Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Competition from Amazon reduces employment at big box chains, but *raises* employment at other brick and mortar retail.
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac
Anahid Bauer
JMP: "Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets"
Website: https://t.co/97obZy4AOn https://t.co/zbxXmR3GOG
12:48 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Jonathan Robinson@jon_m_rob
A little late on this @PodSaveAmerica ep, & I'm so glad that Danica Roem is still in the House of Delegates, but I'm not sure her experience is most clarifying for helping Dems survive a hard election. She underperformed Biden the 2nd most out of all contested seats (HD13 in red)
Jon Favreau @jonfavs
NEW POD:
@danpfeiffer and I offer the DEFINITIVE take on what happened Tuesday, why it happened, and what Democrats can do to avoid a similar outcome in '22.
Plus, VA House Delegate @pwcdanica talks to Dan about how she won!
https://t.co/FMrwcO54n4
1:00 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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wowsy@gasnerpants
positioning leftists against SALT exemptions is the most brilliant republican jiu-jitsu in a generation
4:39 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The bug in how the leftwing tilt of both the Dem staffer class and the media interacts with practical politics, is that both the NYT and Hill Democrats probably see this "largest expenditure" framing as friendly boosterism, when they'd be better off with a moderateframing.
4:46 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you interact as a journalist with Dem staffers, either on the Hill or in primary campaigns, it's obvious that they actively seek and value coverage that frames their proposals as "bold," "sweeping," or "historic" rather more electorally friendly ones framing them as moderate.
4:47 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But all these Vox articles framing various Democratic initiatives as "sweeping" are meant to be favorable — and are seen as such by the Democrats on the Hill.
Moderate framings, when they happen, usually occur in pieces criticizing Dem timidity rather than praising it.
4:51 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I had hoped this number would be orders of magnitude higher. The fact that we're not admitting Afghan refugees even under Biden shows how dramatically America has turned against immigration.
Catherine Rampell @crampell
More than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U.S. for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic U.S. withdrawal, but only about 100 of them have been approved https://t.co/VUfN72whfk
5:41 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
@BeijingPalmer Yup. And now realize that Republicans don't pay attention to pro-immigration opinion when they are in office, but Dems pretty much always pay attention to anti-immigration opinion when they are in office.
5:53 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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The Onion@TheOnion
Kyle Rittenhouse Sentenced To 45 Years Of CPAC Appearances bit.ly/3ldSDpl
6:15 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
One of the most important turning points in my career was hosting a DC poker game in 2004-5 that counted @mattyglesias as a regular guest. I met @ezraklein through Matt and a decade later that helped me get a job at the @washingtonpost and then @voxdotcom.
6:28 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Ugh. A couple years ago Ethiopia was a development star. Now this.
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage
Tigrayans are being seized on the streets and from their homes & workplaces, "targeted by... their surnames, details listed on identification cards and drivers licenses, even the way they speak Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia." @Lattif reports. https://t.co/vcO1WpRB0T
6:53 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Of course despite this, I predict that the Right will continue to claim that Biden tried to interfere in the trial and get Rittenhouse convicted.
Katie Rogers @katierogers
“I stand by what the jury has to say. The jury system works," the president said when asked about Rittenhouse verdict, per pool.
8:18 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
And now for another episode of "Intellectual libertarian discovers who the actual broad constituency for libertarianism is comprised of"... 😅
Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk
It doesn't stop to amaze me that of all the legitimate complaints about government overreach, the one that gets the most traction is vaccinations that actually legitimately save lives and protect others. So many good causes to pick from and yet we end up with bs argument
9:15 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Yes. Good to see Xi not acting like the "wolf warriors" that he sicced on Twitter
Josh Kurlantzick @JoshKurlantzick
Takeaway From the Biden-Xi Meeting: Jaw Jawing as Success https://t.co/F9f2kO6PvX via @CFR_org
9:33 PM · Nov 19, 2021
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