Elon Musk@elonmusk
Moving rocket to orbital launch pad
10:00 PM · Aug 4, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you think New York City homes are too spacious you’ll live the Budapest pod dwellings conservatives are getting us ready for.
Alon (they/them) @alon_levy
@Atrios @mattyglesias On census data, the city averages 50 m^2/capita (US: 73), more than every European country except LU (66) and DK (53).
11:30 AM · Aug 5, 2021
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Where's Your Data?@spock627corfu
Not being vaccinated could get very expensive soon.
Cory Doctorow @doctorow
At the start of the pandemic, the otherwise irredeemable American health insurance industry experienced a momentary lapse in shittiness and agreed to waive copayments and deductibles for covid hospitalizations.
Now, that's ending.
1/ https://t.co/dWxw4ZfxeA
11:28 AM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
American rightists are importing French losers to try to try convince you that that you’d be better off in Hungary.
I’m picking up breakfast tacos enjoying the bounty of an advanced modern society.
12:41 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Charlie Stross@cstross
Methinks the correct response to this is “don’t let the doorknob hit you on the ass on your way out”.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
writers for The Federalist are goodbye-cruel-worlding NYC vaccine passports https://t.co/FW8laITc8G
12:55 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the many oddities of conservative Hungary-mania is that West Virginia has even fewer immigrants than Hungary, and while it is poor for a region of the United States of America it is *much* richer than Hungary.
1:01 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you think breakfast tacos look disgusting you’ll love life in the great new Magyar utopia reactionary dipshits want to build for you.
But I am sticking with America. https://t.co/JKEGqz7b7T
Baryphonic+ (we/nus): now more virulent @TheBaryphonic
This looks disgusting. https://t.co/Nj0YRHnO8G
3:22 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
House leadership is perennially frustrated that the only young members who get any attention are a small number of leftists but it doesn't seem to occur to them that this may be related to a gang of octogenarians monopolizing all the top leadership roles.
6:15 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The only ways to get attention as a House member are to:
1) Be in leadership
2) Be an anti-leadership dissident
3) Tweet outlandish shit
If you don't want (2) & (3) to monopolize attention you need to address (1)
6:16 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I'm not a fan of dunking on Hungary for being poorer than us, but it is true that growth has slowed down significantly since Orban took power in 2010.
7:51 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Saying that America is a better place to live than Hungary is not a troll, it’s something that I truly and profoundly believe whereas conservatives are saying a large drop in living standards would be worth paying in order to stigmatize trans people more. https://t.co/bJkvaxYMi3
Richard Hanania @RichardHanania
Not that I accept this is the choice, this is obviously a troll at this point, but I do wonder how much GDP the average American parent would sacrifice not to have a 1 in 5 chance your kid will identify as not heterosexual, as statistics indicate the youngest generation does https://t.co/10mpIMEOvA
8:00 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I don’t want to say that the use of the term “Latinx” in progressive politics has a large causal impact on vote swings, but the fact that many leading progressive leaders were this out of touch with actual usage is suggestive of an underlying issue.
Catherine Rampell @crampell
Gallup asked Hispanic respondents about their preference among the terms "Hispanic," "Latino" and "Latinx.” Results:
https://t.co/LE1WRW98ah https://t.co/BDh1NOn4XP
3:53 PM · Aug 5, 2021
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