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Update: we're all going to die
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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...
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February 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Hey Sam, any comments on how the ‘tyranophobia’ of liberals is the main thing we should still be worried about?
He is a bulls—ing comedian speaking an occasional truth podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism
Podcast Episode · Matter of Opinion · 01/31/2025 · 1h 10m
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February 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Hey Sam, any comments on how the ‘tyranophobia’ of liberals is the main thing we should still be worried about?
you are literally so stupid
My push for tariffs is based on the consensus that it’ll unleash domestic manufacturing — and my desire to create an economy that’s built *for* American workers.
Thanks for checking in, @semafor.com
Thanks for checking in, @semafor.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you are literally so stupid
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The Trump economic program seems to be to both do Javier Mileiism (completely cutting off all government spending through executive fiat) *and* Peronist import substitution
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Trump economic program seems to be to both do Javier Mileiism (completely cutting off all government spending through executive fiat) *and* Peronist import substitution
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wow so glad we created a diplomatic incident for a dumb reason and then declared pretend victory to avoid following through on the dumb threats
Colombian news reporting that the agreement is for "dignified treatment of deportees as citizens with rights" and that the Colombian FM will travel to Washington this week for further talks
January 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
wow so glad we created a diplomatic incident for a dumb reason and then declared pretend victory to avoid following through on the dumb threats
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my crank theory of Thing That We Should Bring Back That Would Make Life Better is the belief that not everything you like is virtuous
okay hear me out but what if we brought back the concept of honor, but just like the good parts that make society better
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
my crank theory of Thing That We Should Bring Back That Would Make Life Better is the belief that not everything you like is virtuous
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When you build houses in a state, it becomes North Carolina. That's just economics.
Would love to hear your plan for how, exactly, "Democrats should make it cheaper" to live in a state like Massachusetts without turning it into a North Carolina, one of the worst states in the US for healthcare, K-12 education, wage policies, worker protections and the right to organize. Magic wand?
January 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
When you build houses in a state, it becomes North Carolina. That's just economics.
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The Boston suburbs have some of the most egregious exclusionary zoning in the country, with 1-acre minimum lot sizes, requirements that new apartment buildings only serve seniors (to keep poorer kids out of local schools), and outright apartment bans.
Reform that and housing gets cheaper.
Reform that and housing gets cheaper.
Would love to hear your plan for how, exactly, "Democrats should make it cheaper" to live in a state like Massachusetts without turning it into a North Carolina, one of the worst states in the US for healthcare, K-12 education, wage policies, worker protections and the right to organize. Magic wand?
January 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Boston suburbs have some of the most egregious exclusionary zoning in the country, with 1-acre minimum lot sizes, requirements that new apartment buildings only serve seniors (to keep poorer kids out of local schools), and outright apartment bans.
Reform that and housing gets cheaper.
Reform that and housing gets cheaper.
unemployment rate is at 4% bro like you can go and get a job and it'll pay pretty well?
for a generation boxed out of nearly all other growth opportunities, new media has been one of the few remaining places to build a following and even a living without needing access to financial or cultural capital. now the government is unilaterally foreclosing on that future for millions
January 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
unemployment rate is at 4% bro like you can go and get a job and it'll pay pretty well?
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From the world of tech: this young American entrepreneur completely revolutionized the pogrom game in Myanmar. Now he wants to do the same to America. My latest for the Atlantic.
January 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
From the world of tech: this young American entrepreneur completely revolutionized the pogrom game in Myanmar. Now he wants to do the same to America. My latest for the Atlantic.
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Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.
increasingly obvious that a lot of people want left-wing policy but without the social democratic tax based policy for broad based funding
January 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.
