Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
IMO conservative message discipline on this is impressive, the way progressives do politics everyone would be shouting "Six weeks was the compromise!" and demanding that candidates in swing races take explicit politically toxic stands.
Sam Stein @samstein
One notable thing about the Texas six week abortion ban is how quiet the National Republicans are about it. As far as I can tell neither Abbot, nor Cronyn, nor Cruz have mentioned it on their Twitter feeds (only one minor metric, but still)
11:30 AM · Sep 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is obviously an important policy question, but to me it's hubris and administrative overreach for the FDA to decide that it's an *FDA* question.
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
1:55 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Also to be clear, "British people should stop whining about this" has zero corollaries; it is a UK-specific injunction. Perhaps some day they will join some kind of union with their European neighbors and then their views could carry some weight.
Tim Worstall @worstall
@mattyglesias A logical corollary to this would be that if you're American then you don't get to comment upon British - or German, Afghan, Iraqi - foreign policy. Which might indeed save the odd war and invasion but is also, I'm pretty sure, not how it works.
2:29 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
That is in fact how politics should work — both parties should seek to put forward policy agendas that they think are substantively and politically viable, and enact that agendas if they win.
Bill Scher @billscher
Democrats could just do this if they eliminate the filibuster...
...and then at the next Republican trifecta Congress could just outlaw abortion. https://t.co/543RgYd7pg
3:48 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
You can pass tax bills with 50 votes thanks to budget reconciliation.
Each new majority does make changes, but it’s a constructive dialogue between two competing visions — the tax code doesn’t just flip back and forth with total reversals of prior changes.
3:52 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Kieran Healy@kjhealy
Roberts writing his objection is particularly delicious, of course. "Look, all I wanted in life was to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while retaining the precious legitimacy of this Court, but I'm beginning to feel that some of my colleagues only share half my goals."
11:23 AM · Sep 2, 2021
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Courtney Milan 🦖@courtneymilan
This thread, but also, it would make sense to have a friendly person preemptively sue you, agree to pay the statutory damages, and have that person donate it back to you, as you can only be sued once per act.
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford
Texas made it incredibly easy for anti-abortion vigilantes to file civil suits against anyone who provides an abortion or helped procure one.
As a protest, pro-choice people should flood court system with lawsuits. Sue Texas governor & others for encouraging abortions. 1/2
12:54 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
As more robust evidence comes out on how breakthrough infections very likely do *not* transmit as easily nor for as long, it becomes clearer and clearer how misleading news coverage like this was. cc: @nytimes
Eric Topol @EricTopol
A unique, high resolution study of 23 breakthrough infections (pre-Delta) shows how vaccination reduces transmission, leads to less virus culture positivity, for less days, less shedding, and may be tissue restricted (only found in saliva)
https://t.co/XDtjThxaLV https://t.co/4Gpn8vXTNd
5:37 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Speaking personally, the reason I make jokes about conservatives dosing themselves with horse paste is that it's funny.
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
I don't know if it's juvenile point-scoring, or belief that ridicule is effective, or a failure to understand The Revolt of the Public, or believing in Manufacturing Consent, or what, but the case *against* relying on Ivermectin is *much stronger* than what Twitter offers up. https://t.co/GmG5cvqIod
6:57 PM · Sep 2, 2021
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OneHitPopehat@Popehat
Goddamn multiclassers
Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly
NEW: The “QAnon Shaman” has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, and his lawyer says he doesn’t want to be known as the “QAnon Shaman” anymore. https://t.co/Wg9H1Oip1K
12:12 AM · Sep 3, 2021
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer
This is a really big deal, perhaps the most ambitious clean energy target by any government to date. And more good news for geothermal—every 2035 scenario in the LA100 study with NREL called for significant increases in geothermal in the grid mix.
utilitydive.com
LA approves 100% clean energy by 2035 target, a decade ahead of prior goal
1:27 AM · Sep 3, 2021
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