Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv
Catalytic converters bring all ages, races, and genders together. So beautiful.
1:00 AM · Dec 15, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This building is a couple of blocks from me. DC's historic preservation board is trying to force low-income residents to pay $10,000 to $28,000 each to restore decorative balconies on this 100-year-old apartment building. Outrageous.
dcist.com
Mount Pleasant Residents Battle Over Historic Balcony Restoration
4:42 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The frustrating thing about these math education debates is that the people trying to cancel math (yes, this is a loose figure of speech) seem to believe deeply and instinctively that American kids are dum-dums who can't learn math, so we should give up...
7:34 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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poorly drawn lines@PDLComics
nice notebook
7:35 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The Contact Hypothesis rules everything around me
Ethan Mollick @emollick
Exposure to diversity weakens ethnic stereotypes. The effect works for countries & states, plus for students at universities.
Example: in Iowa, ethnic groups are viewed as different from each other, while in Hawaii, a diverse state, most ethnic groups are thought of as similar. https://t.co/8B5PlFTKnF
7:46 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
Manchin has been pretty defensive today. If he were totally comfortable being seen as killing BBB he'd just say that. He's not, so there's still an opening.
John Bresnahan @bresreports
/2 MANCHIN just called to say this is incorrect. Manchin said the conversation on the floor focused on “We don’t have the bill text yet, it hasn’t been vetted, the minority hasn’t seen it.” Manchin said the conversation wasn’t on whether he was yes or no on motion to proceed
7:47 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Yes, I think it's not just that teachers (wrongly) think their kids are too dumb to learn math, but that some also think (wrongly) that they themselves are too dumb to TEACH math. IQism all the way down.
Very Concerned Citizen Kane @Quinnsanity22
@Noahpinion I recently saw a study that Education majors score lower on Math than almost every other major in college. Problem is systemic. People that excel in math can demand a higher wage than a teacher salary. So you get average or worse teachers teaching and it trickles down
7:50 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Trust the political science — people care a lot about gas prices https://t.co/BuUT2JkYP4
Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann
Inflation, Especially Gas Prices, Hurts Presidents—& It’s Not the Media’s Fault
New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Laurel Harbridge-Yong & @EricMerkley
Rising gas prices hurt presidents, regardless of coverage. Media is nicer to Dems on econ
https://t.co/YUxUyZdEQp
8:05 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
The fork in the road was Dems' decision to respond to Manchin's cost cap by keeping almost everything in for fewer years, rather than doing fewer things.
It seemed the latter path would have made too many constituencies mad, but looks like we'll end up there anyway
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin
Manchin seems engaged on getting to a deal, but if it looks anything like what he’s talking about now the original sin from D’s is probably not going to him in the first place rather than crafting some huge package without his input https://t.co/vy9QrpId53
8:23 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This tweet is getting mocked a lot but we're talking about a tiny amount of money and it's important to think at the margin. Doubling congressional salaries wouldn't eliminate temptations to behave corruptly. But if it made Congress 10 percent less corrupt it would be a bargain.
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits
Not that there's any defense for Pelosi's position, but it would be a good idea to pay members of Congress better so they aren't as tempted to engage in corrupt stock trading to supplement their income. https://t.co/qsUur2uzcH
8:52 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Neoliberal 🌐@ne0liberal
The ACLU is experiencing Activist Mission Creep. @JeremiahDJohns wrote about this phenomenon earlier this year, and why it's a bad idea:
exponentsmag.org/2021/05/20/aga…
ACLU @ACLU
During his campaign, President Biden promised voters broad student loan forgiveness. As president, he hasn't delivered.
Student debt cancellation would help close the racial wealth gap, while addressing the student debt crisis for millions.
Biden must cancel student debt NOW. https://t.co/GHmNjVOvKh
8:58 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
It is worth noting that the biggest anti-poverty effects of BBB's child tax credit provisions (extending it to poor and nonworking families previously excluded) are pretty cheap.
The expensive part is the bigger credit for middle and upper-middle class families
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
Per a source familiar with his thinking: "Senator Manchin is not telling President Biden what to include or not include. He has always been supportive of the CTC. He has also made it clear the cost should not be greater than $1.75T. Paying for CTC over 10 years is about $1.4T."
9:02 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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David Roberts@drvolts
It might not get as much attention as gutting voting-rights law & Roe v. Wade, but SCOTUS is about to cripple the post-war administrative state (while preventing EPA from addressing climate change). The consequences with be vast & generational.
eenews.net
Coal interests press Supreme Court to limit EPA reach
11:38 PM · Dec 15, 2021
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