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Like it's the @upzoneca.bsky.social bit about "where are the white fathers" but being delivered entirely unironically by a guy whose party thinks education is gay
It's absolutely correct that (1) American culture is anti education (2) cultural reform to fix this would be good but like,,,, ramaswamy realizes what party he's in, right
December 27, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Like it's the @upzoneca.bsky.social bit about "where are the white fathers" but being delivered entirely unironically by a guy whose party thinks education is gay
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mitch and the never-trump neocons have had the exact same revelation, the difference is they recoiled with horror and he went "ah, well. nevertheless..."
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
mitch and the never-trump neocons have had the exact same revelation, the difference is they recoiled with horror and he went "ah, well. nevertheless..."
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Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy | Simon Jenkins
Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy | Simon Jenkins
People should have a say in their surroundings. But in its bid to build 1.5m homes, the government has left them powerless
All proper democracies have two tiers, central and local. They are equally vital, but in Britain the second tier is all but dead.…
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December 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
good
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that one friend that's at the exact right level of woke
December 8, 2024 at 10:35 PM
that one friend that's at the exact right level of woke
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They’ll probably get away with ending birthright citizenship as long as they don’t make it retroactive. “Well, *my* kids will be citizens because I am, and it was different when *my* mom came over here anyway” will be a common reaction
December 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
They’ll probably get away with ending birthright citizenship as long as they don’t make it retroactive. “Well, *my* kids will be citizens because I am, and it was different when *my* mom came over here anyway” will be a common reaction
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one of the problems with prioritizing a cool aesthetic in politics is that hope is never cooler than despair — by nature, being emotionally disaffected and distant is the foundation of “cool”. Works great if you’re, like, Miles Davis, less so for, say, organizing.
main thing i have to say to a lot of you is that if you truly believe that nothing matters then you should delete your account, log off, cancel your voting registration and stop paying attention to anything political at all
December 8, 2024 at 4:40 PM
one of the problems with prioritizing a cool aesthetic in politics is that hope is never cooler than despair — by nature, being emotionally disaffected and distant is the foundation of “cool”. Works great if you’re, like, Miles Davis, less so for, say, organizing.
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Doctors proscribing everyone who comes in for a cough knee surgery because their buddy the knee surgeon wants a bigger house next year
Who supports a simple law requiring insurance companies to pay for medicines or treatment prescribed by a doctor? Something we could do now while we fight for #medicareforall.
December 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Doctors proscribing everyone who comes in for a cough knee surgery because their buddy the knee surgeon wants a bigger house next year
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people basically want
1) free healthcare that has unlimited and unrestricted use
2) no claim denials ever for any service
3) low wait times for all services
this is literally impossible
1) free healthcare that has unlimited and unrestricted use
2) no claim denials ever for any service
3) low wait times for all services
this is literally impossible
December 7, 2024 at 7:10 PM
people basically want
1) free healthcare that has unlimited and unrestricted use
2) no claim denials ever for any service
3) low wait times for all services
this is literally impossible
1) free healthcare that has unlimited and unrestricted use
2) no claim denials ever for any service
3) low wait times for all services
this is literally impossible
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It's fine to think insurance is the cause of all the systematic healthcare problems as a normie, but if you're posting 3 hours a day, frankly it's a little embarrassing
December 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM
It's fine to think insurance is the cause of all the systematic healthcare problems as a normie, but if you're posting 3 hours a day, frankly it's a little embarrassing
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Impeding mass shift of political power away from California due to our housing shortage and all legs got up their sleves are nibble at the edges laws. California passed one major rezoning law of commercial properties with mandates high construction costs, one nerfed duplex law. Ok? Continue
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Impeding mass shift of political power away from California due to our housing shortage and all legs got up their sleves are nibble at the edges laws. California passed one major rezoning law of commercial properties with mandates high construction costs, one nerfed duplex law. Ok? Continue
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The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
December 5, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
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Insurance companies are sin eaters for hospitals. They let hospitals maintain the image that they're righteous non profits and should also be allowed to charge whatever they like.
December 5, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Insurance companies are sin eaters for hospitals. They let hospitals maintain the image that they're righteous non profits and should also be allowed to charge whatever they like.