of her career studying, weave through family's lives and may cause households to dissolve or form. The problem is migration and marriage is so endogenous it's hard to say much 5/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:30 +0000 2021
Susan and Abigail are interested in estimating the effects of moves on marriage. Moving and marriage, as I try to say in my substack, are deeply intertwined in knots of endogeneity. I propose that maybe that's true for all really massive life decisions occurring together. 2/n
@causalinf -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:30 +0000 2021
I just posted a substack #JHR_Threads of a new forthcoming article at @J_HumanResource by @SCarter611 at West Point and @AbigailWozniak at the Federal Reserve. I loved this paper and encourage you to read the substack, watch the interview and the article. https://t.co/cms3yikXAf
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 15:10:45 +0000 2021
You can (and should) still get Pizza Hut pizza that is basically unchanged in taste from 1995. And I can see from where I'm sitting a 36 inch Sony CRT hooked up to an N64 and my copy of Goldeneye is nearby. Most of this is within your grasp! https://t.co/oLyybnYhoI
@foster_type -- Tue Sep 28 01:56:17 +0000 2021
Johnson is a very talented and offbeat impressionist who does the best Trump impression that's ever been done, but I'm sure they will feed him sub-Behar level clapter shit to spit out for the boomer dullards who form the core audience. https://t.co/5cVk16apKm
@LookingGdLouis -- Tue Sep 28 00:12:59 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior The Sear and Roebuck catalog has you covered https://t.co/t0j4FlJmbs
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 18:11:25 +0000 2021
yes, and entirely possible to be a good team player and an iconoclast. in fact, it's a huge win for the team. if it's done well as Jeremy does it. https://t.co/2kTT0hObDb
@mosheroperandi -- Tue Sep 28 02:27:04 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior It's some extremely dumb shit, but sadly I'm not even sure it's the dumbest shit I've heard THIS WEEK https://t.co/Bl9GIz0Wd6
@foster_type -- Tue Sep 28 03:28:13 +0000 2021
Duck Phillips from Mad Men plays Blanche's dead husband's illegitimate son on an episode of Golden Girls. I'll keep you posted on whatever else I find before I fall asleep. https://t.co/jw6WZDaOOm
@EGirlMonetarism -- Tue Sep 28 16:20:37 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Covid: it's good luck
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 17:01:57 +0000 2021
@econhist_allday You mean a novel price index, not an index of the prices of brand new houses, right?
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:57:34 +0000 2021
@econhist_allday Thank you! A little bit yes.
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:53:06 +0000 2021
I have no choice then https://t.co/4J9xXC8V6D
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:52:02 +0000 2021
Another year of not getting a macarthur genius grant for my dumbass tweets
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:41:44 +0000 2021
RT @sam_a_bell: funny that Warren comes out against Powell *after* he said last week that he will defer to the new VC for Supervision on re…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:34:46 +0000 2021
RT @GregDaco: #Powell leading the #Fed to act early and go big in the early days of the global coronavirus recession is actually what prev…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:18:48 +0000 2021
Someone who thinks Jerome Powell got "lucky" with the economy he faced shouldn't be sharing their opinion on these matters frankly. https://t.co/pwTcs56dYq
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:13:18 +0000 2021
Lucky!?! https://t.co/SnKrT8li0U
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:12:41 +0000 2021
RT @MarcGoldwein: Most people who make fun of Pogs: -Own zero pogs -Have never minted a slammer -Have never participated in the World POG F…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 16:12:26 +0000 2021
I didn’t need this news https://t.co/WACyb3Csve
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 15:33:11 +0000 2021
This would be a very logical "premium twitter" addition that they could charge for.
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 15:32:37 +0000 2021
One very simple thing for twitter to do would be expand surveying capabilities. Why they keep twitter polls so basic and limited is baffling to me.
