Adam Serwer 🍝@AdamSerwer
Caving to actual McCarthyism against someone who had the temerity to be born in the wrong place at the wrong time. https://t.co/SqQr2wv9lc
Emily Flitter @FlitterOnFraud
BREAKING: Saule Omarova has withdrawn for consideration to be the next comptroller of the currency. @POTUS has accepted. Some Republicans suggested Ms. Omarova was a communist. Banks fiercely opposed her, w/some lobbyists echoing qs on her "Soviet" origins https://t.co/qLxQGdKKox
12:27 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Brent Staples@BrentNYT
Remote learning has been a disaster for children, a new study shows - and, by the way, schools were shut down far too long
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
12:36 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
This short thread makes a very good point. The size, heterogeneity, and general aggression of American culture creates lots of personal traumas that then end up manifesting themselves in politics later on.
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630
Nuanced point: many shrieking, screaming "SJWs" are probably people who WERE badly abused at some point by mainstream bros - think bisexual theater kids from Appalachia or a Texas football suburb - and whose attitude now is "Fu*k you...NEVER again!!!"
1:03 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Conservative pundits of the Bronze Age:
3:13 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Quantian@quantian1
In colonial America, bricks were ludicrously expensive, nearly 8 day's of a laborer's wages for 1,000 of them. Today, at a federal minimum wage of $7.25/hours, those 8 days of work would earn you $464, or... about 800 bricks.
3:24 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Several key areas where American public health agencies’ Covid guidance is out of line with best practices:
— Dose spacing of vaccines
— Rapid tests
— Fluvoxamine as treatment
slowboring.com
Our public health agencies should follow the science
11:35 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The one thing I’ve really learned in life is that Mark Zuckerberg is much smarter and more strategic than everyone else, so if he says VR goggles are a better investment than all this cool stuff that would solve real problems that @Noahpinion talks about he’s probably right.
12:40 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Meg Tirrell@megtirrell
Pfizer/BioNTech release their own lab study of omicron:
-3 doses neutralize omicron at same level as 2 doses do wild-type strain
-2 doses may still protect against severe disease https://t.co/YCrPpT3Fhr
Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC
BREAKING: $PFE says 3 doses of its vaccine neutralizes the #omicron variant. @megtirrell reports: https://t.co/s7qpYq5xkO
11:55 AM · Dec 8, 2021
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nilay patel@reckless
Compare and contrast: New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal just restructured the company *into* divisions to move faster, while Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told me on Decoder he restructured *out* of divisions to move faster.
3:24 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Annie Grayer@AnnieGrayerCNN
"I love it" Meadows said to a member of Congress in a text on his personal phone when the member said the possibility of appointing alternate electors in certain states was “highly controversial."
This is a text Meadows turned over to the cmte before he decided to not cooperate
3:30 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I feel like as a more obscure figure in San Francisco Harris had sound instincts on politics, then became more famous and important, and has been ill-served by the progressive establishment.
buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyh…
4:09 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
Transparent shakedown politics where a “non-profit” that doesn’t build new housing and uses taxpayer dollars for pet political campaigns says they’ll drop opposition to housing if you “donate” 1/3 of the land. https://t.co/zs9d1H86Yt
Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf
The mastermind behind the SF supes' CEQA-laundered denial of a 500-home infill project at 469 Stevenson St. finally weighs in. And puts the city in an even deeper legal hole. 1/14
https://t.co/ObBAbeoJTZ
4:46 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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SpeakerOfTheHat@Popehat
One thing that kind of freaked me out today was how fast, faster than I can perceive it, airbags deploy. It’s like they aren’t there and what’s that weird smell and wow they’re there now.
7:34 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Charlie Stross@cstross
Oh FFS.
Daring Fireball @daringfireball
Kickstarter Plans to Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to the Blockchain
https://t.co/qKhvlTIDrV
10:15 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Ron Avitzur@RonAvitzur
@cstross Obligatory xkcd re blockchain:
"Whatever they sold you, don't touch it.
Bury it in the desert.
Wear gloves."
10:31 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
This is a good thread, and it's both what I was thinking about when I tied the parklets to broader problems of liberal governance, and worth talking about at a bit more length.
Alex Trembath @atrembath
It's hard not to see the similarities between San Francisco's parklet regulations (60 pages of restrictions??)...
https://t.co/ahNSwdpXkM
11:00 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
"Why is Biden's approval rating so low?"
Because Republicans think he's a socialist and socialists think he's a Republican.
(c'mon, this isn't hard, you don't need to keep writing opinion pieces about it)
3:07 PM · Dec 8, 2021
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