Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
We've reached the stage where people use the word "gaslighting" to mean "saying anything that contradicts my priors".
split lot tash (taylor’s version) 🇧🇷 @tashcoug
Someone on TikTok just said @JerusalemDemsas was gaslighting them by pointing out that gentrification building tiktoks were deriding affordable housing and weren’t informed by the realities of development I cannot
5:36 AM · Sep 20, 2021
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
imagine being so right-wing that you think Howard Stern is "woke"
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey
Lotta people dunking on that Breitbart op-ed (by Norte, of course, OF COURSE) without noting the funniest line in it https://t.co/Gkq2OChB5v
6:11 AM · Sep 20, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
This is *even more important* than either the reconciliation bill and the voting rights bill put together.
Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS
In an urgent and important new paper, @rickhasen recommends reforming the Electoral Count Act as a key safeguard against a future stolen election.
The gaping holes in the ECA are what made Trump's coup attempt plausible.
Here's a brief explainer:
https://t.co/QxnJrcqTrz https://t.co/4Xd3JCjQfq
5:12 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
We have a way to stop election theft, and we have a small window in which to do it, and nobody is paying attention to it.
Come on, people.
5:26 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Democrats' approach to the possibility of state legislature nullification of the 2024 presidential election:
10:35 PM · Sep 19, 2021
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt (I - Mic Dicta)@Ugarles
this is by far the worst biden nomination i've heard about. it should get multiple times the attention that neera tanden got, but will not.
Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
THREAD: Biden is reportedly nominating a former judge, Keva Landrum, to be U.S. Atty in New Orleans. The history of this judge’s illegal behavior and violent crimes will shock you to the core.
5:37 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Kind of bizarre to think Elon Musk is a "fraud" at this point. An increasing number of Musk projects are proving themselves to be very real and very transformative.
Plan Maestro @PlanMaestro
🤔 https://t.co/r3Uabajj9v
6:52 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas
I've been thinking a lot about how the role of "overpopulation" and "degrowth" discourse provides the intellectual legwork for anti-immigration policies.
"This country is full" is considered xenophobic on the national stage but "This city is full" is often said by Dem voters.
6:58 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Some evidence in favor of the idea that engagement, not military power, is how you export democracy.
It didn't work with China, but it works less badly than anything else.
voxeu.org
Economic integration, democratic capital, and the ‘export’ of
7:01 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Warren J. Wells 🚴🏙️@WarrenJWells
"No new housing unless it's public housing"
is the same as
"No one can go to the hospital until we nationalize healthcare."
(h/t @drooliet)
4:30 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Pew Research Center@pewresearch
48% of Americans say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020. pewrsr.ch/3tViLZ2
6:03 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Breed’s answer is totally reasonable, but that simply raises the question of why her policy isn’t in line with what she sensibly does and says. https://t.co/GMUcjCMNG3
Daily Caller @DailyCaller
San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed defends violating her indoor mask mandate while partying at a club:
“I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask."
https://t.co/lFTFCgzihZ
11:19 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is fascinating
nytimes.com
Glimpses of ‘Lost Tribe’ Jewish Communities in India and Myanmar
12:14 AM · Sep 21, 2021
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
Prominent Bay Area eucalyptus defender faces home insurance non-renewal as a result of neighbor's vegetation.
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside
Dan Grassetti opened a letter from @Allstate with some alarming news: His home insurance policy wouldn’t be renewed because of a fire hazard on his neighbor's lot.
https://t.co/bXt5OfLJ5S
1:15 AM · Sep 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
this is how bad Republican vote-suppression has gotten
Josh Barro @jbarro
CBC reporter doing a liveshot from a polling place in Toronto where polls have "closed" but people are still in line and being told the wait will be 2 hours to actually cast ballots. Yikes.
1:54 AM · Sep 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Guy who thinks you could end homelessness with a one-time expenditure of $13 billion https://t.co/395cpVXllo
Mondaire Jones @MondaireJones
For the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could end homelessness in the United States.
Poverty is a policy choice.
1:57 AM · Sep 21, 2021
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