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 15:08:49 +0000 2021
@RocCityBuilt @JosephPolitano CPS microdata, which is why I would bill you high for this https://t.co/kVOhaUHj0z
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 15:04:47 +0000 2021
@RocCityBuilt @JosephPolitano Can I bill you for this wasted time? https://t.co/Pm0WzEY2Rs
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 14:29:44 +0000 2021
Tucker Carlson and the populist right basically believe "The enemy of my enemy is wise, even if they believe in chem trails"
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 14:25:24 +0000 2021
There is nobody so ridiculous and ignorant that if they criticize the right people (regardless of the merits of the critique) that Tucker won’t embrace them and give them a platform https://t.co/bzDWlPj3Im
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 13:50:15 +0000 2021
Wow. From a grant to incentivize better zoning to a generic handout for planning. What an absurd joke. Cut this spending, its useless now. https://t.co/gMAhtx3diI
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 13:34:07 +0000 2021
That’s funny https://t.co/Dj6qdhGKCm
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 13:28:48 +0000 2021
RT @elidourado: The first time I tried streaming video online, I must have been 16, and it was such a terrible experience that my reaction…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 13:28:22 +0000 2021
@RocCityBuilt @JosephPolitano No, many people have not retired from age 25 to 54, which is the group that line shows
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 12:59:38 +0000 2021
RT @JosephPolitano: RETVRN TO FULL EMPLOYMENT https://t.co/Y6Sp8PmHCP
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 11:45:12 +0000 2021
The medical industrial complex is scamming us https://t.co/gHJngbRRSw
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:20:48 +0000 2021
@el_manels https://t.co/DFzLtMm4XC
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:17:32 +0000 2021
@BreakItUp3 Remember when you said I dont listen? Take that to hear
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:07:44 +0000 2021
I’m going to lose my mind https://t.co/oamU3gzuEK
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:07:02 +0000 2021
To be clear I am in no way considering this for myself https://t.co/glLkuMFIT9
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:56:30 +0000 2021
@BreakItUp3 That’s a good idea
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:48:39 +0000 2021
Hope every single one of you is having a respectful and observant Capital Day
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:45:52 +0000 2021
On September 27th every year we celebrate Capital Day to commemorate when Lancaster was the capital of the United States for 24 hours in 1777 https://t.co/rZqMxGOu2g https://t.co/2Dtm19GhOq
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:40:16 +0000 2021
@lukeyoquinto Yeah the novelty there will kill you. Each new one is a distraction until you are used to it, which takes time
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:36:48 +0000 2021
@lukeyoquinto Modestly priced puzzles, of course https://t.co/rW7TkBzRiA
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:29:50 +0000 2021
@lukeyoquinto Same. I’ve got about 30 of them though
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:28:24 +0000 2021
RT @mattyglesias: The White House takes the YIMBY Pill. https://t.co/OVaYETb96p https://t.co/n45dqJQnSa
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:21:59 +0000 2021
@BreakItUp3 @jimfarley98 @Ford I live my $40k car values
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 01:20:09 +0000 2021
@BreakItUp3 @jimfarley98 @Ford It’s a cool truck but I wouldn’t spend that much on a vehicle
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 00:20:20 +0000 2021
RT @jimfarley98: Just outside Memphis, we’re building the biggest auto plant in @Ford’s history. It's called Blue Oval City & is where we…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 00:18:24 +0000 2021
RT @conorsen: “Covering nearly 6 square miles, the Tennessee complex would be roughly three times the size of Ford’s River Rouge plant comp…
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 00:11:35 +0000 2021
@BreakItUp3 I would assume it is for a coworking type or even open office space but then read the text it sounds like it’s for home use
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 19:00:33 +0000 2021
@karlbykarlsmith @charlescwcooke Not disagreeing with that. I'm saying this data rebukes the idea there's no political valence to vaccination rates, and that anyone trying to explain the patterns is selling snake oil. He is trying to generalize from Florida, wrongly.
