Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is a good coda
11:50 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The explanation I heard is that some people in the administration want more travel restrictions and others want fewer so they’ve compromised on freezing in place a situation everyone agrees is outdated.
Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno
I am really interested in why the US will not open travel to EU citizens when it’s open to everyone else. Is it in order to get some economic concession? Have not heard of any other explanation
11:01 AM · Jul 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
What are we doing here? https://t.co/17y9MbnnsS
Left Caucus @LeftCaucus
Arevia Power withdrew their application for the Battle Born Solar project. Congrats to @saveourmesa and the other activists who put in the work to keep the community healthy, safe, and whole
11:56 AM · Jul 25, 2021
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parker@pt
Somehow I knew before clicking through this would be a story about San Francisco.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Great thread here on the head of an “affordable housing” nonprofit that doesn’t build or manage housing but does lobby against new construction while its president lives rent free in one of its buildings while seemingly cheating on his taxes. https://t.co/KyknMAmrw9
12:59 PM · Jul 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Many people who are acutely aware that interpretations of history that were popular in the past reflect the political fads of those bygone eras are awfully unreflective about present-day scholarship.
4:12 PM · Jul 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Okay but I have a lot of Twitter followers! https://t.co/tkm3CVdumQ
Derek Thompson @DKThomp
Nearly 50% of Americans now say they have less than four "close friendships.”
In 1990, just 27% said the same.
https://t.co/nmYCi3alhB https://t.co/WbLnvcv5yl
4:12 PM · Jul 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
To be fair, I think they were mostly lying https://t.co/2Cuw2G5hgf
Special Puppy🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1
Remember when some people thought that the Lincoln Project would have significant influence over the Biden administration?
6:25 PM · Jul 25, 2021
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HatInProSe@Popehat
Wife’s Apple Watch consistently gives her fewer miles than her hiking companions get on theirs. Since she has a doctorate she came up with a logical explanation: she has an “energy field.”
Naturally I am extremely respectful of this theory.
12:55 AM · Jul 26, 2021
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HatInProSe@Popehat
Me: So this energy field interferes with the hike function on the watch but not the walk function?
Wife: that is correct.
Me: I seeeeee. Does it surround us?
Her: I guess?
Me: Penetrate us?
Wife: Gross
1:10 AM · Jul 26, 2021
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HatInProSe@Popehat
Me: so does this energy field interfere with Fitbits or is it like a snobby Apple-only energy field
Wife: I’d need to talk to someone with a Fitbit about that
Me: Yes you should share this with as many people as possible.
1:12 AM · Jul 26, 2021
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