John Harwood@JohnJHarwood
if Sens Manchin and Sinema were willing this morning to explicitly embrace the framework that had been tailored to their specifications, the bipartisan infrastructure bill would have passed tonight
for whatever reason, they simply weren't
it wasn't about the House progressives
3:34 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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vaheder 🍞@vaheder
A Whale’s Afterlife
newyorker.com
A Whale’s Afterlife
6:46 PM · Oct 28, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
People who disparage hydrogen just because it didn't turn out to be the most useful solution for cars need to wake up. There's a lot more than cars in our economy, and it all needs to be decarbonized. Hydrogen is crucial.
6:18 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Another study confirming the paradoxical-sounding finding that averages differences between men and women tend to be larger in countries where women are more empowered.
psyarxiv.com
3:55 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen
A legacy publication “used to launder right-wing ideals.” If you do chose to read it, it should be with that in mind.
newrepublic.com
Newsweek and the Rise of the Zombie Magazine
3:34 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Good. Glad to see welfare being framed as investment rather than as compassion.
NewDems @VoteNewDems
ICYMI: “The data is very clear in terms of the impact we can have on the lives of children if we make an investment. For every dollar we spend on the child tax credit, there’s been estimates from $5 to $8 on return that we get.” - NDC Chair @SuzanDelBene
https://t.co/QAAkvoJmLu
6:02 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
If we believed in our people more, we'd understand that they have a ton of potential. Giving them money is often (though of course not always) a way of giving people a boost so they can realize that potential instead of just scrabbling for survival.
6:07 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Alfred Twu@alfred_twu
Cube Dorm will cost $1.5 billion to build. Even with the donor providing $200 million, that's still much more per bed than a similar number of regular highrise dorms that UCLA is building. 5/ urbanize.city/la/post/westwo…
8:15 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Cube Dorm is literally the building depicted in Neal Stephenson's novel "The Big U", which was also a fun lampoon of 1970s wokeness.
Alfred Twu @alfred_twu
Thread on the @ucsantabarbara cube dorm:
- no windows 👀
- next to airport and hazmat facility 👀 👀
- more expensive to build than normal dorms 👀 👀 👀
@UofCalifornia needs to (and can) do better
1/
Pictures from CA Environmental Quality Act report at https://t.co/O3leGvMVlu https://t.co/zMJ1U7hlXG
8:16 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Tom Gara@tomgara
It’s just insane how hard California flexes on the Northeast when it comes to fancy vacation places. If the entire Hamptons was like one town over from Napa you wouldn’t even bother driving there
8:19 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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