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:56:47 +0000 2021
Rates projections are higher compared to march, hard to make the case fading delta variant leaves us more optimistic than pre surge https://t.co/TgbZqN5fnw
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:54:22 +0000 2021
@mattyglesias https://t.co/C09gowLf6G https://t.co/W2ei7lZpMW
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:51:34 +0000 2021
@karlbykarlsmith @charlescwcooke I think Florida is middle of the pack, but his argument that “As ever, those who are telling you that they understand the patterns here are doing nothing more than selling political snake oil.” seems contradicted by a pretty clear pattern that also well explains Florida
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:40:18 +0000 2021
@charlescwcooke Ok but what about this? https://t.co/BMgsvdhNDS
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:24:14 +0000 2021
RT @sam_a_bell: "assertion that labor force participation has moved permanently lower as a result of a downturn is not new. Indeed, it has…
@chrisbrandow -- Tue Sep 28 15:37:57 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior It really helps solve a slice of the “how do you have meaningful interaction between a one-to-many audience?” problem.
@dbhyslop -- Tue Sep 28 16:47:26 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior We’ll see some awesome northern lights, but unfortunately my camera won’t work
@lukeyoquinto -- Tue Sep 28 01:43:05 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior My problem is, when you're solving them, it kind of feels like if you could almost truly understand the unifying mathematical theory behind them, which would Mean Something. But of course what it actually means is you've become a dude surrounded by puzzles
@lukeyoquinto -- Tue Sep 28 01:34:14 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior whoa respect. See, this is the kind of wholesome hobby you can get into when you buy modestly priced automobiles
@adair_from_ns -- Tue Sep 28 16:45:16 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Here's a little baby one from a couple decades back. A big one would wreak long term havoc on the electrical grid if not shut down quickly in response to rising geomagnetic induced currents. https://t.co/jq1QpsCLoN
@lukeyoquinto -- Tue Sep 28 01:38:40 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior real talk, my sister got me a puzzle-a-day Advent calendar last year and it was a productivity-destroying curse
@adammarkbrazier -- Tue Sep 28 17:08:10 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior I can't believe that @RyanRadia has yet to win one for total mastery of the nation's datasets
@el_manels -- Tue Sep 28 02:19:53 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior This should tip you over the finish line https://t.co/rT6A4JRZSd
@SmileyPSU -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:13 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Too much fuckin shit on me
@ryanWneal -- Tue Sep 28 15:12:06 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Yeah my N64 is plugged into the 2020 LG OLED TV. No reason to ever give that bad boy up.
@JudasDubois -- Tue Sep 28 02:28:30 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior @TWLadyGrey Retweet if you think that dude was trying to pump and dump bitcoin...
@Klein711 -- Tue Sep 28 16:14:18 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior Think on the bright side: If there is a giant geomagnetic storm you wouldn't have to read stories like this posted to Twitter.
@HeverlyNathan -- Tue Sep 28 16:53:53 +0000 2021
@ModeledBehavior You gotta start tweeting about car financing
@IikkaKorhonen -- Tue Sep 28 11:29:58 +0000 2021
@ntrickett16 @Claudia_Sahm Also interesting how similar the dynamics are to bank runs.
@IikkaKorhonen -- Tue Sep 28 11:10:52 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Mostly Brexit. Tens of thousands of drivers leaving the UK, end of cabotage rights for EU drivers etc. Nothing similar in the EU or Northern Ireland.
@D_Kuehn -- Tue Sep 28 02:00:48 +0000 2021
WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS Walls of coefficients communicate one of two things: 1) you don’t know what you care about, or 2) you are invoking the kitchen sink because you don’t have confidence in your identification strategy. https://t.co/2c68ApCnxO
@vtg2 -- Mon Sep 27 21:24:08 +0000 2021
There’s something very Fed about two resignations where one announces before market open and the other after market close.
@NickTimiraos -- Mon Sep 27 17:34:47 +0000 2021
Brainard says she's "confounded" by stories that say we're in a very tight labor market. "I just think it's very early days to be concluding that there's been a structural shift in the desire and necessity of prime-age Americans" to seek jobs.
@AtifRMian -- Tue Sep 28 01:54:57 +0000 2021
Some people are so kind, they’ll ask how my name is pronounced - rehearse it multiple times and 60 secs later, total relapse: Ateeeeff Meeeunn 😂 I am sure I do the same to others, but what’s in a name, it’s the thought that counts
@marcfbellemare -- Tue Sep 28 12:57:34 +0000 2021
@ConnorMEwing Canada’s Texas.
