Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Gotta say House moderates' original theory that anti-police sentiment hurt the party in 2020 was a lot more plausible than their current theory that Democrats should drop their extremely popular drug pricing ideas.
2:54 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you don't want politics to be dominated by culture war topics that disadvantage Democrats in tough races, then you can't fumble the ball when it comes to advancing popular economic ideas.
2:55 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Here's a story about "state capacity" for you.
The US Department of Transportation has an ongoing project to build a database that would say the exact location of every address in America. The Census Bureau *has already done this* but for ~~privacy~~ reasons can't share it!
3:16 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Why is it more private for the DOT to replicate this work than for Census to just give it to them?
I could not possibly begin to tell you but maybe one of the Privacy People can explain.
3:20 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
And the takeaway is apparently that Elder is the frontrunner to be the GOP's candidate again next year... except in a head-to-head matchup with Newsom that he's far *less* likely to win.
So yes, not a great development for the GOP in CA
David Nir @DavidNir
What a world. As @SovernNation noted, Elder is currently winning the votes of just 26% of all ballots cast (2.4 mil out of 9.1 mil). He's also indicated he plans to run again next year, so his political future is headed for yet another landslide loss https://t.co/AFlmOCyD4l
4:08 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
Yes, it's really CA's Republican voters who are a gift to Newsom. Best way to gain traction among GOP voters is to be too extreme to win statewide.
James Medlock @jdcmedlock
Hard to say Larry Elder was a gift to Newsom and a more mainstream Republican would have done better when Kevin Faulconer was right there and only got 8% of the vote
4:12 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
You're not a true techno-optimist if you're not excited about the amazing progress in solar and batteries.
noahpinion.substack.com
Why I’m so excited about solar and batteries
6:13 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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OwMyPopehat@Popehat
Watching “Idiocracy” in 2006: Hah hah these people are such idiots this is such a hilarious extreme farce
Watching “Idiocracy” in 2021: I don’t recall this being so understated
10:11 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
To me it’s always noteworthy how invested Facebook seems to be in pretending to its own staff that the business is somehow something other than maximizing time spent on Facebook regardless of the impact.
wsj.com/articles/faceb…
11:49 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you’re a smart, hard-working person with in-demand technical skills who sincerely believes getting people to spend more time on Facebook is a worthwhile thing to do with your life the enjoy. But if you don’t think that, because it’s absurd, then go do something else.
11:50 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Nate Silver is good at forecasting, actually
1:46 AM · Sep 16, 2021
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