Arindrajit Dube@arindube
Maybe it was a bad idea for some public health experts to discourage boosters for all.
Eric Topol @EricTopol
US new cases 7-day average up to 85,000 today with nearly 147,000 added, a 14% increase from a week ago
https://t.co/xStmHRzwg2 https://t.co/ROXndlVhPx
3:38 AM · Nov 16, 2021
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Kevin M. Kruse@KevinMKruse
As soon as Glenn Youngkin was elected, the CRT menace apparently just disappeared.
Talk about getting results. It’s like it was never even there.
Philip Bump @pbump
Meanwhile, Fox isn't talking about CRT and schools as much anymore??????????? https://t.co/e8cXFUfOaB https://t.co/zKatKNuXuy
2:24 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Look at how much better and clearer the historical protest signs they invoke are than the contemporary social justice jargon.
3:39 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
And it's not an inherent property of protest signs ... the same report has photos from a contemporary march which is full of elliptical slogans, jargon, weird references, etc.
It's less accessible than stuff that's two generations old.
3:40 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Will Sommer@willsommer
A rumor spread on the right after the election, from QAnon to Louie Gohmert, that the CIA and US soldiers had been in some sort of gunfight in Germany over election fraud. Apparently Sidney Powell tried to get the Trump administration to take action on it.
Katie Bo Lillis @KatieBoLillis
It just cannot be overstated how wild this is. Sydney Powell wanted a senior DOD official to launch a special operations raid to — rescue? capture? — Gina Haspel, who she believed was "hurt and taken into custody" according to an internet conspiracy theory.https://t.co/FDIEn1lM0n https://t.co/BM5CqWWrNj
5:10 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Emily Hamilton@ebwhamilton
Seattle's apartment building boom has been pretty incredible and needs more urbanist love. In 20 years the city’s housing stock increased by 38% with with multifamily units making up 73% of that growth ✨🏗️✨
6:48 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I wish this were not true; I wish NASA, or at least more than one private contractor, had the ability to get space stuff done cheaply. America's excess cost problem is forcing us to rely too heavily on one miraculous contractor.
JD Ross @justindross
If SpaceX didn’t exist the US and world would have long and completely ceded space access to China and Russia. Crazy to think about implications of this
6:57 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Popularism seeks a return to the Wisdom of the Ancients that prevailed pre-2012 when it was displaced by the myth that there is a secret leftist majority of non-voters, waiting to be mobilized by mirroring activist rhetoric.
slowboring.com
Progressives’ mobilization delusion
7:15 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Failure to think on the margin is always a good sign of a sloppy argument
Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas
Good messaging is simple, you just need to get everyone who can be even vaguely associated with your political movement or party to exert complete and total message discipline while preventing your opponents from lying about what you believe.
7:34 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
He's putting the ambiguity in "strategic ambiguity"
Demetri Sevastopulo @Dimi
Biden is not precise with his language on #Taiwan. Day after telling Xi Jinping that there was no change to the #OneChina policy, he said the following to reporters. https://t.co/z9GBkamcfq
9:33 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Josh Barro@jbarro
And you can see Democratic candidates and officials who are getting this right. London Breed has been consistently critical of the SF BoE for failing to open schools for so long and focusing on (poorly executed!) woke nonsense. Now she's backing the recall of BoE members.
9:58 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
More housing vaporware from the Board of Supervisors.
Because someone is going to go through the multi-year gauntlet of planning & DBI and spend $750K-1M+ per unit to build a fourplex, be operating at a loss in perpetuity and have to administer means testing too.
San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle
S.F. Supervisor Gordon Mar is proposing that apartments or condos added through the rezoning be priced at levels affordable to a household earning less than 100% of area median income — currently $106,550 for a couple or $133,200 for four people.
https://t.co/uhThJU4bHu
10:32 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
When he mandates that Sunset property owners are allowed to sell their existing units for no more than $500K (because that’s around what a $106K household can afford), maybe I’ll believe this is in good faith.
Hervey "Mark Mollineaux" Okkles 🦀🚰 @bufordsharkley
@sfchronicle Incumbent residents should be forced to sell at this price
10:37 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Jacobin … welcome to neoliberalism
12:33 AM · Nov 17, 2021
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