@rachsieg -- Tue Sep 28 14:38:56 +0000 2021
Brown asks if it's time the Fed board included a Black woman. Powell: "We want everybody’s voice heard around the table, that would certainly include black women." Yellen: "That would certainly be a very welcome achievement."
@Atrios -- Tue Sep 28 10:30:31 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm brexit (mostly)
@metrics52 -- Tue Sep 28 13:39:44 +0000 2021
I'm thrilled to see these two education path-breakers recognized. I've known Rick Hanushek and followed his scholarship for decades. I haven't always agreed with Rick's conclusions, but he's never failed to engage and challenge me! https://t.co/fdviaauWTs
@JuliusProbst -- Mon Sep 27 21:19:04 +0000 2021
This https://t.co/EVaJmzdHx5
@Marietmora -- Tue Sep 28 03:54:57 +0000 2021
Generous offer by @Claudia_Sahm for macro job market candidates! Check it out @AEAMP1! https://t.co/gHctMP3T6r
@tspaRoy -- Tue Sep 28 14:15:04 +0000 2021
@KimBrownLive @blackhousenew @Claudia_Sahm - It's not just in Econ profession. Not sure that "misery loves company" is what we desire or is needed but does speak to systemic challenges.
@Tiffany_L_Green -- Tue Sep 28 11:41:06 +0000 2021
Finally finished first draft of my research statement. This has been one of the most difficult things I've ever written but I'm glad to have it at a point where I can ask for the feedback I need.
@ErikSherman -- Mon Sep 27 19:30:08 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Context is good. π as a variable name (if I got that right in the discussion of Phelps-Friedman) makes me do a double-take because of my own background. But I just found that I could search for π in a document, which gave me some delight for whatever reason.
@ErikSherman -- Mon Sep 27 19:20:32 +0000 2021
Very interesting. I'll have to try reading Rudd's paper (not being an economist, I might be left scratching my head, but then, a lot of economists seem to be scratching their head at how inflation happens, even if most don't want to admit it, so I might have company). https://t.co/TKLzAnviHE
@IndivarD -- Tue Sep 28 14:59:27 +0000 2021
Leave it to American policymakers to dramatically reduce poverty and hardship, set our nation on the fastest pace (Delta uncertainty aside) to recover from the deep pandemic-induced recession of any country, and then argue that we did it (mostly) wrong. 🤷‍♂️
@socio_steve -- Tue Sep 28 00:47:10 +0000 2021
Child Allowance Romney v. Immigration Hawk Romney: The Anguish of the Globes https://t.co/m40LyDPXvk
@ben_golub -- Mon Sep 27 23:38:07 +0000 2021
@leah_boustan @BrianCAlbrecht @causalinf You'd be Canadian!
@HJWallEcon -- Tue Sep 28 02:25:31 +0000 2021
@jmhorp A free lunch?
@BruceBartlett -- Mon Sep 27 22:43:17 +0000 2021
How stupid was Biden to waste months negotiating with Republicans on an infrastructure bill?
