Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Our current policies "business as usual" put us on track for 2.7C of warming by 2100.
Our promises for this decade would put us on track for 2.4C.
Our long-term promises put us on track for less than 2C.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-do-co…
9:46 PM · Nov 13, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
In other words, if we keep our promises, the world will not be destroyed by climate change in any meaningful sense of the term!
That's good.
9:47 PM · Nov 13, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Inflation is happening everywhere because we all consume a fair amount of globally traded products, but these @jasonfurman charts make it hard to doubt there are also some US-specific factors at work.
10:11 PM · Nov 13, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It’s fascinating to me that journalists who pretended to believe Republicans when they pretended to be very interested in document retention policies during the 2016 campaign have so rarely bothered to even feign interest in Trump’s conduct on this front.
Acyn @Acyn
Grisham says Trump had a lot of off-the-books meetings that took place in the residence. “Documents, anything that could be written down could be thrown in the trash where people can’t come and retrieve them…” https://t.co/L7TSOuws2U
1:36 AM · Nov 14, 2021
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urbanmountain@urbanmountainv
"tThere is no reason for any urban street in America to have four lanes. It cannot be justified"
Jeff Speck - Walkable City Rules
5:18 AM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Inspired: What would really help Biden would be sharply tighter policy from the ECB and BOJ to reduce global commodity prices without slowing American domestic demand.
Conor Sen @conorsen
Tired: the Fed’s dovishness is helping Biden
Wired: the Fed’s dovishness is helping Republicans
3:17 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
When you think about it, this would probably be the most effective way for central banks to be useful on climate change.
3:20 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Palo Alto YIMBY@PaloAltoYimby
A million dollar condo would be cheaper than anything on the market right now in Palo Alto, by far.
Jordan Grimes 🚰 @cafedujord
Deborah, a Palo Alto epidemiologist, says that NIMBYs should respond to accusations of racism by "going to the data."
Says everyone knows that minorities tend to have lower incomes, and can't afford million dollar condos, so that's how you fight it.
WHEW. https://t.co/WRmlDFvltf
8:34 PM · Nov 13, 2021
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Florian Ederer@florianederer
The fact that literally no high-profile tennis commentator has dared to ask #WhereIsPengShuai or to even speak about it after her recent disappearance tells you all you need to know about the importance of the Chinese tennis market.
dailymail.co.uk
Chinese tennis star vanishes after rape claim against vice premier
12:19 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Remember, anti-housing politics is how "socialist" zoomers convince themselves to become conservative boomers
5:08 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Why you shouldn't put too much faith in issue polling:
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
Per WaPo-ABC poll, Americans
• say 63-32% they support Biden’s $1T infrastructure bill
• say 58-37% they support Biden’s ~$2T climate and economic policy bill
• say 59-38% they’re concerned about Biden doing “too much to increase the size and role of government”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6:16 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Debbie Mia@TheDebbieMia
The internet is magic sometimes.
6:13 AM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think it is genuinely damaging to America to let trade groups like the AMA pose as if the key to “health equity” is using avant-garde language rather than addressing actual barriers to access in which the AMA is often a key bad actor.
9:53 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The AMA lobbies against Medicare for All, against strong versions of a public option, and against regulatory reforms that would help more patients get treatment.
It’s a trade association whose goal is to enrich doctors.
9:59 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
You can’t begrudge doctors their right to have a self-interested trade association, but the ease with which language-centered social justice efforts are coopted by malign actors is a deep structural problem with the entire approach not a random failing.
10:01 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv
@pkedrosky I think there's a fair argument that solar customers who still have access to the grid should contribute to the upkeep of the grid. But what that contribution amount is a huge messy question I don't have an answer to.
10:44 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I brought this up one time in Helsinki and can confirm it did not go over well. https://t.co/DoRmxDHCHb
ayn rand funko pop @MissPavIichenko
https://t.co/cM9ylOIqMK
11:28 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think Harris’ key advisor is explaining the key problem here — they are not asking “will this make me more popular with swing voters” so she is not doing things that would make her more popular with swing voters so party actors fear she’s a loser.
cnn.com/2021/11/14/pol…
11:43 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I would ask myself “what is a thing that swing voters would like to hear but that it’s easier for me to get away with saying than it would be for the extremely old white man who has the top job?” instead of this thing about constituencies.
11:45 PM · Nov 14, 2021
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