Jordan Grimes 🚰@cafedujord
Some understated absurdity here: Palo Alto Mayor DuBois claims the city is "trying their best" to produce housing, blames lack of it on high building costs.
DuBois was elected after leading the charge to kill an affordable housing project for seniors.
sfchronicle.com
Elon Musk says Tesla will move headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas
2:50 AM · Oct 11, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Me: Here's a graph of real median income
Twitter people: Yeah but did you adjust for inflation
Me: Here's a graph of trade-adjusted carbon emissions
Twitter people: Yeah but did you take outsourcing into account
Me:
4:40 AM · Oct 11, 2021
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🐀NotSoChattyCathyPRGuysGrandma🤖 💧@ChattyCathyAU
To the #DoNotComply numpties. If you can answer these questions, I am more than happy to listen to your opinions otherwise STFU. #IStandWithDan
#auspol
6:52 AM · Oct 11, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This would be a great opportunity to invite some skilled, hard-working, freedom-loving people to come live and work in the United States.
nytimes.com
‘This Drop Came So Quickly’: Shrinking Schools Add to Hong Kong Exodus
11:06 AM · Oct 11, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I’ll tell them, “I tweeted about how Republicans are bad.”
Marc E. Elias @marceelias
Years from now your children and grandchildren will ask you: What did you do when democracy was at stake?
What will you say?
12:19 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
True on both points, but note that just because we’re irritating doesn’t mean we’re wrong.
The guy who comes to deliver bad news is irritating.
John Ganz @lionel_trolling
i find shor, yglesias etc. to be pretty irritating but this whole thing of them being secret fascists is just absurd. in the first place, i dont think they are that imaginative
4:23 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Believe it or not, it would sincerely make me very happy if the social norms and political views of under-40 college graduates living in big cities was a viable basis for an electoral majority.
4:25 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
When you're used to your own propaganda, empirical evidence feels like propaganda from the other side
Peter St Onge, Ph.D.🇸🇻 @profstonge
This year’s Nobel prize goes to three labor economists including David Card, whose flagship paper claiming minimum wages don’t hurt jobs has been my favorite in-class illustration how economics has degenerated into socialist propaganda. https://t.co/KVXplMk8Ec
4:41 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
This is the "housing is a human right" front group btw paying homeowner associations to block state housing laws.
big burgers, all-day breakfast and pies @TribTowerViews
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has given $50k to the Livable California and United Neighbors-backed PAC gathering signatures for an initiative to roll back state housing law in favor of "local control." https://t.co/DGVrFQF1Ii
5:57 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
How much?
phlopped @phloppsytales
i will pay an obscene amount of money to the first person to smack this stupid toad https://t.co/r1ayqrNUvl
7:10 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior
Lots and lots of cheap clean energy is great
hk @hassankhan
A steel-mill is expanding in Colorado thanks to cheap solar power https://t.co/RM1irIQT73
7:17 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal
No, come ON!
Does the phrase per capita mean nothing to you.
There are 40 million people in California.
The Associated Press @AP
California’s coronavirus death toll has reached 70,000, the most in the nation, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The state is currently experiencing the lowest rate of new infection cases among all states. https://t.co/wWMHSi0802
8:44 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
He should get a bike lane built and dedicated for him
Jeanna Smialek @jeannasmialek
Berkeley usually gives Nobel winners a coveted parking spot near their office, but David Card rides his bike, so they have to come up with an alternative for him.
Card news conference streaming here:
https://t.co/N87VjIu8ux
Our story here:
https://t.co/aJEiXOEwlh
10:24 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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