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 12:54:14 +0000 2021
@yudapearl @hangingnoodles @Claudia_Sahm Not that it’s impossible, but that any sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence will have, I increasingly suspect, many of the same blind spots as our sufficiently advanced biological intelligences, for frustrating information theory-related reasons
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 12:43:35 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm “We replaced the CEO with an ML model, let’s see if anyone notices” https://t.co/GN9XrDUPL3
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 12:09:22 +0000 2021
“Footnote 1: In most macro models, these expectations are referred to, “rational expectations.” The meaning is a bit different than you might think. https://t.co/mxu880Mue1
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 12:04:52 +0000 2021
“We all are awful forecasters, especially during times of crisis.” See Annie Duke helps keep me honest, ijs @Claudia_Sahm
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:54:37 +0000 2021
“Stable prices come from stable expectations, we said so. But reality don’t care. In fact, since the Great Recession, the Fed consistently fell short of its 2% target.” I hear UBI is a great way to increase inflation, I’m just saying. https://t.co/mxu880Mue1
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:51:29 +0000 2021
This s is similar of course to how it works for stocks (it’s not), the aggregate of analyst expectations is how the stock performs (it’s really not) @Claudia_Sahm
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:49:43 +0000 2021
“Mainstream academic macroeconomists and central bankers latched onto the idea decades ago that inflation expectations were key. So the story goes, how much consumers and businesses expect prices to rise is how much they will rise in reality.” Oh. Oh dear. https://t.co/mxu880Mue1
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:04:21 +0000 2021
@mathiasverraes @Claudia_Sahm Right, and the problem there is both computer chips, the fabs for which are stupidly expensive and time consuming to build
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:01:36 +0000 2021
Therefore, 35% or so of the country is in favor https://t.co/0E2vOCvBw0
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 11:01:04 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm @Dr_Phalin I’m increasingly convinced if one can’t explain it to an interested fifth grader it’s not worth explaining
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 10:54:27 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm I’m bad at keeping things in stock! I had the classic “condiments and alcohol” bachelor fridge when I lived alone! And somehow I’ve not known even mild inconvenience
@kevinriggle -- Tue Sep 28 10:40:36 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm From the US side afaict it’s half “US elites are Taylorist high-modernist morons who can’t figure out why 100 years of attempting to scientific forestry our basic industries hasn’t worked” and half “Americans see one photo of empty shelves on Instagram and think it’s the country”
@Urbancic -- Tue Sep 28 09:33:31 +0000 2021
*be more on brand So tired. 😴 But in the last couple of hours I managed to complete my most ambitious seating chart to date!
@Urbancic -- Tue Sep 28 07:09:50 +0000 2021
Midnight copies the night before class. Hard for me to me more on brand than that. Maybe I'm ready to go back to in-person courses after all! https://t.co/wuN40CgyHr
@Amy_Siskind -- Mon Sep 27 22:53:11 +0000 2021
Senate Republicans just essentially voted to shut down the government - which they have been warned by past GOP Treasury Secretaries will put our economy in peril. Stop trying to work with these people Pres Biden - they are just blocking your agent and running out the clock!
@enkelejdahavari -- Tue Sep 28 12:08:26 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Thanks for sharing. I am a micro person but I will read the original working paper and use some insights for my macro undergrad class.
@econhist_allday -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:38 +0000 2021
It's been hard to talk about this publicly before, but as we approach the third anniversary of unexpected passing of my mentor and colleague, Werner Troesken, I wanted to highlight a part of his public health scholarship that is now more relevant than ever.
@KalebNygaard -- Mon Sep 27 20:21:41 +0000 2021
These are the nine people responsible for picking the next President of the @BostonFed https://t.co/56T4y6DHqu
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 02:07:28 +0000 2021
#PuffiSays hey, aren’t you done working yet? … yes, kitty 🐈‍⬛ PS no idea long she was in my office, thank goodness didn’t cause a scene #macrokitty https://t.co/agUBX0enf0
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 18:51:31 +0000 2021
Larry Summers is a keynote and Jim Bullard is on a panel. such a shame we aren't all hanging out in Manilla together! https://t.co/LLghSu8XF6 https://t.co/jnrf8NnfGh
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 18:44:22 +0000 2021
speaking tonight at a central bank conference in Manilla (via Zoom). my lecture is on the future of forecasting. https://t.co/9rtgH0wFqi
@ZJAyres -- Tue Sep 28 07:26:11 +0000 2021
Got nothing for you today. No words of wisdom. I'm tired. Social media is hard work.
@CrewsCutts -- Tue Sep 28 12:11:18 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm Correction: delete “during COVID” and insert “of all time.”
