Grace Segers@Grace_Segers
The national debt is one of the few things that's truly a bipartisan responsibility at the moment. Republicans passed the ~$2T tax cuts in 2017, Democrats passed the ~$2T American Rescue Plan this year, and both parties passed initial rona relief.
newrepublic.com
Sorry, Everyone, but Congress Is Bringing Back Debt Ceiling Foolishness
10:56 AM · Sep 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One thing that occurs to me is that in a country with less nationalized politics and less sorted political parties, you could have vocal — and even influential — cranks without it having the same macro-impact.
2:33 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
“Some Saudis based in Afghanistan and maybe secretly backed by Pakistan attacked America so America invaded Iraq” is going to be a confusing paragraph in the textbooks of the future.
4:29 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Eric Peterson@EricPeterson602
@mattyglesias Already is.
4:38 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Renee DiResta@noUpside
Nothing about the mandate conversation is new. history.com/news/seat-belt…
5:47 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
How is being one of a small number of holdouts preventing action on any number of crucial issues less "divisive" than criticizing said prevention?
The Hill @thehill
Manchin responds to Ocasio-Cortez tweet: "Continue to divide, divide, divide" https://t.co/1fIgpnRiRl https://t.co/drcEOrvAjK
7:00 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Alex Tabarrok@ATabarrok
Delta thread.
I called Delta peak on Aug. 30 which is looking about right.
More importantly, Delta is now dominant strain everywhere. Thus, further variants are likely to be Delta modifications so why isn't there more discussion of Delta boosters???
Trevor Bedford @trvrb
It looks like we're about at the peak of the Delta SARS-CoV-2 wave in the US (figure based on @CDCGov data). A thread on current circulation patterns and the impact of Delta. 1/14 https://t.co/gfy9iC8SqA
4:38 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
This post is actually quite encouraging. It shows that U.S. military spending is shifting rapidly in the direction of R&D. That's exactly what the military should be spending money on.
If you use the internet, you're benefitting from U.S. military R&D!
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-36…
7:39 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
During the primaries, a lot of progressives said a Biden administration would just focus on restoring a sense of normalcy while eschewing big policy ambitions.
That turns out to have been wrong about Biden, but it's very possible Manchin is who progressives thought Biden was.
9:19 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Productivity gains
nytimes.com/2021/09/10/rea…
11:03 PM · Sep 12, 2021
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