@hangingnoodles -- Tue Sep 28 12:46:17 +0000 2021
@yudapearl @Claudia_Sahm 1 key thing humans can do but AI can't is adjust for what isn't in the data. New essay out soon on "philosophy of data" and the issue of low internality data (antonym of externality)
@SusannaDW -- Tue Sep 28 00:57:48 +0000 2021
Happy 46th birthday to me! Scallops in a lemon butter vermouth pan sauce, zucchini & tomatoes with thyme, & cake with exquisite buttercream from Cake Ann in Gloucester, MA. https://t.co/ierOhajRme
@RexKwonDo92 -- Tue Sep 28 17:55:51 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm I don’t understand why Warren and some of the other Democratic politicians dislike Powell. Imo he’s doing a damn good job and is the reason why we haven’t experienced another recession like 08.
@matias_kaplan -- Tue Sep 28 02:57:24 +0000 2021
@rasmansa Also this by @Claudia_Sahm https://t.co/27Uw0OBaj2
@Claudia_Sahm -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:58 +0000 2021
note, neither are voting members of the FOMC this year. President Biden does not appoint Reserve Bank Presidents. the selection process is run at the District level.
@KimBrownLive -- Tue Sep 28 13:26:04 +0000 2021
lazy white men keep their journalism jobs & admit to enabling fascism. MEANWHILE, the nonwhite nonmale journos — who recognized what’s been happening and spoke up — get labeled as “difficult” along with the smearing that comes along with daring to challenge the status quo https://t.co/bXRdfxwDfX
@wgoggin -- Tue Sep 28 11:38:20 +0000 2021
@Claudia_Sahm As you know, if the data are consistent with two very different underlying causal mechanisms, those data cannot be used to prove or support one as correct. The primary problem with the paper is it assumes the (false) loanable funds model it claims the data uniquely support.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 17:56:40 +0000 2021
March 2020 and the lack of a banking crisis -- frankly banks were did really well throughout -- suggests they were more stable than in 2008. of course, we don't get to see the counterfactual. Fed may have eased up too much. would love to see Congress think more about nonbanks.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 17:54:03 +0000 2021
RT @Dr_Phalin: Finally had a moment to catch up on the latest in inflation & macro research from @Claudia_Sahm. Love her straightforward, p…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 17:53:46 +0000 2021
damn, I log off Twitter for a bit and it goes to hell in a hand basket. wow, what a smack down …. https://t.co/J2DmubnbKB
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 13:38:13 +0000 2021
today working through great comments from @Econ_Marshall and @avdluduvice -- each of their papers are in our report. PS always good to check with the experts that you have not butchered their papers. PPS Marshall is a tough but fair critic :-)
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 13:35:55 +0000 2021
walk done. rest of my day is for editing (no tweeting!) our very-soon-to be released @jainfamilyinst report: "Macroeconomic Effects of Guaranteed Income: Case Study of the Child Tax Credit" critically evaluate and summarize 6 macro research studies for a policy audience.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 13:22:17 +0000 2021
RT @graykimbrough: American elites regularly go through a cycle of criticizing how poor parents raise their children. But we don't talk en…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 13:19:25 +0000 2021
RT @_HolyMacro: Choose happiness; it’s free and feels amazing! 🤗
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:48:33 +0000 2021
RT @economistmom: We’re having a hearing today! Why just sit around wondering and worrying if the government will shut down and/or default?…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:32:51 +0000 2021
RT @Claudia_Sahm: @yudapearl I agree that failure is the best teacher!
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:32:48 +0000 2021
@yudapearl I agree that failure is the best teacher!
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:32:30 +0000 2021
RT @Claudia_Sahm: @yudapearl I learn an incredible amount by ruthlessly testing my economic stories as new data and research roll in. black…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:32:28 +0000 2021
RT @yudapearl: @Claudia_Sahm Why? Have you tried? I've learned a lot by just trying, even when failed.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:32:27 +0000 2021
@yudapearl I learn an incredible amount by ruthlessly testing my economic stories as new data and research roll in. black box models are limited in telling us what is driving the world. everyone has their approach. mine adapts over time and I’m happy to consider new approaches.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:28:18 +0000 2021
I’m not arguing the benefits of judgmental forecasting in Twitter this morning. you can see why I need to write the Substack post. and you need to get a paid subscription. https://t.co/s4rqYmVFsR
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:23:23 +0000 2021
@DavidLund6 again, happy to see and tools but people are not replaceable in the forecasting and macro analysis for policymakers
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:22:15 +0000 2021
PS no one should not mechanize my econ brain. it’s way more surly than its public face. I am also an extremely non linear thinker. code would be an unholy mess. 😀
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:19:37 +0000 2021
https://t.co/rO1yS71X2v
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:19:33 +0000 2021
good luck with that … https://t.co/PpyeYW9HQd
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:18:56 +0000 2021
RT @MollyRose_Good: Tell me more how poor people need to learn financial literacy when these are the policy fights of the elite 🙄🙄🙄
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:18:44 +0000 2021
mind of, we use hundreds of statistical models — every flavor that exists. data and statistics are necessary but not sufficient.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:17:31 +0000 2021
nah. computer programs are a long way from the process of the staff’s judgement forecast … our biggest add? we tell the economic story. numbers are not as important as the why, helps policymakers know what to look for in the world and the key conditioning factors … https://t.co/yUEdY7GIyf
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:15:28 +0000 2021
@DavidLund6 nah.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 12:14:53 +0000 2021
RT @CrewsCutts: @Claudia_Sahm Correction: delete “during COVID” and insert “of all time.”
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:54:21 +0000 2021
RT @hangingnoodles: Extremely important that we get savvier about the limits of machine learning / stats eg Hard Logical Limits of Stats…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:54:10 +0000 2021
RT @Noahpinion: The bipartisan infrastructure bill would be a huge win for progressivism. It would get rid of lead water pipes in America.…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:53:52 +0000 2021
RT @kevinriggle: This s is similar of course to how it works for stocks (it’s not), the aggregate of analyst expectations is how the stock…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:50:10 +0000 2021
RT @kevinriggle: “Mainstream academic macroeconomists and central bankers latched onto the idea decades ago that inflation expectations wer…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:48:09 +0000 2021
PhD macroeconomists should read his paper after my post. you’ll benefit from the Fed context of his paper I give and his theory section in the paper is top notch. we should all discuss the paper. https://t.co/gCuuclMOK2
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:46:12 +0000 2021
do read my Substack post about Jeremy Rudd’s paper on inflation expectations. https://t.co/KxhNFPavUZ I’ve gotten very positive feedback on how accessible my post is and I gives context to the heated debate it stirred up last week.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:43:33 +0000 2021
woke up feeling bad about nagging @LHSummers @ojblanchard1 @jasonfurman @TimDuy to read Jeremy Rudd’s paper. Olivier is right I was insulting and for no good reason. I could explain why but you’re right, I’m sorry. I do think you’ll like the paper, especially the theory part.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:38:36 +0000 2021
RT @wgoggin: @Claudia_Sahm As you know, if the data are consistent with two very different underlying causal mechanisms, those data cannot…
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:28:43 +0000 2021
RT @drlisadcook: Great annual opportunity for macro job market students to read and refine your JMPs from @Claudia_Sahm!
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:19:37 +0000 2021
PPS students/teachers, if you want a paid subscription for free, please email me: stayathomemacro@gmail.com. PPPS people for whom $10 a month is not a burden you will also help me bring good macro to our next gen and general (interest in econ) public.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:17:37 +0000 2021
curious? sign up for a paid subscription here: https://t.co/s4rqYmVFsR PS based on clicks and feedback, it looks like my subscribers (paid and unpaid) are enjoying my posts. they take time to write. time is money. hint hint.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:15:07 +0000 2021
it's not a standard forecasting approach -- but it's an essential one -- I have a set of skills that frankly machine learning / statistical techniques can't replicate. I keep forgetting y'all don't have the same training, so I will share some basic principles and an example.
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:13:08 +0000 2021
Q&A after my lecture on forecasting last night set topic for my first paid-subscriber only post: my approach to forecasting. was on the 'judgmental' staff forecast, we were taught how to combine model results (lots of models) and add in factors outside models, using our judgment
@Claudia_Sahm -- Tue Sep 28 11:04:25 +0000 2021
RT @nobrtshnyobjs: @Claudia_Sahm Resilience requires flexibility (slack) - I think this is a design/engineering problem arising from removi…